I did some work (low-level, pressure and piping design stuff) on the trials in Vancouver for buses. This was at least 7 years ago. Our proposal didn't win. I don't remember DC as being a candidate, as it was Vancouver and Detroit at that time.
I'd be interested in the refueling, is it from tube trailers or LH2 trailers?
Liquid hydrogen always sounds scary, but this stuff is road transported every day via million dollar tankers. One of the big industrial gas manufacturers has a video (taken from a local TV station's collection) where a LH2 tanker overturned--nothing happened. Of course, safety and technical specialists from all over had to be called-in to placate the local authorities.
When cold boxes are built (I know as I've designed a few), they are often stencilled on the exterior as CBOX1, PCB1 (pump cold box 1), et cetera. During shipping via Schnabel everyone wants to take a look and people worried/ignorant about technology have fits about possible nukular explosions.
On the flip side he has to deal with EBCDIC which would drive anybody to drink.
Aren't all mainframe programmers at least partially mentally ill (sorry, possibly insensitive joke there).
If she can find her niche with her unique skills, usual PEBKAC might not be a problem. In this world, we can see beyond appearances. Did that make sense?
Humans seem to be extremely vulnerable to appreciating certain combinations of sounds - for example, screeching fingernails on a blackboard is bad, while mewing baby kittens is good. The voice of an appealing child also is used in advertising - one place I used to transit (pre-7 AM) apparently had a detector and played the sound of a four-year-old's plaintive-type voice. It caught my attention until I figured out that it was a marketing scheme to play on peoples' inbuilt sensitivities.
This type of deception is deplorable, but effective. I'd write more, but I feel the incoming need to listen to music now.
To me, "Karma" (especially in a forum such as Slashdot) surely should refer to doing work for which you do not expect remuneration but hope that your efforts will be appreciated and maybe reciprocated but that's not a requirement.
In this context, I've been doing Karma-positive things (as have many others) for the past 5 years or so via my website and not expecting anything tangible as a result.
Thanks for the advice about learning and not posting unfunny jokes, that has been a real help.
The much-maligned Fox network is also responsible for seeding and supporting shows like The Simpsons and Family Guy and making them mainstream. I doubt that "the big 3" would ever have risked offending the general populace with such insightful and thoughtful social and political commentary (some might call this "subversion of values").
...some people feel happy by making other people miserable.
Must be that the concept of Karma is lost on clueless people (not talking about Slashdot's rating system). And also not to say that Karma really exists in the big blue room, but maybe it's the inverse of stuff coming back to bite you in the ass.
Well, except if your girlfriend comes back to bite you in the ass, that might be good, actually and it depends on the mutual nakedness of the people involved.
[Discaimer] Personally, I don't recommend allowing ex-girlfriends to get near the nether regions unless one knows their true intentions.
Priced any major league sporting event ticket prices recently? The NHL is dead this season, and I'm betting that the core, slowly-dawning reason is the high cost of tickets - there is no longer a Joe Average able to afford to see a live game with all the associated costs (like $5 hot dogs, parking, etc.). Once the big corporations came along and started renaming stadiums and having high-priced premium boxes for clients, everything went downhill.
I hope this spreads to other big league sports and entertainment; far too much money is spent on vicarious hero worship.
Pipelines exist to efficiently take care of this problem. Of course, if sqabbling regional warlords (I'm thinking Africa, not Asia) destroy the pumping stations that's not a technological problem, is it?
many of them are unable to tell the difference between typing something into a search engine, and typing something into an address box.
I just noticed last week that if I type my primary keywords ("piping" and "design" without the quotes) into the address box of Firefox it takes me directly to my own webpage instead of returning some kind of error message or search results page for the subject matter. Obviously, Firefox is jumping straight to the #1 Google result, but why should this be happening?
And when you do this, always have a sheaf of papers in your hand! Makes you look at least 100% busier.
Also, if caught slacking while carrying all-important paper, deploy the old artificial "social engineering" crisis creation tactic by the feigned trip and dropping everything. Exclaim to bystanders, "Holy Crap, I was supposed to deliver that to the CEO post-haste, I'm really screwed now!"
Never fails unless you do it three times in front of the same people within an 18 month time frame.
Why noy just use Firefox's ability to set multiple "homepages" so that they all automatically open when you start the program? I first saw this with AvantBrowser. It can be a pain if a page opened caused a browser crash though.
If you're doing CAD, animation or graphics-related work (or even technologically lowly website design), two or more monitors is a great thing to have and the bigger the better but this can lead to neck swivel problems. Then again, there are people who will populate a dual screen setup with as many possible visible distractions as are available (eg, ICQ, automated refreshes of Slashdot, email programs, etc.). Those are the wannabes who have the attention span of gnats.
Interesting that you also mention keyboard input. Real pros use the keyboard almost exclusively (and custom program the keyboard or other alternative input devices) so as to not take their eyes and focus off the screen.
OTOH, some people get a kick out of flashy, blinky things and enjoy clicking on toolbars and icons - maybe it gives them the self-reinforced impression that things are actually being accomplished while they interface with high technology and advanced communications sophistication.
I agree (while not claiming to be bright and competent). Often I go off on tangents, trying to solve relevant, nagging business-related problems via innovation with similarly-minded drones. It's actually fun to do, but if it's not part of your "official" job description there's the risk that you get called on it ("wasting time", from a short-sighted management perspective).
Google's idea of paid 20% time on personal interest projects is a good one, as people that prove that they can consistently come up with good ideas likely end up managing similarly-minded people.
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I did some work (low-level, pressure and piping design stuff) on the trials in Vancouver for buses. This was at least 7 years ago. Our proposal didn't win. I don't remember DC as being a candidate, as it was Vancouver and Detroit at that time.
I'd be interested in the refueling, is it from tube trailers or LH2 trailers?
Liquid hydrogen always sounds scary, but this stuff is road transported every day via million dollar tankers. One of the big industrial gas manufacturers has a video (taken from a local TV station's collection) where a LH2 tanker overturned--nothing happened. Of course, safety and technical specialists from all over had to be called-in to placate the local authorities.
When cold boxes are built (I know as I've designed a few), they are often stencilled on the exterior as CBOX1, PCB1 (pump cold box 1), et cetera. During shipping via Schnabel everyone wants to take a look and people worried/ignorant about technology have fits about possible nukular explosions.
On the flip side he has to deal with EBCDIC which would drive anybody to drink.
Aren't all mainframe programmers at least partially mentally ill (sorry, possibly insensitive joke there).
If she can find her niche with her unique skills, usual PEBKAC might not be a problem. In this world, we can see beyond appearances. Did that make sense?
Humans seem to be extremely vulnerable to appreciating certain combinations of sounds - for example, screeching fingernails on a blackboard is bad, while mewing baby kittens is good. The voice of an appealing child also is used in advertising - one place I used to transit (pre-7 AM) apparently had a detector and played the sound of a four-year-old's plaintive-type voice. It caught my attention until I figured out that it was a marketing scheme to play on peoples' inbuilt sensitivities.
This type of deception is deplorable, but effective. I'd write more, but I feel the incoming need to listen to music now.
What options exist currently for care of her?
The "unspoken crisis" leads me to think that there is no one able or willing, probably a financial problem.
I guess there must be 3 types of Karma:
- religion-based
- slashdot-based
- intangible stuff-based
To me, "Karma" (especially in a forum such as Slashdot) surely should refer to doing work for which you do not expect remuneration but hope that your efforts will be appreciated and maybe reciprocated but that's not a requirement.
In this context, I've been doing Karma-positive things (as have many others) for the past 5 years or so via my website and not expecting anything tangible as a result.
Thanks for the advice about learning and not posting unfunny jokes, that has been a real help.
FTA: "Savants have usually had some kind of brain damage. Whether it's an onset of dementia later in life, a blow to the head...
Item 1, check. Item 2, check.
So how come I aren't a genius now?
This is clearly false advertising.
The much-maligned Fox network is also responsible for seeding and supporting shows like The Simpsons and Family Guy and making them mainstream. I doubt that "the big 3" would ever have risked offending the general populace with such insightful and thoughtful social and political commentary (some might call this "subversion of values").
Must be that the concept of Karma is lost on clueless people (not talking about Slashdot's rating system). And also not to say that Karma really exists in the big blue room, but maybe it's the inverse of stuff coming back to bite you in the ass.
Well, except if your girlfriend comes back to bite you in the ass, that might be good, actually and it depends on the mutual nakedness of the people involved.
[Discaimer] Personally, I don't recommend allowing ex-girlfriends to get near the nether regions unless one knows their true intentions.
Good post, should be modded higher.
What, no bugs? Must be a Linux distro.
Don't we frequent Slashdot readers get a lot of face radiation already?
Is that sig coincidental to the content of your message?
Priced any major league sporting event ticket prices recently? The NHL is dead this season, and I'm betting that the core, slowly-dawning reason is the high cost of tickets - there is no longer a Joe Average able to afford to see a live game with all the associated costs (like $5 hot dogs, parking, etc.). Once the big corporations came along and started renaming stadiums and having high-priced premium boxes for clients, everything went downhill.
I hope this spreads to other big league sports and entertainment; far too much money is spent on vicarious hero worship.
Pipelines exist to efficiently take care of this problem. Of course, if sqabbling regional warlords (I'm thinking Africa, not Asia) destroy the pumping stations that's not a technological problem, is it?
Hilarious!
I don't see what MS Windows has to do with predicting the future.
many of them are unable to tell the difference between typing something into a search engine, and typing something into an address box.
I just noticed last week that if I type my primary keywords ("piping" and "design" without the quotes) into the address box of Firefox it takes me directly to my own webpage instead of returning some kind of error message or search results page for the subject matter. Obviously, Firefox is jumping straight to the #1 Google result, but why should this be happening?
"There are some individuals out there who don't just enjoy winding up people on newsgroups and bulletin boards - it's their sad lifestyle choice!"
Excerpt from "The Subtle Art of Trolling".
(Oh, and BTW, whoever coded the mouse gestures xpi for firefox gets a huge dollop of my undying gratitude. You made firefox usable.)
That remimnds me - has anyone ever discovered a malicious Firefox extension? Most are unsigned.
And when you do this, always have a sheaf of papers in your hand! Makes you look at least 100% busier.
Also, if caught slacking while carrying all-important paper, deploy the old artificial "social engineering" crisis creation tactic by the feigned trip and dropping everything. Exclaim to bystanders, "Holy Crap, I was supposed to deliver that to the CEO post-haste, I'm really screwed now!"
Never fails unless you do it three times in front of the same people within an 18 month time frame.
Why noy just use Firefox's ability to set multiple "homepages" so that they all automatically open when you start the program? I first saw this with AvantBrowser. It can be a pain if a page opened caused a browser crash though.
If you're doing CAD, animation or graphics-related work (or even technologically lowly website design), two or more monitors is a great thing to have and the bigger the better but this can lead to neck swivel problems. Then again, there are people who will populate a dual screen setup with as many possible visible distractions as are available (eg, ICQ, automated refreshes of Slashdot, email programs, etc.). Those are the wannabes who have the attention span of gnats.
Interesting that you also mention keyboard input. Real pros use the keyboard almost exclusively (and custom program the keyboard or other alternative input devices) so as to not take their eyes and focus off the screen.
OTOH, some people get a kick out of flashy, blinky things and enjoy clicking on toolbars and icons - maybe it gives them the self-reinforced impression that things are actually being accomplished while they interface with high technology and advanced communications sophistication.
I agree (while not claiming to be bright and competent). Often I go off on tangents, trying to solve relevant, nagging business-related problems via innovation with similarly-minded drones. It's actually fun to do, but if it's not part of your "official" job description there's the risk that you get called on it ("wasting time", from a short-sighted management perspective).
Google's idea of paid 20% time on personal interest projects is a good one, as people that prove that they can consistently come up with good ideas likely end up managing similarly-minded people.
Note to young Google people: beware of crayons up the nose.
I'm sick and tired with all comapnies that over-promise and under-deliver.
Bingo, so are most people. Google seems to recognize this and are doing great stuff as a result.