I dont' understand why we still have 40 hour weeks. Surely with all the technical improvements over the past few decades we can still be wealthy enough without as much work.
Nobody's stopping you!
You can go ahead and start working a 32-hour week; most likely, you'll make roughly 80% of a 40-hour week's pay. Might be hard to arrange, as most jobs include benefits, hard to break those down to 80% but some minor negotiation should get you there. Most people would rather get 5-days pay per week than 4-days. Many folks work overtime, more hours for more compensation. But not everyone; there are "part-time" jobs out there, and self-employed folks can set their own weekly max-hours.
Look for scratches on the bottom side, brush with toothpaste (the plain one, no additional abrasive ingredients), rinse, read.
Or as happened repeatedly with a former boss:
Rush out a data CD for him to test, he tests it during lunch & it's unreadable...
Look for scratches on the bottom side, take it ito the men's room to wash off the peanut butter & jelly he'd gotten on it while eating, gently wipe dry & have him try it again. Deliver a stern lecture on the proper handling of CDs containing the master copy of the company's chemistry databases.
Even aerospace parts are cut to.007"-ish--something down around 2/10k would require exquisite temperature control.
Your typical hobbyist is likely going to be perfectly happy with.015"-ish. That's well within properly built modular assemblies.
And yes, you need a market--but why not make the market possible by allowing for the possibility of modification at the start? It'll help with the factory-replacement parts as well.
While I agree with you about 0.015" being enough for many hobbyists... that's only 1/64" not very finely specced.
There are plenty of items with tolerances in a few thousandths, a fair amount down to tenths (ten-thousandths), and my father (a tool & die maker) occasionally worked on projects with even tighter tolerances. I don't know what "aerospace" parts you're referring too, but heck - in my high school shop class, I had to do lathe work to diameters within.001" to pass. If you're milling a positioning notch or locating a hole for a bearing/shaft, you'd better be tighter than 0.015"
Well, when dogs are thinking and reasoning like that, they probably were part of some genetic experiment to increase brain capacity and intelligence. You see most dogs follow fairly simple sensory input / response programs like so
Sensory Input / Response
See ass (yours or others ) / Sniff it!! See leg / Hump it! See food / Eat it! See balls / Lick it! Hear noise / Bark at it!
My neighbor's dog must be advanced, he has a default level of response:
With rare exceptions, all network protocols require two-way traffic. So this idea of a "data diode" is not possible to implement in practice. People who claim otherwise are trying to sell you snake oil.
Who said anything about a network protocol?
A "data diode" receiver just needs to monitor an optical sensor, which could be pulsed at a fixed clock rate to provide a baseline. Monitor the on/off/brightness-level of your optical sensor, you can then write the output to a file. No need for a 2-way protocol.
An example demonstrates the practicality of this:
Timex DataLink watch: early models fed data to the watch by flashing bars of light on your monitor, while holding the watch's optical sensor in front of the monitor. No feedback from the watch back to the PC.
I'm also sure there are some folks at NASA who would suggest you can pull useful data from a received signal.
Come to think of it, the closed-captioning info in a TV signal is a one-way data transmission...
And then there are these crabs we put back in the water if we happen to catch them accidentally - based on their looks.
TFA points out that NONE of the crabs of that type are eaten: they are all too small too eat, so they're all thrown back, regardless of their resemblance to a face. So their is no evolutionary pressure based on their looks.
Find some back issues of Mother Earth News - they've been running articles on folks doing all sorts of low-cost houses for decades. They have books / plans available, info on insulation / solar heat and power / etc.
This will ban lasers painted in camouflage colors (forest, desert AND arctic), lasers with connectors for a shoulder sling, lasers over 36" long (and ironically, sawed-off lasers under 18" in length). Also, the sale of military-style "high-capacity" batteries will be restricted to military and law-enforcement only.
In short: "I do not like the government spending money on stuff I don't like (sports stadiums). They should be spending it on things I do like (state parks)."
More like: "I do not like the state spending money on funding new private commercial enterprises that traditionally lose money. They should be spending it on maintaining existing state-owned properties, held in trust by the state for its residents."
Yes, completely impossible - except it's already been done, back in the 1960's.
from a DoD timeline, and frequently mentioned in a quick Google search: 1963 Nike Zeus tests demonstrated the system’s ability to intercept an ICBM warhead
An ABM is not a bullet - it can be radar-guided in to a point in front of the incoming ICBM, and meet up with it - then either directly impact it (kinetic kill) or use the old Nike technique of exploding a 5-megaton warhead in the general vicinity of the ICBM. Hey with 5-megatons, you don't need to hit it on the nose.
Re-read the post - he mentions blind people using blanks, so they can point a gun at a nearby attacker & fire, without much risk to anyone further away.
Also, a CCW entitles you to legally carry a weapon, not necessarily a gun - the details vary by state, but that may include a stun-gun, pepper-spray, knife, baton, you get the idea... A weapon that may normally be prohibited but is OK with a CCW permit. Some of those would be useful even if blind.
Car and Driver not relevant ? Perhaps you're thinking of Road & Track?
You could argue their automotive tastes, but I find their standardized instrumented testing to be very helpful. Their writing has gone downhill a bit the last few years, but they've always taken their testing seriously, and occasionally documented how they test. Their stock performance figures are the most reliable I've found.
Also, you lost me at Hot Rod being relevant... but I took a quick look at their website, and may have to check out a few issues - actually had some interesting technical articles. Last time I saw Hot Rod (80s/90s) it was all about $50K chrome/paint/supercharger customs, so I hadn't bothered with them for years.
Something that may be overlooked is/was AOL's "parental controls" , which used to be very handy for a family with children of varying ages. I used AOL for several years back in the early/mid-90s for just this reason, despite being fairly technical (developing commercial DOS/ Windows apps, some Unix work, in C/C++ & APL, and administering Novell & SQL servers).
I have no idea what their offerings are now, but being able to ratchet down the "sandbox" a young child had access to through the AOL client, or restrict them to only whitelisted contacts, was very handy. May not be needed by or thought of by younger singles, but very helpful to allow starting them off with relatively safe access & gradually expanding it as appropriate, or restricting it if they weren't behaving responsibly.
Again, in the past at least, an AOL address may have indicated any of: technical incompetence, a need for nationwide dial-up access while travelling, or simply a parent wanting easy-to-setup accounts for the kids.
Quite the vivid description - incredibly wrong, but very lively.
The PT Cruiser has an excellent rear suspension - very good handling for it's size/shape, especially on the highway. You could nit-pick the base suspension's body-roll on tight turns, but it can be rolled around curves briskly. They had to use a "flat" suspension to get the flat load floor - they actually picked a good design.
Interestingly, the European crash-tests rate the PT high for side-impact - but the American tests rate it poorly. The front-impact tests are the reverse. Depends on exactly how you test, I guess.
Have you ever driven a PT? I've driven PTs from 2001 & 2005, been impressed with the handling & brakes on both cars. My wife owns a 2005, reasonably reliable so far - needed an oxygen-sensor replaced, that's it so far.
In addition to banning gay marriage, should we reinstate the penalty for non-virgin brides?
Here you go:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+22:20-22&version=NIV
Personally, stoning seems a bit harsh, but hey - the Bible says! Save those wedding-night sheets as proof of virginity, kids!
Seriously, how many Christian brides would be killed if they stuck to their guns and stoned the non-virgins?
In fact, I've violated the prohibition:
Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.
But I've never:
Make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.
Odd how most Christians cherry-pick the prohibitions, ignoring the ones that might affect them.
Does your house have a parapet around the roof? Better build one before condemning others:
When you build a new house, make a parapet around your roof so that you may not bring the guilt of bloodshed on your house if someone falls from the roof.
And whatever you do, live by this rule, it's guided many over the years:
Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.
So what now? I am sitting at a red stoplight, which I know takes at least a minute to switch. I can't take 10 seconds to text someone that I'll be late? It's perfectly safe and the worst thing is that I'll get honked at if the light turns green before I pay attention. I have made a thoughtful, careful choice. Yet according to the law, I am as bad as a drunk driver.
Actually, according to the law, if you cause a fatal accident while texting you're as bad as a drunk driver.
If you're sitting at a red light, it would be difficult to cause a fatal accident; the only possibility I see is if you are hit by someone not expecting a car stopped at a green light, and that's arguably the fault of both drivers.
So don't text while moving, and you should be fine. Amazing concept I know, but seems to be the intent of the law.
An educated person who wished to express the concept you wish to convey, might very well say "this machine produces a noise level.05% of ambient noise in a quiet room"
When flaming someone else about their math, it helps to get your units right:.05% != 20x
Maintained and added new features to uncommented APL code for the win!
Turned out the code did have comments, but they were helpfully stripped out by the lads at the head office before they sent us releases (took up interpreter RAM in the 640K PC days).
She can just barely play WoW on it, there's no way she could play WAR without buying a new system in (at the very least) the $500-600+ price range.
Why do you think a $600 box is needed to play WAR?
I've been playing WAR for several months on a 4-yr-old box (old office Dell P4 3GHz, with a $90 512MB ATI 2600 video card). Runs fine, night after night.
I did bump system memory from 1GB to 3 GB - that made a noticeable difference.
If her system meets the minimum processor spec, just add some RAM & try popping in a recent video-card with 256-512MB. You may be surprised; my $120 of upgrades made a world of difference.
Here's the supposed system requirements:
* 2.5 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
* 1 Gigabyte RAM
* A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
* At least 15 GB of hard drive space
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I dont' understand why we still have 40 hour weeks. Surely with all the technical improvements over the past few decades we can still be wealthy enough without as much work.
Nobody's stopping you!
You can go ahead and start working a 32-hour week; most likely, you'll make roughly 80% of a 40-hour week's pay. Might be hard to arrange, as most jobs include benefits, hard to break those down to 80% but some minor negotiation should get you there. Most people would rather get 5-days pay per week than 4-days. Many folks work overtime, more hours for more compensation. But not everyone; there are "part-time" jobs out there, and self-employed folks can set their own weekly max-hours.
Look for scratches on the bottom side, brush with toothpaste (the plain one, no additional abrasive ingredients), rinse, read.
Or as happened repeatedly with a former boss:
Rush out a data CD for him to test, he tests it during lunch & it's unreadable...
Look for scratches on the bottom side, take it ito the men's room to wash off the peanut butter & jelly he'd gotten on it while eating, gently wipe dry & have him try it again. Deliver a stern lecture on the proper handling of CDs containing the master copy of the company's chemistry databases.
Jeeze, what are you doing down at .0002"?
Even aerospace parts are cut to .007"-ish--something down around 2/10k would require exquisite temperature control.
Your typical hobbyist is likely going to be perfectly happy with .015"-ish. That's well within properly built modular assemblies.
And yes, you need a market--but why not make the market possible by allowing for the possibility of modification at the start? It'll help with the factory-replacement parts as well.
While I agree with you about 0.015" being enough for many hobbyists... that's only 1/64" not very finely specced.
There are plenty of items with tolerances in a few thousandths, a fair amount down to tenths (ten-thousandths), and my father (a tool & die maker) occasionally worked on projects with even tighter tolerances. I don't know what "aerospace" parts you're referring too, but heck - in my high school shop class, I had to do lathe work to diameters within .001" to pass. If you're milling a positioning notch or locating a hole for a bearing/shaft, you'd better be tighter than 0.015"
Well, when dogs are thinking and reasoning like that, they probably were part of some genetic experiment to increase brain capacity and intelligence. You see most dogs follow fairly simple sensory input / response programs like so
Sensory Input / Response
See ass (yours or others ) / Sniff it!!
See leg / Hump it!
See food / Eat it!
See balls / Lick it!
Hear noise / Bark at it!
My neighbor's dog must be advanced, he has a default level of response:
Sensory Input / Response
Nothing is Happening / Bark continuously!
With rare exceptions, all network protocols require two-way traffic. So this idea of a "data diode" is not possible to implement in practice. People who claim otherwise are trying to sell you snake oil.
Who said anything about a network protocol?
A "data diode" receiver just needs to monitor an optical sensor, which could be pulsed at a fixed clock rate to provide a baseline. Monitor the on/off/brightness-level of your optical sensor, you can then write the output to a file. No need for a 2-way protocol.
An example demonstrates the practicality of this:
Timex DataLink watch: early models fed data to the watch by flashing bars of light on your monitor, while holding the watch's optical sensor in front of the monitor. No feedback from the watch back to the PC.
I'm also sure there are some folks at NASA who would suggest you can pull useful data from a received signal.
Come to think of it, the closed-captioning info in a TV signal is a one-way data transmission...
And then there are these crabs we put back in the water if we happen to catch them accidentally - based on their looks.
TFA points out that NONE of the crabs of that type are eaten: they are all too small too eat, so they're all thrown back, regardless of their resemblance to a face. So their is no evolutionary pressure based on their looks.
Geez, I wonder how Jobs' little darling, HTML5, will manage to do animations without using any CPU power?
My guess is, by using GPU acceleration.
Even better would be not rendering animations in non-visible tabs...
Find some back issues of Mother Earth News - they've been running articles on folks doing all sorts of low-cost houses for decades. They have books / plans available, info on insulation / solar heat and power / etc.
Lots of good stuff.
re the "Assault Laser Restriction Act of 2015"
This will ban lasers painted in camouflage colors (forest, desert AND arctic), lasers with connectors for a shoulder sling, lasers over 36" long (and ironically, sawed-off lasers under 18" in length). Also, the sale of military-style "high-capacity" batteries will be restricted to military and law-enforcement only.
In short: "I do not like the government spending money on stuff I don't like (sports stadiums). They should be spending it on things I do like (state parks)."
More like: "I do not like the state spending money on funding new private commercial enterprises that traditionally lose money. They should be spending it on maintaining existing state-owned properties, held in trust by the state for its residents."
Thought experiment about cars: if the goal is increased mileage, which would be more effective back in the 1970s:
(a) Federal government sets fleet efficiency standards for manufacturers to meet & defines a standard measuring process
(b) Federal government mandates all new cars have 1-barrel carburetors
Yes, completely impossible - except it's already been done, back in the 1960's.
from a DoD timeline, and frequently mentioned in a quick Google search:
1963 Nike Zeus tests demonstrated the system’s ability to intercept an ICBM warhead
An ABM is not a bullet - it can be radar-guided in to a point in front of the incoming ICBM, and meet up with it - then either directly impact it (kinetic kill) or use the old Nike technique of exploding a 5-megaton warhead in the general vicinity of the ICBM. Hey with 5-megatons, you don't need to hit it on the nose.
Re-read the post - he mentions blind people using blanks, so they can point a gun at a nearby attacker & fire, without much risk to anyone further away.
Also, a CCW entitles you to legally carry a weapon, not necessarily a gun - the details vary by state, but that may include a stun-gun, pepper-spray, knife, baton, you get the idea... A weapon that may normally be prohibited but is OK with a CCW permit. Some of those would be useful even if blind.
I don't know about that, they sell:
digital still cameras, digital video cameras, printers, printers, photo-related software, and retail photo kiosks.
Seems to be some real actual products there.
Car and Driver not relevant ? Perhaps you're thinking of Road & Track?
You could argue their automotive tastes, but I find their standardized instrumented testing to be very helpful. Their writing has gone downhill a bit the last few years, but they've always taken their testing seriously, and occasionally documented how they test. Their stock performance figures are the most reliable I've found.
Also, you lost me at Hot Rod being relevant... but I took a quick look at their website, and may have to check out a few issues - actually had some interesting technical articles. Last time I saw Hot Rod (80s/90s) it was all about $50K chrome/paint/supercharger customs, so I hadn't bothered with them for years.
Something that may be overlooked is/was AOL's "parental controls" , which used to be very handy for a family with children of varying ages. I used AOL for several years back in the early/mid-90s for just this reason, despite being fairly technical (developing commercial DOS/ Windows apps, some Unix work, in C/C++ & APL, and administering Novell & SQL servers).
I have no idea what their offerings are now, but being able to ratchet down the "sandbox" a young child had access to through the AOL client, or restrict them to only whitelisted contacts, was very handy. May not be needed by or thought of by younger singles, but very helpful to allow starting them off with relatively safe access & gradually expanding it as appropriate, or restricting it if they weren't behaving responsibly.
Again, in the past at least, an AOL address may have indicated any of: technical incompetence, a need for nationwide dial-up access while travelling, or simply a parent wanting easy-to-setup accounts for the kids.
I'm not sure I like the fugnutish tone you used in your post!
Quite the vivid description - incredibly wrong, but very lively.
The PT Cruiser has an excellent rear suspension - very good handling for it's size/shape, especially on the highway. You could nit-pick the base suspension's body-roll on tight turns, but it can be rolled around curves briskly. They had to use a "flat" suspension to get the flat load floor - they actually picked a good design.
Interestingly, the European crash-tests rate the PT high for side-impact - but the American tests rate it poorly. The front-impact tests are the reverse. Depends on exactly how you test, I guess.
Have you ever driven a PT? I've driven PTs from 2001 & 2005, been impressed with the handling & brakes on both cars. My wife owns a 2005, reasonably reliable so far - needed an oxygen-sensor replaced, that's it so far.
Oh, sky waitress! I need another drink...
In addition to banning gay marriage, should we reinstate the penalty for non-virgin brides?
Here you go: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+22:20-22&version=NIV
Personally, stoning seems a bit harsh, but hey - the Bible says! Save those wedding-night sheets as proof of virginity, kids!
Seriously, how many Christian brides would be killed if they stuck to their guns and stoned the non-virgins?
Lots of fun and odd stuff in Deuteronomy. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+22&version=NIV
In fact, I've violated the prohibition: Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.
But I've never: Make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.
Odd how most Christians cherry-pick the prohibitions, ignoring the ones that might affect them.
Does your house have a parapet around the roof? Better build one before condemning others:
When you build a new house, make a parapet around your roof so that you may not bring the guilt of bloodshed on your house if someone falls from the roof.
And whatever you do, live by this rule, it's guided many over the years: Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.
Actually, according to the law, if you cause a fatal accident while texting you're as bad as a drunk driver.
If you're sitting at a red light, it would be difficult to cause a fatal accident; the only possibility I see is if you are hit by someone not expecting a car stopped at a green light, and that's arguably the fault of both drivers.
So don't text while moving, and you should be fine. Amazing concept I know, but seems to be the intent of the law.
When flaming someone else about their math, it helps to get your units right: .05% != 20x
Why not try the other way round:
Create your wiki, add pages, add links from your wiki pages (which you have full control over) to relevant wikipedia pages?
Much simpler, and should still produce the desired effect.
Maintained and added new features to uncommented APL code for the win!
Turned out the code did have comments, but they were helpfully stripped out by the lads at the head office before they sent us releases (took up interpreter RAM in the 640K PC days).
She can just barely play WoW on it, there's no way she could play WAR without buying a new system in (at the very least) the $500-600+ price range.
Why do you think a $600 box is needed to play WAR?
I've been playing WAR for several months on a 4-yr-old box (old office Dell P4 3GHz, with a $90 512MB ATI 2600 video card). Runs fine, night after night.
I did bump system memory from 1GB to 3 GB - that made a noticeable difference.
If her system meets the minimum processor spec, just add some RAM & try popping in a recent video-card with 256-512MB. You may be surprised; my $120 of upgrades made a world of difference.
Here's the supposed system requirements:
* 2.5 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
* 1 Gigabyte RAM
* A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
* At least 15 GB of hard drive space