So the secret to pleasing your users is to fuck something truly basic and essential up. Then when you fix that you can foist any piece of shit interface on them and they'll thank you for it.
Haven't you figure out that's how the management and politics works?
As you have said, the information wikileaks released over the cables are more embarrassing than substantial accusation. I wonder if the organization has already filtered out some real critical information that can be detrimental to world/nation-state stability. Sure the State Department is going to have to work extra hard now because of the leak but none of the real top secret information (for the cables, not the war report) has be part of the release.
It's not I like Assange or approved of what he does. Come to think of it, however, he has not done real harm to our foreign services besides embarrassment and call to secure our communication better from being leaked.
No because the "dangerous weapons" would blow holes to the body of the airplane, starting the decompression process. If done fast enough it can bring the airplane down by tearing the plane apart. Nice try to make me more nervous flying domestic flights by suggesting firearms on-board.
Wonderware InTouch happens to be one of the most popular flavor of local supervisory system platform. There are very few supervisory system NOT implemented with Windows platform. Even DCS nowadays runs on them as well.
You need to hire a control system or SCADA engineer to assist you to evaluate the overall requirement.
Depending on your operation you might just need a isolated network to more sophisticated requirement. You mention that you are in a small town and runs a small water treatment plant, so that tells me that a. you have a smaller size facility with only a few components (versus big facility for a big city), and b. seems that this is your only facility to operate, or one of very few. The requirement depends greatly if you are operating within the facility (inside the yard), versus if you are hiring an external company to monitor and respond to the day-to-day operational needs, which a lot of small utility district tends to do today.
I can also tell you that you should look for the outfit that are more specialize in working with water utilities instead of specialize in other industry. Different sector have different requirements. I can tell you that your safety and cost-effectiveness requirement will not be the same as the oil and gas sector, or manufacturing sector. There are plenty of consulting company or control integrator who are familiar with the physical as well as legal requirements you would need. I can also recommend you to look for someone with an PE license of your state as well.
Lastly, your network security does not trump or supersedes your safety requirement of the facility and of the general public. In fact, the whole reason network security is of any factor is to protect your facility from the potential harms that can not only take down the operation of the facility, but also cause harm to general public. Automating your facility with control and SCADA system can enhance the operational safety. It does sounds like your "operational engineer" is not a control guru, so you need someone who is knowledgeable of the subject matter.
On one hand, yes, it is a hardware. You are please to use it as you see fit.
On the other hand, the key to Kinect is not the hardware components itself, rather it is the embedded code that brings everything together, process the data, and make the whole thing work. To that end they do have right to safeguard their code and software design to keep anyone from knowing exactly what they are doing, and how they are doing.
So I think it is not wrong if someone figured it all out by themselves how to use those components or use Kinet in its entirety in other purpose besides connecting to XBox. But I would venture to guess that whoever attempts to extract the code internal to the device would be subject to legal action, and like it or not, Microsoft's litigation would be legitimate.
If cell phone coverage goes down, they could still use carrier pigeons to send Flash drives to China or South Korea...
Well sir we are talking about a impoverished nation here. Are you sure the pigeons would survived without being hunt down and eaten before it crossed the border?
There's in interview in the NYT with Obama where he claims that some of his work wasn't very effective because he didn't put enough of a PR focus on it. This seems like a good effort to correct a perceived shortcoming. That's the kind of person I want in office.
While I am generally more concervative leaning, I happen to have a brain. I agree with you whole heartedly and yeah I like the idea our President went on to Mythbuster to promote scientific education.
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Let it be known that if you believe in God, you also subscribe to the fact that God have given mankind wisdom and logic. So in that sense science discovery is God-send gift to mankind as well.
Please do not underestimate the cost of labor. There is a reason why all the major computer brands have their boxes assembled in China.
I recall Dell still assemble desktops and server here in US. In particular at their headquarter at Round Rock, TX. Don't recall Texas suceeded from the Union and join the Peoples Republic of China.
Thing is: if the appliance isn't drawing power right then, they can chew through with impunity, and even if it *is* drawing power, as long as they only chew through one wire at a time they'll just get a quick shock when they cut that wire. And given how dry a rabbit's mouth is, and that it's cutting through with its non-conductive teeth, they might not even notice.
That's not how electricity works -- the hot wire is hot regardless of whether or not the appliance is drawing power.
There are 3 wires in your refrigerator's power cord -- the ground wire (which the rabbit can suck on all day with no ill effect), the neutral wire, which is bonded to the ground wire at the distribution panel, so it should be at the same potential as the ground wire in a properly wired house, and the third wire is the hot wire. This is the one with the juice and the one that will cause a shock regardless of whether or not the appliance is running or not.
Of course, in an outlet controlled by a switch, the hot wire will not be energized if the switch is off (again assuming a properly wired house - some amateur electricians have been known to put the switch on the neutral side).
Well guess which color of the hot wire's insulation is? It is the black wire that white raddit don't want to chew on!
According to the US definition, yes, it would be. "Child" porn is anything under 18 and it's all lumped into the same category; which makes it a meaningless and arbitrary definition IMO.
Most of the states defines statutory rape at age lower than 17. 18 is a higher number than 17.
Just for the background information. The State of Washington does not have personal or corporate income tax at this time. So to add a 5% income tax, which has very little deductions, would obviously sounds like a big change for the State.
I can't really comment too much on the benefit of having the tax excised, since I live in Texas and we do not have state income tax, either. That is a real plus for me. I do like the fact that they skipped the entire section where people making less than 200k. I think that is wise.
However, to be fair. A sudden increase of 9% of the tax liability is quite a bit, from the perspective of going from 0 to 9% in one jump. Also there are no provisions on how to adjust the brackets up with the inflations in the coming decades. Keep in mind any tax code in place will be in place for a long time, so if the spirit of the law is to tax the highest income brackets, they need to address that in the proposed bill as well.
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I suppose it would be nice to be a shade of white that is not too white?
Profit! (sorry can't think of a better classic)
it gets shorter to the middle as you nest
Still looking good after the 10th time...
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So the secret to pleasing your users is to fuck something truly basic and essential up. Then when you fix that you can foist any piece of shit interface on them and they'll thank you for it.
Haven't you figure out that's how the management and politics works?
If your browser window is not maximized, the top and sidebars will stop following your scroll. At least it does for me, on WinXP with Chrome.
The top and sidbars still follows for me when the window is not maximized. I am using Chrome on WinXP.
I agree. At least the expand/collapse mechanism works as intended. I did notice it doesn't work well in IE. So much for browsing /. at work...
Why is this post not rated at 5+ is a mystery to me.
As you have said, the information wikileaks released over the cables are more embarrassing than substantial accusation. I wonder if the organization has already filtered out some real critical information that can be detrimental to world/nation-state stability. Sure the State Department is going to have to work extra hard now because of the leak but none of the real top secret information (for the cables, not the war report) has be part of the release.
It's not I like Assange or approved of what he does. Come to think of it, however, he has not done real harm to our foreign services besides embarrassment and call to secure our communication better from being leaked.
No because the "dangerous weapons" would blow holes to the body of the airplane, starting the decompression process. If done fast enough it can bring the airplane down by tearing the plane apart. Nice try to make me more nervous flying domestic flights by suggesting firearms on-board.
Wonderware InTouch happens to be one of the most popular flavor of local supervisory system platform. There are very few supervisory system NOT implemented with Windows platform. Even DCS nowadays runs on them as well.
You need to hire a control system or SCADA engineer to assist you to evaluate the overall requirement.
Depending on your operation you might just need a isolated network to more sophisticated requirement. You mention that you are in a small town and runs a small water treatment plant, so that tells me that a. you have a smaller size facility with only a few components (versus big facility for a big city), and b. seems that this is your only facility to operate, or one of very few. The requirement depends greatly if you are operating within the facility (inside the yard), versus if you are hiring an external company to monitor and respond to the day-to-day operational needs, which a lot of small utility district tends to do today.
I can also tell you that you should look for the outfit that are more specialize in working with water utilities instead of specialize in other industry. Different sector have different requirements. I can tell you that your safety and cost-effectiveness requirement will not be the same as the oil and gas sector, or manufacturing sector. There are plenty of consulting company or control integrator who are familiar with the physical as well as legal requirements you would need. I can also recommend you to look for someone with an PE license of your state as well.
Lastly, your network security does not trump or supersedes your safety requirement of the facility and of the general public. In fact, the whole reason network security is of any factor is to protect your facility from the potential harms that can not only take down the operation of the facility, but also cause harm to general public. Automating your facility with control and SCADA system can enhance the operational safety. It does sounds like your "operational engineer" is not a control guru, so you need someone who is knowledgeable of the subject matter.
On one hand, yes, it is a hardware. You are please to use it as you see fit.
On the other hand, the key to Kinect is not the hardware components itself, rather it is the embedded code that brings everything together, process the data, and make the whole thing work. To that end they do have right to safeguard their code and software design to keep anyone from knowing exactly what they are doing, and how they are doing.
So I think it is not wrong if someone figured it all out by themselves how to use those components or use Kinet in its entirety in other purpose besides connecting to XBox. But I would venture to guess that whoever attempts to extract the code internal to the device would be subject to legal action, and like it or not, Microsoft's litigation would be legitimate.
If cell phone coverage goes down, they could still use carrier pigeons to send Flash drives to China or South Korea...
Well sir we are talking about a impoverished nation here. Are you sure the pigeons would survived without being hunt down and eaten before it crossed the border?
This idea is about as half baked as my dinner last night.
uh... You wife is a bad cook?
Amen Brother, Amen. I'll drink to that!
We should have demanded credentials, experience... anything. We should have done our homework.
That actually sounds a bit better than someone with the wrong credentials and experiences for the job, don't you think?
There's in interview in the NYT with Obama where he claims that some of his work wasn't very effective because he didn't put enough of a PR focus on it. This seems like a good effort to correct a perceived shortcoming. That's the kind of person I want in office.
While I am generally more concervative leaning, I happen to have a brain. I agree with you whole heartedly and yeah I like the idea our President went on to Mythbuster to promote scientific education.
--
Let it be known that if you believe in God, you also subscribe to the fact that God have given mankind wisdom and logic. So in that sense science discovery is God-send gift to mankind as well.
Please do not underestimate the cost of labor. There is a reason why all the major computer brands have their boxes assembled in China.
I recall Dell still assemble desktops and server here in US. In particular at their headquarter at Round Rock, TX. Don't recall Texas suceeded from the Union and join the Peoples Republic of China.
Thing is: if the appliance isn't drawing power right then, they can chew through with impunity, and even if it *is* drawing power, as long as they only chew through one wire at a time they'll just get a quick shock when they cut that wire. And given how dry a rabbit's mouth is, and that it's cutting through with its non-conductive teeth, they might not even notice.
That's not how electricity works -- the hot wire is hot regardless of whether or not the appliance is drawing power.
There are 3 wires in your refrigerator's power cord -- the ground wire (which the rabbit can suck on all day with no ill effect), the neutral wire, which is bonded to the ground wire at the distribution panel, so it should be at the same potential as the ground wire in a properly wired house, and the third wire is the hot wire. This is the one with the juice and the one that will cause a shock regardless of whether or not the appliance is running or not.
Of course, in an outlet controlled by a switch, the hot wire will not be energized if the switch is off (again assuming a properly wired house - some amateur electricians have been known to put the switch on the neutral side).
Well guess which color of the hot wire's insulation is? It is the black wire that white raddit don't want to chew on!
They make up their own word definitions as they go. ;)
Dude, Politics 101, you make up words as you go!
According to the US definition, yes, it would be. "Child" porn is anything under 18 and it's all lumped into the same category; which makes it a meaningless and arbitrary definition IMO.
Most of the states defines statutory rape at age lower than 17. 18 is a higher number than 17.
The reality is that there is always something to repair.
Please mod the parent up.
I think the article meant his father, Bill Gates Sr. I don't know how much he makes but he definitely has far less than his son.
Just for the background information. The State of Washington does not have personal or corporate income tax at this time. So to add a 5% income tax, which has very little deductions, would obviously sounds like a big change for the State.
I can't really comment too much on the benefit of having the tax excised, since I live in Texas and we do not have state income tax, either. That is a real plus for me. I do like the fact that they skipped the entire section where people making less than 200k. I think that is wise.
However, to be fair. A sudden increase of 9% of the tax liability is quite a bit, from the perspective of going from 0 to 9% in one jump. Also there are no provisions on how to adjust the brackets up with the inflations in the coming decades. Keep in mind any tax code in place will be in place for a long time, so if the spirit of the law is to tax the highest income brackets, they need to address that in the proposed bill as well.
Your comments are well put. I wish I have a mod point for you!