I was flying home from a martial arts tournament and had all my dirty gis and rash guards in my carry-on because uniforms are not cheap. The TSA guy stopped me after the X-ray and asked if I minded if they searched my bag. I told him to be my guest but described the contents and told them I was on my way home not heading out at which point they thanked me and sent me on my way...
To be fair, if you take out retirees and tourists then Tampa's transit problems go away. Of course so does 80% of its traffic. The point being that there is not much you can do about the "problem children" of Tampa other than yearly mandatory driving tests after a certain age. Not the same problem as Paris, NYC, Houston, etc...
Erwin Rommel would disagree. He once said,"A risk is a chance you take; if it fails you can recover. A gamble is a chance taken; if it fails, recovery is impossible."
If you lose the bet (either player or house) then that money is gone. You can play again, but that is another gamble. The odds of winning on either side have nothing to do with it being a risk or gamble.
Excellent book. There is also an Android and iPhone app for it that has all of the workouts pre-timed so you don't have to worry about setting timers, looking up exercises, etc... Any exercise plan takes a certian amount of self-control to get on and stay on but the lack of equipment required and the automation of the workouts with the app make this the way to go for someone starting to try to get into/back into shape. For anyone thinking that they are either not fit enough or too fit for a body weight only program the author explains ways to make the exercises easier/harder to fit almost any fitness level.
Let me help you guys out here. I am a sales engineer, so I am close enough to marketing to know how to spin this. I can see a Galaxy commerical going like this:
An old judge is his chambers using some sort of app designed for the buggy whip enthusiast on his iPad. He exclaims how "cool" this is.
Now we cut to a hot young chick snow-sking down a mountain in a bikini and using her Galaxy to find the nearest nightclub with Google Maps and posting pictures to Facebook to arrange a "gathering" that evening. She exclaims how "hot" that is.
MMA is awesomely fun and not as dangerous as you may think. I train 2-3 times a week and while I am too old for competition myself, it is great fun to help the younger students prepare. You get both a physical and mental workout everytime you step on the mat. Every move has counters and you have to think several moves ahead to get yourself into a superior position. If your opponent is younger they will probably be faster but you have that big brain going for you. You can create a better defense and win the positional battle. Pretty soon your opponent is tired and in a bad position and you counter-attack for the win. I have beaten opponents much bigger, faster, and stronger than myself and lost to your typical "98 lb weaklings". You will learn a lot about anatomy, physiology, psychology, physics, and much more.
As far as health benefits go; I lost 50lbs in my first year of training (and gained a lot of muscle), I am totally off my blood pressure medication, and I am about to go off my chloresterol medication. I am more focused which leads to me being able to evaluate situations and react to them faster at work (it makes you a better geek too). If you find yourself a good gym with a trainer that really cares about their students then they will ease you in at a pace that will be challenging, but not dangerous. When I started I would be gassed after a 15 minute warmup. Now I do back to back striking and ground fighting classes and still can stay after and help out new students.
I would highly reccomend you try a free lesson and see what you think. You might just be able to improve your health and your mind at the same time. Just remember in practice you are there to learn techniques and counters not to hurt each other. Take care of your partner and tap fast, if you want to prove how tough you are there is always competition. You do not take many head blows and if anything solid connects (either a strike or a throw) then you are required (at least at my gym) to sit out the rest of the lesson and have a trainer evaluate you to see if you need futher medical help. If this guy can do it, then so can you. The first lesson will leave you sore and tired, but it gets better, after a month you will be looking forward to training sessions and plotting how to take down the guy that submitted you last week.
A 240 pound man would win a fight against a 160 pound man without even trying. Any contest of strength or fighting is divided into weight classes for that very reason.
I mean, maybe Trayvon Martin had a weapon or was a kung-fu master or suprised him or something. But just the idea of a 6'3" 160lb. er over-powering somebody who weighs 240 lbs. is ridiculous.
It can be a foot in the door (albiet a rather expensive one). We have a pre-sales support engineer from DeVry. He did not have the grades/money to go to GA Tech, so he worked as a test technican while he went to DeVry. He is very good at what he does but I mostly attribute that to his intelligence rather than anything he learned at DeVry.
His degree allowed HR to "check the box" for college education and thus his manager was allowed to interview him and find out that he could be trained as well as tie his own shoes. The customers love him and he often finds very creative solutions to difficult problems. Had he not attended DeVry then he never would have made it past HR or, if he had gotten a job here, it would have been on the production floor.
I thought of the capacitor/battery issue as well when laptops were mentioned but who says that you have to power it up with the original components in place. Just put a circuit board enclosed in as hermetically sealed ESD bag in the capsule with a BOM, schematics, and parts locater and let them build the computer when they open it up. If you are feeling really generous give them assembly instructions as well. I might even include a little leaded solder for posterities sake.
There are classic guitar amps that were built in the 50s that are still in use today. The tubes, caps, pots, and other components have been replaced over time but the same basic wiring is there.
There will be components that can stand-in for the ones that are obsolete. We are only talking digital here, 5V is 5V you don't "color" a digital signal by changing the material that a component is made from.
Now if the data was stored on a metal stamped DVD or CD and sealed up it would probably stand a decent chance. It might be a little labor intensive but so is digging up and opening a big steel capsule that has been welded shut 25 years earlier and they will also get to build an "old-school" computer in the process.
My wife has a friend that does security for concerts at the major venues in town, so we got free floor tickets to Metallica. This was a "theater in the round" sort of event and I ended up about two or three people away from the stage. I was standing directly in front of James Hetfield when he said, "Here is one off of our new album, St Anger. Have you all gotten it yet". Now I had been drinking a little that evening and apparently my volume knob was turned up a little louder than usual because I replied "Yea, It's great. I downloaded it last night!" and everyone as far as I could see turned and looked at me and started laughing. I guess James heard it to, because he looked down and gave me a little smile.
All of the companies that make military grade drives have some secure erase feature. Here is the description from the Adtron website. Most even have some way to physically destroy the circuitry as well, leaving the device totally unusable (and in some cases unrecognizable). I am not sure that they sell the "destruct" feature to the general public, but most have it. It became very popular after the EP-3 incident.
My flash drive says its good for 2000Gs !
I've been wondering how to test that.
iPod's flash is probably something similar.
It doesn't matter if the circuitry survives, just
the flash.
The MIL-STD-901D light weight hammer test will get you there (we see over 2,000 Gs all the time), but I my personal favorite is the 901D heavy weight barge test. It will only get you about 300Gs worst case (although the shock duration is much longer), but you get to set off 65lb TNT charges. Well worth the price of admission.
Given some failure data, you can calculate an MTBF for almost anything. The military has been compiling reliability data for various electronic components for many decades. Yes they have.
I work in the defense industry and in general hardware works just long enough to be installed in the vehicle. All you need to know is when the first system test will be done in front of the customer and you can easily predict when failure of every critical componet will occur.
Some people insist upon using math and MIL-HDBK-217, but I say give me a program schedule and I can tell you exactly when you will hit a 50% failure rate!
But if they need a game screener... Congratulations, you have been selected to review Freddie the Frog's Unbelivable Adventure Platnium Edition fetauring all 12 expasion packs!!! The publisher claims over 350 hours of gameplay, but with all the added content we think that figure is a little conservative. We were also tipped off that there may be some offensive content if you manage to unlock all of his 1600 friends and their acessories in addtion to completing the main campaign and all 12,000 mini-games and side quests. Because this title has been rated for ages 5-8 we need you to pay extra close attention to any content that may be misconstured as off-color. To help you in your evaluation of the game we have arranged weekly focus groups with 6-12 middle aged soccer moms who spend upwards of 3 hours a week communicating with anyone above the age of 12.
Thank you so much for volunteering for this! We thought that we would have a hard time finding someone for this particular project.
You start out your post with a false assumption that it is the quiet + intelligent that equates to a label of "lack of social skills". I would argue it is just the quiet. As a matter of fact the intelligent probably helps with "social skills" because if used properly it allows you to say things that people might actually want to listen to.
I work in a very technical job that involves supporting the sales force. I explain things to people all the time that they already know. They do not feel that I am condesending because I do not give my explainations in a condesending way. I also explain stuff that goes right over their head but in those cases I take the time to back up and explain the concepts they may not have grasped. I find that if someone asks you a technical question they generally want to understand the answer and will work very hard with you and explain exactly what points or concepts they do not get. Sometimes this is very difficult but they usually see it through to the end and you both come out better off.
According to you that makes me a "normal person" (which I guess means I lose all my geek-cred and 1337-ness) because our customers, engineers, and sales force have not shown me any indication that they think I have a deep-seated personality disorder. So I guess I will get out of the business of life-critical product design and into something like fry-cooking before I kill someone.
My point is that it is the shyness and lack of "social skills" that makes you say or do the wrong thing and give people the wrong impression about your personality. I like to think of myself as being reasonably intelligent and quite a few people have told me I am a down-right genius at times (on the other side of that coin, my wife puts my IQ somewhere between potato and premature rot-grub but we already know she is a poor decision maker because she married me!). If I were shy and withdrawn those same sales guys would probably kick me in the nuts, but they would also kick me in the nuts if I was as dumb as a box of rocks. It is not like stupid and shy gets a pass, if anything they are picked on more (cause you never know when you will need the smart guy).
Maybe you are getting the same "pass" that the normal people are getting, but are too socially inept to realize it. I mean your ID is "StressGuy", I am guessing you are a little high strung.
I also do not want to be overly critical and disuade you from posting your opinions on any topic because I or someone like me won't like it. I applaud your decision to take up storytelling and force yourself into a social situation. After you do enough things like that and talk with us "normal people", you will realize that we are all in this together. I think you would honestly be surpised at what people listen to and remember. There are a few people out there that enjoy making other people miserable, but everyone else is more likely than not to help you out if it does not put them out too much. Some are actually even nice (not me, but other people)!
Actually you sound like a pretty great individual with a lot to offer, but no one will know unless you develop the social skills and personality to share it with the rest of the world.
I work for a company that supplies rugged computing systems to the US military and you are not 100% wrong, but the answer is that they use everything. Windows, Linux, VX Works, Unix, AIX, etc... There is a recent trend towards moving to Linux, not for the security aspect (although it doesn' hurt), but because if you run into unsupported hardware (say like a missle launcher) then you can modify the OS as needed to get it to work. With MS you are just screwed, they may or may not offer support (sometimes impossible because they are not authorized to see the hardware you want them to support) and you cannot modify their code yourself.
It is nothing wrong with the way MS does business, but it does not fit very well with they way the military designs and fields its computer systems. Just the way it is.
Putting laptop drives in desktops is an exceptionally bad idea.
I wouldn't call a Mac Mini a desktop. I see it as more of a portable computer and in that regard a laptop drive is a good choice because they do considerably better with shock and vibration (you know, the forces an object is subjected to when they are transported in a backpack, car, etc...) than desktop drives.
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I was flying home from a martial arts tournament and had all my dirty gis and rash guards in my carry-on because uniforms are not cheap. The TSA guy stopped me after the X-ray and asked if I minded if they searched my bag. I told him to be my guest but described the contents and told them I was on my way home not heading out at which point they thanked me and sent me on my way...
Not at the UFC.
To be fair, if you take out retirees and tourists then Tampa's transit problems go away. Of course so does 80% of its traffic. The point being that there is not much you can do about the "problem children" of Tampa other than yearly mandatory driving tests after a certain age. Not the same problem as Paris, NYC, Houston, etc...
Erwin Rommel would disagree. He once said,"A risk is a chance you take; if it fails you can recover. A gamble is a chance taken; if it fails, recovery is impossible."
If you lose the bet (either player or house) then that money is gone. You can play again, but that is another gamble. The odds of winning on either side have nothing to do with it being a risk or gamble.
Excellent book. There is also an Android and iPhone app for it that has all of the workouts pre-timed so you don't have to worry about setting timers, looking up exercises, etc... Any exercise plan takes a certian amount of self-control to get on and stay on but the lack of equipment required and the automation of the workouts with the app make this the way to go for someone starting to try to get into/back into shape. For anyone thinking that they are either not fit enough or too fit for a body weight only program the author explains ways to make the exercises easier/harder to fit almost any fitness level.
Let me help you guys out here. I am a sales engineer, so I am close enough to marketing to know how to spin this. I can see a Galaxy commerical going like this:
An old judge is his chambers using some sort of app designed for the buggy whip enthusiast on his iPad. He exclaims how "cool" this is.
Now we cut to a hot young chick snow-sking down a mountain in a bikini and using her Galaxy to find the nearest nightclub with Google Maps and posting pictures to Facebook to arrange a "gathering" that evening. She exclaims how "hot" that is.
When a reader told me my writing was alike a cross between Bradbury and Lovecraft, it was the best thing ever.
Bradbury and Lovecraft combined ??? Where can I get me some of that???
MMA is awesomely fun and not as dangerous as you may think. I train 2-3 times a week and while I am too old for competition myself, it is great fun to help the younger students prepare. You get both a physical and mental workout everytime you step on the mat. Every move has counters and you have to think several moves ahead to get yourself into a superior position. If your opponent is younger they will probably be faster but you have that big brain going for you. You can create a better defense and win the positional battle. Pretty soon your opponent is tired and in a bad position and you counter-attack for the win. I have beaten opponents much bigger, faster, and stronger than myself and lost to your typical "98 lb weaklings". You will learn a lot about anatomy, physiology, psychology, physics, and much more.
As far as health benefits go; I lost 50lbs in my first year of training (and gained a lot of muscle), I am totally off my blood pressure medication, and I am about to go off my chloresterol medication. I am more focused which leads to me being able to evaluate situations and react to them faster at work (it makes you a better geek too). If you find yourself a good gym with a trainer that really cares about their students then they will ease you in at a pace that will be challenging, but not dangerous. When I started I would be gassed after a 15 minute warmup. Now I do back to back striking and ground fighting classes and still can stay after and help out new students.
I would highly reccomend you try a free lesson and see what you think. You might just be able to improve your health and your mind at the same time. Just remember in practice you are there to learn techniques and counters not to hurt each other. Take care of your partner and tap fast, if you want to prove how tough you are there is always competition. You do not take many head blows and if anything solid connects (either a strike or a throw) then you are required (at least at my gym) to sit out the rest of the lesson and have a trainer evaluate you to see if you need futher medical help. If this guy can do it, then so can you. The first lesson will leave you sore and tired, but it gets better, after a month you will be looking forward to training sessions and plotting how to take down the guy that submitted you last week.
A 240 pound man would win a fight against a 160 pound man without even trying. Any contest of strength or fighting is divided into weight classes for that very reason.
I mean, maybe Trayvon Martin had a weapon or was a kung-fu master or suprised him or something. But just the idea of a 6'3" 160lb. er over-powering somebody who weighs 240 lbs. is ridiculous.
Really...
Tax all kids in school at 1% of their lunch money and use that money to fight bullying in schools.
So you are going to tax them 1% to keep them from losing the other 99% ? That sounds like a protection racket to me.
You realize then, to be fair, you will also have to subsidize the bullies in order to compensate them for their lost income.
It can be a foot in the door (albiet a rather expensive one). We have a pre-sales support engineer from DeVry. He did not have the grades/money to go to GA Tech, so he worked as a test technican while he went to DeVry. He is very good at what he does but I mostly attribute that to his intelligence rather than anything he learned at DeVry.
His degree allowed HR to "check the box" for college education and thus his manager was allowed to interview him and find out that he could be trained as well as tie his own shoes. The customers love him and he often finds very creative solutions to difficult problems. Had he not attended DeVry then he never would have made it past HR or, if he had gotten a job here, it would have been on the production floor.
I thought of the capacitor/battery issue as well when laptops were mentioned but who says that you have to power it up with the original components in place. Just put a circuit board enclosed in as hermetically sealed ESD bag in the capsule with a BOM, schematics, and parts locater and let them build the computer when they open it up. If you are feeling really generous give them assembly instructions as well. I might even include a little leaded solder for posterities sake.
There are classic guitar amps that were built in the 50s that are still in use today. The tubes, caps, pots, and other components have been replaced over time but the same basic wiring is there.
There will be components that can stand-in for the ones that are obsolete. We are only talking digital here, 5V is 5V you don't "color" a digital signal by changing the material that a component is made from. Now if the data was stored on a metal stamped DVD or CD and sealed up it would probably stand a decent chance. It might be a little labor intensive but so is digging up and opening a big steel capsule that has been welded shut 25 years earlier and they will also get to build an "old-school" computer in the process.
My wife has a friend that does security for concerts at the major venues in town, so we got free floor tickets to Metallica. This was a "theater in the round" sort of event and I ended up about two or three people away from the stage. I was standing directly in front of James Hetfield when he said, "Here is one off of our new album, St Anger. Have you all gotten it yet". Now I had been drinking a little that evening and apparently my volume knob was turned up a little louder than usual because I replied "Yea, It's great. I downloaded it last night!" and everyone as far as I could see turned and looked at me and started laughing. I guess James heard it to, because he looked down and gave me a little smile.
All of the companies that make military grade drives have some secure erase feature. Here is the description from the Adtron website. Most even have some way to physically destroy the circuitry as well, leaving the device totally unusable (and in some cases unrecognizable). I am not sure that they sell the "destruct" feature to the general public, but most have it. It became very popular after the EP-3 incident.
Yeah much better than Hoover vacuum cleaners...
I am sure these guys can help you out there.
The MIL-STD-901D light weight hammer test will get you there (we see over 2,000 Gs all the time), but I my personal favorite is the 901D heavy weight barge test. It will only get you about 300Gs worst case (although the shock duration is much longer), but you get to set off 65lb TNT charges. Well worth the price of admission.
I work in the defense industry and in general hardware works just long enough to be installed in the vehicle. All you need to know is when the first system test will be done in front of the customer and you can easily predict when failure of every critical componet will occur.
Some people insist upon using math and MIL-HDBK-217, but I say give me a program schedule and I can tell you exactly when you will hit a 50% failure rate!
Thank you so much for volunteering for this! We thought that we would have a hard time finding someone for this particular project.
You are 100% correct. Just ask this guy:p er.html
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/102/open_snap
"this is a quantum leap in XXX!"
Hot buttered damn!!!
Holographic pr0n at last!!!
I stand corrected...
You start out your post with a false assumption that it is the quiet + intelligent that equates to a label of "lack of social skills". I would argue it is just the quiet. As a matter of fact the intelligent probably helps with "social skills" because if used properly it allows you to say things that people might actually want to listen to.
I work in a very technical job that involves supporting the sales force. I explain things to people all the time that they already know. They do not feel that I am condesending because I do not give my explainations in a condesending way. I also explain stuff that goes right over their head but in those cases I take the time to back up and explain the concepts they may not have grasped. I find that if someone asks you a technical question they generally want to understand the answer and will work very hard with you and explain exactly what points or concepts they do not get. Sometimes this is very difficult but they usually see it through to the end and you both come out better off.
According to you that makes me a "normal person" (which I guess means I lose all my geek-cred and 1337-ness) because our customers, engineers, and sales force have not shown me any indication that they think I have a deep-seated personality disorder. So I guess I will get out of the business of life-critical product design and into something like fry-cooking before I kill someone.
My point is that it is the shyness and lack of "social skills" that makes you say or do the wrong thing and give people the wrong impression about your personality. I like to think of myself as being reasonably intelligent and quite a few people have told me I am a down-right genius at times (on the other side of that coin, my wife puts my IQ somewhere between potato and premature rot-grub but we already know she is a poor decision maker because she married me!). If I were shy and withdrawn those same sales guys would probably kick me in the nuts, but they would also kick me in the nuts if I was as dumb as a box of rocks. It is not like stupid and shy gets a pass, if anything they are picked on more (cause you never know when you will need the smart guy).
Maybe you are getting the same "pass" that the normal people are getting, but are too socially inept to realize it. I mean your ID is "StressGuy", I am guessing you are a little high strung.
I also do not want to be overly critical and disuade you from posting your opinions on any topic because I or someone like me won't like it. I applaud your decision to take up storytelling and force yourself into a social situation. After you do enough things like that and talk with us "normal people", you will realize that we are all in this together. I think you would honestly be surpised at what people listen to and remember. There are a few people out there that enjoy making other people miserable, but everyone else is more likely than not to help you out if it does not put them out too much. Some are actually even nice (not me, but other people)!
Actually you sound like a pretty great individual with a lot to offer, but no one will know unless you develop the social skills and personality to share it with the rest of the world.
I work for a company that supplies rugged computing systems to the US military and you are not 100% wrong, but the answer is that they use everything. Windows, Linux, VX Works, Unix, AIX, etc... There is a recent trend towards moving to Linux, not for the security aspect (although it doesn' hurt), but because if you run into unsupported hardware (say like a missle launcher) then you can modify the OS as needed to get it to work. With MS you are just screwed, they may or may not offer support (sometimes impossible because they are not authorized to see the hardware you want them to support) and you cannot modify their code yourself.
It is nothing wrong with the way MS does business, but it does not fit very well with they way the military designs and fields its computer systems. Just the way it is.
So I decided to make an unfounded assertion and hope for +5 insightful!
I am guessing that this was sarcasm, but you have almost made it (+4 insightful at the time of this post).
Boggles the mind...
Putting laptop drives in desktops is an exceptionally bad idea.
I wouldn't call a Mac Mini a desktop. I see it as more of a portable computer and in that regard a laptop drive is a good choice because they do considerably better with shock and vibration (you know, the forces an object is subjected to when they are transported in a backpack, car, etc...) than desktop drives.