As to your Budweiser example. I have hand brewed beer. Small variances in quality and quantity of the ingredients can have a surprisingly large effect on the final taste of the beer.
It is truly amazing that the budweiser that comes out of each brewery is so consistent, batch to batch, site to site. Their process control must rival Intel's, albeit in a different industry.
Since I had my heart attack, I am pretty much limited to light beer, and "bud light" is usually what I drink. Consistent (watery too:-() but tolerable.
Yup. I was a satisfied T-Mobile user until my employer made me switch to AT&T (corporate discounts and all). T-Mobile had great customer service, and seemed to care about me and fixed any issues I had pronto.
However, their coverage is mediocre, and they leverage a lot of AT&T's cell sites for their coverage, so you get the same shitty performance as AT&T where they are oversubscribed...
Perhaps they have gotten better, but I suspect that is still true today
Don't forget the proper formatting and typesetting (even in ebooks), else they look like crap. Many of the "free" options, or very low cost books like much like badly photocopied political pamphlets.
Yep, and nope, it wasn't the phone connection. The phone connects via IMAP, and its connections all source from my home state (when I am not traveling). The TX connections were POP3 (I do not ever use POP3) and had odd times of access.
my only sin was that I haven't cycled the gmail password in a couple of years (lazy). Now it is a randomly generated 20 character password from KeePass. Took me 10 minutes to memorize it.
Ding. We have a winner. Orbital calculations, and optimizing on burn, delta-v and minimizing fuel consumption is really hard. I took a celestial mechanics course as part of my graduate work in Physics, and while I was really good at analytical solutions where they could be achieved, the aerospace engineers who couldn't solve a closed form integral equation to save their lives, could give outstanding solutions for Hohmann transfer orbits, LEO mechanics solutions, and many harebrained options. I was amazed at their creativity, while I was grinding really hard for closed form analytical solutions.
This is brilliant stuff, and their creativity of minimizing the burns yet extending the mission is way cool.
I think Arizona would give California a run for the money on the shittiest roads. I have to get the alignment reset on my S2000 about 2x a year here. Avoiding wheel swallowing potholes is a full time occupation, and in the 7 years I have been here, my wife and I have had 5 windshields replaced due to rock's kicked up.
Compared to California, where I lived for 38 years, and drove for 22 of them, I never replaced or repaired a windshield...
Don't worry, my critters in AZ are trying really hard to test this theory and follow your example. (although, they are slashing education budgets first).
Depends on the drugs, and what crappy insurance you have. I would love to use Allegra for my allergy medicine, but since my heatlh insurance says that there are equivalent or better OTC drugs (claritin is not better, regardless of what they say), the co-pay on Allegra went from $10 a month to $135 a month.
Pray you don't get an early heart attack like I have had. I am pretty much a "must stay in the corporate rat race" guy now. I am pretty much un-insurable, regardless of how well I have recovered, on the open market. My Plavix monthly is $200, add in my Metropolol, my simvastatin, and my lisinopril and I will have a $500 a month habit if I didn't have coverage
the shitty thing is that I don't smoke, I am not overweight, and I exercise 5-6 days a week.
Wow. Flash back. Graduate program in Physics. Jackson was THE text for Classical Electrodynamics. My prof knew that everyone bought the solution guide, so we used Panofsky & Phillips. Problem solved. Of course I graduated before the Web was really in existence.
I did some mentoring of young "physics" inclined students, and it was real hard for them when I said that I physically went to the library, looked up the locations of books at the CARD CATALOG and then navigated to the floor/section/row/shelf to find the book to read.
Naturally, they couldn't relate, at all. To them, the library is the warm, quiet place where they use their computers to research and do their classwork.
Wow, a lot has changes in the 22 years since I graduated from university.
Laptops didn't exist yet (unless you mean the Osborne "portable"), and there weren't powerpoint slide decks for class lectures to download. The Professors would walk into class, open their notes, and then start deriving on the chalk board (no whiteboards when I was in college either.
In face one of the best profs I had was for PDE's. He would walk in, open up the text to remind himself where he was, close it, and write all the derivations from memory and his knowledge. One smart dude.
I would take notes during class in pencil, and then manually recopy them later in the day to reinforce my understanding. I would also not just blindly copy things down from the board, but work through the logic and steps in the interim, and many times caught errors in the professor's work. But I just studied Physics, so...
Or, you can live in Tucson, AZ and for the one day every 2 years that there is enough moisture to make ice, your AMX card will clear your windshield for you.
Programmers are about the only kind who feel that putting a half-finished thing out for the public is the thing to do.
Wow, you hit the nail on the proverbial head there.
I am a product manager. I firmly believe in not releasing half baked product, and "banana" products (you know, they "ripen" in the field). But I am under extreme pressure from senior managers to release earlier, and to communicate what is coming in the pipeline way too early.
I applaud that Apple has the discipline to limit outbound communications until the launch.
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As to your Budweiser example. I have hand brewed beer. Small variances in quality and quantity of the ingredients can have a surprisingly large effect on the final taste of the beer.
It is truly amazing that the budweiser that comes out of each brewery is so consistent, batch to batch, site to site. Their process control must rival Intel's, albeit in a different industry.
Since I had my heart attack, I am pretty much limited to light beer, and "bud light" is usually what I drink. Consistent (watery too :-() but tolerable.
Yup. I was a satisfied T-Mobile user until my employer made me switch to AT&T (corporate discounts and all). T-Mobile had great customer service, and seemed to care about me and fixed any issues I had pronto.
However, their coverage is mediocre, and they leverage a lot of AT&T's cell sites for their coverage, so you get the same shitty performance as AT&T where they are oversubscribed...
Perhaps they have gotten better, but I suspect that is still true today
Don't forget the proper formatting and typesetting (even in ebooks), else they look like crap. Many of the "free" options, or very low cost books like much like badly photocopied political pamphlets.
Dear god, you must work at the same place I left not too long ago. The boss did something just about as bad...
Well, that isn't my only sin, but the only related one... :-)
Yep, and nope, it wasn't the phone connection. The phone connects via IMAP, and its connections all source from my home state (when I am not traveling). The TX connections were POP3 (I do not ever use POP3) and had odd times of access.
my only sin was that I haven't cycled the gmail password in a couple of years (lazy). Now it is a randomly generated 20 character password from KeePass. Took me 10 minutes to memorize it.
And I had a pretty secure password. Now it is much more secure.
I got lucky, noticed the odd activity (from Texas no less) and jumped all over fixing it.
Ding. We have a winner. Orbital calculations, and optimizing on burn, delta-v and minimizing fuel consumption is really hard. I took a celestial mechanics course as part of my graduate work in Physics, and while I was really good at analytical solutions where they could be achieved, the aerospace engineers who couldn't solve a closed form integral equation to save their lives, could give outstanding solutions for Hohmann transfer orbits, LEO mechanics solutions, and many harebrained options. I was amazed at their creativity, while I was grinding really hard for closed form analytical solutions.
This is brilliant stuff, and their creativity of minimizing the burns yet extending the mission is way cool.
I think Arizona would give California a run for the money on the shittiest roads. I have to get the alignment reset on my S2000 about 2x a year here. Avoiding wheel swallowing potholes is a full time occupation, and in the 7 years I have been here, my wife and I have had 5 windshields replaced due to rock's kicked up.
Compared to California, where I lived for 38 years, and drove for 22 of them, I never replaced or repaired a windshield...
Don't worry, my critters in AZ are trying really hard to test this theory and follow your example. (although, they are slashing education budgets first).
Depends on the drugs, and what crappy insurance you have. I would love to use Allegra for my allergy medicine, but since my heatlh insurance says that there are equivalent or better OTC drugs (claritin is not better, regardless of what they say), the co-pay on Allegra went from $10 a month to $135 a month.
Pray you don't get an early heart attack like I have had. I am pretty much a "must stay in the corporate rat race" guy now. I am pretty much un-insurable, regardless of how well I have recovered, on the open market. My Plavix monthly is $200, add in my Metropolol, my simvastatin, and my lisinopril and I will have a $500 a month habit if I didn't have coverage
the shitty thing is that I don't smoke, I am not overweight, and I exercise 5-6 days a week.
bad genes
Wow. Flash back. Graduate program in Physics. Jackson was THE text for Classical Electrodynamics. My prof knew that everyone bought the solution guide, so we used Panofsky & Phillips. Problem solved. Of course I graduated before the Web was really in existence.
I really learned E&M...
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I did some mentoring of young "physics" inclined students, and it was real hard for them when I said that I physically went to the library, looked up the locations of books at the CARD CATALOG and then navigated to the floor/section/row/shelf to find the book to read.
Naturally, they couldn't relate, at all. To them, the library is the warm, quiet place where they use their computers to research and do their classwork.
boy, I feel old...
Wow, a lot has changes in the 22 years since I graduated from university.
Laptops didn't exist yet (unless you mean the Osborne "portable"), and there weren't powerpoint slide decks for class lectures to download. The Professors would walk into class, open their notes, and then start deriving on the chalk board (no whiteboards when I was in college either.
In face one of the best profs I had was for PDE's. He would walk in, open up the text to remind himself where he was, close it, and write all the derivations from memory and his knowledge. One smart dude.
I would take notes during class in pencil, and then manually recopy them later in the day to reinforce my understanding. I would also not just blindly copy things down from the board, but work through the logic and steps in the interim, and many times caught errors in the professor's work. But I just studied Physics, so ...
At noon, on the equator, without any clouds, the solar radiation is ~ 1366 watts/m^2
Anywhere else, it is less than that.
Amen brother. Scream it from the rooftops.
Or, you can live in Tucson, AZ and for the one day every 2 years that there is enough moisture to make ice, your AMX card will clear your windshield for you.
Programmers are about the only kind who feel that putting a half-finished thing out for the public is the thing to do.
Wow, you hit the nail on the proverbial head there.
I am a product manager. I firmly believe in not releasing half baked product, and "banana" products (you know, they "ripen" in the field). But I am under extreme pressure from senior managers to release earlier, and to communicate what is coming in the pipeline way too early.
I applaud that Apple has the discipline to limit outbound communications until the launch.
Oh, my world for some mod points.
Less bias? snort. Opposite bias, yes, but not less bias.
Some damn fine instruments there. About on par with my Tom Anderson. I would love to own and play a Musicman
Sheesh, I remember token ring. Slickest thing since sliced bread.
Dayum, I WISH I was moderating today...
Did he also mention something about Soylent Green?