What happened to common sense?
Can you train for this? Its -4F at UIUC with a 20mph wind. Huge wind chill. How safe were lightly dressed people who parked their cars then ran into the school building? This was during Christmas break; no one was around. They could have slipped and fallen and incapacitated themselves. In that weather, exposure was a hazard.
Oh well that was the only one I could relate that was not actually hazardous. The bees were just in the top part of my little bee outfit. They wanted to find that queen!
Thanks for all the replies. Sorry I could not mode some of you up!
So if we happen to wind up sleep deprived on a project or something. Lets all take a quick nap. I had a college graduate instructor who went five days without sleep. You know who you are Dr G! That's what comes of loving computer science more than sleep. I tried that, two days was my max. Operating machinery or driving or thinking deeply just doesn't happen if you are sleep deprived. And your life might not happen either if you do this. So take time out for sleep.
SLEEP MUSIC By the way SIRIUS/XP Channel 116 AFTER 11PM CT, Kids Channel has a nice "sleepytime" sleep songs. Again after 11pm and that might be a little different in Mountain and Pacific time zones.
I had a night job at a factory one time. 11pm to 7am. This meant that I slept about every two days.
I had a beekeeping hobby during the off factory hours. Can't put those little critters off. Once I was so sleepy I gathered a swarm into a box on the top of a 10' ladder. Then took a good nap up there with the idea or waiting for the bees to move to my box. Woke up a couple of hours later to an unpleasant dream which turned out to be reality. I had slept through a few bee stings. The swarm had moved, not into the box, but over and into my bee netting, clothes, hair, face, etc.
It was just annoying because swarms are fairly placid. So I carefully pulled my bee covered bee netting off and put that in the box. Went and took a proper nap in a bed.
You folks do anything interesting while sleep deprived? Leave out anything that could get you into trouble.
Not being a patent person, I suspect you bring up an excellent point. Is something ordinary in one circumstance (prior art too) patentable when its used in a new domain? I think not.
I think what we have here is a derivative patent. Here its derivative from a common domain.
How would this compare or limit other sports like a team shooting match where individuals and teams have scores?
Then this patent mimics basic biology where individual and cooperative behavior is honored. Say a bacteria that reproduces wildly that's individual performance. Then that bacterial produces a toxin that helps other bacterial thrive by eliminating competition. That's team help.
I think the guy is just patent crazy and has a blank space on his honor wall.
My uneducated guess is that this flavor of H1N1 is
a) As you said mild to very serious. For example were you two up on previous flu immunizations? I was but still had mild flu like symptoms.
b) A lot more prevalent than we think. For example in Dallas TX, lots of schools are closing because someone's kid was sick. What about their parents and family? Those people might not be testing.
c) With a Mexican probable source and a USA Mexican underground economy, these cases will be all over the place but unreported and thus undetected.
Consider our own waste habits and what we throw away. In Dallas, I see honeybees that make a practice of getting sugar from trash cans at the train station. That seems less healthy than the traditional source of a flower. Corn syrup from a soft drink is quite attractive to a bee. Think of the scant drop or two from a flower then the great discovery (to a bee) of half a cup of soft drink. Then think of the odd things floating around in that soft drink.
Confused? That's a terrific awareness in today's age. Shows that learning is possible. That's a long discussion on the decline and fall of civilization however!
Lets consider how fast change might occur. Seems to me that each bee hive had a collective "personality" derived from the queen and transmitted from bee DNA to bee pheromones. How might that active hive survive? Would it overcome weaker hives? Active hive survival depends on DNA transmission. The queen bee lives maybe two to three years. She mates early in her life many times. Then produces workers and drones. The drones go out and mate with other queens thus passing that active trait to some degree. I suspect, a good thesis paper here, that bee evolution is rather rapid because they are colony creatures and very dependent on their environment. If climate changes to well below 65f for the winter then that's going to kill off bunches of weaker bees that cannot generate a 65f hive temperature. Rainfall might be another factor to change bees, less might make them stronger as they have to forage further.
You are seriously misinformed. Hopefully this is a successful attempt to better inform. In college, I had 13 beehives. These were "rough" bees in that I never purchased mail order bees. During early Spring before honey-flow, if the hive was weak, that meant the queen was weak, I found her, not hard in a weak hive, and pinched her head off and dropped the pieces back into the hive. That hive soon developed another queen.
Now for your point of everything is the same. Of the 13, one hive was especially large. And markedly more productive than the rest. Two full size brood boxes and four medium size supers. I got stung six of seven times when I opened the top of that hive. Opening the top is a very innocent event. Pulling a frame out meant upwards of 20 stings. These were not african bees either. Just a mean but productive bunch of bees.
Thirty years ago Arco Oil and Gas had full data center backup. Where is this thought today in our attention deficit management world?
ARCO did NOT depend on their local Plano TX data center. ARCO had a building prepared in Independence KS on top of pipelines that was an empty data center. They had a contract with IBM to get the next big iron off the production lines. That combined with their backup tapes means quick switch over.
ARCO also never allowed all top executives to travel on the same jet. They flew TWO jets with passengers selected for functional redundancy. Two jets to the same location by the way.
I like the idea, if possible, of local redundancy. Like hospitals have generators.
I would appreciate examples of backup and redundancy today. These quiet things are often unnoticed.
I dislike that I cannot control these. For example right now, I have two timesonline.uk up. Permanently it seems. The "tool" icon does not allow Home Page editing. It should.
So, A. If anyone out there can enlighten me on how to adjust Home Page icons. Go ahead. B. If not Chrome developers, are you listening? Add web page adjustments to the Home Page. Pretty please?
Amen to zappecs! When I was a teenager, I think a good number of us built a) crystal whisker receivers, b) diode receiver radios, c) transmit and receive radios.
Its no big deal. Wait a minute, nothing big for a kid to do. It might be special for a college student twice a kid's age in today's non magic world. A world that has never heard of the venerable ARRL (American Radio Relay League).
And zappecs is right so many times about the lack of specifications. They might have done it the hard way and made their own resistors and capacitors out of regional minerals (i.e dirt). The video had the students using an oscilloscope. Oscilloscopes help greatly to tune your antenna.
Whoo hoo voodoo! The paper looks over at the "its gonna happen because the base argument is flawed". What about it's not going to happen because the argument is flawed.
Grassroots is our next step. Obama is in the process of setting up a new grassroots organization, "Organizing For America" to help us connect with our legislature.
Three day old bird SNARGE (look it up) is more interesting than this article. I have several points I would like to gripe about regarding Microsoft's technical help. But this article fails to be specific. Tech Net or MS Dev Net? What MS web sites? So I am not going to feed the Information Week rumor monster. I think that's an article designed to get information from unsuspecting slashdot and other users.
I used the same foil sheet trick. My downstairs neighbor was an EE engineer sometimes doing weird things at 5Ghz (my phone's frequency). So foil underneath the unit shielded it from his interference below plus provided a good ground plane for my own signal.
I live in an apartment. I have had a WWVB 60Khz Nixie clock for a couple of years. Early October 2008, it quit getting time updates. Seems there is enormous nighttime interference out there these days. I have a different audio WWVB radio and that now only plays static. Sometimes in early morning just after daylight, things are pretty good. I suspect its from nearby lighting assemblies on a nearby interstate.
HELP!! Any suggestions for a RF detector that can target my 60KHz interference? How to make one; a) that shows direction and b) detects 60Khz?
Also I need to get my local radio club to help with an oscilloscope to create a better 60Khz tuned antenna. The current tiny antenna is directional and in a non helpful square box.
I could probably get a fast food job. Worker to manager. However in college in an off year, I worked lots of 80 hour weeks. Food is not easy. There is nothing as disheartening like looking at the moon at 11pm on a cold night and realizing that you had to be back before it sets.
For your FIL. Its like what I would do if I married a nice but rich lady (wishful thinking). Fix meals, clean house, mow yard, wash car, and home repair. Make myself so darn useful that your FIL would pay as much as McDonalds to have you around.
Stay out of FIL's way. "Out of sight, out of mind" still holds true.
Don't spend much if any of his money.
Beware of any old job. On the plus side, they can lead to other work. On the minus side they prevent you going around and finding a decent job.
Also in your "beach time" keep that brain busy; Scrabble, Greek, Latin. If you are in IT then R perhaps. I am learning R right now. Plan to finish a program next week to graphically depict some voter information.
Best wishes, let me know what job you wind up with Jim
And "somewhat condescending" lasts past school sometimes to the workplace. It was kind of fun to see though. I knew enough about oil to give a reasonable speech on the history of oil drilling bits which surprised a few of them.
This was years when we first graduated college working for a large oil and gas company here in Texas (ok it was ARCO), the petroleum engineer graduates from Texas A&M certainly did that "look down the nose" thing once in a while. They were nice ladies and gentlemen. I like smart people. On Fridays all the TAMU folks wore kaki pants and maroon TAMU knit shirts. That made a definite impression since most of the engineering staff was from TAMU.
Being a petroleum engineer was not perfect however, I was CS, and when they closed the office, I easily jumped to another job. Oil was way down at the time so there were no jobs at all for petroleum engineers. That was sad to see then and hurts a bit to remember that now.
You say "My parents raised 4 kids on about half of what I make now".
Could you be a bit more specific? Lets look a little closer. A. What did your parents make in '82? B. Go to the Minneapolis Federal Reserve home page. http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1084177&op=Reply&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=26367983 C. In the "What is a dollar worth" program C1. Type 1982 into the year C2. Type your parent's 1982 income amount into the "goods or services" field. C3. Type 2008 into the "Then in" field. 2008 is the latest year they have data on file. C4. Press the "calculate" button.
Finally let us know the result!
This Fed calculation is quite useful for all time oriented dollar amounts. You will notice that news sources constantly compare today's dollar to yesterday's dollar as if they were the same. They are not.
Slashdot Mirror
This article details what happened. What burned and how the handling mistake was made.
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2009/January/23010903.asp
What happened to common sense? Can you train for this? Its -4F at UIUC with a 20mph wind. Huge wind chill. How safe were lightly dressed people who parked their cars then ran into the school building? This was during Christmas break; no one was around. They could have slipped and fallen and incapacitated themselves. In that weather, exposure was a hazard.
Oh well that was the only one I could relate that was not actually hazardous. The bees were just in the top part of my little bee outfit. They wanted to find that queen!
Thanks for all the replies. Sorry I could not mode some of you up!
So if we happen to wind up sleep deprived on a project or something. Lets all take a quick nap. I had a college graduate instructor who went five days without sleep. You know who you are Dr G! That's what comes of loving computer science more than sleep. I tried that, two days was my max. Operating machinery or driving or thinking deeply just doesn't happen if you are sleep deprived. And your life might not happen either if you do this. So take time out for sleep.
SLEEP MUSIC By the way SIRIUS/XP Channel 116 AFTER 11PM CT, Kids Channel has a nice "sleepytime" sleep songs. Again after 11pm and that might be a little different in Mountain and Pacific time zones.
Jim
I had a night job at a factory one time. 11pm to 7am. This meant that I slept about every two days.
I had a beekeeping hobby during the off factory hours. Can't put those little critters off. Once I was so sleepy I gathered a swarm into a box on the top of a 10' ladder. Then took a good nap up there with the idea or waiting for the bees to move to my box. Woke up a couple of hours later to an unpleasant dream which turned out to be reality. I had slept through a few bee stings. The swarm had moved, not into the box, but over and into my bee netting, clothes, hair, face, etc.
It was just annoying because swarms are fairly placid. So I carefully pulled my bee covered bee netting off and put that in the box. Went and took a proper nap in a bed.
You folks do anything interesting while sleep deprived? Leave out anything that could get you into trouble.
Not being a patent person, I suspect you bring up an excellent point. Is something ordinary in one circumstance (prior art too) patentable when its used in a new domain? I think not.
I think what we have here is a derivative patent. Here its derivative from a common domain.
Thanks, great thought!
Jim
Thanks, sorry about the poor robots who will have to
spit out patent fees during the competition.
How would this compare or limit other sports like a team shooting match where individuals and teams have scores?
Then this patent mimics basic biology where individual and cooperative behavior is honored. Say a bacteria that reproduces wildly that's individual performance. Then that bacterial produces a toxin that helps other bacterial thrive by eliminating competition. That's team help.
I think the guy is just patent crazy and has a blank space on his honor wall.
My uneducated guess is that this flavor of H1N1 is
a) As you said mild to very serious. For example were you two up on previous flu immunizations? I was but still had mild flu like symptoms.
b) A lot more prevalent than we think. For example in Dallas TX, lots of schools are closing because someone's kid was sick. What about their parents and family? Those people might not be testing.
c) With a Mexican probable source and a USA Mexican underground economy, these cases will be all over the place but unreported and thus undetected.
Thanks,
Jim
Has anyone you know had this flu? If so what were the symptoms? Also list city and state. Would be interesting if /. bettered Google Flu.
Cough cough,
Jim
I agree heartily here about pollution.
Consider our own waste habits and what we throw away. In Dallas, I see honeybees that make a practice of getting sugar from trash cans at the train station. That seems less healthy than the traditional source of a flower. Corn syrup from a soft drink is quite attractive to a bee. Think of the scant drop or two from a flower then the great discovery (to a bee) of half a cup of soft drink. Then think of the odd things floating around in that soft drink.
Thanks!
Confused? That's a terrific awareness in today's age. Shows that learning is possible. That's a long discussion on the decline and fall of civilization however!
Lets consider how fast change might occur. Seems to me that each bee hive had a collective "personality" derived from the queen and transmitted from bee DNA to bee pheromones. How might that active hive survive? Would it overcome weaker hives? Active hive survival depends on DNA transmission. The queen bee lives maybe two to three years. She mates early in her life many times. Then produces workers and drones. The drones go out and mate with other queens thus passing that active trait to some degree. I suspect, a good thesis paper here, that bee evolution is rather rapid because they are colony creatures and very dependent on their environment. If climate changes to well below 65f for the winter then that's going to kill off bunches of weaker bees that cannot generate a 65f hive temperature. Rainfall might be another factor to change bees, less might make them stronger as they have to forage further.
Enough babble, have a great weekend,
Jim
You are seriously misinformed. Hopefully this is a successful attempt to better inform. In college, I had 13 beehives. These were "rough" bees in that I never purchased mail order bees. During early Spring before honey-flow, if the hive was weak, that meant the queen was weak, I found her, not hard in a weak hive, and pinched her head off and dropped the pieces back into the hive. That hive soon developed another queen.
Now for your point of everything is the same. Of the 13, one hive was especially large. And markedly more productive than the rest. Two full size brood boxes and four medium size supers. I got stung six of seven times when I opened the top of that hive. Opening the top is a very innocent event. Pulling a frame out meant upwards of 20 stings. These were not african bees either. Just a mean but productive bunch of bees.
Hope this helps,
Jij
Thirty years ago Arco Oil and Gas had full data center backup. Where is this thought today in our attention deficit management world?
ARCO did NOT depend on their local Plano TX data center. ARCO had a building prepared in Independence KS on top of pipelines that was an empty data center. They had a contract with IBM to get the next big iron off the production lines. That combined with their backup tapes means quick switch over.
ARCO also never allowed all top executives to travel on the same jet. They flew TWO jets with passengers selected for functional redundancy. Two jets to the same location by the way.
I like the idea, if possible, of local redundancy. Like hospitals have generators.
I would appreciate examples of backup and redundancy today. These quiet things are often unnoticed.
Cheers,
Jim
Thanks, I hope it grows out of dev branch soon.
I like Chrome's Home Page web thumbprints.
I dislike that I cannot control these. For example right now, I have two timesonline.uk up. Permanently it seems. The "tool" icon does not allow Home Page editing. It should.
So,
A. If anyone out there can enlighten me on how to adjust Home Page icons. Go ahead.
B. If not Chrome developers, are you listening? Add web page adjustments to the Home Page. Pretty please?
Thanks
Amen to zappecs! When I was a teenager, I think a good number of us built a) crystal whisker receivers, b) diode receiver radios, c) transmit and receive radios.
Its no big deal. Wait a minute, nothing big for a kid to do. It might be special for a college student twice a kid's age in today's non magic world. A world that has never heard of the venerable ARRL (American Radio Relay League).
Like others, I wonder why no one thought about "ARISS". http://www.arrl.org/ARISS/
And zappecs is right so many times about the lack of specifications. They might have done it the hard way and made their own resistors and capacitors out of regional minerals (i.e dirt). The video had the students using an oscilloscope. Oscilloscopes help greatly to tune your antenna.
Cheers,
Jim
Whoo hoo voodoo! The paper looks over at the "its gonna happen because the base argument is flawed". What about it's not going to happen because the argument is flawed.
Grassroots is our next step. Obama is in the process of setting up a new grassroots organization, "Organizing For America" to help us connect with our legislature.
Check out the video
http://my.barackobama.com/page/m2/55c13e0e/5004f5b0/3bc0ea31/11884c10/4128887817/VEsE/
Three day old bird SNARGE (look it up) is more interesting than this article. I have several points I would like to gripe about regarding Microsoft's technical help. But this article fails to be specific. Tech Net or MS Dev Net? What MS web sites? So I am not going to feed the Information Week rumor monster. I think that's an article designed to get information from unsuspecting slashdot and other users.
Good bye, hrumpfh!
Jim
I used the same foil sheet trick. My downstairs neighbor was an EE engineer sometimes doing weird things at 5Ghz (my phone's frequency). So foil underneath the unit shielded it from his interference below plus provided a good ground plane for my own signal.
Jim
I live in an apartment. I have had a WWVB 60Khz Nixie clock for a couple of years. Early October 2008, it quit getting time updates. Seems there is enormous nighttime interference out there these days. I have a different audio WWVB radio and that now only plays static. Sometimes in early morning just after daylight, things are pretty good. I suspect its from nearby lighting assemblies on a nearby interstate.
HELP!! Any suggestions for a RF detector that can target my 60KHz interference? How to make one; a) that shows direction and b) detects 60Khz?
Also I need to get my local radio club to help with an oscilloscope to create a better 60Khz tuned antenna. The current tiny antenna is directional and in a non helpful square box.
Thanks,
Jim
CAIMLAS please accept my deepest sympathy.
Where do you live anyhow?
I could probably get a fast food job. Worker to manager. However in college in an off year, I worked lots of 80 hour weeks. Food is not easy. There is nothing as disheartening like looking at the moon at 11pm on a cold night and realizing that you had to be back before it sets.
For your FIL. Its like what I would do if I married a nice but rich lady (wishful thinking). Fix meals, clean house, mow yard, wash car, and home repair. Make myself so darn useful that your FIL would pay as much as McDonalds to have you around.
Stay out of FIL's way. "Out of sight, out of mind" still holds true.
Don't spend much if any of his money.
Beware of any old job. On the plus side, they can lead to other work. On the minus side they prevent you going around and finding a decent job.
Also in your "beach time" keep that brain busy; Scrabble, Greek, Latin. If you are in IT then R perhaps. I am learning R right now. Plan to finish a program next week to graphically depict some voter information.
Best wishes, let me know what job you wind up with
Jim
Chyeld speaks the truth.
And "somewhat condescending" lasts past school sometimes to the workplace. It was kind of fun to see though. I knew enough about oil to give a reasonable speech on the history of oil drilling bits which surprised a few of them.
This was years when we first graduated college working for a large oil and gas company here in Texas (ok it was ARCO), the petroleum engineer graduates from Texas A&M certainly did that "look down the nose" thing once in a while. They were nice ladies and gentlemen. I like smart people. On Fridays all the TAMU folks wore kaki pants and maroon TAMU knit shirts. That made a definite impression since most of the engineering staff was from TAMU.
Being a petroleum engineer was not perfect however, I was CS, and when they closed the office, I easily jumped to another job. Oil was way down at the time so there were no jobs at all for petroleum engineers. That was sad to see then and hurts a bit to remember that now.
Jim
You say "My parents raised 4 kids on about half of what I make now".
Could you be a bit more specific? Lets look a little closer.
A. What did your parents make in '82?
B. Go to the Minneapolis Federal Reserve home page.
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1084177&op=Reply&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=26367983
C. In the "What is a dollar worth" program
C1. Type 1982 into the year
C2. Type your parent's 1982 income amount into the "goods or services" field.
C3. Type 2008 into the "Then in" field. 2008 is the latest year they have data on file.
C4. Press the "calculate" button.
Finally let us know the result!
This Fed calculation is quite useful for all time oriented dollar amounts. You will notice that news sources constantly compare today's dollar to yesterday's dollar as if they were the same. They are not.
Thanks,
Jim