Farenheight has no basis in anything practical at *any* range. At least Celsius is based around water, which is useful for a number of reasons.
Actually, the Farenheit scale was set on a pretty interesting basis - a self-correcting standard zero temperature based on a mixture of ice, water and ammonium chloride. The mixture stabilised at a specific temperature that became the reference 0'F. Seems like a rather interesting solution, so to speak.
An old friend of mine had his '55 Buick launched off the steam catapult of the Onslow. It achieved that sort of acceleration, in kind of an upward direction. They waited until the carrier's bow was slightly higher due to wave action. Apparently you can get about a mile and a half out of a tumbling Buick before you test its wet-seal integrity.
If the carrier were aimed straight up, however, you'd have either international crisis of some sort or a well-formed XKCD logic puzzle. Like the one involving airliners and wheels and large belts rotating at speeds to a very high asymptote, perhaps.
People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole.
Not everyone. Some people want to show off their hole-making machine, others just want the perf. It's the difference between the well-equipped vs. the well-accessorised.
It is in almost everything, then we wonder why everyone is taking Metformin to control their diabetes
And that, dear peebles, is seriously not a joke. Enough corn syrup in the foods you buy will make you insulin-resistant. It's an industry-mandated drug addiction and it's slowly killing people.
All we can, or should do, is punish stupid behavior. Teaching people to ignore danger signals, will simply lead to people ignore a very serious warning. I'd much rather see someone in traffic court paying a hefty fine, having their insurance fees jacked up and possibly lose driving priviledges - than see them dead.
Not me. I'd simply die if I couldn't drive.
And if you don't like my driving, mate, stay off the bloody footpath.
Rockets don't end wars. Soldiers storming into a Hezbollah or Hamas stronghold will. Rockets are great for starting wars, but only soldiers on the ground can end them.
Or Rico's Roughnecks, who spent part of their time in the air. MI FTW!
Remember that scene in Amadeus where young Wolfie was composing using the billiard table as a desk? All those symphonies in his head, interrupted when someone came in and broke his concentration. The music stopped.
Programming can be an extraordinarily complex, involving activity that works best when you're concentrating, producing and on a roll. It only takes one prick to break the bubble of concentration. And yes, you may extend that metaphor.
If you really want to do the armpit-to-armpit teamwork go back to Yourdon's original structured programming team. You had a senior guy, a junior guy, and a librarian. Today that would be senior guy, junior guy, and documentor. It works in threes, but not in twos for some reason. I think it has something to do with allowing intelligent people to lead design, rather than have to check around to see if what they're doing is ok. In pair programming you have no leader. With no leader you have no direction and thus no progress.
Ok, I may be out of touch -- the half-million lines of code I delivered was a good few years back. But I can't think when people are shouting around me, and I get paid to think.
...The guy at the water cooler is the guy who meets with an informal representative of each group each day...
Funny you should mention that, because I have proof.
Back in the early days of Apple I ran a large programming team. There was a single coffee machine in a small glassed in room in Bandley 1. Machine was jiggered so you'd always get your quarter back (yes, this was some time ago.) The coffee was horrible, but it was a great meeting place.
Someone - probably TG - put coffee machines at each corridor end with decent coffee. Productivity nose-dived (I had metrics -- solved maintenance issues -- to measure by). I had the coffee machines removed and a really good coffee maker installed in the old coffee room. People started talking to each other again and the number of solved incidents immediately went back up to their former levels, plus.
Maybe correlation doesn't equate to causation, but it certainly did correlate and there were no other factors I could discern.
Mergers are not intended to "work". They are intended to produce a bigger company,
You may have a point. But sometimes mergers are formed from buggered companies banding together to see if they can survive a little bit longer. Certain car companies come to mind.
The fact of the matter is, that the thing that matters most in any corporation is time to market.
[Citation needed].
I would suggest having managers capable of isolating people who tend toward grand, unsupportable generalisations from contact with customers might also be important.
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a lot of very prominent scientists have very vocally declared the thing impossible
Are you listening up there, Mr. Clarke?
Call it Bary Meson? Perhaps you could call the detector that...
Farenheight has no basis in anything practical at *any* range. At least Celsius is based around water, which is useful for a number of reasons.
Actually, the Farenheit scale was set on a pretty interesting basis - a self-correcting standard zero temperature based on a mixture of ice, water and ammonium chloride. The mixture stabilised at a specific temperature that became the reference 0'F. Seems like a rather interesting solution, so to speak.
If the carrier were aimed straight up, however, you'd have either international crisis of some sort or a well-formed XKCD logic puzzle. Like the one involving airliners and wheels and large belts rotating at speeds to a very high asymptote, perhaps.
People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole.
Not everyone. Some people want to show off their hole-making machine, others just want the perf. It's the difference between the well-equipped vs. the well-accessorised.
Last time I checked, small flying animals with feathers were called birds.
Bats are mammals and have fur.
Never have I ever encountered a more opportune moment to cry "Whoosh"...
It is in almost everything, then we wonder why everyone is taking Metformin to control their diabetes
And that, dear peebles, is seriously not a joke. Enough corn syrup in the foods you buy will make you insulin-resistant. It's an industry-mandated drug addiction and it's slowly killing people.
Fix it, guys.
You mean he entered cryogenic stasis, and then might have safely made it back!
Several centuries later, to discover civilisation has replaced one type of monkey for another. No change, to his perspective.
I would've gone with Eric. Eric the fruit-bat.
Is that you, Karl Faustus?
Bloody archers...
this man is juxtaposed between the state of BEING Spiderman, and the state of NOT BEING Spiderman.
Schrodinger's Bug?
All we can, or should do, is punish stupid behavior. Teaching people to ignore danger signals, will simply lead to people ignore a very serious warning. I'd much rather see someone in traffic court paying a hefty fine, having their insurance fees jacked up and possibly lose driving priviledges - than see them dead.
Not me. I'd simply die if I couldn't drive.
And if you don't like my driving, mate, stay off the bloody footpath.
You are using English. Please learn the difference between loose and lose; they're, there, and their; your and you're.
Certainly. I wouldn't want loose grammar to lose an audience; they're there for their purposes, you're quite right.
Now, just add an animated avatar removing its sunglasses and we're set.
"Hi. I'm Ray. Ray Tracer. I surf the net."
I miss Reboot.
Yes, ellipses can get out of hand. Please complete this thought for me...
"Now here is the cisco way, one box, one department, one vendor to call.
Mmm, maybe. I've found the "one bum to kick" is generally an SI or services firm, not a single vendor.
Mentos and Pepsi.
Paper match heads and C02 seltzer cartridges
Why rocketry? Because people have a right to learn.
Rockets don't end wars. Soldiers storming into a Hezbollah or Hamas stronghold will. Rockets are great for starting wars, but only soldiers on the ground can end them.
Or Rico's Roughnecks, who spent part of their time in the air. MI FTW!
Takes a real boomer to remember that one!
Pair programming sucks.
Remember that scene in Amadeus where young Wolfie was composing using the billiard table as a desk? All those symphonies in his head, interrupted when someone came in and broke his concentration. The music stopped.
Programming can be an extraordinarily complex, involving activity that works best when you're concentrating, producing and on a roll. It only takes one prick to break the bubble of concentration. And yes, you may extend that metaphor.
If you really want to do the armpit-to-armpit teamwork go back to Yourdon's original structured programming team. You had a senior guy, a junior guy, and a librarian. Today that would be senior guy, junior guy, and documentor. It works in threes, but not in twos for some reason. I think it has something to do with allowing intelligent people to lead design, rather than have to check around to see if what they're doing is ok. In pair programming you have no leader. With no leader you have no direction and thus no progress.
Ok, I may be out of touch -- the half-million lines of code I delivered was a good few years back. But I can't think when people are shouting around me, and I get paid to think.
...The guy at the water cooler is the guy who meets with an informal representative of each group each day...
Funny you should mention that, because I have proof.
Back in the early days of Apple I ran a large programming team. There was a single coffee machine in a small glassed in room in Bandley 1. Machine was jiggered so you'd always get your quarter back (yes, this was some time ago.) The coffee was horrible, but it was a great meeting place.
Someone - probably TG - put coffee machines at each corridor end with decent coffee. Productivity nose-dived (I had metrics -- solved maintenance issues -- to measure by). I had the coffee machines removed and a really good coffee maker installed in the old coffee room. People started talking to each other again and the number of solved incidents immediately went back up to their former levels, plus.
Maybe correlation doesn't equate to causation, but it certainly did correlate and there were no other factors I could discern.
-- kj
Mergers are not intended to "work". They are intended to produce a bigger company,
You may have a point. But sometimes mergers are formed from buggered companies banding together to see if they can survive a little bit longer. Certain car companies come to mind.
The fact of the matter is, that the thing that matters most in any corporation is time to market.
[Citation needed].
I would suggest having managers capable of isolating people who tend toward grand, unsupportable generalisations from contact with customers might also be important.
Thanks, mate. Due to a cascade of associations I can no longer think of Fel Reaver without imagining it being stenciled with RIAA across the pecs.