International? I suppose the ISS is slightly more international than the international coalition that invaded and defeated Iraq. Slightly. The US has always been behind most of the engineering, construction, funding and maintenance of the ISS, you know. I suppose if the ESA wanted to take it over we'd chuckle and let them handle the problems, but that isn't going to happen.
I take it back: the 300-mile car is too expensive. For that range, you are looking at $65k, before tax credit. The $50k model will only get around 150 miles per charge, which is pushing the lower limits of practicality. Plus you need a 480 volt outlet for the 45-minute quick charge? So much for being able to drive until you need a recharge and plug in to the nearest outlet. The technology is getting there - close enough to practical for us to discuss it, but not good/cheap enough yet for the average person.
I have to agree that the range issue it not that much of an issue at all here. 300 miles is pretty darned good. I live in a US suburb and very rarely drive more than 70 miles a day, and only once or twice a year more than 300 miles at a time. Of course, I would have to rent or borrow another vehicle to visit my sister 450 miles away or drive cross-country, but those are rarities. So a 300 mile range is probably good enough for 95% of Americans 95% of the time, and the car is genuinely worth considering. $50k is still too high for me, but not out of this world for many folks, especially considering the potentially lower operating costs and "cool factor"/conversation value. It appears much more usable and compelling than say, the Smart Fortwo.
If it's really burning you out after only 1 1/2 years, then you should really look at (a) your workload (b) your choice of career and (c) your work/life balance.
These are things to consider, but it may just be a bad company. Usually it seems that folks who don't fit well within a certain company are the types of folks who don't fit well with ANY company, but sometimes it is not them. For example, the HR department at a company a friend worked for was especially inept, and kept hiring unqualified morons who did nothing but start trouble and create a bad atmosphere in the workplace. My friend has worked for two other companies in the same field that were completely tolerable, and I'm sure it was not just him. Maybe it's time to look for a new employer and move on to greener pastures? Giving a good honest effort and trying to be happy only goes so far, and one person should not feel obligated to tolerate or try to fix a company of 60 employees. Basically, say screw them, and go somewhere else.
Hmm, if they eventually provide support for Mac and Linux, can I still get an exemption if I run Solaris or BSD? BeOS or OS/2? Can I not run AIX or System V anymore if I go to OSU?
Don't worry, dean is probably the one that made the deal with Microsoft. If he didn't, he did, but he's keeping it secret. Because that's what it's all about. And sadly, I'm not being paranoid here, because I've observed with my own eyes why deans obsessed with.Net should perhaps not become deans, or be influential at all.
At my alma mater, I think it took more than a dean's decree to cut huge deals with major corporations. A particular associate dean at the university also helped me out of a sticky situation once, and on two occasions allowed me to bypass arbitrary requirements that made no sense in my situation. So I agree with the earlier comment, which said to ask a dean for an exemption. Getting to talk to a dean may be the hardest part here. In my experience, deans can be very reasonable, and less concerned with bureaucratic practices and following poorly formulated rules than with doing what is right and using their considerable discretion to help good customers.
No, it means they're going to fail and give up after an hour, then send the telescope out to someone else and not be able to tell us when it will be back, or whether it will be fixed when it returns.
The wicked witch may not be dead yet, but she has pneumonia, gangrene, a wicked case of uncontrolled syphilis, and a lazy eye. And H1N1 influenza. And no health insurance or VA benefits. Medicare has its limits. And her good eye is infected from pickin' at it...
...but I think she's more like the Annoying Witch really, as she was too inefective and irrelevant to ever really be all that wicked.
I'd bid on sco.com,for sure!!! I'd pay like $3 to use it for my future site devoted to South Carolina otters. That is, if I can get a loan, since funding has been hard to secure for this project, for some reason. Maybe I'll try to figure out who invested in SCO in recent years and hit them up.
If you even have to ask about this, your cables are too old. All of them. Every single last one. The only solution is to install new ones and send all the old copper, I mean cables, to me, including phone cables. Better safe than sorry. I promise not to ship the whole mess out to a scrap metal dealer. You could even go one better and follow my company's motto: if it ain't broke, fix it at least twice.
Yes. The bathroom at my previous residence did not have a window, and I was initially annoyed at how dim my CFLs seemed at first. But I really appreciated it most mornings when I went straight in there after waking up and wasn't blinded. A "feature" there, but a "bug" in many applications, though the CFLs I've bought since then don't seem to need long to warm up.
The headline convinced me that the Canadian Football League was causing woe....
Well, it is causes woe to American football fans by even existing, but that is not the discussion here. Surrendering a point for not returning a kick and being able to say "the 53 yard line" is communism! Lay off the donairs and back bacon, eh?
4) Even just throwing a CFL in the trash doesn't mean all that mercury is emitted to the environment. I could dig up the link *yet again* if I have to, but the amount of mercury released from CFL disposal is roughly along the lines of: 20% if your trash is incinerated, 3% if it's landfilled, 3% if you throw the bulb into normal glass recycling, and a small fraction of a percent if it's treated as hazardous waste.
...which is why it is generally permissible for us to dispose of CFLs with our regular, household trash. The amount and type of mercury being thrown away do not merit special considerations, when residential consumers are concerned. My city, trash hauler, and recycling district all agree that it is okay if I toss a CFL in with my kitchen garbage once in a while. Naturally, I have yet do do that after switching to mostly CFLs a year and a half ago.
So in effect, yes, it does EXACTLY as he said, and it APPEARS (to the light company) to be using no power. Not wrong. Please read more carefully before criticizing someone's logic:(
I have also switched over to mostly CFL bulbs, and have yet to replace one after about a year and a half. The only places I am not using some sort of fluorescent is for outdoor floodlights and where I want a dimmable light. The supposedly-dimmable CFLs, in my experience, having basically three settings: full brightness, 80% brightness, and off, making them rather pointless. Maybe I'm missing something, but this was the case in two different fixtures.
Did my computer screw it up or does the link really point to a 6MB 1p pdf? Why not just use a bmp?
6MB? That's nothing. A few days ago I clicked on a link to some information about a local city park. Five minutes later, after being distracted, I thought the link was broken or I didn't click it or something. Nope: the 28MB pdf was still downloading! But at least I got the entry info for the 5k run... for last year! But I guess that's to be expected in a city of 20,000 that still doesn't accept online utility payments, doesn't have even one Starbucks (which I'm okay with) and has 3 Circle K stores one one road within 1.5 miles of each other.
...there will be more day to day problems, but your chimps are a lot cheaper, and easier to find.
Unless you encounter a problem over the chimp's head that he tries to "fix," and he really screws something up (make sure you have strict backup schedules, of course), or the chimp tries to eat your face. Both of these things happen, apparently.
You're kidding me, right? People just...don't...care that much about audio quality. The least of which being Britney fans and the like.
That's the point I always make when this type of discussion comes up: most people are NOT audiophiles, or even close, and really don't care if their music is compressed to hell and sounds bad to a few of us. As if the specs of mp3s, ipods, etc., weren't enough to convince you of this, the proliferation of utterly crappy, 1-inch portable and dockable speakers for digital media players should make it obvious. Shitty speaker systems for ipods are EVERYWHERE, run from dirt cheap to obscenely over-priced, and to produce abhorrently bad sound from previously over-compressed music... and people love them!
You can even put blue lights (and presumably blue lasers, check your local motor vehicle laws) underneath your car to illuminate the ground more fully. This should be great for CDs, cause I hear it adds like 10 horsepower for cars.
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International? I suppose the ISS is slightly more international than the international coalition that invaded and defeated Iraq. Slightly. The US has always been behind most of the engineering, construction, funding and maintenance of the ISS, you know. I suppose if the ESA wanted to take it over we'd chuckle and let them handle the problems, but that isn't going to happen.
I take it back: the 300-mile car is too expensive. For that range, you are looking at $65k, before tax credit. The $50k model will only get around 150 miles per charge, which is pushing the lower limits of practicality. Plus you need a 480 volt outlet for the 45-minute quick charge? So much for being able to drive until you need a recharge and plug in to the nearest outlet. The technology is getting there - close enough to practical for us to discuss it, but not good/cheap enough yet for the average person.
I have to agree that the range issue it not that much of an issue at all here. 300 miles is pretty darned good. I live in a US suburb and very rarely drive more than 70 miles a day, and only once or twice a year more than 300 miles at a time. Of course, I would have to rent or borrow another vehicle to visit my sister 450 miles away or drive cross-country, but those are rarities. So a 300 mile range is probably good enough for 95% of Americans 95% of the time, and the car is genuinely worth considering. $50k is still too high for me, but not out of this world for many folks, especially considering the potentially lower operating costs and "cool factor"/conversation value. It appears much more usable and compelling than say, the Smart Fortwo.
Oh, great. Next it will be OBD computers and catalytic converters, and soon cows will be too difficult for the average person to maintain.
I won't miss anything if you read all the AC posts and mod them up when they contain all of these prescious leaks!
These are things to consider, but it may just be a bad company. Usually it seems that folks who don't fit well within a certain company are the types of folks who don't fit well with ANY company, but sometimes it is not them. For example, the HR department at a company a friend worked for was especially inept, and kept hiring unqualified morons who did nothing but start trouble and create a bad atmosphere in the workplace. My friend has worked for two other companies in the same field that were completely tolerable, and I'm sure it was not just him. Maybe it's time to look for a new employer and move on to greener pastures? Giving a good honest effort and trying to be happy only goes so far, and one person should not feel obligated to tolerate or try to fix a company of 60 employees. Basically, say screw them, and go somewhere else.
Hmm, if they eventually provide support for Mac and Linux, can I still get an exemption if I run Solaris or BSD? BeOS or OS/2? Can I not run AIX or System V anymore if I go to OSU?
Don't worry, dean is probably the one that made the deal with Microsoft. If he didn't, he did, but he's keeping it secret. Because that's what it's all about. And sadly, I'm not being paranoid here, because I've observed with my own eyes why deans obsessed with .Net should perhaps not become deans, or be influential at all.
At my alma mater, I think it took more than a dean's decree to cut huge deals with major corporations. A particular associate dean at the university also helped me out of a sticky situation once, and on two occasions allowed me to bypass arbitrary requirements that made no sense in my situation. So I agree with the earlier comment, which said to ask a dean for an exemption. Getting to talk to a dean may be the hardest part here. In my experience, deans can be very reasonable, and less concerned with bureaucratic practices and following poorly formulated rules than with doing what is right and using their considerable discretion to help good customers.
No, it means they're going to fail and give up after an hour, then send the telescope out to someone else and not be able to tell us when it will be back, or whether it will be fixed when it returns.
I'd bid on sco.com,for sure!!! I'd pay like $3 to use it for my future site devoted to South Carolina otters. That is, if I can get a loan, since funding has been hard to secure for this project, for some reason. Maybe I'll try to figure out who invested in SCO in recent years and hit them up.
Chapter 7 probably makes sense for a company like SCO, but they have one argument against it: liquidate what?
...and the papers can't figure out why they are dying of low subscribership!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you even have to ask about this, your cables are too old. All of them. Every single last one. The only solution is to install new ones and send all the old copper, I mean cables, to me, including phone cables. Better safe than sorry. I promise not to ship the whole mess out to a scrap metal dealer. You could even go one better and follow my company's motto: if it ain't broke, fix it at least twice.
Yes. The bathroom at my previous residence did not have a window, and I was initially annoyed at how dim my CFLs seemed at first. But I really appreciated it most mornings when I went straight in there after waking up and wasn't blinded. A "feature" there, but a "bug" in many applications, though the CFLs I've bought since then don't seem to need long to warm up.
The headline convinced me that the Canadian Football League was causing woe....
Well, it is causes woe to American football fans by even existing, but that is not the discussion here. Surrendering a point for not returning a kick and being able to say "the 53 yard line" is communism! Lay off the donairs and back bacon, eh?
4) Even just throwing a CFL in the trash doesn't mean all that mercury is emitted to the environment. I could dig up the link *yet again* if I have to, but the amount of mercury released from CFL disposal is roughly along the lines of: 20% if your trash is incinerated, 3% if it's landfilled, 3% if you throw the bulb into normal glass recycling, and a small fraction of a percent if it's treated as hazardous waste.
...which is why it is generally permissible for us to dispose of CFLs with our regular, household trash. The amount and type of mercury being thrown away do not merit special considerations, when residential consumers are concerned. My city, trash hauler, and recycling district all agree that it is okay if I toss a CFL in with my kitchen garbage once in a while. Naturally, I have yet do do that after switching to mostly CFLs a year and a half ago.
So in effect, yes, it does EXACTLY as he said, and it APPEARS (to the light company) to be using no power. Not wrong. Please read more carefully before criticizing someone's logic :(
I have also switched over to mostly CFL bulbs, and have yet to replace one after about a year and a half. The only places I am not using some sort of fluorescent is for outdoor floodlights and where I want a dimmable light. The supposedly-dimmable CFLs, in my experience, having basically three settings: full brightness, 80% brightness, and off, making them rather pointless. Maybe I'm missing something, but this was the case in two different fixtures.
Did my computer screw it up or does the link really point to a 6MB 1p pdf? Why not just use a bmp?
6MB? That's nothing. A few days ago I clicked on a link to some information about a local city park. Five minutes later, after being distracted, I thought the link was broken or I didn't click it or something. Nope: the 28MB pdf was still downloading! But at least I got the entry info for the 5k run... for last year! But I guess that's to be expected in a city of 20,000 that still doesn't accept online utility payments, doesn't have even one Starbucks (which I'm okay with) and has 3 Circle K stores one one road within 1.5 miles of each other.
...there will be more day to day problems, but your chimps are a lot cheaper, and easier to find.
Unless you encounter a problem over the chimp's head that he tries to "fix," and he really screws something up (make sure you have strict backup schedules, of course), or the chimp tries to eat your face. Both of these things happen, apparently.
You're kidding me, right? People just...don't...care that much about audio quality. The least of which being Britney fans and the like.
That's the point I always make when this type of discussion comes up: most people are NOT audiophiles, or even close, and really don't care if their music is compressed to hell and sounds bad to a few of us. As if the specs of mp3s, ipods, etc., weren't enough to convince you of this, the proliferation of utterly crappy, 1-inch portable and dockable speakers for digital media players should make it obvious. Shitty speaker systems for ipods are EVERYWHERE, run from dirt cheap to obscenely over-priced, and to produce abhorrently bad sound from previously over-compressed music... and people love them!
I think the more important thing that every is missing here is that Steve Guttenberg seems to have found employment again!
Sweet, I didn't know he was still around, shoulda read TFA. So is this like bringing the equivalent of movable type to the CD press or something?
bah, semantics. We never let the facts stand in the way of a good argument around here.
You can even put blue lights (and presumably blue lasers, check your local motor vehicle laws) underneath your car to illuminate the ground more fully. This should be great for CDs, cause I hear it adds like 10 horsepower for cars.