As an engineer, it is not necessary for you to know how to weld. It does make you a better ME to know how to weld in the design process. But why is it so hard for an engineer to ask a person who is a tech (like a person who is in welding, repair, assmebly, etc.) how they would do something. I have seen software engineers ask managers what to have in a program but not ask the actual end users what they would want. The people who use the software day in, day out who then found it unusable. Or an engineer who did not bother to find out about older designs. He did not know that he was working on designing something that had been done a few years before, and therefore doing redundant work.
It is great that you know how to weld, and can improve your designs as a result. Did you ever think to also maybe ask a person who is a welder with say 10 to 20 years experience how they would weld it? If you would not ask, why?
The idea that the Earth travels around the Sun is just part of the theory of Planetary Motion. Electrons are just part of Atomic Theory. If they don't exist, your computer doesn't work. Gravity is just a theory.
American Heritage Dictionary
theory n.
1. A set of statements or principals devised to explain a group of facts or phenomena, especially one that has been repeatedly tested or is widely accepted and can be used to make predictions about natural phenomena.
This is what scientists mean by a theory. Nothing in science is a fact. As more observations are made, theories can change, or new ones are developed.
Evolution Theory is accepted as the best explaination of what has been observed from any number of discipines. The sticker is incorrect in the usage of the word theory and should not be placed in the textbooks.
Should physics textbooks carry a sticker that gravity is just a theory also?
I hate controversy too! It is so much easier to just sit back and have the information spoon fed to you than to look at opposing points of view and trying to make a rational decision.
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I, for one, would like to see an unsupercharged reciprocating engine that could operate at 65,000 ft!
Yes, I know the FAQ for Sanswire says solar powered electric motors.
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Sounds like you are talking about Space Data. Lots of former Orbital Sciences folks working there.
The difference between the half dozen of companies talking about providing this service and Space Data is that they are already doing it. Space Data has service in west Texas right now with the rest of Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana coming later this year.
Just weather balloons carrying a transcevier.
The technology for the electronics is here, just adapt it for the purpose. Keeping the platfrom in the air for months at a time, there's the problem.
Anyway, this is the only company I've seen that is already providing this type of service (not exactly broadband, yet).
I use Opera and do not have a problem with spyware. The Mozilla products also seem to prevent this crap.
IE by far has the greatest problems by far. It is also the most useless browser out. Pop up blocking and tabbed browsing from the other browsers make IE feel like a horse-and-buggy (emphasis on "buggy") era browser whilst the others are years ahead.
Maybe that little shop called, what is it? Yeah, Microsoft, will get its act together one day and make something of themselves.
Watch out Arizona? Woo Hoo! Five years of drought and counting.
Without a doubt, we here in Phoenix may already be living on borrowed time. Water here is pulled from 3 sources. Groundwater, as you mentioned, reservoirs on the Salt and Verde Rivers, and from the Colorado River via the Central Arizona Project.
For goundwater, the aquifer is dropping. As a result, we are banking water from the Colorado River from the States allotment by pumping it back into the aquifer. Actually holding water for other States that are not talking their full allotment (Nevada and Utah if I remember). The point of that is to take our full amount of water every year so that California doesn't try and lay claim to the water. Of course, at some point the other States are going to want their water back.
We have also had a drought going on five years or so now. Roosevelt Lake on the salt River was running at 1/3 to 1/4 capacity lately, and Horseshoe Lake is about dry also. Saguaro, Canyon, and Apache Lakes on the Salt River are not drawn down, yet. On the Verde River, Horseshoe was drawn down but Bartlett is still full. We really need at least five or six really wet years to pull out of the drought. Most of this water comes from the Winter snowpack in Northern Arizona. If youu see news this Summer about large fires in North Central Az, then it was most likely a dry Winter.
The canals in Phoenix that were dug over 100 years ago were actually following canals that had been dug by a Indian tribe which we call the Hohokam (they used sharpened sticks to break up the ground before carrying it away). They had extensive irrigation in the Valley where Phoenix now sits for agriculture. They disappeared about 100 years before Coloumbus arrived in the New World. They may have disappeared because of drought or their crops failed (the Salt River is called that for a reason), we do not know why.
For an industry based on creativity, they have shown a total lack of imagination. Napster popped on the scene over 4 years ago, that deafing sound you hear is the lack of any online offering from the major record labels.
What have they done to increase sales? -Sue their customers. -Bring lawsuits against P2P companies. -Develop weak and laughable DRM. -Pay politicians to pass legislation to make music trading a felony. -Lose a class-action lawsuit about gouging customers (I got my $12 check, what about you.) -Try and pass a tax on blank CD-R's. -Not give customers what they want, ie, decent music at a reasonable price and allow fair use.
What else am I forgetting? This looks like an industry in the last gasps of despairation.
And they are still trying to pass the same crap on consumers that they were last year.
Yeah, these folks are real creative. They are standing on the edge of an abyss, and are going to take a bold step forward.
You are forgetting that Corporations had trained "security forces". People walking picket lines got their skulls caved in, or were simply outright killed (look at the way Ford Motor Company, and GM went after strikers in the early 1900's). This happened many times while police stood by and watched as these "communists", and "anarchists" were shot and beaten by company employees.
This is a big reason why many Unions later on took a more extreme postion, and at times, violence against Corporations and their goons. They felt that it is better to fight back then just lay down and die.
The Slashdot crowd best look at the history of Unions in the 19th and 20th centuries to better understand where we are today.
What do you have to thank Unions for? How about: -40 hour work week (not that employees today get this) -Paid vactions -Health Insurance -Pensions -Workplace safety
All things your freinds in Corporations have fought against or ignored time and again.
Organized crime did become involved with the labor Unions in the 1950's because they saw the potential to skim money from the membership, no secret there. The members were victims of abuse from the mobsters too.
Consider that people working in similar jobs, ones that have Union representation generally have higher pay, more time off, and better working conditions.
Corporations and our Government have done a great job in stripping rights away from workers and shifting them to employers. Unions are not as strong as they once were, and when was the last time you heard of violence from Labor Unions?
Employees will always do better for themselves if they work together for the good of all. Unions are not perfect, as I am not perfect, and you are not perfect, and Corporations are not perfect. You would be better off joining in a group than going it alone.
Trade and Labor Unions many times offer health insurance, training, pensions, legal advice, and other services to the membership that many companies or Governmental agencies do not provide. The Unions try to do what they can for the membership but are being increasingly marginalized in today's society. Corporations firing strikers, Federal Government ordering strikers back to work, and people with attitudes like yours puts Unions at a disadvantage.
For years, Corporations have been engaged in illegal and immoral operations. Such as, knowingly selling defective products, dumping toxic waste, ignoring workplace safety rules, gouging consumers, hiding income to not pay taxes, lying to government regulators, lying to shareholders, and much more that I can't remember or just don't know about. Being "asked" to train your replacement, or losing all benefits is about as disgusting and degrading a thing as can be done to a employee.
Consider if YOU wish to be a member of a group that if not called a "Corporation", would be a criminal organization (Enron, Tyco, Worldcom, Parmalat, etc., ect.).
GPL does allow someone to take code and profit off of it, as long as they release the source code. Simple, right?
Placing the code under GPL helps to build the code for the benefit for all and is less restrictive than propriatary means. The companies using the code without agreeing to the GPL are in violation of copyright law, period.
If the companies in question do not agree to the GPL, than do not use the code.
You are blaming the victim here for "asking for it".
My God man, It should be obvious that more research must be done. Years of research on oral sex with thousands of women performing it dozens of times a day. Double blind studies, published papers with peer review, repeating studies to ensure their scientific validity, grants.
I would be willing to sacrific to be involved in say, a ten year study.
This kind of thing could get science geeks laid for decades... I mean "advance scientific knowledge". Yeah, scientific knowledge.
I always had a great time as a kid playing with my Legos. Never had all of the specialized bricks that I see now, diddn't stop us from making spacships, cars, houses, heilcopters, and other assorted thing to blow up. Getting back to the basics that made it such a great idea to begin with shoud help.
Of course, I also liked the various lengths of 2x4's that I played with too (padded suit lumber swat anyone?).
Lead wallet? What? Are you new here? You want a tinfoil wallet!
Damn kids!
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Casinos offer commemorative or souvenier chips for people to purchase. These are real gaming chips that can be used for playing games in that casino. My friend "bought" some last month in Laughlin at the Ramada Express (they were for a Rally race held there), they even sold him some hard plastic cases to protect the chips in. Also,the cashiers' cages are not anywhere near the entrances in Las Vegas and Laughlin casinos, and no one stops you from leaving to search for chips. Would not be surprised to find out that there are tens of millions of dollars worth of casino chips in peoples' homes across USA. No skin off the casinos back really.
This looks like it is going to be used to prevent counterfiets and employee theft, for now anyway.
(Designing my new tinfoil chip carrier.)
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As an engineer, it is not necessary for you to know how to weld. It does make you a better ME to know how to weld in the design process. But why is it so hard for an engineer to ask a person who is a tech (like a person who is in welding, repair, assmebly, etc.) how they would do something. I have seen software engineers ask managers what to have in a program but not ask the actual end users what they would want. The people who use the software day in, day out who then found it unusable. Or an engineer who did not bother to find out about older designs. He did not know that he was working on designing something that had been done a few years before, and therefore doing redundant work.
It is great that you know how to weld, and can improve your designs as a result. Did you ever think to also maybe ask a person who is a welder with say 10 to 20 years experience how they would weld it? If you would not ask, why?
The idea that the Earth travels around the Sun is just part of the theory of Planetary Motion. Electrons are just part of Atomic Theory. If they don't exist, your computer doesn't work. Gravity is just a theory.
American Heritage Dictionary
theory n.
1. A set of statements or principals devised to explain a group of facts or phenomena, especially one that has been repeatedly tested or is widely accepted and can be used to make predictions about natural phenomena.
This is what scientists mean by a theory. Nothing in science is a fact. As more observations are made, theories can change, or new ones are developed.
Evolution Theory is accepted as the best explaination of what has been observed from any number of discipines. The sticker is incorrect in the usage of the word theory and should not be placed in the textbooks.
Should physics textbooks carry a sticker that gravity is just a theory also?
I hate controversy too! It is so much easier to just sit back and have the information spoon fed to you than to look at opposing points of view and trying to make a rational decision.
If only it would come in an intravenious form.
More like trickle-on economics.
I, for one, would like to see an unsupercharged reciprocating engine that could operate at 65,000 ft!
Yes, I know the FAQ for Sanswire says solar powered electric motors.
Sounds like you are talking about Space Data. Lots of former Orbital Sciences folks working there.
The difference between the half dozen of companies talking about providing this service and Space Data is that they are already doing it. Space Data has service in west Texas right now with the rest of Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana coming later this year.
Just weather balloons carrying a transcevier.
The technology for the electronics is here, just adapt it for the purpose. Keeping the platfrom in the air for months at a time, there's the problem.
Anyway, this is the only company I've seen that is already providing this type of service (not exactly broadband, yet).
If the Library caries all the different Linux distros, how long before SCO sues them?
This could end Libraries, the humanity!
Think of the children!
I would think that Open Office would be nice though.
I use Opera and do not have a problem with spyware. The Mozilla products also seem to prevent this crap.
IE by far has the greatest problems by far. It is also the most useless browser out. Pop up blocking and tabbed browsing from the other browsers make IE feel like a horse-and-buggy (emphasis on "buggy") era browser whilst the others are years ahead.
Maybe that little shop called, what is it? Yeah, Microsoft, will get its act together one day and make something of themselves.
The less said about Tucson, the better!
The only descent thing in Tucson is the Pima Air Musuem. Without that, it would be about the same as El Paso. But not as sophisticated.
Watch out Arizona? Woo Hoo! Five years of drought and counting.
Without a doubt, we here in Phoenix may already be living on borrowed time. Water here is pulled from 3 sources. Groundwater, as you mentioned, reservoirs on the Salt and Verde Rivers, and from the Colorado River via the Central Arizona Project.
For goundwater, the aquifer is dropping. As a result, we are banking water from the Colorado River from the States allotment by pumping it back into the aquifer. Actually holding water for other States that are not talking their full allotment (Nevada and Utah if I remember). The point of that is to take our full amount of water every year so that California doesn't try and lay claim to the water. Of course, at some point the other States are going to want their water back.
We have also had a drought going on five years or so now. Roosevelt Lake on the salt River was running at 1/3 to 1/4 capacity lately, and Horseshoe Lake is about dry also. Saguaro, Canyon, and Apache Lakes on the Salt River are not drawn down, yet. On the Verde River, Horseshoe was drawn down but Bartlett is still full. We really need at least five or six really wet years to pull out of the drought. Most of this water comes from the Winter snowpack in Northern Arizona. If youu see news this Summer about large fires in North Central Az, then it was most likely a dry Winter.
The canals in Phoenix that were dug over 100 years ago were actually following canals that had been dug by a Indian tribe which we call the Hohokam (they used sharpened sticks to break up the ground before carrying it away). They had extensive irrigation in the Valley where Phoenix now sits for agriculture. They disappeared about 100 years before Coloumbus arrived in the New World. They may have disappeared because of drought or their crops failed (the Salt River is called that for a reason), we do not know why.
Phoenix might just dry up and blow away, soon!
For an industry based on creativity, they have shown a total lack of imagination. Napster popped on the scene over 4 years ago, that deafing sound you hear is the lack of any online offering from the major record labels.
What have they done to increase sales?
-Sue their customers.
-Bring lawsuits against P2P companies.
-Develop weak and laughable DRM.
-Pay politicians to pass legislation to make music trading a felony.
-Lose a class-action lawsuit about gouging customers (I got my $12 check, what about you.)
-Try and pass a tax on blank CD-R's.
-Not give customers what they want, ie, decent music at a reasonable price and allow fair use.
What else am I forgetting? This looks like an industry in the last gasps of despairation.
And they are still trying to pass the same crap on consumers that they were last year.
Yeah, these folks are real creative. They are standing on the edge of an abyss, and are going to take a bold step forward.
You are forgetting that Corporations had trained "security forces". People walking picket lines got their skulls caved in, or were simply outright killed (look at the way Ford Motor Company, and GM went after strikers in the early 1900's). This happened many times while police stood by and watched as these "communists", and "anarchists" were shot and beaten by company employees.
This is a big reason why many Unions later on took a more extreme postion, and at times, violence against Corporations and their goons. They felt that it is better to fight back then just lay down and die.
The Slashdot crowd best look at the history of Unions in the 19th and 20th centuries to better understand where we are today.
What do you have to thank Unions for? How about:
-40 hour work week (not that employees today get this)
-Paid vactions
-Health Insurance
-Pensions
-Workplace safety
All things your freinds in Corporations have fought against or ignored time and again.
Organized crime did become involved with the labor Unions in the 1950's because they saw the potential to skim money from the membership, no secret there. The members were victims of abuse from the mobsters too.
Consider that people working in similar jobs, ones that have Union representation generally have higher pay, more time off, and better working conditions.
Corporations and our Government have done a great job in stripping rights away from workers and shifting them to employers. Unions are not as strong as they once were, and when was the last time you heard of violence from Labor Unions?
Employees will always do better for themselves if they work together for the good of all. Unions are not perfect, as I am not perfect, and you are not perfect, and Corporations are not perfect. You would be better off joining in a group than going it alone.
Trade and Labor Unions many times offer health insurance, training, pensions, legal advice, and other services to the membership that many companies or Governmental agencies do not provide. The Unions try to do what they can for the membership but are being increasingly marginalized in today's society. Corporations firing strikers, Federal Government ordering strikers back to work, and people with attitudes like yours puts Unions at a disadvantage.
For years, Corporations have been engaged in illegal and immoral operations. Such as, knowingly selling defective products, dumping toxic waste, ignoring workplace safety rules, gouging consumers, hiding income to not pay taxes, lying to government regulators, lying to shareholders, and much more that I can't remember or just don't know about. Being "asked" to train your replacement, or losing all benefits is about as disgusting and degrading a thing as can be done to a employee.
Consider if YOU wish to be a member of a group that if not called a "Corporation", would be a criminal organization (Enron, Tyco, Worldcom, Parmalat, etc., ect.).
GPL does allow someone to take code and profit off of it, as long as they release the source code. Simple, right?
Placing the code under GPL helps to build the code for the benefit for all and is less restrictive than propriatary means. The companies using the code without agreeing to the GPL are in violation of copyright law, period.
If the companies in question do not agree to the GPL, than do not use the code.
You are blaming the victim here for "asking for it".
And yes, you did mean to stir up a hornets nest.
http://www.unix.org/what_is_unix/history_timeline. html
SVRx stands for System V Release x. It just means any release of the AT&T System V code base that Novell purchased from USL.
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http://www.unix.org/what_is_unix/history_timeli
My God man, It should be obvious that more research must be done. Years of research on oral sex with thousands of women performing it dozens of times a day. Double blind studies, published papers with peer review, repeating studies to ensure their scientific validity, grants.
I would be willing to sacrific to be involved in say, a ten year study.
This kind of thing could get science geeks laid for decades... I mean "advance scientific knowledge". Yeah, scientific knowledge.
Wrong.
Sublimation is a well known process where ice can go to a vapor state without becoming a liquid first.
This is first year chemistry stuff!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublimation
I always had a great time as a kid playing with my Legos. Never had all of the specialized bricks that I see now, diddn't stop us from making spacships, cars, houses, heilcopters, and other assorted thing to blow up. Getting back to the basics that made it such a great idea to begin with shoud help.
Of course, I also liked the various lengths of 2x4's that I played with too (padded suit lumber swat anyone?).
Lead wallet? What? Are you new here? You want a tinfoil wallet!
Damn kids!
Casinos offer commemorative or souvenier chips for people to purchase. These are real gaming chips that can be used for playing games in that casino. My friend "bought" some last month in Laughlin at the Ramada Express (they were for a Rally race held there), they even sold him some hard plastic cases to protect the chips in. Also,the cashiers' cages are not anywhere near the entrances in Las Vegas and Laughlin casinos, and no one stops you from leaving to search for chips. Would not be surprised to find out that there are tens of millions of dollars worth of casino chips in peoples' homes across USA. No skin off the casinos back really. This looks like it is going to be used to prevent counterfiets and employee theft, for now anyway. (Designing my new tinfoil chip carrier.)