The highways were engineered with a 70 mph speed in mind, for 1950's-era American cars with antiquated suspension technology and skinny bias-ply tires. I'd wager that, given a reasonably attentive driver, you could drive any modern *sedan* (not an SUV, those are generally worse-handling than anything ever made in the 50s) at 90+ on the interstate highway system with the same degree of safety as at average sedan doing 60 on those roads had when they were first opened.
As for the lights: well, let's just say that there are some streets where I live where the lights are timed for the speed limit+10. Far be it from me to argue...
Um, this is a candidate. So unless her safety is at issue, the SS won't be involved.
Assigning Secret Service agents to candidates has been standard operating procedure for the Secret Service since at least 1972. If I recall correctly this practice began after the Robert F. Kennedy assassination. I know this because I have a signed letter of thanks from George McGovern to my grandfather, a Secret Service agent, for the agency security entourage he led.
It was certainly a shocker when Google Earth loaded up the satellite data. I knew there was a lot of crap up there, but damn!
If I could make one suggestion, though, should you continue to develop this: Different icons for different classes of satellite? For instance, a greyed-out icon for inactive satellites, a booster for rocket leftovers, a chunk of rock for space debris, etc... I spent about a minute wondering why there were so many weather satellites over the US until I realized that most of them were just orbiting debris.
In no other industry is the disconnect between work and life non-existent like in IT. Hell, even doctors have calling services
Clearly you don't know many architects. Or doctors, for that matter; the ones I know are slaves to their emergency pager.
To be honest, the 40 hour work week is a fiction in pretty much every white collar field outside of middle management these days. Truly professional people are tied to deadlines and other complications that mean that sure, the hours listed on the office door say 9 to 5, but you're there from 7 to 8 as often as not. I don't like it all, and it almost certainly stems from unrealistic expectations placed on us by our clients, but as it stands the only quick solution would be to take France's approach and make it illegal to work more than X hours a week (35 in France's case, ever wonder why they're not a force to contend with in international business and industry?), which sounds just as bad in the long run, if attractive to slackers.
The whole point of unions, initially at least, was to ensure that the working classes didn't have unreasonable expectations heaped on them. That's all good and well. The problem is that the endgame of unions invariably becomes terrorizing employers into paying absurd concessions to their unions workers with no consideration to the long-term profitability of the employer. In short, unions become a greed-driven, shortsighted money grab.
Still, consider that the guy who bolts doors onto your average Chevy sedan makes more money than the typical engineering school grad, and the engineer will work longer hours and suffer from higher stress. Does this make any sense to anyone?
I don't think unions are the answer. The question is, what *is?*
As much as I want to hope for this to be awesome, I can't help but think it'll be a disaster. Even if GitS manages to make the journey through Hollywood and its myriad screenwriters, producers, and directors with themes, plots, a characters mostly intact, it'd probably end up getting panned by critics as "unoriginal" and "heavily derivative of The Matrix." Maybe I'll be surprised. I'm not counting on it, though.
IANAArchitect (though I am an architecture student), but it would seem to me that decreasing relevance of the library in the urban fabric is more of a problem of programming than design, and one that is being addressed just fine already. As the Internet becomes a valid source of information and entertainment, the libraries are shifting focus, becoming more akin to public computer labs. While the appearance is different (rows of PCs instead of books), they still serve the purpose of providing free democratic access to knowledge. The next big shift is creating a more social atmosphere within the library, which as the TFA shows is ongoing and would seem to be effective.
Is the library changing? Most certainly, yes. Is it dying? Not so much.
The network is there for research purposes, so thats students can do the research they need to pass their educational courses. Any traffic that facilitates the educational courses of the university should be prioritised, and anything else should get whatever bandwidth remains.
Though the article author doesn't say what university he's from, if the students there pay any kind of significant connection fee for Internet access this argument won't fly. Where I attend, I pay roughly $25 a month -- what a decent midrange residential DSL package costs -- to be able to access the Internet in my dorm room. Above and beyond that, all on-campus intranet services are available regardless of whether or not that fee is paid, including our Blackboard site and libraries. If I'm going to pay that much for what is solely an Internet connection, I expect to be able to damn well whatever I like with it (though the administrators appear to disagree when they blame the perpetually abysmal service on "non-academic use"), and so should the students who are getting their games throttled down to unplayability.
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As for the lights: well, let's just say that there are some streets where I live where the lights are timed for the speed limit+10. Far be it from me to argue...
Assigning Secret Service agents to candidates has been standard operating procedure for the Secret Service since at least 1972. If I recall correctly this practice began after the Robert F. Kennedy assassination. I know this because I have a signed letter of thanks from George McGovern to my grandfather, a Secret Service agent, for the agency security entourage he led.
Just FYI.
It was certainly a shocker when Google Earth loaded up the satellite data. I knew there was a lot of crap up there, but damn!
If I could make one suggestion, though, should you continue to develop this: Different icons for different classes of satellite? For instance, a greyed-out icon for inactive satellites, a booster for rocket leftovers, a chunk of rock for space debris, etc... I spent about a minute wondering why there were so many weather satellites over the US until I realized that most of them were just orbiting debris.
Awesome use of Google Earth, though!
Clearly you don't know many architects. Or doctors, for that matter; the ones I know are slaves to their emergency pager.
To be honest, the 40 hour work week is a fiction in pretty much every white collar field outside of middle management these days. Truly professional people are tied to deadlines and other complications that mean that sure, the hours listed on the office door say 9 to 5, but you're there from 7 to 8 as often as not. I don't like it all, and it almost certainly stems from unrealistic expectations placed on us by our clients, but as it stands the only quick solution would be to take France's approach and make it illegal to work more than X hours a week (35 in France's case, ever wonder why they're not a force to contend with in international business and industry?), which sounds just as bad in the long run, if attractive to slackers.
The whole point of unions, initially at least, was to ensure that the working classes didn't have unreasonable expectations heaped on them. That's all good and well. The problem is that the endgame of unions invariably becomes terrorizing employers into paying absurd concessions to their unions workers with no consideration to the long-term profitability of the employer. In short, unions become a greed-driven, shortsighted money grab.
Still, consider that the guy who bolts doors onto your average Chevy sedan makes more money than the typical engineering school grad, and the engineer will work longer hours and suffer from higher stress. Does this make any sense to anyone?
I don't think unions are the answer. The question is, what *is?*
As much as I want to hope for this to be awesome, I can't help but think it'll be a disaster. Even if GitS manages to make the journey through Hollywood and its myriad screenwriters, producers, and directors with themes, plots, a characters mostly intact, it'd probably end up getting panned by critics as "unoriginal" and "heavily derivative of The Matrix." Maybe I'll be surprised. I'm not counting on it, though.
IANAArchitect (though I am an architecture student), but it would seem to me that decreasing relevance of the library in the urban fabric is more of a problem of programming than design, and one that is being addressed just fine already. As the Internet becomes a valid source of information and entertainment, the libraries are shifting focus, becoming more akin to public computer labs. While the appearance is different (rows of PCs instead of books), they still serve the purpose of providing free democratic access to knowledge. The next big shift is creating a more social atmosphere within the library, which as the TFA shows is ongoing and would seem to be effective.
Is the library changing? Most certainly, yes. Is it dying? Not so much.
The network is there for research purposes, so thats students can do the research they need to pass their educational courses. Any traffic that facilitates the educational courses of the university should be prioritised, and anything else should get whatever bandwidth remains.
Though the article author doesn't say what university he's from, if the students there pay any kind of significant connection fee for Internet access this argument won't fly. Where I attend, I pay roughly $25 a month -- what a decent midrange residential DSL package costs -- to be able to access the Internet in my dorm room. Above and beyond that, all on-campus intranet services are available regardless of whether or not that fee is paid, including our Blackboard site and libraries. If I'm going to pay that much for what is solely an Internet connection, I expect to be able to damn well whatever I like with it (though the administrators appear to disagree when they blame the perpetually abysmal service on "non-academic use"), and so should the students who are getting their games throttled down to unplayability.
Bullcrap. I hear the Mexicans will do moon shots for 200 bucks a pop...