The PhD program I'm pursuing requires some classes that I've been told by the department that I'm just going to have to do as an independant study because there isn't enough interest to actually offer the course. The problem is that there are 2-3 students interested in the course each year, not that there is no interest. So they either drive students away from the material (Artificial Intelligence) or they pay a professor to independantly mentor 2-3 students that year. Seems like a better solution would be to pre-record the lecture series every so often(the school already has the infrastructure). The assignments could keep the students up to date with changes in the field between updates to the lecture. And the professor who needs to devote less time (because he isn't preping for lectures) to the class would get paid a partial fee. They also could have a less expensive professor or even GTA doing most of the grading consulting, where the expert full professor gets paid for a full semester for preping the lessons/teaching the course that semester.
I like the direction you are heading but there are financial consequences to improved effeciency that are going to have major impacts on certain demographics and competitiveness advantages for companies operating in a global economy where not all nations are willing to act responsibly if they can get an advantage over the US and Europe.
At the start of this administration, Alabama's 5th district (Marshall Space Flight Center) had a Representative on the Energy and Commerce Commitee. He, being an idiot, switched parties and lost his position on a powerful comittee and essentially was useless until he was voted out of office last November. I'm sure he wasn't the only NASA proponent in the House, but he certainly cost NASA.
" Man, being ignorant is kinda cool. Maybe I can even make money off of it... although that field is awfully crowded right now."
I suspect there may be some additional openings next year if you can hold out.
This isn't really about prevention. It is another chargable offense to tack on against someone having a sexual relationship against a minor. The same reason many states still have sodomy laws on the books, when was the last time you saw an article where anyone was charged with sodomy if it wasn't involving a minor?
I don't know where my comment went. It isn't showing up in this thread or my list of comments. After my third run through the opening cinematic, I gave up. RDR doesn't have anytime saves and that just doesn't cut it for my gaming schedule to have to hunt for a save location especially if they aren't frequent enough for me to hit in 15 minutes of playtime.
There is room for new chips and new models of chips in EE, but every EE isn't making their own chip. Maybe it is just my experience but from both education and experience I've seen alot of software people afraid or unwilling to use someone else's library because they don't trust it or they would like something a little different or they might have difficulty loading it on their machine. That type of attitude hinders the growth of Software Engineering as a mature engineering discipline.
But when I complain that the new policy is adding 30 minutes to a regularly performed task and I get the attitude that I just don't know anything about security, then I don't have much sympathy for the "professional" (and in all honestly will probably look for a solution myself.)
I don't blame doctors for limiting liability and maximizing profits. Their schooling was expensive, they work in a demanding and time-consuming career. But if I go in with a problem then I need to trust they will exercise the dilgence a normal person would expect of someone with a doctorate degree. There are enough medical professionals who put liability and profit above their diligence that the population in general will reach out to their social network before a professional and even trust that opinion above the professional.
"It is true that programming has more become like Lego. Stick together the parts in the right combination and that's it." That is what other engineering disciplines do. I'm a CS and Software Engineer by training and trade. If you aren't in school learning how programs work underneath or you have very specific constraints on your runtime environment that prohibit the use of a library, then you need to be reusing libraries and frameworks. If you don't trust it, then you should be putting additional effort into testing the framework not spending the time to rewrite it and then test your rewrite. The more mature software engineering is, the more general the building blocks of software should be up to the point that generalization is no longer reducing development time. We are not to that point, not to the level where we are even at the level of where electrical, mechanical, or structural engineering is.
TFA:
"It turns out Netflix users take up an average of 40GB per month just from streaming media, according to a different Sandvine report (PDF),
Users that stream data through a device other than a PC – an Xbox or other game console, for example – use twice that amount of bandwidth for the same content.
That puts DSL users who stream movies through their Xbox 360s two-thirds of the way to their data cap every month before they download a single app or send a single email."
Maybe they can use my SSN, or hmmm my old password, or how many fingers I'm holding up. Sony can't reset my password with data they never had and if the hackers stole all the data Sony had on me; Sony doesn't have much recourse than to use that data. The question now is balancing the pain of the process with the security of the process.
I've tried. I really have tried to use linux at home. I no longer have time at home to find obscure answers to find out why my machine isn't doing something that should be basic. The reason I have a windows box at home is the same reason I game on a console now instead of my computer. I want to put something new in my machine and it just work; and most users would trade the keys to their bank accounts for that.
However, this was not an article about a scientific study, this was more or less a book review. The article reported the book as essentially a ego boosting book for teenage geeks. While not a thorough scientific study, sometimes there is a place even for the most analytical of thinkers for a mood boost.
I work in a town with plenty of NASA engineers. The difficult part of working for or contracting to NASA is not solving some of the toughest engineering challenges in the world; it is putting your passion into a project for 4 to 8 years only to have it all your work scrapped after an election swings an office from one party to the other.
I've come to understand this. When I go to my boss for a performance raise, he evaluates me based on me compared to everyone under him. It is my advantage to have the 78%. When he sees this and he says that we need to break the company policy on raises over x% so we keep this great employee, his boss evaluates his request based on my bosses perspective of best one out of 62 rather than one of 11. It is my advantage to have the 78%. Not to mention that bigger groups need bigger funding, so when I need something to do my job I'll have a bigger funding pool to draw from.
Absolutely there will be a lesson: We now have a positive spin reason to charge our customers for the PSN like Microsoft does for our next gen console.
"Researchers note that they would have released this study much sooner"
Well they should have just posted the study to their facebook profiles as a private note then.
Well looks like the first step would be designing, building, and testing a human-powered rotorcraft that can fly with the positive lift benefits of ground effect and then improving on that design.
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" (except for dinner)." http://www.amazon.com/grocery-breakfast-foods-snacks-organic/b/ref=sa_menu_gro12?ie=UTF8&node=16310101
We were warned when we bought my wife's Hyundai that aftermarket air filters had been triggering the check engine light in some of their other models.
The PhD program I'm pursuing requires some classes that I've been told by the department that I'm just going to have to do as an independant study because there isn't enough interest to actually offer the course. The problem is that there are 2-3 students interested in the course each year, not that there is no interest. So they either drive students away from the material (Artificial Intelligence) or they pay a professor to independantly mentor 2-3 students that year. Seems like a better solution would be to pre-record the lecture series every so often(the school already has the infrastructure). The assignments could keep the students up to date with changes in the field between updates to the lecture. And the professor who needs to devote less time (because he isn't preping for lectures) to the class would get paid a partial fee. They also could have a less expensive professor or even GTA doing most of the grading consulting, where the expert full professor gets paid for a full semester for preping the lessons/teaching the course that semester.
I like the direction you are heading but there are financial consequences to improved effeciency that are going to have major impacts on certain demographics and competitiveness advantages for companies operating in a global economy where not all nations are willing to act responsibly if they can get an advantage over the US and Europe.
At the start of this administration, Alabama's 5th district (Marshall Space Flight Center) had a Representative on the Energy and Commerce Commitee. He, being an idiot, switched parties and lost his position on a powerful comittee and essentially was useless until he was voted out of office last November. I'm sure he wasn't the only NASA proponent in the House, but he certainly cost NASA.
If we didn't have bandwidth caps how would our poor broke isp/video content providers punish us for using a competing service?
For the same reason that my health insurance doesn't pay for a gym membership, or cut me a check when I eat a salad versus a cheeseburger?
" Man, being ignorant is kinda cool. Maybe I can even make money off of it... although that field is awfully crowded right now." I suspect there may be some additional openings next year if you can hold out.
This isn't really about prevention. It is another chargable offense to tack on against someone having a sexual relationship against a minor. The same reason many states still have sodomy laws on the books, when was the last time you saw an article where anyone was charged with sodomy if it wasn't involving a minor?
I don't know where my comment went. It isn't showing up in this thread or my list of comments. After my third run through the opening cinematic, I gave up. RDR doesn't have anytime saves and that just doesn't cut it for my gaming schedule to have to hunt for a save location especially if they aren't frequent enough for me to hit in 15 minutes of playtime.
There is room for new chips and new models of chips in EE, but every EE isn't making their own chip. Maybe it is just my experience but from both education and experience I've seen alot of software people afraid or unwilling to use someone else's library because they don't trust it or they would like something a little different or they might have difficulty loading it on their machine. That type of attitude hinders the growth of Software Engineering as a mature engineering discipline.
But when I complain that the new policy is adding 30 minutes to a regularly performed task and I get the attitude that I just don't know anything about security, then I don't have much sympathy for the "professional" (and in all honestly will probably look for a solution myself.) I don't blame doctors for limiting liability and maximizing profits. Their schooling was expensive, they work in a demanding and time-consuming career. But if I go in with a problem then I need to trust they will exercise the dilgence a normal person would expect of someone with a doctorate degree. There are enough medical professionals who put liability and profit above their diligence that the population in general will reach out to their social network before a professional and even trust that opinion above the professional.
"It is true that programming has more become like Lego. Stick together the parts in the right combination and that's it." That is what other engineering disciplines do. I'm a CS and Software Engineer by training and trade. If you aren't in school learning how programs work underneath or you have very specific constraints on your runtime environment that prohibit the use of a library, then you need to be reusing libraries and frameworks. If you don't trust it, then you should be putting additional effort into testing the framework not spending the time to rewrite it and then test your rewrite. The more mature software engineering is, the more general the building blocks of software should be up to the point that generalization is no longer reducing development time. We are not to that point, not to the level where we are even at the level of where electrical, mechanical, or structural engineering is.
TFA: "It turns out Netflix users take up an average of 40GB per month just from streaming media, according to a different Sandvine report (PDF), Users that stream data through a device other than a PC – an Xbox or other game console, for example – use twice that amount of bandwidth for the same content. That puts DSL users who stream movies through their Xbox 360s two-thirds of the way to their data cap every month before they download a single app or send a single email."
Yeah. I also remember fondly the time when I socially interacted with no one at all.
Maybe they can use my SSN, or hmmm my old password, or how many fingers I'm holding up. Sony can't reset my password with data they never had and if the hackers stole all the data Sony had on me; Sony doesn't have much recourse than to use that data. The question now is balancing the pain of the process with the security of the process.
I've tried. I really have tried to use linux at home. I no longer have time at home to find obscure answers to find out why my machine isn't doing something that should be basic. The reason I have a windows box at home is the same reason I game on a console now instead of my computer. I want to put something new in my machine and it just work; and most users would trade the keys to their bank accounts for that.
However, this was not an article about a scientific study, this was more or less a book review. The article reported the book as essentially a ego boosting book for teenage geeks. While not a thorough scientific study, sometimes there is a place even for the most analytical of thinkers for a mood boost.
Good news. They are both measured in Beibers.
I work in a town with plenty of NASA engineers. The difficult part of working for or contracting to NASA is not solving some of the toughest engineering challenges in the world; it is putting your passion into a project for 4 to 8 years only to have it all your work scrapped after an election swings an office from one party to the other.
I've come to understand this. When I go to my boss for a performance raise, he evaluates me based on me compared to everyone under him. It is my advantage to have the 78%. When he sees this and he says that we need to break the company policy on raises over x% so we keep this great employee, his boss evaluates his request based on my bosses perspective of best one out of 62 rather than one of 11. It is my advantage to have the 78%. Not to mention that bigger groups need bigger funding, so when I need something to do my job I'll have a bigger funding pool to draw from.
Absolutely there will be a lesson: We now have a positive spin reason to charge our customers for the PSN like Microsoft does for our next gen console.
"Researchers note that they would have released this study much sooner" Well they should have just posted the study to their facebook profiles as a private note then.
I mean what could possibly be dangerous about allowing random websites to run hardware level code?
Well looks like the first step would be designing, building, and testing a human-powered rotorcraft that can fly with the positive lift benefits of ground effect and then improving on that design.