The worst degree is the one you don't finish. Repeat that a few times. I would recomend going and talking to all the various departments at your school and trying to figure out you want to go. No matter what you major in learn to write English in addition to code. Being able to write a spec document or a set of procedures may well get you a job that simply being able to code will not.
I'm majoring in Physics at Brandeis, but then again I'm not your standard undergrad, I'm 28, I took 7 years off from school to work, but when I lost my job last fall I decided to go back and fisish.
Its not just a question of having backups of major files. If in the middle of a deadline your computer crashes and burns and you spend the next 2 days rebuilding it that is still damage. I don't know about you but my time is valuable. I don't need the headache of doing that because some kid thought showing off to his buddies would be a good idea.
I can see a lot of Jews objecting for a very different but quite real set of reasons. And I have always wondered about these national ID things. I mean what is to stop the terorists from getting a drivers licence? Or a passport (real or a good fake).
I also have to say I was "Profiled" at Atlanta Hartsfield airport a few weeks back. They patted me down ran the wand over me (twice) and searched my bag. They even wanted to know what was under my kippa (my hair and maybe a bobby pin). Now I do look "Middle Eastern" and I was not born in the USA but they had no way of knowing that, but hell I'm a US citizen and grew up outside of Boston and in New Jersey. And I look like the Jew that I am.
On the other hand for long distance travel the airlines are the only game in town.
Speeking as a religous Jew this year someone might have had a good cause to take off today (25 Dec) its the 10th of Tevet, which is a fast day. Now this is a day when you can go to work but working while fasting is not fun. For me its a moot point, I lost my job in September and am about to go back to finish college.
I however would take off for Rosh Hashana (2 days), Yom Kippor (1 day), Sukkot (2 days), Shimini Azzert and Simcas Torah (2 days), Passover (2 days at least) Shavous (2 days) and leave early on Fridays to be home by sundown during the winter. Thankfully I got to Brandeis where they give you all those off anyway. When I start working again it will cut into my vacations rather a lot I would imagine.
Factoring is not NP_Complete. There were some early public key cryptsystems that were NP complete but they were abandoned rather quickly. While the best general case solutions to NP-Complete are O(2^n) there are many specific case solutions that will solve some subset of problems much faster. Or will get close to the correct result quickly. In a crypto-system you want to make sure that it is hard to solve ALL posible cases not just the worst case senario.
There are a few ways in which electric cars reduce polution:
1) They generaly don't use any power when they are at idle. So when you are stiting in trafic at least you are not using power.
2) A large Gas-Turbine plant (Running what is basicly a Jet engine) can be more efficant that a Otto engine in a car. For one thing it does not have to go anywhere, and probably gets better maintinace.
And ofcourse it moves the polution to somewhere else. But it would be good if we used less Coal.
On the other had air polution has gone way down over the last 100 years. In 1905 or so My Great grandfather left London where he had go to from Russia because of all the polution from everyone burning coal for heat and cooking.
There is a wonderful pollution free form of transport out there... Sail boats.:)
Anything that uses a chemical reaction to create power is going to create pollution of some form. We can get very cleaver about what form that will be. But the fundamental truth is that you are taking big complex molicules and breaking them up into smaller compounds and releasing energy. This applies to the Human body (and all other animals and plants) as well as cars, airplanes and powerplants.
Ok lets say that in 5 years Crysler (Or Ford or GM Or whomever) puts out a van that runs on these fuel cells. Before I go out and buy one I want to know a few things:
1) Where do I go for fuel?
2) How much does it cost per mile for fuel?
3) When it breaks where do I get it fixed?
4a) When it needs a part where do I get it
4b) How long does it take for the parts to show up?
5) How much does it cost to insure?
In the US we are real good at Gas and Diesel fuel you can get them almost anywhere. And enough things run on them that getting spare parts and people who know how to fix the things is not hard. I have seen cars that run on Compressed Natural Gas, but there is no way in hell I would buy one. Why because there are like 3 places in all metro Boston that I can get CNG. Where as the 87 octane gas that my Saturn wants can be gotten anywhere.
Remember the cost of owning a car is not just the fuel prices.
Apples and oranges. When the writers sued the Times et al they were saying you are paying us for A and then taking our work and doing B with it. That case has nothing to do with the first amendment or freedom of the press. It is about contracts to produce the content. If the original contract had said "Newspaper and other media" there would have been no case but I assume that the contract was worded in such a way that this was not the case. I assume (IANAL) that it would be quite easy to write a contract such that you could publish works in format A but not format B.
Contract law can not prevent dumb or short sited contracts. Nor should it. What might look like a dumb contract to one person may make a lot of sense to someone else. And if you don't like a contract don't sign it.
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Well I definitly don't value something only by the money in generates. But the Talmud does devides the levels of charity into a list and the Rambam ordered them from lowest to hightest, at the top of his list he puts those acts which enable another to become self reliant. For more info see this Page
That being said not everyone is cut out to start or run a business. And in a business even if you do everything right it is still posible to fail.
Some of the problem can be that some people do visit the website, just not enough to pay the bills. Thats hard. Because in many ways costs can go up with viewership. Many websites are good and usefull they just only intrest a limited set of people. Some of them are nonprofit, but even in that case you need to find a way to pay the bills. Just in that case you can find wealthy folks to give you money, if what you are doing intrests *THEM*.
It is a long way to getting a Fuel Cell Airliner. It sounds like they want it for an APU (to supply power on the ground etc) As it works out a 747 is rather Enviormentally friendly. The 777 more so. Yes they burn a lot of Jet-A but if you take the amount of Fuel per passenger mile or Kilogram mile its probably less than a lot of other forms of transport.
Yes but you loose energy everytime you do it. The amount of power you get out of burning the H2 is *LESS* then you need to split the H20 into H2 and 02. So while it is a reversable change it costs energy each time.
If you are using MS products and you need to hire a temp, Say somone to create a bunch of Powerpoint slides then it is rather easy to find somone call a temp agency and they will send someone over. On the other hand if you are using something that is not that common you might not be able to get someone to fill in or handle a short term need when you have one. It may still be something you want to do. But you should keep this in mind.
1) Jabber does all of what you need. In that case just use it.
2) Jabber would need to be modified in some way to meet the needs of the project. In this case you probably want to have someone (Or several someones) working on these improvements full time and one should assume that one way or another you will have to pay them. If you want the Jabber crew to do it Send the RFP to the jabber developer's mailing list. If someone is interested then they will respond. Or just hire a few people to do the work in house. Of course you could just wait and hope that the folks working on jabber add the things you need. But I would recomend proactivly attempting to get them in there by paying somone to write (and *TEST*) the code.
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I would guess that this would not really save very much. It may be worth doing but I would guess that the reduction in hardware and pipe that would result would not reduce costs all that much. I would guess that the payroll for all the folks who run/. is taking up the majority of the budget.
On the other hand reducing bloat in the HTML might not be a bad idea.
The problem with this is if you say I would pay site X $10/month to get rid of the adds. And you have more than 1 site that you read regularly, and I have about a dozen. Then you could end up with $100+ a month to not see adds. That is more than I want to pay.
The biggest problem the stock exchanges has was that after 9/11 many of the folks who worked as traders for the big Wall St firms were at best without offices and at worst dead. Yes you have data backups but loosing 20% of your staff has got to be hard. And there was brockerage that had 3,500 people in one of the towers. Most of them got out but not all.
In truth the hardest thing to replace is the people.
The problem is that to transform water into H2 and 02 you need to spend energy. The energy you get by burning the H2 later is less (probably much less) than you spend in the first place. In raw petrol you have a lot of energy stored up so by turning it into Gas, or Deisel or Jet A or whatever you don't lose much. But water has very little energy stored in it that can be released by chemical means.
Ethanol is probably more promissing. As long as we can grow grain or corn we can make it and burn it.
Remember also that the NSA is much more interested in preventing mixing of different privelage levels on a system (Classified vs Secret vs Top Secret etc) than someone breaking in from outside. They solve the outside breakin problem by not being on the net. Ofcourse this is still useful but what the NSA needs for security and what you and I do are not exactly the same thing. They have different requirements.
There is ofcourse radio contact between ATC and aircraft. But if the hijackers have taken control of the cockpit all they have to do is turn off the radio. Or ignore it. Its actualy not that rare for an airliner or GA plane to get out of control with ATC for a while. Usualy its due to someone misdialing a radio or missing a handoff to the next controller.
The 757/767 Are not Fly by wire jets. And even if they are that does not mean much. All fly by wire means is that there is not direct mechanical connection between the yoke/stick and the control serfaces. There is a computer in the middle somewhere. However even on a Fly by wire jet you push the yoke to the side and the airplane banks. You Can hand fly them and they will go where you want. All you have to do is know how to turn off the autopilot, and hand fly it. Which is not that hard. Actualy I've been told that the big Boeings are not hard to fly.
Remember they did not have to know how to take off or land, just navigate to a target. And Navigation is not that hard. Esp on a sunny day when you can do it by looking out the window.
AOPA Has information on when the airspace system will be reopened. I expect it will be a few days till its back to something like normal over much of the country and the weekend till its OK in New York and Washington DC.
And I would expect the state of emergency in NYC to continue threw Rosh Hashonah next week. It will be quite strange driving into New York City this Friday for Shabbos and Yom Tov.
Lets hope W is not another Nevill Chaberline. I would love to see Peace in Our Time. But not at the expense of appeasing terorists dictators and thugs. When we find out who did this we need to make them understand exactly how big a mistake attacking the USA is. And make sure that the entire world knows it.
On 4 July 1976 an Air France Jet was hijacked and sitting on the ramp at Entebie Uganda. The people who did it were threating to kill all the Israelis and Jews on board. Until an Israeli special forces unit came in and took them out. Guess what no one has hijacked a jet leaving Israel since. The only way to deal with dictators and thugs it it hit them so hard that they don't get up again. Ever.
The United States can not appease these people nor ever give in. They need to live in fear that at any second a flight of B52's or a team of Navy Seals could pop up and kill them. If they have such fear maybe they won't do this again.
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The worst degree is the one you don't finish. Repeat that a few times. I would recomend going and talking to all the various departments at your school and trying to figure out you want to go. No matter what you major in learn to write English in addition to code. Being able to write a spec document or a set of procedures may well get you a job that simply being able to code will not.
I'm majoring in Physics at Brandeis, but then again I'm not your standard undergrad, I'm 28, I took 7 years off from school to work, but when I lost my job last fall I decided to go back and fisish.
Its not just a question of having backups of major files. If in the middle of a deadline your computer crashes and burns and you spend the next 2 days rebuilding it that is still damage. I don't know about you but my time is valuable. I don't need the headache of doing that because some kid thought showing off to his buddies would be a good idea.
I can see a lot of Jews objecting for a very different but quite real set of reasons. And I have always wondered about these national ID things. I mean what is to stop the terorists from getting a drivers licence? Or a passport (real or a good fake).
I also have to say I was "Profiled" at Atlanta Hartsfield airport a few weeks back. They patted me down ran the wand over me (twice) and searched my bag. They even wanted to know what was under my kippa (my hair and maybe a bobby pin). Now I do look "Middle Eastern" and I was not born in the USA but they had no way of knowing that, but hell I'm a US citizen and grew up outside of Boston and in New Jersey. And I look like the Jew that I am.
On the other hand for long distance travel the airlines are the only game in town.
Speeking as a religous Jew this year someone might have had a good cause to take off today (25 Dec) its the 10th of Tevet, which is a fast day. Now this is a day when you can go to work but working while fasting is not fun. For me its a moot point, I lost my job in September and am about to go back to finish college.
I however would take off for Rosh Hashana (2 days), Yom Kippor (1 day), Sukkot (2 days), Shimini Azzert and Simcas Torah (2 days), Passover (2 days at least) Shavous (2 days) and leave early on Fridays to be home by sundown during the winter. Thankfully I got to Brandeis where they give you all those off anyway. When I start working again it will cut into my vacations rather a lot I would imagine.
And yes I did fast from sunup to sundown today.
Factoring is not NP_Complete. There were some early public key cryptsystems that were NP complete but they were abandoned rather quickly. While the best general case solutions to NP-Complete are O(2^n) there are many specific case solutions that will solve some subset of problems much faster. Or will get close to the correct result quickly. In a crypto-system you want to make sure that it is hard to solve ALL posible cases not just the worst case senario.
There are a few ways in which electric cars reduce polution:
1) They generaly don't use any power when they are at idle. So when you are stiting in trafic at least you are not using power.
2) A large Gas-Turbine plant (Running what is basicly a Jet engine) can be more efficant that a Otto engine in a car. For one thing it does not have to go anywhere, and probably gets better maintinace.
And ofcourse it moves the polution to somewhere else. But it would be good if we used less Coal.
On the other had air polution has gone way down over the last 100 years. In 1905 or so My Great grandfather left London where he had go to from Russia because of all the polution from everyone burning coal for heat and cooking.
There is a wonderful pollution free form of transport out there... Sail boats. :)
Anything that uses a chemical reaction to create power is going to create pollution of some form. We can get very cleaver about what form that will be. But the fundamental truth is that you are taking big complex molicules and breaking them up into smaller compounds and releasing energy. This applies to the Human body (and all other animals and plants) as well as cars, airplanes and powerplants.
Ok lets say that in 5 years Crysler (Or Ford or GM Or whomever) puts out a van that runs on these fuel cells. Before I go out and buy one I want to know a few things:
1) Where do I go for fuel?
2) How much does it cost per mile for fuel?
3) When it breaks where do I get it fixed?
4a) When it needs a part where do I get it
4b) How long does it take for the parts to show up?
5) How much does it cost to insure?
In the US we are real good at Gas and Diesel fuel you can get them almost anywhere. And enough things run on them that getting spare parts and people who know how to fix the things is not hard. I have seen cars that run on Compressed Natural Gas, but there is no way in hell I would buy one. Why because there are like 3 places in all metro Boston that I can get CNG. Where as the 87 octane gas that my Saturn wants can be gotten anywhere.
Remember the cost of owning a car is not just the fuel prices.
Apples and oranges. When the writers sued the Times et al they were saying you are paying us for A and then taking our work and doing B with it. That case has nothing to do with the first amendment or freedom of the press. It is about contracts to produce the content. If the original contract had said "Newspaper and other media" there would have been no case but I assume that the contract was worded in such a way that this was not the case. I assume (IANAL) that it would be quite easy to write a contract such that you could publish works in format A but not format B.
Contract law can not prevent dumb or short sited contracts. Nor should it. What might look like a dumb contract to one person may make a lot of sense to someone else. And if you don't like a contract don't sign it.
Well I definitly don't value something only by the money in generates. But the Talmud does devides the levels of charity into a list and the Rambam ordered them from lowest to hightest, at the top of his list he puts those acts which enable another to become self reliant. For more info see this Page
That being said not everyone is cut out to start or run a business. And in a business even if you do everything right it is still posible to fail.
Some of the problem can be that some people do visit the website, just not enough to pay the bills. Thats hard. Because in many ways costs can go up with viewership. Many websites are good and usefull they just only intrest a limited set of people. Some of them are nonprofit, but even in that case you need to find a way to pay the bills. Just in that case you can find wealthy folks to give you money, if what you are doing intrests *THEM*.
Actualy there were about 120 C5A's built. I think 2 have been destroyed in operations over the years.
It is a long way to getting a Fuel Cell Airliner. It sounds like they want it for an APU (to supply power on the ground etc) As it works out a 747 is rather Enviormentally friendly. The 777 more so. Yes they burn a lot of Jet-A but if you take the amount of Fuel per passenger mile or Kilogram mile its probably less than a lot of other forms of transport.
Yes but you loose energy everytime you do it. The amount of power you get out of burning the H2 is *LESS* then you need to split the H20 into H2 and 02. So while it is a reversable change it costs energy each time.
Its the 2nd Law of thermodynamics.
If you are using MS products and you need to hire a temp, Say somone to create a bunch of Powerpoint slides then it is rather easy to find somone call a temp agency and they will send someone over. On the other hand if you are using something that is not that common you might not be able to get someone to fill in or handle a short term need when you have one. It may still be something you want to do. But you should keep this in mind.
Well there are two cases to consider.
1) Jabber does all of what you need. In that case just use it.
2) Jabber would need to be modified in some way to meet the needs of the project. In this case you probably want to have someone (Or several someones) working on these improvements full time and one should assume that one way or another you will have to pay them. If you want the Jabber crew to do it Send the RFP to the jabber developer's mailing list. If someone is interested then they will respond. Or just hire a few people to do the work in house. Of course you could just wait and hope that the folks working on jabber add the things you need. But I would recomend proactivly attempting to get them in there by paying somone to write (and *TEST*) the code.
I would guess that this would not really save very much. It may be worth doing but I would guess that the reduction in hardware and pipe that would result would not reduce costs all that much. I would guess that the payroll for all the folks who run /. is taking up the majority of the budget.
On the other hand reducing bloat in the HTML might not be a bad idea.
The problem with this is if you say I would pay site X $10/month to get rid of the adds. And you have more than 1 site that you read regularly, and I have about a dozen. Then you could end up with $100+ a month to not see adds. That is more than I want to pay.
The biggest problem the stock exchanges has was that after 9/11 many of the folks who worked as traders for the big Wall St firms were at best without offices and at worst dead. Yes you have data backups but loosing 20% of your staff has got to be hard. And there was brockerage that had 3,500 people in one of the towers. Most of them got out but not all.
In truth the hardest thing to replace is the people.
The problem is that to transform water into H2 and 02 you need to spend energy. The energy you get by burning the H2 later is less (probably much less) than you spend in the first place. In raw petrol you have a lot of energy stored up so by turning it into Gas, or Deisel or Jet A or whatever you don't lose much. But water has very little energy stored in it that can be released by chemical means.
Ethanol is probably more promissing. As long as we can grow grain or corn we can make it and burn it.
Remember also that the NSA is much more interested in preventing mixing of different privelage levels on a system (Classified vs Secret vs Top Secret etc) than someone breaking in from outside. They solve the outside breakin problem by not being on the net. Ofcourse this is still useful but what the NSA needs for security and what you and I do are not exactly the same thing. They have different requirements.
There is ofcourse radio contact between ATC and aircraft. But if the hijackers have taken control of the cockpit all they have to do is turn off the radio. Or ignore it. Its actualy not that rare for an airliner or GA plane to get out of control with ATC for a while. Usualy its due to someone misdialing a radio or missing a handoff to the next controller.
The 757/767 Are not Fly by wire jets. And even if they are that does not mean much. All fly by wire means is that there is not direct mechanical connection between the yoke/stick and the control serfaces. There is a computer in the middle somewhere. However even on a Fly by wire jet you push the yoke to the side and the airplane banks. You Can hand fly them and they will go where you want. All you have to do is know how to turn off the autopilot, and hand fly it. Which is not that hard. Actualy I've been told that the big Boeings are not hard to fly.
Remember they did not have to know how to take off or land, just navigate to a target. And Navigation is not that hard. Esp on a sunny day when you can do it by looking out the window.
AOPA Has information on when the airspace system will be reopened. I expect it will be a few days till its back to something like normal over much of the country and the weekend till its OK in New York and Washington DC.
And I would expect the state of emergency in NYC to continue threw Rosh Hashonah next week. It will be quite strange driving into New York City this Friday for Shabbos and Yom Tov.
Lets hope W is not another Nevill Chaberline. I would love to see Peace in Our Time. But not at the expense of appeasing terorists dictators and thugs. When we find out who did this we need to make them understand exactly how big a mistake attacking the USA is. And make sure that the entire world knows it.
On 4 July 1976 an Air France Jet was hijacked and sitting on the ramp at Entebie Uganda. The people who did it were threating to kill all the Israelis and Jews on board. Until an Israeli special forces unit came in and took them out. Guess what no one has hijacked a jet leaving Israel since. The only way to deal with dictators and thugs it it hit them so hard that they don't get up again. Ever.
The United States can not appease these people nor ever give in. They need to live in fear that at any second a flight of B52's or a team of Navy Seals could pop up and kill them. If they have such fear maybe they won't do this again.