How did they do all that before the internet? Oh yea... with dedicated data lines... You know they hat IT systems in the 70s and 80s that did just that, without internet. If you need pull cable, pulling an extra data line is no big deal. They used to also pull telephone lines before they had IT system. The current use of the internet is just an economical aspect, which quickly gets dwarfed when you realize the cost of business in an outage.
All well known to science: Inverse-square law Cellphone radio towers can kill you if you sand long enough right besides them. (They have a radiation safety distance of about 1m.) Yet the cellphone radiation on average is less than a cloudy day in winter.
The reason why WiFi power output is less has nothing to do with safety, it is all about interference. The only thing that worries me about this wireless power scheme.
I could not agree more with that. An operating system is so basic that you can basically do nothing with it. The problem is that OS vendors started to make their default OS installation useful out of the box by adding applications. Yet that are applications on top of the Operating System, that they get shipped on the same disk as the OS is just an arbitrary decision of the OS vendor. The author of the article has totally no clue about what actually makes an OS.
"However, I kind of like this feature of our system. A lot of "low achievers" have issues that are holding them back (bad eyesight, dislexia, ADHD) that they might eventually get a handle on. I'd really hate it if we just gave up on those kids at an early age and consigned them to menial labor for life."
I take that personally and must say that you are so wrong on so many levels. The different tracks have one benefit and that that the teacher have roughly a similar set of skill and can adjust accordingly. They are not left behind, they get good targeted education and what you do in 9th grade Hauptschule (lowest track) is what the US highschools do in 12th grade. In addition there is a system of apprenticeships in place that bring the people into qualified jobs, such as accountants, mechanics, educators (i.e. kindergarten) or programmers. There is relatively little "untrained" labor in Germany. In the US you bore yourself for 12 years and then. There are little directed ways you can go.
The reason I take that as a personal offence is because I have severe dislexia. And yet, I got though the highest track and completed a university degree with honors. What you are alluding to are problems (eysight, dislexia and ADHD) that have nothing to do with intelligence and the system and teachers can adapt to it. Yet you have people with different intelligence and different skill levels. (I can program a computer, but for the life of me I could not carve wood.) You are doing all of them a disservice by putting them into the same pot.
Like the crap they did with the university system.... The mapped the Dipl. to Bachelor totally missing the point that it is in most cases almost Masters level... yes currently the German politics are totally missing what is good about the German education system and try prepare students for a "globalized world". The shame is that they are either making the system worse or underselling themselves.
At least for the programmer positions, if you have someone who uses Windows and Visual Studio you are all over the chart, but someone who uses GNU/Linux and vi or emacs you are without fail in the mid to high skill range. What it has to do with intelligence is beyond me. But you can infer interest in IT beyond the 9-5 assignments and few "dumb" people would do that...
Honestly... When I look at what you would think of "western civilization" the 17th century is about it. Anything older would be rather alien to most people. Or are we painting meaningless broad strokes and randomly including some civilizations that just happen to sound good, such as Rome and Greece?
Small step, easy to make, cost efficient and nobody can say that 150 km/h limits the freedom of motorists.
Just don't try to get that pasts the German public. You just have to see what goes down when someone tries to bring up the subject of a speed limit on the Autobahn.
There are nearly flawless systems out there. I once leased a BMW 330 that had (probably) a forward looking camera that augmented the GPS map data. For example I exited to a service station a stretch of the Autobahn that was under construction. When joining back in the speed indicator was set to unlimited until it saw the first sign. I drove with that system across Germany and back (North-South) and the System was nearly perfect.
The water is not the problem. The simple trick you employ is to use coiling basins, that cool the water back to normal levels. But then you can use that water straight again...
In addition, this is a problem that every power plant has that basis their power generation on heating water to drive turbines; including solar.
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I think this exactly what OP meant. Secondary school should have an exit exam that is the input into your university qualification. In Germany you have three tracks each ending respectively at grade 9, 10 and 12 (used to be 13). If you take the Gymnasium track (12) and finish the exit exam you can go the the university, no questions asked. Few degrees require minimum score, such as medicine, but these are the exception. (To complete the info, the other two tracks are geared towards apprenticeships.)
In the states you can sort of get through high school without too much effort. That is basically why SAT was invented and why you have basic courses for all degrees, such as English 101. The US school system is not very good at fostering high achieving students, they focus on getting most people to average education and the "no kid left behind" policy is not helping either. I am not saying that it is bad per se, but at some point the slow learners are slowing down the bright ones.
Before anybody complains, I saw both systems first hand...
Except that they will first create a committee to make it an European effort. After something is achieved, they will create a second committee that will replicate some of the effort by a national body, since the European body gets nothing done. Lots of discussing later not much is achieved at all.
But honestly I like the German/European wasting time and money better than the US, at least not all of the money was given to a large shady corporation.
What you propose will not work. The reason being that measurement on a quantum level, actually on almost all other, is destructive. Imagine you want to measure the speed of a train by bouncing cannon balls off of it. One cannon ball will not derail a train, though it will have a severe dent. What you are proposing is to fire thousands of cannon balls at it. Although you may have determined the position and speed of the train, there will not be a train left. In addition your later measurements will be altered by your earlier measurements rendering the later ones inaccurate to it's initial state.
It actually is not a browser thing. Both IE and Chrome use the Windows built in keystore. It probably is a feature, in that some dumb users delete CAs and then complained at MS. So to fix it the keystore has an alternate list of CAs that can be loaded and updated by windows update. Firefox is sort of special in that they use their own keystore. But then again a Windows Update could also patch the FF keysotre. So basically you are using an OS you did not compile from sources (and checked the sources first) that has has an auto update feature: Hello three letter agencies.
Many places the police have a few helicopters patrolling and dangers suspects and hostage situations are not occurring 24/7. It makes sense to put the rather expensive helicopters and crews to work on more mundane tasks when not needed elsewhere. Traffic patrol is one of the simple things to do from the air. You can quickly spot cars that are significantly speeding and dispatch ground crews to intercept. Additionally spotting trouble situations, such as bad accidents can also help and reduce the response time of early responders (they can better pinpoint the location than somebody calling 911 on the ground). I think they should be put to work on the most relevant task at the time and avoid down time. When something really bad happens, they easily can abort the traffic patrol and go support the SWAT team.
I don't know about California, but in Texas I have seen exactly these kind of setups. The road has white markers on the ground and based on these markers they can determine your speed. But I never got into the situation to actually test who pulls you over.
Do you take X-Ray exams? Do you fly with an airplane? Do you eat bananas? You should start to get your facts straight. The effect of nuclear bombs and nuclear reactors are significantly different. We had very little real nuclear catastrophes and on total the casualties are low, if you need the info, Wikipedia can help you out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accidents
Let's compare Deepwater Horizon to the Fukushima Daiichi.
Fatalities: 11 vs 0 (no significant increase in cancer risk projected, except two worker with added 10%) Effect on Environment: the Gulf flora and fauna where almost fully eradicated vs minor radiation pollution, not more than some natural sources
If you think people should stop using nuclear power in japan. Well then start to advocate that all bordering the Gulf of Mexico to stop using cars.
Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha! Funny that you say that. Since I can attribute to the opposite. True, it "takes 1000 hours" to get good at anything. But you have a limited mental capacity and when you exceed this capacity you are actually reducing your quality of work and learning.
Since the mid 19th century you will find numerous studies about worktime / overtime affect on productivity and all of them indicate that the more you work above something around 30-40h the less you get done. That is not less for the hour, but less in total; so at 35h you more done than 60h weeks.
And if you think about it, it makes sense. So you where able to pull an all nighter, not only did you probably make more mistakes at 3am, but also now you are tired as hell and can't think straight. All morning you try to concentrate and basically just sleep-work (as in sleep walk) thought the day. Now compare that with being well rested and focused. Sure you don't have that many hours of work, but you spend each hour highly concentrated. You get more done, it just does not feel so heroic when you get the solution right the first time instead of fixing bugs all night.
I for myself have reduced my contract to "part time" and work 4 days 8h. I am regarded as one of the best / productive developers on my team and that was one of the reasons why my PL had no problem with that. But maybe, just maybe it is just that, at some point in my career I learned that working "harder" does exactly nothing, but "smarter" is most part enabling to really concentrate on the job.
Totally agree! Nuke them back to the stone age! They deserve it, all of them! How can they live and be born in a country with social and economic problems! Murrica!/s
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How did they do all that before the internet? Oh yea... with dedicated data lines... You know they hat IT systems in the 70s and 80s that did just that, without internet. If you need pull cable, pulling an extra data line is no big deal. They used to also pull telephone lines before they had IT system. The current use of the internet is just an economical aspect, which quickly gets dwarfed when you realize the cost of business in an outage.
All well known to science: Inverse-square law Cellphone radio towers can kill you if you sand long enough right besides them. (They have a radiation safety distance of about 1m.) Yet the cellphone radiation on average is less than a cloudy day in winter.
The reason why WiFi power output is less has nothing to do with safety, it is all about interference. The only thing that worries me about this wireless power scheme.
They didn't extend the protection to witnesses because witnesses weren't being tortured to get them to lie -- only defendants were.
[Citation Needed]
s/witnesses/suspected terrorist/ s/tortured/enhanced interrogation/ and you have a modern example.
I could not agree more with that. An operating system is so basic that you can basically do nothing with it. The problem is that OS vendors started to make their default OS installation useful out of the box by adding applications. Yet that are applications on top of the Operating System, that they get shipped on the same disk as the OS is just an arbitrary decision of the OS vendor. The author of the article has totally no clue about what actually makes an OS.
"However, I kind of like this feature of our system. A lot of "low achievers" have issues that are holding them back (bad eyesight, dislexia, ADHD) that they might eventually get a handle on. I'd really hate it if we just gave up on those kids at an early age and consigned them to menial labor for life."
I take that personally and must say that you are so wrong on so many levels. The different tracks have one benefit and that that the teacher have roughly a similar set of skill and can adjust accordingly. They are not left behind, they get good targeted education and what you do in 9th grade Hauptschule (lowest track) is what the US highschools do in 12th grade. In addition there is a system of apprenticeships in place that bring the people into qualified jobs, such as accountants, mechanics, educators (i.e. kindergarten) or programmers. There is relatively little "untrained" labor in Germany. In the US you bore yourself for 12 years and then. There are little directed ways you can go.
The reason I take that as a personal offence is because I have severe dislexia. And yet, I got though the highest track and completed a university degree with honors. What you are alluding to are problems (eysight, dislexia and ADHD) that have nothing to do with intelligence and the system and teachers can adapt to it. Yet you have people with different intelligence and different skill levels. (I can program a computer, but for the life of me I could not carve wood.) You are doing all of them a disservice by putting them into the same pot.
Like the crap they did with the university system.... The mapped the Dipl. to Bachelor totally missing the point that it is in most cases almost Masters level... yes currently the German politics are totally missing what is good about the German education system and try prepare students for a "globalized world". The shame is that they are either making the system worse or underselling themselves.
What you say is funny.
At least for the programmer positions, if you have someone who uses Windows and Visual Studio you are all over the chart, but someone who uses GNU/Linux and vi or emacs you are without fail in the mid to high skill range. What it has to do with intelligence is beyond me. But you can infer interest in IT beyond the 9-5 assignments and few "dumb" people would do that...
Honestly... When I look at what you would think of "western civilization" the 17th century is about it. Anything older would be rather alien to most people. Or are we painting meaningless broad strokes and randomly including some civilizations that just happen to sound good, such as Rome and Greece?
Small step, easy to make, cost efficient and nobody can say that 150 km/h limits the freedom of motorists.
Just don't try to get that pasts the German public. You just have to see what goes down when someone tries to bring up the subject of a speed limit on the Autobahn.
And who exactly is going to pay for all this?
There are nearly flawless systems out there. I once leased a BMW 330 that had (probably) a forward looking camera that augmented the GPS map data. For example I exited to a service station a stretch of the Autobahn that was under construction. When joining back in the speed indicator was set to unlimited until it saw the first sign. I drove with that system across Germany and back (North-South) and the System was nearly perfect.
The water is not the problem. The simple trick you employ is to use coiling basins, that cool the water back to normal levels. But then you can use that water straight again...
In addition, this is a problem that every power plant has that basis their power generation on heating water to drive turbines; including solar.
mod parent up (where are the mod points when you need them)
I think this exactly what OP meant. Secondary school should have an exit exam that is the input into your university qualification. In Germany you have three tracks each ending respectively at grade 9, 10 and 12 (used to be 13). If you take the Gymnasium track (12) and finish the exit exam you can go the the university, no questions asked. Few degrees require minimum score, such as medicine, but these are the exception. (To complete the info, the other two tracks are geared towards apprenticeships.)
In the states you can sort of get through high school without too much effort. That is basically why SAT was invented and why you have basic courses for all degrees, such as English 101. The US school system is not very good at fostering high achieving students, they focus on getting most people to average education and the "no kid left behind" policy is not helping either. I am not saying that it is bad per se, but at some point the slow learners are slowing down the bright ones.
Before anybody complains, I saw both systems first hand...
Except that they will first create a committee to make it an European effort. After something is achieved, they will create a second committee that will replicate some of the effort by a national body, since the European body gets nothing done. Lots of discussing later not much is achieved at all.
But honestly I like the German/European wasting time and money better than the US, at least not all of the money was given to a large shady corporation.
1. make website with great content
2. put contextual adds based on the content (no tracking)
3. ???
4. profit
When was tracking mandatory for placing adds? I honestly think advertisers are missing the point with tracking.
What you propose will not work. The reason being that measurement on a quantum level, actually on almost all other, is destructive. Imagine you want to measure the speed of a train by bouncing cannon balls off of it. One cannon ball will not derail a train, though it will have a severe dent. What you are proposing is to fire thousands of cannon balls at it. Although you may have determined the position and speed of the train, there will not be a train left. In addition your later measurements will be altered by your earlier measurements rendering the later ones inaccurate to it's initial state.
It actually is not a browser thing. Both IE and Chrome use the Windows built in keystore. It probably is a feature, in that some dumb users delete CAs and then complained at MS. So to fix it the keystore has an alternate list of CAs that can be loaded and updated by windows update. Firefox is sort of special in that they use their own keystore. But then again a Windows Update could also patch the FF keysotre. So basically you are using an OS you did not compile from sources (and checked the sources first) that has has an auto update feature: Hello three letter agencies.
That is assuming you actually are on the right hand side. Also. it is very unlikely that you are more than two sigma above the median.
Many places the police have a few helicopters patrolling and dangers suspects and hostage situations are not occurring 24/7. It makes sense to put the rather expensive helicopters and crews to work on more mundane tasks when not needed elsewhere. Traffic patrol is one of the simple things to do from the air. You can quickly spot cars that are significantly speeding and dispatch ground crews to intercept. Additionally spotting trouble situations, such as bad accidents can also help and reduce the response time of early responders (they can better pinpoint the location than somebody calling 911 on the ground). I think they should be put to work on the most relevant task at the time and avoid down time. When something really bad happens, they easily can abort the traffic patrol and go support the SWAT team.
+1
I don't know about California, but in Texas I have seen exactly these kind of setups. The road has white markers on the ground and based on these markers they can determine your speed. But I never got into the situation to actually test who pulls you over.
Do you take X-Ray exams? Do you fly with an airplane? Do you eat bananas? You should start to get your facts straight. The effect of nuclear bombs and nuclear reactors are significantly different. We had very little real nuclear catastrophes and on total the casualties are low, if you need the info, Wikipedia can help you out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accidents
Let's compare Deepwater Horizon to the Fukushima Daiichi.
Fatalities: 11 vs 0 (no significant increase in cancer risk projected, except two worker with added 10%)
Effect on Environment: the Gulf flora and fauna where almost fully eradicated vs minor radiation pollution, not more than some natural sources
If you think people should stop using nuclear power in japan. Well then start to advocate that all bordering the Gulf of Mexico to stop using cars.
Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha! Funny that you say that. Since I can attribute to the opposite. True, it "takes 1000 hours" to get good at anything. But you have a limited mental capacity and when you exceed this capacity you are actually reducing your quality of work and learning.
Since the mid 19th century you will find numerous studies about worktime / overtime affect on productivity and all of them indicate that the more you work above something around 30-40h the less you get done. That is not less for the hour, but less in total; so at 35h you more done than 60h weeks.
And if you think about it, it makes sense. So you where able to pull an all nighter, not only did you probably make more mistakes at 3am, but also now you are tired as hell and can't think straight. All morning you try to concentrate and basically just sleep-work (as in sleep walk) thought the day. Now compare that with being well rested and focused. Sure you don't have that many hours of work, but you spend each hour highly concentrated. You get more done, it just does not feel so heroic when you get the solution right the first time instead of fixing bugs all night.
I for myself have reduced my contract to "part time" and work 4 days 8h. I am regarded as one of the best / productive developers on my team and that was one of the reasons why my PL had no problem with that. But maybe, just maybe it is just that, at some point in my career I learned that working "harder" does exactly nothing, but "smarter" is most part enabling to really concentrate on the job.
Totally agree! Nuke them back to the stone age! They deserve it, all of them! How can they live and be born in a country with social and economic problems! Murrica! /s
Yes, yes SkyNet, you are right. Now go back to your normal task.