Which makes it really strange, since A&M is the most conservative public university in the country. It's also where W's dad has his presidential library.
I agree with you about IE, but if you're dislike of it is so weak that you only maintain a one-and-two-thirds inch distance from it, I'm surprised you bothered to post about it at all.
1) Don't schedule 8:00 a.m. classes. Never. Not for any reason.
2) Go to class every session and sit in the second row. When you later have to argue/beg for a grade, it'll be much easier if the prof recognizes you. This will almost guarantee you a B.
3) Never fall into the trap of thinking that you don't need to know what one of your classes teaches. The only things I regret about my education are the things I didn't pay enough attention to, and now have to learn in a time when learning isn't my full-time occupation.
4) Buy a bottle on N-Acetyl-Cystine and take 2-4 before you go out drinking, especially on a school night. You will thank me.
5) Unless you're taking out loans to attend a private university, don't graduate too fast. You'll want to, by the end, but remember that the real world will always be there for you, whereas you'll spend the rest of your life remembering college fondly, even if you're happy with your family and career.
6) Try as many things as you can, it'll help you learn you who are.
iTunes is different that Video-on-Demand (assuming, as I am, that with VOD you aren't allowed to record the video for playback later)
With iTunes Music Store, you purchase the right to listen to those bits as many times as you want without paying again, and to commit them to a more permanent media than your hard drive. That's a very different thing.
Using Windows Script and a 3270 emulator to amend 100k+ records in a DB2 database.
They were a little militant about not letting analysts have any execution authority beyond some very locked down JCL, but if RACF will let you update a file and nobody'll be looking at your screen for a number of hours...
Buzz Aldrin, whose other nickname was Dr. Rendezvous, was considered the NASA's resident expert on orbital mechanics.
I agree that the prestige nature of the program allowed it to be cancelled after the goal was accomplished, but if it had been purely about science it probably never would have happened.
I grew up 30 miles from JSC, one of my old roommates is a mission controller, thus I have more than a passing familiarity with NASA in it's good, bad and ugly aspects. In my experience, astronauts - trained as engineers or not - have the same desire to explore and learn that is the hallmark of any scientist.
If your definition of 'Scientist' is 'person with a Ph.D in a 'hard' science' then only Schmitt qualifies. Apollo 17 was the first 'pure sceince' mission, but it wasn't intended to be the last.
Ninety percent of the first men to walk on the moon were fighter jocks, not scientists. That sucks.
Out of the 12 men to walk the surface of the moon, we have 3 with Doctorates, and 5 with Masters. But to say that there are any astronauts who are uninterested in science is ridiculous.
Neil Armstrong - Bachelor of Science in aeronautical engineering from Purdue University; Master of Science in aerospace engineering from the University of Southern California.
Buzz Aldrin - Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from the U.S. Military Academy; Doctor of Science in astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Pete Conrad - Bachelor of Science in aeronautical engineering from Princeton University.
Al Bean - Bachelor of Science in aeronautical engineering from the University of Texas.
Alan Shepard - Bachelor of Science from the U.S. Naval Academy.
Ed Mitchell - Bachelor of Science in industrial management from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University); Bachelor of Science in aeronautical engineering from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School; Doctor of Science in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dave Scott - Bachelor of Science from the U.S. Military Academy; Master of Science in aeronautics and astronautics and engineer in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Jim Irwin - Bachelor of Science in naval science from the U.S. Naval Academy; Master of Science in aeronautical engineering and instrumentation engineering from the University of Michigan.
John Young - Bachelor of Science in aeronautical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.
Charlie Duke - Bachelor of Science in naval sciences from the U.S. Naval Academy; Master of Science in aeronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Gene Cernan - Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Purdue University; Master of Science in aeronautical engineering from the U.S. Navy Postgraduate School.
Jack Schmitt - Bachelor of Science in geology from the California Institute of Technology; Doctor of Philosophy in geology from Harvard University.
I don't understand why a company with $4.8 billion (or $5.1 billion pre-$300mill hit) would wait this long to pay off the $300 million owed.
If the $300M was comprised of corporate bonds, (and the phrase 'which we decided to hold to maturity' indicates that it was) then paying them off earlier would have meant giving the bond holders back their capital. Since those bond holders would have had to reinvest at last year's lower interest rates, Apple would have been doing them a dis-service. By holding them to maturity they make those bond holders more likely to purchase Apple corporate debt in the future, which could lower their total borrowing costs down the line
Acutally, most insurance companies pay out more in claims than they take in in premiums.
The data is publically available via the A. M. Best Company. I'd give you a primer on the whole thing, but Warren Buffett has done a much better job than I could.
His explanation is about 1/3 of the way down the page, or just search for 'Source: A.M. Best Co.'.
Can China afford this? I'm dubious, especially given the current world economy.
The whole world's economy isn't in the doldrums, just Japan and Europe. The U.S.'s is growing at an annualized rate of about 1.3%
China's is growing a good deal faster than that, but hard numbers are difficult to come by, given the nature of the Chinese government. But China is undoubtably one of the economic bright spots in the world today.
Remember this as well -- for the last 50+ years, the prestige education in China has been engineering, all but a handful of top government officials since Mao have been engineers. China is the only nation on earth that could put 1 million engineers on the same project.
They could build one hell of a space program if they decided to.
It took us 10 years from a cold start to out-perform the Soviets. (Sputnik to Apollo 11) If the Chinese began rolling the various stages of a moon-capable rocket out to the launch pad tomorrow, they'd have at least a 3 year head start. (I'm being opimistic, but I think if we really poured the money on, a rocket based on Beal's BA-2 plans could get us on the moon in 3 years.) The question is, what happens then?
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water systems, sanitation and medical coverage are all problems which have a heavy information component, and in third world countries right now, the just about the only way to monitor and respond to that information is by having a trained human on the ground (which is why very little of it gets done.)
Now, imagine being able to monitor water quality and sewage processing flow remotely, and sending scarce resources to solve problems before they become cholera epidemics rather than after. Imagine being able to make every piece of modern medical information available to the nurse or medicine man who is the sole source of healthcare for a group of villages.
Broadband (or more importantly, wireless data access) is potentially a very big deal.
Just-in-Time manufacturing is what killed off most rail traffic in the US.
If you ship commodities by rail, you have to buy in bulk to make the economics work for you. That means higher inventories and bigger warehouses and capital tied up in COGS on the balance sheet instead of sitting on the Cash and Marketable Securities line. If you ship by truck, you have a great deal more flexibility, and less-than-truckload ordering becomes feasible.
Add to the fact that most of the industrial sites built in the last 20 years don't have rail spur access and you have quite a problem going back to rail. Yet Another Example of how business decisions affect infrastructure, which affects what's feasible in the future.
At this point, our best bets are a) hybrid deisel-electric semis, b) low-sulphur deisel (or preferably biodeisel) and c) better road-building technology.
The eetimes story linked at the top says it's an 8-stage pipe. That doesn't mean any more or less than the extreme tech statement that the new pipe is triple the length (which would be 21, the current pipe is 7) since we haven't seen any actual reference docs from IBM.
Can anybody who was at the Microprocessor Forum give us more info?
The saltiness comes from years of irrigation. River water has a few mineral salts in it, picked up from the land it ran across before it got to the river. You put that water on your fields, it evaporates and leaves behind the minerals. Repeat for 50-100 years and you get heavy mineral salt buildups in your soil. Now you can't grow anything there.
It has little to do with the sugar cane. In south-east Texas and southern Louisiana, they get 60+ inches of rainfall a year, and thus don't need to irrigate. They've been growing sugarcane there for over 150-200 years.
Hmm, and the big reports come during the Draconids.
If I were going to deorbit a satellite(s) that no one was supposed to know about, (and the ones that no one is supposed to know about all pretty much all in polar orbit) I know when I'd choose to do it...
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The Quicktake was a digital camera made by Apple, though it was discontinued a long time ago.
I think he means ksh.
Which makes it really strange, since A&M is the most conservative public university in the country. It's also where W's dad has his presidential library.
I agree with you about IE, but if you're dislike of it is so weak that you only maintain a one-and-two-thirds inch distance from it, I'm surprised you bothered to post about it at all.
Nope, I remembered it, which is why I felt fine this morning.
1) Don't schedule 8:00 a.m. classes. Never. Not for any reason.
2) Go to class every session and sit in the second row. When you later have to argue/beg for a grade, it'll be much easier if the prof recognizes you. This will almost guarantee you a B.
3) Never fall into the trap of thinking that you don't need to know what one of your classes teaches. The only things I regret about my education are the things I didn't pay enough attention to, and now have to learn in a time when learning isn't my full-time occupation.
4) Buy a bottle on N-Acetyl-Cystine and take 2-4 before you go out drinking, especially on a school night. You will thank me.
5) Unless you're taking out loans to attend a private university, don't graduate too fast. You'll want to, by the end, but remember that the real world will always be there for you, whereas you'll spend the rest of your life remembering college fondly, even if you're happy with your family and career.
6) Try as many things as you can, it'll help you learn you who are.
7) Good luck.
iTunes is different that Video-on-Demand (assuming, as I am, that with VOD you aren't allowed to record the video for playback later)
With iTunes Music Store, you purchase the right to listen to those bits as many times as you want without paying again, and to commit them to a more permanent media than your hard drive. That's a very different thing.
Using Windows Script and a 3270 emulator to amend 100k+ records in a DB2 database.
They were a little militant about not letting analysts have any execution authority beyond some very locked down JCL, but if RACF will let you update a file and nobody'll be looking at your screen for a number of hours...
Armstrong was also a civilian.
Buzz Aldrin, whose other nickname was Dr. Rendezvous, was considered the NASA's resident expert on orbital mechanics.
I agree that the prestige nature of the program allowed it to be cancelled after the goal was accomplished, but if it had been purely about science it probably never would have happened.
I grew up 30 miles from JSC, one of my old roommates is a mission controller, thus I have more than a passing familiarity with NASA in it's good, bad and ugly aspects. In my experience, astronauts - trained as engineers or not - have the same desire to explore and learn that is the hallmark of any scientist.
If your definition of 'Scientist' is 'person with a Ph.D in a 'hard' science' then only Schmitt qualifies. Apollo 17 was the first 'pure sceince' mission, but it wasn't intended to be the last.
Ninety percent of the first men to walk on the moon were fighter jocks, not scientists. That sucks.
Out of the 12 men to walk the surface of the moon, we have 3 with Doctorates, and 5 with Masters. But to say that there are any astronauts who are uninterested in science is ridiculous.
Neil Armstrong - Bachelor of Science in aeronautical engineering from Purdue University; Master of Science in aerospace engineering from the University of Southern California.
Buzz Aldrin - Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from the U.S. Military Academy; Doctor of Science in astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Pete Conrad - Bachelor of Science in aeronautical engineering from Princeton University.
Al Bean - Bachelor of Science in aeronautical engineering from the University of Texas.
Alan Shepard - Bachelor of Science from the U.S. Naval Academy.
Ed Mitchell - Bachelor of Science in industrial management from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University); Bachelor of Science in aeronautical engineering from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School; Doctor of Science in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dave Scott - Bachelor of Science from the U.S. Military Academy; Master of Science in aeronautics and astronautics and engineer in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Jim Irwin - Bachelor of Science in naval science from the U.S. Naval Academy; Master of Science in aeronautical engineering and instrumentation engineering from the University of Michigan.
John Young - Bachelor of Science in aeronautical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.
Charlie Duke - Bachelor of Science in naval sciences from the U.S. Naval Academy; Master of Science in aeronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Gene Cernan - Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Purdue University; Master of Science in aeronautical engineering from the U.S. Navy Postgraduate School.
Jack Schmitt - Bachelor of Science in geology from the California Institute of Technology; Doctor of Philosophy in geology from Harvard University.
I predict that the 17.x.x.x IPs will have a strong supporting role.
I don't understand why a company with $4.8 billion (or $5.1 billion pre-$300mill hit) would wait this long to pay off the $300 million owed.
If the $300M was comprised of corporate bonds, (and the phrase 'which we decided to hold to maturity' indicates that it was) then paying them off earlier would have meant giving the bond holders back their capital. Since those bond holders would have had to reinvest at last year's lower interest rates, Apple would have been doing them a dis-service. By holding them to maturity they make those bond holders more likely to purchase Apple corporate debt in the future, which could lower their total borrowing costs down the line
Fortunately, normal people give birth to intelligent children all the time.
My IQ is 74.7% of my parents' IQs combined -- I'm certainly not the only one I know who can say the same thing.
I used to worry about the low birth rate among smart people until I realized that it doesn't matter.
Acutally, most insurance companies pay out more in claims than they take in in premiums.
The data is publically available via the A. M. Best Company. I'd give you a primer on the whole thing, but Warren Buffett has done a much better job than I could.
His explanation is about 1/3 of the way down the page, or just search for 'Source: A.M. Best Co.'.
And easier to pronouce than Yggdrasil. ;)
Can China afford this? I'm dubious, especially given the current world economy.
The whole world's economy isn't in the doldrums, just Japan and Europe. The U.S.'s is growing at an annualized rate of about 1.3%
China's is growing a good deal faster than that, but hard numbers are difficult to come by, given the nature of the Chinese government. But China is undoubtably one of the economic bright spots in the world today.
Remember this as well -- for the last 50+ years, the prestige education in China has been engineering, all but a handful of top government officials since Mao have been engineers. China is the only nation on earth that could put 1 million engineers on the same project.
They could build one hell of a space program if they decided to.
It took us 10 years from a cold start to out-perform the Soviets. (Sputnik to Apollo 11) If the Chinese began rolling the various stages of a moon-capable rocket out to the launch pad tomorrow, they'd have at least a 3 year head start. (I'm being opimistic, but I think if we really poured the money on, a rocket based on Beal's BA-2 plans could get us on the moon in 3 years.) The question is, what happens then?
water systems, sanitation and medical coverage are all problems which have a heavy information component, and in third world countries right now, the just about the only way to monitor and respond to that information is by having a trained human on the ground (which is why very little of it gets done.)
Now, imagine being able to monitor water quality and sewage processing flow remotely, and sending scarce resources to solve problems before they become cholera epidemics rather than after. Imagine being able to make every piece of modern medical information available to the nurse or medicine man who is the sole source of healthcare for a group of villages.
Broadband (or more importantly, wireless data access) is potentially a very big deal.
Sigh.
You know, miss Signal 11. He was not one to suffer bullshit gladly.
But then, I also miss MEEPT!, so make of that what you will.
Just-in-Time manufacturing is what killed off most rail traffic in the US.
If you ship commodities by rail, you have to buy in bulk to make the economics work for you. That means higher inventories and bigger warehouses and capital tied up in COGS on the balance sheet instead of sitting on the Cash and Marketable Securities line. If you ship by truck, you have a great deal more flexibility, and less-than-truckload ordering becomes feasible.
Add to the fact that most of the industrial sites built in the last 20 years don't have rail spur access and you have quite a problem going back to rail. Yet Another Example of how business decisions affect infrastructure, which affects what's feasible in the future.
At this point, our best bets are a) hybrid deisel-electric semis, b) low-sulphur deisel (or preferably biodeisel) and c) better road-building technology.
Does it really matter?
I kind of doubt our government would ratify it this time around. They seem to be really big on not having any restrictions to their movement.
Does it?
The eetimes story linked at the top says it's an 8-stage pipe. That doesn't mean any more or less than the extreme tech statement that the new pipe is triple the length (which would be 21, the current pipe is 7) since we haven't seen any actual reference docs from IBM.
Can anybody who was at the Microprocessor Forum give us more info?
The saltiness comes from years of irrigation. River water has a few mineral salts in it, picked up from the land it ran across before it got to the river. You put that water on your fields, it evaporates and leaves behind the minerals. Repeat for 50-100 years and you get heavy mineral salt buildups in your soil. Now you can't grow anything there.
It has little to do with the sugar cane. In south-east Texas and southern Louisiana, they get 60+ inches of rainfall a year, and thus don't need to irrigate. They've been growing sugarcane there for over 150-200 years.
Last time I checked, Apple had all of 17.*.*.* and IBM had 9.*.*.*
The class A address space list makes for interesting reading.
From the north?
Hmm, and the big reports come during the Draconids.
If I were going to deorbit a satellite(s) that no one was supposed to know about, (and the ones that no one is supposed to know about all pretty much all in polar orbit) I know when I'd choose to do it...
You'll feel better knowing that the original poster got that wrong. Nothing's been spoiled.