Perhaps one doesn't have to travel by air; but when the issue may be to lose one's job for refusing to complete a business trip, perhaps then defaulting on a mortgage, & etc,
Or, in other words, dark skinned folks technically don't "have to" ride the bus, so its OK to make them sit in the back. Repeat for about one zillion other racial / ethnic discrimination situations.
Disagree. Whats in more of a bubble, comic book prices or house prices? Both appeal to the same economic block, that being the boomers. Now that the boomers have been fleeced out of all their money, both prices should collapse, or are collapsing.
Now a couple decades from now, maybe a 1st gen ipod would have some appeal (a zune?)
- If you're doing higher speed analog, lower-frequency RF or switching power supply design, I'm a huge fan of the Tektronix DPO series. I use a TDS3032.
If you're doing RF you're going to want a spectrum analyzer sooner rather than later.
If you're doing low freq / high power discrete analog (aka SMPS) you're going to want a curve tracer sooner or later, to fool around with if nothing else.
The original article poster has it all wrong, in that a lab that has nothing but an empty desk and a $2K scope simply can't handle the jobs that are easy in a lab with a $500 spectrum analyzer, $250 scope, $750 worth of Hakko (de-)soldering gear, a universal eprom/uC programmer, a logic analyzer, maybe a low end HP protocol analyzer... etc. Don't forget the "obvious" material handling equipment like $500 worth of lights on arms, magnifying glass on arm, low power binoc microscope, ESD protection gear, etc.
Typical rental contracts work out that if you borrow a piece of equipment for 4 months or so on a daily rate with no long term discount, only then is it cheaper to actually go out and buy one. This is the option we take at work.
Good advice for personal relationships / dating also. Seriously though, the most important reason to rent equipment is to try out a couple different machines before buying one of them. You will find various peculiarities in the specs may or may not be important. Or the user interface of "X" brand scopes might be perfect for you or drive you completely insane.
What lab will reject an instrument "due to it being fixed"?!
You used a 10% resistor that seems "close enough" the original was 1%. The calibration lab is used to making "minor tweaks" but having to twist all those trimmers practically all the way is going to take forever and piss them off. On the other hand, in Moms Basement, watching a Star Trek movie marathon while calibrating a scope is considered fun, not a waste of time.
You used inductive metal film resistor which screws up the high frequency performance instead of the specified non-inductive carbon comp resistor. It'll never work above 90 MHz again. The calibration lab will throw a fit because it won't calibrate at 100 MHz. However in Moms Basement you are thrilled to own a "90 MHz scope" even if the front panel label claims its a 100 MHz scope, especially since the highest clock frequency you'll likely subject the thing to anyway is probably low double digits.
You used the totally wrong temperature comp capacitors, and trimmed the rest of the scope so it'll work fine at 70 F. Unfortunately the industrial specs say it has to be calibrated from 32 F to 125 F so it simply can't pass calibration. The calibration lab will throw a fit, although it works fine in Mom's temperature controlled Basement.
That's before you start trying to mix old Tektronix scope silver bearing solders with traditional Pb/Sn and with modern lead free. I understand old fashioned Pb/Sn solder will corrode the plating off the Tek silver solder ceramic things.
Any scope is better than no scope. If you don't have the education and skill to understand how the input amplifier distorts signals, then you simply have to spend huge amounts of money on a "distortion less" scope with specs ten times higher than you need. Also if you work for a semiconductor manufacturer and need actual quantitative measurements you need amazing specs.
However, if all you need is qualitative, (is my 20M transmitter oscillating? Is my microcontroller sending pulses?) then a cheapy scope is all you need.
And that easily makes these chariots "surpass all monumental structures of the pharaohs in engineering sophistication." Moving thousands of tons of rock without machinery is easy compared to slopping fat on a stick!
The patent/copyright finally ran out on the chariot thing about 200 years ago, leading to the Industrial Revolution.
When the patent/copyright runs out on "magically levitating giant stone blocks into pyramid shapes" sometime in the future, I think we're going to have a heck of a lot of fun.
Um, maybe getting a license would have brought to light the problem that caused the pool to fail, like uneven ground or poor construction. I know, it's crazy, right?
At least theoretically, in court it'll be easier to prove it was a material defect, since before the implosion or whatever, a "skilled and neutral third party", that being the inspector, claimed it was properly installed. Otherwise the big corp is just going to weasel out and blame the homeowner/installer for everything.
I know I'm taking a leap here, but I'm assuming the license requires the homeowner to purchase a permit to install the pool, which should have been inspected
A safety oriented inspection should not require over $30.
This is pure money raising. $75K/250 pools is $300 per pool. Assuming the "usual" double fee if applied for after work completed, that would be a staggering $150 to pay a city employee to verify there is in fact a fence and a GFCI.
I can safely assume you've never actually participated in a permit inspection. I have, many times. Mostly involves an older semi-retired inspector glancing at the work and driving off. The longest, most detailed inspection I have ever been involved in, oddly enough was a dishwasher where the inspector actually bent over to examine the power wiring (GFCI outlet? etc). That was like 90 freaking seconds, at least three times longer than all the other inspections I've participated in.
1. Foundations under the roads would have to be completely redone to support the extra weight, trains have large supports under the rails to support the weight of the trains, so its not just a simple cut holes put in rails, and drive.
Looks like the rails steer it and regular tires support the weight.
I imagine old fashioned cable cars (frisco?) work the same way, in that the cable provides the "pull" but the cable cars do not by any means hang from the cable. (an Aerial Tramway is a totally different concept and does in fact hang from the cable)
The vehicles have a small surface area that contacts the ground
I would not worry so much about tire friction as about wind surface area. Coasties are supposed to know all about hurricanes, but even Chicago "the windy city" can't use these. The center of gravity being extremely high, I'd think the odds of overturning in a breeze would be high. In addition to the dynamic stability issues of basically being a ten foot tall upside down pendulum even under ideal conditions.
If 90% of the office workers could telecommute and you removed them from the roads, wouldn't that alleviate much of the congestion in the first place? Assuming a mixed load of white and blue collar commuters, of course?
They've already moved to India, but there's still congestion. Next step, this train thing?
it is to reduce the death rates of specifically me.
My point was, say for the sake of argument that the death rate of informants is 150%. That is they kill all informants plus 1/3 were innocent. In the long run, this is probably not all that unrealistic.
Now, playing games with the wikileaks data may raise or lower that odds of death by, for the sake of argument, 50%.
Either way the future informant knows he's gonna die. Its just a matter of when and collateral damage.
if I'm an Afghan considering becoming an informer, that's sure going to make me think twice about it, especially if I have a family.
Isn't the death rate already well over 100% due to them killing suspected informers whom aren't informers?
Its very much like a slashdot story from earlier today, where elderly people should not be allowed to live near Chernobyl because they'll get cancer in 75 years from the radiation, which would be a real bummer if you make it to 160 years old and then living in Chernobyl back in the 00s kills you.
I also acknowledge that there are some things that serve no purpose being released, and that put individuals in danger for no benefit.
Humorously, if an American soldier dies for nothing, maybe for oil, or maybe just to profit the military industrial complex, they describe it as "he died to save our freedoms" and other assorted BS.
On the other hand, if an American soldier dies because of our actual freedoms, such as freedom of speech, well, thats a clear and present danger, etc, etc, bs bs bs.
That's staggering if true; $400 billion is ~2.5% of the US GDP. Are you sure about that? 400 million maybe?
400 million would only fund a one million dollar tax department at the 400 largest companies. 1/5 of the fortune 500 would have to wing it. A million dollar budget doesn't hire as many people as you'd think, especially with management bonuses, etc. Somehow, I'm not imagining GMs tax department as being 5 people and a supervisor.
I would not be surprised, in the least, were the cost of collecting the dough equal to $1 out of every $50 raised.
I can't be the only nerd in here who gets artificial butter all over the lenses by the halfway point of the movie. Popcorn salt doesn't do much for them either.
Look on the bright side, however bad it is now, it'll be even worse when the Pr0n industry goes 3D.
Heisenburg DID say that you CANNOT know these things, that they CANNOT be measured, that it actually kinda seems like you CAN.
This is the difference. Newton/Einstein weren't really ruling anything out. Heisenburg kinda was. That changes how wrong they can be.
close but not quite.
A better way to phrase it is Heisenberg showed that you can take all the measurements you want of either individual measurement but (more or less) the standard deviation of a combined measurement is always going to be some small number, which turns out to be irrelevant for big things (cars, etc) yet comparatively huge for little things like electrons.
Newton certainly ruled things out. Regardless of weight or density, organic or inorganic source, soul or soulless, gravity accelerates stuff downward around 10 m/s/s. F=MA, who cares about V. F=MA who cares about mass density. Einstein wrote a hell of a lot of interesting papers so I suppose he was on both sides of everything at one point or another, but one example was the photoelectric paper helped ruled out the "ultraviolet catastrophe" of blackbody radiation.
I don't really understand how they get their food delivered
Its called poaching. Then the dudes in the white coats get mystified and write papers and slashdot articles asking why the local large mammal population isn't recovering as quickly "as its supposed to".
If I were 80 and literally starving to death, and there was a slightly radioactive deer in my yard that would kill me of cancer 50 years from now if I eat it, then I guess I'm having venison tonight.
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Perhaps one doesn't have to travel by air; but when the issue may be to lose one's job for refusing to complete a business trip, perhaps then defaulting on a mortgage, & etc,
Or, in other words, dark skinned folks technically don't "have to" ride the bus, so its OK to make them sit in the back. Repeat for about one zillion other racial / ethnic discrimination situations.
Then, when the "Girls Gone Wild JFK Airport Style" video comes out
wikileaks, far more likely.
Disagree. Whats in more of a bubble, comic book prices or house prices? Both appeal to the same economic block, that being the boomers. Now that the boomers have been fleeced out of all their money, both prices should collapse, or are collapsing.
Now a couple decades from now, maybe a 1st gen ipod would have some appeal (a zune?)
- If you're doing higher speed analog, lower-frequency RF or switching power supply design, I'm a huge fan of the Tektronix DPO series. I use a TDS3032.
If you're doing RF you're going to want a spectrum analyzer sooner rather than later.
If you're doing low freq / high power discrete analog (aka SMPS) you're going to want a curve tracer sooner or later, to fool around with if nothing else.
The original article poster has it all wrong, in that a lab that has nothing but an empty desk and a $2K scope simply can't handle the jobs that are easy in a lab with a $500 spectrum analyzer, $250 scope, $750 worth of Hakko (de-)soldering gear, a universal eprom/uC programmer, a logic analyzer, maybe a low end HP protocol analyzer... etc. Don't forget the "obvious" material handling equipment like $500 worth of lights on arms, magnifying glass on arm, low power binoc microscope, ESD protection gear, etc.
Typical rental contracts work out that if you borrow a piece of equipment for 4 months or so on a daily rate with no long term discount, only then is it cheaper to actually go out and buy one. This is the option we take at work.
Good advice for personal relationships / dating also. Seriously though, the most important reason to rent equipment is to try out a couple different machines before buying one of them. You will find various peculiarities in the specs may or may not be important. Or the user interface of "X" brand scopes might be perfect for you or drive you completely insane.
What lab will reject an instrument "due to it being fixed"?!
You used a 10% resistor that seems "close enough" the original was 1%. The calibration lab is used to making "minor tweaks" but having to twist all those trimmers practically all the way is going to take forever and piss them off. On the other hand, in Moms Basement, watching a Star Trek movie marathon while calibrating a scope is considered fun, not a waste of time.
You used inductive metal film resistor which screws up the high frequency performance instead of the specified non-inductive carbon comp resistor. It'll never work above 90 MHz again. The calibration lab will throw a fit because it won't calibrate at 100 MHz. However in Moms Basement you are thrilled to own a "90 MHz scope" even if the front panel label claims its a 100 MHz scope, especially since the highest clock frequency you'll likely subject the thing to anyway is probably low double digits.
You used the totally wrong temperature comp capacitors, and trimmed the rest of the scope so it'll work fine at 70 F. Unfortunately the industrial specs say it has to be calibrated from 32 F to 125 F so it simply can't pass calibration. The calibration lab will throw a fit, although it works fine in Mom's temperature controlled Basement.
That's before you start trying to mix old Tektronix scope silver bearing solders with traditional Pb/Sn and with modern lead free. I understand old fashioned Pb/Sn solder will corrode the plating off the Tek silver solder ceramic things.
My Tektronix 585 is fine for a modern end table. I got it for free and it still works. :)
I had an O-12 in the 80s.
Any scope is better than no scope. If you don't have the education and skill to understand how the input amplifier distorts signals, then you simply have to spend huge amounts of money on a "distortion less" scope with specs ten times higher than you need. Also if you work for a semiconductor manufacturer and need actual quantitative measurements you need amazing specs.
However, if all you need is qualitative, (is my 20M transmitter oscillating? Is my microcontroller sending pulses?) then a cheapy scope is all you need.
And that easily makes these chariots "surpass all monumental structures of the pharaohs in engineering sophistication." Moving thousands of tons of rock without machinery is easy compared to slopping fat on a stick!
The patent/copyright finally ran out on the chariot thing about 200 years ago, leading to the Industrial Revolution.
When the patent/copyright runs out on "magically levitating giant stone blocks into pyramid shapes" sometime in the future, I think we're going to have a heck of a lot of fun.
Just to point out a correction to the article, in Detroit Michigan that's "Point and Shoot Gun" not "Point and Shoot Camera"
Makes me feel like a second class citizen...
Big corporations are the first class citizens.
They are doing it already in Argentina for years now...
New York is also a 3rd world country. Your point?
Um, maybe getting a license would have brought to light the problem that caused the pool to fail, like uneven ground or poor construction. I know, it's crazy, right?
At least theoretically, in court it'll be easier to prove it was a material defect, since before the implosion or whatever, a "skilled and neutral third party", that being the inspector, claimed it was properly installed. Otherwise the big corp is just going to weasel out and blame the homeowner/installer for everything.
I know I'm taking a leap here, but I'm assuming the license requires the homeowner to purchase a permit to install the pool, which should have been inspected
A safety oriented inspection should not require over $30.
This is pure money raising. $75K/250 pools is $300 per pool. Assuming the "usual" double fee if applied for after work completed, that would be a staggering $150 to pay a city employee to verify there is in fact a fence and a GFCI.
I can safely assume you've never actually participated in a permit inspection. I have, many times. Mostly involves an older semi-retired inspector glancing at the work and driving off. The longest, most detailed inspection I have ever been involved in, oddly enough was a dishwasher where the inspector actually bent over to examine the power wiring (GFCI outlet? etc). That was like 90 freaking seconds, at least three times longer than all the other inspections I've participated in.
1. Foundations under the roads would have to be completely redone to support the extra weight, trains have large supports under the rails to support the weight of the trains, so its not just a simple cut holes put in rails, and drive.
Looks like the rails steer it and regular tires support the weight.
I imagine old fashioned cable cars (frisco?) work the same way, in that the cable provides the "pull" but the cable cars do not by any means hang from the cable. (an Aerial Tramway is a totally different concept and does in fact hang from the cable)
The vehicles have a small surface area that contacts the ground
I would not worry so much about tire friction as about wind surface area. Coasties are supposed to know all about hurricanes, but even Chicago "the windy city" can't use these. The center of gravity being extremely high, I'd think the odds of overturning in a breeze would be high. In addition to the dynamic stability issues of basically being a ten foot tall upside down pendulum even under ideal conditions.
If 90% of the office workers could telecommute and you removed them from the roads, wouldn't that alleviate much of the congestion in the first place? Assuming a mixed load of white and blue collar commuters, of course?
They've already moved to India, but there's still congestion. Next step, this train thing?
it is to reduce the death rates of specifically me.
My point was, say for the sake of argument that the death rate of informants is 150%. That is they kill all informants plus 1/3 were innocent. In the long run, this is probably not all that unrealistic.
Now, playing games with the wikileaks data may raise or lower that odds of death by, for the sake of argument, 50%.
Either way the future informant knows he's gonna die. Its just a matter of when and collateral damage.
if I'm an Afghan considering becoming an informer, that's sure going to make me think twice about it, especially if I have a family.
Isn't the death rate already well over 100% due to them killing suspected informers whom aren't informers?
Its very much like a slashdot story from earlier today, where elderly people should not be allowed to live near Chernobyl because they'll get cancer in 75 years from the radiation, which would be a real bummer if you make it to 160 years old and then living in Chernobyl back in the 00s kills you.
I also acknowledge that there are some things that serve no purpose being released, and that put individuals in danger for no benefit.
Humorously, if an American soldier dies for nothing, maybe for oil, or maybe just to profit the military industrial complex, they describe it as "he died to save our freedoms" and other assorted BS.
On the other hand, if an American soldier dies because of our actual freedoms, such as freedom of speech, well, thats a clear and present danger, etc, etc, bs bs bs.
That's staggering if true; $400 billion is ~2.5% of the US GDP. Are you sure about that? 400 million maybe?
400 million would only fund a one million dollar tax department at the 400 largest companies. 1/5 of the fortune 500 would have to wing it. A million dollar budget doesn't hire as many people as you'd think, especially with management bonuses, etc. Somehow, I'm not imagining GMs tax department as being 5 people and a supervisor.
I would not be surprised, in the least, were the cost of collecting the dough equal to $1 out of every $50 raised.
I can't be the only nerd in here who gets artificial butter all over the lenses by the halfway point of the movie. Popcorn salt doesn't do much for them either.
Look on the bright side, however bad it is now, it'll be even worse when the Pr0n industry goes 3D.
Seems fairly obvious to me. No new offensive missions and no patrols, just chill on base in 100% defense mode as you gradually rotate home.
Probably a lot of boot polishing, weapons cleaning, paperwork catch up time, PMCS the vehicles, guard duty, extra formations and inspections...
I think the computer was a PDP-8/some letter, but I don't remember which letter
http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/startrek/
Specifically
http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/startrek/spacwr.ba
Heisenburg DID say that you CANNOT know these things, that they CANNOT be measured, that it actually kinda seems like you CAN.
This is the difference. Newton/Einstein weren't really ruling anything out. Heisenburg kinda was. That changes how wrong they can be.
close but not quite.
A better way to phrase it is Heisenberg showed that you can take all the measurements you want of either individual measurement but (more or less) the standard deviation of a combined measurement is always going to be some small number, which turns out to be irrelevant for big things (cars, etc) yet comparatively huge for little things like electrons.
Newton certainly ruled things out. Regardless of weight or density, organic or inorganic source, soul or soulless, gravity accelerates stuff downward around 10 m/s/s. F=MA, who cares about V. F=MA who cares about mass density. Einstein wrote a hell of a lot of interesting papers so I suppose he was on both sides of everything at one point or another, but one example was the photoelectric paper helped ruled out the "ultraviolet catastrophe" of blackbody radiation.
Perhaps, in the same sense that "improved the reliability of the rear differential" means nothing to 99%+ of automobile owners.
Because we all have front wheel drive cars?
I don't really understand how they get their food delivered
Its called poaching. Then the dudes in the white coats get mystified and write papers and slashdot articles asking why the local large mammal population isn't recovering as quickly "as its supposed to".
If I were 80 and literally starving to death, and there was a slightly radioactive deer in my yard that would kill me of cancer 50 years from now if I eat it, then I guess I'm having venison tonight.