Are the gel-cells you refer to also called "sealed lead acid" batteries? If so, then you are correct, they are maintenance free (and good for about 5 years if kept up properly and not overly discharged often).

Want to gamify your job?

Shoot for performance gains and collect statistics. Maximize performance.

I’m on a small team, the Architect and Developer, that’s me (I can’t get a business card with a title of “Hand of the Architect”, damn it). We can only do small, specific projects.

Our most successful project involved moving Excel data to an AS400 and running programs to process it.

The Architect wanted stats. So I broke the process down into measurable steps (7 or 8) and logged everything in the application (Stopwatch is a favorite .Net class). I also timed users performing the terrible manual process (it was as if they were robots, performing rote action, over and over again).

80%+ improvement in process speed (being able to show this was awesome). Batch functionality freed up tons of time.

Collect stats when reworking processes. Prove it.

Same goes for football/soccer apparently

I hope you have a wife and two kids (minimum on both fronts), because that reading list is NUCLEAR. For the most part.

Fantastic statement, one a lawyer should take up (or a team, with different players in different positions).

If there is a single penny of public money supporting the league (stadium) via public debt or financing, then why the F*** should the public not be able to watch it publicly.

If there isn't, do as they please.

F***ing great point. I can't say it hard or long enough.

The clause should read as follows: Broadcasting rights can be limited only if there is no public money involved in financing the location or presentation of a game.

And I live in St. Louis, we suck. We partied like it was 1999 in January of 2000...

Here are a couple of links that I found that are interesting.

General Info and Benefits - http://www.waterencyclopedia.c...
Why they are Harmful - http://www.waterencyclopedia.c...

Wish I had mod points because that is interesting.

It is a "cauldron of death" for species that cannot escape (shellfish primarily, so selfish about their oxygen and location).

I wonder if population studies have been done, how does the ecosystem recover after the algae bloom? I haven't checked of course.

This isn't the largest death zone ever, maybe farming practices are improving with regards to runoff. It is certainly wasteful.

And in turn the cloud services are storing very illegal images. It's just due diligence if you ask me.

I wonder how much staff they have to review this sort of thing (it would be a terrible job if you ask me, like watching the toilets in Southland Tales - which was awesome when combined with the comic book).

Could this be used for laptops, and maybe tablets and phones?

I would think so. Laptops already have vents. A smaller, slower, quieter fan may be necessary.

Surface area, it is why I prefer crushed ice on a hot day.

I believe you are spot on regarding perception and and possibly an uncanny valley effect.

In my opinion, when our heads move we experience motion blur, our eyes cannot be focused perfectly when in motion (when the head moves slowly focus can track, but if the objects in the field of vision vary significantly in distance from the subject then a lot of refocus is going on). Only when we stop do we get full clarity in our primary field of vision and improved peripheral vision (I'm just spit balling here, outside my realm of knowledge...).

Games have started adding motion blur as an option, The Forest is my primary example. Turning quickly to find an attacker isn't just turning, it's perceiving the blur. In game it is creepy. Try turning quickly (first person shooter speed) to find a small object. This is perfect gaming realism, not uncanny at all (scary when being attacked, scary game).

24 frames per second for a movie provides a slight blur. Higher, well focused scenes, will be lacking in this some. I'm not sure if it is just the fact that we expect a movie to look as it does at 24 fps (prior experience) or if we find it uncanny. There is a softness to 24 fps as well.

Movies like Avatar are perfectly focused and should be uncanny, but they are like video games without motion blur (Avatar used motion blur a lot though), perfect focus at all times. They are realistic, but not of our reality. Uncanny? Yes. Are we comfortable watching it? Yes.

During the trash avalanche scenes at the beginning of Idiocracy I noticed the entire frame was in perfect focus (the far off background). I only noticed this after a couple of dozen viewings...

Anyway, very thought provoking comment.

Xamarin allows for iPhone and Android development using C#.

I'm waiting for the day that Microsoft buys them so I can get the premium Visual Studio integration via my MSDN subscription...

Unfortunately she wouldn't let me make his last name Mulder...

Perception is reality. Sucks sometimes because "the truth is out there" (my son's middle name is Fox for a reason, primarily because I got to name him, my wife named his twin sister...).