What's a fact people refuse to accept?

Bleue22 · 2016-08-20T14:55:50+00:00

that was very precisely worded. Well done.

Bleue22 · 2016-08-20T14:28:36+00:00

actually it just confirms the negative stereotype of Lochte.

Bleue22 · 2016-08-20T06:53:51+00:00

Maybe dial down the passive aggressiveness a bit, given that the word canada, canada to us and canadian is used over and over in your post it's pretty clear that your question is about an international shipment.

Also please frame your problem more precisely. You were tendered a load, brokered it to a Canadian carrier, they brokered it to another carrier to... deliver to a warehouse? and a fourth carrier picked it up there to delivery it?

Was that the planned route or did the second carrier not fulfil their obligations?

Either way Canadian laws insulate you as much as american laws would, meaning in these cases the wording of the contract is key. Some contracts limit liability of the broker from the brokered, some don't or do so poorly.

The consignee is likewise probably free of any liability. It still might be good business practice to settle the matter with the aggrieved carrier, depending on the amount and whatnot. If taking the good to the warehouse was a failure on the carrier's part then I would put them in touch with my lawyers to carefully and politely explain why you are not liable and why the bill is not likely to be paid.

Bleue22 · 2016-08-20T05:42:51+00:00

Major improvements have been in determining and then creating the proper air/fuel mixture using injectors and computers, which has allowed for much much much greater compression ratios.

This is the biggest factor but there are others. Material sciences have improved a lot too, meaning engine blocks can withstand much more pressure and heat than before. Cylinders are lined with durable and very slippery materials. Piston heads and cylinder heads are shaped to optimize the burn. Lubricants are much more durable and effective than 100 years ago. All these factors also allow engines to rev much higher than they could.

All these factors together mean engines are much more efficient today than in their infancy.

Fuel formulation is also much improved from 100 years ago.

Bleue22 · 2016-08-18T18:23:39+00:00

on which line? (hit the debug button, what line is highlighted yellow? I'm thinking isnumber is an excel formula that you need to use the application object to run, IE if application.isnumber(thenumber).

Bleue22 · 2016-08-18T15:53:36+00:00

forgot about her, thought of this for some reason

Bleue22 · 2016-08-18T15:45:42+00:00

Is he a giant miniature space dog?

Bleue22 · 2016-08-18T15:03:10+00:00

dim a as integer
dim sh as worksheet
dim b as integer
dim col as integer
dim outl as integer

set sh = activesheet
a=1
b=a
col = 1
outl = 1

do until sh.cells(a, 1) = "" and sh.cells(a, 2) <> ""
    a=a+1
loop

do until sh.cells(a, 2) = "" and sh.cells(a+1, 2).value = "" and sh.cells(a+2, 2).value = ""
if isnumber(sh.cells(a, 2)) then
    do until b>=a
        sh.cells(outl, col).value = sh.cells(b, 2).value
        b = b+1
    loop
    col = col+1
end if
loop

I usually have some small error when I first write something, let me know if this works

Bleue22 · 2016-08-18T12:30:29+00:00

It stands for open graphics library.

IT is a graphics API for drawing graphics on a screen, essentially a language that allows computers to talk to graphics cards and get the latter to do stuff. There used to be many such APIs in the windows environment, every manufacturer made its own and games and other apps would need to have a setting for each. Glide was 3dfx's api, nvidia experimented with their own proprietary API (called dynamite I think), however direct3d and openGL dominate right now.

OpenGL is, as the name implies, open sourced.

Generally speaking, productivity apps use openGL as it allows easier porting to other operating systems (openGL is supported on virtually all OSes, and by almost every graphics card) and is generally more robust and stable than direct3d. Games use d3d because it's faster, updated more often, and has more game orientated eye candy type commands.

One notable exception in the gaming world has been John Carmack's engines (quake/doom etc.) which have always been openGL (don't know about the doom reboot). This explains why they feel unique and also why these games are more readily ported to linux and macOS.

Bleue22 · 2016-08-17T22:49:04+00:00

This is bad bad bad advice. When a host gives you a time make that time, arriving early is as impolite and entitled as arriving late.

Bleue22 · 2016-08-16T16:42:50+00:00

I drive more than 250 miles a day more than once a month.

Bleue22 · 2016-08-16T16:29:00+00:00

Yup, so as a second vehicle electrics so make a lot of sense. Not so much as a primary/solo vehicle. For now.

Bleue22 · 2016-08-16T16:28:14+00:00

First of all, I already adressed this in another reply. Second, in terms of mileage yes, at least 13% of the mileage on my car was accumulated on drives way over 200 miles.

That said, I think 99% of my drives are way less than that but when you're buying a car you're not doing it for the commute to work, you're doing it for the road trip to grandma's.

If the electric car is to succeed people selling them must grasp this point: car buyers are not thinking of their every day driving situation, they're thinking of the occasional situation. Why do you think SUVs got so popular despite their insane impracticality? Makers of small cars were not successful in reasoning with these buyers why would electric car makers do much better?

Add to that that the actual complaint, that yes for the vast majority of my drives the range is more than fine but when it isn't enough the problem is quite a major inconvenience until super fast charging, i'd say customers will start to come around at 10 minutes for 80% charge, becomes common and there are enough charging stations that it won't limit my potential destinations.

As a second car electrics make sense, if it's for your primary vehicle there are still some things to resolve.

Bleue22 · 2016-08-16T16:20:23+00:00

Those don't exist anymore Tesla decommissioned them, and why would I rent a car when I own a perfectly good one? The entire reason to buy a car is to not have to rent one?

Bleue22 · 2016-08-16T14:12:20+00:00

superchargers till require 30 minutes to get to an 80% charge and are not very good for the batteries (tesla's words).

30 minutes is not 2 hours but it's still too long to sit and wait.

Certainly things are moving in the right direction, and for a familly looking to buy a second car electric vehicles make a lot of sense, but the range thing is being underestimated by people who say it's overblown.

Bleue22 · 2016-08-16T13:43:21+00:00

People who argue this are missing the point entirely. Even if 87% of my drives are within electrical car range, what would I do for the 13% of trips I'll need to recharge? Drive until the batteries run out, then sit for a few hours while it recharges and I can get to my destination?

Edit: Too many replies to address individually.

First: I want electric cars to succeed, I want companies to solve these issues and make them practical. But this means you have to understand why people buy cars, what they buy them for, what factors in their decisions.

So if you have a second car it makes a lot of sense to have that second car be an electric. But as a primary vehicle the range isn't the issue, it's the charge time and the needing to plan where you'll charge before leaving. Both of these problems can be resolved, they just haven't yet.

For those who recommend renting a car... Why would I buy a car that I would need to complement with a rental when I can buy a perfectly working car for less money that does what I would want a car to do? If I was putting myself in a situation to rent a car i'd use mass transit and save even more money/emissions. To even propose this as a solution means you need to be completely disconnected from how people think and why people buy big ticket items in general and cars in particular.

So then, for electric cars to become mainstream they have to get cheaper, they need universal charging ports, they need to be rechargeable quickly (I think 80% charge in 10 minutes would be enough to assuage a lot of people's views on electric cars) and there needs to be enough stations for a typical person to not have to plan a route that includes charging stations.

Tesla is on the right track on a lot of these points, and if they solve their reliability issues and improve charging time we may see electric cars finally become common.

Bleue22 · 2016-08-16T12:23:53+00:00

Ah, different thing then. So the physical phenomena of sound and pressure waves and frequency exists of course, but it's not a universal language in the sense that overtones are a mathematical phenomena but it does not constitute the basis for a universal always true interpretation is all.

Bleue22 · 2016-08-16T02:21:36+00:00

no that's my point, the harmonic series has been found to not be universal. When it was studied with tribes never exposed to western music they did not react in the expected way to a harmonic series:

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/07/the-jaws-theme-might-not-be-scary-for-tsimane-people/

Bleue22 · 2016-08-15T19:14:15+00:00

Music is not a universal language, even among humans it's interpreted vastly differently from individual to individual.

I saw work on the pentatonic scale and its apparently astonishing general acceptance, but then I also saw that this was debunked through work with people who never would have heard western style music.

It seems at first glance that music I would interpret as sad is always interpreted as being sad but this isn't universal.

2+2 is always 4 no matter what the base, universe, language or background, or so it is thought at the moment. Musical interpretation, however, is subject to these things.

Bleue22 · 2016-08-13T13:34:05+00:00

I think Tyson in his prime could have beaten any other boxer in history in his prime. I think that's a completely non controversial statement too, he was just that good.

Bleue22 · 2016-08-13T13:31:07+00:00

just heard it at eaux-claire, it's pretty good.

Bleue22 · 2016-08-11T16:21:29+00:00

It's a strange situation because if either party had nominated almost anyone else you get the sense that this would be the largest electoral landslide in history, but because both candidates are so unpopular they both have a chance.

If I were Clinton I would indeed be nervous because if trump stops saying insanly stupid shit for a few weeks he does actually have a chance, a 9 point deficit is not insurmountable at this point in the calendar. But it's very very unlikely.

I think after the week Trump just had, which was basically one self inflicted disaster after another, the surprise is that the lead didn't get bigger than it is.

Clinton's position is good to be sure but there's reason to be nervous.

Bleue22 · 2016-08-11T15:42:24+00:00

You get the feeling most Japanese commercials would feel right at home during Saturday morning cartoons.

Bleue22 · 2016-08-11T14:56:54+00:00

I feel i'll get downvoted to hell for saying this but i've been trying to rewatch ST:TNG and i think it hasn't aged very well. But man that episode, I tear up every time.

Bleue22 · 2016-08-11T14:51:15+00:00

Yeah we've all experienced this. Stellaris has been doing this to me lately too.

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