Take an example 1/4" = 0.635 cm, it's a hell of a lot easier (and cheaper) to make something 1/4th of the length of something else, versus 127/200th of some standard length.
I'm brought up the metric way and I wouldn't ditch that system. It makes more scientific sense. My impression though is that the imperial system makes more applied sense.
A few years ago I built my own British car. For historical reasons -I take- a mix of metric and imperial system is used in my car and I had to buy a set of imperial system keys. Surprisingly I ended up using almost all keys of the imperial system set.
I have a long experience in wondering why people even bother to make 9, 11, 12, 14, 16 and 18 mm keys. One almost never uses these but invariable they all come in the most basic key sets.
So metrics is fine but imperial system shouldn't be discarded too quickly. I expect it to remain among us for time to come.
I don't go to my high school reunions because the people who are for the most part people I am not interested in meeting again. I went to the first couple and none of the people I had any interest in seeing were there, so I stopped going. I'm not on Facebook (and I am pretty sure that neither are the classmates I would be interested in talking to again).
You're probably very right with your assumption. However, my experience is that people I didn't like have actually changed for the better. The more experienced you get in life the more human interfaces you can support. See it as if your internal algorithm improved so that not all exceptions bring you to a grinding hold. Instead you actually take pleasure in appreciating the awkwardness lying at the source of exceptions.
Having said that, I'd be very selective in going to reunions myself.
I've been on the Internet since mid 80-ies. With the authority of experience -for what it's really worth- I can classify these 25% as the happy few.
There still are ample media available for you to live an informed life without using the Internet.
Personally I find the Internet an invaluable source of CS related information and a nifty tool to obtain good deals on purchases. I actually speak face to face with people I care about. Anything skin deep I ignore completely.
I'm most likely not interested in your life story. The best times I have with actual people. CS is merely a hobby that happens to earn me a living. It took me a few mental leaps in the early stages to realise that graphical representations of bytes will never govern my life.
I'd be more concerned to inadvertently find out that my life actually was/is not worth living.
I believe refraining from using facebook eliminates the inadvertent component but, more importantly, I am convinced that without facebook my life is more worth living.
Did you use Google? To find ways to make sieves water tight? I suspect you should need to plug many holes. Alternatively you could just buy a pot or a sealed vessel if that's what you need.
Seriously though, restrictions will make students work around your efforts. Maybe a small, isolated network for your lab would suit you. Protect BIOS, use decent root passwords and maintain a cache for updates.
Ocean Energy Tech To Be Tested Off Australian Coast
Nowadays results would have had to be enhanced even further should they have decided to test in say Turkmenistan, or closer to home in Nebraska. It is no longer so that most scientists would have shunned the proposition should some idiot have offered them a financial incentive.
If it isn't GPL-licensed and built by a collective herd of protesting armchair engineers, it must be a tool by corporate government cronies to invade our privacy and steal the vital details of how often we wash behind our ears.
That was sarcasm.
No, that was below the belt! We were on a rant high and there you come and spoil the party.
Seriously though, logging stuff you would send over SSL is pretty scary. It circumvents the whole concept of being able to communicate securely over an insecure medium. Then CIQ isn't killable or removable by mortals. Still CIQ cs. claim they only press petals.
IT isn't a university's core business. When IT was in its infancy there was a case for letting the CS faculty run IT with students volunteering. As IT has advanced in the mean time, the CS faculty can now concentrate on CS and reduce its hands-on stuff to leading edge technologies (e.g. research in super computing, semiconductors, etc...). Nowadays for the vast amount of tasks -even for most CS tasks- ample computing resources, technologies and software can be easily made available.
The school takes responsibility for the email system (and any failures), and then professors can be assured that if they send an email out to the class, it will be (or should have been) read, leaving the onus on the student to actually do it.
That is peculiar coming from a scientific institution. Email offers no guarantee of reception. I grant that an extremely high amount of mails do arrive well. But if I were to avoid distracting discussions, I'd communicate with more than just email as a medium and I wouldn't rely on it being high available.
Here in CH my family has in total 4 Android phones. None of them has CIQ. Possibly because we bought them directly and not through service plans. I don't know whether phones with service plans do have CIQ installed. My hunch is that a scandal would break out should such a practice be discovered here in CH. Or in neighbouring EU countries where privacy is highly considered, like DE for instance.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And this beholder thinks Aptera has no merit whatsoever. Looks like a veggie inspired pile of crap. Good riddance I say. Mankind is blessed by production problems.
I give that the car looks futuristic. And that has nothing to do with beauty. Would you want to drive around looking like the Jetsons, for the sake of what? The days are well past that futuristic was cool and hence sort of beautiful. Then the weight of 1800 lbs is hardly light. An average classic sports car weighs that much or even less, and most look infinitely better. The centre of gravity is unnecessary high for it to be fun to drive. Then the prices tag of 25 to 40kUSD. What?!
For real trike fun look at the Morgan Threewheeler. Proper motor with US and UK pedigree.
Don't get me wrong, I like electric/hybrid cars. In fact I think they are the future. But if you really want to make a difference with electric/hybrid cars, you must bring a rock solid and complete concept. I wager the Aptera appealed more to the tree huggers where it should have appealed to the motoring enthusiast.
As an Italian patriot I welcome fining corporations. I'm sure I speak for many of us when I say "We see this as a minor yet convenient contribution to our nation al debt. Even single digit billions are not to be shunned. And some of it will eventually land in Italian pockets." There must be a way to make it stick and I'm sure we can make the form or shape we find look beautiful, trust me.
Personally I see a dodgy edge on Google but compared to M$ they are saints and I'd be absolutely terrified if Apple were in a similar position. Oh, and "Italian patriot" is a bit of an oxymoron.
Back in the days DC was converted down by "burning" the surplus. That's what a voltage regulator like the 7905 does for low powers. For higher power you'd use a huge transistor and a Zener diode or a (79??). A truly stable source of DC that wouldn't cause the horrible 50/60 noise was the holy grail.
How did that change? (Makes for discussion. And I'm too lazy too look it up myself.)
The more on-line we get the crappier decision are taken. Just yesterday at a meeting some idiot thought it very cool to design a WSDL during a meeting. He was under the impression he did a fabulous job. After having pondered over the WSDL I will tomorrow slay it completely. I'm afraid the idiot will think himself to be slightly less cool afterwards.
We're not on sex and the city! We are busy writing rock solid software. Hate the friggin babblers!
Stuff needs time to mature in the brain. The more on-line we get the more chit chatting is done and the less structured thinking.
I'd volunteer to leave a company should I ever be denied email.
I don't see why all the fuss is made about JS's capabilities. Coming from a very strong Perl/Unix background I see the appealing side of scripting. But if I take into account business programming, JS makes me shiver to the spine.
I grew up being generally interested in CS and specifically in programming. Most programmers I meet hardly ever cease to amaze me at the nonchalance which they adopt when writing code. You (dis-) qualify yourself with me as soon as the argument of "well it works" pops up. Programming the business logic is the easy part. Handling all possible exceptions whilst maintaining integrity is the hard part. Not reaching a conclusion too soon is also "up there."
Most programmers I meet can't be arsed to take exceptions and integrity too seriously. Or to continue pondering over a problem. The natural curiosity of finding out stuff and improving oneself every single day is hardly ever there.
I have adopted the liking of Java for complex solutions. You can only screw up so much in it. And you can program almost anything with it. I like mediocre programmers to write their stuff in Java.
Anything needing complex, low level system interaction I'd program in Perl. I also appreciate other similar languages that do the same. I prefer mediocre programmers around me not to touch Perl.
For setting up running environments for programs to run and to program very simple applications, I advocate Bourne Shell (not bash.) One good thing about Bourne/Unix is that mediocre programmers steer clear from AWK.
Stating that I'm "Not a complete fan of JS" is perhaps an understatement. I find the typing revolting. The means to overload methods. The slightly different method of handling strings compared to Java.
I have had the misfortune of having to know a product using JS and an open runtime implementation. Knowing what other people did is tedious at best and debugging JS there is pure hell. I pity the folks I left behind.
So, from a business point of view I loathe JS. And from a hobby point of view I can't be bothered. Why use a scripting language to program complex software when other better maintainable technologies are around? "Because you frigging can!" is the only answer I can think of.
You don't arrive late thinking you are in time.
You arrive late and blame traffic, war, biblical plagues; and share simpaty with other meeting partecipants.
It's equally common to be completely oblivious to being late. As in not acknowledging even the remote chance of lateness to exist.
I'd be damned is italianness has it's counterpart on neutrino / photon level.
"His family asks that you respect their privacy at this difficult time"?
Yeah, joking with the privacy concerns of social networks and feeding that back to the circumstance. Absolutely tasteless.
You must be an absolute jerk!
When you're in town we should get together for a beer and more tasteless banter.
You are vastly over-complicating the mechanism by which the energy market is manipulated. The relatively wide fluctuations of price is all it takes to make sure that no serious challenges are mounted to the carbon hegemony. Who wants to invest any serious money to the alternatives when at any time all it takes to put you out of business is for a couple of the major players to start dumping crude cheaply? Not that this ever really happens. Instead, the fluctuations that we see are like warning shots: they keep everyone aware of the potential for volatility.
I maintain that it is almost impossible to influence how the fossil fuel market works and that therefore the real alternative energy research boost will come when petrol resources are nearly finished. Letting the rise of the CO2 level in the atmosphere bring you down is useless. Instead we would be better of preparing for eventualities.
Making plausible assumptions as to why the course is developing in the way it is and periodically adjusting those assumptions, makes me better aware of the world. Simply witnessing the events as they unfold is like watching a game without having studied the players. Being entertained vs. being involved.
Please consider investigating this deeply and using your _reason_ to do so. For the last 150 years, followers of Baha'u'llah have quietly been building a sustainable, unified, world civilization that acknowledges the value of science, art _and_ spirit, that recognizes that individuals, communities and institutions all need to develop, that is based on principles such as truthfulness, unity in diversity, elimination of prejudice, equality of men and women. The purpose of the teachings of Baha'u'llah is to unite all the races and peoples of the world in one universal cause and one common faith.
There are quite a few movements and Gurus proclaiming holistic governments. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi for instance was well known and advocated a -for the scope of this discussion- similar world government. Very noble and positive contributions. But until now not very effective.
MMY even had the Beatles and quite a few other celebrities on his side promoting the TM movement. Lately the most influential and active celebrity promoting TM is David Lynch. Even with the enormous platform, the TM movement made little progress. Positive contributions by all means but not the massive change the movement itself heralded.
It is hard to ignore that the reality is that we are not well adapted to play nice with one another. No matter how good our intentions seem, collectively we act poorly. I seriously doubt a movement or a religion will rise up and rid us from all sins. OTOH, I also do not believe we are utterly doomed.
The end game of fossil fuel will be an interesting one.
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We Europeans go to McDonald's. I'd never eat there but I'd spend a free penny.
I hear that in the US too there are one or two McDonald's.
Take an example 1/4" = 0.635 cm, it's a hell of a lot easier (and cheaper) to make something 1/4th of the length of something else, versus 127/200th of some standard length.
I'm brought up the metric way and I wouldn't ditch that system. It makes more scientific sense. My impression though is that the imperial system makes more applied sense.
A few years ago I built my own British car. For historical reasons -I take- a mix of metric and imperial system is used in my car and I had to buy a set of imperial system keys. Surprisingly I ended up using almost all keys of the imperial system set.
I have a long experience in wondering why people even bother to make 9, 11, 12, 14, 16 and 18 mm keys. One almost never uses these but invariable they all come in the most basic key sets.
So metrics is fine but imperial system shouldn't be discarded too quickly. I expect it to remain among us for time to come.
14-inch diameter and measures 43
Thanks for sharing numbers that almost defy pi.
I read the end of the first sentence as high-wanking officials...
How 'd you think the NK people would pronounce it?
I don't go to my high school reunions because the people who are for the most part people I am not interested in meeting again. I went to the first couple and none of the people I had any interest in seeing were there, so I stopped going. I'm not on Facebook (and I am pretty sure that neither are the classmates I would be interested in talking to again).
You're probably very right with your assumption. However, my experience is that people I didn't like have actually changed for the better. The more experienced you get in life the more human interfaces you can support. See it as if your internal algorithm improved so that not all exceptions bring you to a grinding hold. Instead you actually take pleasure in appreciating the awkwardness lying at the source of exceptions.
Having said that, I'd be very selective in going to reunions myself.
I've been on the Internet since mid 80-ies. With the authority of experience -for what it's really worth- I can classify these 25% as the happy few.
There still are ample media available for you to live an informed life without using the Internet.
Personally I find the Internet an invaluable source of CS related information and a nifty tool to obtain good deals on purchases. I actually speak face to face with people I care about. Anything skin deep I ignore completely.
I'm most likely not interested in your life story. The best times I have with actual people. CS is merely a hobby that happens to earn me a living. It took me a few mental leaps in the early stages to realise that graphical representations of bytes will never govern my life.
I'd be more concerned to inadvertently find out that my life actually was/is not worth living.
I believe refraining from using facebook eliminates the inadvertent component but, more importantly, I am convinced that without facebook my life is more worth living.
My advice on pointers is once allocated, to free memory eventually. Consider using a language with garbage collector.
There are no COBOL apps on my Android.
(Think for yourself what I'm implying here.)
Did you use Google? To find ways to make sieves water tight? I suspect you should need to plug many holes. Alternatively you could just buy a pot or a sealed vessel if that's what you need.
Seriously though, restrictions will make students work around your efforts. Maybe a small, isolated network for your lab would suit you. Protect BIOS, use decent root passwords and maintain a cache for updates.
And ban smart phones.
Ocean Energy Tech To Be Tested Off Australian Coast
Nowadays results would have had to be enhanced even further should they have decided to test in say Turkmenistan, or closer to home in Nebraska. It is no longer so that most scientists would have shunned the proposition should some idiot have offered them a financial incentive.
If it isn't GPL-licensed and built by a collective herd of protesting armchair engineers, it must be a tool by corporate government cronies to invade our privacy and steal the vital details of how often we wash behind our ears.
That was sarcasm.
No, that was below the belt! We were on a rant high and there you come and spoil the party.
Seriously though, logging stuff you would send over SSL is pretty scary. It circumvents the whole concept of being able to communicate securely over an insecure medium. Then CIQ isn't killable or removable by mortals. Still CIQ cs. claim they only press petals.
"Mail is hard, let's go shopping."
IT isn't a university's core business. When IT was in its infancy there was a case for letting the CS faculty run IT with students volunteering. As IT has advanced in the mean time, the CS faculty can now concentrate on CS and reduce its hands-on stuff to leading edge technologies (e.g. research in super computing, semiconductors, etc...). Nowadays for the vast amount of tasks -even for most CS tasks- ample computing resources, technologies and software can be easily made available.
The school takes responsibility for the email system (and any failures), and then professors can be assured that if they send an email out to the class, it will be (or should have been) read, leaving the onus on the student to actually do it.
That is peculiar coming from a scientific institution. Email offers no guarantee of reception. I grant that an extremely high amount of mails do arrive well. But if I were to avoid distracting discussions, I'd communicate with more than just email as a medium and I wouldn't rely on it being high available.
Here in CH my family has in total 4 Android phones. None of them has CIQ. Possibly because we bought them directly and not through service plans. I don't know whether phones with service plans do have CIQ installed. My hunch is that a scandal would break out should such a practice be discovered here in CH. Or in neighbouring EU countries where privacy is highly considered, like DE for instance.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And this beholder thinks Aptera has no merit whatsoever. Looks like a veggie inspired pile of crap. Good riddance I say. Mankind is blessed by production problems.
I give that the car looks futuristic. And that has nothing to do with beauty. Would you want to drive around looking like the Jetsons, for the sake of what? The days are well past that futuristic was cool and hence sort of beautiful. Then the weight of 1800 lbs is hardly light. An average classic sports car weighs that much or even less, and most look infinitely better. The centre of gravity is unnecessary high for it to be fun to drive. Then the prices tag of 25 to 40kUSD. What?!
For real trike fun look at the Morgan Threewheeler. Proper motor with US and UK pedigree.
Don't get me wrong, I like electric/hybrid cars. In fact I think they are the future. But if you really want to make a difference with electric/hybrid cars, you must bring a rock solid and complete concept. I wager the Aptera appealed more to the tree huggers where it should have appealed to the motoring enthusiast.
As an Italian patriot I welcome fining corporations. I'm sure I speak for many of us when I say "We see this as a minor yet convenient contribution to our nation al debt. Even single digit billions are not to be shunned. And some of it will eventually land in Italian pockets." There must be a way to make it stick and I'm sure we can make the form or shape we find look beautiful, trust me.
Personally I see a dodgy edge on Google but compared to M$ they are saints and I'd be absolutely terrified if Apple were in a similar position. Oh, and "Italian patriot" is a bit of an oxymoron.
Back in the days DC was converted down by "burning" the surplus. That's what a voltage regulator like the 7905 does for low powers. For higher power you'd use a huge transistor and a Zener diode or a (79??). A truly stable source of DC that wouldn't cause the horrible 50/60 noise was the holy grail.
How did that change? (Makes for discussion. And I'm too lazy too look it up myself.)
Leave me my off line communication!!!
The more on-line we get the crappier decision are taken. Just yesterday at a meeting some idiot thought it very cool to design a WSDL during a meeting. He was under the impression he did a fabulous job. After having pondered over the WSDL I will tomorrow slay it completely. I'm afraid the idiot will think himself to be slightly less cool afterwards.
We're not on sex and the city! We are busy writing rock solid software. Hate the friggin babblers!
Stuff needs time to mature in the brain. The more on-line we get the more chit chatting is done and the less structured thinking.
I'd volunteer to leave a company should I ever be denied email.
I don't see why all the fuss is made about JS's capabilities. Coming from a very strong Perl/Unix background I see the appealing side of scripting. But if I take into account business programming, JS makes me shiver to the spine.
I grew up being generally interested in CS and specifically in programming. Most programmers I meet hardly ever cease to amaze me at the nonchalance which they adopt when writing code. You (dis-) qualify yourself with me as soon as the argument of "well it works" pops up. Programming the business logic is the easy part. Handling all possible exceptions whilst maintaining integrity is the hard part. Not reaching a conclusion too soon is also "up there."
Most programmers I meet can't be arsed to take exceptions and integrity too seriously. Or to continue pondering over a problem. The natural curiosity of finding out stuff and improving oneself every single day is hardly ever there.
I have adopted the liking of Java for complex solutions. You can only screw up so much in it. And you can program almost anything with it. I like mediocre programmers to write their stuff in Java.
Anything needing complex, low level system interaction I'd program in Perl. I also appreciate other similar languages that do the same. I prefer mediocre programmers around me not to touch Perl.
For setting up running environments for programs to run and to program very simple applications, I advocate Bourne Shell (not bash.) One good thing about Bourne/Unix is that mediocre programmers steer clear from AWK.
Stating that I'm "Not a complete fan of JS" is perhaps an understatement. I find the typing revolting. The means to overload methods. The slightly different method of handling strings compared to Java.
I have had the misfortune of having to know a product using JS and an open runtime implementation. Knowing what other people did is tedious at best and debugging JS there is pure hell. I pity the folks I left behind.
So, from a business point of view I loathe JS. And from a hobby point of view I can't be bothered. Why use a scripting language to program complex software when other better maintainable technologies are around? "Because you frigging can!" is the only answer I can think of.
As an italian I can testify you are wrong.
You don't arrive late thinking you are in time. You arrive late and blame traffic, war, biblical plagues; and share simpaty with other meeting partecipants.
It's equally common to be completely oblivious to being late. As in not acknowledging even the remote chance of lateness to exist.
I'd be damned is italianness has it's counterpart on neutrino / photon level.
Is it just me? Or is Steve, as time goes by, steadily turning into larger and larger jerk? Posthumously.
One more thing Steve has achieved which I -hopefully- never will. (Although this very comment won't do me any favours for that matter.)
"His family asks that you respect their privacy at this difficult time"?
Yeah, joking with the privacy concerns of social networks and feeding that back to the circumstance. Absolutely tasteless. You must be an absolute jerk!
When you're in town we should get together for a beer and more tasteless banter.
You are vastly over-complicating the mechanism by which the energy market is manipulated. The relatively wide fluctuations of price is all it takes to make sure that no serious challenges are mounted to the carbon hegemony. Who wants to invest any serious money to the alternatives when at any time all it takes to put you out of business is for a couple of the major players to start dumping crude cheaply? Not that this ever really happens. Instead, the fluctuations that we see are like warning shots: they keep everyone aware of the potential for volatility.
I maintain that it is almost impossible to influence how the fossil fuel market works and that therefore the real alternative energy research boost will come when petrol resources are nearly finished. Letting the rise of the CO2 level in the atmosphere bring you down is useless. Instead we would be better of preparing for eventualities.
Making plausible assumptions as to why the course is developing in the way it is and periodically adjusting those assumptions, makes me better aware of the world. Simply witnessing the events as they unfold is like watching a game without having studied the players. Being entertained vs. being involved.
And I don't expect world government to change any time soon. Who or what would be powerful, charming and effective enough to change mankind's nature?
Answer: Baha'u'llah.
Please consider investigating this deeply and using your _reason_ to do so. For the last 150 years, followers of Baha'u'llah have quietly been building a sustainable, unified, world civilization that acknowledges the value of science, art _and_ spirit, that recognizes that individuals, communities and institutions all need to develop, that is based on principles such as truthfulness, unity in diversity, elimination of prejudice, equality of men and women. The purpose of the teachings of Baha'u'llah is to unite all the races and peoples of the world in one universal cause and one common faith.
There are quite a few movements and Gurus proclaiming holistic governments. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi for instance was well known and advocated a -for the scope of this discussion- similar world government. Very noble and positive contributions. But until now not very effective.
MMY even had the Beatles and quite a few other celebrities on his side promoting the TM movement. Lately the most influential and active celebrity promoting TM is David Lynch. Even with the enormous platform, the TM movement made little progress. Positive contributions by all means but not the massive change the movement itself heralded.
It is hard to ignore that the reality is that we are not well adapted to play nice with one another. No matter how good our intentions seem, collectively we act poorly. I seriously doubt a movement or a religion will rise up and rid us from all sins. OTOH, I also do not believe we are utterly doomed.
The end game of fossil fuel will be an interesting one.