Given that virtually every system(if not on the printed card, just by asking the teacher) exposes the real numerical average, I don't really see this as an issue.
All report cards I have ever gotten didn't expose the "real numerical average". Though some teachers might have let me know if I asked, most would not casually share that information. Though, I suppose, in the case of failing, a parent-teacher conference would be able to elicit that magical number, in most cases.
Best solution to in-fighting managers is: Your department/project lost money for 2 years, you're out. Apply to all managers and execs
That's an absolutely terrible "solution". First, it incorrectly assumes that each manager controls and independent fiefdom. In reality, some managers are making decisions that affect other managers' profits, and such a policy will generate more in-fighting to the detriment of the copmany as a whole. Second, not all groups have a bottom line profit that can be effectively rated. Some necessary functions do not directly generate profits,.but are done to keep the customer happy, to hire good people, to experiment with ideas that may or may not pan out, etc. Do you really want to punish the most creative managers in your company just because their last big idea wasn't successfully commercialized?
That's not a problem with evince, it's probably an issue of using a font not embedded in the.pdf file and also not found in your computer.
On the other hand, I have had problems with rendering large CAD files in evince, but lately I haven't noticed them (other than evince is extremely slow to render such files compared to Acrobat).
.pdf is actually currrently the best format for sharing and printing vector graphic CAD drawings, and it's an open format that anyone can implement. Viewers and print drivers for it are ubiquitous, the spec is open, all major CAD programs can output to it (though some might need and add-in or plotter driver) .pdf is more reliable than using the actual CAD file, as even if you put up the $thousands for AutoCAD different versions and different add-ons will look different and may not work with each other at all. Also line thickness, colors, plotting attributes, etc. need additional info not typically stored inside the document.
Before.pdfs became common, AutoCAD printing was typically done by making.plt files, for which there are no good viewers, and which still require plotting setup files to plot properly.
Before.pdfs became common, sharable drawings for viewing were usually.tiff files, which are large, cumbersome, slow, and hard to print to scale. .DXF drawings relatively open, but are large, have limited accuracy, and will not usually contain all of the information needed to plot a modern drawing (see the.DXF definition of a 3D Solid, for example)
You're a little off.
Outdoor air carbon dioxide levels were typically around 300 ppm 60 to 100 years ago, in fact, they've rarely exceeded 280 ppm for the last 400,000 years.. Nowadays they're around 360 ppm to 400 ppm - that's 20% more than just 50 years ago - a pretty abrupt change. It's also more than 25% above the previous four interglacial CO2 peak levels.
Indoor air carbon dioxide levels are typically kept around 600 ppm (at least, that's the attempt). Above 800 to 1000 ppm there's probably inadequate ventilation, though that may be using the CO2 level as a surrogate for other indoor air pollution as much as a direct problem of too much CO2. Above around 1,000 ppm people begin to complain of headaches and drowsiness OSHA's 8-hour limit is 5,000 ppm, which you might find in an industrial environment. At that level you're also significantly affecting the percentage of O2 in the air.
According to your definition, if my dog chewed it up, it was biologically degraded. I don't agree that's a useful definition.
"All plastic is biodegradable" needs a citation. As far as I can tell, A lot of degraded plastic got degraded by ultra-violet light and weathering, rather than biological activity.
"it's usually the additives to the plastic being released during degradation that are bad" And are those additives biodegradable? Some of them could be poisonous enough to kill biological activity and prevent the degradation of the plastic containing them.
By the way, the word organic existed long before chemistry got ahold of it and used it with a chemical definition
All plastic is biodegradable, being organic... tends to degrade in to some not so nice things . . . it's usually the additives to the plastic being released during degradation that are bad
You're just changing the definition of biodegradable
Let me emphasize the point I was trying to make.
The bottom line and the green hippy crap are pretty much the same.
If you can't prove the savings, it's not really all that green.
However, the projects that go green are interested in long term savings.
Many other projects are only interested in the lowest construction cost. Sometimes that's because someone else is paying the long term costs.
Sometimes that's because long term costs don't matter if you go bankrupt trying to pay the short term costs.
If you only need mechanical cooling 30 days a year, you can't really afford to not use economizer ("free" outside air cooling) the rest of the time. OF course, it might be difficult to implement in an existing building, but it'd be well worth trying.
I didnt present 'hippy crap'. I submitted a spreadsheet that laid out the power consumption numbers, cost of equipment, licensing etc. It was pretty comprehensive.
I don't think you understand that 'hippy crap'. I've worked on construction projects where the "hippy 'green', 'progressive' shit 'language'," as you say, was important. Green design effort includes the sorts of things you put in your "pretty comprehensive" spreadsheet, but also includes the impacts of various possible combinations of walls, roof, glass, lighting, energy sources, HVAC system types, plumbing equipment, etc. It includes 365-day simulations of hourly energy costs using hourly data on weather, solar, internal loads, energy rates, etc. for different systems, usually including a base of minimum code requirements vs a few other possibilities. The "hippy, green language includes comparisons of capital costs and operating expenses, often on a present value basis. You may be surprised, however, how many owners are just as interested in "going green" as in the "bottom line" costs of the project. To me, that shows that there is currently a perceptible value in going green that should not be ignored.
It's not copyright infringement to write something required for a specific functionality (e.g. POSIX compliance or API compatibility) even if it's exaclty the same words. Copyright only covers creative expression. If the ways of saying something are limited, that's not covered by copyright.
Of course that didn't stop the SCO trolls from trying and wasting everyone's time.
Delayed justice is no justice at all.
That should be obvious, and it applies to both paper books and electronic books.
In both cases search is a function of the reader.
Of course, the electronic variety of search tends to be quicker, even though it tends to give a lot of extraneous results. But those issues can be mitigated by a good set of stored searches (otherwise known as an index).
While Linux is encumbered by the SCO mess, except related to copyrights and ownership of codes, . . .
Have you not been paying attention or do you not understand what encumbered means?
SCO owns nothing, even it Unix copyrights could encumber Linux. (hint: nobody has found any reasonable evidence of Linux infringement of Unix copyrights)
At the risk of contributing to an offtopic thread:
Labrador (and other) Retrievers are bred to pick up game, hold it gently in their mouths, and return it to their leader.
Pit Bulls are bred to bite, clamp down hard, and not let go.
Which would you rather get in a fight with?
Individuals from either breed can be nice or can be mean, but, in general, Labs are much safer around small children than Pit Bulls.
(full disclosure: my wife owns a Black Lab, a Golden Retriever, and a Border Collie)
You a wrong. Concrete roads are much more long lasting than asphalt.
I live in a climate with hot summers and cold, snowy winters, and recently rebuilt interstate highways. (Chicago area) Lots of salt is used in the winter. Still, almost all of the busiest, biggest highways are built from concrete. Well, more precisely, the new interstates have been built on a gravel foundation topped with several inches of asphalt, and the reinforced concrete roadway has been set on top of that.
Asphalt would be much cheaper, but not in the long run.
Asphalt is guaranteed to crack, even in permanent good weather with no traffic. This is because the lighter constituents of the asphalt evaporate, so the asphalt shrinks. This is inevitable,
Concrete can buckle in the heat (as can asphalt), but that can be mitigated with proper expansion joints.
Concrete can be damaged by salt (as can ashpalt), but that can be mitigated using epoxy-coated rebars and the right concrete mix.
A lot of winter road damage around here is caused by snowplows. Concrete fares better than asphalt under the plow.
Concrete potholes are harder to fill properly (often cheaply patched with asphalt "temporarily"), but they don't happen as often as in asphalt
Concrete can be grooved to provide better traction in wet weather, not so asphalt.
(As far as the environment goes, asphalt gives off a lot of nasty petrochemicals, requires a lot of heating to be made, transported, and laid. I believe that concrete is less polluting, in production as well as use.)
The issue is that those who wish to voluntarily label their food products as non-GM are not allowed to label it.
Living in a country founded on free speech, this just seems wrong to me.
Regardless of the health impacts of eating those foods, free people ought to be able to choose not to support the production of those products, especially considering possible environmental issues that could arise.
It reminds me of how the Romans brought in lead piping for their water. They thought it was great - water pumped to your home, the ultimate sign that you'd made it. An entire ruling class slowly poisoning themselves.
Before you condemn the ancient Romans to a slow poisoning, look around. There's plenty of lead pipe installed and in use for supplying drinking water around the world (Chicago is a good example). And where there's not lead pipe, there's plenty of copper water pipe with lead solder; brass and bronze faucets, fittings, and valves leaching lead; etc, It's only been the last 25 years or so that lead has been systematically eradicated lead from new installations. In most cases, nobody's requiring the removal of the old installations.
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There is more than one meaning to the word poor.
Given that virtually every system(if not on the printed card, just by asking the teacher) exposes the real numerical average, I don't really see this as an issue.
All report cards I have ever gotten didn't expose the "real numerical average". Though some teachers might have let me know if I asked, most would not casually share that information. Though, I suppose, in the case of failing, a parent-teacher conference would be able to elicit that magical number, in most cases.
Life sucks, the world sucks, and your friends will throw you under the bus in a heartbeat if it gives them an advantage.... get used to it.
Reminder to self: Don't ever make friends with Lumpy.
Like (US) Kansas? -22f is a common temperature in late dec early jan.
Common? In the coldest place in Kansas for which I have weather data handy, it gets to -1.4F or lower fewer than 36 hours per year, on average.
Best solution to in-fighting managers is: Your department/project lost money for 2 years, you're out. Apply to all managers and execs
That's an absolutely terrible "solution". First, it incorrectly assumes that each manager controls and independent fiefdom. In reality, some managers are making decisions that affect other managers' profits, and such a policy will generate more in-fighting to the detriment of the copmany as a whole. Second, not all groups have a bottom line profit that can be effectively rated. Some necessary functions do not directly generate profits,.but are done to keep the customer happy, to hire good people, to experiment with ideas that may or may not pan out, etc. Do you really want to punish the most creative managers in your company just because their last big idea wasn't successfully commercialized?
uses a weird font which renders wrong in evince.
That's not a problem with evince, it's probably an issue of using a font not embedded in the .pdf file and also not found in your computer.
On the other hand, I have had problems with rendering large CAD files in evince, but lately I haven't noticed them (other than evince is extremely slow to render such files compared to Acrobat).
.pdf is actually currrently the best format for sharing and printing vector graphic CAD drawings, and it's an open format that anyone can implement. Viewers and print drivers for it are ubiquitous, the spec is open, all major CAD programs can output to it (though some might need and add-in or plotter driver)
.pdf is more reliable than using the actual CAD file, as even if you put up the $thousands for AutoCAD different versions and different add-ons will look different and may not work with each other at all. Also line thickness, colors, plotting attributes, etc. need additional info not typically stored inside the document. .pdfs became common, AutoCAD printing was typically done by making .plt files, for which there are no good viewers, and which still require plotting setup files to plot properly. .pdfs became common, sharable drawings for viewing were usually .tiff files, which are large, cumbersome, slow, and hard to print to scale.
.DXF drawings relatively open, but are large, have limited accuracy, and will not usually contain all of the information needed to plot a modern drawing (see the .DXF definition of a 3D Solid, for example)
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You're a little off.
Outdoor air carbon dioxide levels were typically around 300 ppm 60 to 100 years ago, in fact, they've rarely exceeded 280 ppm for the last 400,000 years.. Nowadays they're around 360 ppm to 400 ppm - that's 20% more than just 50 years ago - a pretty abrupt change. It's also more than 25% above the previous four interglacial CO2 peak levels.
Indoor air carbon dioxide levels are typically kept around 600 ppm (at least, that's the attempt). Above 800 to 1000 ppm there's probably inadequate ventilation, though that may be using the CO2 level as a surrogate for other indoor air pollution as much as a direct problem of too much CO2. Above around 1,000 ppm people begin to complain of headaches and drowsiness
OSHA's 8-hour limit is 5,000 ppm, which you might find in an industrial environment. At that level you're also significantly affecting the percentage of O2 in the air.
Crap, copy and paste seems to have failed.
organic
"All plastic is biodegradable" needs a citation. As far as I can tell, A lot of degraded plastic got degraded by ultra-violet light and weathering, rather than biological activity.
"it's usually the additives to the plastic being released during degradation that are bad" And are those additives biodegradable? Some of them could be poisonous enough to kill biological activity and prevent the degradation of the plastic containing them.
By the way, the word organic existed long before chemistry got ahold of it and used it with a chemical definition
All plastic is biodegradable, being organic... tends to degrade in to some not so nice things . . . it's usually the additives to the plastic being released during degradation that are bad
You're just changing the definition of biodegradable
The bottom line and the green hippy crap are pretty much the same. If you can't prove the savings, it's not really all that green.
However, the projects that go green are interested in long term savings.
Many other projects are only interested in the lowest construction cost. Sometimes that's because someone else is paying the long term costs. Sometimes that's because long term costs don't matter if you go bankrupt trying to pay the short term costs.
If you only need mechanical cooling 30 days a year, you can't really afford to not use economizer ("free" outside air cooling) the rest of the time. OF course, it might be difficult to implement in an existing building, but it'd be well worth trying.
I didnt present 'hippy crap'. I submitted a spreadsheet that laid out the power consumption numbers, cost of equipment, licensing etc. It was pretty comprehensive.
I don't think you understand that 'hippy crap'. I've worked on construction projects where the "hippy 'green', 'progressive' shit 'language'," as you say, was important. Green design effort includes the sorts of things you put in your "pretty comprehensive" spreadsheet, but also includes the impacts of various possible combinations of walls, roof, glass, lighting, energy sources, HVAC system types, plumbing equipment, etc. It includes 365-day simulations of hourly energy costs using hourly data on weather, solar, internal loads, energy rates, etc. for different systems, usually including a base of minimum code requirements vs a few other possibilities. The "hippy, green language includes comparisons of capital costs and operating expenses, often on a present value basis. You may be surprised, however, how many owners are just as interested in "going green" as in the "bottom line" costs of the project. To me, that shows that there is currently a perceptible value in going green that should not be ignored.
It's not copyright infringement to write something required for a specific functionality (e.g. POSIX compliance or API compatibility) even if it's exaclty the same words. Copyright only covers creative expression. If the ways of saying something are limited, that's not covered by copyright.
Of course that didn't stop the SCO trolls from trying and wasting everyone's time.
Delayed justice is no justice at all.
Books lack search.
That should be obvious, and it applies to both paper books and electronic books.
In both cases search is a function of the reader.
Of course, the electronic variety of search tends to be quicker, even though it tends to give a lot of extraneous results. But those issues can be mitigated by a good set of stored searches (otherwise known as an index).
While Linux is encumbered by the SCO mess, except related to copyrights and ownership of codes, . . .
Have you not been paying attention or do you not understand what encumbered means?
SCO owns nothing, even it Unix copyrights could encumber Linux. (hint: nobody has found any reasonable evidence of Linux infringement of Unix copyrights)
At the risk of contributing to an offtopic thread:
Labrador (and other) Retrievers are bred to pick up game, hold it gently in their mouths, and return it to their leader.
Pit Bulls are bred to bite, clamp down hard, and not let go.
Which would you rather get in a fight with?
Individuals from either breed can be nice or can be mean, but, in general, Labs are much safer around small children than Pit Bulls.
(full disclosure: my wife owns a Black Lab, a Golden Retriever, and a Border Collie)
You a wrong. Concrete roads are much more long lasting than asphalt.
I live in a climate with hot summers and cold, snowy winters, and recently rebuilt interstate highways. (Chicago area) Lots of salt is used in the winter. Still, almost all of the busiest, biggest highways are built from concrete. Well, more precisely, the new interstates have been built on a gravel foundation topped with several inches of asphalt, and the reinforced concrete roadway has been set on top of that.
Asphalt would be much cheaper, but not in the long run.
Asphalt is guaranteed to crack, even in permanent good weather with no traffic. This is because the lighter constituents of the asphalt evaporate, so the asphalt shrinks. This is inevitable,
Concrete can buckle in the heat (as can asphalt), but that can be mitigated with proper expansion joints.
Concrete can be damaged by salt (as can ashpalt), but that can be mitigated using epoxy-coated rebars and the right concrete mix.
A lot of winter road damage around here is caused by snowplows. Concrete fares better than asphalt under the plow.
Concrete potholes are harder to fill properly (often cheaply patched with asphalt "temporarily"), but they don't happen as often as in asphalt
Concrete can be grooved to provide better traction in wet weather, not so asphalt.
(As far as the environment goes, asphalt gives off a lot of nasty petrochemicals, requires a lot of heating to be made, transported, and laid. I believe that concrete is less polluting, in production as well as use.)
all producers of non-GM food need to do is label their products with "no GM ingredients inside" label.
Which, thanks to the lobbying budgets of companies like Monsanto, is not currently legal for them to do.
The issue is that those who wish to voluntarily label their food products as non-GM are not allowed to label it.
Living in a country founded on free speech, this just seems wrong to me.
Regardless of the health impacts of eating those foods, free people ought to be able to choose not to support the production of those products, especially considering possible environmental issues that could arise.
Huh?!?
Patents are currently limited (in the USA) to 20 years.
It reminds me of how the Romans brought in lead piping for their water. They thought it was great - water pumped to your home, the ultimate sign that you'd made it. An entire ruling class slowly poisoning themselves.
Before you condemn the ancient Romans to a slow poisoning, look around. There's plenty of lead pipe installed and in use for supplying drinking water around the world (Chicago is a good example). And where there's not lead pipe, there's plenty of copper water pipe with lead solder; brass and bronze faucets, fittings, and valves leaching lead; etc, It's only been the last 25 years or so that lead has been systematically eradicated lead from new installations. In most cases, nobody's requiring the removal of the old installations.
Get several of them and RAID, you get all the performance benefits of SSDs
Except for power consumption and portability.
Really, this is useless for a laptop, which is what I would be buying an SSD for
Windows UI developers are a dime a dozen
A price that, at least in this case, reflects their value.