GM has had a reputation for selling cars that were in some way deficient, then making changes as the dealers' service departments parts orders indicated to manufacturing which parts were subpar. I called this "paying for the privlege of being a beta tester" and desisted from buying GM models in the first or second year. Could this be just beta testing with real-time response?
I understand how commercial buildings are named, and am amused by the insecurity factor: "Gee, if our name isn't plastered out there on the edge of the roof, who would know who we are?" It makes an Oracle or Siebel seem as insecure as South Succotash* Bank and Trust.
If you live out around Hercules or Walnut Creek then an Emeryville office would save you driving to San Mateo, although now that the San Mateo to Hayward bridge is wider and has real breakdown shoulders on all of the flat part, the commute may not be so bad.
BTW the reason I saw it was I was reverse-commuting from San Bruno to Berkeley for a year, then from Oakland to Berkeley for a half year.
* In 1982, asked about the effect of recession on small-town Americans, Ronald Reagan said, "Is it news that some fellow out in South Succotash someplace has just been laid off, that he should be interviewed nationwide?"
Would you really trust the government (or anyone else for that matter) to decide what consitutes good parenting?
What about parents who don't have half a clue and, knowingly or not, hide this ignorance from anyone who could intervene? Dumping on government folly is good sport, but shouldn't there be some way to keep the smart kids of not-so-smart parents from falling through the cracks?
We test life-critical systems. Shouldn't we regard parenting as life-critical and hold someone's parenting beliefs and skills up to critical examination?
The city water department makes ozone to disinfect drinking water. It produces essentially zero carcinogens compared to chlorine. Because ozone can't be relied on to prevent contamination downstream of the treatment plant, chloramine is added as a final step. Any excess ozone is destroyed by catalytic degradation.
I saw this plant roughly 18 years ago when it was dedicated. It's near Sylmar, and was installed to treat water from the formerly prisine, but now less so, Owens Valley.
Both poles form a 'polar vortex' during winter. This is essentially a circular jet stream, which isolates high-altitude air inside from outside.
The difference is that the South Pole vortex is stronger and longer-lasting, because it's colder, because of the underlying material (Anarctica vs Arctic Sea). Ozone-depleting chemicals accumulate to higher concentrations over Antarctica during the winter, and produce more depletion in spring as a result.
Yes, the Southern Hemisphere has less in the way of emission sources of depleting chemicals, meaning at least some of what is there drifted from the Northern Hemisphere. Given the persistance of these chemicals, this is believable.
When I did a masters' thesis and doctoral disssertation, I had to turn in two copies, one of which went off to University Microfilms in Ann Arbor, MI, for copying onto microfilm and storage wherever they keep it. Doesn't Britian (I'm guessing from his using an Amstrad that that's where he's from) have something similar?
Although, to be complete, I did have summer jobs in college that used IBM big iron: two summers of data entry and one summer of developing an in-house IT app in APL.
When I went to UCSD in 1978-82, 'mainframe' meant a Burroughs B6700 or (later) B7800, 'mini' meant VAX-11/780 or PDP-11, and 'micro' meant LSI-11 or Z80.
Supposedly there was a low-end System/360 around somewhere, or maybe it was just remote access to someone else's. My point is, if by 'mainframe' you mean System/360 and its descendants, there was essentially nothing at this fast-rising research university.
Was my experience off for the times, or was it more commomplace? I wish I could say.
I'm doing contract work at Rockwell Collins, and saw this in the twice-weekly press release email they send out. It could be the ultimate solution to the security issue:
"NSA Gives Certification on MicroProcessor -- Rockwell Collins has received National Security Agency (NSA) certification for its Advanced Architecture MicroProcessor 7 Government Version (AAMP7G), a Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) device for use in cryptographic applications
"The AAMP7G MILS certification represents a significant milestone for our programmable cryptographic engine development efforts and strengthens Rockwell Collins' credentials in the Information Assurance market segments," said Bruce King, vice president and general manager of Communication Systems for Rockwell Collins.
"The AAMP7G provides MILS capability through its unique micro-architecture, which employs a secure hardware-based separation kernel. It offers a more capable solution that is smaller, uses less power and is more cost effective than current crypto devices.
"The AAMP7G is capable of simultaneously processing the full spectrum of information from unclassified through top secret codeword information. It will be used in the multi-channel, MILS-capable, programmable crypto engine currently being developed by Rockwell Collins.
"The NSA currently is evaluating the programmable crypto engine for Type-1 certification. This next generation programmable crypto engine will address the Department of Defense's (DOD) Crypto Modernization efforts to support future secure communication, navigation and data link capability for the warfighter."
We used to import doctors like crazy, yes. But the above-mentioned factors, plus post-9/11 immigration barriers, have inspired some to leave and others to not come in the first place.
Anecdotally, I've heard Australia is one place they are going to.
Also see Richard Florida's "The Flight of the Creative Class" for a broader discussion how the USA, for microeconomic and cultural reasons, is becoming less favorable to those in trades and professions.
In "The Right Stuff," Wolfe mentioned that the NASA X-15 pilots didn't qualify for astronaut wings. Supposedly, a party was held for one of them after his qualifying flight. He was a pair of cardboard wings labelled "Asstronaut."
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For me, it's more a feeling of sadness about a protagonist who is trapped in life.
The speed of light, say.
Eleanor Roosevelt is the source of the quote. Maybe Ms Landers quoted her in the column.
Maybe intelligence is like porn; you just know when you see it.
GM has had a reputation for selling cars that were in some way deficient, then making changes as the dealers' service departments parts orders indicated to manufacturing which parts were subpar. I called this "paying for the privlege of being a beta tester" and desisted from buying GM models in the first or second year. Could this be just beta testing with real-time response?
I understand how commercial buildings are named, and am amused by the insecurity factor: "Gee, if our name isn't plastered out there on the edge of the roof, who would know who we are?" It makes an Oracle or Siebel seem as insecure as South Succotash* Bank and Trust.
If you live out around Hercules or Walnut Creek then an Emeryville office would save you driving to San Mateo, although now that the San Mateo to Hayward bridge is wider and has real breakdown shoulders on all of the flat part, the commute may not be so bad.
BTW the reason I saw it was I was reverse-commuting from San Bruno to Berkeley for a year, then from Oakland to Berkeley for a half year.
* In 1982, asked about the effect of recession on small-town Americans, Ronald Reagan said, "Is it news that some fellow out in South Succotash someplace has just been laid off, that he should be interviewed nationwide?"
Was the Emeryville office (that tower along I-80) a satellite facility only?
That song scared me shitless when I was little.
A few years ago, the cellist Yo-Yo Ma signed CDs at a Costco in or near San Francisco. So, maybe you should leave them out... :)
Would you really trust the government (or anyone else for that matter) to decide what consitutes good parenting?
What about parents who don't have half a clue and, knowingly or not, hide this ignorance from anyone who could intervene? Dumping on government folly is good sport, but shouldn't there be some way to keep the smart kids of not-so-smart parents from falling through the cracks?
We test life-critical systems. Shouldn't we regard parenting as life-critical and hold someone's parenting beliefs and skills up to critical examination?
No, Beowulf was the title of an epic poem.
IIRC, LA used ozone only.
No, it doesn't. Even if it did, H2O2 is so reactive it would break down anyway.
Who wants ozone? Believe it or not, Los Angeles!
The city water department makes ozone to disinfect drinking water. It produces essentially zero carcinogens compared to chlorine. Because ozone can't be relied on to prevent contamination downstream of the treatment plant, chloramine is added as a final step. Any excess ozone is destroyed by catalytic degradation.
I saw this plant roughly 18 years ago when it was dedicated. It's near Sylmar, and was installed to treat water from the formerly prisine, but now less so, Owens Valley.
Both poles form a 'polar vortex' during winter. This is essentially a circular jet stream, which isolates high-altitude air inside from outside.
The difference is that the South Pole vortex is stronger and longer-lasting, because it's colder, because of the underlying material (Anarctica vs Arctic Sea). Ozone-depleting chemicals accumulate to higher concentrations over Antarctica during the winter, and produce more depletion in spring as a result.
Yes, the Southern Hemisphere has less in the way of emission sources of depleting chemicals, meaning at least some of what is there drifted from the Northern Hemisphere. Given the persistance of these chemicals, this is believable.
BBC: They show that the Antarctic ozone hole was larger in mid-August this year than at the same period in any year since 2000.
Not the biggest depletion ever, just the largest in five years.
When I did a masters' thesis and doctoral disssertation, I had to turn in two copies, one of which went off to University Microfilms in Ann Arbor, MI, for copying onto microfilm and storage wherever they keep it. Doesn't Britian (I'm guessing from his using an Amstrad that that's where he's from) have something similar?
It was Nixon who eliminated exchangability of dollars for gold, in 1971. Where do you get "fast forward a century" from?
Although, to be complete, I did have summer jobs in college that used IBM big iron: two summers of data entry and one summer of developing an in-house IT app in APL.
When I went to UCSD in 1978-82, 'mainframe' meant a Burroughs B6700 or (later) B7800, 'mini' meant VAX-11/780 or PDP-11, and 'micro' meant LSI-11 or Z80.
Supposedly there was a low-end System/360 around somewhere, or maybe it was just remote access to someone else's. My point is, if by 'mainframe' you mean System/360 and its descendants, there was essentially nothing at this fast-rising research university.
Was my experience off for the times, or was it more commomplace? I wish I could say.
I'm doing contract work at Rockwell Collins, and saw this in the twice-weekly press release email they send out. It could be the ultimate solution to the security issue:
"NSA Gives Certification on MicroProcessor -- Rockwell Collins has received National Security Agency (NSA) certification for its Advanced Architecture MicroProcessor 7 Government Version (AAMP7G), a Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) device for use in cryptographic applications
"The AAMP7G MILS certification represents a significant milestone for our programmable cryptographic engine development efforts and strengthens Rockwell Collins' credentials in the Information Assurance market segments," said Bruce King, vice president and general manager of Communication Systems for Rockwell Collins.
"The AAMP7G provides MILS capability through its unique micro-architecture, which employs a secure hardware-based separation kernel. It offers a more capable solution that is smaller, uses less power and is more cost effective than current crypto devices.
"The AAMP7G is capable of simultaneously processing the full spectrum of information from unclassified through top secret codeword information. It will be used in the multi-channel, MILS-capable, programmable crypto engine currently being developed by Rockwell Collins.
"The NSA currently is evaluating the programmable crypto engine for Type-1 certification. This next generation programmable crypto engine will address the Department of Defense's (DOD) Crypto Modernization efforts to support future secure communication, navigation and data link capability for the warfighter."
We used to import doctors like crazy, yes. But the above-mentioned factors, plus post-9/11 immigration barriers, have inspired some to leave and others to not come in the first place.
Anecdotally, I've heard Australia is one place they are going to.
Also see Richard Florida's "The Flight of the Creative Class" for a broader discussion how the USA, for microeconomic and cultural reasons, is becoming less favorable to those in trades and professions.
That accident was in 1966.
It's not a typo. Look it up in the book.
In "The Right Stuff," Wolfe mentioned that the NASA X-15 pilots didn't qualify for astronaut wings. Supposedly, a party was held for one of them after his qualifying flight. He was a pair of cardboard wings labelled "Asstronaut."