For example: Let's say your current small business makes $1M / year in profit. Normally everything above $388k or so would be taxed at 35%. Let's simplify and say it's a flat tax and you pay $350k in taxes. Now let's say you hire 20 employees instead at $50k / year which eliminates your profit. Now you've got 20 more employees to grow your business and you're not paying any income taxes. Problem solved. w00t!
That's funny, I must have missed the part in Economics 101 where it says the goal of business is to earn zero profit, and that the accompanying goal of the government is to tax the business so as to encourage that outcome. Was it in the section about Marxism, perhaps?
How does tripe like this get modded to +5?
Besides where is the problem building a PLC sending its output variables as text?
Limit switches, solenoids, pushbuttons, motor contactors, relays, pilot lights, current transmitters, modulating control valves, even robotic motion controls -- good luck replacing all that gear with 'smart' versions that now have to understand text instead of simple electrical signals and not losing so much as a millisecond of response time.
I probably ought to give you some benefit of the doubt in that you meant "the PLC's data that passes to/from the SCADA" but you used the word "output" and that has a meaning to control engineers, a meaning you apparently don't grasp since you are quite ignorant on this subject.
So just stop now. Just admit you do not know what you are talking about and move on. It took me years of engineering school, mentoring, and in-field experience to understand my field, and I learn more every day. I really don't have the interest in trying to distill it into a
Sensors that spit out text? Who in their right mind would want that?
Ignorant IT people who think they know better than control engineers how to design & operate control systems. The rant about OPC was beautiful, in its own ignorant way, and completely exposes the GP as someone who's probably never seen a control system in his life, probably never will see one, and wouldn't have the first clue how to program, troubleshoot, or maintain it.
There's historically been a certain amount of tension between control engineers and IT folks for that very reason; the smartest IT folks are the ones who ask the control engineers what they need to do their jobs, provide it, then stay the hell out of our way. The rest make our blood boil.
I'm not sure about the full body email search, but if you wanted to do that wouldn't you want semantic desktop? I guess what you're asking is how to have such an option in KMail without having to include the entire kitchen sink that is the semantic desktop?
KMail (used to?) store its email in the maildir format, meaning they're all just plain text files. It could fall back on plain old 'find' commands in the shell and return the results. But from what I'm reading, it's so wedded to "semantic desktop" now that it can't even do that? Ugh. I guess I really will have to ditch it for good on this upgrade (moving from Mint 9 LTS to Mint 13 LTS shortly).
As an engineer I have to fight the tendency to assign acronyms to things that don't need them, or even discard/alter acronyms that come out "wrong". GIMP does not get off the hook for having a silly name because it's an acronym. In fact the full name of the program looks like it was chosen to create the acronym - which is doubly silly.
Bemoan it all you want, but GIMP is a stupid name and it ought to change if it wants to be taken seriously.
Pick up and move? Temporary cables? Are you seriously trolling or what? I do multi gig transfers daily and mostly automatically. Streaming 1080p to multiple clients (...)
Makes you an outlier, perhaps one of the _extreme_ outliers that the GP suggested. Multiple 1080p streams? Really? Just how many TV shows & movies are out there worth watching these days, let alone all at once?
(is there today any RPG out there that will allow you to bake bread, from harvesting the wheat to the finished product?).
If there were a "comment of the week" feature I'd nominate this for the sheer laugh-out-loud absurdity of it. If we were talking about Farmville or the Sims the
Wow, reading that link, it seems that the fictional Wil Wheaton as shown in the show is actually a terrible person. Kind of like how the fictional Bruce Campbell as shown in My Name Is Bruce is a terrible person.
Interestingly, Wil wrote on his blog that he had a blast playing "evil Wil Wheaton", as he called the character, and loves going back to Big Bang for guest spots.
If you want to see a prime example of a TV show's aspect ratio being changed for the DVD release and the outcome being horribly wrong, check out the second season of Angel. In the very first episode, there's a climactic fight at the end in the hotel lobby between Angel and some demon. In the original 4:3 aspect ratio, no problem. In the 16:9, there is a very bored set hand off to the right of the fight in plain sight. It was clearly a lazy, shitty conversion (IIRC even Angel's own showrunners were appalled) but it stands as an object lesson of what not to do.
Even dramatic moments won't feel right when converting aspect ratios. A tight shot on an actor's face that looks right in 4:3, suddenly reveals another character standing behind him in 16:9. Two characters conversing in 4:3 fill the screen; in 16:9 there's dead space to either side of them (this one was also quite prevalent in that Angel set).
Bottom line: stick to the originally intended aspect ratio.
If you have an Allen Bradley Logix series PLC, its firmware must match your version of RSLogix all the way down to the point release.
Untrue, and I've run RSLogix5000 for years, starting way back at version 7 I think. The major version of the software & firmware must match to go online to a processor or open its program, but not the minor & point releases.
Rockwell is evil for many reasons, but this is not one of them.
Also, with the exception of one quest, I never had to write anything down.
Let me guess: Liara's mission where she wants you to find out who one of the Shadow Broker's agents is? It makes you think it's a logic puzzle but it's really just a swerve, which I realized only after I flubbed it. I won't write any more lest I spoil it.
Work without a vision is slavery, Vision without work is a pipe dream, But vision with work is the hope of the world.
