The problem with all this being green political rambling, there doesn't seem to be any real effort to look at and solve the real problem with our energy.
It isn't as much green energy, but energy diversity. Right now we are reliant on the Grid, and green energy designed to supplement the grid. While we really need to get away from the grid and go towards smaller scale energy production, enough to keep a small community running vs. these huge power plants that power cities, and span hundreds of miles, wasting energy to heat in the resistance of these miles of power lines.
Some communities have natural environmental green ways to produce energy, power from a small dam of a stream, or wind with with solar. Other locations that may be void may have other methods including fuel cells with natural gas.
We can save the Coal, and Nuclear to powering larger cities.
These flexible solar panels don't solve the problem of making your house powered by solar energy, They are for powering portable devices, that while individually use little power tend to collectively add up. (Usually each little device has an AC-DC converter that sucks 5 watts when not in use.)
Heck we this we can have a Solar Power AC-DC converter with the Solar Power powering the electroncs to convert the current from the plug, saving the energy of these devices charging.
There is a common misconception that ancient people were not smart, or talented. They are just like people today, they have a problem to solve they will invent a method to solve it. Many of the scientific advancements happened by accident. Finding the some rocks melt and create a shiny strong metal, once they found out metal, they rather quickly put it to use. Before that they mixed hide wood and stone to make many tools that are rather useful. The biggest advancements were due to rises of large cultures and cities, that allowed people to obtain time, and resources to make grander things. However it, isn't that the ancient people were too stupid to not building a grand building, but they weren't in a large enough culture to have resources shared to give them free time to go and create such a device. A well would probably take days or weeks of digging, and reinforcing, it probably took a coordinated effort where the labors were to get some extra food for their work, that they didn't hunt themselves, or they choose to do a little less hunting every day and sacrificed to make a well that will give them constant water supply.
I think there is an XKCD reference for this. But real world developers often need to do things that hasn't been done before, because otherwise your product will not have a competitive advantage. There is often no text book good solution for it, until after you do it.
It is also what usually pisses me off on the help boards for programming. I have tried the normal ways but it doesn't quite fit my circumstance. I see a similar question and I see a response of "Why do want to do it that way? Use the method that didn't work in the first place."
Even most of the modest apps push at the boundaries a little.
Bitch and moan about it. However there is a problem and right now these closed systems are the only model that seems to work. It takes a lot of man power to keep an advance service up and running and updated. if you follow RMS and the GNU philosophy you find that you have removed many means of monetizing your services you wish to perform. Without this money you will need to hope you have enough volunteers to keep your site running, and if it gets more popular the cost of running the infrastructure begins to cost more than you outside full time job can afford.
Having ideals and following an ideology is a good thing, however if you apply "always" to your ideology, you dig yourself into a hole were real world which doesn't care about your ideology will put you in a disadvantage.
Also they should be strict on abiding by these standards if they are not, then slowly formatting will follow the slope down to an unreadable level.
I have seen code from companies without coding standards. You can tell the age of the code just by how it is formatted. Often with new code out of spacing or just everyones particular style everywhere with different degree of variable names it just makes it harder to read.
Not long... However for most people it would be nice to have something if stolen couldn't be used at least right away. As well it messes up your legal resell ability, and if you get caught and found having an hacked gun, you could be in a lot more trouble.
Guns already have a safety switch, that prevents the gun from firing.
For the most part these guns are used in sport such as target shooting. I am not touting NRA propaganda, but we are not going to get guns out of the hands of millions of Americans, but we can at least work on preventing theft, and accidents, and locking down loop holes so dangerous people don't get guns.
A ban of guns in the united states would be very very dangerous. 1. Possible uprising of gun owners, and their supporters for taking away their property, and violation of their view of the second amendment. 2. Black Market of lower quality guns. That will be more dangerous than the better regulated guns. 3. People hiding and hoarding their guns, often very poorly so the wrong people will get their hands on them.
I have been using it for a while. For the most part it is just like windows 7, the only difference are those Metro-Apps that replace the Dashboard/Widgets and a couple of UI changes, that actually make the OS faster.
As with most systems there is abuse. There are people who want to abuse the system and get money to live and not work. Others just need it to help get them off their feet. If you push forced labor that should crack down on the slackers, however if they are trying to get off your feet finding a job is a full time job.
We also have what is called "Failsafe" where in the case there is a problem the device is put into by default in its safest state.
Electronics tends to work. The more critical the electronics is the more stable it normally is. Putting in a microchip doesn't cause the gun to fire. The microchips job is to prevent the gun from firing.
Also what is the point most students are carrieing cellphones that are much faster, and has a better display. My (old) iPhone is more powerful than the PC's that I used in college with Maple and MatLab on them, we used that software because the calculator just couldn't do it.
Many of these tools will overwhelm the novice by themselves.
You give a novice a debugger they will put their break point on line 1 (or int main(char argc, char **argv) ) and step through every freaking line in the program until completion. You give the tool to an expert even if they have never used a debugger before (they probably got by by putting random print statements in) they will put break points right where they expect the code to break, or to a function that they are unable to handle in their heads.
The only thing that universities should really do is give them more assignments with larger code sets some of it already existing so they learn how to fix code.
Every once in a while I see some well commented code, and it leads to to a massive blunder because the comments are wrong.
Some of the ones have got me./** Save Starts Here **/
Which I figured would be a good part to add save my changes. After testing and realized it didn't work correctly I changed the comment to./** Real time check to insure data is correct **/
In an other function 500 lines down. I added/** Saves data after authenticated as formatted correctly **/
Another good one was in essence saying this was part of such and such section. Where it wasn't.
Comments don't help as much as people think they do. Unless you know the coder, comments cannot be trusted and you will normally need to go by what the code says far more than what the comments say.
Yes but you have people crammed in a small enclosed space. There is no career growth or options for a different life, you are born into the mission. 20 years until a new child is actually stretching it. As well death in their mid to late 80's is stretching it too.
So we Want to find life on another planet, however we don't know if they will like us, if they don't then there will be gossop about it, thus embarrassing us and the other planet and the other planet will avoid even recognizing us because of this embarrassment and makes it worse. To make it worse it is impossible for you to have a one on one with the other planet because that other planet is with their friends all the time, and the only way you can even get in that group of friends is with your own.
0 Year Mark: You leave as an early adult 20 5 year Mark: 25 years of age you have offspring (Generation 1) 25 year Mark: You become a grandparent (Generation 2) 45 year Mark: You become a great grandparent (Generation 3) 65 year Mark: You become a great-great grandparent (Generation 4) (Generation 0 begins to die) 85 year Mark: Generation 5 is born, generation 1 dies 105 year Mark: Generation 6 is born, generation 2 dies 120 years: Generation 7 is beginning to get born. You are at your destination, generation 3 dies. By the time you get there Generation 3, will be the elders (Too old to do most of the physical work, however they will share wisom), Generation 4 are the Main leaders Members, Generation 5 and 6 are the key workers, and Generation 7 will be too young.
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Part of Perl's success early on for CGI, was the fact that Open Source and Free Databases were hard to come by, and/or weren't so useful. The players in the Database Market were charging thousands of dollars for even the smallest usage. To replace the need of the Database we needed a language that was good for Text Parsing. Perl is good at that. However as time went on and tools such as MySQL and PostGreSQL, and Microsoft SQL Server (Not free, but lower cost than the others) started to come up and become more widely used, we see Perl became less popular and replaced with PHP and ASP(.NET).
Now the extra work and expense would be worth it, if the company had a BI strategy behind it. Get it setup first then rerun many times over. Which may be better than a lot of smaller home built programs.
How much of the BI tool do most organizations use?
The real issue is that most businesses spend all this money for the tool they barely utilize. They let their Corporate EGO get in the way, figuring that they deserve the best out there. While all they really want is a basic Reporting Tool, or a dashboard. As well they get caught in the we may need it in the future trap. Where most of the time the cost of migrating from an old system to a new one, is less than the continued maintenance and support of the bigger product.
For most organizations they just need a number of small self developed applications/Database Queries, mixed with simple reporting that display key metrics. However they will tend to buy the beast of the system use the basic features, where setup is the same as developing it yourself + the Extra cost of the system + Extra Time, because the system was designed to do more that means the implementation staff if going thru extra hoops to get things done.
They buy the tool, then they come up with projects for it. While they should be going the other way, list the projects they need done and find the tool for the job.
I am OK with the Multi-Million Dollar systems, they do their job however companies should get smarter on deciding if and when they should switch over.
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The problem with all this being green political rambling, there doesn't seem to be any real effort to look at and solve the real problem with our energy.
It isn't as much green energy, but energy diversity. Right now we are reliant on the Grid, and green energy designed to supplement the grid. While we really need to get away from the grid and go towards smaller scale energy production, enough to keep a small community running vs. these huge power plants that power cities, and span hundreds of miles, wasting energy to heat in the resistance of these miles of power lines.
Some communities have natural environmental green ways to produce energy, power from a small dam of a stream, or wind with with solar.
Other locations that may be void may have other methods including fuel cells with natural gas.
We can save the Coal, and Nuclear to powering larger cities.
These flexible solar panels don't solve the problem of making your house powered by solar energy, They are for powering portable devices, that while individually use little power tend to collectively add up. (Usually each little device has an AC-DC converter that sucks 5 watts when not in use.)
Heck we this we can have a Solar Power AC-DC converter with the Solar Power powering the electroncs to convert the current from the plug, saving the energy of these devices charging.
There is a common misconception that ancient people were not smart, or talented.
They are just like people today, they have a problem to solve they will invent a method to solve it.
Many of the scientific advancements happened by accident. Finding the some rocks melt and create a shiny strong metal, once they found out metal, they rather quickly put it to use.
Before that they mixed hide wood and stone to make many tools that are rather useful.
The biggest advancements were due to rises of large cultures and cities, that allowed people to obtain time, and resources to make grander things. However it, isn't that the ancient people were too stupid to not building a grand building, but they weren't in a large enough culture to have resources shared to give them free time to go and create such a device. A well would probably take days or weeks of digging, and reinforcing, it probably took a coordinated effort where the labors were to get some extra food for their work, that they didn't hunt themselves, or they choose to do a little less hunting every day and sacrificed to make a well that will give them constant water supply.
I think there is an XKCD reference for this. But real world developers often need to do things that hasn't been done before, because otherwise your product will not have a competitive advantage. There is often no text book good solution for it, until after you do it.
It is also what usually pisses me off on the help boards for programming. I have tried the normal ways but it doesn't quite fit my circumstance. I see a similar question and I see a response of "Why do want to do it that way? Use the method that didn't work in the first place."
Even most of the modest apps push at the boundaries a little.
Bitch and moan about it. However there is a problem and right now these closed systems are the only model that seems to work.
It takes a lot of man power to keep an advance service up and running and updated. if you follow RMS and the GNU philosophy you find that you have removed many means of monetizing your services you wish to perform. Without this money you will need to hope you have enough volunteers to keep your site running, and if it gets more popular the cost of running the infrastructure begins to cost more than you outside full time job can afford.
Having ideals and following an ideology is a good thing, however if you apply "always" to your ideology, you dig yourself into a hole were real world which doesn't care about your ideology will put you in a disadvantage.
Also they should be strict on abiding by these standards if they are not, then slowly formatting will follow the slope down to an unreadable level.
I have seen code from companies without coding standards. You can tell the age of the code just by how it is formatted.
Often with new code out of spacing or just everyones particular style everywhere with different degree of variable names it just makes it harder to read.
Which I would say is worse. The military isn't as swayed by public opinion as the civilian government is.
It is called Gun Maintenance... Every gun owner should be keeping their gun well maintained.
Not long... However for most people it would be nice to have something if stolen couldn't be used at least right away. As well it messes up your legal resell ability, and if you get caught and found having an hacked gun, you could be in a lot more trouble.
The safe state is the weapon will not fire.
Guns already have a safety switch, that prevents the gun from firing.
For the most part these guns are used in sport such as target shooting. I am not touting NRA propaganda, but we are not going to get guns out of the hands of millions of Americans, but we can at least work on preventing theft, and accidents, and locking down loop holes so dangerous people don't get guns.
A ban of guns in the united states would be very very dangerous.
1. Possible uprising of gun owners, and their supporters for taking away their property, and violation of their view of the second amendment.
2. Black Market of lower quality guns. That will be more dangerous than the better regulated guns.
3. People hiding and hoarding their guns, often very poorly so the wrong people will get their hands on them.
I have been using it for a while. For the most part it is just like windows 7, the only difference are those Metro-Apps that replace the Dashboard/Widgets and a couple of UI changes, that actually make the OS faster.
As with most systems there is abuse. There are people who want to abuse the system and get money to live and not work. Others just need it to help get them off their feet. If you push forced labor that should crack down on the slackers, however if they are trying to get off your feet finding a job is a full time job.
We also have what is called "Failsafe" where in the case there is a problem the device is put into by default in its safest state.
Electronics tends to work. The more critical the electronics is the more stable it normally is.
Putting in a microchip doesn't cause the gun to fire. The microchips job is to prevent the gun from firing.
Also what is the point most students are carrieing cellphones that are much faster, and has a better display.
My (old) iPhone is more powerful than the PC's that I used in college with Maple and MatLab on them, we used that software because the calculator just couldn't do it.
Many of these tools will overwhelm the novice by themselves.
You give a novice a debugger they will put their break point on line 1 (or int main(char argc, char **argv) )
and step through every freaking line in the program until completion. You give the tool to an expert even if they have never used a debugger before (they probably got by by putting random print statements in) they will put break points right where they expect the code to break, or to a function that they are unable to handle in their heads.
The only thing that universities should really do is give them more assignments with larger code sets some of it already existing so they learn how to fix code.
Comments Lie, Code Doesn't
Every once in a while I see some well commented code, and it leads to to a massive blunder because the comments are wrong.
Some of the ones have got me. /**
Save Starts Here
**/
Which I figured would be a good part to add save my changes. /**
After testing and realized it didn't work correctly I changed the comment to.
Real time check to insure data is correct
**/
In an other function 500 lines down. I added /**
Saves data after authenticated as formatted correctly
**/
Another good one was in essence saying this was part of such and such section. Where it wasn't.
Comments don't help as much as people think they do. Unless you know the coder, comments cannot be trusted and you will normally need to go by what the code says far more than what the comments say.
Yes but you have people crammed in a small enclosed space. There is no career growth or options for a different life, you are born into the mission. 20 years until a new child is actually stretching it. As well death in their mid to late 80's is stretching it too.
So we Want to find life on another planet, however we don't know if they will like us, if they don't then there will be gossop about it, thus embarrassing us and the other planet and the other planet will avoid even recognizing us because of this embarrassment and makes it worse. To make it worse it is impossible for you to have a one on one with the other planet because that other planet is with their friends all the time, and the only way you can even get in that group of friends is with your own.
Just so we can feel like we are doing something. SETI is actually quite useless and a sap of all our resources.
0 Year Mark: You leave as an early adult 20
5 year Mark: 25 years of age you have offspring (Generation 1)
25 year Mark: You become a grandparent (Generation 2)
45 year Mark: You become a great grandparent (Generation 3)
65 year Mark: You become a great-great grandparent (Generation 4) (Generation 0 begins to die)
85 year Mark: Generation 5 is born, generation 1 dies
105 year Mark: Generation 6 is born, generation 2 dies
120 years: Generation 7 is beginning to get born. You are at your destination, generation 3 dies.
By the time you get there Generation 3, will be the elders (Too old to do most of the physical work, however they will share wisom), Generation 4 are the Main leaders Members, Generation 5 and 6 are the key workers, and Generation 7 will be too young.
Part of Perl's success early on for CGI, was the fact that Open Source and Free Databases were hard to come by, and/or weren't so useful.
The players in the Database Market were charging thousands of dollars for even the smallest usage.
To replace the need of the Database we needed a language that was good for Text Parsing. Perl is good at that. However as time went on and tools such as MySQL and PostGreSQL, and Microsoft SQL Server (Not free, but lower cost than the others) started to come up and become more widely used, we see Perl became less popular and replaced with PHP and ASP(.NET).
Now the extra work and expense would be worth it, if the company had a BI strategy behind it. Get it setup first then rerun many times over. Which may be better than a lot of smaller home built programs.
Granted Business Inelegance fits with the tools too.
Dag Nabbit!
Business Intelligence Curse you Chrome Spell check!
Business Inelegance.
Simply put, they are reporting and statistical and analytical tools.
How much of the BI tool do most organizations use?
The real issue is that most businesses spend all this money for the tool they barely utilize. They let their Corporate EGO get in the way, figuring that they deserve the best out there. While all they really want is a basic Reporting Tool, or a dashboard. As well they get caught in the we may need it in the future trap. Where most of the time the cost of migrating from an old system to a new one, is less than the continued maintenance and support of the bigger product.
For most organizations they just need a number of small self developed applications/Database Queries, mixed with simple reporting that display key metrics.
However they will tend to buy the beast of the system use the basic features, where setup is the same as developing it yourself + the Extra cost of the system + Extra Time, because the system was designed to do more that means the implementation staff if going thru extra hoops to get things done.
They buy the tool, then they come up with projects for it. While they should be going the other way, list the projects they need done and find the tool for the job.
I am OK with the Multi-Million Dollar systems, they do their job however companies should get smarter on deciding if and when they should switch over.