Some recent scientific papers I've been checking out from ScienceDirect show that the most efficient and least harmful power source for moving freight and passengers long distances is actually wind-powered trains.
Short version of why: wind power can crack H2O and make fuel cells, and fuel cells due to economy of scale work best with a large power plant such as those found in trains (and to a lesser extent in large tractor trailers).
As to laptops - many people who go camping or hiking or to Burning Man use solar powered laptops.
1. Schedule more meetings and make them long, with everyone in attendance, even if what they're working on has nothing to do with the agenda.
2. Count how many lines of code they write, and count things like assignment statements as if they're as valuable as complex decisions.
3. Every time another manager says they didn't deliver what the manager wanted, march in and attack them, and take the other managers side.... oh, wait, you wanted to be a good manager?
Additionally, you should fight like a tiger to make sure they get training. Nothing saps their will to code like knowing you'll never get training, or having it canceled every time you schedule in down time to do it.
Do that and they'll respect you, which is what you need.
What they care about is how good a job you'll do protecting them from all the usual political garbage that has zilch to do with them completing projects, and standing up for them when other groups demand unreasonable changes at the last minute for free.
Actually, in all our medical genetics research, the only top correlation is with ApoE, which is the hereditary component.
But, remember, the plaques are merely the result of the filters in your brain failing to function. So, even if this paper (all 8 pages of it) are true, it only means we may have found what causes plaque build up, not that we know what causes Alheimer's disease per se.
One of the highest correlations in fact, is with cardiovascular damage in the brain, or to the heart, so it's unlikely this is the foundation for a "cure", just a treatment for certain symptoms of the disease.
So I don't have to hear the sounds of rotten fruit every time I visit Ogrimmar.
And you stop bugging me about Death Knight glyphs - no, I'm only level 199 in inscription, go whine about it in Dalaran or someplace where people care.
- That flying mount you saved up for (worse, if you bought an epic) - can't use it until 77 or so. Bad call. Opportunity to up the ante here: add flight combat based on class! That would also keep people from short circuiting quests, and be awesome.
Hmmm. I'll have to tell my level 55 warrior to stop flying around on the magic broom from the Headless Horseman.
- Not a mage? Can't get to Dalaran until 74 (or so, I haven't done it yet). That's right, a major feature cut out for you while you grind. This really serves just to highlight the grind, not remove it.
Strange, my level 28 Kehrbehr druid has no problems hearthstoning to his home in Dalaran. Just shell out the 10 to 15 gold for a port and visit an Inn. Problem solved.
- Pretty much the minute logged in I was beat with the old problems that caused my entire guild to quit: "Heroic Nexus LF2M, need tank and 1dps (at least 1300DPS!)". Now I happen to have a tank, a healer and a mage, all were well enough geared for heroics in TBC... but I remember this all too well. Damage meters, people not understanding there are multiple ways to play the game, people unwilling to enter a dungeon that they don't outgear (because they don't understand subtlety)...this basically puts you in a place where you only want to play with friends, and you are at the mercy of trying to get 5 adults across 4 timezones, with wives and kids, to block out 1,2,3 hours to do a dungeon.
You don't have to do the dungeons. And at least trade chat no longer has repeated calls for people to enchant their weapon with icy chill or fiery enchants so it will have a cool glow - you can now buy the scrolls in item enhancement to do it for you (and any scribe can make the armor vellum or weapon vellum for an enchanter to cast it on the scroll). Man, that saves a LOT of time.
To try and grow a guild of like minded people is entirely more frustrating: dungeons come in 5, 10 and 25 and need to be approached with the maximum allowable team (assuming you don't outgear them), as a group with approximately equal gear within what someone defines as reason. The result is a lot of people are left off and get bored with the game. You can't grow a guild of responsible adults, because you can't play the game, have fun, and be responsible at the same time.
I frequently join in with 5-10 people who aren't even in my guild - that's what the/friend option is for. When they need to do a giant dungeon, they just shout out to friends who are eligible to join in, and they invite their guild members - saves a lot of time and it's fun to have a multi-guild group, since they can replace people who have to drop with other guildees.
Nothing in WoTLK addresses the elitist mentality the game has been designed for. The belief that only the hardcore deserve to be included in higher end dungeons and raids. The best you can do is join a large casual guild, put up with (and play) the politics, and go as far as a mob mentality will allow (usually only 1 or 2 tiers). Plus deal with people who aren't very smart and don't understand the game, but who are what you have to work with. This means damage meters, pvp specs in raids, weird and self-nerfing specs, people fighting over gear, etc.
I don't know about you, but I find dungeons especially boring. My son loves them, but I don't. You can pile on the add-ons and do it if you want, but it's still totally optional.
I'd like to thank Lenova for making our mischief-making even easier than it was before.
Silent non-trackable audit system that responds to a text message by allowing tracking data to be found by the cops - good idea. Even if it could be used - and will be used - for nefarious reasons ("wonder where Cindy is?" thinks stalker fanboi...)
Normally, in the tech product cycle, as I learned in business school, you'd expect a 40 to 42 inch HDTV set to be running around $399 with rebate down to $350 at this point (1080p), but I'd been puzzled that prices were up to $200 higher than expected.
That explains it.
Mystery solved.
If the price fixing is broken, we should see 40 to 42 inch LCD HDTVs in the 1080p resolution selling for around $300 around Presidents Day 2009.
Market cap is a reference to net revenue multiplied by copies.
If we were to do a simple math exercise, we would see that if they (as they did) double the price of Windows (WinVista and Win7) but only lose 40 percent of the customers, then they end up with INCREASING MARKET SHARE.
Even if the number of people actually losing it decreases.
Even if many copies of WinVista are rebuilt as either WinXP or Linux (or BSD).
Simple math exercise any first year economist could do.
At most places in the state of Washington, normally a swing state, we've had more than 60 percent of people return their absentee ballots before election day or vote early or emergency (e.g. military being posted or sudden business travel).
Additionally, all the polling places have had more people vote in the first hour since they've been open than usually vote all day, so it looks like in person voting in the only two in-person counties (King and another Blue county) is off the charts.
I'm predicting a landslide, and that the GOP will lose two seats in Congress.
Minor problems with some electronic machines, but virtually everyone other than handicapped/disabled/blind votes using paper ballots that are optically scanned - either by mail, dropoff, or in person.
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Some recent scientific papers I've been checking out from ScienceDirect show that the most efficient and least harmful power source for moving freight and passengers long distances is actually wind-powered trains.
Short version of why: wind power can crack H2O and make fuel cells, and fuel cells due to economy of scale work best with a large power plant such as those found in trains (and to a lesser extent in large tractor trailers).
As to laptops - many people who go camping or hiking or to Burning Man use solar powered laptops.
First thing I'd do is:
1. Schedule more meetings and make them long, with everyone in attendance, even if what they're working on has nothing to do with the agenda.
2. Count how many lines of code they write, and count things like assignment statements as if they're as valuable as complex decisions.
3. Every time another manager says they didn't deliver what the manager wanted, march in and attack them, and take the other managers side. ... oh, wait, you wanted to be a good manager?
Then do the exact opposite of what I said.
mod parent up.
Additionally, you should fight like a tiger to make sure they get training. Nothing saps their will to code like knowing you'll never get training, or having it canceled every time you schedule in down time to do it.
Do that and they'll respect you, which is what you need.
What they care about is how good a job you'll do protecting them from all the usual political garbage that has zilch to do with them completing projects, and standing up for them when other groups demand unreasonable changes at the last minute for free.
Just be crystal with them.
Actually, in all our medical genetics research, the only top correlation is with ApoE, which is the hereditary component.
But, remember, the plaques are merely the result of the filters in your brain failing to function. So, even if this paper (all 8 pages of it) are true, it only means we may have found what causes plaque build up, not that we know what causes Alheimer's disease per se.
One of the highest correlations in fact, is with cardiovascular damage in the brain, or to the heart, so it's unlikely this is the foundation for a "cure", just a treatment for certain symptoms of the disease.
So I don't have to hear the sounds of rotten fruit every time I visit Ogrimmar.
And you stop bugging me about Death Knight glyphs - no, I'm only level 199 in inscription, go whine about it in Dalaran or someplace where people care.
But I love the armored bears.
- That flying mount you saved up for (worse, if you bought an epic) - can't use it until 77 or so. Bad call. Opportunity to up the ante here: add flight combat based on class! That would also keep people from short circuiting quests, and be awesome.
Hmmm. I'll have to tell my level 55 warrior to stop flying around on the magic broom from the Headless Horseman.
- Not a mage? Can't get to Dalaran until 74 (or so, I haven't done it yet). That's right, a major feature cut out for you while you grind. This really serves just to highlight the grind, not remove it.
Strange, my level 28 Kehrbehr druid has no problems hearthstoning to his home in Dalaran. Just shell out the 10 to 15 gold for a port and visit an Inn. Problem solved.
- Pretty much the minute logged in I was beat with the old problems that caused my entire guild to quit: "Heroic Nexus LF2M, need tank and 1dps (at least 1300DPS!)". Now I happen to have a tank, a healer and a mage, all were well enough geared for heroics in TBC... but I remember this all too well. Damage meters, people not understanding there are multiple ways to play the game, people unwilling to enter a dungeon that they don't outgear (because they don't understand subtlety)...this basically puts you in a place where you only want to play with friends, and you are at the mercy of trying to get 5 adults across 4 timezones, with wives and kids, to block out 1,2,3 hours to do a dungeon.
You don't have to do the dungeons. And at least trade chat no longer has repeated calls for people to enchant their weapon with icy chill or fiery enchants so it will have a cool glow - you can now buy the scrolls in item enhancement to do it for you (and any scribe can make the armor vellum or weapon vellum for an enchanter to cast it on the scroll). Man, that saves a LOT of time.
To try and grow a guild of like minded people is entirely more frustrating: dungeons come in 5, 10 and 25 and need to be approached with the maximum allowable team (assuming you don't outgear them), as a group with approximately equal gear within what someone defines as reason. The result is a lot of people are left off and get bored with the game. You can't grow a guild of responsible adults, because you can't play the game, have fun, and be responsible at the same time.
I frequently join in with 5-10 people who aren't even in my guild - that's what the /friend option is for. When they need to do a giant dungeon, they just shout out to friends who are eligible to join in, and they invite their guild members - saves a lot of time and it's fun to have a multi-guild group, since they can replace people who have to drop with other guildees.
Nothing in WoTLK addresses the elitist mentality the game has been designed for. The belief that only the hardcore deserve to be included in higher end dungeons and raids. The best you can do is join a large casual guild, put up with (and play) the politics, and go as far as a mob mentality will allow (usually only 1 or 2 tiers). Plus deal with people who aren't very smart and don't understand the game, but who are what you have to work with. This means damage meters, pvp specs in raids, weird and self-nerfing specs, people fighting over gear, etc.
I don't know about you, but I find dungeons especially boring. My son loves them, but I don't. You can pile on the add-ons and do it if you want, but it's still totally optional.
Now if they could get all the hot women from that show to be on Caprica, I'd be a very happy fellow.
Plus, luckily for me, I served BEFORE they did that.
Although they do have all my personal information from my SECRET clearance.
And be subject to unreasonable and unwarranted search and seizure, I wouldn't have served in the Army.
And as someone with family in California, I don't see why any such use is even slightly warranted.
I'd like to thank Lenova for making our mischief-making even easier than it was before.
Silent non-trackable audit system that responds to a text message by allowing tracking data to be found by the cops - good idea. Even if it could be used - and will be used - for nefarious reasons ("wonder where Cindy is?" thinks stalker fanboi ...)
Text-enabled shutdown exploit - priceless!
And I say that as a former Acting Security Officer for a regional command.
Was then.
Is now.
Wake me after the Chinese invade, will you?
"All your base are belong to Beijing"
And our freedom of speech is limited compared to our US cousins.
You haven't been to the States recently, I take it.
NOOOOO!
It's as if a million Canadian voices shouted out in pain as their lives were snuffed by the big corporate greedheads!
You have no idea as to what I'm hoping, Comrade.
Cause I'd like to see a giant rollback on that one, and a restoration of our innate civil rights and liberties, thanks.
1/20/2009 - the day America is BACK!
Combination of the tuner and related I/O and the size.
There's still price fixing in the HDTV realm, they just haven't proven it yet.
(sorry meant "even if the number of people actually USING it decreases)
Normally, in the tech product cycle, as I learned in business school, you'd expect a 40 to 42 inch HDTV set to be running around $399 with rebate down to $350 at this point (1080p), but I'd been puzzled that prices were up to $200 higher than expected.
That explains it.
Mystery solved.
If the price fixing is broken, we should see 40 to 42 inch LCD HDTVs in the 1080p resolution selling for around $300 around Presidents Day 2009.
Market cap is a reference to net revenue multiplied by copies.
If we were to do a simple math exercise, we would see that if they (as they did) double the price of Windows (WinVista and Win7) but only lose 40 percent of the customers, then they end up with INCREASING MARKET SHARE.
Even if the number of people actually losing it decreases.
Even if many copies of WinVista are rebuilt as either WinXP or Linux (or BSD).
Simple math exercise any first year economist could do.
I mean, seriously, most of us have written it off, and it makes bad business sense too.
At work we've cancelled plans to use Win7 and WinVista and are moving to all Linux where we can, just from a staffing level perspective.
use vi raw instead.
Don't yank my line!
At most places in the state of Washington, normally a swing state, we've had more than 60 percent of people return their absentee ballots before election day or vote early or emergency (e.g. military being posted or sudden business travel).
Additionally, all the polling places have had more people vote in the first hour since they've been open than usually vote all day, so it looks like in person voting in the only two in-person counties (King and another Blue county) is off the charts.
I'm predicting a landslide, and that the GOP will lose two seats in Congress.
Minor problems with some electronic machines, but virtually everyone other than handicapped/disabled/blind votes using paper ballots that are optically scanned - either by mail, dropoff, or in person.
Man, that thing was bigger than a laptop!
Or, in non-geek-speak, GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY!
I hope they sentence him to 40 years hard-wiring routers ....