...and these things need to be accessible without PIN for compatibility with third party devices. Sounds like Apple just needs to clarify that iPod functions are not encrypted... or offer an option to encrypt them.
Who the hell in the government has the deep drilling experience to be able to understand the issues (and scale) at hand?! I would have hoped that the government would have watched over BP and made sure the booms were being done properly, but my guess is that the under-water problem is much more severe than anything you really see at the surface.
You might be able to annotate, but until the books are really designed to be functional from a handheld device it is painful.
As a personal example, I have a 1,000 page PDF of a code book on my iPad. Or, I did for an hour. Book couldn't load reliably, couldn't navigate the two-tiers of TOCs, and it just wasn't a logical arrangement. The navigation requires a whole new level of abstraction rather than just forward/back; search doesn't come close.
(No, the PDF wasn't a legal offering from the publisher. The publisher refuses to offer anything electronic for this product other than a web-based subscription of inferior grade content...)
The 3GS should be pretty secure now; the key is wiped immediately, although I don't know if the data store is cleaned. The feature wasn't brought out until OS3, so the 3G and 2G phones shouldn't expect the function. Only the 3GS encrypts the data on the device itself and has the hardware to support on-the-fly decryption.
The problem usually isn't the transfer switch itself, but how it works with everything else. Transfer switches usually only really fail with contact damage.
Cascading failures are a bigger problem for most co-lo's, as they try and maximize infrastructure utilization to a fault.
I was going to stay out of this one... since he thinks the well casing is 5' diameter... but one interesting argument he has is that the natural gas is being absorbed into the water (thus starving the water of O2). I assume it is supposed to work like cryogenic distillation, although it is hard to understand how it would work in such a turbulent upwelling.
It is logical enough that there is significant oil distillates trapped in thermoclines below the surface, it is just hard to guess how much.
The only thing surprising is that manufacturer data didn't support this big of an impact. We tried to stay three orders of magnitude below acceptable vibration limits and assumed that was adequate. While I haven't tied an accelerometer to a rack or drive chassis, it sounds like they aren't managing internal vibration as well as they need to.
APC Patented their hot-aisle containment, and that is the only reason they use it. While it is silly to think in terms of containing one or the other-- it is just separation-- you ideally want a high comportment for the hot aisle for stratification and stack effect. This prevents re-circulation and short-circuiting of hot air, and also makes the hot aisle a more bearable place to stand.
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"We had a lot of sympathy for him," said juror Jason Chilton, who is a network engineer. "He was put in a position he should not have been put in.
"Management did everything they possibly could wrong," Chilton said. "There was ineffective management, ineffective communication. I think that if they put the city on trial, they would be guilty, too."
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One of the jurors was a network engineer; I'm not quite sure how well you can say that they were collectively uninformed in the matter, although I wholeheartedly disagree with the results.
Not true. Thaivisa.com, a local forum largely for expats, run by an American, seems to be especially cautious due to past issues. Everybody is a target if they de-stabilize the precarious "stability" in Thailand.
It is a shame, as foreigners sometimes have curiousity about the monarchy, it's succession process, etc.
The engine block heaters are standard for any standby power generator. The oil system is called a pre-lube pump, which generally runs for a minute every 6-12 hours to keep an oil film on all the parts.
Pneumatic starters are damn fast compared to your typical electrical/battery starters. Still, you only gain about a half a second.
Most of the delay is in paralleling the second, third, and so on generators. The first one can easily be on in 2 seconds, but it takes time for the other ones to synchronize to the bus.
Batteries aren't really any more simple. You still have the inverter and all kinds of internal failure modes, especially if you are trying to parallel to an unreliable utility.
They could rent two 2MW gensets for $60k/month, plus another $60k/month in diesel. Other operating costs would add about $20-30k/month, putting you close to $150k/month or $3MM until the new transmission line comes online. Cheaper, noisy, smelly.
Sodium-sulfur batteries are primarily for peaking (since the temperature must be kept very high, they need to cycle on a daily basis). Arguably, the battery provides better value (if properly sized) than a new transmission line, as you gain time-of-day benefits on charging.
From what I understand, these systems don't work very well for alternative energy due to the need to cycle them every day, but they can help to eliminate the use of peaking plants, or indirectly support alternative energy based on projected power flow/availability.
Monthly data plan for ipad is $15 or $30. USB dongle plan is $60. If he uses as much data as he did on dial-up, he saves the cost of the ipad in a year.
Very true. Referrals always carry more weight than a blind resume. Talk to your friends who have found jobs, to people who graduated before you, to the Endowment people at school, etc.
There are lots of entry-level positions out there. It is hard now for employers, because some times you get over-qualified candidates that are more attractive.
As someone who has been interviewing a few dozen people over the last few weeks, I'll offer these suggestions: -Your resume is one of dozens or hundreds an employer will see. Part of this is because of candidates effectively spamming employers, part is the broader economy. Not every position is right for every person; be honest about what you are wanting and tailor your resume to that.
-Write a proper cover-letter. It can be part of an e-mail; the formality of a word document may or may not get you anywhere... but "Here is my resume, I think I am perfect for your job" really doesn't go too far.
-Don't be coy about where you live, where you are from, what your interests are, or what makes you tick. If you talk about your church group, I'll shit-can the resume, but someone else is just as likely to highlight it. I might not want to hire certain nationalities (office diversity issues), but others might jump at it. If you are playing the numbers game, look for things that will represent you accurately.
-If would be relocating for a position, tell people that you are excited about their city, and how you plan on growing roots there. Nothing sucks worse than hiring someone, training them for a year or two, and having them move back home because they miss __. This is especially true on Craigslist.
-Getting the interview is the hardest step with us. We screen out about 90% of resumes now before giving interviews. It is purely practical; we can't interview everybody. We know we miss good people, but it is about return on effort. If you get in the door, you had better do your homework and understand what our business does. Reciting our website won't go too far; talk about the industry in broader terms.
-At the interview, dress to impress. Sad how sloppy some of the people come in. It has cost a few people a job offer. Saying "yeah, my mom told me I should have worn a tie" pretty much guarantees it.
-Plan out what you most want people to understand about yourself after the interview. Figure out ways to highlight those traits in different ways (without being repetitive).
-If you aren't really interested in the job, let people know at the interview. Make them sell you on it, or show you the door. Don't waste people's time.
-Be prepared to state your salary expectation. Make sure it matches the market and what you are willing to live with.
-Send a thank-you letter. Follow up after 7-10 business days if you haven't heard anything. Don't follow-up too quickly because it can feel pestering...
But, always understand what you can bring to the table. In my field (Architectural Engineering), I want people to say how they love buildings, the built environment, etc. Sure, saying you want to be environmentally friendly wins some points, but nothing compared to a passion for buildings.
I am an arc-e as well, and the office you describe sounds like a hold-over from the mid-90's. Our plotting load has dropped dramatically in the last 5-10 years, and now we end up using mostly 11x17s rather than 30x42s.
Where we kill trees is really reports, proposals, and specs, and a lot of the management workflow.
We don't go paperless because it is poor ROI, as parent suggests with CAD operators. Most of my markups are either for discussing the task, or done on the windows. Better collaboration software could reduce paper, but the time of a partner is what limits business growth, so sometimes you don't worry about paper waste.
The catalyst is location-independence. As this increases as a driver for business, there is less paper.
Even if thr check is good, there are other scams involving money laundering, et al. The money is confirmed one day as an ACH transfer, but later reversed by the authorities or frozen.
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...and these things need to be accessible without PIN for compatibility with third party devices. Sounds like Apple just needs to clarify that iPod functions are not encrypted... or offer an option to encrypt them.
Wonder if remote wipe kills this content as well?
Who the hell in the government has the deep drilling experience to be able to understand the issues (and scale) at hand?! I would have hoped that the government would have watched over BP and made sure the booms were being done properly, but my guess is that the under-water problem is much more severe than anything you really see at the surface.
You might be able to annotate, but until the books are really designed to be functional from a handheld device it is painful.
As a personal example, I have a 1,000 page PDF of a code book on my iPad. Or, I did for an hour. Book couldn't load reliably, couldn't navigate the two-tiers of TOCs, and it just wasn't a logical arrangement. The navigation requires a whole new level of abstraction rather than just forward/back; search doesn't come close.
(No, the PDF wasn't a legal offering from the publisher. The publisher refuses to offer anything electronic for this product other than a web-based subscription of inferior grade content...)
The 3GS should be pretty secure now; the key is wiped immediately, although I don't know if the data store is cleaned. The feature wasn't brought out until OS3, so the 3G and 2G phones shouldn't expect the function. Only the 3GS encrypts the data on the device itself and has the hardware to support on-the-fly decryption.
The problem usually isn't the transfer switch itself, but how it works with everything else. Transfer switches usually only really fail with contact damage.
Cascading failures are a bigger problem for most co-lo's, as they try and maximize infrastructure utilization to a fault.
Restoring power can be quite difficult.
I was going to stay out of this one... since he thinks the well casing is 5' diameter... but one interesting argument he has is that the natural gas is being absorbed into the water (thus starving the water of O2). I assume it is supposed to work like cryogenic distillation, although it is hard to understand how it would work in such a turbulent upwelling.
It is logical enough that there is significant oil distillates trapped in thermoclines below the surface, it is just hard to guess how much.
More like PV=NRTk.
Gas at 170+bar expanding to one bar absorbs tremendous heat.
Repeat your experiment using rubber washers to isolate chassis from rack. The rack can act as a tuning fork...
The only thing surprising is that manufacturer data didn't support this big of an impact. We tried to stay three orders of magnitude below acceptable vibration limits and assumed that was adequate. While I haven't tied an accelerometer to a rack or drive chassis, it sounds like they aren't managing internal vibration as well as they need to.
APC Patented their hot-aisle containment, and that is the only reason they use it. While it is silly to think in terms of containing one or the other-- it is just separation-- you ideally want a high comportment for the hot aisle for stratification and stack effect. This prevents re-circulation and short-circuiting of hot air, and also makes the hot aisle a more bearable place to stand.
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One of the jurors was a network engineer; I'm not quite sure how well you can say that they were collectively uninformed in the matter, although I wholeheartedly disagree with the results.
Bundling of services and devices is (arguably) anti-competitive and at a critical mass can be monopolistic.
As long as the iPhone has viable competitors, Apple has little to worry about in this arena.
Pretty sure the Thai military uses M16s. There is clearly a "third hand" involved, but it is pretty hard to know who they are affiliated with.
Sad thing is that the red shirts and yellow shirts are pretty much fighting over who gets to use Taksin's money for their own (political) gain.
Not true. Thaivisa.com, a local forum largely for expats, run by an American, seems to be especially cautious due to past issues. Everybody is a target if they de-stabilize the precarious "stability" in Thailand.
It is a shame, as foreigners sometimes have curiousity about the monarchy, it's succession process, etc.
The engine block heaters are standard for any standby power generator. The oil system is called a pre-lube pump, which generally runs for a minute every 6-12 hours to keep an oil film on all the parts.
Pneumatic starters are damn fast compared to your typical electrical/battery starters. Still, you only gain about a half a second.
Most of the delay is in paralleling the second, third, and so on generators. The first one can easily be on in 2 seconds, but it takes time for the other ones to synchronize to the bus.
Batteries aren't really any more simple. You still have the inverter and all kinds of internal failure modes, especially if you are trying to parallel to an unreliable utility.
They could rent two 2MW gensets for $60k/month, plus another $60k/month in diesel. Other operating costs would add about $20-30k/month, putting you close to $150k/month or $3MM until the new transmission line comes online. Cheaper, noisy, smelly.
A 4MW Hitec plant (diesel/rotary UPS) is closer to $4MM, but yes, would be a cheaper solution as long as it is sized for full demand.
Typically the sodium-sulfur batteries are just used to chop off the peak though, so I am surprised if you could do a 4MW islanded plant.
Sodium-sulfur batteries are primarily for peaking (since the temperature must be kept very high, they need to cycle on a daily basis). Arguably, the battery provides better value (if properly sized) than a new transmission line, as you gain time-of-day benefits on charging.
From what I understand, these systems don't work very well for alternative energy due to the need to cycle them every day, but they can help to eliminate the use of peaking plants, or indirectly support alternative energy based on projected power flow/availability.
Monthly data plan for ipad is $15 or $30. USB dongle plan is $60. If he uses as much data as he did on dial-up, he saves the cost of the ipad in a year.
Very true. Referrals always carry more weight than a blind resume. Talk to your friends who have found jobs, to people who graduated before you, to the Endowment people at school, etc.
There are lots of entry-level positions out there. It is hard now for employers, because some times you get over-qualified candidates that are more attractive.
As someone who has been interviewing a few dozen people over the last few weeks, I'll offer these suggestions:
-Your resume is one of dozens or hundreds an employer will see. Part of this is because of candidates effectively spamming employers, part is the broader economy. Not every position is right for every person; be honest about what you are wanting and tailor your resume to that.
-Write a proper cover-letter. It can be part of an e-mail; the formality of a word document may or may not get you anywhere... but "Here is my resume, I think I am perfect for your job" really doesn't go too far.
-Don't be coy about where you live, where you are from, what your interests are, or what makes you tick. If you talk about your church group, I'll shit-can the resume, but someone else is just as likely to highlight it. I might not want to hire certain nationalities (office diversity issues), but others might jump at it. If you are playing the numbers game, look for things that will represent you accurately.
-If would be relocating for a position, tell people that you are excited about their city, and how you plan on growing roots there. Nothing sucks worse than hiring someone, training them for a year or two, and having them move back home because they miss __. This is especially true on Craigslist.
-Getting the interview is the hardest step with us. We screen out about 90% of resumes now before giving interviews. It is purely practical; we can't interview everybody. We know we miss good people, but it is about return on effort. If you get in the door, you had better do your homework and understand what our business does. Reciting our website won't go too far; talk about the industry in broader terms.
-At the interview, dress to impress. Sad how sloppy some of the people come in. It has cost a few people a job offer. Saying "yeah, my mom told me I should have worn a tie" pretty much guarantees it.
-Plan out what you most want people to understand about yourself after the interview. Figure out ways to highlight those traits in different ways (without being repetitive).
-If you aren't really interested in the job, let people know at the interview. Make them sell you on it, or show you the door. Don't waste people's time.
-Be prepared to state your salary expectation. Make sure it matches the market and what you are willing to live with.
-Send a thank-you letter. Follow up after 7-10 business days if you haven't heard anything. Don't follow-up too quickly because it can feel pestering...
But, always understand what you can bring to the table. In my field (Architectural Engineering), I want people to say how they love buildings, the built environment, etc. Sure, saying you want to be environmentally friendly wins some points, but nothing compared to a passion for buildings.
I am an arc-e as well, and the office you describe sounds like a hold-over from the mid-90's. Our plotting load has dropped dramatically in the last 5-10 years, and now we end up using mostly 11x17s rather than 30x42s.
Where we kill trees is really reports, proposals, and specs, and a lot of the management workflow.
We don't go paperless because it is poor ROI, as parent suggests with CAD operators. Most of my markups are either for discussing the task, or done on the windows. Better collaboration software could reduce paper, but the time of a partner is what limits business growth, so sometimes you don't worry about paper waste.
The catalyst is location-independence. As this increases as a driver for business, there is less paper.
Even if thr check is good, there are other scams involving money laundering, et al. The money is confirmed one day as an ACH transfer, but later reversed by the authorities or frozen.
You can't make a copy in the same medium (photo of photo), but to say that a photo of a statue is a violation of copyright is plain stupid.