Tis a fool who looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart. Or from Cupertino. And that's not a dig, Apple fans, that's just the truth. Apple will dump Intel when they feel like it, for reasons that they alone decide.
Apple is a bit like the interrogator in 1984. They believe that can levitate off the ground and float around the room should they choose to, and what the outside world thinks makes no difference at all.
Just like any gold rush; the companies that supply the provisions stand the biggest chance to get rich.
especially one inside the confines of an aircraft. I can only imagine how the ground crew and engineers were treated upon landing.
(Bay door opens)
Engineer: So how'd it.....(several angry loadmasters exit with torn flight suits and reeking of pig shit).....nevermind. So, uhhhh, pork chops for dinner tonight?
Loadmaster: Pork chops for dinner tonight.
and have a radar signature that's bit more... subtle.
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Those big whirly things on top, and especially that big old flat one on the back, aren't the most stealthy things on earth. A helicopter's advantage comes from being able to hug the nap of the earth and hide from radar, rather than deflect it away.
True, we used "stealth" helicopters in the bin laden raid, but my guess would be that the concern there was the super secrete stuff was 75% noise reduction 25% radar signature.
Except that medical grade helium and the crap they fill party balloons with are two different things.
Hardcore Zen by Brad Warner struck a huge chord with me. There's a certain amount of cruft and drama that seems to have come along with the sequels (especially the wandering through Sex.) But it distills down *very* nicely and has opened me up to some interesting changes in my thinking.
That, along with The Great Gatsby and Catcher in the Rye, are on my list of books that I absolutely hated. I didn't find any of them to be the least bit fulfilling.
Might have something to do with having at least a bit of expectation for each. But I found them all to be in the category of "great because everyone says they're great."
http://annualcreditreport.com/
You are entitled by law to one free credit report from each of the three major agencies per year. That's an actual free report, not a "free *with $160 per year enrollment in out 'service' report. So, realistically you can do this every four months, just change reporting agency.
You are also a fool if you *aren't* doing this. The first time I did this I found two credit cards that hadn't been canceled by the issuer.
Low hanging fruit. Changing the source, thanks to the will of the people, is even harder.
I'd love to see coal fired plants go the way of the incandescent light bulb. But planning infrastructure takes decades, building infrastructure takes years, and it takes about five minutes to form a "citizens united against changing the status quo" NIMBY group to raise a stink in the first place (and said group usually gets a nice chunk of change from the "I make a ton of money off of the status quo in the first place" political action committees).
We do, but it depends on the area.
For example, GP mentioned being the Los Angeles area. So Cal is very earthquake prone and, it turns out, pipelines don't react well to having the earth they're laid in shifted three or four feet in one direction so onsite facilities make a bit more sense. I live in the upper midwest in a mitten-shaped state where the trees are just the right height and the earth doesn't tend to quaketh as often, so the places I've worked were all natural gas pipeline fed.
One of our offices in Pennsylvania was strictly diesel and my understanding was that due to the hilly nature of the surrounding area, natural gas service wasn't as prevalent. Or at least, service at the CFM needed to run a good sized generator.
I picked up a Microsoft natural keyboard several years ago after getting tingling in my pinky and ring fingers on both hands that wouldn't go away. After a few weeks, the tingling went away and when I left the job a year later, the keyboard came with me. I've added in a bit of stretching, and it's really helped.
There's one Microsoft product that I'm not ashamed to use. As an added bonus, I love watching people try and use the keyboard. Anyone who types from muscle memory gets turned into an outright n00b.
1. It's "The University of Michigan." Not trying to be as pedantic as those who insist on THE Ohio State University (as opposed to that other Ohio State?), but no one uses 'Michigan University.'
2. At no point, in any of the three cited articles, is U of M mentioned. The QR / Currency article from engadget refers to The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, which is slightly different from umich.
It's the second cert I've ever gotten. Training didn't cost me anything, and the cert made it easy to justify to the boss. Plus it got me a week in Chicago, which was nice.
You're it, it was the 70 series, I was pulling numbers out of my ass. I did the Cert's because work was paying, not because I really felt I needed to do them. They just made for nice resume flare.
Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.
