They have to 'play politics' with river management (and everything else). It's the nature of the beast. There is no law that says the Corps gets unlimited funding to do whatever they want for as long as they want (otherwise the whole country would be paved over). This sort of thing has to happen. Given the ad hoc nature of the process, it's typically going to be a kludge - just like here. Competing goals won't be met. People will be pissed. Electrons will be spent willy nilly.
mostly irrelevant to the discussion, but did you have a fire while you were camping? At least here in my area, the Corps doesn't mind people camping on their property as long as there are no fires of any sort.
He won't come out and say it, but it was the furry suits that got the Corps guys upset. They're typically a pretty conservative bunch.
One of the basic tenets of building is that you don't do it on a flood plain.
Close, but not exactly correct. One of the basic tenets of building in the United States is that you get the government to set up insurance programs for risky endeavors, be it construction on flood plains, construction along a hurricane infested coast line, complex and unstable financial investments. You name it. Uncle Sugar has a big wallet.
J.H.C. mods. What's with the incessant downmodding of humorous posts? Windows update screw up again? You find something else you can't do under iOS? Upset that Facebook is still around? Still haven't gotten laid?
Crack a smile. Smoke 'em if you got em.
BUSH ISN'T IN THE WHITE HOUSE ANY MORE. Things are looking up.
How about describing how "thinking like an engineer" specifically doomed Google Health and Power Meter? Those are the subject of this story. It's hard to even think about the examples you gave within the context of the facts we're actually talking about.
Because at least with Power Meter, there was very little ability to communicate with anyone about how to use it, how to fix it, how to expand it, how to benefit from it. Just sat in it's corner like a nice little piece of software. Kinda like an engineer hacking at something, getting it to work more or less then wandering off on another project. Unpolished. Unknown.
That's great if you're the engineer trying to find a solution to a particular problem and then move on. If you are marketing a 'service' to people, this method just drops the ball. Of course, we are not privy to any of the back room discussions about the products. It may well have come down to 'nice idea, how does it make money?' with the subsequent realization that it won't and hence support is cut off. Unfortunately, Google's recent MO seems to be tossing out a number of essentially unrelated software products to see what sticks. And few have. Quite likely the next time Google Labs comes up with something, I'll just ignore it.
Google Body is another project that seems to work along these lines. A nice idea, unclear financial viability, little to no marketing, little to no upgrades. Basic functionality but no polish. I suspect it will get canned somewhere down the line.
Yep. The engineering isn't all that hot. Engineering decisions to leave the generators vulnerable to flooding. Engineering decisions to continue running a reactor well past design life. Engineering decisions to ignore new geologic data suggesting that both earthquake risks and tsunami risks were higher than originally thought. Engineering decisions to not upgrade the hydrogen containment / escape devices.
Between Fukashima and Monju, the Japanese nuclear industry seems to have some long term, pervasive, structural problems.
Woot mdsolar is posting another article about nuclear power to spread more FUD!!!
OK nutcase - go find an article that paints nuclear power in a warm, rose colored blush. That's what Firehose is for. Unfortunately, nuclear power is not getting very good press and for very good reasons. The engineering isn't all that it is cracked up to be and isn't at all what it needs to be. Even with the 'new' flood guidelines, the plant in TFA is only seven feet from breaching the walls. With a billion dollar plant hanging in the balance, I'd like just a bit more breathing room.
Again, it's not the long term waste problem that's going to kill commercial nuclear power (although that is a big issue that we're not handling well). It's going to be bad engineering decisions pushed on staff because of economic considerations. Short term gain, long term pain.
In the narrow sense, this seems like a reasonably clever, if not entirely novel solution; but in the broader sense it leaves me skeptical.
It's about New York City, you're supposed to be skeptical. At the very least.
If your river has sufficiently high levels of pathogenic viruses and bacteria that it isn't swimmable, you should seriously consider pretending to be a first-world country for 15 minutes and check out this cool "sanitation systems, so you don't have to drink and swim in your own shit!" fad that all the cool civil engineers have been nattering on about since, oh, the Roman Empire or so...
The Romans never had to deal with Wall Street. That's an enormous amount of shit.
If your river has sufficiently high levels of chemical nasties and heavy metals that it isn't swimmable, trusting a pool filter to remove them probably isn't the best idea, and maybe you should be doing something about the 'chemical plants upstream of major population centers' problem. Isn't that stuff supposed to be in New Jersey, anyway?
What russotto said. Nuking the petrochemical plant that is New Jersey would likely be a good idea. Maybe we can trade Moscow with the Russians.
If your swimmers just can't handle the terror of a little silt or the normal flora of a watershed ecosystem, maybe they need a psych referral, not a pool filter.
Again. We're talking about New York. The entire city IS a psych referral. Gone Bad.
This would NOT legalize marijuana. It would allow states to determine if marijuana COULD be legalized or controlled (as in medical marijuana).
This bill, the "Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2011," is broader and bolder than the medical marijuana bills that Congressman Frank has introduced in every Congress since 1995. The bill introduced today would allow states to determine their own marijuana laws -- not just medical marijuana laws -- without federal interference.
You do realize that physician malpractice does little to stop bad doctors. I would definitely NOT use this as an analogy. Medical Malpractice is really just a bad outcomes lottery - something bad happens to you, you might get some money. More often than not, the lawyers are the only ones leaving the scene pleased with themselves.....
Easier solution: get the government out of it, so that multiple private agencies could compete, both for the registration of their novel ideas, and for adjudication where a party claims damages.
Right. So who has standing to adjudicate a dispute? Who figures that out? A government? So there you are, right back to that abhorrent concept. Oh, I get it, you want the government to shield a private company so it can make some money out of this..... Hey, works for ICANN, I suppose it could work for Mr. Wu's Superior Patent Filing Company. But. But. I filed my patent application with GoDaddy Patents. They don't recognize Mr. Wu. Now what do I do? Hire another lawyer?
Go read something other than Ms. Rand for a change.
This system could well work for that, but as has been pointed out, you either use resolution or you scale up to a large, expensive sensor (16 MP sensor giving roughly a 1 MP image). Depending on the various tradeoffs it might be something Zeiss or Nikon would kick out (for a nice chunk of change, of course).
... the prototype required a 16mp sensor array to produce a 90kp image. Some similar relationship is expected for a production camera.
Less than a 1 megapixel image. That's pretty small - would be OK for web viewing but not for printing. However, unless you 'stack' the images together to get a very large depth of field (which would often look very unreal), printing the image would not get you much aside from deciding what the focal plane would be.
A web gallery, however, would allow you to move the focus in and out at will (as shown in the examples) and might be more commercially viable. Hogan's main complaint is that they will have to sell a metric butload of them to make a profit and that would be hard to do as a one trick, low resolution pony. I'd love a higher resolution version for macrophotography but I guess I will just do plain old focus stacking for a while longer.
This may not apply to cell services but I seem to recall when I was younger there was tax on my land-line phone bill that was enacted to pay for the Spanish-American war. Is that still there?
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They have to 'play politics' with river management (and everything else). It's the nature of the beast. There is no law that says the Corps gets unlimited funding to do whatever they want for as long as they want (otherwise the whole country would be paved over). This sort of thing has to happen. Given the ad hoc nature of the process, it's typically going to be a kludge - just like here. Competing goals won't be met. People will be pissed. Electrons will be spent willy nilly.
mostly irrelevant to the discussion, but did you have a fire while you were camping? At least here in my area, the Corps doesn't mind people camping on their property as long as there are no fires of any sort.
He won't come out and say it, but it was the furry suits that got the Corps guys upset. They're typically a pretty conservative bunch.
One of the basic tenets of building is that you don't do it on a flood plain.
Close, but not exactly correct. One of the basic tenets of building in the United States is that you get the government to set up insurance programs for risky endeavors, be it construction on flood plains, construction along a hurricane infested coast line, complex and unstable financial investments. You name it. Uncle Sugar has a big wallet.
Editor, please?
Yes, an Editor would be a nice addition to the site.
J.H.C. mods. What's with the incessant downmodding of humorous posts? Windows update screw up again? You find something else you can't do under iOS? Upset that Facebook is still around? Still haven't gotten laid?
Crack a smile. Smoke 'em if you got em.
BUSH ISN'T IN THE WHITE HOUSE ANY MORE. Things are looking up.
How about describing how "thinking like an engineer" specifically doomed Google Health and Power Meter? Those are the subject of this story. It's hard to even think about the examples you gave within the context of the facts we're actually talking about.
Because at least with Power Meter, there was very little ability to communicate with anyone about how to use it, how to fix it, how to expand it, how to benefit from it. Just sat in it's corner like a nice little piece of software. Kinda like an engineer hacking at something, getting it to work more or less then wandering off on another project. Unpolished. Unknown.
That's great if you're the engineer trying to find a solution to a particular problem and then move on. If you are marketing a 'service' to people, this method just drops the ball. Of course, we are not privy to any of the back room discussions about the products. It may well have come down to 'nice idea, how does it make money?' with the subsequent realization that it won't and hence support is cut off. Unfortunately, Google's recent MO seems to be tossing out a number of essentially unrelated software products to see what sticks. And few have. Quite likely the next time Google Labs comes up with something, I'll just ignore it.
Google Body is another project that seems to work along these lines. A nice idea, unclear financial viability, little to no marketing, little to no upgrades. Basic functionality but no polish. I suspect it will get canned somewhere down the line.
Is /. a new advertising service for Apple now? What next?
No, it's an advertising service for Bitcoin. Come on guy, keep up with us.
Yep. The engineering isn't all that hot. Engineering decisions to leave the generators vulnerable to flooding. Engineering decisions to continue running a reactor well past design life. Engineering decisions to ignore new geologic data suggesting that both earthquake risks and tsunami risks were higher than originally thought. Engineering decisions to not upgrade the hydrogen containment / escape devices.
Between Fukashima and Monju, the Japanese nuclear industry seems to have some long term, pervasive, structural problems.
Woot mdsolar is posting another article about nuclear power to spread more FUD!!!
OK nutcase - go find an article that paints nuclear power in a warm, rose colored blush. That's what Firehose is for. Unfortunately, nuclear power is not getting very good press and for very good reasons. The engineering isn't all that it is cracked up to be and isn't at all what it needs to be. Even with the 'new' flood guidelines, the plant in TFA is only seven feet from breaching the walls. With a billion dollar plant hanging in the balance, I'd like just a bit more breathing room.
Again, it's not the long term waste problem that's going to kill commercial nuclear power (although that is a big issue that we're not handling well). It's going to be bad engineering decisions pushed on staff because of economic considerations. Short term gain, long term pain.
Well somebody forgot "Do not taunt happy fun ball".
I think what's going to happen is that people are going to start taking naps when driving across Kansas and eastern Colorado.
And nothing of value will be lost. Especially if you include Texas.
The first model will be a bulldozer.
Well, they're late to the party then.
What's wrong with Slashdot editing these days? This happened 640 years ago. And you're only posting now?
We've been complaining that all this AJAX crap is slowing things down, but this is ridiculous!
Since when are New Yorkers worried about sharks and jellyfish? It's the other way around.
Have you seen the tentacles on those things coming out of the buildings? Way scary.
In the narrow sense, this seems like a reasonably clever, if not entirely novel solution; but in the broader sense it leaves me skeptical.
It's about New York City, you're supposed to be skeptical. At the very least.
If your river has sufficiently high levels of pathogenic viruses and bacteria that it isn't swimmable, you should seriously consider pretending to be a first-world country for 15 minutes and check out this cool "sanitation systems, so you don't have to drink and swim in your own shit!" fad that all the cool civil engineers have been nattering on about since, oh, the Roman Empire or so...
The Romans never had to deal with Wall Street. That's an enormous amount of shit.
If your river has sufficiently high levels of chemical nasties and heavy metals that it isn't swimmable, trusting a pool filter to remove them probably isn't the best idea, and maybe you should be doing something about the 'chemical plants upstream of major population centers' problem. Isn't that stuff supposed to be in New Jersey, anyway?
What russotto said. Nuking the petrochemical plant that is New Jersey would likely be a good idea. Maybe we can trade Moscow with the Russians.
If your swimmers just can't handle the terror of a little silt or the normal flora of a watershed ecosystem, maybe they need a psych referral, not a pool filter.
Again. We're talking about New York. The entire city IS a psych referral. Gone Bad.
This is based on the fact that salvia is currently not listed on any federal schedule but has been individually criminalized in several states.
I'm curious. Which states have criminalized saliva?
And, do you smoke it or what?
This bill, the "Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2011," is broader and bolder than the medical marijuana bills that Congressman Frank has introduced in every Congress since 1995. The bill introduced today would allow states to determine their own marijuana laws -- not just medical marijuana laws -- without federal interference.
Source (and others).
Let's try for some accuracy here. It's not all that hard. You'd think the editors were stoned or something.
This is really unfortunate if you intend to reproduce, as all Eukaryots pass through flagellum stage at a point of the life cycle.
Just exactly where did you go to school? Have you considered trying it again?
How can you fucking own a photo? You can own prints of it, not all renditions forever and ever and ever.
I'll bet you have a pretty active BitTorrent client at home, right?
You do realize that physician malpractice does little to stop bad doctors. I would definitely NOT use this as an analogy. Medical Malpractice is really just a bad outcomes lottery - something bad happens to you, you might get some money. More often than not, the lawyers are the only ones leaving the scene pleased with themselves.....
Easier solution: get the government out of it, so that multiple private agencies could compete, both for the registration of their novel ideas, and for adjudication where a party claims damages.
Right. So who has standing to adjudicate a dispute? Who figures that out? A government? So there you are, right back to that abhorrent concept. Oh, I get it, you want the government to shield a private company so it can make some money out of this..... Hey, works for ICANN, I suppose it could work for Mr. Wu's Superior Patent Filing Company. But. But. I filed my patent application with GoDaddy Patents. They don't recognize Mr. Wu. Now what do I do? Hire another lawyer?
Go read something other than Ms. Rand for a change.
Talking to the goddamn robot voice is degrading, and will continue to be degrading until it can pass the Turing test.
Funny, that's exactly what the robot voice thinks about YOU.
This system could well work for that, but as has been pointed out, you either use resolution or you scale up to a large, expensive sensor (16 MP sensor giving roughly a 1 MP image). Depending on the various tradeoffs it might be something Zeiss or Nikon would kick out (for a nice chunk of change, of course).
... the prototype required a 16mp sensor array to produce a 90kp image. Some similar relationship is expected for a production camera.
Less than a 1 megapixel image. That's pretty small - would be OK for web viewing but not for printing. However, unless you 'stack' the images together to get a very large depth of field (which would often look very unreal), printing the image would not get you much aside from deciding what the focal plane would be.
A web gallery, however, would allow you to move the focus in and out at will (as shown in the examples) and might be more commercially viable. Hogan's main complaint is that they will have to sell a metric butload of them to make a profit and that would be hard to do as a one trick, low resolution pony. I'd love a higher resolution version for macrophotography but I guess I will just do plain old focus stacking for a while longer.
This may not apply to cell services but I seem to recall when I was younger there was tax on my land-line phone bill that was enacted to pay for the Spanish-American war. Is that still there?
Exactly how old are you?