Posts by Tom 7 8318 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jun 2009
When I've worked in the states I've found hours more important than work attitude. People seemed to want to be in the office 7am till 7pm and often on Saturdays to be seen to be keen without actually working much - when there's another 40 hours left on the second week day there's no urgency. You can do more in a 60 hr week every now and then but when they are regular you get less done than in a 35hr week.
Flew to Mexico a month or so after 11/9 and landed at some pokey airport in Florida to re-fuel and had to spend 4 hours getting off the plane, collecting baggage and then going back through customs to get back on the plane when as simple re-fueling would have been infinitely safer and less annoying. We knew it was bad when even the normally totally de-humanised US border guards apologised for the stupidity.
I was looking forward at some time in the not too distant future to follow spring up the Cascades from California to Canada with yomps up Crater Lake and Mount Rainier (which I could view from our garden as a child). I have a feeling there might be a few huddled masses up there if Ms Atwoods now seemingly prophetic book gets any more accurate.
One hopes the crisis will pass but logic no longer works.
the proper method of 'repair' was to take the drive in hand and oscillate the case in the the same plane as the disks. Working on the disks alone reduced the chance of percussive un-maintenance of other PC parts.
I did accumulate several of these that were chucked out at work and they ran great for years unless turned off. I must have had nearly 200MB of them at one point!
The data just tells you what the maths is in this case. The trouble is the solution could a set of another set, or a different set of an intersect of two sets. Any well refined fourier transform will give you an answer that is sufficiently correct to make a killing at a certain level of commission.
I used to like VB - well not like but I could bend it to my purpose. I even wrote a lot of add-ons for SQLserver 4.5 so it would do all the things I needed it to do. The sysadmin upgraded to 6 anyway so he could get the four or five weeks training in where menu items had moved.
What I liked best about it was you could write code that wouldnt scare people - two hundred lines of VB didnt scare people the same way the same code in 10 lines of C++ did.
My only real annoyance was, after a really large project, discovering they'd added OOP to it but not told anyone about it and it would have save me a couple of months writing the OOP bits myself.
My local co-op has started doing that - I emailed them and for a day they jambed the doors open but left the fridge running. You get 3 for £5 of most ales.
My home brew is back online and that's the only thing I drink cold - the first pint or two out of the jug coming in from the brewery are sometimes cold but I do fill the washing up bowl with warmish water and drop the bottles/jug in to speed up the warming.
Got a shock the other night though - not being able to do a full mash brew I used some tinned malt and that Wherry is pretty fine after 8 months maturation!
Unless the question is "What is the point in spending 10 or more years of your like studying software engineering".
Trying to maintain other people spreadsheets in a meaningful way means you never take easy shortcuts that you know will become locked into the system and require you to maintain it - probably on a friday end of month when you are on a promise. I've spent many a long hour writing vb libraries so the accountant can write 'maintainable' code in a spreadsheet ( i.e. call the bloody library routine). Mind you you need a slightly* above average accountant to do this.
*in an exponential way.
I wonder how many iPhone sales are nothing to do with the phone itself merely the fact its the only way to access certain software. My daughter ended up getting a second hand iPhone simply because of Facetime - she just had to have that but none of the other 'features' were of interest.
Its not the partial pressure you have to worry about - pure oxygen at 3psi in your wood burner at home and your wood burner itself will burn. At 15psi it will just bur 5 times faster.
Nitrogen, apart from making Guinness fine, at 80% of air normally has a moderating effect and reduces the temperature achieved in fire. You can generate free hydrogen by running a diesel engine on pure oxygen generated by electrolysis from the increase in thermal efficiency of burning diesel in pure oxygen. Until the motor melts.
'Devon' somehow comes from the name of the tribe who lived here* - the Dumnonii. I'd suggest the contraction of this into Devon proves some form of distilling has been going on for years round here.
* apparently its cos they spoke brythonic (gaelic) round here and Defnas means men of Domnonia
The irony shirley is the fact there are many Scottish castles that seem to be modelled on Dartmoor prison.
I bet most of the people who objected are those bastard newcomers like me!
I should add I didnt object - I was a member of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society for many years until it became too popular and having experimented with distilled liquors made with love and care from all over the work would welcome some local whisky. I'd make it myself but for those damned EU laws the EU forced on the UK in 1823 to piss the Scots off. At least with brexit we will be free of the boot stamping on the human face - forever. I'm sure leapard print heels will be much nicer.
In the UK Whisky is made from grain (barley wheat, rye or maize) and is 3 years in an oak barrel or more. Whiskey is any old shit. Scotch is whisky that is distilled in Scotland. Malt is from barley so that counts a whisky.
We dont give a toss what the rest of the world do now.
But swarm tractors are looking seriously like they would be cheaper than the glyphosphate, or indeed any of the pesticides that may be needed with big tractors. And even a pi zero can be told where the spring that you need to avoid is - all without the compaction the big tractor causes, and without the crop loss - tractors round here seem to crush 5 to 10% of the crop.
As for pushing things into the ground - I'm not saying get rid of all tractors but we dont need £120k JD to put fence post in. As for getting the crop in - tractors dont do all of that - combines do when they're not slowly trying to get down the road in front of me.
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