Could it be that the inner shells of the sun are bouncing a bit? Perhaps a resonance building up from fast "shell quakes" where localised fuel combinations are changing ?
Yes, these parked domains are the junk bonds of the web. Surprised we don't see more of them as image-based spaaaaAAAARGGGHH (sound of poster breaking his own typing thumbs with a hammer)
I've also seen articles that mention that companies that are led by engineers tend to report better earnings than companies led my non-engineers, but that was in the days of Jack Welch (former CEO of GE).
I think we have to remember that there is a big difference between getting the job and doing the job. CEO's are generally better equipped at the former, and see "doing the job" as a means to "getting the job". With CIO's, it's the other way around. Profits depend on both being there, but playing the two different C-level roles effectively demands that differential focus, and I believe that's where the conflict lies.
Contrary to popular opinion Julius Caesar was never Emperor of Rome. He was merely the elected dictator for life. He was assasinated in an attempt to prevent him becoming Emperor and preserve the democratic republic.
False positives? Lots. I changed my mobo, video card, dvd twice in the course of repairing and upgrading the same beige box (hey, I like that case!) and ran out of "genuine advantage" brownie points somewhere. I really, really did not appreciate having to replace XP.
Yes, I should know better. Wish SoE would provide a decent Vanguard SOH port to Linux...
You're right. I'm right. I think both would be good, m'self. Stirling for warmer weather (bigger temp differential between surface and depth) and fewer waves. Your method used in the North Sea could light up Scotland like a neon palace, I'd think; they'd be selling power to Mars.
Hmm... Mars, associate idea of wind power. I wonder if you could achieve better use of wind power by accelerating low-speed air movements in a long plenum that decreases in cross-section and develops air pressure from momentum of a long column of air. Once the air is moving you engage the turbines for many, many kilowatts of indirect heliothermal power.
There'd have to be an optimum size for this to work; Might have to be piped underground due to the sheer size of the plenum, although I'm not sure whether very large wind channels or a number of smaller wind channels would work better. But I do know that ducted fans are often more efficient than open blade designs. You just need more air pressure, and the way to do that is via a long plenum with venturi effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venturi/ acceleration.
My old friend Long Sterling told me that you could exploit the energy differential between the ocean top and a ways beneath the surface by building a Sterling-cycle engine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_cycle#Marin e_engines/)to take advantage of it.
Perhaps with a series of tubes.
OMG Sorry, just flashed to the future where some Alaskan senator tries to describe the grand oceanic heat pump network as "a series of routers"...
It's directly proportional to the wad of cash they give a senator. The FCC doesn't understand technology anyway. Also, consumers are too dumb to be able to make choices for themselves.
Where's my + 1 Cynical mod?
Anyway, (a) true, (b) false, (c) where's my Blade of Carnage?
Just finished paying for yet another license of XP Pro on my home comp -- this time because I added a DVD drive (mobo got toasted in a power surge earlier and swapped video cards). Must "re-activate" the operating system.
When I read that message I thought, ok, reach for the paddles...
NPFW will I buy another Windows product for a server. Sorry, Mr. Ballmer, you lost a long-time customer. Oh, and I do indeed influence corporate buying decisions, have done so for many years. Does it look like the train station is moving to you? Wave as you go by.
Google "Fabber". Check out "Ennex" who make the sintered-bronze/epoxy (i.e. large and expensive) 3D printers.
Also check out (if they're still in business) EMachineShop (too lazy to check the spelling, not sorry). The former make a large 3D printer suitable for bureau use built on web services, the latter allow you to draw on a downloadable client, get online quotes for, and have metal parts manufactured & shipped to you.
Honest, folks, there are engineers out there with some very nice web based tools. It shouldn't be too hard a stretch to build your own eCommerce web site to print and ship silicon or chocolate bits to recoup your investment.
I think I may have an old copy of Trek in the garage. It was pretty successful, and would have been more successful if that version of Basic could handle string functions.
Haven't checked it in a while, because the ASR-33 tape reader is broken and I haven't enough mains power to fire up the old XDS Sigma 7.
Evolve radiating appendages that are highly... Sounds Noodly. But is it the right kind of Noodly? I'm well aware thea the universe was created via Unintelligent Design, and that sounds way too clever to be sufficiently holy.
...of some years, I can no longer find any real reason to run Outlook at home. I've got the whole family on Thunderbird & Google Calendars, and we're loving it.
One lovely little thing about Outlook I've always thought useful though was the English language date parser in the "Meeting Request" form -- you know, where you can type in "two years from yesterday" and it parses it to the correct date? Bloaty but useful, if you remember it's there. (Anyone willing to tackle that one? LoL...)
Some of the best features in Outlook are buried -- VBA forms, because they don't show up in the preview pane (which many folk use in preference to opening the message), Journalling, because not all of us have the discipline or inclination to account for our time that tightly (and those who need it want to bill directly, too) and the email-addressable public folder (ES only) with it's extended rule set is nice.
Trouble is, of course, these features aren't really used. Some of this is just bad tuning, but a lot of it is just streamlined out of our day because the return on effort is bad.
A lot of brainy people got together and dumped features in bulk into Outlook, and the result is just too many features -- features that consume eyeball space, that aren't used and just get in the way. UI Clutter can be a real pain when you sit in front of a screen all day.
If people want mail and calendaring, no point in buying Outlook just for that. And even in sophisticated corporate environments, the niche features just don't get used.
Wasn't there a recent thread where folks said they're not interested in technology any more, they just want things to work? I really like simple, rugged messaging, and I think the appeal of Thunderbird for the masses is that it really does just one thing very well, and doesn't try to be a games console or a file explorer too. Not everybody likes to keep ten different rule sets in their head when they open a program. To be anywhere near successful, the next generation of Outlook should divest itself of all that nichy stuff. Any fool with a dollar can buy air time, but simple ideas have broader appeal, because not all users are nerds anymore. Microsoft's marketing should spend less on advertising and more on learning what the non-nerds really want to use.
I'm strong enough in my patriotism that I can joke about it.
The story of Eureka Stockade still brings tears to my eyes -- bloody tax collectors, like just being government gives you the right to steal from honest miners.
Seriously, how can anybody be sure that everything you have ever done on your computer, since the advent of the internet, hasn't been recorded and cached somewhere, for later analysis...
Blimps can carry huge loads if you make them large enough. A large unmanned blimp could be used as a high-efficiency first stage -- just fire the Saturn rocket up through it after the blimp reaches max altitude, saving that first few vertical miles worth of rocket fuel.
...but it seems better than being in a balloon with no real control...
A term of some use here is "dirigible", i.e. "something that can be directed". Term for lighter-than-air airships of the past was dirigible balloon, shortened to "dirigible" in common use.
As a young lad I read Doc Smith's stories (before learning that) and had this terrible image of his dirigible torpedoes being these explosive little balloons running around in outer space...
Oh, and the term "blimp", like "jeep", was a military term shortened in general use -- originally it was a "Type B-Limp Balloon"
Gerald Ford was inept, not stupid, and he inherited the job. He made at least decent one pun* during his tenure, which puts him above average; modern US presidential candidates generally display less wit than Jay Leno.
Sometimes vice-presidents are chosen for their intelligence, which I believe is a ploy to keep them from competing for the top spot.
*("I think you're guilty of putting Descartes before TerHorst")
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Apology accepted, Captain.
Wire shorts involved in the conversation in the first place? If you insulator nose from the clothes it's no problem.
Could it be that the inner shells of the sun are bouncing a bit? Perhaps a resonance building up from fast "shell quakes" where localised fuel combinations are changing ?
Of course, the internet may soon be bigger than Asia...
Yes, these parked domains are the junk bonds of the web. Surprised we don't see more of them as image-based spaaaaAAAARGGGHH (sound of poster breaking his own typing thumbs with a hammer)
I think we have to remember that there is a big difference between getting the job and doing the job. CEO's are generally better equipped at the former, and see "doing the job" as a means to "getting the job". With CIO's, it's the other way around. Profits depend on both being there, but playing the two different C-level roles effectively demands that differential focus, and I believe that's where the conflict lies.
I really loved the guy, honest I did
-- Brutus
Yes, I should know better. Wish SoE would provide a decent Vanguard SOH port to Linux...
Hmm... Mars, associate idea of wind power. I wonder if you could achieve better use of wind power by accelerating low-speed air movements in a long plenum that decreases in cross-section and develops air pressure from momentum of a long column of air. Once the air is moving you engage the turbines for many, many kilowatts of indirect heliothermal power.
There'd have to be an optimum size for this to work; Might have to be piped underground due to the sheer size of the plenum, although I'm not sure whether very large wind channels or a number of smaller wind channels would work better. But I do know that ducted fans are often more efficient than open blade designs. You just need more air pressure, and the way to do that is via a long plenum with venturi effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venturi/ acceleration.
Perhaps with a series of tubes.
OMG Sorry, just flashed to the future where some Alaskan senator tries to describe the grand oceanic heat pump network as "a series of routers"...
Where's my + 1 Cynical mod?
Anyway, (a) true, (b) false, (c) where's my Blade of Carnage?
When I read that message I thought, ok, reach for the paddles...
NPFW will I buy another Windows product for a server. Sorry, Mr. Ballmer, you lost a long-time customer. Oh, and I do indeed influence corporate buying decisions, have done so for many years. Does it look like the train station is moving to you? Wave as you go by.
Also check out (if they're still in business) EMachineShop (too lazy to check the spelling, not sorry). The former make a large 3D printer suitable for bureau use built on web services, the latter allow you to draw on a downloadable client, get online quotes for, and have metal parts manufactured & shipped to you.
Honest, folks, there are engineers out there with some very nice web based tools. It shouldn't be too hard a stretch to build your own eCommerce web site to print and ship silicon or chocolate bits to recoup your investment.
Get on it, or the Chinese will.
Haven't checked it in a while, because the ASR-33 tape reader is broken and I haven't enough mains power to fire up the old XDS Sigma 7.
Evolve radiating appendages that are highly... Sounds Noodly. But is it the right kind of Noodly? I'm well aware thea the universe was created via Unintelligent Design, and that sounds way too clever to be sufficiently holy.
One lovely little thing about Outlook I've always thought useful though was the English language date parser in the "Meeting Request" form -- you know, where you can type in "two years from yesterday" and it parses it to the correct date? Bloaty but useful, if you remember it's there. (Anyone willing to tackle that one? LoL...)
Some of the best features in Outlook are buried -- VBA forms, because they don't show up in the preview pane (which many folk use in preference to opening the message), Journalling, because not all of us have the discipline or inclination to account for our time that tightly (and those who need it want to bill directly, too) and the email-addressable public folder (ES only) with it's extended rule set is nice.
Trouble is, of course, these features aren't really used. Some of this is just bad tuning, but a lot of it is just streamlined out of our day because the return on effort is bad.
A lot of brainy people got together and dumped features in bulk into Outlook, and the result is just too many features -- features that consume eyeball space, that aren't used and just get in the way. UI Clutter can be a real pain when you sit in front of a screen all day.
If people want mail and calendaring, no point in buying Outlook just for that. And even in sophisticated corporate environments, the niche features just don't get used.
Wasn't there a recent thread where folks said they're not interested in technology any more, they just want things to work? I really like simple, rugged messaging, and I think the appeal of Thunderbird for the masses is that it really does just one thing very well, and doesn't try to be a games console or a file explorer too. Not everybody likes to keep ten different rule sets in their head when they open a program. To be anywhere near successful, the next generation of Outlook should divest itself of all that nichy stuff. Any fool with a dollar can buy air time, but simple ideas have broader appeal, because not all users are nerds anymore. Microsoft's marketing should spend less on advertising and more on learning what the non-nerds really want to use.
Thanks for the rant. T-bird rules, ok?
The story of Eureka Stockade still brings tears to my eyes -- bloody tax collectors, like just being government gives you the right to steal from honest miners.
Oh wait...
Golly! I have an audience to play to?
...goesh wif my scotch & latte at Shtarbucksh. Dean Margle sinnging whi...whi.. chr ...wunnerful noosh.
Gyro Gearloose!! He's brainy in the same way that Scrooge McDuck is rich.
Good one! That's a well reasoned, and well informed argument and answer.
So, it's an easy step from here to say "let's pass a law that recognizes ISP's as common carriers".
Write your congresscritter.
Blimps can carry huge loads if you make them large enough. A large unmanned blimp could be used as a high-efficiency first stage -- just fire the Saturn rocket up through it after the blimp reaches max altitude, saving that first few vertical miles worth of rocket fuel.
A term of some use here is "dirigible", i.e. "something that can be directed". Term for lighter-than-air airships of the past was dirigible balloon, shortened to "dirigible" in common use.
As a young lad I read Doc Smith's stories (before learning that) and had this terrible image of his dirigible torpedoes being these explosive little balloons running around in outer space...
Oh, and the term "blimp", like "jeep", was a military term shortened in general use -- originally it was a "Type B-Limp Balloon"
There, I have just elocuted you.
Sometimes vice-presidents are chosen for their intelligence, which I believe is a ploy to keep them from competing for the top spot.
*("I think you're guilty of putting Descartes before TerHorst")
Read past the first paragraph -- it came to be associated with medicine in the 7th century. Old news.