I work for a large (150,000+), employee-owned company - that's larger than Macy's and McDonalds. We consistently score in the Fortune Top 100 Companies to Work For in the general employee population, and Computerworld Best Places To Work in IT. Our customer satisfaction scores are always in the top 3 out of hundreds of players in our marketspace. Although we're far from perfect, one of the keys to our success (and, therefore, the propagation of our culture) is that from day one, the fact - and responsibility - of employee ownership is instilled in every single employee. Once inside, people move from department to department with a fair degree of fluidity, and nobody is scared to test their skills in a position because they have a vested interest as a stockholder. If more companies were majority-owned by the shop floor rather than the top floor, I think you'd see more of those companies succeed, with happier customers to boot.
I second that. I am responsible for supporting a steaming pile of code from a major electronics company well-known for their reasonably good hardware. I can't tell you how many times I was told, "But all the modules passed their unit tests!" - to which I reply, "All fine and dandy, but did any of your tests check the INTEROPERABILITY of the modules, or the application's behaviour when linked and assembled?" I've caught them in this little oopsie too many times; I'd have had the SQA manager fired long ago were I a direct employee of said organisation.
Hmm, lots of hang time, continuous 24/7 monitoring, sounds more likely to be used over zones of occupation and perhaps even domestically, rather than any actual battlefields. For that investment dollar it certainly sounds like they will be loading them up with much more than just radar systems and will be looking to incorporate every kind of monitoring equipment available as well as the latest in telecommunications interception and tracking systems.
Israel uses aerostats similar to these to hold aloft monitoring and jamming equipment for long periods, and I assure you that if you have a fleet of jets and ground based anti-aircraft batteries, you can guard them well enough
Tesla is already doing it. Aptera and others soon (hopefully!) will go regional or national with practical, electric-only cars. Battery tech is only going to get better (electron bottles, anyone?) Bypass the "hybrid" patent thicket; do away with dirty, parts-heavy ICEs entirely and just get the maximum well-to-wheel efficiency possible, short of having a Mr. Fusion retrofit.
.... by Larry Niven. His first SF short story, I believe. Space miner has catastrophic accident, his CNS is salvaged and connected to a ship which has a breakdown while visiting Venus. A good read; I remember it as one of my early favorites to entice people to get interested in SF.
I recall someone in my high-school art class - a real Dylan Klebold type - bringing this handbook to class back in 1985. Using hastily-scribbled recipes we copied from its pages that following summer, we had a grand time making craters in empty cow pastures, launching rockets powered by the "red-or-white powder" propellant. Of course if you tried doing most of the stuff in there now, you'd get put away under "Homeland Security / that there group of kids are terrarists" bullcrap, but we had no such problems back then. Just good clean fun.
This "flicker" could be solved by putting one half of the LEDs in a given light array on "positive" half of the AC waveform and the other half on the "negative" half of the AC waveform, push-pull fashion. Of course modern PWM LED power supplies should provide efficient rectification and current limiting so as to negate the need to do this.
Let me introduce you to the 733T nibble-mode VCR pair I hacked together in the 80s..... Helical scan-signal direct copying! State of the art - copied MV right along with control and audio track information..... 100% source-compatible!
RobertM: My grandmother did the exact same thing - moved downtown where the bus service could take her anywhere she needed to go....She lived another 15+ years like that before she died. I also plan to follow in her wise footsteps some day.
or some chinese subcontractor going, "hmm, I wonder what'd they buy that big an electron gun for... too big for electron microscopy... could it be they're using electrons at this many electron-volts instead of light?"
Can't get the thought out of my head, sorry:
Chinese subcontractors wondering about ERECTRON GUNS.....
From TFL you embedded: (wikipedia.org)
"Intel has historically named IC development projects after geographical names (since they can never be trademarked by someone else) of towns, rivers or mountains near the location of the Intel facility responsible for the IC. Many of these are in the American West, particularly in the state of Oregon (where most of Intel's CPU projects are designed; see well-known project codenames). As Intel's development activities have expanded, this nomenclature has expanded to Israel and India. Some older codenames refer to celestial bodies."
"Once upon a time, the American West was looked at as an unprofitable, useless wasteland."
Ummm, looking at job and housing markets there (especially in Si Valley and the tech corridor) right now, I'd say they weren't too wrong....
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I work for a large (150,000+), employee-owned company - that's larger than Macy's and McDonalds. We consistently score in the Fortune Top 100 Companies to Work For in the general employee population, and Computerworld Best Places To Work in IT. Our customer satisfaction scores are always in the top 3 out of hundreds of players in our marketspace. Although we're far from perfect, one of the keys to our success (and, therefore, the propagation of our culture) is that from day one, the fact - and responsibility - of employee ownership is instilled in every single employee. Once inside, people move from department to department with a fair degree of fluidity, and nobody is scared to test their skills in a position because they have a vested interest as a stockholder. If more companies were majority-owned by the shop floor rather than the top floor, I think you'd see more of those companies succeed, with happier customers to boot.
No... no, they'd pretty do that immediately.
Did you accidentally an adverb?
Actually, it can be pretty useful for slowing down without your brake lights coming on, such as when a cop is trailing you.
I admit I've used them for just this purpose.
I wonder what the creationist community would be shitting in that case :)
Bibles.
I second that. I am responsible for supporting a steaming pile of code from a major electronics company well-known for their reasonably good hardware. I can't tell you how many times I was told, "But all the modules passed their unit tests!" - to which I reply, "All fine and dandy, but did any of your tests check the INTEROPERABILITY of the modules, or the application's behaviour when linked and assembled?" I've caught them in this little oopsie too many times; I'd have had the SQA manager fired long ago were I a direct employee of said organisation.
Flash the message "Somethings out there!" We all know what happens after that, too.
I was going to say "bollocks to that", but I'd probably have to pay royalties to the Sex Pistols.
Never mind the Sex Pistols - Here's the BOLLOCKS!
I'd have modded you Insightful if you weren't swung over so far in the Funny direction already!
Hmm, lots of hang time, continuous 24/7 monitoring, sounds more likely to be used over zones of occupation and perhaps even domestically, rather than any actual battlefields. For that investment dollar it certainly sounds like they will be loading them up with much more than just radar systems and will be looking to incorporate every kind of monitoring equipment available as well as the latest in telecommunications interception and tracking systems.
Israel uses aerostats similar to these to hold aloft monitoring and jamming equipment for long periods, and I assure you that if you have a fleet of jets and ground based anti-aircraft batteries, you can guard them well enough
Tesla is already doing it. Aptera and others soon (hopefully!) will go regional or national with practical, electric-only cars. Battery tech is only going to get better (electron bottles, anyone?) Bypass the "hybrid" patent thicket; do away with dirty, parts-heavy ICEs entirely and just get the maximum well-to-wheel efficiency possible, short of having a Mr. Fusion retrofit.
.... by Larry Niven. His first SF short story, I believe. Space miner has catastrophic accident, his CNS is salvaged and connected to a ship which has a breakdown while visiting Venus. A good read; I remember it as one of my early favorites to entice people to get interested in SF.
I don't go to anyone's funerals. Why should I? they're NOT going to show up at MINE!
I recall someone in my high-school art class - a real Dylan Klebold type - bringing this handbook to class back in 1985. Using hastily-scribbled recipes we copied from its pages that following summer, we had a grand time making craters in empty cow pastures, launching rockets powered by the "red-or-white powder" propellant. Of course if you tried doing most of the stuff in there now, you'd get put away under "Homeland Security / that there group of kids are terrarists" bullcrap, but we had no such problems back then. Just good clean fun.
Guess I'll have to settle for Insightful.
Not sure if that's intentional commentary on the show, or an ironic spelling mistake.
It's BOTH, you insensitive clod!
(or Boeing surplus!)
Ummmm... you want WORKING screw-jacks, don't you?
This "flicker" could be solved by putting one half of the LEDs in a given light array on "positive" half of the AC waveform and the other half on the "negative" half of the AC waveform, push-pull fashion. Of course modern PWM LED power supplies should provide efficient rectification and current limiting so as to negate the need to do this.
As for the souls, who knows?
Call it an exercise in metaphysics.
Wait, it's here in my garage SOMEwhere!
Ahhh, the heady days of the 80s...
"Pffft." "Ack!"
RobertM: My grandmother did the exact same thing - moved downtown where the bus service could take her anywhere she needed to go... .She lived another 15+ years like that before she died. I also plan to follow in her wise footsteps some day.
or some chinese subcontractor going, "hmm, I wonder what'd they buy that big an electron gun for... too big for electron microscopy... could it be they're using electrons at this many electron-volts instead of light?"
Can't get the thought out of my head, sorry: Chinese subcontractors wondering about ERECTRON GUNS.....
From TFL you embedded: (wikipedia.org) "Intel has historically named IC development projects after geographical names (since they can never be trademarked by someone else) of towns, rivers or mountains near the location of the Intel facility responsible for the IC. Many of these are in the American West, particularly in the state of Oregon (where most of Intel's CPU projects are designed; see well-known project codenames). As Intel's development activities have expanded, this nomenclature has expanded to Israel and India. Some older codenames refer to celestial bodies."
"Once upon a time, the American West was looked at as an unprofitable, useless wasteland." Ummm, looking at job and housing markets there (especially in Si Valley and the tech corridor) right now, I'd say they weren't too wrong....
quoth thou....
"it's just that coal seems "natural", it comes out of the ground and hippies can hold it in their hands."
I assume you meant "natural" in the sense that hippies can hold it in their hands without dying of radiation poisoning.