I wish software engineers would be more like bridge engineers as well, but the cost of failure (and the cost of fixing in the event of a failure) are so different between bridges & software that its not likely to change.
The world of software engineering is a different place in the Aerospace industry, specifically when you're developing flight control software. Failure is not an option, and therefore a significant amount of money and time is spent ensuring there are no problems.
Imagine if that same sexual predator had access to a physical metal key? It would be no different.
The only problem with insecure RFID tags is that someone could potentially grab the info from your key without you knowing, and then using that info to gain access at a later time.
And as a side note.... most engineers DON'T make 6-figure salaries unless they are very senior.
Certainly not NASA engineers or any other government engineer on the GS pay scale (I know, I've been there) but outside of government, nearly all of my engineer friends are in their early thirties and are close to the six figure salary range.
I think it's just a sign of inflation. When I'm 50, I'd need to make $250,000+ to have an equivalant salary of a senior engineer who is 50 years old making $150,000 now.
I guess their concern is that you can store "digital" content from the satellite, as opposed to the analog signal you'd record if you hooked up your FM stereo to your computer or other recorder.
As a Sirius subscriber, I have no interest in recording content to keep. I think the audio quality of an FM broadcast is better than Sirius's. Perhaps that's why Sirius isn't getting sued in this same suit? I've listened to XM and it seems their audio quality is much better than Sirius.
Their commercials alone are enough to keep me far far away. I watch about 2 hours of television a week, and in those two hours I hear their goddamn F#$%@ commercial with that goddamn F#$@% 'song' several times.
VoIP offerings from cable companies are ridiculous as they're often far more expensive than Vonage, and there are several other VoIP companies that offer at least the same service as Vonage and cost the same or sometimes less.
Vonage is a tech company. After seeing what happened to Google (tech IPO making money post-.com bubble) there will still be a herd of people who still want in, despite Google actually being profitable and Vonage losing money.
My father had an 85 Nissan Pickup (gasoline) that got around 15MPG - that's with the 4 clinder.
Nissan offered a compact diesel up until 1985 or 1986 I believe, as did GM/Izusu. I've tried finding one, and in all the trucks I've looked at the engines run like new but the bodies and frames are rotted away (just like my father's truck).
Unfortunately that V6 Tacoma doesn't get much better fuel economy than a fullsize pickup truck with a V8.
I own a Tacoma and my uncle owns a Nissan Titan, and I drive both vehicles regularly in similar conditions. The Tacoma is extremely sluggish compared to the Titan, especially on hills, and the fuel economy isn't that much better. I'd rather pay a little more for fuel and have more power (and a bigger truck with a bigger bed). Even at $3 a gallon for gas, I'd still take it, but $5 or $6 would change my opinion.
What I really want is a Toyota Hilux Diesel. You can get them just about anywhere else in the world EXCEPT North America. When is Toyota going to wake up and realize that a diesel engine is ideal for a compact pickup truck? Actually I think it's US consumers who need to wake up and make that realization. The price premium for a Diesel is well worth it - it might not be cost-effective initially, but if you're using your truck like a real truck, it will pay off in the long run. I recall the problem (of no compact diesel trucks in the USA) has something to do with diesel standards, however our new low-sulphur requirement should hopefully change that
How about someone who owns a boat and needs to tow it to a lake, so he needs a big V-8 or V-10?
When you own a boat that needs to be towed by something with a lot of power, then the fuel consumed by the towing vehicle is insignificant compared to the amount of fuel that the boat will use.
Most people won't be towing their big boat around every day of the week, so when you're simply commuting to work, you're burning a lot of fuel that you really need to (compared to the fuel burned while driving a smaller vehicle). Unfortunately for anyone who wants to enjoy boating or any other activity that requires a large tow vehicle, there are few alternatives.
Under normal conditions trains brake by running the motors as generators. The power generated is dissipated out the radiator
Yes! The generated power is dissipated into large resistor banks. There are a bunch of large fans on the top of a locomotive that cool those banks of resistors.
As for pure electric locmotives, I wonder if the power generated by braking is fed back into the supply system?
That reminds me of how my old stoner friends used to defend their habits by saying "Hey, it's all natural, man!" Yeah, so is Cobra venom and I don't want any of that.
I posted another comment related to this above. I have a book called "The Big Book of Big Secrets" that says the secret ingredient that keeps play-doh from being tacky (and gives it that lovely smell) is Kerosene (or a similar petroleum distillate).
They say that it's used so sparingly that it's OK if kids eat a little bit, but I find that hard to believe. I was always taught that ingesting Kerosene (even in small amounts)is a bad thing.
I read in a book titled "Big Secrets" that the magic ingredient in play-doh that keeps it from being tacky like regular dough is Kerosene (or other similar petroleum derivitave). It claims that it's used in such a small quantity that it's OK if kids ingest a small amount of the doh.
I looked up the patent and couldn't see the whole thing for some reason, but the thought of kerosene (even a small amount) in a toy that kids are guaranteed to eat sounds a bit crazy.
Thanks to a completely random hailstorm in West Texas, my car is covered with dimples (from golfball sized hail)! I was driving across the country (LA to NY) and for 10 minutes out of that four day drive, I just happened to pass through a hailstorm. When it first started, I thought someone was shooting at my car.
I forgot to add that while the Beastie Boys played all their new (at the time) music, they also played nearly ALL of their older stuff, including a few excellent tracks that weren't exactly chartbusters.
I saw the Beastie Boys in Long Beach, CA and it was the BEST CONCERT EVER! The Beastie Boys know how to entertain, and they do so many things throughout their show that I would be willing to pay double the $35/ticket that I paid.
I think artists should charge whatever they can get away with. I wasn't even crazy about going to see the Beastie Boys, but their performance blew me away! As for Madonna or most other top-40 bands, I probably wouldn't go even if the concert was free.
Another 'free' activity is surfing, assuming you live near a surfable beach. When I started I bought a slightly used board for $200 and it lasted over three years (at the end of the three years it wasn't as good as when it I first got it, however it still worked!) I even picked up a wetsuit for $100 to use in cooler weather.
I no longer live close to a beach (I'd have to drive 30 miles), so I got back into running and hiking. When is the appropriate time to dispose of running shoes? I have two pairs, one that's 5 years old and another that's 2 years old. They both look fine and don't show any significant wear, and I'm hesitant to replace them if there's nothing wrong with them.
I only heard of Digg through posts on Slashdot, and when I first heard about it I was a regular visitor for a few weeks thereafter.
Then one day I realized that there was a large amount of garbage that was being DIGGed (dugg?), making the front page. Many times I've seen interesting headlines only to learn that the actual article doesn't contain much more information than what was in the headline. What really turned me off were the links to stories that could have been presented in a single page, but were split into ten pages so you view more ads. Even with adblock, it's inconvienient to have to click through ten pages to read something that should have been presented on one page (maybe two if the site really wanted to show more ads).
It's a great site to find a few interesting and newsworthy stories if you can deal with filtering through all the crap. I'm much happier letting slashdot editors pick what they feel is interesting and newsworthy. Despite the shortcomings that many people are quick to point out, I think slashdot has a pretty good system and I'm a happy reader.
Have any real-estate market 'bubbles' burst any time in recent history? I know overall that many places in the US aren't terribly unaffordable at the moment, but in NY, CA, and many other desirable locations, prices are absurd (even with 6+% interest rates)!
I know southern CA real estate took a big hit in the early 90s because of the collapse of the Soviet Union and resultant cut in defense spending, but I don't see anything happening on that scale any time soon. Has the US real estate market as a whole ever suffered any serious decline? If so, what caused it?
Like most people my age where I live, the thought of homeownership is getting farther out of reach. The one thing that makes me feel a little better at the moment is that my rent is only slightly more than what an average homeowner would pay in property taxes here.
I don't have the time to use Myspace or facebook regularly. It's nice to send a quick "hi" to an old friend or to get contact info, but I don't see how people can spend hours at a time playing around. I have a few friends who live in MySpace, constantly updating their profiles, uploading new pictures, or posting messages for their friends.
Call me old-fashioned, but the best way I stay in touch with my college friends (I graduated in 2002) is an email list, organized through Yahoo groups. It works great with my Gmail account, since replies are automatically grouped. Most of us on the list have a page at myspace and facebook, but the email list is the best way to communicate.
Sometimes. I lost interest in his show on 92.3 towards the end because all he did was whine about how the FCC is a bully. Now during my entire drive to work (and periodically throughout the past few weeks) I had to listen to him whine about how CBS and Leslie Moonves are bullying him.
When he's not complaining about someone fining him or suing him, his show is entertaining. Savannah on the sybian? Priceless.
I just left LA about a year ago (and can't wait to get back). I worked in a company with about 500 employees, and there were close to 60 motorcycles in the parking lot! Most of the riders I knew who commuted to work on a bike didn't do it for the fuel economy, but did so because of the ability to split lanes with the added benefit of having fun on the way to and from work.
The RC51 is heavier than the GSXRs (~430lbs dry) so it doesn't turn as easily as the GSXrs and the CBRs, but that smoothly-delivered low end torque from the V twin really helps it pull out of the turns faster. If you're racing on a track with long straights, the inline 4s will scream past it. I came so close to buying one, but in the two weeks before I was about to buy I witnessed a drunk guy wreck his Harley in front of my house, two of my wife's coworkers had their husbands/boyfriends die while riding and getting hit by other cars, and I got into a minor car accident myself. I'm sticking to the dirt for now (well sort of, I have a dual-sport that I ride on the road to get to the trails from my house)
Do you know what the fuel economy is like on a SV650?
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The world of software engineering is a different place in the Aerospace industry, specifically when you're developing flight control software. Failure is not an option, and therefore a significant amount of money and time is spent ensuring there are no problems.
The only problem with insecure RFID tags is that someone could potentially grab the info from your key without you knowing, and then using that info to gain access at a later time.
Certainly not NASA engineers or any other government engineer on the GS pay scale (I know, I've been there) but outside of government, nearly all of my engineer friends are in their early thirties and are close to the six figure salary range.
I think it's just a sign of inflation. When I'm 50, I'd need to make $250,000+ to have an equivalant salary of a senior engineer who is 50 years old making $150,000 now.
As a Sirius subscriber, I have no interest in recording content to keep. I think the audio quality of an FM broadcast is better than Sirius's. Perhaps that's why Sirius isn't getting sued in this same suit? I've listened to XM and it seems their audio quality is much better than Sirius.
VoIP offerings from cable companies are ridiculous as they're often far more expensive than Vonage, and there are several other VoIP companies that offer at least the same service as Vonage and cost the same or sometimes less.
Vonage is a tech company. After seeing what happened to Google (tech IPO making money post-.com bubble) there will still be a herd of people who still want in, despite Google actually being profitable and Vonage losing money.
Nissan offered a compact diesel up until 1985 or 1986 I believe, as did GM/Izusu. I've tried finding one, and in all the trucks I've looked at the engines run like new but the bodies and frames are rotted away (just like my father's truck).
Are those British gallons, or American gallons?
Do you really have an Elise? What's the maintenance like? How often/how much $$$/how easy to do yourself?
I own a Tacoma and my uncle owns a Nissan Titan, and I drive both vehicles regularly in similar conditions. The Tacoma is extremely sluggish compared to the Titan, especially on hills, and the fuel economy isn't that much better. I'd rather pay a little more for fuel and have more power (and a bigger truck with a bigger bed). Even at $3 a gallon for gas, I'd still take it, but $5 or $6 would change my opinion.
What I really want is a Toyota Hilux Diesel. You can get them just about anywhere else in the world EXCEPT North America. When is Toyota going to wake up and realize that a diesel engine is ideal for a compact pickup truck? Actually I think it's US consumers who need to wake up and make that realization. The price premium for a Diesel is well worth it - it might not be cost-effective initially, but if you're using your truck like a real truck, it will pay off in the long run. I recall the problem (of no compact diesel trucks in the USA) has something to do with diesel standards, however our new low-sulphur requirement should hopefully change that
When you own a boat that needs to be towed by something with a lot of power, then the fuel consumed by the towing vehicle is insignificant compared to the amount of fuel that the boat will use.
Most people won't be towing their big boat around every day of the week, so when you're simply commuting to work, you're burning a lot of fuel that you really need to (compared to the fuel burned while driving a smaller vehicle). Unfortunately for anyone who wants to enjoy boating or any other activity that requires a large tow vehicle, there are few alternatives.
Yes! The generated power is dissipated into large resistor banks. There are a bunch of large fans on the top of a locomotive that cool those banks of resistors.
As for pure electric locmotives, I wonder if the power generated by braking is fed back into the supply system?
That reminds me of how my old stoner friends used to defend their habits by saying "Hey, it's all natural, man!" Yeah, so is Cobra venom and I don't want any of that.
They say that it's used so sparingly that it's OK if kids eat a little bit, but I find that hard to believe. I was always taught that ingesting Kerosene (even in small amounts)is a bad thing.
I looked up the patent and couldn't see the whole thing for some reason, but the thought of kerosene (even a small amount) in a toy that kids are guaranteed to eat sounds a bit crazy.
Even then, wouldn't a Faraday Cage car-hauler defeat that?
If someone wants something bad enough, they'll get it.
How can you call something 'beer' that's made with corn and/or rice?
Thanks to a completely random hailstorm in West Texas, my car is covered with dimples (from golfball sized hail)! I was driving across the country (LA to NY) and for 10 minutes out of that four day drive, I just happened to pass through a hailstorm. When it first started, I thought someone was shooting at my car.
I forgot to add that while the Beastie Boys played all their new (at the time) music, they also played nearly ALL of their older stuff, including a few excellent tracks that weren't exactly chartbusters.
I think artists should charge whatever they can get away with. I wasn't even crazy about going to see the Beastie Boys, but their performance blew me away! As for Madonna or most other top-40 bands, I probably wouldn't go even if the concert was free.
I no longer live close to a beach (I'd have to drive 30 miles), so I got back into running and hiking. When is the appropriate time to dispose of running shoes? I have two pairs, one that's 5 years old and another that's 2 years old. They both look fine and don't show any significant wear, and I'm hesitant to replace them if there's nothing wrong with them.
Then one day I realized that there was a large amount of garbage that was being DIGGed (dugg?), making the front page. Many times I've seen interesting headlines only to learn that the actual article doesn't contain much more information than what was in the headline. What really turned me off were the links to stories that could have been presented in a single page, but were split into ten pages so you view more ads. Even with adblock, it's inconvienient to have to click through ten pages to read something that should have been presented on one page (maybe two if the site really wanted to show more ads).
It's a great site to find a few interesting and newsworthy stories if you can deal with filtering through all the crap. I'm much happier letting slashdot editors pick what they feel is interesting and newsworthy. Despite the shortcomings that many people are quick to point out, I think slashdot has a pretty good system and I'm a happy reader.
I know southern CA real estate took a big hit in the early 90s because of the collapse of the Soviet Union and resultant cut in defense spending, but I don't see anything happening on that scale any time soon. Has the US real estate market as a whole ever suffered any serious decline? If so, what caused it?
Like most people my age where I live, the thought of homeownership is getting farther out of reach. The one thing that makes me feel a little better at the moment is that my rent is only slightly more than what an average homeowner would pay in property taxes here.
Call me old-fashioned, but the best way I stay in touch with my college friends (I graduated in 2002) is an email list, organized through Yahoo groups. It works great with my Gmail account, since replies are automatically grouped. Most of us on the list have a page at myspace and facebook, but the email list is the best way to communicate.
When he's not complaining about someone fining him or suing him, his show is entertaining. Savannah on the sybian? Priceless.
The RC51 is heavier than the GSXRs (~430lbs dry) so it doesn't turn as easily as the GSXrs and the CBRs, but that smoothly-delivered low end torque from the V twin really helps it pull out of the turns faster. If you're racing on a track with long straights, the inline 4s will scream past it. I came so close to buying one, but in the two weeks before I was about to buy I witnessed a drunk guy wreck his Harley in front of my house, two of my wife's coworkers had their husbands/boyfriends die while riding and getting hit by other cars, and I got into a minor car accident myself. I'm sticking to the dirt for now (well sort of, I have a dual-sport that I ride on the road to get to the trails from my house)
Do you know what the fuel economy is like on a SV650?