Just pasting GC-RAMDISK into Google gets an ad for CDW - *WITHOUT* any memory, just the card is only $15x. I have been thinking about one of these for a while, has anyone got experience with it ?
The Google query (( ""Where have all the billions gone ?" )) fetches the Technology Review blog entry on Health-Care by David Ewing Duncan, as the number one hit. Append "NHS" for (( ""Where have all the billions gone NHS ?" )) - the same tune plays at reform.com.uk. For you youngsters who might not know the Pete Seeger tune, the you-tube query (( FLOWERS GONE BAEZ )) fetches "Joan Baez at the Operation Ceasefire Concert in Washington DC on 9/24/2005" This event of course discussed Iraq, but Joan might well have changed the words to "Where have all the billions gone" - in one context or another, this is a leitmotif for your generation...
(( "Iron Ships" "Wooden Men" )) is a nice Google query.
Every time you want to think of yourself as say "genetically superior" to poor savages, the gut reaction is however "but the poor savages are healthy as horses, due to selection pressure".
I remember reading in some Australian digression on Aborigines "Don't bother hitting a blackfella with your fist, he won't even feel it".
The 45ACP was invented, because although a 38 was good enough for shooting white people, it would not reliably put a savage down.
Musashi style, we must (( "research this deeply" ))
The Google query (( HOLICK VITAMIN D )) confirms than Dr. Michael Holick was a pioneering researcher in this field - his name is missing from the globeAndMail write-up. By analogy to more-pigmented-people needing more sunshine, (( Holick Iguana )) explains that if you happen to own any pets which evolved under baking tropical sun, they might be suffering too...
I actually own a copy of the solution to this problem.
The Thompson/Center Contender makes a distinctive "Clack" when the action is closed, thus it is easy to imagine a professor or indeed a few students in a classroom carrying these in belt-holsters fashioned such that the open breech faces forward, similar to the friendly way in which break-open shotguns are carried around at a trap/skeet range. Your neighbors would be at least alerted when you lock the action.
The downside is making the boyfriend-kills-girlfriend type of thing easier, say from 95 to 99 percent probable, once the guy makes his mind up. The upside of course is that the single-shot design allows open deterrence of mass-killings, without facilitating them.
Suicide-bombing - in Southern Arizona at least the answer is easily feasible since there is no need for bulky winter clothes. Merely, a dress-code of skin-tight clothing such as Danskins. The Arab clothing style, beneath which one can conceal a large explosive belt, probably leaving room for an assault rifle, has no future, at least not once you come in out of the sun. Leaving only the design of the locker-area for depositing such clothing, when entering a public building.
Googling on (( Penrose-Hameroff Microtubules coherence )) verifies that their prediction of longer-than-expected quantum coherence ( at body temperatures ) being majorly involved in consciousness has been WIDELY scoffed at.
So the kickoff quote from that article "...remarkably long-lived wavelike electronic quantum coherence plays an important part..." relit my New-Age-Lamp bigtime. Maybe I will actually have to buy one of those "What The Bleep" DVD's now...
That's an excellent summary. The historic four-letter word response to "all engines out" did not make it into the book, nice to know that. Although I won't go back and reread the book, I do not remember the book explicitly mentioning that "all engines out" was missing from their training scenarios - by analogy to the CERN issue we are discussing, it's glaring in hindsight, yes that's what WILL happen if you run out of fuel, but (apart from human error) indeed running-out-of-fuel might never happen, so let's just give it a zero probability ! Given today's CAD/simulation excellence this is where Murphy must hide - once something makes it into calculations it will be covered, so what's "unthinkable" ?
Googling on (( FREEFALL HOFFER )), you are led to a TRUE STORY which can be had used for a penny from Amazon Marketplace.
It *WAS* an English-Metric issue, which led to the 767 running out of fuel in mid-flight, finding an airfield only by luck.
What a great analogy, eh ? Please upgrade my karma !
While driving a car, thw windshield-view is like a requirements document.
Your High-Level-Programming-Language is analogous to the steering wheel.
ESPECIALLY because you don't directly see what's going on in the drivetrain or where the rubber-meets-the-road, it's vital to have a mental model of what's going on "down there".
PG
What a great analogy, eh ? Please upgrade my karma !
While driving a car, your view through the windshield is somewhat like a software requirements document.
Your High-Level-Programming-Language is analogous to the steering wheel.
The steering-stuff is like a compiler, and ultimately assembly language is somewhere near the "rubber-meets-the-road" level.
ESPECIALLY because you don't directly see what's going on, it's vital to have some mental image of what's going on down there.
If you know what I'm talkin' bout, you didn't need to read this !
PG
Near the very bottom of http://www.theaircar.com/tests.html there is the table-section
"Three-stage expansion with reheating with air at ambient temperature"
When you quote "4 HP for less than seven minutes" - was that with three-stage expansion ?
"Unpriced externalities" of inner-city air pollution include say the HEALTH CARE for the kids who get asthma due to the pollution, I have read about that in several independent places.
So if the HUGE waste of energy was not quite so huge, and you include the pollution externalities, then the "whole system" economics might tip, hmm ?
The history page shows pictures of this dream of a hybrid-engine, totally air-driven in-city:
http://www.theaircar.com/genealogy.html
It's not easy to find - the development roadmap details how they intend to reach the dream:
http://www.theaircar.com/tests.html
The technical details page reveals that they get 13% of the energy back by regenerative braking at present:
http://www.theaircar.com/tecno.html
Living in Phoenix, AZ the excellent free air-conditioning sounds SO good.
Typically you sit at a stoplight, and your exhaust is heating and polluting your environment, which means your I/C-engine/air-conditioner needs to work even harder to fight the heat. With a stoplight-full of air-cars, your "waste cooling" would actually make your neighboring car somewhat COOLER - kind of the inverse of a bunch of Penguins(grin) in Antarctica.
sounds like you did not bother to visit theaircar.com *I* don't bother to visit say perpetual-motion sites, either. But...
-- videos of pre-production demos prove they are roughly as far along as teslamotors, "beyond pure scam"
-- free air-conditioning of XLNT quality is worth something, in Phoenix or the tropics
-- the claim is that the body architecture provides better insulation, as a side-effect
-- the articulatng piston, 70-degree TDC allows the cmp-air to flow in
-- allowing the air to re-warm from ambient air and go through pistons again
--- makes the A/C better, you don't really want subzero air directly
--- makes the efficiency better than just from a single-cycle from 300 BAR
-- the hybrid option to run the engine as I/C, but the cmp-air tanks will last longer than batteries
ESPECIALLY because heat kills batteries, in Phoenix or the tropics.
> suffices to Google up Ken Watanabe's praise for the rare NON-sadistic director.
LOTS of movie-makers will not feel right unless they are torturing their subordinates, might natural selection someday eliminate them ? *I* would trade some salsry for working conditions anyday !
Tesla motors details the advantages of say Lithium-Ion batteries as an energy-transport mechanism in their white paper "The 21st Century Electric Car". They say somewhere on their site that their 900 pound battery pack manages to store the equivalent of about 8 liters of fuel - not a lot, but their conversion efficiency being higher makes it go further.
http://www.teslamotors.com/media/white_papers.php
Martin Eberhard and Elon Musk seem like the dream team to me, the entire site is fun to read.
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Way back in 1974, I was an intern at the JHU/APL, helping format the solar-wind-data visually - Fortran, keypunch, card-decks.
One of the regular employees, Ph. D etc, was having troubles, his papers were not up to snuff. He chose the auto-in-garage CO exit, we all attended the open-casket funeral - this is vastly different than cremation. I still retain the image of Jim's face, lying in the casket. Without that image, my visual brain would be forced to remember him using other available memories.
Anyway I think there OUGHT to be a book on the pressures of hi-tech jobs, is there one, I don't know of any ? At least, not any spiced up with personal case histories like yours etc. I would appreciate it if folks might cite a few such books, if they are out there.
Of COURSE there are statistical issues - there is doubtless some truth in comments like the one above, that >> "People who self-select a career in information technology tend to have poor social skills"
But also, statistically, you may be investing most of your early life into education, with graduate school you might start your first real job as late as early twenties. How many developers are still developing past say age 40 or 45 ? So statistically I suspect one could make a case for tech careers being similar to those of other ATHLETES in performance-based careers where it's difficult to stay employed till say Social-Security-Retirement-Age. So you will statistically tend to have problems if you become unemployed, a different set of problems if you are successful in spending oodles of time keeping up with the next batch of twentysomethings.
SO I think it's a book that needs to be written, more power to you. A catchy title might be say "The Techie Life-Cycle", by analogy to some convoluted life-cycle in nature such as tadpoles-to-frogs, or dragonflies.
The discussion of "wheel-to-wells efficiency" in the Tesla Motors whitepaper seems compelling, only provided that batteries get cheaper as seems likely. Hybrid vehicles seem designed to create auto-maintenance-jobs, what a mess...
http://www.teslamotors.com/media/white_papers.php
I personally bought and read "The Cancer Code" from www.cancercode.com
What I found especially interesting was the art of "concealing weakness" from other businesses during negotiations.
Also I downloaded the free reader from www.mindjet.com - it IS pretty amazing that something like that could be conceived in a Leukemia Ward ! That male instinct to create a legacy somehow, it's well described introspectively here.
I just searched-from-top-of-page, and you're the only other instance of "TEAM" - everyone else must be living under a rock ! Ditto the internship advice - my worldview changed radically due to each of my two internship experiences, the incestuousness of the "teacher's college" academic paradigm so easily gets out of touch with reality.
My academic background was very lacking in teamwork-skills. A possible analogy would be a car with no tires, the interface to co-workers and customers is where your "rubber meets the road".
I just checked the price on the Matias Half-QWERTY, and it is $595.00 (!!)
This is at http://halfkeyboard.com/halfqwerty/index.html
The matias (patented) theory-of-operation ( use EITHER one or both hands ) sounds very attractive, and while developing software it would be SO nice not to have to lift the right hand from the mouse to hit keys. At this price however I would want to hear from a credible owner of one, that after getting used to it the cost was indeed justified !
A few months ago, I read about www.nearlyfreespeech.net on slashdot, so I am "returning the favor" by this review.
www.xpane.com *IS* a "personal website" at this time, since it is at the very least least several months away from shipping, and it IS personal ( I am the only one working on it ).
The thing I liked most about the NFSN approach is the "pay-as-you-go". I had encountered the occasional horror-story about over-bandwidth charges, and I could not manage to get a straight answer from my previous (nameless) hosting provider about what would happen if I got slashdotted.
While of course this post won't get much reading, it if DID, the worst-case would be that my less-than-$20.00 balance at NFSN would be exhausted, and then I could re-fund the "bandwidth account" sometime later.
This is SO brilliant. I am SICK of "unlimited pricing plans", where most of the time I pay for what I'm not using, and then in the event of a spike it would be insufficient.
So mostly I only pay two-cents-per-day for DNS, which with the no-upper-bound-pay-as-you-go like I say seems brilliant.
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Just pasting GC-RAMDISK into Google gets an ad for CDW - *WITHOUT* any memory, just the card is only $15x. I have been thinking about one of these for a while, has anyone got experience with it ?
The Google query (( ""Where have all the billions gone ?" )) fetches the Technology Review blog entry on Health-Care by David Ewing Duncan, as the number one hit. Append "NHS" for (( ""Where have all the billions gone NHS ?" )) - the same tune plays at reform.com.uk. For you youngsters who might not know the Pete Seeger tune, the you-tube query (( FLOWERS GONE BAEZ )) fetches "Joan Baez at the Operation Ceasefire Concert in Washington DC on 9/24/2005" This event of course discussed Iraq, but Joan might well have changed the words to "Where have all the billions gone" - in one context or another, this is a leitmotif for your generation...
(( "Iron Ships" "Wooden Men" )) is a nice Google query. Every time you want to think of yourself as say "genetically superior" to poor savages, the gut reaction is however "but the poor savages are healthy as horses, due to selection pressure". I remember reading in some Australian digression on Aborigines "Don't bother hitting a blackfella with your fist, he won't even feel it". The 45ACP was invented, because although a 38 was good enough for shooting white people, it would not reliably put a savage down. Musashi style, we must (( "research this deeply" ))
The Google query (( HOLICK VITAMIN D )) confirms than Dr. Michael Holick was a pioneering researcher in this field - his name is missing from the globeAndMail write-up. By analogy to more-pigmented-people needing more sunshine, (( Holick Iguana )) explains that if you happen to own any pets which evolved under baking tropical sun, they might be suffering too...
I actually own a copy of the solution to this problem. The Thompson/Center Contender makes a distinctive "Clack" when the action is closed, thus it is easy to imagine a professor or indeed a few students in a classroom carrying these in belt-holsters fashioned such that the open breech faces forward, similar to the friendly way in which break-open shotguns are carried around at a trap/skeet range. Your neighbors would be at least alerted when you lock the action. The downside is making the boyfriend-kills-girlfriend type of thing easier, say from 95 to 99 percent probable, once the guy makes his mind up. The upside of course is that the single-shot design allows open deterrence of mass-killings, without facilitating them. Suicide-bombing - in Southern Arizona at least the answer is easily feasible since there is no need for bulky winter clothes. Merely, a dress-code of skin-tight clothing such as Danskins. The Arab clothing style, beneath which one can conceal a large explosive belt, probably leaving room for an assault rifle, has no future, at least not once you come in out of the sun. Leaving only the design of the locker-area for depositing such clothing, when entering a public building.
Googling on (( Penrose-Hameroff Microtubules coherence )) verifies that their prediction of longer-than-expected quantum coherence ( at body temperatures ) being majorly involved in consciousness has been WIDELY scoffed at. So the kickoff quote from that article "...remarkably long-lived wavelike electronic quantum coherence plays an important part..." relit my New-Age-Lamp bigtime. Maybe I will actually have to buy one of those "What The Bleep" DVD's now...
That's an excellent summary. The historic four-letter word response to "all engines out" did not make it into the book, nice to know that. Although I won't go back and reread the book, I do not remember the book explicitly mentioning that "all engines out" was missing from their training scenarios - by analogy to the CERN issue we are discussing, it's glaring in hindsight, yes that's what WILL happen if you run out of fuel, but (apart from human error) indeed running-out-of-fuel might never happen, so let's just give it a zero probability ! Given today's CAD/simulation excellence this is where Murphy must hide - once something makes it into calculations it will be covered, so what's "unthinkable" ?
Googling on (( FREEFALL HOFFER )), you are led to a TRUE STORY which can be had used for a penny from Amazon Marketplace. It *WAS* an English-Metric issue, which led to the 767 running out of fuel in mid-flight, finding an airfield only by luck.
What a great analogy, eh ? Please upgrade my karma ! While driving a car, thw windshield-view is like a requirements document. Your High-Level-Programming-Language is analogous to the steering wheel. ESPECIALLY because you don't directly see what's going on in the drivetrain or where the rubber-meets-the-road, it's vital to have a mental model of what's going on "down there". PG
What a great analogy, eh ? Please upgrade my karma ! While driving a car, your view through the windshield is somewhat like a software requirements document. Your High-Level-Programming-Language is analogous to the steering wheel. The steering-stuff is like a compiler, and ultimately assembly language is somewhere near the "rubber-meets-the-road" level. ESPECIALLY because you don't directly see what's going on, it's vital to have some mental image of what's going on down there. If you know what I'm talkin' bout, you didn't need to read this ! PG
Near the very bottom of http://www.theaircar.com/tests.html there is the table-section "Three-stage expansion with reheating with air at ambient temperature" When you quote "4 HP for less than seven minutes" - was that with three-stage expansion ? "Unpriced externalities" of inner-city air pollution include say the HEALTH CARE for the kids who get asthma due to the pollution, I have read about that in several independent places. So if the HUGE waste of energy was not quite so huge, and you include the pollution externalities, then the "whole system" economics might tip, hmm ?
The history page shows pictures of this dream of a hybrid-engine, totally air-driven in-city: http://www.theaircar.com/genealogy.html It's not easy to find - the development roadmap details how they intend to reach the dream: http://www.theaircar.com/tests.html The technical details page reveals that they get 13% of the energy back by regenerative braking at present: http://www.theaircar.com/tecno.html Living in Phoenix, AZ the excellent free air-conditioning sounds SO good. Typically you sit at a stoplight, and your exhaust is heating and polluting your environment, which means your I/C-engine/air-conditioner needs to work even harder to fight the heat. With a stoplight-full of air-cars, your "waste cooling" would actually make your neighboring car somewhat COOLER - kind of the inverse of a bunch of Penguins(grin) in Antarctica.
sounds like you did not bother to visit theaircar.com
*I* don't bother to visit say perpetual-motion sites, either.
But...
-- videos of pre-production demos prove they are roughly as far along as teslamotors, "beyond pure scam"
-- free air-conditioning of XLNT quality is worth something, in Phoenix or the tropics
-- the claim is that the body architecture provides better insulation, as a side-effect
-- the articulatng piston, 70-degree TDC allows the cmp-air to flow in
-- allowing the air to re-warm from ambient air and go through pistons again
--- makes the A/C better, you don't really want subzero air directly
--- makes the efficiency better than just from a single-cycle from 300 BAR
-- the hybrid option to run the engine as I/C, but the cmp-air tanks will last longer than batteries
ESPECIALLY because heat kills batteries, in Phoenix or the tropics.
> suffices to Google up Ken Watanabe's praise for the rare NON-sadistic director. LOTS of movie-makers will not feel right unless they are torturing their subordinates, might natural selection someday eliminate them ? *I* would trade some salsry for working conditions anyday !
Tesla motors details the advantages of say Lithium-Ion batteries as an energy-transport mechanism in their white paper "The 21st Century Electric Car". They say somewhere on their site that their 900 pound battery pack manages to store the equivalent of about 8 liters of fuel - not a lot, but their conversion efficiency being higher makes it go further. http://www.teslamotors.com/media/white_papers.php Martin Eberhard and Elon Musk seem like the dream team to me, the entire site is fun to read.
Way back in 1974, I was an intern at the JHU/APL, helping format the solar-wind-data visually - Fortran, keypunch, card-decks. One of the regular employees, Ph. D etc, was having troubles, his papers were not up to snuff. He chose the auto-in-garage CO exit, we all attended the open-casket funeral - this is vastly different than cremation. I still retain the image of Jim's face, lying in the casket. Without that image, my visual brain would be forced to remember him using other available memories. Anyway I think there OUGHT to be a book on the pressures of hi-tech jobs, is there one, I don't know of any ? At least, not any spiced up with personal case histories like yours etc. I would appreciate it if folks might cite a few such books, if they are out there. Of COURSE there are statistical issues - there is doubtless some truth in comments like the one above, that >> "People who self-select a career in information technology tend to have poor social skills" But also, statistically, you may be investing most of your early life into education, with graduate school you might start your first real job as late as early twenties. How many developers are still developing past say age 40 or 45 ? So statistically I suspect one could make a case for tech careers being similar to those of other ATHLETES in performance-based careers where it's difficult to stay employed till say Social-Security-Retirement-Age. So you will statistically tend to have problems if you become unemployed, a different set of problems if you are successful in spending oodles of time keeping up with the next batch of twentysomethings. SO I think it's a book that needs to be written, more power to you. A catchy title might be say "The Techie Life-Cycle", by analogy to some convoluted life-cycle in nature such as tadpoles-to-frogs, or dragonflies.
The discussion of "wheel-to-wells efficiency" in the Tesla Motors whitepaper seems compelling, only provided that batteries get cheaper as seems likely. Hybrid vehicles seem designed to create auto-maintenance-jobs, what a mess... http://www.teslamotors.com/media/white_papers.php
Some folks code for the fun of it, and other folks profit from their labors ? SIGH !
There IS a category on the site for males... http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/cats_n_rac ks/index.html
I personally bought and read "The Cancer Code" from www.cancercode.com What I found especially interesting was the art of "concealing weakness" from other businesses during negotiations. Also I downloaded the free reader from www.mindjet.com - it IS pretty amazing that something like that could be conceived in a Leukemia Ward ! That male instinct to create a legacy somehow, it's well described introspectively here.
Googling on the quoted phrases "Utterly Dismal Theorem" or "Homo Contracipiens" raises the issue, in game-theory-speak, of "Adverse Selection"
I just searched-from-top-of-page, and you're the only other instance of "TEAM" - everyone else must be living under a rock ! Ditto the internship advice - my worldview changed radically due to each of my two internship experiences, the incestuousness of the "teacher's college" academic paradigm so easily gets out of touch with reality.
My academic background was very lacking in teamwork-skills. A possible analogy would be a car with no tires, the interface to co-workers and customers is where your "rubber meets the road".
I just checked the price on the Matias Half-QWERTY, and it is $595.00 (!!) This is at http://halfkeyboard.com/halfqwerty/index.html The matias (patented) theory-of-operation ( use EITHER one or both hands ) sounds very attractive, and while developing software it would be SO nice not to have to lift the right hand from the mouse to hit keys. At this price however I would want to hear from a credible owner of one, that after getting used to it the cost was indeed justified !
A few months ago, I read about www.nearlyfreespeech.net on slashdot, so I am "returning the favor" by this review. www.xpane.com *IS* a "personal website" at this time, since it is at the very least least several months away from shipping, and it IS personal ( I am the only one working on it ). The thing I liked most about the NFSN approach is the "pay-as-you-go". I had encountered the occasional horror-story about over-bandwidth charges, and I could not manage to get a straight answer from my previous (nameless) hosting provider about what would happen if I got slashdotted. While of course this post won't get much reading, it if DID, the worst-case would be that my less-than-$20.00 balance at NFSN would be exhausted, and then I could re-fund the "bandwidth account" sometime later. This is SO brilliant. I am SICK of "unlimited pricing plans", where most of the time I pay for what I'm not using, and then in the event of a spike it would be insufficient. So mostly I only pay two-cents-per-day for DNS, which with the no-upper-bound-pay-as-you-go like I say seems brilliant.