This is very true. My current phone is waterproof/dustproof/drop proof, but that doesn't mean you can make calls underwater. I tried making a bluetooth call with the phone in a glass of water, but even a small amount of water kills the signal completely.
None of these objects are particularly prone to failure, and when they do fail, it isn't particularly hazardous. I have never had a pair of glasses spontaneously break. You can drive safely without power steering. If your windshield shatters you probably have other problems. If you need your helmet you also have other problems.
Now suppose this windshield fails. Maybe the power dies, or the sensor is dirty, or the shape recogniton software misses something, or it misjudges the velocity or trajectory of an object. If the person relies on this device at the time of failure, splat. The other devices can fail, but they generally won't lie to you.
I got pretty nervous when stuff I rented from Gamefly was automatically posted to Facebook. I don't need "Don has rented BMX XXX" on my ticker. Not because of the nudity, but because its a horrible game in general.
they make laptops, UPS, industrial electrical equipment, big screen TVs, monitors, phone systems, steam turbines, and many more things. And their name starts with a "T"
I'm glad my company (Japanese) doesn't have this problem. My last job had about a week of actual training that wasn't very useful. My new company is sending me to external training ($$$) for about 30 days. Then I get about 12 weeks of company training in Japan. And then 5 weeks of on the job training, and back to Japan for another 4 weeks. Its about 6 months of me doing nothing productive, just training heavilly. The company is making a serious investment in me, and from what I have seen from it in the last month, I will hopefully be sticking with them for a long time.
Don't skimp on the training. Its exactly what makes your employees experts in their areas and want to stick around. We also have casual Friday every day, and that doesn't hurt either.
ISO 9000/9001 certification (which is what you are talking about) is a somewhat vague standard that says, in simple terms, that any process or actions your company performs must have a written description of the process, instructions, checksheets, etc. It is intended to try to improve quality and consistency. It doesn't mean that in all cases (or even most) that quality and consistency are improved.
Its a fairly meaningless certfication, since the company can still be turning out crap. But at least with ISO9000 they should have a record of what was done to make the crap.
I have an Opteron 165 processor that was released more than 2 years ago. There are articles going back to February 2006 on this chip. Its not even the fastest chip of that time. And it has handled every 1080p file I have thrown at it in software.
My thoughts on this are that if you want to watch 1080p on your computer, you probably have a fast enough processor by now anyway. If its an HTPC, the power you save on the CPU is just going to be redistributed to the GPU. If you want to play HD content on EEEPC type devices, you're probably better off transcoding since the screen is so small anyway and the storage options aren't enormous. Lastly, Mom-n-Gradma type computers generally have a reasonably fast CPU, but no GPU worth mentioning. If they should ever want to handle HD their computer probably can handle it.
I think the time for hardware accelerated 1080p has already passed, much like the time for DVD accelerators passed fairly quickly.
Whats really starting to become apparent is that these drives are very slow compared to the size of them. If we assume a 1500GB drive (actually smaller due to marketing) and 60 megabyte/sec transfer time (which I think may be generous), the drive takes 426 hours to copy all 1500GB. That's over a week. What will happen in another 5 years when drives are 3-4 times as large but transfer rates are only increased slightly?
I think the way things are going, hard drives have moved and are moving into a market that used to belong to tape. Slow, but huge capacity. We need a fast general purpose storage device, and I'm not yet convinced that flash can fill that role completely.
I think a pocket veto, assuming that it is available to governors, would be a more appropriate response. Opponents on both sides could not hold it against him absolutely, and it would give resistance organizations more time to organize.
Thus, any libertarian or green party candidate running for President is only hurting their cause by making it less likely the representative that best supports their view wins. And since the only way to change it is in Congress and not the Executive branch, and they know this, you know they're doing it intentionally for publicity.
Unless you feel that there is no practical difference between candidates and would rather vote for neither than be forced to choose.
Probably both. These microcontrollers are designed to calculate corrective action (often very small actions) to processes (such as pipe flow rates, temperatures, etc). When a process deviates from the setpoint, the microcontroller is supposed to calculate the correction (increase control output X slightly). I would say something like this would require some custom coding for the controller, but nothing too crazy. One of the harder parts would be coming up with a good input data method and formatting the input sensor data, since this is a slightly odd application for ths controller.
as an aside, the automation and control business is still a growing market, and they can never find enough engineers. Many of these jobs involve high travel if you're into that sort of thing.
In any company, a lot of things matter: shareholders or owners, employees, customers, business partners....the fact is if you are depending on ANY company to "look out" for your best interest, you are highly naive. That's pretty much how life is, everyone is looking out for their own interest.
I don't disagree, but isn't it in their best interest to make sur their customers aren't rioting? Are they that short-sighted?
Part of the reason these problems are so tough because to solve them, you have to understand what the problem is first. I studied the Riemann hypothesis in college for a good week and I'm still not sure where you might begin solving it. Like the Navier-Stokes equations (another big problem with a big prize) solving it will probably require the invention of some new mathematics. Its not simply a matter of dividing by 3 and carrying the 2. I don't know about you but I haven't the slightest idea about how to go about inventing new math. That's the realm of Newton and Einstein, and few others.
New math is the only way to go about solving some of these problems.
I had an Infrant (now Netgear) ReadyNas. This is not the unit to buy. The processor is slow so it can't handly plugins very well without bogging down completely. Transfers are pretty slow compared to the compeditors. Its a nice little unit, but I'm much happier with the Windows Home Server I set up. Its much faster and more responsive. And I only put a Geode in the thing.
Windows Home Server might not be your thing, but the ReadyNas definitely is not the one to buy.
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By that logic, roger@rogertheshrubber.net is some sort of arranger, designer, and seller of shrubberies.
The three of us who still use Gopher are scared to death!
All the money they are spending trying to make other countries respect our copyrights has to be made up somewhere. Plus, because they can.
This is very true. My current phone is waterproof/dustproof/drop proof, but that doesn't mean you can make calls underwater. I tried making a bluetooth call with the phone in a glass of water, but even a small amount of water kills the signal completely.
should they really be considered disabled?
None of these objects are particularly prone to failure, and when they do fail, it isn't particularly hazardous. I have never had a pair of glasses spontaneously break. You can drive safely without power steering. If your windshield shatters you probably have other problems. If you need your helmet you also have other problems.
Now suppose this windshield fails. Maybe the power dies, or the sensor is dirty, or the shape recogniton software misses something, or it misjudges the velocity or trajectory of an object. If the person relies on this device at the time of failure, splat. The other devices can fail, but they generally won't lie to you.
Casimir Effect.
What is their purpose?
I got pretty nervous when stuff I rented from Gamefly was automatically posted to Facebook. I don't need "Don has rented BMX XXX" on my ticker. Not because of the nudity, but because its a horrible game in general.
they make laptops, UPS, industrial electrical equipment, big screen TVs, monitors, phone systems, steam turbines, and many more things. And their name starts with a "T"
I'm glad my company (Japanese) doesn't have this problem. My last job had about a week of actual training that wasn't very useful. My new company is sending me to external training ($$$) for about 30 days. Then I get about 12 weeks of company training in Japan. And then 5 weeks of on the job training, and back to Japan for another 4 weeks. Its about 6 months of me doing nothing productive, just training heavilly. The company is making a serious investment in me, and from what I have seen from it in the last month, I will hopefully be sticking with them for a long time.
Don't skimp on the training. Its exactly what makes your employees experts in their areas and want to stick around. We also have casual Friday every day, and that doesn't hurt either.
ISO 9000/9001 certification (which is what you are talking about) is a somewhat vague standard that says, in simple terms, that any process or actions your company performs must have a written description of the process, instructions, checksheets, etc. It is intended to try to improve quality and consistency. It doesn't mean that in all cases (or even most) that quality and consistency are improved.
Its a fairly meaningless certfication, since the company can still be turning out crap. But at least with ISO9000 they should have a record of what was done to make the crap.
Did you forget Cimplicity or did they change their name?
I have an Opteron 165 processor that was released more than 2 years ago. There are articles going back to February 2006 on this chip. Its not even the fastest chip of that time. And it has handled every 1080p file I have thrown at it in software.
My thoughts on this are that if you want to watch 1080p on your computer, you probably have a fast enough processor by now anyway. If its an HTPC, the power you save on the CPU is just going to be redistributed to the GPU. If you want to play HD content on EEEPC type devices, you're probably better off transcoding since the screen is so small anyway and the storage options aren't enormous. Lastly, Mom-n-Gradma type computers generally have a reasonably fast CPU, but no GPU worth mentioning. If they should ever want to handle HD their computer probably can handle it.
I think the time for hardware accelerated 1080p has already passed, much like the time for DVD accelerators passed fairly quickly.
My math is crummy today. Its 426 minutes which is over 7 hours. But still quite a long time considering.
Whats really starting to become apparent is that these drives are very slow compared to the size of them. If we assume a 1500GB drive (actually smaller due to marketing) and 60 megabyte/sec transfer time (which I think may be generous), the drive takes 426 hours to copy all 1500GB. That's over a week. What will happen in another 5 years when drives are 3-4 times as large but transfer rates are only increased slightly?
I think the way things are going, hard drives have moved and are moving into a market that used to belong to tape. Slow, but huge capacity. We need a fast general purpose storage device, and I'm not yet convinced that flash can fill that role completely.
I think a pocket veto, assuming that it is available to governors, would be a more appropriate response. Opponents on both sides could not hold it against him absolutely, and it would give resistance organizations more time to organize.
The year of Libertarian on the poll booth tabletop has arrived!
Thus, any libertarian or green party candidate running for President is only hurting their cause by making it less likely the representative that best supports their view wins. And since the only way to change it is in Congress and not the Executive branch, and they know this, you know they're doing it intentionally for publicity.
Unless you feel that there is no practical difference between candidates and would rather vote for neither than be forced to choose.
Probably both. These microcontrollers are designed to calculate corrective action (often very small actions) to processes (such as pipe flow rates, temperatures, etc). When a process deviates from the setpoint, the microcontroller is supposed to calculate the correction (increase control output X slightly). I would say something like this would require some custom coding for the controller, but nothing too crazy. One of the harder parts would be coming up with a good input data method and formatting the input sensor data, since this is a slightly odd application for ths controller.
as an aside, the automation and control business is still a growing market, and they can never find enough engineers. Many of these jobs involve high travel if you're into that sort of thing.
straight into an obamanation.
In any company, a lot of things matter: shareholders or owners, employees, customers, business partners....the fact is if you are depending on ANY company to "look out" for your best interest, you are highly naive. That's pretty much how life is, everyone is looking out for their own interest.
I don't disagree, but isn't it in their best interest to make sur their customers aren't rioting? Are they that short-sighted?
Part of the reason these problems are so tough because to solve them, you have to understand what the problem is first. I studied the Riemann hypothesis in college for a good week and I'm still not sure where you might begin solving it. Like the Navier-Stokes equations (another big problem with a big prize) solving it will probably require the invention of some new mathematics. Its not simply a matter of dividing by 3 and carrying the 2. I don't know about you but I haven't the slightest idea about how to go about inventing new math. That's the realm of Newton and Einstein, and few others.
New math is the only way to go about solving some of these problems.
I had an Infrant (now Netgear) ReadyNas. This is not the unit to buy. The processor is slow so it can't handly plugins very well without bogging down completely. Transfers are pretty slow compared to the compeditors. Its a nice little unit, but I'm much happier with the Windows Home Server I set up. Its much faster and more responsive. And I only put a Geode in the thing.
Windows Home Server might not be your thing, but the ReadyNas definitely is not the one to buy.
P2P (as in bittorrent) is not efficient at all.