Is the street lighting, road markings, and junctions a result of regulations or industry 'best practices'?
Yes, there are regulations for all of that, and if you want to see a cluster fuck, visit a country where there are none, or if there are, they are not enforces (India and Philippines come to mind)
Yeah, fresh means not too aged. I don't think I ever got more than 4 - 4.5 hours. Of course it is a quad core i7, with 16G ram too (makes photoshop sweet). It is a 2011 vintage, and I am on my second battery.
The last decent Windows laptop I had was a Dell Latitude D620. Solid, well build, and while not the fastest thing, it just chugged along. The HP I have now for work is pathetic.
My Macbook pro has 16G, a SSD in the main HD spot, and I replaced the optical drive with a 750G Seagate 7500RPM drive. It is still my media server, and I do heavy photoshop work on it, but I don't miss the fact that I got about 2 hours of battery life (even with a fresh battery in it) before I started hunting for a power outlet.
The MBA is definitely an experiment, but I haven't missed the ethernet port or the FW2 port so far. I can't remember the last time I needed an optical drive (ok, well, recently I had to burn a firmware CD for my BluRay player).
And I love it. I get about 2 - 3 days of average use out of the battery (home use, after work, on the couch, 3 - 4 hours each night). I get an honest 12 hours from the battery with normal use. Snappy, and very usable. I thought I would miss my macbook pro, but I really don't.
I am not a programmer, but I did something similarly dumb. I was trying to unmount a drive I had mounted on my powerbook, and typed the command wrong. It was very quickly deleting everything in our finance server until I pulled the ethernet cable.
I ran to the IT group and explained what happened. They were surprised that I could even do a mass delete, as I didn't have permissions to do that. They were very understanding, and just pulled it back off of the tape from the night before. And told me not to do that again (I learned my lesson)
Does yours work? Mine (Dell Latitude, 2010 vintage) and now HP Elitebook has this port, and while it will mount up a esata drive, it very quickly stops working. I have to fall back to USB which blows.
Not replying to your point (I agree by the way). But your username is awesome. Probably the first SciFi I read was Stranger in a Strange Land. Brought a smile to my face to read your ID.
Also, do you turn on your camera while in the bathroom? What tablet or smartphone BY DESIGN always is listening through the mic and monitoring the camera?
No, they often don't do it for the money. They are driven to have more power, more public exposure, more success. I find that those people are even more asshole like, than those who just do it for the bucks.
Actually, you will be amazed at what almost every company does today in their background checks. You need to care about your GPA for a lot longer than 15 years ago or so.
Undoing my moderation to comment on this. I was similar (although, I raced motorcycles for a while and have a few broken bones to show for it) until one morning when I was 44. At the time I was running 30+ miles a week, cycling 40 - 50 a week, and spending time in the gym as well. Then bam. Heart attack. Full on myocardio infarction, complete blockage of my right coronary artery.
Ambulance ride, emergency room at the hospital, to the catheter lab, got a stent, and 16 weeks of rehab. Total bill just shy of $100K. For the rest of my life I get to watch what I eat, and take some really fun medications (nothing like the beta blockers and the anticoagulants.) Fortunately, at the time, we had pretty good coverage from my job. Where I am at now, I have a HDHP, and I sock a shedload of money into my HSA for just such an event.
There are tons of electron microscopes in the 120K range. Look up "Jeol InTouchScope" to see what 120K buys you these days.
Yes, there are a lot of research SEMs from $300K up to $3M, but the volume business is (I am a product manager for an instrumentation company that sells SEM's and other high end imaging systems.)
It's been a long time since I was in semiconductor capital equipment, but $2M isn't a large tool price. It sound high to us mere mortals, but it is really not in the realm of Semi Capital equipment.
I know that mask inspection tools can cost $30+M, and that E-Beam writers are nearly as expensive. A litho track is also a very expensive piece of equipment.
When I was in the game, there was one company that used tools with an embedded DOS system that only read recipes off single density, single sided floppies. Even then we scrounged to find them.
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I am guessing that the fact I am browsing (and posting) on this thread, I will get a visit from the po-po.
Does anybody still use Skydrive?
Is the street lighting, road markings, and junctions a result of regulations or industry 'best practices'?
Yes, there are regulations for all of that, and if you want to see a cluster fuck, visit a country where there are none, or if there are, they are not enforces (India and Philippines come to mind)
Yeah, fresh means not too aged. I don't think I ever got more than 4 - 4.5 hours. Of course it is a quad core i7, with 16G ram too (makes photoshop sweet). It is a 2011 vintage, and I am on my second battery.
The last decent Windows laptop I had was a Dell Latitude D620. Solid, well build, and while not the fastest thing, it just chugged along. The HP I have now for work is pathetic.
My Macbook pro has 16G, a SSD in the main HD spot, and I replaced the optical drive with a 750G Seagate 7500RPM drive. It is still my media server, and I do heavy photoshop work on it, but I don't miss the fact that I got about 2 hours of battery life (even with a fresh battery in it) before I started hunting for a power outlet.
The MBA is definitely an experiment, but I haven't missed the ethernet port or the FW2 port so far. I can't remember the last time I needed an optical drive (ok, well, recently I had to burn a firmware CD for my BluRay player).
And I love it. I get about 2 - 3 days of average use out of the battery (home use, after work, on the couch, 3 - 4 hours each night). I get an honest 12 hours from the battery with normal use. Snappy, and very usable. I thought I would miss my macbook pro, but I really don't.
Fuck. You post that on a day I don't have mod points. :-)
I am not a programmer, but I did something similarly dumb. I was trying to unmount a drive I had mounted on my powerbook, and typed the command wrong. It was very quickly deleting everything in our finance server until I pulled the ethernet cable.
I ran to the IT group and explained what happened. They were surprised that I could even do a mass delete, as I didn't have permissions to do that. They were very understanding, and just pulled it back off of the tape from the night before. And told me not to do that again (I learned my lesson)
Does yours work? Mine (Dell Latitude, 2010 vintage) and now HP Elitebook has this port, and while it will mount up a esata drive, it very quickly stops working. I have to fall back to USB which blows.
Not replying to your point (I agree by the way). But your username is awesome. Probably the first SciFi I read was Stranger in a Strange Land. Brought a smile to my face to read your ID.
Also, do you turn on your camera while in the bathroom? What tablet or smartphone BY DESIGN always is listening through the mic and monitoring the camera?
Um, the one that is controlled by the NSA?
Don't forget the speculation that he is gay.
Wiping out my moderation for this:
No, they often don't do it for the money. They are driven to have more power, more public exposure, more success. I find that those people are even more asshole like, than those who just do it for the bucks.
Actually, you will be amazed at what almost every company does today in their background checks. You need to care about your GPA for a lot longer than 15 years ago or so.
Yes, really. Same here. (late 70's - early 80's)
Undoing my moderation to comment on this. I was similar (although, I raced motorcycles for a while and have a few broken bones to show for it) until one morning when I was 44. At the time I was running 30+ miles a week, cycling 40 - 50 a week, and spending time in the gym as well. Then bam. Heart attack. Full on myocardio infarction, complete blockage of my right coronary artery.
Ambulance ride, emergency room at the hospital, to the catheter lab, got a stent, and 16 weeks of rehab. Total bill just shy of $100K. For the rest of my life I get to watch what I eat, and take some really fun medications (nothing like the beta blockers and the anticoagulants.) Fortunately, at the time, we had pretty good coverage from my job. Where I am at now, I have a HDHP, and I sock a shedload of money into my HSA for just such an event.
I think I recognize the thinking of Slippery Jim DeGriz in that. Ah, the stainless steel rat, one of my favorites.
There are tons of electron microscopes in the 120K range. Look up "Jeol InTouchScope" to see what 120K buys you these days.
Yes, there are a lot of research SEMs from $300K up to $3M, but the volume business is
(I am a product manager for an instrumentation company that sells SEM's and other high end imaging systems.)
Truth. I remember my wife being rocket fast at force quitting and restarting applications that borked. Freaked me out.
Yep, the good ol' Burger Equation. Where I learned about Shock Wave solutions to nonlinear diffy eq's
Oh, my kingdom for modpoints. This.
The Elegant Universe
The Fabric of the Cosmos
Anybody who can use The Simpsons to illustrate special relativity is a win in my book. Both should be tractable by a motivated middle school student.
I would avoid SciFi. Not a lot of true science in there.
It's been a long time since I was in semiconductor capital equipment, but $2M isn't a large tool price. It sound high to us mere mortals, but it is really not in the realm of Semi Capital equipment.
I know that mask inspection tools can cost $30+M, and that E-Beam writers are nearly as expensive. A litho track is also a very expensive piece of equipment.
When I was in the game, there was one company that used tools with an embedded DOS system that only read recipes off single density, single sided floppies. Even then we scrounged to find them.
My kingdom for a mod point.