It's not ambiguous if you have any context. Nor is it ambiguous if you unambiguously form your sentences - you have omitted both a reference to the speaker as well as use a pronoun without any identification of the person to whom the pronoun refers. Writing as you speak or think may not always be the most effective way to communicate in writing. Grammar will add clarity in almost all situations. Context will add additional clarity if needed.
Short version of above is think plagiarism and perjury not pretty when deciding what goes in the quotes. Assuming Helen verbally asked a question, would you be comfortable defending a academic plagiarism charge or law court perjury charge WRT to a direct quote that she asked a question? If you'd take a bullet to demand she spoke a question, put the ? in with the rest of her quote. "making it look pretty" or "I prefer the typography" or "tradition" is pretty weak defense vs academic plagiarism charge or perjury charge.
This is also why as a special case in CS/IT or technical fields in general multiple reserved words have a 's to show pluralization. I don't care about possessive-ness I care that the singular is absolutely crystal clear to all readers. "The else's in your code need proper error handling messages" is correct because the language reserved word is an utterly unambiguous "else" not "elses" or "elsii" or "els" or whatever.
The general rule for the two above examples is real world requirements should always trump traditional rules and subjective attractiveness.
If the recipient can do this, no harm is done, except that the recipient is aware that the sender gave him more work to do than was necessary -- something usually not considered a compliment.
Aside from the trade, there's also the "compiler" analogy of garbage in = garbage out.
Good grammar is signalling high effort which means its high quality. Both of us would like to think I put 15 minutes of deep thought into analyzing your comment and perfecting my response which might make it worth reading. Good grammar is showing off how much effort I put into the total package. After putting in 15 minutes of hard thought, 10 seconds to not look like a completely illiterate moron is a rounding error, therefore good grammar means I put a lot of effort into my response. Does it change your opinion of how likely my signalling theory is to be correct, knowing that I squirted out this response in one pass, no corrections, on the fly stream of consciousness at about 75 WPM in less than a minute? Most people (most losers, anyway) think effort equals quality.
Would you care to elaborate? (And yes, I do know who Ms Riefenstahl was)
Did you see her (most famous) movie? No one can usefully comment in this thread unless they've seen the movie and heard the story of the movie, or at least the way the story is told now a days.
I almost entirely agree with the OP, I watched triumph of the will for school as part of our holocaust class a decade or two ago, and I think what he's getting at is she was a pioneer/leader in effective utilization of new technology when making movies. Now we don't think of her work as "high tech", because our local TV news has stuff like tracking rails, multiple cameras, etc, but in her time she was a absolute F-ing genius at making appealing content using new high tech film making techniques. There's a reason why she looks kinda "modern"... she was extremely influential... Its not just luck that her film looks modern, its that she had a pretty big part in defining modern film making.
New regimes always have a focus problem where they can't decide if they wanna pretend to be traditional and ancient or be modern and high tech... her film was pretty much the pinnacle of high tech for its era, which makes it all the weirder that her documentary (more or less) was of wanna be ancient stuff. In a way this is also the huffpo thing, well, minus the politics, in that huffpo is pushing the same tired old crap like human interest stories and meaningless political blather that journalists and bards have been doing for centuries, but huffpo does it so incredibly high tech. So not only do you see the similarity in high tech, but you see the similarity in contrast of subject matter vs the tech.
So yeah, you could debate if she'd be learning from huffpo or huffpo would be learning from her, but regardless of who plays the master-apprentice relationship they'd almost certainly be hanging out together...
Kind of like if Werner von Braun were alive, you'd at least like to think he'd be hanging out with the spacex guys. Who would be teaching who is open to debate, but they'd probably be in the same office together...
Both Werner and Leni were pretty cool. Yeah their bosses and bosses bosses boss etc sucked, but thats their fault and not entirely unusual on/. anyway, right?
No kidding. 5000 comments means I'm only going to catch a tiny bit of the conversation.
That's assuming its a conversation. My local newspaper has a staggering number of comments in the average story... Unfortunately they're basically all paid political astroturfers shouting tired slogans at each other. Even in the stupidest human interest fluff story they somehow, as they're paid on piecework, turn it into political sloganeering.
I'd much rather read 50 up-rated up-voted posts on/. than 5000 political slogans. Imagine a discussion site where the ''discussion" was my signature line repeated 2500 times alternated with "no you're wrong and I'm correct".
Look how strange the phrasing is. One ultra vague statement and one hyperspecific statement. Is this a legal thing like the first statement is for the law courts complete with perjury danger while the second statement is PR spin, or is it just weird?
'The energy source responsible for generating the heat has been determined as external to the device... the device was not responsible for the cause of the fire,' FIUK said in a statement.
OK kinda vague but it sounds like it was plugged into the charger when it went boom.
'The only way it was possible to produce damage similar to the damage recorded within the owner's damaged device was to place the devices or component parts within a domestic microwave.'"
OK super specific. I suppose its easy enough to prove, look at non-energetic materials areas, if stuff on the exterior like buttons/case/etc shows more heat damage than the innards by the battery the heat came from the outside. Or level of damage by component material is disturbingly similar to a table of component material vs their specific microwave adsorption rate.
And yes, the poster who said C was assembler-like likely has never seen an assembler language,
C doesn't look like 6502 or 1802 or 10f220 assembly, but if you squint you can see some PDP-11 addressing modes in there. Because a primary dev box was a....
Also I see aspects of BAL from MVS370 but maybe thats just dead brain cells flickering.
the idea of object oriented vs. non object oriented languages has always thrown me off.
Everyone else will attempt to explain OO using OO terms to a non-OO programmer. Thats like trying to teach my dog to sail a boat by speaking Japanese. I'll try a different tack. You know what a computed goto is, right (other than pure unadulterated evil, right?) What if your compiler enforced the hell out of good commenting and error bound checking to let you do computed goto's safely (er, more or less)? Well that is barely scratching the surface of OO. Syntactic sugar mounded on top of syntactic sugar. You know that quote about turtles all they way down, well fundamentally no matter the paradigm its Turing machines all they way down... more or less.
but really slashdot, what is the big draw to OO
When your professor was a little baby skript kiddie wannabe on his TRS-80 Coco-2 running OS/9 and BASIC09 and liking it, object orientation was the silver bullet among the crowd who could not bother to read "the mythical man month" by Brooks. So now you suffer thru OO because it was "cool" back when parachute pants were also cool, and leggings. Much as we're now raising a crop of wannabe skript kiddies who look up to the functional programming and agile methods people who have also never read "the mythical man month" by Brooks, so your kids / my grandkids are going to have to learn functional programming as The_One_True_Paradigm_And_all_disbelievers_should_be_burned_at_the_stake. And I'll still be writing device driver code on PIC microcontrollers in raw assembly, and it'll work great and I'll be liking it.
There's a really nice wiki article you probably need to read. The world is a lot bigger than "OO" "non-OO".
I use wiki software for network documentation. Tied it in to nagios, actually,
Another fun trick with nagios is connecting it to something like RANCID... A simple perl script (err, well, sorta simple anyway) eats the cisco configs gathered by RANCID and emits nagios config files...
there's no explanation about why the presidential election would have an impact or where they are getting that data from
We don't live in a free market state. Its assumed that major government provided economic numbers are kind of pencil whipped before the election to support the incumbent. Reality is never completely on display, however, you'll get a much better look at it a couple months after the election, rather than before. You can tell any lie with statistics.
Why not do what every ISP is doing - for every DNS request hitting the server, send them to a page that tells them their PC is infected
The list of hijacked DNS servers is well known in the biz, so I've heard at least some ISPs have been null routing the DNS server addresses as call queues and customer service staffing permits. Perhaps every day one pop or one CMTS or whatever it is DSL headend gear is called, or one entire city, gets null routes for those specific hijacked DNS/32s.
It ends up being about the same result in the end, except that you can control your call volume in a extremely fine grained manner, or at least more fine grained than the fake DNS server solution.
Obviously you lose your fine-grained gradual deployment if you redistribute those/32 routes into your site wide BGP route reflector. I wonder how many jokers have leaked those/32s onto the internet by trying to do this.
The guys who know what they're doing are all done now... The folks who haven't started are going to epic fail no matter what you do, so the FBI may as well just yank those AC cords and be done with it.
Don't worry about cordless phones, that is a very low priority in this situation use a wired phone on the landline.
cablemodem nodes usually only live a couple hours for the VOIPers, SLC huts for copper landline used to last a day or two but not so much anymore. I heard the u-verse battery packs in the CEV or tombstone go about half a day. If you've got copper landline going all the way back to the CO you're golden because COs never lose power. Well actually I am aware from work of some accidents leading to CO power loss (If you're gonna shove 0000 gauge DC plant power cable thru a conduit, try to make sure the cable is disconnected from the battery bus?) Oh and the "I removed the shiny metal rack rails and leaned them against the rack, then gremlins tipped the rails over into the adjacent battery bank which of course was completely uninsulated and unshielded" I guess so many cells were melted or cracked from the heat that they had to replace the whole bank, glad that wasn't my fault.
Search instructibles or whatever for the kidwasher, another fun project.
If you're handy enough to build it, you don't really need plans, just the concept plus a few key points. A handful of adapters are available at home depot for maybe $5 total to go from a standard garden hose, to a threaded connection, to an adapter for PVC pipe that happens to connect to matching threaded connectors, to a small diameter PVC pipe, to a size adapter to a reasonable large PVC pipe. So you can feed 100 psi (or whatever) water into a PVC pipe, now what?
Well you build a giant PVC horseshoe shaped thing complete with legs using T-adapters (I feed the water in one end of one tee leg) and then you drill 1/32 (if not smaller) holes inside the horseshoe facing inward. Hook it up, turn on the water, run the kids thru it. Works best from age 2 thru 10 or so. Teens etc tend not to be terribly impressed.
Bonus points if you make is so freaking big a kid can ride a bicycle thru it, like a carwash.
Also bonus points if you make it big enough to go over a slide or over a kiddie pool. Or a slip -n- slide apparatus.
PVC if left outside in the sun will shatter in about a year, so store it inside when not hosing down the kids. Better yet build most of the joints with matching threaded adapters so it can all be unscrewed and put in a big ole bag in the garage when not in use.
I suppose it appeals to the redneck half of my high tech red neck a lot more than the high tech half.
I also made what amounts to a giant squirtgun using a bunch of plumbing and a lot of valves and my air compressor. Again this is one of those if I have to provide a CAD drawing you couldn't build it anyway. The air compressor was to provide a stream of water at 175 PSI instead of the mere 100 psi or whatever local water is, in a batch process (so you manipulate the valves to fill a homemade water tank, then manipulate other valves to connect direct medium pressure shop air to the top of the tank. I shot water about 150 feet with that. Thats almost but not quite the length of my suburban lot (obviously not a mcmansion subdiv)
have a panel installed so I don't inadvertently fry linemen who come around to fix the power outage
Ask the electrician for a transfer switch, or google the term.
Its really for the generator's health anyway. My stationary diesel mechanic uncle told some story about a crankshaft shearing clean off when a gen got plugged into short circuit.
If you ever try backfeeding at home, you'll instantly discover that your little generator cannot backfeed the entire neighborhood as it'll pop the breaker. The conditions required to electrocute the linemen are really rather far fetched. Happens occasionally non the less.
On the other hand I have shoveled snow in -40C temps for more than 2 hoours with no ill effects
I live to go snow shoeing in weather like that. Snow sounds different when it squooshes under your feet at those temps... squeaks kinda.
Thing is you can always thrive in comfort, not just survive, in cold weather by wearing the more of the correct clothing. If it gets colder you put on more/heavier clothing, no problemo. The problem with heat is totally nude I get pretty uncomfortable above 80 degrees... so once I've taken everything off, what next? (Maybe this is too much information?)
Obviously this is a grand conspiracy by the Europeans to distract us from what really matters today - blowing shit up! If they really wanted to celebrate the Fourth, they would have blown up CERN.
Or Syria... be patient it'll be a shooting war soon enough. Gotta keep the military industrial complex profits up in a election year, after all.
Doing things in house takes expertise, time and money and many businesses seem to find it cheaper in the short run to lease expertise and equipment and outsource operations.
And if its critical business infrastructure they're outsourcing, then they're walking dead.
I've worked on both sides as provider and seller of software as a service.
If its part of your core competency and a critical path in your processes, like say, a translation service bureau who accepts emails in one language -> (magic happens) -> sends out translated documents in email, you'd have to be out of your mind insane to outsource email. Been there seen the carnage.
On the other hand if its just something you kinda use, like say a heavy equipment repair service who outsources email, that is business genius because email doesn't really directly matter to the business.
Give it a standard/. analogy. Lets talk about outsourcing tightening bolts. Well for a automobile manufacturer, outsourcing bolt tightening would be pretty moronic, thats kind of a core competency out on the assembly line. On the other hand, for a two truck sized florist delivery service, hiring out for mechanical service probably makes a lot of business sense.
Lets say you're a premium burger restaurant, midwesterners know what "culvers" is, and I guess the flyover coastal areas have their premium chains too. Outsourcing burger frying to McDonalds would not be terribly wise, no matter how much money it saves short term. Now outsourcing electrical repair work, that makes business sense.
Has it improved since 1998? I did the dynamic desktop thing on windows and whenever IE crashed it really screwed up the whole machine. If they're sandboxing better now a days maybe it won't be so bad?
There is never anything new in IT, this craze is just retro from that era.
They don't clarify what "modern apps" we are supposed to switch to other than pointing at the Chrome store, or even what exactly a "modern app" is. Some would say a "modern app" could mean something like GMail or iGoogle
Well a "modern app" on chrome is sure as hell not google reader.
on igoog, the goog reader widget shows you all your new feeds and refreshes pretty much real time. You can look at comments and decide to open if its good enough (like this/. story) or close and it disappears (like, say, another dancing cats/. video story). Awesome functionality. Its hard to think of how to improve it.
on chrome, there are two goog reader "apps". Its moronic to call an icon-bookmark a app, but they have the balls to do it, so if you're too dumb to set or use a bookmark for reader.google.com but able to fog a mirror occasionally enough to install a chrome app, you can get a icon on your page that when clicked goes to reader.goog, and sadly thats all it does, nothing more than a bookmark. LAME! The other "app" is a toolbar icon that shows a digital count of how many new stories/articles/feed items whatever are waiting and usually operates on a couple minute latency from the igoog display, which is kinda weird but you get used to it. Its only other functionality is to, you guessed it, act as a "bookmark-icon" for reader.goog again... Thats all it does. LAME!
With most major browsers having the url bar also usable to enter your search queries, I haven't had a need to go to a google homepage in a very long time.
Different workflows for different folks. I like the default of searching the web, but often I click maps then search, or click news then search, or the handy GMAIL then search my gigs of stored email. The mighty GOOG doesn't seem to have search context properly radio buttoned or whatever, or at least not UI'd like I like to see. Yes you can pitifully find all those search results in a plain search, but try searching for "restaurant middle of nowhere" what you get from maps is infinitely better than what you get from the generic web search.
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It's not ambiguous if you have any context. Nor is it ambiguous if you unambiguously form your sentences - you have omitted both a reference to the speaker as well as use a pronoun without any identification of the person to whom the pronoun refers. Writing as you speak or think may not always be the most effective way to communicate in writing. Grammar will add clarity in almost all situations. Context will add additional clarity if needed.
Short version of above is think plagiarism and perjury not pretty when deciding what goes in the quotes. Assuming Helen verbally asked a question, would you be comfortable defending a academic plagiarism charge or law court perjury charge WRT to a direct quote that she asked a question? If you'd take a bullet to demand she spoke a question, put the ? in with the rest of her quote. "making it look pretty" or "I prefer the typography" or "tradition" is pretty weak defense vs academic plagiarism charge or perjury charge.
This is also why as a special case in CS/IT or technical fields in general multiple reserved words have a 's to show pluralization. I don't care about possessive-ness I care that the singular is absolutely crystal clear to all readers. "The else's in your code need proper error handling messages" is correct because the language reserved word is an utterly unambiguous "else" not "elses" or "elsii" or "els" or whatever.
The general rule for the two above examples is real world requirements should always trump traditional rules and subjective attractiveness.
If the recipient can do this, no harm is done, except that the recipient is aware that the sender gave him more work to do than was necessary -- something usually not considered a compliment.
Aside from the trade, there's also the "compiler" analogy of garbage in = garbage out.
Good grammar is signalling high effort which means its high quality. Both of us would like to think I put 15 minutes of deep thought into analyzing your comment and perfecting my response which might make it worth reading. Good grammar is showing off how much effort I put into the total package. After putting in 15 minutes of hard thought, 10 seconds to not look like a completely illiterate moron is a rounding error, therefore good grammar means I put a lot of effort into my response. Does it change your opinion of how likely my signalling theory is to be correct, knowing that I squirted out this response in one pass, no corrections, on the fly stream of consciousness at about 75 WPM in less than a minute? Most people (most losers, anyway) think effort equals quality.
Would you care to elaborate? (And yes, I do know who Ms Riefenstahl was)
Did you see her (most famous) movie? No one can usefully comment in this thread unless they've seen the movie and heard the story of the movie, or at least the way the story is told now a days.
I almost entirely agree with the OP, I watched triumph of the will for school as part of our holocaust class a decade or two ago, and I think what he's getting at is she was a pioneer/leader in effective utilization of new technology when making movies. Now we don't think of her work as "high tech", because our local TV news has stuff like tracking rails, multiple cameras, etc, but in her time she was a absolute F-ing genius at making appealing content using new high tech film making techniques. There's a reason why she looks kinda "modern"... she was extremely influential... Its not just luck that her film looks modern, its that she had a pretty big part in defining modern film making.
New regimes always have a focus problem where they can't decide if they wanna pretend to be traditional and ancient or be modern and high tech... her film was pretty much the pinnacle of high tech for its era, which makes it all the weirder that her documentary (more or less) was of wanna be ancient stuff. In a way this is also the huffpo thing, well, minus the politics, in that huffpo is pushing the same tired old crap like human interest stories and meaningless political blather that journalists and bards have been doing for centuries, but huffpo does it so incredibly high tech. So not only do you see the similarity in high tech, but you see the similarity in contrast of subject matter vs the tech.
So yeah, you could debate if she'd be learning from huffpo or huffpo would be learning from her, but regardless of who plays the master-apprentice relationship they'd almost certainly be hanging out together...
Kind of like if Werner von Braun were alive, you'd at least like to think he'd be hanging out with the spacex guys. Who would be teaching who is open to debate, but they'd probably be in the same office together...
Both Werner and Leni were pretty cool. Yeah their bosses and bosses bosses boss etc sucked, but thats their fault and not entirely unusual on /. anyway, right?
No kidding. 5000 comments means I'm only going to catch a tiny bit of the conversation.
That's assuming its a conversation. My local newspaper has a staggering number of comments in the average story... Unfortunately they're basically all paid political astroturfers shouting tired slogans at each other. Even in the stupidest human interest fluff story they somehow, as they're paid on piecework, turn it into political sloganeering.
I'd much rather read 50 up-rated up-voted posts on /. than 5000 political slogans. Imagine a discussion site where the ''discussion" was my signature line repeated 2500 times alternated with "no you're wrong and I'm correct".
Look how strange the phrasing is. One ultra vague statement and one hyperspecific statement. Is this a legal thing like the first statement is for the law courts complete with perjury danger while the second statement is PR spin, or is it just weird?
'The energy source responsible for generating the heat has been determined as external to the device... the device was not responsible for the cause of the fire,' FIUK said in a statement.
OK kinda vague but it sounds like it was plugged into the charger when it went boom.
'The only way it was possible to produce damage similar to the damage recorded within the owner's damaged device was to place the devices or component parts within a domestic microwave.'"
OK super specific. I suppose its easy enough to prove, look at non-energetic materials areas, if stuff on the exterior like buttons/case/etc shows more heat damage than the innards by the battery the heat came from the outside. Or level of damage by component material is disturbingly similar to a table of component material vs their specific microwave adsorption rate.
And yes, the poster who said C was assembler-like likely has never seen an assembler language,
C doesn't look like 6502 or 1802 or 10f220 assembly, but if you squint you can see some PDP-11 addressing modes in there. Because a primary dev box was a ....
Also I see aspects of BAL from MVS370 but maybe thats just dead brain cells flickering.
the idea of object oriented vs. non object oriented languages has always thrown me off.
Everyone else will attempt to explain OO using OO terms to a non-OO programmer. Thats like trying to teach my dog to sail a boat by speaking Japanese. I'll try a different tack. You know what a computed goto is, right (other than pure unadulterated evil, right?) What if your compiler enforced the hell out of good commenting and error bound checking to let you do computed goto's safely (er, more or less)? Well that is barely scratching the surface of OO. Syntactic sugar mounded on top of syntactic sugar. You know that quote about turtles all they way down, well fundamentally no matter the paradigm its Turing machines all they way down... more or less.
but really slashdot, what is the big draw to OO
When your professor was a little baby skript kiddie wannabe on his TRS-80 Coco-2 running OS/9 and BASIC09 and liking it, object orientation was the silver bullet among the crowd who could not bother to read "the mythical man month" by Brooks. So now you suffer thru OO because it was "cool" back when parachute pants were also cool, and leggings. Much as we're now raising a crop of wannabe skript kiddies who look up to the functional programming and agile methods people who have also never read "the mythical man month" by Brooks, so your kids / my grandkids are going to have to learn functional programming as The_One_True_Paradigm_And_all_disbelievers_should_be_burned_at_the_stake. And I'll still be writing device driver code on PIC microcontrollers in raw assembly, and it'll work great and I'll be liking it.
There's a really nice wiki article you probably need to read. The world is a lot bigger than "OO" "non-OO".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_programming_paradigms
I use wiki software for network documentation. Tied it in to nagios, actually,
Another fun trick with nagios is connecting it to something like RANCID... A simple perl script (err, well, sorta simple anyway) eats the cisco configs gathered by RANCID and emits nagios config files...
Currently my organization uses Excel spreadsheets to handle this, and it's invariably error ridden.
In the real world, away from press releases, sadly, Excel is the real world enterprise DBMS for almost all corporations.
I also worked for a place that used a word processor for DBMS.
No codd normal forms, and joins/selects are done completely by intern / human power.
Basically all the "paperless office" did was make it slightly easier to do existing paper processes. No core technological/process changes.
there's no explanation about why the presidential election would have an impact or where they are getting that data from
We don't live in a free market state. Its assumed that major government provided economic numbers are kind of pencil whipped before the election to support the incumbent. Reality is never completely on display, however, you'll get a much better look at it a couple months after the election, rather than before. You can tell any lie with statistics.
I'm at 2.3.5
Which release numbers are incrementing faster, android or firefox? I think FF is in the lead for version incrementing.
Why not do what every ISP is doing - for every DNS request hitting the server, send them to a page that tells them their PC is infected
The list of hijacked DNS servers is well known in the biz, so I've heard at least some ISPs have been null routing the DNS server addresses as call queues and customer service staffing permits. Perhaps every day one pop or one CMTS or whatever it is DSL headend gear is called, or one entire city, gets null routes for those specific hijacked DNS /32s.
It ends up being about the same result in the end, except that you can control your call volume in a extremely fine grained manner, or at least more fine grained than the fake DNS server solution.
Obviously you lose your fine-grained gradual deployment if you redistribute those /32 routes into your site wide BGP route reflector. I wonder how many jokers have leaked those /32s onto the internet by trying to do this.
The guys who know what they're doing are all done now... The folks who haven't started are going to epic fail no matter what you do, so the FBI may as well just yank those AC cords and be done with it.
Don't worry about cordless phones, that is a very low priority in this situation use a wired phone on the landline.
cablemodem nodes usually only live a couple hours for the VOIPers, SLC huts for copper landline used to last a day or two but not so much anymore. I heard the u-verse battery packs in the CEV or tombstone go about half a day. If you've got copper landline going all the way back to the CO you're golden because COs never lose power. Well actually I am aware from work of some accidents leading to CO power loss (If you're gonna shove 0000 gauge DC plant power cable thru a conduit, try to make sure the cable is disconnected from the battery bus?) Oh and the "I removed the shiny metal rack rails and leaned them against the rack, then gremlins tipped the rails over into the adjacent battery bank which of course was completely uninsulated and unshielded" I guess so many cells were melted or cracked from the heat that they had to replace the whole bank, glad that wasn't my fault.
I built a water rocket launcher for my kids. http://www.sciencetoymaker.org/waterRocket/index.htm
Search instructibles or whatever for the kidwasher, another fun project.
If you're handy enough to build it, you don't really need plans, just the concept plus a few key points. A handful of adapters are available at home depot for maybe $5 total to go from a standard garden hose, to a threaded connection, to an adapter for PVC pipe that happens to connect to matching threaded connectors, to a small diameter PVC pipe, to a size adapter to a reasonable large PVC pipe. So you can feed 100 psi (or whatever) water into a PVC pipe, now what?
Well you build a giant PVC horseshoe shaped thing complete with legs using T-adapters (I feed the water in one end of one tee leg) and then you drill 1/32 (if not smaller) holes inside the horseshoe facing inward. Hook it up, turn on the water, run the kids thru it. Works best from age 2 thru 10 or so. Teens etc tend not to be terribly impressed.
Bonus points if you make is so freaking big a kid can ride a bicycle thru it, like a carwash.
Also bonus points if you make it big enough to go over a slide or over a kiddie pool. Or a slip -n- slide apparatus.
PVC if left outside in the sun will shatter in about a year, so store it inside when not hosing down the kids. Better yet build most of the joints with matching threaded adapters so it can all be unscrewed and put in a big ole bag in the garage when not in use.
I suppose it appeals to the redneck half of my high tech red neck a lot more than the high tech half.
I also made what amounts to a giant squirtgun using a bunch of plumbing and a lot of valves and my air compressor. Again this is one of those if I have to provide a CAD drawing you couldn't build it anyway. The air compressor was to provide a stream of water at 175 PSI instead of the mere 100 psi or whatever local water is, in a batch process (so you manipulate the valves to fill a homemade water tank, then manipulate other valves to connect direct medium pressure shop air to the top of the tank. I shot water about 150 feet with that. Thats almost but not quite the length of my suburban lot (obviously not a mcmansion subdiv)
have a panel installed so I don't inadvertently fry linemen who come around to fix the power outage
Ask the electrician for a transfer switch, or google the term.
Its really for the generator's health anyway. My stationary diesel mechanic uncle told some story about a crankshaft shearing clean off when a gen got plugged into short circuit.
If you ever try backfeeding at home, you'll instantly discover that your little generator cannot backfeed the entire neighborhood as it'll pop the breaker. The conditions required to electrocute the linemen are really rather far fetched. Happens occasionally non the less.
On the other hand I have shoveled snow in -40C temps for more than 2 hoours with no ill effects
I live to go snow shoeing in weather like that. Snow sounds different when it squooshes under your feet at those temps... squeaks kinda.
Thing is you can always thrive in comfort, not just survive, in cold weather by wearing the more of the correct clothing. If it gets colder you put on more/heavier clothing, no problemo. The problem with heat is totally nude I get pretty uncomfortable above 80 degrees... so once I've taken everything off, what next? (Maybe this is too much information?)
Erm, did you not get the memo about us having mini-roundabouts?
Whats the point of that?
Now the "god particle" is proved everyone has to believe in Jesus
I always preferred the TOS trek version where its discovered the gods are real and living... the greek gods, not judeochristian.
Did you see this character there with you (assuming you're not Jester posting on /.):
http://resonaances.blogspot.com/2012/07/h-day-live.html
My favorite line from the onsite report "10:46 Standing ovations, screams and shouts, the audience throwing bras and underwear at the stage."
Personally I like this image:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Cmf9NdNvpWw/T_Pm8cpuljI/AAAAAAAAAww/LF-1GXkBNfM/s320/godparticle.jpg
Obviously this is a grand conspiracy by the Europeans to distract us from what really matters today - blowing shit up! If they really wanted to celebrate the Fourth, they would have blown up CERN.
Or Syria... be patient it'll be a shooting war soon enough. Gotta keep the military industrial complex profits up in a election year, after all.
Doing things in house takes expertise, time and money and many businesses seem to find it cheaper in the short run to lease expertise and equipment and outsource operations.
And if its critical business infrastructure they're outsourcing, then they're walking dead.
I've worked on both sides as provider and seller of software as a service.
If its part of your core competency and a critical path in your processes, like say, a translation service bureau who accepts emails in one language -> (magic happens) -> sends out translated documents in email, you'd have to be out of your mind insane to outsource email. Been there seen the carnage.
On the other hand if its just something you kinda use, like say a heavy equipment repair service who outsources email, that is business genius because email doesn't really directly matter to the business.
Give it a standard /. analogy. Lets talk about outsourcing tightening bolts. Well for a automobile manufacturer, outsourcing bolt tightening would be pretty moronic, thats kind of a core competency out on the assembly line. On the other hand, for a two truck sized florist delivery service, hiring out for mechanical service probably makes a lot of business sense.
Lets say you're a premium burger restaurant, midwesterners know what "culvers" is, and I guess the flyover coastal areas have their premium chains too. Outsourcing burger frying to McDonalds would not be terribly wise, no matter how much money it saves short term. Now outsourcing electrical repair work, that makes business sense.
Has it improved since 1998? I did the dynamic desktop thing on windows and whenever IE crashed it really screwed up the whole machine. If they're sandboxing better now a days maybe it won't be so bad?
There is never anything new in IT, this craze is just retro from that era.
That's it! Lets fork this shit!
I'm guessing the "fork" in my case will be about 4 lines of HTML with a frameset holding a couple frame src?
They don't clarify what "modern apps" we are supposed to switch to other than pointing at the Chrome store, or even what exactly a "modern app" is. Some would say a "modern app" could mean something like GMail or iGoogle
Well a "modern app" on chrome is sure as hell not google reader.
on igoog, the goog reader widget shows you all your new feeds and refreshes pretty much real time. You can look at comments and decide to open if its good enough (like this /. story) or close and it disappears (like, say, another dancing cats /. video story). Awesome functionality. Its hard to think of how to improve it.
on chrome, there are two goog reader "apps". Its moronic to call an icon-bookmark a app, but they have the balls to do it, so if you're too dumb to set or use a bookmark for reader.google.com but able to fog a mirror occasionally enough to install a chrome app, you can get a icon on your page that when clicked goes to reader.goog, and sadly thats all it does, nothing more than a bookmark. LAME! The other "app" is a toolbar icon that shows a digital count of how many new stories/articles/feed items whatever are waiting and usually operates on a couple minute latency from the igoog display, which is kinda weird but you get used to it. Its only other functionality is to, you guessed it, act as a "bookmark-icon" for reader.goog again... Thats all it does. LAME!
With most major browsers having the url bar also usable to enter your search queries, I haven't had a need to go to a google homepage in a very long time.
Different workflows for different folks. I like the default of searching the web, but often I click maps then search, or click news then search, or the handy GMAIL then search my gigs of stored email. The mighty GOOG doesn't seem to have search context properly radio buttoned or whatever, or at least not UI'd like I like to see. Yes you can pitifully find all those search results in a plain search, but try searching for "restaurant middle of nowhere" what you get from maps is infinitely better than what you get from the generic web search.