These systems sound really good on paper, but they don't really work. People do not (cannot) travel at the speed of light. Unlike a network packet, a route that doubles your travel distance is noticed. When someone miscongifued a router so that packets between them went 1000 miles up and down the US east coast instead of over the cable between them (physically they were sitting one on top of the other, and the ethernet cable inbetween was faster than the WAN link), nobody noticed except those who did a trace route.
When you take an alternate route the distance increases substantially. The difference between hiway and city driving is normally about 5mpg, so a 10 mile detour will increase the amount of gas used (and thus polution created). In most cisites they don't build redundant freeway lanes, so your prefered route may be jamed, but all the other routes are jamed too, so switching over to another road just makes that road over capacity and slows it down (if it wasn't over capacity to begin with). For most people an alternate route is only useful in extreem cases where the prefered route is closed.
City streets are now intentially designed to prevent traffic on them. Nobody wants their kid riding a bike in the middle of a busy street, so they curve and twist such that no only is the speed obtainable (never mind legal limits) slow, but the route is long and doesn't really get you anywhere. In many cases one mile "as the crow flys" will be 2 on the streets. This pushes cars to the freeway, which actually go someplace, even when the freeway is barely moving it is still faster than the easy alternates.
I don't know the solution. Public transport sounds good, but it really doesn't make sense until populations densitiees get much higher than the point where cars on roads no longer make sense. Personal rapid transport has been proposed, but no implimentations are massive enough to be sure it will really work any better.
A space launch should not be news. When it is news it means that it is new and exciting enough for people to care. It didn't make national headlines when I backed my car out of the driveway this morning without killing anyone. I presume that many airplaces have taken off from the local airport today, but not one made the news so I really don't know for sure. I'm guessing that several babies have been born today, but I won't know until/unless I read the stork report inside (not on the cover) of next weeks paper, and then it will only cover births at the nearest hospital. I could go on, but I think you get the point.
Space launchs should not be news, they should be something that someone does for a purpose. Preferably a company. research university, or military (though we all wish for world peace I don't think it is obtainable), not a government. People should be going into space because their job requires it, or they are curious about something best seen/done/tried in space.
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Most courts in the US have held that a company cannot keep you from doing your job. So you can sign all the NDAs they want you too, it doesn't matter. Either you are taking the IP of some other company with you, and guilty of crimes based on those laws, or you are not, and thus the NDA cannot prevent you from working elsewhere. There are very few cases where an NDA has prevented someone from working, and in all of them it was claimed in court that the person in question was not only working elsewhere, but also applying the trade secerets of the other company to their new job.
Consult a lawyer if you really need to know the details on this of course, but for most people you can ignore NDAs as inapplicatable to anything they would morally do.
Corrent, the POS OS comes from the vender. When I was at McDonalds (10 years ago) there was a buisness computer that talked to whichever POS was installed (PAR and Panasonic are the ones I worked with, but I presume there are others - each store is different, and they are not replaced often) in the back room, and that always ran SCO, with custom software. However as I left windows comptuers were starting to pop up here and there. I have no idea what the situation is now, and if I did I likely couldn't tell you.
Standards are good, but not until you get to the point where new things are not being made. If all game developers had standardized on the Atari 2600 and never left, where would we be now? There isn't the power there for most of the games we play. Likewise every ohter platform to date that sold a lot (NES, PS1, and so on come to mind, but you likely have your own favorite memory)
SO, is the PS/2/XBOX/Gamecube hardware really where we want to be forever? Or would a next generation be a good idea? If so where do we stop?
I can't answer that. I agree content matters most. Thats why MULE(1982) and Star Raiders(1979) are still played by atari fans, and similear games keep the C64 scene alive. The latter could benifit a lot from imporved graphics, many of the alien space ships should get more details and the like, but what it really needs is a custom controller with buttons for all the options that it uses the keyboard to select. The former would look nicer, but I don't know that it really needs help.
I haven't confirmed this on all my machines, but when I installed the updates on one yesterday (I always update one machine, and if nothing important breaks I do the other one) Synergy no longer starts automaticly on boot, it works just fine starting when I log in. (I normally log into one comptuer, and then from there log into the other)
Color blindness is complex. Most (all?) are tied to the X (not Y) cromoson, it normally doesn't affact girls because so long as 1 gene is good you often are fine. (I think there are exceptions where genese express themselves in different areas, but I don't know enough about this to comment)
Some people are red-green color blind because they can't see red, so everytihing looks green, others can't see green, so everything is red. More commonly they see both colors, but one (or both!) colors are shifted from normal so they see red and green, but not the same way.
Girls can be color blind, in fact both of my sisters are color blind! It should be no surprize to learn that my dad is color blind, and so am I.
Just beccause someone is color blind doesn't mean they know it. Most color blind people still see colors, and they still call soemthing red "red". Red is just a name for the color, knowing the name gives you no clue that it looks different to most people, nor does it give you any clue how it is different. There are however areas where obviously differently colors look the same. Green and blaze orange are idenitical to some of my family. (and we are hunters, so consider this next time you know someone hunting with only the legaly required blaze orange on!) Other people with other color blindness won't have problems with those colors, but might with some other combinations.
Most people who are color blind have red, green, and blue cones in the eye, but one of the cones doesn't respond to the normal range of colors. So these color blind persons might not be able to tell some combination of colors apart, but there may be another combination that most people cannot see that is clearly different to them. (My family that can't see blaze orange in the woods can clearly see most camo clothing!)
Back when the ppro-200 was a neat machine, but out of most budgets I calculated that the costs in electrisity alone to run enough 386s to do as many RC5-56 blocks in a year as a single PPRO would be more than the cost of a new PPRO machine. (Note that soon aftwards the PII came out, at the time no CPU could touch the PPRO for blocks done, though other CPUs were better on a per clock calculation)
So if you have an old machine that you keep solely for the addition to your stats in some project, you may be better off getting togather with a bunch of people and each contributing your yearly power bill for the one mcahine to getting a new machine.
Well first routers are built to handle more complex situations. A lot end router is easially beat for most tasks by a linux box. A high end router often had more bandwidth than the linux box.
However for speed custom hardware might be worth it, if you care enough to pay for it. Custom hardware designed from the ground up can do some things faster.
Almost nobody trusted the USSR. Current Russia is even less trust worthy, if only because they are unstable in many ways, it wouldn't in theory take much for a crack pot to take over and start a war. However the goals of the USSR were to spread communism. Russia doesn't have those goals, and so a war started by Russia would not nessicarly be for the same reasons. So Even though Russia is more dangerious now, they are less of a threat.
I expect China to get into an arms Race, but it will be with India and Pakastain. (The latter two will claim china is the emeny, while being at war with each other). I don't expect any of them to launch an attack, space based weapons are not yet ready for a real war.
Markets are interesting things. I want Intel to compete in the low power market because it lowers prices for everyone. (enviormentalists will also point out that a lower power CPU would be a good thing in general) However if VIA and Transmeta cannot get sales before the giant Intel crushes them with what they can do, in the end prices end up higher because there is less compitition.
Yeah VIA has hardware to assist in a lot of things you are likely to do, but can you use it? Last I checked the MPEG decoder was not supported by any program running on linux, so you have to run windows. Might not be a problem for you, but it is for me. (Not so much that I hate windows as I like to do everything myself, and that might one day mean I play with the source code to something)
I too have ideas for what I would do with VIA (mini-itx) motherboards. Fortunatly for me, mpeg isn't of interest, but other abilities are.
Note that you have to turn optimications off, or declare i as volitale or any half way decient compiler will optimise it out and turn your program into
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which is not what you want.
I would also recomend that you change that double to a long long or something (been too long since I've done 64 bit, so I don't recall the exact syntax), double is plenty of space to store [a rounded representation of] that number on most platforms such as x86, and most FPUs are good enough that there will be no difference. (A double fits in a x86 register on the FPU)
But that was back when netscape really did crash all the time. Not always the fault of netscape, Windows 3.1 wasn't exactly stable, and netscape did use more than it could deliver.
Appearently I'm amoung the few who remember that netscape was themselves evil, and did evil things in their attempt to own the net. I joined the any browser campaign in reaction to netscape, back when microsoft didn't care about the internet.
You hit both the upside and the downside of the caller pays rule in Europe. In the US I pay for calls to my phone, so it is in my interest to make sure they don't cost me a lot. It appears that everyone is Europe has a cell phone, but they must be terribally expensive to call, because when I was there nobody wanted my cell number to call me. (Company phone with a Europian number) For what I consider a reasonable price I can talk on my US cell phone more than I ever do, and I can talk from anywhere in the US to anywhere in the US (think of it like talking to anyone in Europe from anywhere in Europe, at a price that you don't worry about)
You have to survive to sue, but if you survive you don't get nearly as much. So really, you can sue, but it will send a much strong message if you die in the crash and have your friends and family sue. Socity benifits, but you are dead. When you are dead you also don't have to prove that you didn't intentionally crash your car to collect the money.
In short almost. You have to die in the crash though, someone else gets to sue.
When people get out of telemarketing they can get into a buisness of providing real service that helps people. If you don't work, you don't eat makes a lot of sense as a rule to apply to most people. (Most meaning that if you are disabled, it shouldn't apply, nor children but somehow the parents need to be hit) Once you realize you have to do something to eat, creative powers kick in, and you start doing something productive. Granted it is hard, I've been without work before, but even then McDonalds had productive jobs I could have taken.
Remember, most telemarketers prey on elderly people who don't need the service offered. Let those elderly people spend there money on something they need, or at least honestly want (instead of dishonestly convinced they want) and there is just as much money in the ecconomy, but it doesn't go through the same hands. We all benifit.
Sure, if you can find unbiased information. You can't though. The act of not putting up incorrect information is a bias against those who belive and support that viewpoint. In fact just putting all sides to an argument in order places a bias in. People remember what they read last and first (in that order) more than the middle parts, but what is first may be the only thing someone reads. Even though you tried, the very act of people reading (or hearing...) something means it goes though a bias filter which will find a bias that is not there.
Many posters seem to mistake the problem here. They already know that sometimes there is a problem. They have no way of detecting it currently. They are looking for a cheap way to tell if there will be a problem. If the colors are off a little they don't care, the finial printer will get them right. If there are artifacts from some step, they need to know that.
The problem might be caused by a scanner, a bad algorithm in their programs, or using the wrong filters. (Just to name a few that a non-artist can think of) It doesn't make sense to buy a scanner with double the resolution in hopes that it fixes the problem, least of all if there are several different sources of the problem.
I have no problem with not working for any other company for a year. However you have to pay me for 1 full year while I sit at home doing essentially nothing other than keeping my skills up hacking linux/kde/other, or traveling Europe. Oh, and if I can't find a job after that year is up, you have to make sure I'm elliagble for unemployment (meaning you lay me off, even though I may have quit on my own to start a buiseness, and then changed my mind half way through).
Sounds like a good deal to me. I'm surprized that this has held up, courts are generally very reluctant to uphold non-competes because a man needs an ability to get income, and is worth the most to someone doing what they were doing before. Generally they are only upheld if there is evidence that the person is stealing ideas from the old company, and there are already laws in effect that would apply even without the non-compete. Saddly you need a lawyer to figgure out the details of all that.
Nice idea, but beware, media is more sensitive to fire than paper, thus a "firesafe" is not a good place for media in the event of a fire. You need a "mediasafe" if you want to keep media through a fire. Paper is not damaged by steam, so most "firesafes" work by having a lining with a lot of water trapped inside, when the safe gets hot that water boils, taking the energy of the fire with it.
Even if you have the right safe, they are only rated for a short time, so if you live in an area where the fire department cannot respind quickly you may need more protection. For fire purposes keep all valuable togather, and if there is a fire have the fire department concentrate on saving that one area of the house. (Make sure your safe is waterproof!) For thief protection, that isn't always the best solution.
Do a net search for firesafe, gun safe (avoid the gun safety links, but gun owners as a group are more interested in safes than most people so their knowlege is worth getting)
At least this is personalized instead of a one size fits all. I just barely mised SAP training one place that tried to get to this level of user. The only problem is it was comptuer based, so once you loged into your own computer and launched this program from the network, it would teach you how to use the mouse to start programs. This was mandatory, and you had to do each step, didn't matter if you always use alt-f4 to close windows, you still had to prove you could do it with the mouse, (hit the X, the next lesson was file-> quit)
I've also sat through training where I realized half way through that I should take notes, because the interface was best learned as "next hit the 4th button on the 2nd row, and nevermind what you would think or the labels show". Unfortunatly for them, just before the program went live they changed the layout of the buttons (fortunatly they also made the buttons do what the labels said). In the end the only think useful out of that 2 hour class was the was a warning to save because the interface didn't always save where you would expect it to.
In other words, everyone needs help in places. If you need help with turning the computer on fine: get it. Please don't make those of us who know how to do complex things sit through a 1 hour class on turning it on.
Those are not engineers, they are actors trying to look like engineers. The men are dressed 20 years out of date (though the equipment isn't qite that old). No engineer dresses like that anymore. The biggest clue, however, is their smile. It isn't the sort of half smile of an engineer comptemplating a hard problem it is the half smile of an actor who was just told drop the coversation to look "busy".
I wouldn't ahve said the above based on just the men though. They could caught in the act of switching focus, and just work for a "old way" company that hasn't caught onto modern dress codes. The female however doesn't fit. She isn't staring at the men like a "dumb blonde" amazed to meet someone who can think about something technical despite having her in the room, nor is she staring at the scope trace like another engineer who knows the problem and is trying to figgure out why they are getting that trace. She is trying to act like an engineer, while staring at a circuit board! It doesn't fit, all engineers have seen a circuit board before, and only stare them when replacing something, everything else to learn from the board is more easially learned from the engineering schetches (which were not in the picture).
I'm not sure why research into smart clothes would involve a tarditional inflexable circuit board for that matter.
Its an engineering issue. I drive over bridges because I know almost nothing about hot they are built. All the bridge engineers I know refuse to cross bridges that they design (they either fly, or drive around to a bridge they didn't design). Airplane designers often refuse to fly in their airplane.
Not that their designes are not safe enough, but as an engineer you know all the compromises, and they keep you up at night. I personally avoid software I've made, and I've been up all night worrying about what happens when a customer tries something other than the obviousy no error code paths.
In other words, Linus still runs minux on his important systems, while he waits for Linux to mature enough to be trustworthy. (I'd suggest a BSD, but IIRC linus has committed code to them from time to time). This however might be giving it too much credit. He now knows how CPUs are desigend from working at Transmeta. I wouldn't be surprized if he does everything with pencil and paper!
Not exactly. The sensor says "tempature 200." Is that oil tempature, engine water inlet tempature, or engine water outlet tempature? You specified water, but the same sensor [electronics?] may be used in different parts. Where was it installed needs to be indicated somehow.
Some things can be infered if it is operating normally. Tempatures of 100 and 220 indicate inlet and outlet, respectivly (not sure if that is reasonable range, but you get the point). What if the sensor is broke though and is giving a wrong value. Somehow you need to know which one it is so you can replace it.
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These systems sound really good on paper, but they don't really work. People do not (cannot) travel at the speed of light. Unlike a network packet, a route that doubles your travel distance is noticed. When someone miscongifued a router so that packets between them went 1000 miles up and down the US east coast instead of over the cable between them (physically they were sitting one on top of the other, and the ethernet cable inbetween was faster than the WAN link), nobody noticed except those who did a trace route.
When you take an alternate route the distance increases substantially. The difference between hiway and city driving is normally about 5mpg, so a 10 mile detour will increase the amount of gas used (and thus polution created). In most cisites they don't build redundant freeway lanes, so your prefered route may be jamed, but all the other routes are jamed too, so switching over to another road just makes that road over capacity and slows it down (if it wasn't over capacity to begin with). For most people an alternate route is only useful in extreem cases where the prefered route is closed.
City streets are now intentially designed to prevent traffic on them. Nobody wants their kid riding a bike in the middle of a busy street, so they curve and twist such that no only is the speed obtainable (never mind legal limits) slow, but the route is long and doesn't really get you anywhere. In many cases one mile "as the crow flys" will be 2 on the streets. This pushes cars to the freeway, which actually go someplace, even when the freeway is barely moving it is still faster than the easy alternates.
I don't know the solution. Public transport sounds good, but it really doesn't make sense until populations densitiees get much higher than the point where cars on roads no longer make sense. Personal rapid transport has been proposed, but no implimentations are massive enough to be sure it will really work any better.
A space launch should not be news. When it is news it means that it is new and exciting enough for people to care. It didn't make national headlines when I backed my car out of the driveway this morning without killing anyone. I presume that many airplaces have taken off from the local airport today, but not one made the news so I really don't know for sure. I'm guessing that several babies have been born today, but I won't know until/unless I read the stork report inside (not on the cover) of next weeks paper, and then it will only cover births at the nearest hospital. I could go on, but I think you get the point.
Space launchs should not be news, they should be something that someone does for a purpose. Preferably a company. research university, or military (though we all wish for world peace I don't think it is obtainable), not a government. People should be going into space because their job requires it, or they are curious about something best seen/done/tried in space.
Most courts in the US have held that a company cannot keep you from doing your job. So you can sign all the NDAs they want you too, it doesn't matter. Either you are taking the IP of some other company with you, and guilty of crimes based on those laws, or you are not, and thus the NDA cannot prevent you from working elsewhere. There are very few cases where an NDA has prevented someone from working, and in all of them it was claimed in court that the person in question was not only working elsewhere, but also applying the trade secerets of the other company to their new job.
Consult a lawyer if you really need to know the details on this of course, but for most people you can ignore NDAs as inapplicatable to anything they would morally do.
Corrent, the POS OS comes from the vender. When I was at McDonalds (10 years ago) there was a buisness computer that talked to whichever POS was installed (PAR and Panasonic are the ones I worked with, but I presume there are others - each store is different, and they are not replaced often) in the back room, and that always ran SCO, with custom software. However as I left windows comptuers were starting to pop up here and there. I have no idea what the situation is now, and if I did I likely couldn't tell you.
Standards are good, but not until you get to the point where new things are not being made. If all game developers had standardized on the Atari 2600 and never left, where would we be now? There isn't the power there for most of the games we play. Likewise every ohter platform to date that sold a lot (NES, PS1, and so on come to mind, but you likely have your own favorite memory)
SO, is the PS/2/XBOX/Gamecube hardware really where we want to be forever? Or would a next generation be a good idea? If so where do we stop?
I can't answer that. I agree content matters most. Thats why MULE(1982) and Star Raiders(1979) are still played by atari fans, and similear games keep the C64 scene alive. The latter could benifit a lot from imporved graphics, many of the alien space ships should get more details and the like, but what it really needs is a custom controller with buttons for all the options that it uses the keyboard to select. The former would look nicer, but I don't know that it really needs help.
I haven't confirmed this on all my machines, but when I installed the updates on one yesterday (I always update one machine, and if nothing important breaks I do the other one) Synergy no longer starts automaticly on boot, it works just fine starting when I log in. (I normally log into one comptuer, and then from there log into the other)
Color blindness is complex. Most (all?) are tied to the X (not Y) cromoson, it normally doesn't affact girls because so long as 1 gene is good you often are fine. (I think there are exceptions where genese express themselves in different areas, but I don't know enough about this to comment)
Some people are red-green color blind because they can't see red, so everytihing looks green, others can't see green, so everything is red. More commonly they see both colors, but one (or both!) colors are shifted from normal so they see red and green, but not the same way.
Girls can be color blind, in fact both of my sisters are color blind! It should be no surprize to learn that my dad is color blind, and so am I.
Just beccause someone is color blind doesn't mean they know it. Most color blind people still see colors, and they still call soemthing red "red". Red is just a name for the color, knowing the name gives you no clue that it looks different to most people, nor does it give you any clue how it is different. There are however areas where obviously differently colors look the same. Green and blaze orange are idenitical to some of my family. (and we are hunters, so consider this next time you know someone hunting with only the legaly required blaze orange on!) Other people with other color blindness won't have problems with those colors, but might with some other combinations.
Most people who are color blind have red, green, and blue cones in the eye, but one of the cones doesn't respond to the normal range of colors. So these color blind persons might not be able to tell some combination of colors apart, but there may be another combination that most people cannot see that is clearly different to them. (My family that can't see blaze orange in the woods can clearly see most camo clothing!)
Back when the ppro-200 was a neat machine, but out of most budgets I calculated that the costs in electrisity alone to run enough 386s to do as many RC5-56 blocks in a year as a single PPRO would be more than the cost of a new PPRO machine. (Note that soon aftwards the PII came out, at the time no CPU could touch the PPRO for blocks done, though other CPUs were better on a per clock calculation)
So if you have an old machine that you keep solely for the addition to your stats in some project, you may be better off getting togather with a bunch of people and each contributing your yearly power bill for the one mcahine to getting a new machine.
Well first routers are built to handle more complex situations. A lot end router is easially beat for most tasks by a linux box. A high end router often had more bandwidth than the linux box.
However for speed custom hardware might be worth it, if you care enough to pay for it. Custom hardware designed from the ground up can do some things faster.
Almost nobody trusted the USSR. Current Russia is even less trust worthy, if only because they are unstable in many ways, it wouldn't in theory take much for a crack pot to take over and start a war. However the goals of the USSR were to spread communism. Russia doesn't have those goals, and so a war started by Russia would not nessicarly be for the same reasons. So Even though Russia is more dangerious now, they are less of a threat.
I expect China to get into an arms Race, but it will be with India and Pakastain. (The latter two will claim china is the emeny, while being at war with each other). I don't expect any of them to launch an attack, space based weapons are not yet ready for a real war.
Markets are interesting things. I want Intel to compete in the low power market because it lowers prices for everyone. (enviormentalists will also point out that a lower power CPU would be a good thing in general) However if VIA and Transmeta cannot get sales before the giant Intel crushes them with what they can do, in the end prices end up higher because there is less compitition.
Yeah VIA has hardware to assist in a lot of things you are likely to do, but can you use it? Last I checked the MPEG decoder was not supported by any program running on linux, so you have to run windows. Might not be a problem for you, but it is for me. (Not so much that I hate windows as I like to do everything myself, and that might one day mean I play with the source code to something)
I too have ideas for what I would do with VIA (mini-itx) motherboards. Fortunatly for me, mpeg isn't of interest, but other abilities are.
Note that you have to turn optimications off, or declare i as volitale or any half way decient compiler will optimise it out and turn your program into int main(int argc, char * argv) { return 0; } which is not what you want.
I would also recomend that you change that double to a long long or something (been too long since I've done 64 bit, so I don't recall the exact syntax), double is plenty of space to store [a rounded representation of] that number on most platforms such as x86, and most FPUs are good enough that there will be no difference. (A double fits in a x86 register on the FPU)
But that was back when netscape really did crash all the time. Not always the fault of netscape, Windows 3.1 wasn't exactly stable, and netscape did use more than it could deliver.
Appearently I'm amoung the few who remember that netscape was themselves evil, and did evil things in their attempt to own the net. I joined the any browser campaign in reaction to netscape, back when microsoft didn't care about the internet.
You hit both the upside and the downside of the caller pays rule in Europe. In the US I pay for calls to my phone, so it is in my interest to make sure they don't cost me a lot. It appears that everyone is Europe has a cell phone, but they must be terribally expensive to call, because when I was there nobody wanted my cell number to call me. (Company phone with a Europian number) For what I consider a reasonable price I can talk on my US cell phone more than I ever do, and I can talk from anywhere in the US to anywhere in the US (think of it like talking to anyone in Europe from anywhere in Europe, at a price that you don't worry about)
You have to survive to sue, but if you survive you don't get nearly as much. So really, you can sue, but it will send a much strong message if you die in the crash and have your friends and family sue. Socity benifits, but you are dead. When you are dead you also don't have to prove that you didn't intentionally crash your car to collect the money.
In short almost. You have to die in the crash though, someone else gets to sue.
When people get out of telemarketing they can get into a buisness of providing real service that helps people. If you don't work, you don't eat makes a lot of sense as a rule to apply to most people. (Most meaning that if you are disabled, it shouldn't apply, nor children but somehow the parents need to be hit) Once you realize you have to do something to eat, creative powers kick in, and you start doing something productive. Granted it is hard, I've been without work before, but even then McDonalds had productive jobs I could have taken.
Remember, most telemarketers prey on elderly people who don't need the service offered. Let those elderly people spend there money on something they need, or at least honestly want (instead of dishonestly convinced they want) and there is just as much money in the ecconomy, but it doesn't go through the same hands. We all benifit.
Sure, if you can find unbiased information. You can't though. The act of not putting up incorrect information is a bias against those who belive and support that viewpoint. In fact just putting all sides to an argument in order places a bias in. People remember what they read last and first (in that order) more than the middle parts, but what is first may be the only thing someone reads. Even though you tried, the very act of people reading (or hearing...) something means it goes though a bias filter which will find a bias that is not there.
Many posters seem to mistake the problem here. They already know that sometimes there is a problem. They have no way of detecting it currently. They are looking for a cheap way to tell if there will be a problem. If the colors are off a little they don't care, the finial printer will get them right. If there are artifacts from some step, they need to know that.
The problem might be caused by a scanner, a bad algorithm in their programs, or using the wrong filters. (Just to name a few that a non-artist can think of) It doesn't make sense to buy a scanner with double the resolution in hopes that it fixes the problem, least of all if there are several different sources of the problem.
I have no problem with not working for any other company for a year. However you have to pay me for 1 full year while I sit at home doing essentially nothing other than keeping my skills up hacking linux/kde/other, or traveling Europe. Oh, and if I can't find a job after that year is up, you have to make sure I'm elliagble for unemployment (meaning you lay me off, even though I may have quit on my own to start a buiseness, and then changed my mind half way through).
Sounds like a good deal to me. I'm surprized that this has held up, courts are generally very reluctant to uphold non-competes because a man needs an ability to get income, and is worth the most to someone doing what they were doing before. Generally they are only upheld if there is evidence that the person is stealing ideas from the old company, and there are already laws in effect that would apply even without the non-compete. Saddly you need a lawyer to figgure out the details of all that.
Nice idea, but beware, media is more sensitive to fire than paper, thus a "firesafe" is not a good place for media in the event of a fire. You need a "mediasafe" if you want to keep media through a fire. Paper is not damaged by steam, so most "firesafes" work by having a lining with a lot of water trapped inside, when the safe gets hot that water boils, taking the energy of the fire with it.
Even if you have the right safe, they are only rated for a short time, so if you live in an area where the fire department cannot respind quickly you may need more protection. For fire purposes keep all valuable togather, and if there is a fire have the fire department concentrate on saving that one area of the house. (Make sure your safe is waterproof!) For thief protection, that isn't always the best solution.
Do a net search for firesafe, gun safe (avoid the gun safety links, but gun owners as a group are more interested in safes than most people so their knowlege is worth getting)
At least this is personalized instead of a one size fits all. I just barely mised SAP training one place that tried to get to this level of user. The only problem is it was comptuer based, so once you loged into your own computer and launched this program from the network, it would teach you how to use the mouse to start programs. This was mandatory, and you had to do each step, didn't matter if you always use alt-f4 to close windows, you still had to prove you could do it with the mouse, (hit the X, the next lesson was file-> quit)
I've also sat through training where I realized half way through that I should take notes, because the interface was best learned as "next hit the 4th button on the 2nd row, and nevermind what you would think or the labels show". Unfortunatly for them, just before the program went live they changed the layout of the buttons (fortunatly they also made the buttons do what the labels said). In the end the only think useful out of that 2 hour class was the was a warning to save because the interface didn't always save where you would expect it to.
In other words, everyone needs help in places. If you need help with turning the computer on fine: get it. Please don't make those of us who know how to do complex things sit through a 1 hour class on turning it on.
Those are not engineers, they are actors trying to look like engineers. The men are dressed 20 years out of date (though the equipment isn't qite that old). No engineer dresses like that anymore. The biggest clue, however, is their smile. It isn't the sort of half smile of an engineer comptemplating a hard problem it is the half smile of an actor who was just told drop the coversation to look "busy".
I wouldn't ahve said the above based on just the men though. They could caught in the act of switching focus, and just work for a "old way" company that hasn't caught onto modern dress codes. The female however doesn't fit. She isn't staring at the men like a "dumb blonde" amazed to meet someone who can think about something technical despite having her in the room, nor is she staring at the scope trace like another engineer who knows the problem and is trying to figgure out why they are getting that trace. She is trying to act like an engineer, while staring at a circuit board! It doesn't fit, all engineers have seen a circuit board before, and only stare them when replacing something, everything else to learn from the board is more easially learned from the engineering schetches (which were not in the picture).
I'm not sure why research into smart clothes would involve a tarditional inflexable circuit board for that matter.
Its an engineering issue. I drive over bridges because I know almost nothing about hot they are built. All the bridge engineers I know refuse to cross bridges that they design (they either fly, or drive around to a bridge they didn't design). Airplane designers often refuse to fly in their airplane.
Not that their designes are not safe enough, but as an engineer you know all the compromises, and they keep you up at night. I personally avoid software I've made, and I've been up all night worrying about what happens when a customer tries something other than the obviousy no error code paths.
In other words, Linus still runs minux on his important systems, while he waits for Linux to mature enough to be trustworthy. (I'd suggest a BSD, but IIRC linus has committed code to them from time to time). This however might be giving it too much credit. He now knows how CPUs are desigend from working at Transmeta. I wouldn't be surprized if he does everything with pencil and paper!
Not exactly. The sensor says "tempature 200." Is that oil tempature, engine water inlet tempature, or engine water outlet tempature? You specified water, but the same sensor [electronics?] may be used in different parts. Where was it installed needs to be indicated somehow.
Some things can be infered if it is operating normally. Tempatures of 100 and 220 indicate inlet and outlet, respectivly (not sure if that is reasonable range, but you get the point). What if the sensor is broke though and is giving a wrong value. Somehow you need to know which one it is so you can replace it.