they eventually decided it wasn't worth paying me a thousand dollars a case (some idiot figured that's what it cost them for me to look at anything - I don't believe it personally)
Well, there's your costs, then there's the several dozen people who no doubt found out about your billing code and have been charging their time to it. It may have been cheaper to throw it over the wall than to change your billing code.
Sucks to be an engineer in a world owned by accountants.
Yes, but as someone who worked in customer service, the problem is that the ratio of users who know what their talking about vs those who THINK they know what their talking about is approx. 1,000,000 to 1.
If anyone purports to work in the IT industry in any capacity who doesn't recognise the name Steve Wozniak, I suggest they move to an industry more appropriate to their level of understanding.
Maybe, maybe not. Elasticity is not the same thing as softness... steel is pretty elastic, but you don't necessarily want a face full of it in a car wreck.
Correct. For an example, take a large steel ball bearing and a solid rubber ball the same size. Drop them on a concrete floor from the same height.. The steel ball, being more elastic than the rubber(!) will bounce higher.
The ability of a metal to deform under compressive stress is malleability (the counterpart of this is ductility, which is a measure of tensile stress). Elasticity is an entirely different 'ticity.
Really? what am I missing here, he seems to genuinely believe this foam could replace airbags which leads me to believe he thinks it can be inflated on the fly rather then being a solid chunk of metal that deforms.
No, I genuinely do not believe that, apologies for not extending the communication to match the idea. (Inflated on the fly? Really? No.)
I had more in mind the concept of firewall structures and other monocoque chassis elements made of this foamed metal, taking up more of the energy before the energy of collision gets as far as the steering wheel hub. I figure if you get to the point where you need to cushion your head against impact against the steering wheel, the rest of the structure up front hasn't done its job.
Of course the laws of physics do apply, and it's nice to be able to spread the contact patch to lower the point pressure of impact. But I'm still uneasy about driving around holding on to a wheel that contains, at its hub, something of a small bomb.
So somehow I was supposed to avoid the four (yes, four different cars, four different times) accidents I had where I was rear ended at a stop light, while the light was red?
I think I'd rather have some of this between me and a potential impact than a classic airbag, if it came to the crunch. What do they use for an inflation gas generator - sodium azide is it? Nasty stuff. Like driving around with a firecracker held in front of your face.
I hate to correct you here, but equilibrium is dependent upon factors of e, therefore the propation must be the 4th Fibonacci value derivation of the meld process.
You're joking, right? I thought everybody knew that Fibonacci values were bilaterally stochiocentric and corrupted the Van der Waals stress index at the third integral. How are you going to poststratify the gnomon clatch that way? Gods you're such a n00b.
Yes, electronics can do many control tasks more accurately and provide a better control experience than hydraulics alone provide, all across the board.
But they're small, and the little bogans in them hide from you.
if true i do hope that everyone calls that bluff. that way American content will finally die the death that it needs to. I don't know about you but all the good stuff is filmed in other countries anyways.
You know, I remember a story my Father used to tell me about why there weren't any new brick buildings in Southern California (this was long before the Sylmar earthquake). He drove a concrete mixer, and his attitudes were probably colored by it - he said "There are no more brick houses because the unions priced themselves out of the market."
Now I'm not trying to bash the unions here, they have their place - but the fact is, raise the price too high for a quality product and buyers will re-define their concept of what they like. And if the interest moves away from the traditional stuff, the quality will too. Fashions will get redefined.
My point is that the content of media controlled by ACTA and other attempts at legitimatizing RIAA and MPAA enforcers will have the effect of more and more music and video coming from indie sources. Good stuff, too. Put too tight a control on your contributions and the world will pass you by.
I would like to see a definitive, ultimate outcome along the lines of the trend I'm seeing here -- reduction of Jammie's fine from the absurdly egregious down to a level she can afford without crippling her family financially for the rest of her life, over a few unlicensed uploads.
Yes she broke the law, there should be a penalty for the infraction, but all the settlements so far have been unjustly high. And yes, I'd like to see it played out to the point where a precedent will be set and honoured.
The RIAA are the worst of the world's ambulance chasers. They shouldn't be allowed to win these huge entitlements, simply because they can afford to make more noise.
Justice should be the outcome of rule by law, decent and upstanding law, not simply "rule by the loud".
Lets just keep in mind that the two party system has been with us since the very beginning and is a result of how we vote. Changing that lacks much serious public drive, would require a constitutional amendment
I'm sure you didn't mean to say that. There have been quite a number of political parties in the history of the USA, Republicans, Democrats, Wobblies, American Independance Party (remember George Wallace? I didn't much care for his politics, but his party was legal.)
Heck, you folks can even write in candidates., and their affiliation hasn't in any way been enshrined in the text of The Constitution.
I suspect you're blowing air, my friend, unless you can cite which part of the Constitution requires two parties. Or did you mean "two house" system, meaning Senate and House of Representatives? That's definitely enshrined in the Constitution.
Either you're quite off the mark, or I took you badly out of context. Please clarify?
I don't know, they're blogs and chat groups. Open to all, generally. I see it as a legitimate use. It's no more subversive than any other astroturfer would be, and such postings are pretty easy to recognise. Now, if they actually blocked content or filtered it in any way (you listening, Conroy?) then that would be truly evil.
That's a lovely vision of life 50+ years from now.
Do you drive a car? They're mostly put together with robots today. That vision might not be as far away as you think.
It's already cheaper to outsource certain repetitive jobs to a robot on-shore than it is to outsource them to an off-shore firm, irrespective of the disparity in wages, which effectively disappear with robotics as the productivity per FTE equation (you still need some people to run them) goes way up.
And, there are many repetitive jobs that increasingly coming under the scope of a robotics solution, because robots are rapidly becoming more sophisticated. This can potentially be useful to a country concerned with the dilution of its manufacturing base.
Of course this can have a down side. Driving a tractor, anyone? If it can be done robotically, I would bet the oil company owned major farms will be interested.
Strictly business, Smythe, we're sorry but I'm sure you understand, and we have set up an appointment for you with transition coordinator to make your early retirement as humane as possible. Over to you, Jones. (BANG!) Next?
Steve Wozniak got ticketed for doing 104mph in his Prius.
Although I have long since elevated Steve to geek sainthood, driving was never his strong suit. In the early days of Apple his ability to crash expensive vehicles was legendary. It was only a couple of things, really, but wrapping the Apple-sponsored prototype sports car and ground-looping his light plane return to mind. Historically as significant as Chuck Yeager imo, but perhaps a bit short on practical kinesthetics. Of course, the inestimable Mr. Yeager never turned a university building into a giant Tetris game, either, so I guess it evens out. Some people are specialists.
I am certain, however, that either one of them could have gotten another 20 mph out of that Prius.
...They are shutting LORAN-C off because it's expensive to maintain a separate system, especially one that is not nearly as accurate as GPS, and is at risk of terrestrial attack...
But -- isn't the Loran C low frequency operation better able to punch a signal through periods of poor RF "weather"? During heavy solar storm activity (sunspots, peaking each 11 years) I hear it's sometimes kind of hard to get signals through, especially the S or K band stuff used for satellite communications. I remember during the Pioneer satellite days that it was sometimes quite a job for us to pull the signal out of the noise (clever use of FFT mostly). Satellites don't have huge power budgets. Larger antennae help, but you're still looking at a few watts at most.
And a submarine could still use Loran C if its inertial guidance system goes out of whack, without surfacing, I think, as I believe you can acquire a low frequency signal more easily at depth. In a worst-case situation, such as the massive EMP hit of a nuclear weapons discharge, I'd think that Loran would be back on line before you could read a satellite. Mind, we'd have worse problems, but I'd think the military would need to consider this sort of thing.
It sounds like an excellent solution, and depending on what else is in the compound besides glass (is it a process thing or does it depend on exotic chemistry?) it could be a quite a breakthrough. The summary implies it could be used for cleaning oil spills - if it can be made in bulk, but it also could be very useful in cartridge filters. Innovations like this can change the world for the better, in small increments. Good tech adds up.
Well, there is precedent. You see, when a mommy computer and a daddy computer love each other very much, they show this sometimes with a special dance. And if they are compatible, sometimes they will plug their interfaces together and engage in in a high bandwidth conversation. And much, much later, out of Mommy's USB port pops a very special process controller, just like you!
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they eventually decided it wasn't worth paying me a thousand dollars a case (some idiot figured that's what it cost them for me to look at anything - I don't believe it personally)
Well, there's your costs, then there's the several dozen people who no doubt found out about your billing code and have been charging their time to it. It may have been cheaper to throw it over the wall than to change your billing code.
Sucks to be an engineer in a world owned by accountants.
Yes, but as someone who worked in customer service, the problem is that the ratio of users who know what their talking about vs those who THINK they know what their talking about is approx. 1,000,000 to 1.
If anyone purports to work in the IT industry in any capacity who doesn't recognise the name Steve Wozniak, I suggest they move to an industry more appropriate to their level of understanding.
Maybe, maybe not. Elasticity is not the same thing as softness... steel is pretty elastic, but you don't necessarily want a face full of it in a car wreck.
Correct. For an example, take a large steel ball bearing and a solid rubber ball the same size. Drop them on a concrete floor from the same height.. The steel ball, being more elastic than the rubber(!) will bounce higher.
The ability of a metal to deform under compressive stress is malleability (the counterpart of this is ductility, which is a measure of tensile stress). Elasticity is an entirely different 'ticity.
Really? what am I missing here, he seems to genuinely believe this foam could replace airbags which leads me to believe he thinks it can be inflated on the fly rather then being a solid chunk of metal that deforms.
No, I genuinely do not believe that, apologies for not extending the communication to match the idea. (Inflated on the fly? Really? No.)
I had more in mind the concept of firewall structures and other monocoque chassis elements made of this foamed metal, taking up more of the energy before the energy of collision gets as far as the steering wheel hub. I figure if you get to the point where you need to cushion your head against impact against the steering wheel, the rest of the structure up front hasn't done its job.
Of course the laws of physics do apply, and it's nice to be able to spread the contact patch to lower the point pressure of impact. But I'm still uneasy about driving around holding on to a wheel that contains, at its hub, something of a small bomb.
Kindly explain how you are going to "avoid" this collision.
Move to Alice Springs one month previously.
Hey, we're being hypothetical here, aren't we?
So somehow I was supposed to avoid the four (yes, four different cars, four different times) accidents I had where I was rear ended at a stop light, while the light was red?
Perhaps your brake lights weren't?
I think I'd rather have some of this between me and a potential impact than a classic airbag, if it came to the crunch. What do they use for an inflation gas generator - sodium azide is it? Nasty stuff. Like driving around with a firecracker held in front of your face.
I hate to correct you here, but equilibrium is dependent upon factors of e, therefore the propation must be the 4th Fibonacci value derivation of the meld process.
You're joking, right? I thought everybody knew that Fibonacci values were bilaterally stochiocentric and corrupted the Van der Waals stress index at the third integral. How are you going to poststratify the gnomon clatch that way? Gods you're such a n00b.
Yes, electronics can do many control tasks more accurately and provide a better control experience than hydraulics alone provide, all across the board.
But they're small, and the little bogans in them hide from you.
They need to be right.
if true i do hope that everyone calls that bluff. that way American content will finally die the death that it needs to. I don't know about you but all the good stuff is filmed in other countries anyways.
You know, I remember a story my Father used to tell me about why there weren't any new brick buildings in Southern California (this was long before the Sylmar earthquake). He drove a concrete mixer, and his attitudes were probably colored by it - he said "There are no more brick houses because the unions priced themselves out of the market."
Now I'm not trying to bash the unions here, they have their place - but the fact is, raise the price too high for a quality product and buyers will re-define their concept of what they like. And if the interest moves away from the traditional stuff, the quality will too. Fashions will get redefined.
My point is that the content of media controlled by ACTA and other attempts at legitimatizing RIAA and MPAA enforcers will have the effect of more and more music and video coming from indie sources. Good stuff, too. Put too tight a control on your contributions and the world will pass you by.
Parliament and Constitution in the same breath? I don't think we're in Kansas any more, Toto...
see numbers, see numbers fly out of my ass with a side of rainbows and pink prancing ponies.
See astroturf fly in a pink RIAA sky. Are you a shill, dear Anonymous Coward?
I would like to see a definitive, ultimate outcome along the lines of the trend I'm seeing here -- reduction of Jammie's fine from the absurdly egregious down to a level she can afford without crippling her family financially for the rest of her life, over a few unlicensed uploads.
Yes she broke the law, there should be a penalty for the infraction, but all the settlements so far have been unjustly high. And yes, I'd like to see it played out to the point where a precedent will be set and honoured.
The RIAA are the worst of the world's ambulance chasers. They shouldn't be allowed to win these huge entitlements, simply because they can afford to make more noise.
Justice should be the outcome of rule by law, decent and upstanding law, not simply "rule by the loud".
Lets just keep in mind that the two party system has been with us since the very beginning and is a result of how we vote. Changing that lacks much serious public drive, would require a constitutional amendment
I'm sure you didn't mean to say that. There have been quite a number of political parties in the history of the USA, Republicans, Democrats, Wobblies, American Independance Party (remember George Wallace? I didn't much care for his politics, but his party was legal.)
Heck, you folks can even write in candidates., and their affiliation hasn't in any way been enshrined in the text of The Constitution.
I suspect you're blowing air, my friend, unless you can cite which part of the Constitution requires two parties. Or did you mean "two house" system, meaning Senate and House of Representatives? That's definitely enshrined in the Constitution.
Either you're quite off the mark, or I took you badly out of context. Please clarify?
'nuff said.
I don't know, they're blogs and chat groups. Open to all, generally. I see it as a legitimate use. It's no more subversive than any other astroturfer would be, and such postings are pretty easy to recognise. Now, if they actually blocked content or filtered it in any way (you listening, Conroy?) then that would be truly evil.
SysRq's original function was to drop to the OS to issue an OS command outside of the context of the currently running application.
You forgot to mention which OS. I remember seeing it on the console terminals of IBM 360 mainframes.
Now get off my lawn.
That's a lovely vision of life 50+ years from now.
Do you drive a car? They're mostly put together with robots today. That vision might not be as far away as you think.
It's already cheaper to outsource certain repetitive jobs to a robot on-shore than it is to outsource them to an off-shore firm, irrespective of the disparity in wages, which effectively disappear with robotics as the productivity per FTE equation (you still need some people to run them) goes way up.
And, there are many repetitive jobs that increasingly coming under the scope of a robotics solution, because robots are rapidly becoming more sophisticated. This can potentially be useful to a country concerned with the dilution of its manufacturing base.
Of course this can have a down side. Driving a tractor, anyone? If it can be done robotically, I would bet the oil company owned major farms will be interested.
Strictly business, Smythe, we're sorry but I'm sure you understand, and we have set up an appointment for you with transition coordinator to make your early retirement as humane as possible. Over to you, Jones. (BANG!) Next?
Steve Wozniak got ticketed for doing 104mph in his Prius.
Although I have long since elevated Steve to geek sainthood, driving was never his strong suit. In the early days of Apple his ability to crash expensive vehicles was legendary. It was only a couple of things, really, but wrapping the Apple-sponsored prototype sports car and ground-looping his light plane return to mind. Historically as significant as Chuck Yeager imo, but perhaps a bit short on practical kinesthetics. Of course, the inestimable Mr. Yeager never turned a university building into a giant Tetris game, either, so I guess it evens out. Some people are specialists.
I am certain, however, that either one of them could have gotten another 20 mph out of that Prius.
...They are shutting LORAN-C off because it's expensive to maintain a separate system, especially one that is not nearly as accurate as GPS, and is at risk of terrestrial attack...
But -- isn't the Loran C low frequency operation better able to punch a signal through periods of poor RF "weather"? During heavy solar storm activity (sunspots, peaking each 11 years) I hear it's sometimes kind of hard to get signals through, especially the S or K band stuff used for satellite communications. I remember during the Pioneer satellite days that it was sometimes quite a job for us to pull the signal out of the noise (clever use of FFT mostly). Satellites don't have huge power budgets. Larger antennae help, but you're still looking at a few watts at most.
And a submarine could still use Loran C if its inertial guidance system goes out of whack, without surfacing, I think, as I believe you can acquire a low frequency signal more easily at depth. In a worst-case situation, such as the massive EMP hit of a nuclear weapons discharge, I'd think that Loran would be back on line before you could read a satellite. Mind, we'd have worse problems, but I'd think the military would need to consider this sort of thing.
I guess it ain't sexy 'cause it's analog.
It sounds like an excellent solution, and depending on what else is in the compound besides glass (is it a process thing or does it depend on exotic chemistry?) it could be a quite a breakthrough. The summary implies it could be used for cleaning oil spills - if it can be made in bulk, but it also could be very useful in cartridge filters. Innovations like this can change the world for the better, in small increments. Good tech adds up.
Well, there is precedent. You see, when a mommy computer and a daddy computer love each other very much, they show this sometimes with a special dance. And if they are compatible, sometimes they will plug their interfaces together and engage in in a high bandwidth conversation. And much, much later, out of Mommy's USB port pops a very special process controller, just like you!
My haiku is poor!
Each line must end with p-tags!
I am mortified.
Your haiku is poor Next line has five syllables! (Facepalm)
ok neat, But how did the main asteroid belt form again,
Roche Limit fail? Jupiter was nearby, relatively speaking, could have been a disruptive influence.