TV, too. There's one certain station I watch every now and then where the ads are consistently *much* louder than the content. I've emailed them about this and got a bunch of bafflegab back about relative sound levels. OK, so if they're right, why do other stations not exhibit the same annoying volume level changes?
This pissed me off, so I bought a sound pressure level meter, a camera that I can record video with and a domain name with hosting. The next time I get irritated with this station's fluctuating sound levels I'm recording and posting the results.
That's really fascinating. Asians typically have smallish noses, so I wonder how that fits in. How does the stereotypical broad, flattish nose of Africans give them an advantage for their environment? Damn interesting, I'd say.
Also, see here. You know you want to, everyone does it. Just don't do it while the Google truck is watching you.
But by God, in real life your backstory is fixed. You don't find out you've got an unknown twin brother with an evil goatee, you don't find out your father is actually your arch enemy when it's already been established your mother and he weren't even on the same continent when you were conceived, etc.
You obviously haven't met *my* family, let alone my ex in-laws.
In a letter...I started to write lo and behold and realized that I was unsure of the spelling. Is it lo and behold or low and behold? I asked a few people and we can't seem to agree.
When one side of a discussion is yelling that the debate is over and appeals to emotion that's a good indicator of intent. When that same side refuses to listen to opposing views, shouts down "deniers" and smugly announces that "they have won" that's another indicator. "Global Warming"...oops, "Climate Change" is something that absolutely MUST be corrected RIGHT NOW! And if there's any dissent, well, we'll march in the streets as if it was some kind of civil rights issue and be indignant. Help, help, I'm being repressed!
When the demands include sentiments like "we must do it now or you will all die" that smacks of extremism and coercion.
But keep going, you have as much right as I do to promote your views (or maybe people that think like me should have less rights because we are stupid and lack vision/compassion - would a 4:1 ratio be acceptable to you?)
I liked Google's relatively quiet entrance into 3D CAD with Sketchup. The CAD world needs a shakeup, and if Google were to put some intellectual muscle into it (say, by further developing BRL-CAD for example) all the various vendors would have to start playing catch-up really fast. As it stands now, few of these vendors want to play nice with each other because they often have a lock-in on certain markets and file formats are never fully compatible.
The one thing that CAD adoption did to design was to fragment designers into camps - who knows how to operate what software. That is not right, as it forces designers and users into one strict set of rules - design doesn't work like that.
A relatively simple, but procedurally difficult design change tends to get buried and ignored in all the "paperwork", so things end up getting fixed in the field. Most times this doesn't cause problems but other times it can result in explosions and loss of life. When that happens it's not just a non-trivial problem, lawyers get involved and otherwise-competent people lose their jobs, not their life.
It's always easy to blame failure on computers/software and I fear that this defense/excuse happens much more often these days.
42. I are older than that now, so I'll pre-emptively tell you to get off my lawn.
Actually, I consider myself to be a geek, just not a hard core computer one. I bought HHGG on DVD a few months ago and have to admit that I "didn't get" most of it. Maybe I should watch it again. Maybe that'd up my kewl street cred with the happenin' dudes and Fonzarelli-like hepcats here at Slash Dot Dot Org.
Paul
PS Nice user ID ya got there...it'd be a shame if someone were to come along and, like maybe, say, add a one to it...I'm just sayin...
So, if you haven't got a clue when something is going to happen, and that thing could destroy mankind, it's only prudent to make it a priority.
You seem to be implying that anything, at anytime could wipe out the human race. You may be right. The absurdity is in being made to fear that which humans have no control over anyway.
I, like you, have no idea when my story ends (when me snuffeth) but there's no way in hell that I'll spend whatever time I have left hand-wringing, worried and encouraging my kids to be worried and fearful of the future. I suspect that the chronic worriers/doomers/enviro-radicals never have kids; that's why they feel the need to infect others with their disease. Isn't it all about legacy after all?
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
At what point do we stop worrying and just accept that eventually everyone and everything that lives, dies?
At Slashdot, individuals that probably are new to having their own pubes are seen agonizing about whether the human existence will be around in 500 years. These usually are the types who demand this sort of thing:
1) stop global climate change right fucking now, or else (no matter what it takes) before we all die
2) let's get off this crappy rock and populate new planets before we all die
Both are absurd notions, but apparently crying wolf again and again works when manipulating hungry-for-hype mass media.
It *is* important to be forward-looking and responsible about the future but those who make environmentalism into a sort of religious crusade are not doing themselves nor their descendants (assuming they ever bother to have any, given the catastrophe now! mentality) any favours.
Ignorance mixed with arrogance is a sad combination of two unfortunate characteristics. The good news is that not all Americans think like the parent poster.
I was running the calculation for the required upstream diameters required for laminar flow of 98% oxygen at -230 degrees and 50 psig - this using the Annubar flowmeter vendors' own software - and I decided against straightening vanes because of the cost and trouble associated with fillet welding Monel inside small bore Sch. 10s SS316 (the impingement issue and likely HC trap points). Anyway, I decided to complete the calculation just to evaluate the results, and, as everyone knows, this involves at least 5 minutes of careful data field input. So what happens in the end? The program tells me that the proper spec for this actually calls for 304SS, not 316, and a rounded-edge orifice plate with a beta ration of.659 would be a better choice (assuming sweep-flow, top-insert purges were installed up and downstream). Why the hell couldn't the software have mentioned that in the first place?
I like the idea of police actions being recorded at all times. It (conceivably) increases accountability for the officers. This is not at all like posting cameras at fixed locations with loudspeakers, which offers no accountability for officers and plenty of opportunity for abuse.
I have about 20 different sites that I pay attention to. It takes a noticeable amount of time to go to all twenty sites.
Same here. With Firefox, I just reload all my favourite tabs every day to see if anything's new. This gives the sites that I value regular page views (even if there's nothing new there recently it's an indication of what I value). Is that wrong? Or should I only visit sites that give me "new stuff to read" via RSS, no matter how fluffy?
"but that's only after having bounced 50 related ideas off my coworkers. For some types of innovation, you may even need access to equipment and tools before you can develop the idea in the first place."
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/may20 07/id20070518_332210_page_2.htm
Buxton takes pains to distinguish sketches from prototypes, which are more detailed, more expensive, and more focused on testing or proving a single idea. If sketching is about asking questions, prototyping is about suggesting answers. Sketching takes place at the beginning of the development process, prototyping only later.
For an executive more comfortable with hard data, the value of these scraps of drawings, these glorified doodles, might not be obvious. But Buxton makes a case that could easily be expressed in a spreadsheet. Sketching is less expensive than prototyping, and far less expensive than trying to fix problems late in the development cycle.
Does that mean that companies shouldn't invest in prototypes? Of course not. But it does suggest that investing more money and resources up front to allow a small team of designers adequate time for product ideas will save significantly higher costs of trying to correct problems later in the game, when the production team has swelled to include as many as 50 engineers and marketers, and delays can cost millions.>>
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TV, too. There's one certain station I watch every now and then where the ads are consistently *much* louder than the content. I've emailed them about this and got a bunch of bafflegab back about relative sound levels. OK, so if they're right, why do other stations not exhibit the same annoying volume level changes?
This pissed me off, so I bought a sound pressure level meter, a camera that I can record video with and a domain name with hosting. The next time I get irritated with this station's fluctuating sound levels I'm recording and posting the results.
Meanwhile, the Canucks were busy playing hockey and taming rabid beavers eh.
the full enforcement of 7 years jail for anyone posessing a weapon, legally or otherwise.
The above doesn't seem to make sense.
That's really fascinating. Asians typically have smallish noses, so I wonder how that fits in. How does the stereotypical broad, flattish nose of Africans give them an advantage for their environment? Damn interesting, I'd say.
Also, see here. You know you want to, everyone does it. Just don't do it while the Google truck is watching you.
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But by God, in real life your backstory is fixed. You don't find out you've got an unknown twin brother with an evil goatee, you don't find out your father is actually your arch enemy when it's already been established your mother and he weren't even on the same continent when you were conceived, etc.
You obviously haven't met *my* family, let alone my ex in-laws.
I also want to rewind conversations I've just had with people to recall what was said.
Was this a reading comprehension test or an example of how badly excessive TV-watching can cripple a mind?
http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=2 0000317
In a letter...I started to write lo and behold and realized that I was unsure of the spelling. Is it lo and behold or low and behold? I asked a few people and we can't seem to agree.
Then around late 2000 there was a huge shift.
Did HO happen to have hired a bunch of newly-minted MBAs around that time?
I apologize for all the job losses. Seems like I bought some stuff from ThinkGeek instead of my local CC and apparently that's what tipped things.
When one side of a discussion is yelling that the debate is over and appeals to emotion that's a good indicator of intent. When that same side refuses to listen to opposing views, shouts down "deniers" and smugly announces that "they have won" that's another indicator. "Global Warming"...oops, "Climate Change" is something that absolutely MUST be corrected RIGHT NOW! And if there's any dissent, well, we'll march in the streets as if it was some kind of civil rights issue and be indignant. Help, help, I'm being repressed!
When the demands include sentiments like "we must do it now or you will all die" that smacks of extremism and coercion.
But keep going, you have as much right as I do to promote your views (or maybe people that think like me should have less rights because we are stupid and lack vision/compassion - would a 4:1 ratio be acceptable to you?)
I liked Google's relatively quiet entrance into 3D CAD with Sketchup. The CAD world needs a shakeup, and if Google were to put some intellectual muscle into it (say, by further developing BRL-CAD for example) all the various vendors would have to start playing catch-up really fast. As it stands now, few of these vendors want to play nice with each other because they often have a lock-in on certain markets and file formats are never fully compatible.
The one thing that CAD adoption did to design was to fragment designers into camps - who knows how to operate what software. That is not right, as it forces designers and users into one strict set of rules - design doesn't work like that.
A relatively simple, but procedurally difficult design change tends to get buried and ignored in all the "paperwork", so things end up getting fixed in the field. Most times this doesn't cause problems but other times it can result in explosions and loss of life. When that happens it's not just a non-trivial problem, lawyers get involved and otherwise-competent people lose their jobs, not their life.
It's always easy to blame failure on computers/software and I fear that this defense/excuse happens much more often these days.
42. I are older than that now, so I'll pre-emptively tell you to get off my lawn.
Actually, I consider myself to be a geek, just not a hard core computer one. I bought HHGG on DVD a few months ago and have to admit that I "didn't get" most of it. Maybe I should watch it again. Maybe that'd up my kewl street cred with the happenin' dudes and Fonzarelli-like hepcats here at Slash Dot Dot Org.
Paul
PS Nice user ID ya got there...it'd be a shame if someone were to come along and, like maybe, say, add a one to it...I'm just sayin...
So, if you haven't got a clue when something is going to happen, and that thing could destroy mankind, it's only prudent to make it a priority.
You seem to be implying that anything, at anytime could wipe out the human race. You may be right. The absurdity is in being made to fear that which humans have no control over anyway.
I, like you, have no idea when my story ends (when me snuffeth) but there's no way in hell that I'll spend whatever time I have left hand-wringing, worried and encouraging my kids to be worried and fearful of the future. I suspect that the chronic worriers/doomers/enviro-radicals never have kids; that's why they feel the need to infect others with their disease. Isn't it all about legacy after all?
Galaxy Song
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
At what point do we stop worrying and just accept that eventually everyone and everything that lives, dies?
At Slashdot, individuals that probably are new to having their own pubes are seen agonizing about whether the human existence will be around in 500 years. These usually are the types who demand this sort of thing:
1) stop global climate change right fucking now, or else (no matter what it takes) before we all die
2) let's get off this crappy rock and populate new planets before we all die
Both are absurd notions, but apparently crying wolf again and again works when manipulating hungry-for-hype mass media.
It *is* important to be forward-looking and responsible about the future but those who make environmentalism into a sort of religious crusade are not doing themselves nor their descendants (assuming they ever bother to have any, given the catastrophe now! mentality) any favours.
Ignorance mixed with arrogance is a sad combination of two unfortunate characteristics. The good news is that not all Americans think like the parent poster.
for the upside-down take on tech.
That was rated insightful? Maybe my math is poor, but I found it to be confusing.
Does "urban"="non-white"? (I understand that "urban" is a code word for black or hispanic in the US)
There used to be "sticky" controls in Windows that would jump to the next clickable onscreen "button". Or am I imagining things again?
I was running the calculation for the required upstream diameters required for laminar flow of 98% oxygen at -230 degrees and 50 psig - this using the Annubar flowmeter vendors' own software - and I decided against straightening vanes because of the cost and trouble associated with fillet welding Monel inside small bore Sch. 10s SS316 (the impingement issue and likely HC trap points). Anyway, I decided to complete the calculation just to evaluate the results, and, as everyone knows, this involves at least 5 minutes of careful data field input. So what happens in the end? The program tells me that the proper spec for this actually calls for 304SS, not 316, and a rounded-edge orifice plate with a beta ration of .659 would be a better choice (assuming sweep-flow, top-insert purges were installed up and downstream). Why the hell couldn't the software have mentioned that in the first place?
Wait, isn't this the thread for piping designers?
I like the idea of police actions being recorded at all times. It (conceivably) increases accountability for the officers. This is not at all like posting cameras at fixed locations with loudspeakers, which offers no accountability for officers and plenty of opportunity for abuse.
I agree.
I have about 20 different sites that I pay attention to. It takes a noticeable amount of time to go to all twenty sites.
Same here. With Firefox, I just reload all my favourite tabs every day to see if anything's new. This gives the sites that I value regular page views (even if there's nothing new there recently it's an indication of what I value). Is that wrong? Or should I only visit sites that give me "new stuff to read" via RSS, no matter how fluffy?
Ah, but what if they are flying monkeys?
"but that's only after having bounced 50 related ideas off my coworkers. For some types of innovation, you may even need access to equipment and tools before you can develop the idea in the first place."
0 07/id20070518_332210_page_2.htm
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/may2
Buxton takes pains to distinguish sketches from prototypes, which are more detailed, more expensive, and more focused on testing or proving a single idea. If sketching is about asking questions, prototyping is about suggesting answers. Sketching takes place at the beginning of the development process, prototyping only later.
For an executive more comfortable with hard data, the value of these scraps of drawings, these glorified doodles, might not be obvious. But Buxton makes a case that could easily be expressed in a spreadsheet. Sketching is less expensive than prototyping, and far less expensive than trying to fix problems late in the development cycle.
Does that mean that companies shouldn't invest in prototypes? Of course not. But it does suggest that investing more money and resources up front to allow a small team of designers adequate time for product ideas will save significantly higher costs of trying to correct problems later in the game, when the production team has swelled to include as many as 50 engineers and marketers, and delays can cost millions.>>