there was a failure in the main/generator transfer switch which resulted in a fire. The sprinkler system activated.
Where I work, the D.C. is in a sub-level basement. One day a few years ago, a dim-wit plumber was brazing a pipe with a propane torch, and swung it too close to a sprinkler head.
Sprinkler went off and water did what it does: flow downhill, eventually pouring into the D.C., right onto the SAN storing "my" database...
We were down for a few days. People couldn't access the web site or IVR, but fortunately it happened over a weekend, so the store-front operations weren't totally affected. Also, the system is part of an "asynchronously buffered" stove pipe, so operations "in front" of the downed machine just kept on processing.
You probably aren't as good at mental arithmetic as someone who's had to do math without calculators though. The question is whether that is a problem.
Or at remembering phone numbers as someone who doesn't rely on their cell phone's address book.
The bottom line is that simple exercises tasks "oil" the brain, keeping it functioning smoothly, and ready for when you do need to be creative.
tired cliches with spectacular effects and spin-off trinkits is more likely.
Which is why DVRs and Turner Classic Movies is so great.
Instead of brain-jellowing crap, they (some, though, are more gender-specific or age-relevant than others) watch movies like North By Northwest, the 1948 Three Musketeers, any Marx Brothers movie, Lassie Come Home, National Velvet, Bringing Up Baby, the 1930s Perry Mason movies, Flipper, Father Of The Bride etc, etc.
In a year or so, I'll be introducing my oldest to movies like Psyho, The Birds and Duel.
But... since I'm not a complete stick in the mud, the do actually go see some modern movies, after my wife previews them.
The hero, a (wo)?man who overcame unjust adversity, saves the day by combining natural talent with dogged individuality
Except for the woman part, that's been a general story motif for 2500 years. The Odyssey springs first to mind.
It's easy (unless you're a fundie) to understand where the heavier elements and such come from, since they melt at high temperatures.
But water and the "stuff" that are gases at STP are volatile. So... what kept them "near" the earth while it was very hot (way past the boiling point of waster) and small and accreting? There wasn't enough of a magnetosphere to protect any atmosphere.
Could it be that H2O, N2 and O2 were created from the decomposition of very hot rocks?
It is also intellectually dishonesty or at least naive to believe that any game we currently have even begins to realistically emulate death, agony and gore.
I never said it did.
But... they are more realistic than 5-10-15 years ago, and they'll be even more realistic in 5-10-15 years.
Kids pointing their fingers at each other and yelling "bang!" are simulating murder.
It is bald stupidity or complete intellectual dishonesty to equate gross (of, relating to, or dealing with general aspects or broad distinctions) stylizations by children who have never seen a gun, much less blood or a serious wound, with photorealistic hi-def video of death, agony and gore.
The indoctrination machine proclaiming that sufferer of anorexia are sexy and desirable works miracles. IMHO dimension is not a pejorative factor of the women's behind.
Certainly I did not say what you imply that I said...
If NBIS owns (copyright owner) the data, he has to pay whatever they charge. If the San Francisco local government owns the data, then it's probably public data, I'm not sure. NBIS may own copyrights on that data because they have invested tens or hundreds of thousands in employees and installing those transponders.
I work for the company that runs a big chunk of E-ZPass, and even though
the transponders are built by a private company,
"rented" to citizens from stores leased by us, a private company,
they send their money to us, and not the government,it would never even occur to us to treat it as if it were our data.
Someone in SanFran City Hall is doing a piss-poor job of contract management!
Germans took, arming their fighter planes with 37mm cannon
???? Nothings I've found verifies that claim.
They used first 7.92 machine guns and 15mm cannon, but discarded them for 20mm, and lastly 30mm cannon in their aircraft. The 30mm shells were even HE.
I do agree, though, that the 20mm (but especially) 30mm cannon had a low rate of fire.
They shot down a whole lot of bombers, though, so must have been doing something right!
Japanese planes had lousy or no armour
And I've often wondered why they didn't add self-sealing fuel tanks.
But then, they -- as the losers often do -- made a lot of mistakes.
H. sapiens does have an extremely small genetic variation.
Scientists say it's probably because of super-volcano 75,000 years ago that wiped out most of our ancestors, but Christian religionists would say "Noah's Ark".
Surely you jest -- I can buy a 4 node VMWare cluster including HA storage, software licenses, 128GB total ram, and 32 total cores of CPU processing power
And run the COBOL code using the MicroFocus or AcuCOBOL compilers.
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there was a failure in the main/generator transfer switch which resulted in a fire. The sprinkler system activated.
Where I work, the D.C. is in a sub-level basement. One day a few years ago, a dim-wit plumber was brazing a pipe with a propane torch, and swung it too close to a sprinkler head.
Sprinkler went off and water did what it does: flow downhill, eventually pouring into the D.C., right onto the SAN storing "my" database...
We were down for a few days. People couldn't access the web site or IVR, but fortunately it happened over a weekend, so the store-front operations weren't totally affected. Also, the system is part of an "asynchronously buffered" stove pipe, so operations "in front" of the downed machine just kept on processing.
When this happens in this day and age the CIO should be fired!
And if the CIO recommended a redundant D.C. but the CEO, CFO or Board rejected it as "too expensive"????
You probably aren't as good at mental arithmetic as someone who's had to do math without calculators though. The question is whether that is a problem.
Or at remembering phone numbers as someone who doesn't rely on their cell phone's address book.
The bottom line is that simple exercises tasks "oil" the brain, keeping it functioning smoothly, and ready for when you do need to be creative.
tired cliches with spectacular effects and spin-off trinkits is more likely.
Which is why DVRs and Turner Classic Movies is so great.
Instead of brain-jellowing crap, they (some, though, are more gender-specific or age-relevant than others) watch movies like North By Northwest, the 1948 Three Musketeers, any Marx Brothers movie, Lassie Come Home, National Velvet, Bringing Up Baby, the 1930s Perry Mason movies, Flipper, Father Of The Bride etc, etc.
In a year or so, I'll be introducing my oldest to movies like Psyho, The Birds and Duel.
But... since I'm not a complete stick in the mud, the do actually go see some modern movies, after my wife previews them.
The hero, a (wo)?man who overcame unjust adversity, saves the day by combining natural talent with dogged individuality
Except for the woman part, that's been a general story motif for 2500 years. The Odyssey springs first to mind.
It's easy (unless you're a fundie) to understand where the heavier elements and such come from, since they melt at high temperatures.
But water and the "stuff" that are gases at STP are volatile. So... what kept them "near" the earth while it was very hot (way past the boiling point of waster) and small and accreting? There wasn't enough of a magnetosphere to protect any atmosphere.
Could it be that H2O, N2 and O2 were created from the decomposition of very hot rocks?
... how could anyone reasonably think that comets brought it all?
It was about 55 years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Them! My kids loved it...
It is also intellectually dishonesty or at least naive to believe that any game we currently have even begins to realistically emulate death, agony and gore.
I never said it did.
But... they are more realistic than 5-10-15 years ago, and they'll be even more realistic in 5-10-15 years.
That 5-digid uid should make you old enough to think up something better than a middle school insult.
Kids pointing their fingers at each other and yelling "bang!" are simulating murder.
It is bald stupidity or complete intellectual dishonesty to equate gross (of, relating to, or dealing with general aspects or broad distinctions) stylizations by children who have never seen a gun, much less blood or a serious wound, with photorealistic hi-def video of death, agony and gore.
The indoctrination machine proclaiming that sufferer of anorexia are sexy and desirable works miracles. IMHO dimension is not a pejorative factor of the women's behind.
Certainly I did not say what you imply that I said...
admire in reverend awe every single instance.
Here's where I've got to disagree with you, since there are quite a lot of fat women who have really ugly (and probably stinky) butts.
Look under the topic of Uranus.
Didn't they change the name to Urectum??
If NBIS owns (copyright owner) the data, he has to pay whatever they charge. If the San Francisco local government owns the data, then it's probably public data, I'm not sure. NBIS may own copyrights on that data because they have invested tens or hundreds of thousands in employees and installing those transponders.
I work for the company that runs a big chunk of E-ZPass, and even though
Someone in SanFran City Hall is doing a piss-poor job of contract management!
I was thinking more of the AC-130, which carries a 105mm howitzer.
I mixed it up with the 37mm Anti-Tank gun, which was in common use at the time.
There is one plane, though, that carries very high caliber auto-cannon...
Care to take a stab at a guess?
Downside was wasting enormous amounts of ammo.
And consequent reduction in "shooting time".
Germans took, arming their fighter planes with 37mm cannon
???? Nothings I've found verifies that claim.
They used first 7.92 machine guns and 15mm cannon, but discarded them for 20mm, and lastly 30mm cannon in their aircraft. The 30mm shells were even HE.
I do agree, though, that the 20mm (but especially) 30mm cannon had a low rate of fire.
They shot down a whole lot of bombers, though, so must have been doing something right!
Japanese planes had lousy or no armour
And I've often wondered why they didn't add self-sealing fuel tanks.
But then, they -- as the losers often do -- made a lot of mistakes.
Kansas is super fucking mega crazy stupid
And Britain is worse...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/2711856/Council-officials-told-to-question-adults-in-public-park-without-children.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2261307/Toddlers-who-dislike-spicy-food-racist-say-report.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/2146670/Girl-guides-red-tape-deterring-adult-volunteers.html
... the "honor" of being stupidest place on Earth.
The old testament is basically a Basterized,plagurized copy of the Jewish Torah.
Sigh.
Idiotic statements like this are why even Atheists need a reasonable knowledge and understanding of one of the pillars of Western Civilization.
Well, I suppose the generations of inbreeding
H. sapiens does have an extremely small genetic variation.
Scientists say it's probably because of super-volcano 75,000 years ago that wiped out most of our ancestors, but Christian religionists would say "Noah's Ark".
The best plane in the world won't help you much if you're bounced from above.
And from longer range. I've long wondered why the US was so enamored with the .50 cal machine gun.
1 panzer could take out 5 shermans, 1-2 tigers could EASILY take out 10+ shermans
Sure. And it's gasoline engine was why tankers called it the Ronson.
They certainly would have been heavier if we, like Jerry, could have run a railroad line from the factory to near the front line..
German tech/weaponry was vastly superior
Except it was overly complicated, and thus time-consuming to manufacture, and hard/impossible to field-repair.
A lot, sadly, like modern American weapons.
barring their getting totally surrounded.
Nothing so drastic needed. "Just" a flanking maneuver, which was aided by the fact that Shermans were faster and their turrets traversed much faster.
But it turns out that human-maintainable code was a high priority.
Then use a Linux COBOL compiler, and convert the code module-by-module to something decent like COBOL-85.
Surely you jest -- I can buy a 4 node VMWare cluster including HA storage, software licenses, 128GB total ram, and 32 total cores of CPU processing power
And run the COBOL code using the MicroFocus or AcuCOBOL compilers.