Slashdot Mirror

Generic Mapping Tool, will do everything you want, and a lot you have not even thought of yet. GMT produces postscript and encapsuleated postscript, so if you have a postscript viewer your good to go, runs on unix/linux, is GPL'd so there source code to analyse. There are lots of examples with generating scripts such as time-series collected along a track or a 3D perspective, artificialy illuminated, greyscale image; just reading and understanding the accompanying ducumentation should be good for college credit in cartography.

Better known as GMT, might be helpful, or overkill.

I'm not sure what your exact application is, and that affects the strategy greatly. A consistent grid of sample points (as input or generated from a function) can use a great many optimizations that a generalized and often uneven cloud of sample points can not (without ugly results). People have suggested a variety of algorithms and open-source tools, but if you go the next logical steps -- dealing with unevenly distributed sample points, making the contours pretty with highlighted intervals, filled shading with colour palette gradients, and labels, it just gets trickier. Fortunately, GMT has tools for most of that, and, as a bonus, it deals with it all in regular orthogonal X,Y,Z coordinates, and also with map projections (e.g., if you are plotting positions on the surface of a spheroid like the Earth or some other planet).

The program for contours is pscontour or the similar grdcontour (which works on gridded data). There are various ways to generate a surface to be plotted, but the surface program is probably the best. It uses an algorithm -- continuous curvature surfaces -- that is especially effective for real-world data.

GMT has a steep learning curve. It is all command-line, and the number of command-line options is dizzying, but that arrangement makes it particularly suitable for batch processing of large datasets, and the output is in Postscript, which can be adapted for all sorts of uses.

If all you want is something simple and fast, this ain't it. Don't bother. The whole system is elaborate, huge (it contains many tools and the compile takes quite a while), and they are built for high quality output rather than cutting corners for performance sake. But if you are working towards something that will handle arbitrary, real-world data and give a decent-looking publication-quality plot, and for which the source code is available (all C), GMT might help you.

Better known as GMT, might be helpful, or overkill.

I'm not sure what your exact application is, and that affects the strategy greatly. A consistent grid of sample points (as input or generated from a function) can use a great many optimizations that a generalized and often uneven cloud of sample points can not (without ugly results). People have suggested a variety of algorithms and open-source tools, but if you go the next logical steps -- dealing with unevenly distributed sample points, making the contours pretty with highlighted intervals, filled shading with colour palette gradients, and labels, it just gets trickier. Fortunately, GMT has tools for most of that, and, as a bonus, it deals with it all in regular orthogonal X,Y,Z coordinates, and also with map projections (e.g., if you are plotting positions on the surface of a spheroid like the Earth or some other planet).

The program for contours is pscontour or the similar grdcontour (which works on gridded data). There are various ways to generate a surface to be plotted, but the surface program is probably the best. It uses an algorithm -- continuous curvature surfaces -- that is especially effective for real-world data.

GMT has a steep learning curve. It is all command-line, and the number of command-line options is dizzying, but that arrangement makes it particularly suitable for batch processing of large datasets, and the output is in Postscript, which can be adapted for all sorts of uses.

If all you want is something simple and fast, this ain't it. Don't bother. The whole system is elaborate, huge (it contains many tools and the compile takes quite a while), and they are built for high quality output rather than cutting corners for performance sake. But if you are working towards something that will handle arbitrary, real-world data and give a decent-looking publication-quality plot, and for which the source code is available (all C), GMT might help you.

Better known as GMT, might be helpful, or overkill.

I'm not sure what your exact application is, and that affects the strategy greatly. A consistent grid of sample points (as input or generated from a function) can use a great many optimizations that a generalized and often uneven cloud of sample points can not (without ugly results). People have suggested a variety of algorithms and open-source tools, but if you go the next logical steps -- dealing with unevenly distributed sample points, making the contours pretty with highlighted intervals, filled shading with colour palette gradients, and labels, it just gets trickier. Fortunately, GMT has tools for most of that, and, as a bonus, it deals with it all in regular orthogonal X,Y,Z coordinates, and also with map projections (e.g., if you are plotting positions on the surface of a spheroid like the Earth or some other planet).

The program for contours is pscontour or the similar grdcontour (which works on gridded data). There are various ways to generate a surface to be plotted, but the surface program is probably the best. It uses an algorithm -- continuous curvature surfaces -- that is especially effective for real-world data.

GMT has a steep learning curve. It is all command-line, and the number of command-line options is dizzying, but that arrangement makes it particularly suitable for batch processing of large datasets, and the output is in Postscript, which can be adapted for all sorts of uses.

If all you want is something simple and fast, this ain't it. Don't bother. The whole system is elaborate, huge (it contains many tools and the compile takes quite a while), and they are built for high quality output rather than cutting corners for performance sake. But if you are working towards something that will handle arbitrary, real-world data and give a decent-looking publication-quality plot, and for which the source code is available (all C), GMT might help you.

Cable does not have this restriction, so 14 begins just after 13.

"the incident apparently occurred when an employee downloaded a contaminated file from a porn site"

What OS did this trojan run on?

Spreadsheet errors look very much like software errors in both frequency and type. Spreadsheet errors are hard to fix in the same way that software errors are hard to fix. Cell protection is one good practice, but spreadsheet development needs good practice across the entire life cycle. Most significantly, spreadsheet developers need to spend about 30% of their time doing testing. The average is closer to 0% now. For research on spreadsheet errors, consider my website, http://panko.cba.hawaii.edu/ssr. I also have a companion website on human error, http://panko.cba.hawaii.edu/HumanErr. The human error website shows that human error is pretty much constant across application domains with comparable complexity and doesn't vary widely across people. Alexander Pope's dictim, "To err is human" is not only true. Today, we can quantify it. And, unfortunately, we can also ignore it.

Spreadsheet errors look very much like software errors in both frequency and type. Spreadsheet errors are hard to fix in the same way that software errors are hard to fix. Cell protection is one good practice, but spreadsheet development needs good practice across the entire life cycle. Most significantly, spreadsheet developers need to spend about 30% of their time doing testing. The average is closer to 0% now. For research on spreadsheet errors, consider my website, http://panko.cba.hawaii.edu/ssr. I also have a companion website on human error, http://panko.cba.hawaii.edu/HumanErr. The human error website shows that human error is pretty much constant across application domains with comparable complexity and doesn't vary widely across people. Alexander Pope's dictim, "To err is human" is not only true. Today, we can quantify it. And, unfortunately, we can also ignore it.

Subject: Website on Spreadsheet Research

In recent years, there has been a considerable amount of research on
spreadsheets, including error rates. The Spreadsheet Research (SSR) website
summarizes data from field audits of more than 300 operational spreadsheets
and from experiments involving almost a thousand subjects ranging from
spreadsheet novices to long-time spreadsheet professionals. The results are
pretty chilling. Every study that has tried to measure spreadsheet error
rates has found them and has found them at levels that are deeply
disturbing. The URL is:
    http://www.cba.hawaii.edu/panko/ssr/

Modern spreadsheet programs have killed that need.

Here are some news stories about spreadsheet errors.

Spreadsheets won't protect a firm from liability when they are audited and spreadsheet errors found: Spreadsheets are not secure, provide no audit trail and won't pass HIPAA or Sarbanes-Oxley auditing.

Of course, I have also consumed vast amounts of pornography, and been exposed to (thank you internet) some pretty disgusting porn. I've yet to go out and rape someone. So that's another claim (porn makes people commit rape) that is ridiculous on its face.

Pornography reduces sex crimes.

Instead of Communist, I think you mean totalitarian. Back during the cold war it suited the US govt for people to think of the two as the same, so it's not suprising you are confused.

Communism requires the destruction of private property rights in the means of production, which in turn requires unrelenting violence, constant terror and mass-murder, as was predicted in the 19th century, as was repeatedly demonstrated throughout the 20th.

Energy is indeed the only consumed resource besides rock. The process requires temperatures of around 1000C; these temperatures can readily be achieved using reflectors.
More oxygen is produced by the titanium-rich mare soil than by the prolific silica; it's like the difference between regular and premium gasoline. Rates of about 3.3% (by weight) are achieved using ilmenite at around 1000C in hydrogen, and rates of up to 5.5% using iron-rich glass. (Ilmenite, btw, is composed of oxides of iron and titanium, and makes up anywhere from 3% to 10% of lunar material.) In addition, the result is water vapor, iron metal, and titanium oxides. I'll take iron and titanium as building materials over silicon any day.
The question of dust on reflectors seems fairly simple, actually. Assuming one is using polished metal, rather than glass, the dust can be forcibly removed by positively charging the reflectors. Kind of like those ion air purifiers, only in reverse.
Composition maps: http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Dec04/LunarCrust.html
Table: http://www.neiu.edu/~jmhemzac/mooncomp.htm
NASA's earlier work on oxygen extraction: http://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/HumanExplore/Exploration/ EXLibrary/DOCS/EIC048.HTML
Artemis project: http://www.asi.org/adb/04/03/10/04/oxygen-extracti on.html
Lunar simulant with composition tables: http://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/HumanExplore/Exploration/ EXLibrary/DOCS/EIC050.HTML

addendum to previous reply: here's a discussion of part of why the Irish potato crop was uniquely vulnerable. They were all clones of one another, because of the propagation technique used, rather than using seeds (which would've resulted in gene crossing, if the parents were different. If they were clones, the child would be a sexually produced 'clone', an interesting thought.)

Take a look at optical Interferometry. Multiple telescopes are a lot more useful than you think.

Pan-STARRS by the way, is not an optical interferometrer, but is still is actually extremely well suited to having multiple telescopes. They are trying to survey the entire sky very quickly. With multiple telescopes you can look at different parts at the same time, thereby extending your field of view.

8.4m & 3.4m & 5.0m mirrors.

I'm pretty sure thats a typo. The tertiary is probably 0.5 meters. Plus typically having a third mirror is worse than only 2 since it is harder to maintain optical quality and alignment with three surfaces. Having a tertiary is also not at all unique. Though, a tertiary larger than your secondary probably is.

(But what do I know? The biggest telescope I've worked on only has a 2.4m primary)

Pan-STARRS is another interesting wide field survey telescope project currently under construction.

It's here Here

"[...] the brightness of several thousand stars were regularly scanned using two mini-telescopes in Hawaii."

http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/extr a-solar_planet/

404
Not Found

umm... this is awkward...

"[...] the brightness of several thousand stars were regularly scanned using two mini-telescopes in Hawaii."

http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/extr a-solar_planet/

404
Not Found

umm... this is awkward...

The second link in the article appears to be pointing to the wrong place. The correct link should be this

This is truly not innovative at all and just copying someone else's idea. PAN-STARRS will accomplish the same thing, already has funding, and is entering the prototype phase. Sure, 1.4 Gigapixels is not as much as 3, but it will be online sooner, accomplish the same goals on a smaller telescope, and will take a week to survey the whole sky instead of three days. So this new telescope is no big deal, especially since it will only about half of the sky visible to PAN-STARRS since this new thingy will be in the very southern hemisphere, rather than Hawaii.

... as claimed in 1998 Scientific American article

Perhaps about as many as could affort penicillin in 1940?

From an interesting history of penicillin:

For initial tests, by Florey, in 1940, on human subjects, it had required two professors, five graduates and ten assistants working almost every day of the week for several months to produce enough penicillin to treat six patients.

What do you suppose penicillin cost in 1940? Here's a clue, in an anecdote about an early patient, from the same history:

In 1946 my osteomyelitis returned....Dad chose a hazardous job so his son could get hospital care, He worked days and afternoon shifts, and at times "bonus hours" as well. But Mum couldn't sleep when Dad was on afternoon shift. and getting home around 1 am or later. There was lots of stress at home.

Penicillin was a miracle drug that was now available for the treatment of conditions caused by infection - like osteomyelitis. Sulfa drugs had stopped the bone disease in '42, but still a hip fusion was needed. Also, though the sulfa worked on the short run, it did not eliminate the infection from the bone marrow.

This time Dr. Mowat used penicillin to stop the infection right away. It also eradicated it completely. Not once in all these years did osteomyelitis ever come back!

Mars ~ 1/100 of earth atmosphere at sea level and mainly CO2
Moon pressure (none or nearly none)

Less harsh is a kind of misnomer. You would probably have the same kind of problem between a wall separating 1 atm air and 1/100 atm CO2, as with a wall separating 1 atm air and 0, nada...

I doubt if you are going to read this, since you obviously made up your mind that I'm some kind of anti-transgender bigot (which you would find to be hilarious, if you actually knew me.)

so I'll assume you're quoting Parent from something you found on some dungeon on the Faux News website.

First of all, you're a complete idiot to make such an assumption.

Getting back to the point, the most important paper on the topic to date is probably Sex and Gender are Different by world-leading sexologist Dr. Milton Diamond.

In his paper, he acknowledges the following:

For the last several decades the term gender has come into common usage particularly as a synonym for sex. The term has proved useful in many ways although distinctions between the two words, sex and gender, when one might be more appropriate than the other, has not been firmly established.

You see what he's saying here? He feels that using the words "gender" and "sex" within the medical community the way you would like to see them used would be useful for the sake of clarity, but in real-world usage, no such distinction is commonly used.

Frankly, I think it's far more useful to speak of transgender issues using the more accurate terms "physical gender", "gender role" and "gender identity", in order to distinguish between the 1. The genital and non-genital physical characteristics of biology, excluding the brain, 2. The societal assignment of a masculine or feminine role of the individual, mostly based on appearance, and 3. The sex which the individual self-identifies himeself or herself, which is almost always based on the biological structure of the brain.

Using such terminology is not only far more specific, it does not run afoul of common lay usage of the word "gender."

Having discovered more than one comet is a reasonably big thing, yeah. Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel and David Levy each discovered or co-discovered 21, but that's an uncommonly large number. I suspect Fabrizio Bernardi, a postdoc where I work, is happy to have recently discovered Comet P/2005 V1 Bernardi, since he wasn't even looking for comets at the time.

I occasionally also stare at the sky over at this other place around the corner from the first one, but in a much less significant capacity. :(

We likes the big shiny toys, my preciousss...

Mm, OK.

It's not like I called an ambulance because I had a cold.

When the medical books at hand tell me that inguinal hernia's _if_pinched_ (aka strangulated) can lead to death in minutes ... I should ignore them and wait a week for an appointment at my doctors clinic. Try that with a normally placid baby screaming blue murder at you. Observation of a rapid engorgement of the scrotum, apparent evidence of pain, and the young age caused me to assume it was an emergency - I guess I should just wait for signs of gangrene next time?!

In this instance there were a few others in the A&E reception area, sat reading and watching telly. I'm sure the doctors on duty were very busy but this doesn't excuse a long wait for triage.

The point is that the people wanting to fill in the record on their computer screen don't take a history of any sort until after the five minutes of questioning on basic information which should already be in the computer. Given the _potential_ gravity of this case I'd have thought speedy access to _triage_ was essential ... after triage I agree it could probably have been established that strangulation hadn't occurred.

----

>>> "A scrotal hydrocele that is sufficiently large and tense may cause ischemic injury to the testis. A communicating hydrocele may enlarge and lead to development of an inguinal-scrotal hernia (6). Nine to twenty percent of inguinal hernias in children become incarcerated with more than half of those cases occurring in children less than 12 months of age. The incidence of incarceration increases in premature infants and in term female infants (2,5). When incarcerated, complete manual reduction of the hernia may not be possible. Strangulation of the hernia can occur and ischemic injury to intestine and testis/ovary may result (3,6). Intestinal obstruction, intestinal gangrene, and gonadal infarction occur more commonly in the first 6 months of life (4). Thus, because the risk of incarceration is high, particularly in infants, with a risk of strangulation, prompt surgical intervention is recommended as soon as the diagnosis is made." ...

"About 95% of inguinal hernias can be reduced by applying gentle but steady upward pressure on the hernia sac. If the hernia is easily reducible, referral to a pediatric surgeon should be done for elective surgical repair. While awaiting repair, parents should be counseled to seek immediate evaluation and treatment in an emergency department if signs and symptoms of incarceration and strangulation occur. Inguinal hernias that cannot be easily reduced are incarcerated and require immediate referral to an emergency department. In an emergency department, manual reduction can be attempted with sedation. Once the child is sedated, firm steady upward pressure can be applied to the hernia sac using one hand while the other hand gently guides the neck of the hernia sac into the distal ring of the inguinal canal. A Trendelenburg position may be helpful. If reduction is successful, a pediatric surgeon should be consulted for outpatient follow-up. However, children with difficult to reduce hernias or a history of incarceration in the past are at high risk for future incarceration and strangulation and should be managed more urgently. Some cases require inpatient observation. If reduction is unsuccessful, then a pediatric surgeon must be consulted immediately. If, however, a child presents with an incarcerated inguinal hernia and symptoms of intestinal obstruction or shock, a pediatric surgeon must be consulted emergently while resuscitation begins with intravenous fluids and nasogastric tube decompression of the stomach (5)."

from: http://www.hawaii.edu/medicine/pediatrics/pedtext/ s10c02.html

OK, I have to go with Communism being more evil than spamming (mainly due to that little "one hundred million people killed by it" problem). On the other hand, Spam has certainly inflicted more personal harm on me than communism in the last ten years...

Crow T. Trollbot

Here is a report on multiple studies that looks at Japan, Germany, and a few other countries that have relaxed restrictions on porn. It mostly involves the decrease in rape during the period of relaxation of anti-porn laws but there are parts relevent to child porn. I advise people to read the following article. It's really an eye opener.

Porn in Japan

This quote from the article is pertinent to this discussion:

"These decreases in sex crimes involving children are particularly noteworthy since in Japan, as in Denmark, for the time under review, there were no laws against the personal non-commercial possession or use of depictions of children involved in sexual activities; so-called "childporn" (Kutchinsky, 1985a; pp. 5)."

Excellent post. Thanks!

However - your blanket criticism of democracy... If you mean - unrestricted democracy or "pure democracy" - then I agree with you. However a constitutional republic (with a strictly limited government power) and democratically representatives - isn't as oppressive and warlike. Are you familiar with RJ Rummel?

Anyway - until people are ready (rational and reliability independent) for anarcho-capitalism - we need something to take us there. Of course "taking us there" means less government every year ie imagine a world where every year there was 5% less government (compounded annually)..... Every 44 years the government would be 10% of its current size.

Actually, this is old news to me since I was part of a senior design team researching possible methods for CO2 handling for a fuel refinery in this state. My project was in the Fall of 2000. We found the most promising algae projects were already underway at the University of Hawaii (http://www.catalog.hawaii.edu/academic-units/ctah r/plant-biotech.htm) but the point was not lost on us that converting CO2 into fuel didn't actually remove it chemically in the end. Burn the fuel later and you have CO2 again.

Our proposal actually involved using the 99.95% chemically pure CO2 to enrich the atmosphere at a hypothetical hydroponic greenhouse complexe offsite but nearby the refinery while using low-energy waste heat to keep them temperature-controlled all year. Unfortunately, as the parent points out, large amounts of light are needed to encourage growth and Washington does not live at a light-intensive lattitude (especially the western half of the state which is famous for rain).

The difficulty is that this is more of an environmentalist's idea of poetic irony rather than function: fuel plants that make environmentally-friendly and robust crops as well. Image-wise, how do you convince people that crops grown right across from an oil refinery are healthy? Good luck. We can't even convince people that nuclear power is clean in this state (Hanford, anyone?).

Other industry proposals involve sequestering the gas at extreme oceanic depths or in spent wells where they currently pump brine anyway. It is good to know they are looking into it but "they" have been for awhile and I keep hearing about researchers doing the looking and no plants doing any building...

...then the plasma discharges probably will. Shuttles come in relatively slowly, yet at least one of them has been photographed with something that looks suspiciously like a "Blue" Jet (they aren't all blue) striking it, immediately before it blew up.

Interestingly, one of the analyses used to back statements that there was no lightning involved provides a fairly sound reason for it: there was no warning, no change in the Shuttle's acoustics right up to the point when it all came apart. A strike that high, coming down would be nearly soundless, quickly drowned in the breakup noises, and recovered pieces of the damaged wing show damage characteristic of a high-powered electrical discharge.

Anyone who wishes to assert that such things don't happen is invited to read up on Positive Giants, Rocket Lightning, Geophysical Meteors and Ball Lightning before replying.

"[The theorist] Lacan proposes that human infants pass through a stage in which an external image of the body (reflected in a mirror, or represented to the infant through the mother or primary caregiver) produces a psychic response that gives rise to the mental representation of an "I"."

read the rest @ - http://maven.english.hawaii.edu/criticalink/lacan/ terms/mirror.html

Hopefully watching the creation of a new consciousness (an "I") would give us an insight to why we are all so horribly messed up. We might also get to see a robot with an Oedipus complex - disturbing and incredibly hard to fix...

Rob

It fails in just about every aspect of a game,and it is more of a rule playign game than role playing game. :/

And by that I mean everyone should really give d02 a try. Truly, it know no limit.

I think there is a prevalent belief that it is impossible not to be negatively affected by looking at pornography...

According to Harris Poll: "No Consensus Among American Public on the Effects of Pornography on Adults or Children or What Government Should Do About It" http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index .asp?PID=606

There was a study done at the University of Hawai`i concerning the effects of pornography: http://www.hawaii.edu/PCSS/online_artcls/pornograp hy/prngrphy_ovrvw.html

There was another study done at the University of Pennsylvania concerning the effects of pornography: http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/chunter/porn_effects. html

How much do you want to bet that no matter how many coke heads are driving real fast on the highway, they won't kill anywhere near as many people as the 170 million killed by governments in the 20th century (not including wars).

Check out:
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM

Given the history of genocide, warefare, and mass-murder commited all around the world by governments, I would say I would rather err on the side of caution when it comes to police states.

You are wrong. Considering that downloaders are nothing but communists, and communism killed 170 million people, downloading is a far more dangerous crime than speeding.

OK, I got bored...surface area of the moon:
37.8 million square km
or 9,340,583,419.46 acres
subtract 400,000,000 acres which are pwned and you are left with...shitloads of infertile land, but what a view! B)

Humans didn't appear until about 30 seconds to midnight late on the metaphorical 7th day

I think you are paraphrasing Carl Sagan and mixing it up with the mistical 7 days.

What Sagan said in his book Cosmos is that if the Universe history is imagined as a full year, Homo Sapiens appeared on December 31st 11:56:30 p.m., which makes humanity life span much more diminute!

check out
http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/~pine/book1qts/chapter1q ts.htm

from it:

First amphibians -- December 22
First reptiles and trees -- December 23
First dinosaurs -- December 25
Dinosaur extinction, rise of mammals, first birds, flowers -- December 28
First primates (monkey-like creatures) -- December 30
Australopithicenes (Lucy, etc.) -- 10:00 p.m., December 31
Homo Habilis -- 11:00 p.m., December 31
Homo Erectus -- 11:15 p.m., December 31
Early Homo Sapiens---11:53 p.m., December 31
Neandertals -- 11:56 p.m., December 31
Homo Sapiens Sapiens -- 11:56:30 p.m., December 31
Ancient Greeks to present -- last five seconds
Average human life span -- a little over one-tenth of a second


Human history? Last 10 seconds.

Humans didn't appear until about 30 seconds to midnight late on the metaphorical 7th day

I think you are paraphrasing Carl Sagan and mixing it up with the mistical 7 days.

What Sagan said in his book Cosmos is that if the Universe history is imagined as a full year, Homo Sapiens appeared the last day on the last three minutes, on December 31st 11:56:30 p.m., which makes humanity life span much more diminute!

check out
http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/~pine/book1qts/chapter1q ts.htm

from it:

First amphibians -- December 22
First reptiles and trees -- December 23
First dinosaurs -- December 25
Dinosaur extinction, rise of mammals, first birds, flowers -- December 28
First primates (monkey-like creatures) -- December 30
Australopithicenes (Lucy, etc.) -- 10:00 p.m., December 31
Homo Habilis -- 11:00 p.m., December 31
Homo Erectus -- 11:15 p.m., December 31
Early Homo Sapiens---11:53 p.m., December 31
Neandertals -- 11:56 p.m., December 31
Homo Sapiens Sapiens -- 11:56:30 p.m., December 31
Ancient Greeks to present -- last five seconds
Average human life span -- a little over one-tenth of a second

I have looked at 3 online degree programs in recent years: Florida State, University of Hawaii, and New Jersey Institute of Technology. The downsides to these programs :

1. FSU had a requirement that you MUST take Florida government classes. At the time I inquired, they would not substitute these classes for something else (like government classes from your own state).

2. U Hawaii required that you take final exams on site. If you can afford 2 trips a year to Hawaii, then this is a great option. Oh damn, you MUST go to Hawaii twice a year! What a HORRIBLE degree plan!

3. NJIT seems to have pulled back what they now offer for someone seeking a CS degree. In addition, NJIT had the highest tuition of these 3 programs.

Ultimately, here is my take. A degree is a degree. Obviously the more recognized the name the better, but don't fret over that too much. Try to avoid programs that give "life credit" for working in a real job, or offer things like "Bachelor's Degree in Computer Studies". These things look funky on a resume, especially if you apply at a prestigious company or university. You may also look at local schools in your area if you live some place with choice. Here in Dallas, The University of Texas at Dallas offers many of their CS classes at night, and if you take your basics at night at a local junior college you can get through while still working. This is obviously a tough path, and one that will take many years of hard work.

Good luck to you!

Yes.

I find it funny how every MS topic has a flood of off-topic trolls ranting and raving about the evils of MS, yet nobody does the same in topics about a country like China, that has killed tens of millions of people. If yall REALLY cared about evil in this world, we'd be seeing lots of posts about China's murder of its population. Check out http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/DBG.TAB1.2.1.GIF for numbers.

I don't think you understand the meaning of your phrase "fascist sympathesizer or something else equally distasteful" Check out http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE1.HTM#TAB and educate yourself, but watch out for the quesiness...

You could try this. But I don't think Google sells those.

Yet.

There has been controversy over Pluto's status as a planet for several years. Many scientists now believe that Pluto should be more properly classified as the largest Kuiper Belt Object ever found. This is due to Pluto's size, its unusual composition, and odd orbit. Pluto's orbit is actually sort of like that of a Kuiper Belt object. Some comets do come from the Kuiper Belt, but I don't think people would actually classify Pluto as a comet because its orbit never takes it close enough to the Sun for Pluto to develop the classic comet tail.

Karl Marx intended terror and mass-murder. His writings condemn private property, free speech and freedom of religion as "bourgeois freedom". He put forth his own perverted vision of "freedom", defined in such a way that Cambodia under Pol Pot (the purest Marxist ideologue of them all) would have been a bastion of "freedom".

But then, you probably believe Pol Pot's Cambodia with the killing fields and Ho Chi Minh's North Vietnam with 5 percent execution quotas were both bastions of "true freedom".

100 millions is an obvious lie. Almost no people were killed (i.e. hundreds or thousands at most) during forced collectivization.

You're a commie democide denier, no better than a Nazi holocaust denier.

Referring to the Soviet genocide of peasants during the 1930s collectivizations, R.J. Rummel writes:

The Soviets now appear to admit to this genocide. In the Moscow News, a Moscow published, English language newspaper, was recently written: "In what amounted to genocide, between five and ten million people died during the forced collectivization of farming in the early thirties." (Ambartsumov, 1988)

According to Rummel's midrange estimates, 1,733,000 were killed by the Great Terror (though a Wikipedia article on the Great Purge claims that the Memorial Society released the names of 1,345,796 specific victims), 1,400,000 in deportations, 3,306,000 in and during transit to camps, and 5,000,000 through famine during the 1930s.

The absolute lowest estimated total for all murders committed by Marxist states is 40,472,000. Of that, the table states that the USSR alone was responsible for 28,326,000 of those deaths. Rummel remarks that it's highly unlikely that the total for Soviet democide is so low. The figure of 100 million dead due to communism is given by Rummel as a most likely estimate.

The totals themselves were compiled by Rummel from numbers given by respected writers and historians. For the USSR, this includes Robert Conquest and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. A breakdown of the Soviet democide estimates, along with their sources is here, with the methodology for these estimates given here.

You are brainwashed by your school, by the media, by the politicians.

I learned very little about the crimes of communists in school, and next to nothing about it from politicians and the major media.

You are a total and utter moron, I feel sorry for you. However, I am not angry at you at all, because it's not your fault that you are so stupid and you are not the only one. Many (most?) Americans (and many Europeans as well) are taught lies in schools and grow up to believe them. You don't know anything true about history, just fabrications and, alas, you appear sadly unable to free yourself from this cage of lies.

You are psychotically disconnected from objective reality.

I've backed up my statements with citations traceable directly back to their original sources. You, on the other hand, present nothing but ad-hominem attacks.

I suspect you are either a troll, the privileged child of some hard-line former member of the CPSU or other nomenclature, or simply a blood-crazed psychopath.

Karl Marx intended terror and mass-murder. His writings condemn private property, free speech and freedom of religion as "bourgeois freedom". He put forth his own perverted vision of "freedom", defined in such a way that Cambodia under Pol Pot (the purest Marxist ideologue of them all) would have been a bastion of "freedom".

But then, you probably believe Pol Pot's Cambodia with the killing fields and Ho Chi Minh's North Vietnam with 5 percent execution quotas were both bastions of "true freedom".

100 millions is an obvious lie. Almost no people were killed (i.e. hundreds or thousands at most) during forced collectivization.

You're a commie democide denier, no better than a Nazi holocaust denier.

Referring to the Soviet genocide of peasants during the 1930s collectivizations, R.J. Rummel writes:

The Soviets now appear to admit to this genocide. In the Moscow News, a Moscow published, English language newspaper, was recently written: "In what amounted to genocide, between five and ten million people died during the forced collectivization of farming in the early thirties." (Ambartsumov, 1988)

According to Rummel's midrange estimates, 1,733,000 were killed by the Great Terror (though a Wikipedia article on the Great Purge claims that the Memorial Society released the names of 1,345,796 specific victims), 1,400,000 in deportations, 3,306,000 in and during transit to camps, and 5,000,000 through famine during the 1930s.

The absolute lowest estimated total for all murders committed by Marxist states is 40,472,000. Of that, the table states that the USSR alone was responsible for 28,326,000 of those deaths. Rummel remarks that it's highly unlikely that the total for Soviet democide is so low. The figure of 100 million dead due to communism is given by Rummel as a most likely estimate.

The totals themselves were compiled by Rummel from numbers given by respected writers and historians. For the USSR, this includes Robert Conquest and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. A breakdown of the Soviet democide estimates, along with their sources is here, with the methodology for these estimates given here.

You are brainwashed by your school, by the media, by the politicians.

I learned very little about the crimes of communists in school, and next to nothing about it from politicians and the major media.

You are a total and utter moron, I feel sorry for you. However, I am not angry at you at all, because it's not your fault that you are so stupid and you are not the only one. Many (most?) Americans (and many Europeans as well) are taught lies in schools and grow up to believe them. You don't know anything true about history, just fabrications and, alas, you appear sadly unable to free yourself from this cage of lies.

You are psychotically disconnected from objective reality.

I've backed up my statements with citations traceable directly back to their original sources. You, on the other hand, present nothing but ad-hominem attacks.

I suspect you are either a troll, the privileged child of some hard-line former member of the CPSU or other nomenclature, or simply a blood-crazed psychopath.