I live in the burbs of sac, ca and for me to get to work on public transit takes no less than two bus transfers (4 if I want a more direct route, be a push as to which is faster though), plus about a mile and a half walk to get to work. I live about 15 miles from where I work and I find that unusable... so I drive. -nB
Yes I assumed that some correction was applied to weather stations experiencing said effects. That confirmed it.
Note that I am not entirely convinced that global warming as it were is human caused (for a multiplicity of reasons) but I do find that site enlightening, so thanks again for turning me on to it. -nB
Of course the sensors are only measuring the heat island effect, specifically the one in Colorado that's only meters from a fire pit and inches from a parking lot... both installed after the sensor had been gathering "baseline" data for over a decade. But that's an entirely different argument:-) -nB
Thank you for the link, as I had not seen that before. I'll discuss it at lunch with my physicist friend (IANAP). You do realize you come off a bit abrasive though...
Third, this doesn't address vehicles. Still have to take care of that gorilla in the corner. It also doesn't address industry CO2 pollution unrelated to power demand, such as steel production. Still, it's a great start. CO2 is not an issue, no matter how much the media wants it to be. Aside from asphyxiation adding more to the atmosphere won't do a damn thing. The absorption spectra for CO2 is saturated already (and has been for quite some time). That means adding more gas doesn't absorb any more energy. CO2 is a red herring in regards to thermal climate effects. -nB
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I'm 31 and my target retirement age is 50. It's all about going short early in life to get that 401K as big as possible early on. Then the lovely compounding will help out the rest. The hard part for me (and I want to know how GP deals with is also) is that swing till 59.5 where you can get to your retirement monies... Currently I don't have a plan for that 9.5 years (other than some savings and maybe part time work...) -nB
The real issue with the current crop of cameras is the CMOS sensor. They are notorious for pixel and dark current noise. A good deep depleted CCD will have noise margins so low as to be non-issues.
Naturally the advantage of your approach is near instant feedback, while in my case I take 5 or so shots of the same thing, bracketing exposure like mad.
And FWIW, those cold nights are vastly better for photography of the stars than warm ones. -nB
Assuming you have a decent film body I would highly suggest using it. I shoot with a canon FTb and a Nikon F3 for my astronomy shots on 1600 speed film exposed at 6400. Then push process the film 2 stops. Vastly superior to any digital shots on a prosumer DSLR. -nB
I was assuming the context of the discussion would narrow the scope down a bit...
But in your vein, the government does censor speech as well, try saying bomb (not I have a bomb, just bomb) in an airport and see how far that goes with the TSA (a government agency). -nB
You host can censor you. While possibly unfair, that is not a breach of the first amendment. Someone can pay you to remove content. Assuming you consent to the "bribe" that is not a breach of the first amendment. Someone can *not* sue you for speech, as that uses the courts(a branch of the government) to silence you, and that is prohibited by the first amendment. -nB
Here in sacramento CA we have these flow control lights. For the most part they work as intended, with the exception of one street. Three things happen at once: One lane is split off the freeway (thus reducing available lanes. The HOV lane transitions to a free for all lane A major arterial street merges onto the freeway.
The result is a standing wave every friggen rush hour. -nB
It's all moot anyway:
cramming 2.5 percent of the visible universe inside a computer In other news the computer coalesced into a black hole and devoured the solar system, Al Gore included. It then spit out his belt. News at 11. -nB
I don't see why a generator would be knocked out of commission when it is most likely bolted to the ground and the worst that would happen is it would move a foot or so during movement, most cords are flexible anyways and we Californians can easily survive up to a 9.0+ for most homes You give most homes in Ca too much credit. Most people too. High 7's no prob, 8's start getting touchy, 9.anything is gonna suck... bad. -nB
um... Exhaust and intake? can't exactly run them up the same tower can you? Engines don't work so well sucking on their own exhaust fumes, whiteness my merc diesel and the brain-dead California EPA putting an EGR valve on it.
I have a PP phone now that my company does not sponsor my phone. My boss insisted I give him my phone number for emergencies, upon which I explained to him I was on a metered line and that I have no "free" minutes. Each one costs $0.33. Since I'm often in a lab with only one desk phone (which is usually busy install more phones anyone?) my boss IMs me. One day IM was down. Thanks to a call timer, when he called me to ask if my IM was down as well I submitted an expense report for 66 cents.
I don't (any more). I pitched a cigarette out the window once. Gog popped for littering (rightly) and attempted arson (WTF?). I was in the middle of an urban jungle with no sign of plant life for at least a mile in any direction. When I went to court I pled not guilty to the arson charge and "guilty with an apology your honor" to the littering charge. The judge asked "what" and I replied that though I had done it, if I had any idea about the cost and hassle of what I had done you could believe I'd not have done it and would certainly never do it again. Fortunately she believed me on that count and thus I only paid $360 for the littering ($100 * court fees). As to the arson charge she asked me why I believed I was not guilty, requiring an explanation of the complete lack of vegetation, and similar lack of intent, along with the reasonable belief that my smoldering smoke would be extinguished by the *rain* that was falling at the time. Found not guilty. -nB
At my old job we re-used code. It was written in Borland C 2.0, shoved into 3.0, dragged across to Visual Studio 6, then keelhauled into 64 bit support (from 48 bit initial functionality). We re-used that codebase for every project, tweaking and modifying, forking where appropriate per product family. Management asked what it would take to make it more maintainable and myself and the one other developer still with the company said: 8 months of dedicated time for one of us, with guaranteed time for code reviews of 2 half days per week for the other developer to provide a second set of eyes. Naturally that didn't happen. FFwd a year and the division is being split from the parent company with > 30% layoffs. Upper management decided who went and who stayed with a rather broad brush. Since I was technically "maintenance" and the other developer was old enough to retire we were both cut (she got a carrot to volunteer to retire). So who is developing and maintaining the code now? My old boss. Less than a month has gone by and I'm already getting "helpdesk-ish" calls on the code. Once they are fully split from the parent company (for which I am still employed, but in a different devision now), my consulting rate will kick in, and boy will it be nice.
Moral of the story: When code *is* re-used, it usually gets ugly. A clean re-write is not always a bad idea, and if your devs are asking to be allowed to re-write something you should let them before you can them...
Toyota, in the meantime, will have built a fleet of small, reliable robotic space transports (called the TacomaTransport) controlled by a Sony Playstation 10 and Linux, with an integral Honda robot. Pfffft! Like that will happen. A Honda robot in a Toyota? Get realistic!
My non compete states that I can not work for the competition for 6 months. The competition is basically anyone in the semiconductor industry. I thought that was un-equitable, seeing as I was getting very little in exchange for 6 months of unemployability, so I re-negotiated. I now stay on payroll till they decide I am no longer in possession of trade secrets then will let me go without any non-compete. In a nutshell: If I leave: 6 month non-compete If they tell me to leave: 6 month non-compete and 6 months pay + benefits. Realistically I expect they would keep me on staff but transition me to non-technical jobs (facilities support, purchasing, etc.) for the duration of the 6 months. -nB
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I live in the burbs of sac, ca and for me to get to work on public transit takes no less than two bus transfers (4 if I want a more direct route, be a push as to which is faster though), plus about a mile and a half walk to get to work. I live about 15 miles from where I work and I find that unusable... so I drive.
-nB
Yes I assumed that some correction was applied to weather stations experiencing said effects.
That confirmed it.
Note that I am not entirely convinced that global warming as it were is human caused (for a multiplicity of reasons) but I do find that site enlightening, so thanks again for turning me on to it.
-nB
Of course the sensors are only measuring the heat island effect, specifically the one in Colorado that's only meters from a fire pit and inches from a parking lot... both installed after the sensor had been gathering "baseline" data for over a decade. :-)
But that's an entirely different argument
-nB
Thank you for the link, as I had not seen that before. I'll discuss it at lunch with my physicist friend (IANAP).
You do realize you come off a bit abrasive though...
-nB
-nB
Or like me, around since 90 something, got an ID, got busy, forgot password, made new account, ultimately I forgot my old account id even...
-nB
Are there any good drops on that quest?
I heard there may be some sweet elite drops once you complete it.
-nB
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-nB
I'm 31 and my target retirement age is 50.
It's all about going short early in life to get that 401K as big as possible early on. Then the lovely compounding will help out the rest. The hard part for me (and I want to know how GP deals with is also) is that swing till 59.5 where you can get to your retirement monies...
Currently I don't have a plan for that 9.5 years (other than some savings and maybe part time work...)
-nB
Naturally not:(
The real issue with the current crop of cameras is the CMOS sensor. They are notorious for pixel and dark current noise.
A good deep depleted CCD will have noise margins so low as to be non-issues.
Naturally the advantage of your approach is near instant feedback, while in my case I take 5 or so shots of the same thing, bracketing exposure like mad.
And FWIW, those cold nights are vastly better for photography of the stars than warm ones.
-nB
Assuming you have a decent film body I would highly suggest using it.
I shoot with a canon FTb and a Nikon F3 for my astronomy shots on 1600 speed film exposed at 6400. Then push process the film 2 stops. Vastly superior to any digital shots on a prosumer DSLR.
-nB
I was assuming the context of the discussion would narrow the scope down a bit...
But in your vein, the government does censor speech as well, try saying bomb (not I have a bomb, just bomb) in an airport and see how far that goes with the TSA (a government agency).
-nB
We've had this argument before:
You host can censor you. While possibly unfair, that is not a breach of the first amendment.
Someone can pay you to remove content. Assuming you consent to the "bribe" that is not a breach of the first amendment.
Someone can *not* sue you for speech, as that uses the courts(a branch of the government) to silence you, and that is prohibited by the first amendment.
-nB
Here in sacramento CA we have these flow control lights. For the most part they work as intended, with the exception of one street.
Three things happen at once:
One lane is split off the freeway (thus reducing available lanes.
The HOV lane transitions to a free for all lane
A major arterial street merges onto the freeway.
The result is a standing wave every friggen rush hour.
-nB
-nB
-nB
um...
Exhaust and intake?
can't exactly run them up the same tower can you? Engines don't work so well sucking on their own exhaust fumes, whiteness my merc diesel and the brain-dead California EPA putting an EGR valve on it.
I have a PP phone now that my company does not sponsor my phone. My boss insisted I give him my phone number for emergencies, upon which I explained to him I was on a metered line and that I have no "free" minutes. Each one costs $0.33. Since I'm often in a lab with only one desk phone (which is usually busy install more phones anyone?) my boss IMs me. One day IM was down. Thanks to a call timer, when he called me to ask if my IM was down as well I submitted an expense report for 66 cents.
:-)
And I wonder why no-one calls
-nB
The ISP is the tower you mentioned.
Also the "I"SP is also the distributed Internet1.0 access provided by bridges at local wi-fi points.
-nB
I don't (any more). I pitched a cigarette out the window once. Gog popped for littering (rightly) and attempted arson (WTF?). I was in the middle of an urban jungle with no sign of plant life for at least a mile in any direction. When I went to court I pled not guilty to the arson charge and "guilty with an apology your honor" to the littering charge. The judge asked "what" and I replied that though I had done it, if I had any idea about the cost and hassle of what I had done you could believe I'd not have done it and would certainly never do it again. Fortunately she believed me on that count and thus I only paid $360 for the littering ($100 * court fees). As to the arson charge she asked me why I believed I was not guilty, requiring an explanation of the complete lack of vegetation, and similar lack of intent, along with the reasonable belief that my smoldering smoke would be extinguished by the *rain* that was falling at the time. Found not guilty.
-nB
At my old job we re-used code.
It was written in Borland C 2.0, shoved into 3.0, dragged across to Visual Studio 6, then keelhauled into 64 bit support (from 48 bit initial functionality). We re-used that codebase for every project, tweaking and modifying, forking where appropriate per product family. Management asked what it would take to make it more maintainable and myself and the one other developer still with the company said: 8 months of dedicated time for one of us, with guaranteed time for code reviews of 2 half days per week for the other developer to provide a second set of eyes. Naturally that didn't happen. FFwd a year and the division is being split from the parent company with > 30% layoffs. Upper management decided who went and who stayed with a rather broad brush. Since I was technically "maintenance" and the other developer was old enough to retire we were both cut (she got a carrot to volunteer to retire). So who is developing and maintaining the code now? My old boss. Less than a month has gone by and I'm already getting "helpdesk-ish" calls on the code. Once they are fully split from the parent company (for which I am still employed, but in a different devision now), my consulting rate will kick in, and boy will it be nice.
Moral of the story: When code *is* re-used, it usually gets ugly. A clean re-write is not always a bad idea, and if your devs are asking to be allowed to re-write something you should let them before you can them...
-nB
Yes, yes, but:
I think we can all agree that the impact is > 1G by enough of a margin to believe the camera and SSD were damaged.
-nB
My non compete states that I can not work for the competition for 6 months. The competition is basically anyone in the semiconductor industry. I thought that was un-equitable, seeing as I was getting very little in exchange for 6 months of unemployability, so I re-negotiated. I now stay on payroll till they decide I am no longer in possession of trade secrets then will let me go without any non-compete. In a nutshell:
If I leave: 6 month non-compete
If they tell me to leave: 6 month non-compete and 6 months pay + benefits. Realistically I expect they would keep me on staff but transition me to non-technical jobs (facilities support, purchasing, etc.) for the duration of the 6 months.
-nB
You sir, made my evening :-)