26 of 51 with 10 candidates is actually quite impressive.
That does not predict what will happen to simple pass/fail votes, but on the other hand, if he can continue to keep that barely-majority intact for a lot of pass/fail votes that don't require supermajorities, he'll do fine.
Of course, he's an engineer, so he probably lacks in the social skills department, and that might be much worse for trying to maintain that minimal majority.
I will be very amused if a third party that's friendly to fair use ends up owning the IP of a trollish company that willingly licensed the IP to Righthaven...
Okay, you want some specifics, I'll give them, to an extent.
The people buying educational software don't have the computer experience necessary to determine if the application will even run using a client/server model. This means that the kid has to get on to the same workstation each time to continue the same instructions in many instances. The most software that does run client/server isn't using a web browser. Pretty much all of the software that does use a web browser isn't standards-compliant and won't run on every browser. The only software that I encounter that will run cross-platform properly isn't education software, it's edutainment software and doesn't really provide much educational value.
Those who develop the images don't have any concept about security on the local machine and there's no interest in getting these people trained, either from the people themselves or from those above them.
Many of the people maintaining equipment are really no more knowledgeable than users. They don't even know how to pull up Microsoft's Event Viewer. They don't understand what makes things fail and how to fix those things, and half of them still misdiagnose HARDWARE problems.
That's what I mean by, "the wrong people". There are almost no actual computer geeks here at all. I guess management doesn't want to deal with the fact that most geeks aren't likely to do something incredibly stupid simply because they're told to, so instead they hire someone who'll try to do something regardless of how asinine it is.
I understand why you can't have fans in space (lack of air).
Lack of air, or vacuum as it's better called, does not prohibit one from having fans in space, it simply prevents the fan from functioning as designed...
I mean, you still could launch one into space and spin it, for all the good it'd do you...
You haven't seen the state of computer software for elementary school, have you?
I've worked in IT for education for ten years. The wrong people are writing computer software for students. The wrong people are buying educational software. The wrong people are buying security software. The wrong people are implementing images and choices for things in the OS and for user-level security. And, a lot of the wrong people are maintaining the equipment.
I believe that computers for students as a concept is a total failure. Kids don't use computers for education, they use them to play. They stimulate the dopamine centers of the brain with them, and when they don't get their fix they get whiny and crabby and they act out in class. Take away the computers from the room except for a teacher's workstation that's unobtrusive and I think that many of the problems in the modern classroom will go away.
What can happen if the batteries after a crash rupture and leak?
Same thing that could happen if a gasoline-based vehicle crashes and the tank ruptures and leaks. If anything, the batteries are safer because they're a bunch of individual cells, not one giant, potentially 30+ gallon tank to all leak out with one rupture.
I have a hard time believing that, or that there aren't other fairly practical solutions to that.
I live in Arizona. The summer peak power draw starts in the late morning and continues to dusk. It would be practical during these times to either put a timer on the charging circuit to restrict start time until later when power draw is lower, or to use a load controller to restrict when to charge, but giving the driver the possibility of restricting other power use at the residence in order to allow the charger to engage.
I have three air conditioners, two hot water heaters, and a slew of other electrical devices. I could easily restrict the hours the hot water heaters and the air conditioners operate while charging the car...
I don't know if Tesla submitted the vehicle to Top Gear themselves or if Top Gear sought one from an intermediary, but anyone building an automobile must expect that television shows that review automobiles will probably review theirs, in their own way, and will probably state exactly how they feel about it. Top Gear in particular won't hold anything back if they don't like a vehicle, and are known for being biased, usually in a humorous, way, but still biased.
If Tesla wants positive reviews, they need to build a car that gets those reviews from testers. For the most part Top Gear uses the types of tracks that are available to companies that build cars, so if they want to excel at a specific type of track they have the option to engineer with that in mind.
40 goes into 20 a lot more than 40 goes into 40 as well.
It's been demonstrated that many men don't have ED problems when dealing with younger women compared to older women. The younger women manage to still allure.
James Doohan (Scotty from Star Trek) fathered a child at 77. His own dad fathered one at 80.
I actually use a hammer most of the time. Take the drive, put it at a 45 angle leaning against a parking curb, then star wacking it with a small sledge. Creasing the platters is really all it takes to render them unreadable.
If you're really bored, or really paranoid, go buy yourself a 20ton shop press and smash them with that. They're around $300 for a cheap one that will work well enough.
I wanted to have sexual relations with the bulk of the Hollywood female stars. I even stated my intentions regarding probably a dozen. Does that make me guilty of something?
I never had means or opportunity, and thus, committed no act, let alone crime.
I have heard of scenarios where people siphoned off the sub-cent remainders in large financial systems from millions upon millions of transactions, generating hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars. I'd bet that there are some who haven't gotten caught. I've expressed interest in that at, at least hypothetically, and that *is* a crime. Yet, I have no means and no opportunity, and my simple interest in the idea does not warrant any kind of deep sting operation to attempt to get me to entrap myself.
There are probably tens of thousands of "potential terrorists" that fit into this category, possibly hundreds of thousands, depending on the issues involved. If the FBI wants to do some good, it should evaluate which ones are really, really most likely actually move on to something, and then watch those people. Don't arrest them, don't artificially create a situation where they will follow the FBI's lead to doing something that they wouldn't have done otherwise, just watch. Who knows? Maybe watching them instead of grooming them intentionally would lead to the actual bad guys who really do look for people to groom to commit real terror.
I have to wonder the nature of the situation when the charges are for, "attempting to provide material support", as in, was he in contact with anyone who was actually planning to bomb anything, or was everyone he interacted with affiliated with law enforcement, and they took a disgruntled man and groomed him into the position they're not charging him for.
We'll probably never really know, which is why I really dislike conspiracy type charges when there aren't several people charged.
My car is in use during peak usage. That's called the afternoon rush hour, an inaccurately named time spanning between 2:30pm and 5:30pm, with the peak at about 4. I'm commuting for fifteen to thirty minutes during this time, as is my wife. Even if we had electric or hybrid cars, they likely wouldn't be in a state to be healthy for them to participate in such a power grid tie in system.
I'd bet that most people are driving during this time, as if they weren't, it wouldn't be rush-hour.
And I'm going to plug my car in at work where they can draw energy from it because?
At least at home there'd be a benefit in that my house would have power. It's the power subscriber's job to find power for their property, I'm not terribly worried about work finding away to get power. That's work's problem, and their solution in the form of their generator.
No, I know what's going on here, I just don't see any practical way, other than for disaster relief, to implement such a system, which would mean it'd be at the car owner's control, not the power company's.
Only application that I can figure for this being anywhere remotely useful would be to use vehicles as generators when grid power is out. To do that safely, there needs to be an Intentional Islanding circuit in the structure's electrical system, so that it can cut off safely from the grid while keeping the structure powered by the generator, in this case, the car.
I doubt that a hybrid vehicle will generate enough power for where I live in the summertime when the power is most likely to fail- where it would have to power an air conditioner and a refrigerator minimally.
Maybe in a cold climate where frequent power outages occur due to ice damage? But most of those customers don't use electricity to heat their homes, so they'd just need enough power to keep the heater controls working, which could be generated by mechanisms off of the furnace itself or using a couple of deep-cycle batteries.
There's something to be said for having a high share price if the company is big and successful- those who tend to buy tend to hold on to it for a long period of time, and the day to day operations of the company are directed toward a long-term profit mindset. When a company is traded constantly and when shareholders are only buying it to look for a short to medium term profit (like a year or two) then they don't are how the company performs down the road, and the board will reflect that, making decisions that make money now but could cost the company everything long term as they didn't invest in the long term.
As much as I dislike Apple sometimes, they do seem to have the development cycle down and they don't rest on their laurels as far as trying to make each product line last as long as possible before being forced to replace it. Many companies won't change unless they're forced to by consumer-driven market choices. Apple changes faster than just about everyone else, and enough people buy into the hype with it that they keep selling products for the long term.
It'll be interesting to see how this plays out in the next decade or so, as Jobs becomes less and less relevant.
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26 of 51 with 10 candidates is actually quite impressive.
That does not predict what will happen to simple pass/fail votes, but on the other hand, if he can continue to keep that barely-majority intact for a lot of pass/fail votes that don't require supermajorities, he'll do fine.
Of course, he's an engineer, so he probably lacks in the social skills department, and that might be much worse for trying to maintain that minimal majority.
I will be very amused if a third party that's friendly to fair use ends up owning the IP of a trollish company that willingly licensed the IP to Righthaven...
It's usually modded down to -1.
Usually.
Have you ever tried to make cereal yourself, from scratch?
Cool! 1400 workorders a year to fix the average two broken components a year! Job security!
Okay, you want some specifics, I'll give them, to an extent.
The people buying educational software don't have the computer experience necessary to determine if the application will even run using a client/server model. This means that the kid has to get on to the same workstation each time to continue the same instructions in many instances. The most software that does run client/server isn't using a web browser. Pretty much all of the software that does use a web browser isn't standards-compliant and won't run on every browser. The only software that I encounter that will run cross-platform properly isn't education software, it's edutainment software and doesn't really provide much educational value.
Those who develop the images don't have any concept about security on the local machine and there's no interest in getting these people trained, either from the people themselves or from those above them.
Many of the people maintaining equipment are really no more knowledgeable than users. They don't even know how to pull up Microsoft's Event Viewer. They don't understand what makes things fail and how to fix those things, and half of them still misdiagnose HARDWARE problems.
That's what I mean by, "the wrong people". There are almost no actual computer geeks here at all. I guess management doesn't want to deal with the fact that most geeks aren't likely to do something incredibly stupid simply because they're told to, so instead they hire someone who'll try to do something regardless of how asinine it is.
Lack of air, or vacuum as it's better called, does not prohibit one from having fans in space, it simply prevents the fan from functioning as designed...
I mean, you still could launch one into space and spin it, for all the good it'd do you...
You haven't seen the state of computer software for elementary school, have you?
I've worked in IT for education for ten years. The wrong people are writing computer software for students. The wrong people are buying educational software. The wrong people are buying security software. The wrong people are implementing images and choices for things in the OS and for user-level security. And, a lot of the wrong people are maintaining the equipment.
I believe that computers for students as a concept is a total failure. Kids don't use computers for education, they use them to play. They stimulate the dopamine centers of the brain with them, and when they don't get their fix they get whiny and crabby and they act out in class. Take away the computers from the room except for a teacher's workstation that's unobtrusive and I think that many of the problems in the modern classroom will go away.
Then it's safe to say that Slashdot is very efficient...
Does that mean three racks of blade servers, or three blade units into a single enclosure?
By comparison, how many servers does Slashdot run on? I remember that something like twelve years ago it was only two...
Same thing that could happen if a gasoline-based vehicle crashes and the tank ruptures and leaks. If anything, the batteries are safer because they're a bunch of individual cells, not one giant, potentially 30+ gallon tank to all leak out with one rupture.
Mine still works fine...
I have a hard time believing that, or that there aren't other fairly practical solutions to that.
I live in Arizona. The summer peak power draw starts in the late morning and continues to dusk. It would be practical during these times to either put a timer on the charging circuit to restrict start time until later when power draw is lower, or to use a load controller to restrict when to charge, but giving the driver the possibility of restricting other power use at the residence in order to allow the charger to engage.
I have three air conditioners, two hot water heaters, and a slew of other electrical devices. I could easily restrict the hours the hot water heaters and the air conditioners operate while charging the car...
I don't know if Tesla submitted the vehicle to Top Gear themselves or if Top Gear sought one from an intermediary, but anyone building an automobile must expect that television shows that review automobiles will probably review theirs, in their own way, and will probably state exactly how they feel about it. Top Gear in particular won't hold anything back if they don't like a vehicle, and are known for being biased, usually in a humorous, way, but still biased.
If Tesla wants positive reviews, they need to build a car that gets those reviews from testers. For the most part Top Gear uses the types of tracks that are available to companies that build cars, so if they want to excel at a specific type of track they have the option to engineer with that in mind.
If not, there's always Motor Week...
40 goes into 20 a lot more than 40 goes into 40 as well.
It's been demonstrated that many men don't have ED problems when dealing with younger women compared to older women. The younger women manage to still allure.
James Doohan (Scotty from Star Trek) fathered a child at 77. His own dad fathered one at 80.
Two crankshafts doesn't exactly help either...
I actually use a hammer most of the time. Take the drive, put it at a 45 angle leaning against a parking curb, then star wacking it with a small sledge. Creasing the platters is really all it takes to render them unreadable.
If you're really bored, or really paranoid, go buy yourself a 20ton shop press and smash them with that. They're around $300 for a cheap one that will work well enough.
I wanted to have sexual relations with the bulk of the Hollywood female stars. I even stated my intentions regarding probably a dozen. Does that make me guilty of something?
I never had means or opportunity, and thus, committed no act, let alone crime.
I have heard of scenarios where people siphoned off the sub-cent remainders in large financial systems from millions upon millions of transactions, generating hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars. I'd bet that there are some who haven't gotten caught. I've expressed interest in that at, at least hypothetically, and that *is* a crime. Yet, I have no means and no opportunity, and my simple interest in the idea does not warrant any kind of deep sting operation to attempt to get me to entrap myself.
There are probably tens of thousands of "potential terrorists" that fit into this category, possibly hundreds of thousands, depending on the issues involved. If the FBI wants to do some good, it should evaluate which ones are really, really most likely actually move on to something, and then watch those people. Don't arrest them, don't artificially create a situation where they will follow the FBI's lead to doing something that they wouldn't have done otherwise, just watch. Who knows? Maybe watching them instead of grooming them intentionally would lead to the actual bad guys who really do look for people to groom to commit real terror.
I have to wonder the nature of the situation when the charges are for, "attempting to provide material support", as in, was he in contact with anyone who was actually planning to bomb anything, or was everyone he interacted with affiliated with law enforcement, and they took a disgruntled man and groomed him into the position they're not charging him for.
We'll probably never really know, which is why I really dislike conspiracy type charges when there aren't several people charged.
My car is in use during peak usage. That's called the afternoon rush hour, an inaccurately named time spanning between 2:30pm and 5:30pm, with the peak at about 4. I'm commuting for fifteen to thirty minutes during this time, as is my wife. Even if we had electric or hybrid cars, they likely wouldn't be in a state to be healthy for them to participate in such a power grid tie in system.
I'd bet that most people are driving during this time, as if they weren't, it wouldn't be rush-hour.
And I'm going to plug my car in at work where they can draw energy from it because?
At least at home there'd be a benefit in that my house would have power. It's the power subscriber's job to find power for their property, I'm not terribly worried about work finding away to get power. That's work's problem, and their solution in the form of their generator.
No, I know what's going on here, I just don't see any practical way, other than for disaster relief, to implement such a system, which would mean it'd be at the car owner's control, not the power company's.
Definitely not genius...
Only application that I can figure for this being anywhere remotely useful would be to use vehicles as generators when grid power is out. To do that safely, there needs to be an Intentional Islanding circuit in the structure's electrical system, so that it can cut off safely from the grid while keeping the structure powered by the generator, in this case, the car.
I doubt that a hybrid vehicle will generate enough power for where I live in the summertime when the power is most likely to fail- where it would have to power an air conditioner and a refrigerator minimally.
Maybe in a cold climate where frequent power outages occur due to ice damage? But most of those customers don't use electricity to heat their homes, so they'd just need enough power to keep the heater controls working, which could be generated by mechanisms off of the furnace itself or using a couple of deep-cycle batteries.
Funny, you make it sound like the Federal Government is one big monolithic entity that always works with single mindedness...
There's something to be said for having a high share price if the company is big and successful- those who tend to buy tend to hold on to it for a long period of time, and the day to day operations of the company are directed toward a long-term profit mindset. When a company is traded constantly and when shareholders are only buying it to look for a short to medium term profit (like a year or two) then they don't are how the company performs down the road, and the board will reflect that, making decisions that make money now but could cost the company everything long term as they didn't invest in the long term.
As much as I dislike Apple sometimes, they do seem to have the development cycle down and they don't rest on their laurels as far as trying to make each product line last as long as possible before being forced to replace it. Many companies won't change unless they're forced to by consumer-driven market choices. Apple changes faster than just about everyone else, and enough people buy into the hype with it that they keep selling products for the long term.
It'll be interesting to see how this plays out in the next decade or so, as Jobs becomes less and less relevant.