Why isn't it that our Social Security numbers are used in this manner? Why reinvent the wheel? I mean, they have my SS number, my address, my income, my occupation. I figure that's in a database somewhere? Admittedly I read *most* of the article, and this is the first time I've heard of Real ID.
So, to sum up, why can't we use the existing SS number?
Uh, if the earth goes away (i.e. the earth is NOT here forever) won't the moon be, well, gone too? Or will it go crashing into the sun due to a lack of a greater gravitational pull keeping it from heading that way?
It's like anything else, you design correctly for the volume you're going to have to deal with.
This idea is not new (using bio to remediate waste). I used to work for a very large chemical company that used engineered "bugs" (essentially bacteria and other critters) to remediate waste streams from the various processes. You'd have these huge 100' diameter tanks that would contain the bugs, and you'd send your waste streams through those tanks. The bugs would thrive, and your waste was taken care of.
You would, of course, have to monitor closely the streams to make sure they maintained an optimal flow rate to keep the bugs healthy.
The devil *is* in the details. Design for success!
This is only my second post here, but I'm sick and tired of hearing about solar. Solar solar solar. Bah. Right now, for the average consumer, solar is just about completely useless. I looked into putting solar on a new house I was building. Maybe I didn't have enough contractors to choose from, but the best I could find would pay itself off in 26 years. 26 YEARS!! Sorry, but no thanks. I will have moved to another house by then, and I won't get my money back for that system.
Solar, right now, is not a viable option for the average consumer, and if it were so cost effective then we'd have lots of power plants working on converting. You would think this would be happening right now by default because of the high price of gas and oil and the continuing pressure from the EPA to reduce emmissions (for coal plants as well as oil and gas). But it's not. Why? Because the overall conversion of solar to energy by the cells is quite low (thus reducing the ROI), they are fragile, and they are very expensive "out of the box".
I WANT solar. I want it now, but I won't get it if it takes two decades to pay off. A year or two, yes.
I don't know if someone else has said this, but I think an interchangable weight might be quite useful in games. You wouldn't, perhaps, change the weight mid-game, but you might change it on a game-to-game basis. I could see using a different weight for say, different mods of Quake 4. Or you might change out the weight to play WoW. Or even if you are just surfing the web, you might put the lightest weight in there that you have to reduce strain. Or something.
I wouldn't buy the mouse, but I could see that (the weight) as being a useful feature on a game-by-game basis, dontcha think?
Apparently there's a project manager or team leader somewhere that wasn't paying attention to the project schedule or development progress of your co-workers. From what I gather you're not in a position of authority and thus it's not your responsibility to motivate your peers, it's management's responsibility.
Seriously, there should be a team leader or project manager somewhere that has a schedule of when certain things should be done, and these guys are not ready. As it is with all projects, certain people have the task of making sure other people are getting their stuff done and if they aren't then that first group of people are there to assist. On your project the first group wasn't paying attention.
Now, you're not a tattle-tale for going to management and informing them that other people aren't keeping up if it ends up reflecting on you. The newbies should have people keeping tabs on them until they're more experienced; maybe it's an immediate co-worker, maybe it's a project manager.
Just make sure management knows why you don't meet your deadline...
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So, to sum up, why can't we use the existing SS number?
Uh, if the earth goes away (i.e. the earth is NOT here forever) won't the moon be, well, gone too? Or will it go crashing into the sun due to a lack of a greater gravitational pull keeping it from heading that way?
This idea is not new (using bio to remediate waste). I used to work for a very large chemical company that used engineered "bugs" (essentially bacteria and other critters) to remediate waste streams from the various processes. You'd have these huge 100' diameter tanks that would contain the bugs, and you'd send your waste streams through those tanks. The bugs would thrive, and your waste was taken care of.
You would, of course, have to monitor closely the streams to make sure they maintained an optimal flow rate to keep the bugs healthy.
The devil *is* in the details. Design for success!
Solar, right now, is not a viable option for the average consumer, and if it were so cost effective then we'd have lots of power plants working on converting. You would think this would be happening right now by default because of the high price of gas and oil and the continuing pressure from the EPA to reduce emmissions (for coal plants as well as oil and gas). But it's not. Why? Because the overall conversion of solar to energy by the cells is quite low (thus reducing the ROI), they are fragile, and they are very expensive "out of the box".
I WANT solar. I want it now, but I won't get it if it takes two decades to pay off. A year or two, yes.
I wouldn't buy the mouse, but I could see that (the weight) as being a useful feature on a game-by-game basis, dontcha think?
Seriously, there should be a team leader or project manager somewhere that has a schedule of when certain things should be done, and these guys are not ready. As it is with all projects, certain people have the task of making sure other people are getting their stuff done and if they aren't then that first group of people are there to assist. On your project the first group wasn't paying attention.
Now, you're not a tattle-tale for going to management and informing them that other people aren't keeping up if it ends up reflecting on you. The newbies should have people keeping tabs on them until they're more experienced; maybe it's an immediate co-worker, maybe it's a project manager.
Just make sure management knows why you don't meet your deadline...
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