It seems likely that electric vehicles will eventually replace fuel powered engines, so why not encourage that transition rather than screwing the formulation of gas even more?
I'm now seriously considering replacing my current vehicle with an electric one because then the EPA regulations won't destroy my engine by changing the fuel formula. Hmm, maybe that's part of what they're thinking... Nah.
The lander itself was ready to go, as was everything except the seismometer. That seismometer was being built by the French space agency (CNES), and they couldn't get it through final testing due to a vacuum leak in time to get it delivered in time to install, test, and launch.
"NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, will redesign, build and conduct qualifications of the new vacuum enclosure for the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS), the component that failed in December." - http://www.nasa.gov/press-rele...
So, it's already been given to a different organization.
Full disclosure - I work on the lander. We busted our asses for over 2 years to get this thing ready, only to be thwarted by CNES.
I was going to comment that the Droid Maxx is a good option if you're on Verizon. I have one, and it's been a great workhorse. Unfortunately it's a non-removable battery, it's already about 2 years old, there's no expandable memory, and you're stuck with Verizon for S/W updates (worst part). Also if you don't get the developer version, the boot loader is locked. If you're OK with all of that, I'd say go for this one. It should be relatively cheap by now.
I'd guess that the satellite's solar powered and in the event of a "safety mode" it's programmed to point the solar arrays fully at the sun while ground operators figure out what's going on.
You're seeing the PR side of the mission, of course they're going to use imperial units because that's what non-scientific folks expect. The GRAIL mission used SI units during development and does do for mission operations. See http://moon.mit.edu/design.html for more info.
Another expense might be making the GRAIL orbiters dual-string (duplicate almost everything on a single orbiter, two main computers, two batteries, etc). According to http://moon.mit.edu/spacecraft.html GRAIL is single-string because that matches the mission reliability requirements.
Also - I was on the GRAIL development team and I'm currently working GRAIL mission operations, so I'd also be employed for a little while longer if we repeated this experiment at Mars.
As OP explicitly said C++, I have to wonder, are they looking for an Object Oriented type of framework? If so, GLUT doesn't fit the bill, it's a pure C, function callback oriented framework. It could be used in an OO like manner, but it isn't OO itself.
The only OO framework I've found for use with OpenGL is FLTK, but my experience with OpenGL is quite limited. What other OO frameworks are available and worth the effort to learn?
If you can get to an ER in less time then the Ambulance would take to arrive you are ahead of the game anyhow.
Definitely not true. A stroke victim that goes to the wrong hospital (handling a stroke requires a special set of equipment and skills that not every hospital has) will have to wait for EMS to transport them to the right hospital. Now they've got the time it takes to transport them to the wrong hospital as well as the time it takes to transport them again to the right hospital working against them.
That's typically true no matter where you live. Emergency response times suck universally.
Citation? I've been in a couple automobile accidents and EMS was present within a few minutes. All depends on where you live.
If you can safely move the person you call 911 and start driving. The ambulance can meat you halfway if things are that bad.
Interesting, don't know if it's done or how EMS responds to this.
Yes, I know how expensive an ambulance ride is. It's all absurdly priced, but I guess you avoid the whole billing issue if you die before you even get there. This approach does come with its own set of drawbacks...
It's all a calculated risk, one way or the other. Most people don't understand all of the reasons for taking the ambulance, and so make this decision without all of the info.
Fair enough. Perhaps I should have said call 911 instead of an ambulance. Still might not address your point, and unfortunately I don't know the answer to your question...
This is definitely something to consider if you have the choice on where to live (I recognize that a number of people don't have that choice). I still picked a rural area.
If you had no idea what's going on, you call an ambulance; you do NOT drive someone to the hospital yourself. Here's why:
- You don't know if whatever is happening is going to get worse and if it does, you don't have the equipment on hand to deal with it.
- Not all hospitals are equal. The closest hospital may not be equipped to handle your emergency. My wife used to work in one such hospital and people have died because someone drove them in instead of calling an ambulance. Hospitals are rated by what kind of emergencies they can handle; some don't have a <insert specialist here> on call 24 hours a day...
- You don't know the current wait time at the hospital, the EMTs in the ambulance do.
- You can't communicate with the hospital to let them know what's coming, the EMTs in the ambulance can.
Add to that the fact that most "modern" IDE's will automatically suggest member functions for an object and nobody even has to look at the API or any other type of documentation to really screw things up anymore!
The sad part is that I know I'm guilty of doing exactly this.
At least now I'm protected from myself; if vi has that capability I don't know how to use it...
I work a 9/80 now, and have for the last 3 years. I love it, and my employer definitely respects the off Friday (the boss is generally off as well!). The biggest disadvantage I've found is that the off Friday isn't really a day off; it's when you do things that you'd otherwise take sick/personal/vacation time to do (Doctor visits, take the car to the shop, etc).
What are the benchmarks on that when written in native assembly?
Of course an app running under a VM is slower than the equivalent app written in C/C++/whatever and compiled to native code. It wasn't that long ago that C/C++/FORTRAN (yes, FORTRAN) was considered slow and bloated, it was benchmarked against native assembly! The point is that this is history repeating itself; as hardware gets more capable, programming languages and techniques become slower and more bloated.
It seems to me that while OEMs are free to include the default Windows install disk, they never do.
As others have said, this is frequently available as an optional extra.
I hate to use my own ignorance as an example, but if after ordering a few PC's through these companies myself (for personal use) I didn't know you could get the MS install disks, how are the non-technically inclined going to manage?
Not true. OEMs are perfectly free to include an install disc which just installs Windows, nothing more.
It seems to me that while OEMs are free to include the default Windows install disk, they never do. GP is saying that other O.S.'s get around this limitation. Apple completely controls everything, and F/OSS makes the default install disk image available to anyone. Neither of these approaches will work for MS because they don't control the entire machine (see previously mentioned legal problems), and they don't want to make their OS freely available. The only solution I can think of is to require OEM's to include the Windows disk in it's original form in their distributions as well as whatever else they want to add.
I will say that since I built my own PC (for the first time) and bypassed all of the OEM crap, Windows hase been more stable and usable than ever before.
Make sure he knows the basics of keyboard Input and console Output, then encourage him to write programs that do what he's currently being taught in his math classes. It sounds cheap, but I never understood a mathematical concept better than right after I wrote a program to do it for me. Bonus points if the program has to show intermediate steps!
Language is fairly irrelevant at this stage, it's just the basic interest that has to be fostered. I started programming like this in BASIC, but I've studied a wealth of languages since then. If you can, look for a specialized math/science/computer school that he can attend (some school districts call them "magnet" programs).
By the way, I'm a graduate of the University of Central Florida's Computer Science program and now "work" professionally as a Software Engineer.
I forgot about that. Completely true. If the file(s) edited have your name in them as well, then a hard-copy of the file independent of the version control system will be all the proof you need. And on the off chance that someone decides to remove your name from the files (happened to one of my coworkers in the recent past) you can always pull up the proof from the version control system.
Somewhere in the code, comment what you did and when, including your name. In a number of companies (including the one I work for), this is required for traceability for changes. If you're company is using any form of version control, it's a good bet that this will make sure your work can always be traced back to you. If you don't end up with some credit/raise/bonus/something by the end of the year, you can always point to this and ask why.
I thought the same thing myself as I was reading the article, but then I realized that this would add to the complexity of the install. Perhaps it could be defaulted to "First-time user" with the option to change it in an "Advanced" tab?
I do agree with another user here that the trick is to do all of the tuning after the install before handing it over to the final user. I did exactly that with my parents when they got their new Dell (with Ubuntu Feisty pre-installed). It's been great being able to fix (Power outage destroyed the nVidia kernel plugin, had to rebuild it), modify, or update everything through SSH from halfway across the state!
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It seems likely that electric vehicles will eventually replace fuel powered engines, so why not encourage that transition rather than screwing the formulation of gas even more?
I'm now seriously considering replacing my current vehicle with an electric one because then the EPA regulations won't destroy my engine by changing the fuel formula. Hmm, maybe that's part of what they're thinking... Nah.
The lander itself was ready to go, as was everything except the seismometer. That seismometer was being built by the French space agency (CNES), and they couldn't get it through final testing due to a vacuum leak in time to get it delivered in time to install, test, and launch.
"NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, will redesign, build and conduct qualifications of the new vacuum enclosure for the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS), the component that failed in December." - http://www.nasa.gov/press-rele...
So, it's already been given to a different organization.
Full disclosure - I work on the lander. We busted our asses for over 2 years to get this thing ready, only to be thwarted by CNES.
I was going to comment that the Droid Maxx is a good option if you're on Verizon. I have one, and it's been a great workhorse. Unfortunately it's a non-removable battery, it's already about 2 years old, there's no expandable memory, and you're stuck with Verizon for S/W updates (worst part). Also if you don't get the developer version, the boot loader is locked. If you're OK with all of that, I'd say go for this one. It should be relatively cheap by now.
I'd guess that the satellite's solar powered and in the event of a "safety mode" it's programmed to point the solar arrays fully at the sun while ground operators figure out what's going on.
You're seeing the PR side of the mission, of course they're going to use imperial units because that's what non-scientific folks expect. The GRAIL mission used SI units during development and does do for mission operations. See http://moon.mit.edu/design.html for more info.
Another expense might be making the GRAIL orbiters dual-string (duplicate almost everything on a single orbiter, two main computers, two batteries, etc). According to http://moon.mit.edu/spacecraft.html GRAIL is single-string because that matches the mission reliability requirements.
Also - I was on the GRAIL development team and I'm currently working GRAIL mission operations, so I'd also be employed for a little while longer if we repeated this experiment at Mars.
As OP explicitly said C++, I have to wonder, are they looking for an Object Oriented type of framework? If so, GLUT doesn't fit the bill, it's a pure C, function callback oriented framework. It could be used in an OO like manner, but it isn't OO itself.
The only OO framework I've found for use with OpenGL is FLTK, but my experience with OpenGL is quite limited. What other OO frameworks are available and worth the effort to learn?
We're already on our way (or will be in 2011, I hope). See http://juno.wisc.edu/
If you can get to an ER in less time then the Ambulance would take to arrive you are ahead of the game anyhow.
Definitely not true. A stroke victim that goes to the wrong hospital (handling a stroke requires a special set of equipment and skills that not every hospital has) will have to wait for EMS to transport them to the right hospital. Now they've got the time it takes to transport them to the wrong hospital as well as the time it takes to transport them again to the right hospital working against them.
That's typically true no matter where you live. Emergency response times suck universally.
Citation? I've been in a couple automobile accidents and EMS was present within a few minutes. All depends on where you live.
If you can safely move the person you call 911 and start driving. The ambulance can meat you halfway if things are that bad.
Interesting, don't know if it's done or how EMS responds to this.
Yes, I know how expensive an ambulance ride is. It's all absurdly priced, but I guess you avoid the whole billing issue if you die before you even get there. This approach does come with its own set of drawbacks...
It's all a calculated risk, one way or the other. Most people don't understand all of the reasons for taking the ambulance, and so make this decision without all of the info.
Fair enough. Perhaps I should have said call 911 instead of an ambulance. Still might not address your point, and unfortunately I don't know the answer to your question...
This is definitely something to consider if you have the choice on where to live (I recognize that a number of people don't have that choice). I still picked a rural area.
That's what "Medical Charts" are for. Used to be every patient had a chart on a clipboard at the end of the bed.
Until the hospital is fined/sued for violating the patient's rights under HIPPA by leaving their medical records our for all to see...
I'll readily admit that storing the records in a computer isn't much safer, but it's less visible to most people.
If you had no idea what's going on, you call an ambulance; you do NOT drive someone to the hospital yourself. Here's why:
- You don't know if whatever is happening is going to get worse and if it does, you don't have the equipment on hand to deal with it.
- Not all hospitals are equal. The closest hospital may not be equipped to handle your emergency. My wife used to work in one such hospital and people have died because someone drove them in instead of calling an ambulance. Hospitals are rated by what kind of emergencies they can handle; some don't have a <insert specialist here> on call 24 hours a day...
- You don't know the current wait time at the hospital, the EMTs in the ambulance do.
- You can't communicate with the hospital to let them know what's coming, the EMTs in the ambulance can.
Add to that the fact that most "modern" IDE's will automatically suggest member functions for an object and nobody even has to look at the API or any other type of documentation to really screw things up anymore!
The sad part is that I know I'm guilty of doing exactly this.
At least now I'm protected from myself; if vi has that capability I don't know how to use it...
I work a 9/80 now, and have for the last 3 years. I love it, and my employer definitely respects the off Friday (the boss is generally off as well!). The biggest disadvantage I've found is that the off Friday isn't really a day off; it's when you do things that you'd otherwise take sick/personal/vacation time to do (Doctor visits, take the car to the shop, etc).
What are the benchmarks on that when written in native assembly?
Of course an app running under a VM is slower than the equivalent app written in C/C++/whatever and compiled to native code. It wasn't that long ago that C/C++/FORTRAN (yes, FORTRAN) was considered slow and bloated, it was benchmarked against native assembly! The point is that this is history repeating itself; as hardware gets more capable, programming languages and techniques become slower and more bloated.
It seems to me that while OEMs are free to include the default Windows install disk, they never do.
As others have said, this is frequently available as an optional extra.
I hate to use my own ignorance as an example, but if after ordering a few PC's through these companies myself (for personal use) I didn't know you could get the MS install disks, how are the non-technically inclined going to manage?
Not true. OEMs are perfectly free to include an install disc which just installs Windows, nothing more.
It seems to me that while OEMs are free to include the default Windows install disk, they never do. GP is saying that other O.S.'s get around this limitation. Apple completely controls everything, and F/OSS makes the default install disk image available to anyone. Neither of these approaches will work for MS because they don't control the entire machine (see previously mentioned legal problems), and they don't want to make their OS freely available. The only solution I can think of is to require OEM's to include the Windows disk in it's original form in their distributions as well as whatever else they want to add.
I will say that since I built my own PC (for the first time) and bypassed all of the OEM crap, Windows hase been more stable and usable than ever before.
Oh, so we should have just turned him over to the Scientologists?
Actually, that might not be a bad idea...
Make sure he knows the basics of keyboard Input and console Output, then encourage him to write programs that do what he's currently being taught in his math classes. It sounds cheap, but I never understood a mathematical concept better than right after I wrote a program to do it for me. Bonus points if the program has to show intermediate steps!
Language is fairly irrelevant at this stage, it's just the basic interest that has to be fostered. I started programming like this in BASIC, but I've studied a wealth of languages since then. If you can, look for a specialized math/science/computer school that he can attend (some school districts call them "magnet" programs).
By the way, I'm a graduate of the University of Central Florida's Computer Science program and now "work" professionally as a Software Engineer.
I forgot about that. Completely true. If the file(s) edited have your name in them as well, then a hard-copy of the file independent of the version control system will be all the proof you need. And on the off chance that someone decides to remove your name from the files (happened to one of my coworkers in the recent past) you can always pull up the proof from the version control system.
Somewhere in the code, comment what you did and when, including your name. In a number of companies (including the one I work for), this is required for traceability for changes. If you're company is using any form of version control, it's a good bet that this will make sure your work can always be traced back to you. If you don't end up with some credit/raise/bonus/something by the end of the year, you can always point to this and ask why.
I thought the same thing myself as I was reading the article, but then I realized that this would add to the complexity of the install. Perhaps it could be defaulted to "First-time user" with the option to change it in an "Advanced" tab?
I do agree with another user here that the trick is to do all of the tuning after the install before handing it over to the final user. I did exactly that with my parents when they got their new Dell (with Ubuntu Feisty pre-installed). It's been great being able to fix (Power outage destroyed the nVidia kernel plugin, had to rebuild it), modify, or update everything through SSH from halfway across the state!