I was thinking along these lines too. For any issued report / calc (either internally or externally), it should be very simple to reproduce for one of two reasons:

1. It is a 'simple' problem with only one real solution.

2. The report / calc is issued with the exact instructions and/or files to reproduce the results.

It is much harder to do #2 when you're trying to follow along what someone else has done in the GUI vs. a flat text file where errors can be very readily apparent, or at least checked programmatically.

Is it just me, or does the Mac Pro look like a really fancy garbage can? That's the first thought I had when I saw the pictures in the article.

A large degree of unknowns is okay, from a crop diversity perspective. It reduces the likelihood of a single organism being able to wipe out the entire crop.

A plant with a relatively homogeneous genome will be more susceptible to certain types, and less susceptible to others.

However, it only takes one very efficient killer to wipe the GM crops out. It may take several different ones to whack the more diverse crops.

Preventing regulatory capture is pretty simple in theory. You give the regulator real power, complete independence, and almost more importantly, money. Doesn't really matter where the money comes from. I would think in most countries, the utilities pay a large portion of the fees. If a certain site requires more oversight, the utility is obligated to pay for it.

However, the real reason for requiring the regulator to have enough money is to ensure that they can hire higher-end technical experts to really challenge the utilities.

If the data isn't known, then they really can't make any decisions based on 'the greater good'.

In essence, what you're advocating is having a government make decisions based on those who complain the loudest, and are the most organized.

Or, the other option is to follow closer than you feel comfortable with. Sounds like a great plan.

Ripples occur when there are rapid stops. A very gradual slowing down should really minimize the downstream effects, providing other drivers are paying attention and not following so closely that they have to slam on their brakes when the speed of the car in front of them decreases even the slightest.

It's off. 3 mm.

Run.

What?

I said... Run.

The Jackal was a rather enjoyable movie, and this gun reminds me of it somewhat. Similarities: remote targeted gun. Differences: Everything else.

I think my company treats IT well... however they are now insisting that 500 MB is an appropriate limit for everyone's e-mail accounts. I'm pretty sure that employees who have been there for 15+ years have far more than 500 MB, and the cost of having them parse their old e-mails (by June) is far more than the savings of a few hundred GB in storage.

Even better, they implemented (in Jan 2012) some McAfee archive storage (or maybe it was a different company) that archived e-mails over a certain size.

In Feb 2013, as part of the e-mail quotas, it was announced that all archived e-mail would be deleted (and wasn't included in the size of your quota, so you never really knew how much was left to delete). Oh, and they wouldn't unarchive your e-mails in bulk either.

This is why people hate IT. And more specifically, IT Management.

In my company, they are going the other way. I can only imagine they are giving in too much to IT.

In a company of about 10,000, they are insisting that everyone cuts back to 500 MB (1 GB for managers) for their e-mail accounts. There were zero limits in place before (which was a mistake on their part).

Oh, and they gave people two months (when the company is being restructured) to clean up their accounts. Many people have 10+ GB of e-mail. This is an electrical utility with lots of engineers. Some of the information should probably be stored elsewhere, but sometimes, it is just damn convenient to look up the answer to a question you've been posed before.

And, if you've got a few thousand engineering types... how much money do you save on IT vs. how much is spent managing that cap number? They never did release the projected savings... probably so people couldn't question them vs. the increased cost to every other part of the organization.

Somehow, I think Vic Toews would be okay with wiretapping everyone. After all, you're either with him, or the child pornographers.

Quick question... How do you institute that block? My quick 15 second Google search was mostly about admins trying to block hotlinking by checking HTTP_REFERER.

I figure it isn't exceedingly complex, but was just wondering if you could point me in the right direction. Thanks :)

I'm really curious as to how/why there is a much, much higher cost of designing the electronic edition.

I guess I just can't see why it is (or should be) complex. Especially given that you should be leaving all the presentation aspects to the devices themselves.

It just seems like spending a lot of time typesetting a document for viewing on an e-reader that may have a different height/width, and can be enlarged on that same screen, would be a losing battle that should not be dealt with by an author, but rather by the device manufacturer/format specification.

Again... not saying that you're wrong about it, just that there must be something that I'm missing.

I'm sure they will look at the water velocities in the suction area.

You can design the system such that the velocity at distance X (maybe they'll put a net at that distance) is less than Y m/s. Where Y is the velocity above which fish (large/small) will be unlikely to escape.

However, the alarm will be turned off when you use the key in the ignition (even if you set the alarm off by using the key in the door). Not sure if that was what the other poster was trying to get at.

You probably shouldn't include Twilight and The Hunger Games in the same comparison. While the writing in both is geared towards their target audience (young adults/teenagers), The Hunger Games doesn't read like it was written with a thesaurus. The Hunger Games has a story that is more intricate than "I am a boring girl who loves a vampire that sparkles."