yea they always want fast hit from range, and use the excuse that you don't need armor if they don't see you coming.. then reality sets in.. the A-10 is wonderful because it can lay down precise deadly force and take a beating while doing it. and they have the added bonus of not being nearly as expensive as a lot of other Jets
that is an interesting video - but i still question the leaf's design when left out charging and it begins to rain. the video shows water pouring on a already made connection, i wonder what happens when the connection is connected/disconnected while having heavy rain in high winds..
Do you really consider this "innovation"?? this is nothing more than putting shiny things in places where they will cause more harm than good.
While i agree that it will drive car sales, they really should be held accountable for what they are doing. Selling AR15s with full auto by default would increase gun sales but we don't let them do that.
So your situation is to have the passengers display entertainment on the dash board for everyone to see when they could just use the built in displays in the head rests for the back and again the actual smartphone for the person in shotgun..
I understand the "passenger" argument, and i do believe that passengers have a responsibly not to create a distraction.
As for your comment on self driving cars, if you are in a self driving car, then you are all passengers, a computer is the driver, and i wouldn't want the computer distracted beyond it's ability to operate the vehicle.. if you want to "test the waters for socially enabled in car entertainment" that effects the current meat space driver/operator wait till you have the self driving cars so you can let them be entertained by i while the computer drives the car, but it would be unwise to do it before hand.
If you really want to watch a movie on your way to work, do it in a manner where you aren't the one in control of a 3000lbs object traveling at 50 mph while watching the movie.
So explain to me why a passenger would need to have their smartphone in hand and have the application for it appear on the dash, rather than just looking at it in their hand, that doesn't involve the driver.
i'm still curious how the leaf handles the charging when rain starts.. also what happens when you insert that connector in the reverse direction and it happens to be soaking wet?
It's your IT Manager's job to track his department, this includes costs. One big thing i see missing from IT shops is a lack of tracking of the actual work done. A lot of work gets done that never gets tracked, maybe because it is considered trivial or quick, but you can't manage what you can't track. 100% work time accounting is a necessity if you want to truly be able to improve your effectiveness and efficiency, too often people view that as micro managing or feel it will be used against them (and understandably so because it has happened before) but only a fool of a manager would do that.
At each level of a work force there is information that is available and useful, to them and to other levels, only by identifying them and putting a process in place for the transfer of this information and the training of everyone involved can you do it quickly and efficiently and get what you need when you need it with out the increased work load everyone fears when they here "track what you do". You would be surprised do when you start going through it with people that 80-90% of the information you need is already being captured by someone at some point because they thought it was "useful" but they have squirreled it away for some reason or another.
off topic the the root story, on topic to lightknight's post
And i'd have to disagree that doing "Adopting MRO traceability sidesteps the implicit architectural debt of neglecting a software installation" it is less of a sidestep and more of way to actually start controlling it and realize parts of your organization. MRO is not just storeroom and inventory, while that is a large portion it is "All actions which have the objective of retaining or restoring an item in or to a state in which it can perform its required function. The actions include the combination of all technical and corresponding administrative, managerial, and supervision actions." Traditionally it is only applied to things that are purely physical but the principles and methods can be applied to software, business processes, and their underlying infrastructure. It would only be a side step if you only did MRO for the hardware portion of what your IT department does.
and as you see to be making a call back to the "topic" i say we tar and feather him and drag him through the streets, saying he's a CS major when he's really an accountant, it's a wolf in sheep's clothing..
say every department has a storeroom is the same as saying everyone does planning even for emergency work, which while true isn't what you want.
And formal MRO is very much worth doing, as that is what IT departments do for both hardware and software. how many projects to you see go through were to cost to maintain the software/hardware is an after the fact though? How many budgets do you see go through that are mainly based on what we spent last year? If your living in that world and the accountants want to change your funding it's difficult for you to give concrete answers as to what it will cost them in production availability. It's the difference between knowing I spent X and things ran last year and knowing i spent X and I got A & B & C. When they know the cost of A & B & C then they can adjust funding based on returns for that portion of the department and the product they produce vs cost cutting across the board.
Also as for Storerooms/Inventory for a Large IT Group, there is big money to be had there, we have gotten lucky that the IRS lets the company do full cost write offs on the purchases rather quickly and allows companies to set arbitrary numbers on when something is a tracked asset. I don't think IT will continue to get a free ride for long, and if they want to be efficient they really do need to start tracking it and showing what is producing and what isn't.
And i do apologize for the "bean counters" i don't catch my self using it, but it is almost universally understood as accounting with a focus of reducing costs at any cost.
I agree that you would not go into the same detail for a small company because your right it doesn't make sense.. buy my comment is in the perspective that we are in a thread started via a discussion about Yahoo, and i can tell you that in large organizations IT is still treated and ran as if it was a small company from the view that they are producing capacity. In most large organizations they are viewed as a service center and a money pit, when you get into conversations about bean counters you normally are not thinking about a 1-2 man shop.
when it comes to the 1-2 man shops you should still be doing budgeting, you should still be planning and evaluating solutions for total life cycle costs. It isn't that time consuming and it is extremely valuable information to have and to work within.
From what i have seen of what you described, that mostly happens because IT departments don't operate like they should, how many do you know have a storeroom? how many of them have actually do formal MRO? very very few.
If that Manager can show min/max, inventory levels, turns, and value for it then the bean counters are less likely to blindly cut it. How many IT departments have a budget? Most, out of them how many of them have a signed a up a Budget for maintaining vs operating vs improving? Very Few.
Play the game and do it right, and things will be easier with the bean counters, at the same time they will be easier inside your organization with the added structure. To often IT is viewed as a money pit rather than a cost/profit center. IT produces capacity for other customers to work, if you can't track that and show it and give an actual cost over Maintenance, Repair, and Operations for it then the people who give you the money are less likely to keep giving it. they only know they paid "X" and IT functioned, but they don't actually know what they paid for.
I propose a small submersible:
That deploys a hot air balloon or some type of balloon to provide lift (much like a non rigid air ship)
Has a prop with adjustable blade pitch so that it can provide thrust when both in water or in air (also might want a gear box that can offer the hi speed ratios needed for the air bit)
That has longer than normal bow-planes to allow for effective steering in the air..
I'm confident that if someone wanted to they could build a flying submarine, but there is the inherent question of why the hell would you ever want to.
the thing is, based on what we see water had to be quite common on Mars at some point. at that point the ability to support life would have been extremely high.. something has happened to the planet which has caused the water to not be on the surface, question is where did it go and why, and if there is still water under the surface does it still harbor life?
your idea relies heavily on Ion thrusters that while they do exist are not "fast" and i seriously doubt would work for a maned mission out side of earths gravity well (something we have never done mind you). I think the thought that in 10-15 years we could see commercial flights offering people a trip to see Venus transit the sun is the same as people 20-30 years ago saying we would have flying cars. And while yes it could be done, it's just not practical or cost efficient.
Bluetooth is far more usable, except the lack of standard stacks.. the fact that they leave it to each manufacturer to implement each device profile in their stack as they see fit (ore more commonly not too) drives me nuts, It has gotten better as it has matured, but is something that should have never been allowed to happen.
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yea they always want fast hit from range, and use the excuse that you don't need armor if they don't see you coming.. then reality sets in.. the A-10 is wonderful because it can lay down precise deadly force and take a beating while doing it. and they have the added bonus of not being nearly as expensive as a lot of other Jets
Brainfuck's easy...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge
i still love the P-38
and when it comes to a shooting war we can drag out the real killers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunderbolt_II
i missed that - sorry i only could find the part with the cable already connected and the hose just pouring on it..
you'd have to admit it'd be fun... well at least once.
Next week, a 3D-printed book. No ink, kids! Just delicious ABS plastic pages with the letters raised from the surface.
you know it might be obvious to some but i've never thought if it - machine translation/conversion of eBooks into think film printed braille.
that is an interesting video - but i still question the leaf's design when left out charging and it begins to rain. the video shows water pouring on a already made connection, i wonder what happens when the connection is connected/disconnected while having heavy rain in high winds..
I fully agree - i think it's been a while since I've seen any advertisement that had anything to do with the product in a real world usage situation.
As far as i'm concerned the general population (at least in the US) has become ignorant and dependent on instant gratification.
Do you really consider this "innovation"?? this is nothing more than putting shiny things in places where they will cause more harm than good.
While i agree that it will drive car sales, they really should be held accountable for what they are doing. Selling AR15s with full auto by default would increase gun sales but we don't let them do that.
could always be a sailboat made to harvest the vast winds released via nukes, get the spinnaker ready we got a big one here..
So your situation is to have the passengers display entertainment on the dash board for everyone to see when they could just use the built in displays in the head rests for the back and again the actual smartphone for the person in shotgun..
I understand the "passenger" argument, and i do believe that passengers have a responsibly not to create a distraction.
As for your comment on self driving cars, if you are in a self driving car, then you are all passengers, a computer is the driver, and i wouldn't want the computer distracted beyond it's ability to operate the vehicle.. if you want to "test the waters for socially enabled in car entertainment" that effects the current meat space driver/operator wait till you have the self driving cars so you can let them be entertained by i while the computer drives the car, but it would be unwise to do it before hand.
If you really want to watch a movie on your way to work, do it in a manner where you aren't the one in control of a 3000lbs object traveling at 50 mph while watching the movie.
Good job on not even attempting to post an answer to my post.
So explain to me why a passenger would need to have their smartphone in hand and have the application for it appear on the dash, rather than just looking at it in their hand, that doesn't involve the driver.
i'm still curious how the leaf handles the charging when rain starts.. also what happens when you insert that connector in the reverse direction and it happens to be soaking wet?
It's your IT Manager's job to track his department, this includes costs. One big thing i see missing from IT shops is a lack of tracking of the actual work done. A lot of work gets done that never gets tracked, maybe because it is considered trivial or quick, but you can't manage what you can't track. 100% work time accounting is a necessity if you want to truly be able to improve your effectiveness and efficiency, too often people view that as micro managing or feel it will be used against them (and understandably so because it has happened before) but only a fool of a manager would do that.
At each level of a work force there is information that is available and useful, to them and to other levels, only by identifying them and putting a process in place for the transfer of this information and the training of everyone involved can you do it quickly and efficiently and get what you need when you need it with out the increased work load everyone fears when they here "track what you do". You would be surprised do when you start going through it with people that 80-90% of the information you need is already being captured by someone at some point because they thought it was "useful" but they have squirreled it away for some reason or another.
not sure why but i feel i should post something here........
off topic the the root story, on topic to lightknight's post
And i'd have to disagree that doing "Adopting MRO traceability sidesteps the implicit architectural debt of neglecting a software installation" it is less of a sidestep and more of way to actually start controlling it and realize parts of your organization. MRO is not just storeroom and inventory, while that is a large portion it is "All actions which have the objective of retaining or restoring an item in or to a state in which it can perform its required function. The actions include the combination of all technical and corresponding administrative, managerial, and supervision actions." Traditionally it is only applied to things that are purely physical but the principles and methods can be applied to software, business processes, and their underlying infrastructure. It would only be a side step if you only did MRO for the hardware portion of what your IT department does.
and as you see to be making a call back to the "topic" i say we tar and feather him and drag him through the streets, saying he's a CS major when he's really an accountant, it's a wolf in sheep's clothing..
say every department has a storeroom is the same as saying everyone does planning even for emergency work, which while true isn't what you want.
And formal MRO is very much worth doing, as that is what IT departments do for both hardware and software. how many projects to you see go through were to cost to maintain the software/hardware is an after the fact though? How many budgets do you see go through that are mainly based on what we spent last year? If your living in that world and the accountants want to change your funding it's difficult for you to give concrete answers as to what it will cost them in production availability. It's the difference between knowing I spent X and things ran last year and knowing i spent X and I got A & B & C. When they know the cost of A & B & C then they can adjust funding based on returns for that portion of the department and the product they produce vs cost cutting across the board.
Also as for Storerooms/Inventory for a Large IT Group, there is big money to be had there, we have gotten lucky that the IRS lets the company do full cost write offs on the purchases rather quickly and allows companies to set arbitrary numbers on when something is a tracked asset. I don't think IT will continue to get a free ride for long, and if they want to be efficient they really do need to start tracking it and showing what is producing and what isn't.
And i do apologize for the "bean counters" i don't catch my self using it, but it is almost universally understood as accounting with a focus of reducing costs at any cost.
I agree that you would not go into the same detail for a small company because your right it doesn't make sense.. buy my comment is in the perspective that we are in a thread started via a discussion about Yahoo, and i can tell you that in large organizations IT is still treated and ran as if it was a small company from the view that they are producing capacity. In most large organizations they are viewed as a service center and a money pit, when you get into conversations about bean counters you normally are not thinking about a 1-2 man shop.
when it comes to the 1-2 man shops you should still be doing budgeting, you should still be planning and evaluating solutions for total life cycle costs. It isn't that time consuming and it is extremely valuable information to have and to work within.
From what i have seen of what you described, that mostly happens because IT departments don't operate like they should, how many do you know have a storeroom? how many of them have actually do formal MRO? very very few.
If that Manager can show min/max, inventory levels, turns, and value for it then the bean counters are less likely to blindly cut it. How many IT departments have a budget? Most, out of them how many of them have a signed a up a Budget for maintaining vs operating vs improving? Very Few.
Play the game and do it right, and things will be easier with the bean counters, at the same time they will be easier inside your organization with the added structure. To often IT is viewed as a money pit rather than a cost/profit center. IT produces capacity for other customers to work, if you can't track that and show it and give an actual cost over Maintenance, Repair, and Operations for it then the people who give you the money are less likely to keep giving it. they only know they paid "X" and IT functioned, but they don't actually know what they paid for.
Like building a flying submarine
I propose a small submersible:
That deploys a hot air balloon or some type of balloon to provide lift (much like a non rigid air ship)
Has a prop with adjustable blade pitch so that it can provide thrust when both in water or in air (also might want a gear box that can offer the hi speed ratios needed for the air bit)
That has longer than normal bow-planes to allow for effective steering in the air..
I'm confident that if someone wanted to they could build a flying submarine, but there is the inherent question of why the hell would you ever want to.
the thing is, based on what we see water had to be quite common on Mars at some point. at that point the ability to support life would have been extremely high.. something has happened to the planet which has caused the water to not be on the surface, question is where did it go and why, and if there is still water under the surface does it still harbor life?
your idea relies heavily on Ion thrusters that while they do exist are not "fast" and i seriously doubt would work for a maned mission out side of earths gravity well (something we have never done mind you). I think the thought that in 10-15 years we could see commercial flights offering people a trip to see Venus transit the sun is the same as people 20-30 years ago saying we would have flying cars. And while yes it could be done, it's just not practical or cost efficient.
Bluetooth is far more usable, except the lack of standard stacks.. the fact that they leave it to each manufacturer to implement each device profile in their stack as they see fit (ore more commonly not too) drives me nuts, It has gotten better as it has matured, but is something that should have never been allowed to happen.