Veco is an oil pipeline service and construction company (from Wikipedia). I've worked with them before on projects that mostly involved mechanical engineering design at oil refineries. There bread and butter does appear to be the petro-chemical industry, but they are not an oil company like BP, ConocoPhillis, Shell, etc., which can be considered "oil companies".
What is the big deal? It is perception that Veco being identified as an "oil company" involved with some senator shenanigans, a republican one in Alaska for that matter, makes the onerous label "oil company" more damning than what it really is. FTA, Veco only provided engineering consulting services.
Reason why this flooring system won't be feasible:
1. Cost: flooring alone costs up to 200 $/sf for tiling installed in public areas, not to mention cost of this type of floor proposed.
2. Feasibility: There is going to be a lot of mechanical devices, lots of wiring, a computer system, moving parts, shifting parts, all of which will need to be maintained.
3. Serviceability: The flooring will have to have some sort of diagnosis features as well maintenance access much like escalators probably. What happens when someone spills fluids, tracks in dirt, sand, drops paper clips into the joints, etc.? How about the physical surface cleaning requirements, will the floor be able to be cleaned waxed with conventional equipment?
4. Aesthetics: Probably a major factor, is the deflections of the flooring, even if somehow minimized, people can still feel minute deflections. This is true in the design of buildings where the limiting design factor for a floor is not the dead and live loading conditions but the deflection criteria. You don't want people vibrating when someone walks past, the same will most likely be true on this flooring.
There was an earlier article on Slashdot that mentioned a problem with dust settling on the solar panels and subsequently reducing their efficiency. I wonder if this storm will cause dust to settle on the panels or is the wind to strong? Anyway, this dust situation sounds like a persistent problem for longer run mission, which clearly was never the "primary" intent of these rovers to begin with, which leads me to my point/question: Will future rovers have dust wipers like the kind have on vehicles? It only makes sense to me, and I like to think these brilliant folks at NASA have thought of this.
People, please review the pertinentMission to Mars video manual for all of the Martian conditions that can be expected. This work has already been done.
Oh, and watch out for the nematodes.
I've RTFA, and I got to say it is complete crap.
OK, actually I only read the first page, and the reasons I read aren't convincing enough. Beside I dislike websites that make you go trough 8 pages at one paragraph each of content only to get lost in their completely cluttered up design and in your face advertising.
I read about this issue at a website not slashdotted and my opinion is that this is too far reaching.
I have been working on making a map for the Half-Life game mod Natural-Selection (Counter-Strike is a also a mod for based on the Half-Life game) that looks like my office building entrance lobby and first 3 floors (out of a 50 story building). For those not aware of this game, Natrual-Selection is pitted aliens with melee weapons (bite, slash, maul, etc.) vs. marines with ranged weapons (guns and grenades).
Why did I choose my office lobby for this?
1. My house isn't an interesting map setting (too small to say the least)
2. I'm familiar with the floor plan and relative dimensions of the office building lobby
3. The office building lobby has interesting architecture, thus making a map replication interesting
4. It's different from the other maps thus far available
I'm thinking this Texas high school student had similar reasons for creating his map. Now I'm wondering if he had created his map for the Natural-Selection mod, would he have gotten into the same amount trouble?
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It stands for Professional Engineer, a kind of licensing process demonstrating knowledge and competence to practice one's profession. They're mostly relevant for civil engineering (i.e., people whose screw-ups end up on the news as "major bridge collapses, 300 dead or missing"). PE also exists for mechanical and electrical engineers, but isn't uniformly required, as far as I know. I've never even heard of PE for anything software related, though some people have argued in favor of such a requirement.
A PE license is actually a trademark, and if you claim to be a PE when you in fact have not been granted the said license you can be fined for trademark infringement as well charged for other civil and criminal offenses (just like being a fake doctor).
I work for a large multidisciplinary engineering firm and when we do any programming related to say traffic lights, the whole "engineering" design gets stamped by an Professional Engineer(s) that may be an civil engineer or an electrical engineer depending on the situation.
It appears that the rigor of liability associated with the more "conventional" engineering practices have not caught up to the computer sciences\engineering field, yet. But this will change in the future. For the time being, the title "software engineer", unlike "Structural Engineer (SE)" is as relevant as the title "car wash attendant".
1. Come out with new OS and release into the market environment. 2. Stop upgrading older OS versions and tell vendors they won't have drivers etc. approved. 3. Current OS gains foothold on market at a virulent rate, quashing older instances of the competition (the older OS version) and tout this slow but eventually exponential customer adoption a success. 4. Evolve OS into the next version and release into the same environment and repeat steps 2 & 3. 5. Market evolves sufficient antibodies to combat next version of the virulent OS and becomes more resistant to infection. 6. Current virus goes into lingering but still persists on weak hosts and certain vendor vectors. 7. Current virus reaches a marginal but stable equilibrium with its natural environment.
I'd have to comment on TFA and excerpt that, while yes you pay money to receive an operating system from MS, you technically do not own it, and this is legally agreed upon when you accept the EULA after you purchase Windows. The operating system is licensed to you, and this is the MS business model. It doesn't make sense trying to petition a change in MS's successful (sales) business model, nobody in Corporate America would that, in fact it is against the corporate company charter.
If you read the fine print of the EULA (I have, btw), MS would refund you the full price of their OS (e.g. license) if you do not agree to the EULA. They aren't forcing you to accept their license as this would be illegal. They are plenty on alternatives other than MS to use as an operating system.
In closing: You don't purchase an OS from Microsoft you purchase a LOSS (licensed operating system scheme)
I think the problem here is giving minors a forum amongst adults. This is not any different than our society in general (if I were to shamelessly summarize), however there is a physical and interactive boundary between minors and adults IRL. This I fear, is not quite so on MySpace and other social websites, and this social interactive boundary is very blurred, if not non-existent. It also doesn't help when minors post salacious photos of themselves. I believe the informal, net-lingo term to describe this is "attention whore".
If the parents "actually" knew their son's or in the case of this discussion, knew their daughters we posting these photos, would they be shocked? Many websites, such as Yahoo require that parental consent for their minor should be given prior to a service is granted, i.e. an email account. Craigslist requires that any personal listing posted is by an adult of at least 18 years of age.
The problem isn't MySpace, the problem is that MySpace is so popular.
I haven't RTFA, but knowing what prices MS charges for their products, why would anyone buy into it... I can't see how a home server from MS would be any less complicated than setting up a Redhat Linux server, especially when Redhat has gui's for just about configuring everything... Plus Redhat, oh sorry, Fedora, is free. Just wondering out loud here.
I have patented the process by which melanin allows an individual's skin to become darker in pigment color when UV light is applied. I will enforce my patent and thus require all individuals that appear to be tan, to pay the appropriate royalty fee. Tanning salons may receive group discount rates.
I was just kidding about the IE7, and firefox... I haven't even used IE in 2 years now. But, theoretically firefox should work just fine under wine, haven't tried it though...
vnuet has an interesting tidbit about SCO vs RedHat, specifically how SCO wanted to suckup to RedHat... Does it have something todo with RH's market share?
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1142812
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Funny, I get different results: Results 1 - 100 of about 143,000,000 for Jesus
Veco is an oil pipeline service and construction company
(from Wikipedia). I've worked with them before on projects that mostly involved mechanical engineering design at oil refineries. There bread and butter does appear to be the petro-chemical industry, but they are not an oil company like BP, ConocoPhillis, Shell, etc., which can be considered "oil companies".
What is the big deal? It is perception that Veco being identified as an "oil company" involved with some senator shenanigans, a republican one in Alaska for that matter, makes the onerous label "oil company" more damning than what it really is. FTA, Veco only provided engineering consulting services.
Reason why this flooring system won't be feasible:
1. Cost: flooring alone costs up to 200 $/sf for tiling installed in public areas, not to mention cost of this type of floor proposed.
2. Feasibility: There is going to be a lot of mechanical devices, lots of wiring, a computer system, moving parts, shifting parts, all of which will need to be maintained.
3. Serviceability: The flooring will have to have some sort of diagnosis features as well maintenance access much like escalators probably. What happens when someone spills fluids, tracks in dirt, sand, drops paper clips into the joints, etc.? How about the physical surface cleaning requirements, will the floor be able to be cleaned waxed with conventional equipment?
4. Aesthetics: Probably a major factor, is the deflections of the flooring, even if somehow minimized, people can still feel minute deflections. This is true in the design of buildings where the limiting design factor for a floor is not the dead and live loading conditions but the deflection criteria. You don't want people vibrating when someone walks past, the same will most likely be true on this flooring.
There was an earlier article on Slashdot that mentioned a problem with dust settling on the solar panels and subsequently reducing their efficiency. I wonder if this storm will cause dust to settle on the panels or is the wind to strong? Anyway, this dust situation sounds like a persistent problem for longer run mission, which clearly was never the "primary" intent of these rovers to begin with, which leads me to my point/question: Will future rovers have dust wipers like the kind have on vehicles? It only makes sense to me, and I like to think these brilliant folks at NASA have thought of this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribal_sovereignty#De fining_jurisdiction Better check your facts before you decide to screw over Native Americans, as if the hadn't/are/will be screwed over.
People, please review the pertinent Mission to Mars video manual for all of the Martian conditions that can be expected. This work has already been done. Oh, and watch out for the nematodes.
Google maps now shows bus stops in Seattle with schedules for next bus along the line. Only thing missing now is the ferry schedule nearby...
I've RTFA, and I got to say it is complete crap. OK, actually I only read the first page, and the reasons I read aren't convincing enough. Beside I dislike websites that make you go trough 8 pages at one paragraph each of content only to get lost in their completely cluttered up design and in your face advertising.
I have been working on making a map for the Half-Life game mod Natural-Selection (Counter-Strike is a also a mod for based on the Half-Life game) that looks like my office building entrance lobby and first 3 floors (out of a 50 story building). For those not aware of this game, Natrual-Selection is pitted aliens with melee weapons (bite, slash, maul, etc.) vs. marines with ranged weapons (guns and grenades).
Why did I choose my office lobby for this?
1. My house isn't an interesting map setting (too small to say the least)
2. I'm familiar with the floor plan and relative dimensions of the office building lobby
3. The office building lobby has interesting architecture, thus making a map replication interesting
4. It's different from the other maps thus far available
I'm thinking this Texas high school student had similar reasons for creating his map. Now I'm wondering if he had created his map for the Natural-Selection mod, would he have gotten into the same amount trouble?
3M ?
It stands for Professional Engineer, a kind of licensing process demonstrating knowledge and competence to practice one's profession. They're mostly relevant for civil engineering (i.e., people whose screw-ups end up on the news as "major bridge collapses, 300 dead or missing"). PE also exists for mechanical and electrical engineers, but isn't uniformly required, as far as I know. I've never even heard of PE for anything software related, though some people have argued in favor of such a requirement.
A PE license is actually a trademark, and if you claim to be a PE when you in fact have not been granted the said license you can be fined for trademark infringement as well charged for other civil and criminal offenses (just like being a fake doctor).
I work for a large multidisciplinary engineering firm and when we do any programming related to say traffic lights, the whole "engineering" design gets stamped by an Professional Engineer(s) that may be an civil engineer or an electrical engineer depending on the situation.
It appears that the rigor of liability associated with the more "conventional" engineering practices have not caught up to the computer sciences\engineering field, yet. But this will change in the future. For the time being, the title "software engineer", unlike "Structural Engineer (SE)" is as relevant as the title "car wash attendant".
The Microsoft upgrade virus model explained:
1. Come out with new OS and release into the market environment.
2. Stop upgrading older OS versions and tell vendors they won't have drivers etc. approved.
3. Current OS gains foothold on market at a virulent rate, quashing older instances of the competition (the older OS version) and tout this slow but eventually exponential customer adoption a success.
4. Evolve OS into the next version and release into the same environment and repeat steps 2 & 3.
5. Market evolves sufficient antibodies to combat next version of the virulent OS and becomes more resistant to infection.
6. Current virus goes into lingering but still persists on weak hosts and certain vendor vectors.
7. Current virus reaches a marginal but stable equilibrium with its natural environment.
I'd have to comment on TFA and excerpt that, while yes you pay money to receive an operating system from MS, you technically do not own it, and this is legally agreed upon when you accept the EULA after you purchase Windows. The operating system is licensed to you, and this is the MS business model. It doesn't make sense trying to petition a change in MS's successful (sales) business model, nobody in Corporate America would that, in fact it is against the corporate company charter. If you read the fine print of the EULA (I have, btw), MS would refund you the full price of their OS (e.g. license) if you do not agree to the EULA. They aren't forcing you to accept their license as this would be illegal. They are plenty on alternatives other than MS to use as an operating system. In closing: You don't purchase an OS from Microsoft you purchase a LOSS (licensed operating system scheme)
I think the problem here is giving minors a forum amongst adults. This is not any different than our society in general (if I were to shamelessly summarize), however there is a physical and interactive boundary between minors and adults IRL. This I fear, is not quite so on MySpace and other social websites, and this social interactive boundary is very blurred, if not non-existent. It also doesn't help when minors post salacious photos of themselves. I believe the informal, net-lingo term to describe this is "attention whore".
If the parents "actually" knew their son's or in the case of this discussion, knew their daughters we posting these photos, would they be shocked? Many websites, such as Yahoo require that parental consent for their minor should be given prior to a service is granted, i.e. an email account. Craigslist requires that any personal listing posted is by an adult of at least 18 years of age.
The problem isn't MySpace, the problem is that MySpace is so popular.
I haven't RTFA, but knowing what prices MS charges for their products, why would anyone buy into it... I can't see how a home server from MS would be any less complicated than setting up a Redhat Linux server, especially when Redhat has gui's for just about configuring everything... Plus Redhat, oh sorry, Fedora, is free. Just wondering out loud here.
I crapplet was misspelled in the article heading title: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crapplet
Pretty soon all alphanumerics appended to ordinary words will be trademarked. I already missed out on the iToilet trademark.
I have patented the process by which melanin allows an individual's skin to become darker in pigment color when UV light is applied. I will enforce my patent and thus require all individuals that appear to be tan, to pay the appropriate royalty fee. Tanning salons may receive group discount rates.
I was just kidding about the IE7, and firefox... I haven't even used IE in 2 years now. But, theoretically firefox should work just fine under wine, haven't tried it though...
Yes, but does it run IE7... that's the real question I have... Firefox has been running a little to stable under WINE
Ok so I've read the news clip and I'm not to sure what is being said. How is what is being described anything new, much less a "major shift."
Database that how
vnuet has an interesting tidbit about SCO vs RedHat, specifically how SCO wanted to suckup to RedHat... Does it have something todo with RH's market share? http://www.vnunet.com/News/1142812
Um... the germans use the Euro curency, besides its Deutschemark
I this why you got laid off from Dell?