The environmentalists need to learn to quit when they achieve "good enough".
And that point will be reached when all emissions are accounted for. There's no good reason why that can't be the case, heat aside. And even heat emissions should be managed.
Please inform me of how you intent to break several laws of physics. It is impossible to make a power station without having a heat sink and dumping the heat somewhere. This is thermodynamics 101. Likewise, capturing ALL the emissions would require more energy than the power station creates!
If you are thinking about carbon capture- don't. Nobody has proved it on a large scale. The largest projects I have heard of divert a tiny (~1-5) percentage of the exhaust gas from a test (small) power station. All the major OEMs have lots of trouble even with this small proof of concept, and no meaningful advancements have been made in years. From my point of view, carbon capture is a ruse to get governments to funnel truckloads of cash to utilities and equipment manufacturers. Carbon capture carries a huge parasitic loss, an inefficiency which if applied on a large scale would wastefully use up even more fossil fuels.
For three, coal works efficiently and predictably at far smaller scale than most energy technologies. Many of the locations coal services today cannot be practically services by other generation methods.
I think you have that backwards. Coal plants under around 250MW are generally not profitable, and a vast majority of this size have been shut down already. The bar is moving towards 500MW as being economically viable. I can count the number of new coal stations in the US build in the past 5 years on one hand. Compare that to the 1970's when a new coal plant was being built every month. The environmentalists need to learn to quit when they achieve "good enough". Coal today is just as clean as other forms of energy when you factor in all the externalities. Those externalities come in different forms however and it is easy to count 1 form of environmental damage when comparing power plants while ignoring others.
No, client funds are not company funds. If you run a parking lot and a car gets stolen from the lot you're not liable for replacing the car. You might get that liabilty if your valet wrecked the car, but not in general. Same with deposit boxes, storage lockers, mail packages and so on if you want to get your money back in case of theft you need insurance. Which is what FDIC is for bank accounts. No insurance, then you might not even have a claim against MtGox. First you'd have to take them to court and win to make them liable for damages. And even if you do, well there won't be any money to collect there anyway.
In accounting, generally deposit accounts with customer money are considered liabilities. If a depositor shows up and asks for their money, you are obligated to give it to them. You seem to be confusing legal liability (a "duty of care" to do or not do something) with financial liability (an obligation which must be paid back).
Mt. Gox didn't have storage boxes without knowledge of what was inside them (safe deposit box analogy). They had computerized accounts for each customer, with money in each account. Regardless of whether they were a "bank" they were holding money for other people and that money is a liability in the financial sense.
The tricky bit is that they are valuing bitcoins at something around $100 per BTC, but all the other exchanges are around the $500 per BTC mark. I've only taken beginning level accounting but that could get them in trouble if they don't report it correctly.
Except that in many areas you most likely could not find a local CE that was also a certified PE to do the engineering work necessary, theres lots of small areas in the US that have no engineering firms at all. You probably could not legally do the work without a certified PE or else the local government would be at fault when the bridge collapses and kills people
The most highly educated, doctors, engineers, etc, are going to be mainly focused around urban centers. Im not saying its not a nice idea, for small little community actions, party planning, things that dont require actual expertise this will work wonderfully. But for things that require an actual college education en-mass to do the work, it just cant happen in alot of america
Most civil engineers get a PE at some point. It is basically required for them to do their jobs. When I sat for the test it appeared to be 60% civil engineers, 25% land surveyors, and 15% electrical/mechanical engineers. I talked to a few and they said that without the PE, job progression beyond entry level drafting work was impossible.
The kickstarter was in August 2012 and all they seem to have done since then is spend kickstarter / VC money and repeatedly redesign thier product as newer technologies become available / cheaper. Still no date for actually shipping a product.
It's less than two years since the funding was approved. You sound like VS's with no prior experience of hardware development.
The "couple of months" between project start to functional hardware is for when a product already is mature and you are going for a mall improvement.
For a product like this? As far as I know they are still in prototyping. The certification process needed to sell it to consumers in large scale haven't even started. It is waaay to early to give a shipping date. Even if they finalize the design now they won't be done with the paperwork until the end of the year. Don't expect a shipping date until 2015.
The problem for them with this kickstarter/open approach is that everybody knows their progress. A private company can keep this kind of R&D project under wraps until the last minute. Microsoft or Sony could be developing something very similar but we won't know until they choose to release that information. Because Occulus Rift development is open and seems to be carefully plodding along, I would keep that kind of project secret since revealing it might spur Occulus to hurry up and release something. A private company could catch Occulus with their pants down.
Sanctum 2 - Tower defense PLUS co-operative FPS. I had it on my steam wish list forever until it went on sale but I regret not buying it sooner.
It is a little rough in places but still a great game.
Witness statements. If "Give me your phone!" is the first thing the mugger says, he probably was after the phone. If the conversation instead goes:
Mugger: Give me your wallet
(Victim hands it over)
Mugger: Hey there isn't any cash! Give me your shoes/jacket/watch/whatever else you have
They were probably mugging in general, and the phone was just part of the haul.
Its clear that IE 10 and IE 11 improved on security. But with so many still using XP and even some using Vista. Both of which cannot run either IE10 or IE11. Microsoft has created a large group of Windows users who simply cannot use a secure IE. The fact enterprise is a big part of XP users also means they are most likely using IE8 or IE9 rather then a more secure and modern browser like Firefox or Chrome. I am not a IE hater but think for many reasons including security. Microsoft should disconnect IE from the OS. Or simply retire IE altogether.
This is going to change in the next couple of years. I work for a very large company stuck on XP. The costs we pay to support and secure XP are exorbitantly high and increasing. We plan to switch to Windows 7 this year. Of course, this date will almost certainly slip, but it will probably be done by the end of 2015.
If the numbers are compelling enough to make us switch, they are undoubtedly compelling to other corporate XP users as well.
If the Internet is killing newspapers, why isn't it killing this dead tree company?
When people stop buying newspapers, they fire the reporters and news correspondants.
When people stop buying scientific journals (and electronic access to such), it doesn't matter. There are still hundreds of professors lined up around the block to try to get published, since it is basically required for them to earn tenure. Anytime you have a barrier to career advancement, the people who own that barrier have a near monopoly and can charge whatever the market will bear. And the market of people trying to advance their career will bear a lot.
But there are many science and engineering jobs with poor pay. Pay for postdocs is low, and shamefully low for grad students taking on teaching fellowships. Internships are another. New or near grads who may already be burdened with massive student loan debt are sold a bill of goods, told that part of their pay is the "valuable" experience they gain, and this justifies paying them a pittance, or even nothing at all-- the infamous unpaid internship.
Reflects the demand. The market for doctorates or even masters degrees in engineering just isn't that high. Many companies value a master's degree in engineering as having 0 added value. On the other side, Academia is all about the grant money, and there is a finite amount of that. If those skills were in high demand, the payback on the degree would be good. It isn't, and they aren't.
I wouldn't be so sure. Recent modelling to update the 'nuclear winter' theory has not only shown that the theory is most likely valid, but actually far worse than the model that the Soviets and US came up with in the 1980s. Our current best modelling shows that even a hypothetical regional exchange with as few as 50 Nagasaki-sized weapons on each side between India and Pakistan would cause a "nuclear autumn" bad enough to cause famine in many countries, and a growing season shortened by 60 days the first year after this hypothetical war.
An exchange using the remaining weapons of the former Soviet Union and the United States - well, nuclear winter is a misnomer. Nuclear six month long night is a better description. Daytime lighting conditions in the aftermath of such an exchange would reach no more than that of a moonlit night. Continental temperatures would fall very low, and if this hypothetical war were to happen in the growing season, that's all of your food gone. Water would be hard to get as it would be frozen over. Coastal areas would be milder, but be lashed by constant violent storms due to the temperature difference to the extremely cold inland temperatures. Since the soot would be lofted to the stratosphere, there is no mechanism that will rapidly bring it down and the climatic effects would last long enough that the decade after the war would be a truly miserable experience, and most likely fatal. Those who managed to survive this would then have to deal with a world with no ozone layer and no manufacturing industry to make sunblock. Growing crops would be extremely difficult in those conditions.
We have detonated over 1800 nuclear bombs in the last 60 years. Most of these were bigger than the Nagasaki bomb, in many cases many many times bigger. If what you claim is possible it would have already happened.
In the USAF (my employer - I'm a former Active Duty civilian), Operational Flying and the career fields that support it are doing quite well, and those that fail to make Major or have some other issue are pushed to UAVs. But yes, as some Lt or Captain in a bunker, you might want to plan an "after-USAF" career. We'll probably always have nukes, but it's a small career field getting smaller with no analog on the "outside".
Think wider. There will always need to be some cross-training done, but 'sits in a bunker waiting to act' does actually cover a number of fields. 911 operator, for example. The cheating is very bad, but for somebody with at clean record and at least a Bachelour's, 911 mostly consists of waiting in a building for a phone call, then working through checklists on the basis of the phone call. Dispachers, sitting watch on non-critical bits of nuclear plants(or getting the training TO sit the critical watches), etc...
Power plant operators need to be highly skilled with a strong technical backround. There are often checklists but often there is no time to refer to them, even in routine day-to-day operations. They need to take swift action with initiative in many cases, and millions of dollars of equipment is at stake. "Someone who can follow a checklist" doesn't cut it.
I have seen a lot of ex-navy guys in these roles, and they don't quite cut it IMO. The navy of the 1940s/1950s probably turned out knowledgable engineers, but with today's contractor-heavy military, if something breaks they usually rely on the backups and a contractor swaps out the broken equipment when they get back to port.
Why would you buy 500 snowplows and salt trucks and have them sit around for 1,000 days, waiting for the next event?""
That's why you repurpose existing equipment. Snowplows themselves aren't a huge investment, and they last basically forever with little maintenance. Put a clause in your purchasing specs that all newly purchased garbage trucks and DOT dump trucks must have hookups for a plow. Retrofitting is expensive but if you're buying a truck anyway, the additional cost isn't much. Even dump trucks without special spreading equipment can be used; some dump trucks have small sliding gates on the main gate like this one. This is normally used for shoveling out small quantities of asphalt when patching roads, but in a pinch you could open them up and spread salt/sand on the road. Get creative! Making plans is cheap.
and i mean the ones that sell the same device over many years like a game console. PS3, xbox 360, wii u, nintendo 3ds, etc
and then you have something like printers. sure it's only $100 or $250 but no one wants to buy a new printer just to buy a new wifi router
If you want to gain the advantages of the newest router you might, GASP, just have to run a wire to it. You might even have the inconvenience of having to relocate it next to the printer. Oh the humanity.
Things that absolutely need wireless tend to be mobile. Mobile equipment which only takes 802.11b was probably obsolete years ago. For everything that doesn't move, it should be wired anyway.
Whats so special about 30th anniversary? Is 30 some kind of magic number?
I believe in western culture that 25th anniversary is a special celebration for married couples, (silver) and also 50th (gold)
And some cultures have special significance of 15th bithday, and/or 21st birthday
It is roughly a generation. I've gone back in my family tree about 20 generations and 30 years is just about the average difference between parents and child. Yes, even back in medeival times.
I suppose you could consider it special because it means that people who grew up with computers of that era are now buying pocket supercomputers for their children.
Doesn't using the phrase "an immigrant would be required to 'live and work' in Detroit for an undetermined length of time" sound a lot like an indentured labour program?
Yes. This whole idea is completely contrary to the American ideal of immigration. A permanent resident visa should is, should be, and always has been, for the entire country. You should no more be able to stop immigrants from moving anywhere in the country they want, than you should citizens. Something about the Constitution making this a united country, and the federal government controlling immigration.
No, it actually isn't that much of a stretch. We have visas that tie residency to a certain company sponsoring the visa. If you change companies before citizenship becomes available, the new company has to sponsor you (which many companies don't care to do). So effectively the person is tied to that company in most cases. Tying a person to a specific geographical area isn't that much of a reach, but it is a terrible idea. Each desperate location will offer bigger and bigger incentives, create a race to the bottom, and the immigration system will be even worse than now.
There is a huge difference between making a law and applying a law, obviously. This is just standards, not what you will actually find when you measure.
But here you go:
Tell me about it - next to your air quality limits, here are the actual figures for High-tech zone, Shijiazhuang at http://aqicn.org/.
China:
SO2: 20ug/m^3 (60 in urban areas) - actual 60
NOx: 50ug/m^3 - actual 73
PM10: 40ug/m^3 (70 in urban areas) - actual 546!!!!!!!
Ozone: 160 ug/m^3 - actual 3
CO: 10000 ug/m^3 - actual 0
Note that this is a point-in-time value. So, the laws are actually somewhat better than the US, but apparently nobody follows the law.
Not sure I believe this. I can't imagine how you get PM that high without a lot of CO too. The only way I can think of would be using a leafblower (an electric one) on a pile of dust.
For the past 11 years, I used nothing but Seagate drives in my builds for clients.
Over those past 11 years, I built something like 20 systems a month (on average) with occasional large scale orders of 200.
The number of failed Seagates I could count *on one hand*
YMMV clearly, but I stand behind Seagates.
Some of this may be peculiar to where you are sourcing your drives from and how carefully they ship. The same drive on Amazon vs Newegg usually has dramatically different ratings. I don't think the hard drive vendors are making drives of different quality for different retailers, but the retailers definitely have different packing and shipping standards.
Consider my response to that: "Oh, I already know how it's doing. I did my research on your company. I want to know if you know how your own company's stock's doing, and how your view of it matches up with the analysts' take on your company.". If the interviewer's willing to BS me about the company's performance and how it's handling itself, what else are they BSing me on? And if they honestly don't realize how their company's performing, I have to wonder whether there's some fundamental dysfunction that I may not want any part of.
This is a terrible question. Any manager who is at all knowledgeable about their own company's stock price is a company I probably don't want to work for. It hints that they put the stock price in high regard, when for the customers and the employees it should be last on their list of things to care about.
Forget fiction. I would like to know how dangerous the Mythbusters think the situation is.
Their tests on trying to create a manhole explosion was really interesting. They found they needed the right mix of air and methane, and a cluttered sewer pipe caused the fire to spread more effectively than a clear pipe.
For example, the 50% concentration mentioned in TFA is way too concentrated to produce a big boom.
Yes but at some point that concentration was zero. Now it is 50%. There must have been a point in the middle where the methane was within the explosive limit. Getting exactly the right conditions for an explosion may be difficult but with thousands of leaks it happens eventually.
However in that I am even doubtful unless they are using very large values for "real" time.
Anyone that has worked with this kind of data will tell you A) it is usually HUGE, and B) marginally compresses. Data has to be sent from satellite to ground. That means transmission. At what speed? Unless they have discovered a way of sending data magically faster than the rest of the world, it is still constrained by that.
Oh yes. Sending realtime video from a satellite to earth is a problem that absolutely nobody can crack. Hint: they aren't imaging the entire planet at 1m resolution at the same time.
So what? Why does the price of bitcoin even matter? Bitcoins strength lies in its ability to be used as a payment processing network -......
Bitcoins power lies in using it as a payment processing network not its price. It does need some more price stability, however, so this crazy speculation needs to stop.
If Bitcoin is too volatile to be useful as a payment method, it is pretty useless. I'm sure you will argue that "as more people use Bitcoin, the volatility will decrease", but historical data shows that to be the opposite of reality. More people use Bitcoin than ever, and it is more volatile than ever. Potentially losing 20% on a currency shift in a transaction is far, far worse than the absolute certainty of paying Visa 2-3% for the same transaction.
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The environmentalists need to learn to quit when they achieve "good enough".
And that point will be reached when all emissions are accounted for. There's no good reason why that can't be the case, heat aside. And even heat emissions should be managed.
Please inform me of how you intent to break several laws of physics. It is impossible to make a power station without having a heat sink and dumping the heat somewhere. This is thermodynamics 101. Likewise, capturing ALL the emissions would require more energy than the power station creates!
If you are thinking about carbon capture- don't. Nobody has proved it on a large scale. The largest projects I have heard of divert a tiny (~1-5) percentage of the exhaust gas from a test (small) power station. All the major OEMs have lots of trouble even with this small proof of concept, and no meaningful advancements have been made in years. From my point of view, carbon capture is a ruse to get governments to funnel truckloads of cash to utilities and equipment manufacturers. Carbon capture carries a huge parasitic loss, an inefficiency which if applied on a large scale would wastefully use up even more fossil fuels.
For three, coal works efficiently and predictably at far smaller scale than most energy technologies. Many of the locations coal services today cannot be practically services by other generation methods.
I think you have that backwards. Coal plants under around 250MW are generally not profitable, and a vast majority of this size have been shut down already. The bar is moving towards 500MW as being economically viable. I can count the number of new coal stations in the US build in the past 5 years on one hand. Compare that to the 1970's when a new coal plant was being built every month. The environmentalists need to learn to quit when they achieve "good enough". Coal today is just as clean as other forms of energy when you factor in all the externalities. Those externalities come in different forms however and it is easy to count 1 form of environmental damage when comparing power plants while ignoring others.
No, client funds are not company funds. If you run a parking lot and a car gets stolen from the lot you're not liable for replacing the car. You might get that liabilty if your valet wrecked the car, but not in general. Same with deposit boxes, storage lockers, mail packages and so on if you want to get your money back in case of theft you need insurance. Which is what FDIC is for bank accounts. No insurance, then you might not even have a claim against MtGox. First you'd have to take them to court and win to make them liable for damages. And even if you do, well there won't be any money to collect there anyway.
In accounting, generally deposit accounts with customer money are considered liabilities. If a depositor shows up and asks for their money, you are obligated to give it to them. You seem to be confusing legal liability (a "duty of care" to do or not do something) with financial liability (an obligation which must be paid back).
Mt. Gox didn't have storage boxes without knowledge of what was inside them (safe deposit box analogy). They had computerized accounts for each customer, with money in each account. Regardless of whether they were a "bank" they were holding money for other people and that money is a liability in the financial sense.
The tricky bit is that they are valuing bitcoins at something around $100 per BTC, but all the other exchanges are around the $500 per BTC mark. I've only taken beginning level accounting but that could get them in trouble if they don't report it correctly.
Except that in many areas you most likely could not find a local CE that was also a certified PE to do the engineering work necessary, theres lots of small areas in the US that have no engineering firms at all. You probably could not legally do the work without a certified PE or else the local government would be at fault when the bridge collapses and kills people
The most highly educated, doctors, engineers, etc, are going to be mainly focused around urban centers. Im not saying its not a nice idea, for small little community actions, party planning, things that dont require actual expertise this will work wonderfully. But for things that require an actual college education en-mass to do the work, it just cant happen in alot of america
Most civil engineers get a PE at some point. It is basically required for them to do their jobs. When I sat for the test it appeared to be 60% civil engineers, 25% land surveyors, and 15% electrical/mechanical engineers. I talked to a few and they said that without the PE, job progression beyond entry level drafting work was impossible.
The kickstarter was in August 2012 and all they seem to have done since then is spend kickstarter / VC money and repeatedly redesign thier product as newer technologies become available / cheaper. Still no date for actually shipping a product.
It's less than two years since the funding was approved. You sound like VS's with no prior experience of hardware development. The "couple of months" between project start to functional hardware is for when a product already is mature and you are going for a mall improvement.
For a product like this? As far as I know they are still in prototyping. The certification process needed to sell it to consumers in large scale haven't even started. It is waaay to early to give a shipping date. Even if they finalize the design now they won't be done with the paperwork until the end of the year. Don't expect a shipping date until 2015.
The problem for them with this kickstarter/open approach is that everybody knows their progress. A private company can keep this kind of R&D project under wraps until the last minute. Microsoft or Sony could be developing something very similar but we won't know until they choose to release that information. Because Occulus Rift development is open and seems to be carefully plodding along, I would keep that kind of project secret since revealing it might spur Occulus to hurry up and release something. A private company could catch Occulus with their pants down.
Sanctum 2 - Tower defense PLUS co-operative FPS. I had it on my steam wish list forever until it went on sale but I regret not buying it sooner. It is a little rough in places but still a great game.
How would you even measure something like that?
Witness statements. If "Give me your phone!" is the first thing the mugger says, he probably was after the phone. If the conversation instead goes:
Mugger: Give me your wallet
(Victim hands it over)
Mugger: Hey there isn't any cash! Give me your shoes/jacket/watch/whatever else you have
They were probably mugging in general, and the phone was just part of the haul.
Telecoms are largely a pyramid scheme these days in terms of actual capacity, and they know it.
Only if you divert excess revenues into upper management's pocket. If they actually invested in infrastructure there wouldn't be a problem.
Its clear that IE 10 and IE 11 improved on security. But with so many still using XP and even some using Vista. Both of which cannot run either IE10 or IE11. Microsoft has created a large group of Windows users who simply cannot use a secure IE. The fact enterprise is a big part of XP users also means they are most likely using IE8 or IE9 rather then a more secure and modern browser like Firefox or Chrome. I am not a IE hater but think for many reasons including security. Microsoft should disconnect IE from the OS. Or simply retire IE altogether.
This is going to change in the next couple of years. I work for a very large company stuck on XP. The costs we pay to support and secure XP are exorbitantly high and increasing. We plan to switch to Windows 7 this year. Of course, this date will almost certainly slip, but it will probably be done by the end of 2015.
If the numbers are compelling enough to make us switch, they are undoubtedly compelling to other corporate XP users as well.
If the Internet is killing newspapers, why isn't it killing this dead tree company?
When people stop buying newspapers, they fire the reporters and news correspondants.
When people stop buying scientific journals (and electronic access to such), it doesn't matter. There are still hundreds of professors lined up around the block to try to get published, since it is basically required for them to earn tenure. Anytime you have a barrier to career advancement, the people who own that barrier have a near monopoly and can charge whatever the market will bear. And the market of people trying to advance their career will bear a lot.
But there are many science and engineering jobs with poor pay. Pay for postdocs is low, and shamefully low for grad students taking on teaching fellowships. Internships are another. New or near grads who may already be burdened with massive student loan debt are sold a bill of goods, told that part of their pay is the "valuable" experience they gain, and this justifies paying them a pittance, or even nothing at all-- the infamous unpaid internship.
Reflects the demand. The market for doctorates or even masters degrees in engineering just isn't that high. Many companies value a master's degree in engineering as having 0 added value. On the other side, Academia is all about the grant money, and there is a finite amount of that. If those skills were in high demand, the payback on the degree would be good. It isn't, and they aren't.
I wouldn't be so sure. Recent modelling to update the 'nuclear winter' theory has not only shown that the theory is most likely valid, but actually far worse than the model that the Soviets and US came up with in the 1980s. Our current best modelling shows that even a hypothetical regional exchange with as few as 50 Nagasaki-sized weapons on each side between India and Pakistan would cause a "nuclear autumn" bad enough to cause famine in many countries, and a growing season shortened by 60 days the first year after this hypothetical war.
An exchange using the remaining weapons of the former Soviet Union and the United States - well, nuclear winter is a misnomer. Nuclear six month long night is a better description. Daytime lighting conditions in the aftermath of such an exchange would reach no more than that of a moonlit night. Continental temperatures would fall very low, and if this hypothetical war were to happen in the growing season, that's all of your food gone. Water would be hard to get as it would be frozen over. Coastal areas would be milder, but be lashed by constant violent storms due to the temperature difference to the extremely cold inland temperatures. Since the soot would be lofted to the stratosphere, there is no mechanism that will rapidly bring it down and the climatic effects would last long enough that the decade after the war would be a truly miserable experience, and most likely fatal. Those who managed to survive this would then have to deal with a world with no ozone layer and no manufacturing industry to make sunblock. Growing crops would be extremely difficult in those conditions.
We have detonated over 1800 nuclear bombs in the last 60 years. Most of these were bigger than the Nagasaki bomb, in many cases many many times bigger. If what you claim is possible it would have already happened.
In the USAF (my employer - I'm a former Active Duty civilian), Operational Flying and the career fields that support it are doing quite well, and those that fail to make Major or have some other issue are pushed to UAVs. But yes, as some Lt or Captain in a bunker, you might want to plan an "after-USAF" career. We'll probably always have nukes, but it's a small career field getting smaller with no analog on the "outside".
Think wider. There will always need to be some cross-training done, but 'sits in a bunker waiting to act' does actually cover a number of fields. 911 operator, for example. The cheating is very bad, but for somebody with at clean record and at least a Bachelour's, 911 mostly consists of waiting in a building for a phone call, then working through checklists on the basis of the phone call. Dispachers, sitting watch on non-critical bits of nuclear plants(or getting the training TO sit the critical watches), etc...
Power plant operators need to be highly skilled with a strong technical backround. There are often checklists but often there is no time to refer to them, even in routine day-to-day operations. They need to take swift action with initiative in many cases, and millions of dollars of equipment is at stake. "Someone who can follow a checklist" doesn't cut it.
I have seen a lot of ex-navy guys in these roles, and they don't quite cut it IMO. The navy of the 1940s/1950s probably turned out knowledgable engineers, but with today's contractor-heavy military, if something breaks they usually rely on the backups and a contractor swaps out the broken equipment when they get back to port.
Why would you buy 500 snowplows and salt trucks and have them sit around for 1,000 days, waiting for the next event?""
That's why you repurpose existing equipment. Snowplows themselves aren't a huge investment, and they last basically forever with little maintenance. Put a clause in your purchasing specs that all newly purchased garbage trucks and DOT dump trucks must have hookups for a plow. Retrofitting is expensive but if you're buying a truck anyway, the additional cost isn't much. Even dump trucks without special spreading equipment can be used; some dump trucks have small sliding gates on the main gate like this one. This is normally used for shoveling out small quantities of asphalt when patching roads, but in a pinch you could open them up and spread salt/sand on the road. Get creative! Making plans is cheap.
and i mean the ones that sell the same device over many years like a game console. PS3, xbox 360, wii u, nintendo 3ds, etc and then you have something like printers. sure it's only $100 or $250 but no one wants to buy a new printer just to buy a new wifi router
If you want to gain the advantages of the newest router you might, GASP, just have to run a wire to it. You might even have the inconvenience of having to relocate it next to the printer. Oh the humanity.
Things that absolutely need wireless tend to be mobile. Mobile equipment which only takes 802.11b was probably obsolete years ago. For everything that doesn't move, it should be wired anyway.
Whats so special about 30th anniversary? Is 30 some kind of magic number?
I believe in western culture that 25th anniversary is a special celebration for married couples, (silver) and also 50th (gold) And some cultures have special significance of 15th bithday, and/or 21st birthday
It is roughly a generation. I've gone back in my family tree about 20 generations and 30 years is just about the average difference between parents and child. Yes, even back in medeival times.
I suppose you could consider it special because it means that people who grew up with computers of that era are now buying pocket supercomputers for their children.
Doesn't using the phrase "an immigrant would be required to 'live and work' in Detroit for an undetermined length of time" sound a lot like an indentured labour program?
Yes. This whole idea is completely contrary to the American ideal of immigration. A permanent resident visa should is, should be, and always has been, for the entire country. You should no more be able to stop immigrants from moving anywhere in the country they want, than you should citizens. Something about the Constitution making this a united country, and the federal government controlling immigration.
No, it actually isn't that much of a stretch. We have visas that tie residency to a certain company sponsoring the visa. If you change companies before citizenship becomes available, the new company has to sponsor you (which many companies don't care to do). So effectively the person is tied to that company in most cases. Tying a person to a specific geographical area isn't that much of a reach, but it is a terrible idea. Each desperate location will offer bigger and bigger incentives, create a race to the bottom, and the immigration system will be even worse than now.
There is a huge difference between making a law and applying a law, obviously. This is just standards, not what you will actually find when you measure.
But here you go:
Tell me about it - next to your air quality limits, here are the actual figures for High-tech zone, Shijiazhuang at http://aqicn.org/. China: SO2: 20ug/m^3 (60 in urban areas) - actual 60 NOx: 50ug/m^3 - actual 73 PM10: 40ug/m^3 (70 in urban areas) - actual 546!!!!!!! Ozone: 160 ug/m^3 - actual 3 CO: 10000 ug/m^3 - actual 0
Note that this is a point-in-time value. So, the laws are actually somewhat better than the US, but apparently nobody follows the law.
Not sure I believe this. I can't imagine how you get PM that high without a lot of CO too. The only way I can think of would be using a leafblower (an electric one) on a pile of dust.
For the past 11 years, I used nothing but Seagate drives in my builds for clients. Over those past 11 years, I built something like 20 systems a month (on average) with occasional large scale orders of 200. The number of failed Seagates I could count *on one hand* YMMV clearly, but I stand behind Seagates.
Some of this may be peculiar to where you are sourcing your drives from and how carefully they ship. The same drive on Amazon vs Newegg usually has dramatically different ratings. I don't think the hard drive vendors are making drives of different quality for different retailers, but the retailers definitely have different packing and shipping standards.
Consider my response to that: "Oh, I already know how it's doing. I did my research on your company. I want to know if you know how your own company's stock's doing, and how your view of it matches up with the analysts' take on your company.". If the interviewer's willing to BS me about the company's performance and how it's handling itself, what else are they BSing me on? And if they honestly don't realize how their company's performing, I have to wonder whether there's some fundamental dysfunction that I may not want any part of.
This is a terrible question. Any manager who is at all knowledgeable about their own company's stock price is a company I probably don't want to work for. It hints that they put the stock price in high regard, when for the customers and the employees it should be last on their list of things to care about.
Forget fiction. I would like to know how dangerous the Mythbusters think the situation is.
Their tests on trying to create a manhole explosion was really interesting. They found they needed the right mix of air and methane, and a cluttered sewer pipe caused the fire to spread more effectively than a clear pipe.
For example, the 50% concentration mentioned in TFA is way too concentrated to produce a big boom.
Yes but at some point that concentration was zero. Now it is 50%. There must have been a point in the middle where the methane was within the explosive limit. Getting exactly the right conditions for an explosion may be difficult but with thousands of leaks it happens eventually.
And give it all to NASA, pls.
Pork isn't pork when it is your pork.
The interesting part is the in "real time" bit.
However in that I am even doubtful unless they are using very large values for "real" time.
Anyone that has worked with this kind of data will tell you A) it is usually HUGE, and B) marginally compresses. Data has to be sent from satellite to ground. That means transmission. At what speed? Unless they have discovered a way of sending data magically faster than the rest of the world, it is still constrained by that.
Oh yes. Sending realtime video from a satellite to earth is a problem that absolutely nobody can crack. Hint: they aren't imaging the entire planet at 1m resolution at the same time.
So what? Why does the price of bitcoin even matter? Bitcoins strength lies in its ability to be used as a payment processing network - ......
Bitcoins power lies in using it as a payment processing network not its price. It does need some more price stability, however, so this crazy speculation needs to stop.
If Bitcoin is too volatile to be useful as a payment method, it is pretty useless. I'm sure you will argue that "as more people use Bitcoin, the volatility will decrease", but historical data shows that to be the opposite of reality. More people use Bitcoin than ever, and it is more volatile than ever. Potentially losing 20% on a currency shift in a transaction is far, far worse than the absolute certainty of paying Visa 2-3% for the same transaction.