If making money is not a necessity. Approach what you consider the "ideal" successful business (the one that would look good on your resume) in your area and offer to work for free if necessary. You might be suprised that after a while they might offer you employment, especially if you treat it like a real job despite the lack of pay. As in no showing up just when you feel like it or generally making a goof of yourself.
Regardless of the outcome, you will get to "hang around" and pick up valuable real world business knowledge. From the businesses perspective, it is a relatively low risk option to see if you are worth their time.
Rekall is not a bad database frontend with Access like style, but that can be used with a range of database backends (mysql, postgresql, etc). Like other Kompany products its is even dual licensed under the GPL. See RekallRevealed.Org
A very informative analysis of the US future energy requirements can be found in this Physics Today article.
The unfortunate conclusion is that there is no magic bullet (solar, nuclear, wind, biomass) to replace fossil fuel at this time without major technological advances or environmental compromises.
Oh yea, we're running out of fossil fuel too. I feel screwed.
The success of Free Software in a capitalist market is illustrated by considering the iterated prisoner's dilemma. Self-interested, profit motivated corporations will cooperate for mutual benefit. The GPL maintains a Nash equilibrium by punishing defection (cheating).
Many people ignore the fact that no business model is required for open source to be successful. Confederations of users can drive successful open source projects. Internal developers of non-software businesses pooling their resources to produce software to make their jobs easier and more productive. Apache comes to mind.
What makes me the most nervous is that every one seems to assume that the status quo is peachy?
There is actually no great hurry in moving spent fuel away from reactors--it can be stored safely for many decades in dry casks.
So what if the Yucca site isn't good for 10,000 years, maybe its good for a thousand. At least the waste would be consolidated at one secure site instead of spread out everywhere. If a better repository is found, move it.
There is also a lot more radioactive waste than just spent reactor fuel and it residing in corroding steel tanks that will leak into the water table if breached.
Transportation costs are a major factor in recycling glass. This results in a finite radius around glass plants in which it is economical to ship recycled glass back to the manufacturer. Transportation costs are also why you will typically find glass plants located close to sources of glass grade sand such as the Saint Louis area. Given that commodity prices for industrial grade sand is roughly $18/ton, see USGS mineral commodity summary, it doesn't take many miles before transportation costs become prohibitive.
Transportation costs are also environmentally important. It doesn't make sense to recycle something, if the environmental cost of increased fossil fuel usage to transport the material outweighs the recycling benefits
The primary benefit of plastic bottles over glass is consumer safety. Plastic bottles don't fracture into razor sharp shards.
Mixed glass (clear, brown green) is a major problem in glass recycling. Clear glass is produced in the largest tonnage, but it doesn't take much brown or green glass contamination in the cullet before it is unusable for producing clear glass. Higher percentages of mixed glass can be tolerated in colored glass production, but they aren't produced in the tonnages of clear glass and could not consume the volume of mixed glass cullet. This is why segragating recycled glass by color is so important.
Of course, there are alternative uses of recycled mixed glass cullet. One of which is glasphalt. The advantage being that recycled glass can be used locally without incurring prohibitive transportation costs.
1. Form a small business
2. Write Phase I proposal
3. Receive Phase I award
4. Write Phase II proposal
5. Recieve Phase II award
6. $$$
Check out the NIH SBIR page. You might be interested in the "Clinical Technology Applications" topic for the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR).
First rule of being a sysadmin: You NEVER put a compiler on a production server. Ever.
All software (including updates) is compiled and tested on a dev machine (preferably on a disconnected network), then moved to the production machine once you're satisfied that it won't break anything.
This pretty much precludes Gentoo.
True. True. False. It is relatively easy to build and package on your Gentoo dev machine and then merge to your production servers.
Stability is not measured in point releases. Stability is measured by testing. As in you testing, in your configuration.
So why not take it to the next step and apply your patches, enable your config flags, do your compiling, what you said.
Pat doesn't include anything he hasn't tested.
This seems to contradict your point #2, or is Pat considered your testing. All the Gentoo naysayers loath the clueless newbie Gentoo cheerleading, but then mindlessly parrot back those same statements as evidence of its weakness. Gentoo is a very powerful concept in *skilled* hands. You never hear the same b*tching about *BSD ports.
What distibution do you recommend for this
Since the asker of the question does not seem to be skilled in linux, I would recommend going with an *appliance* distribution, i.e. one where all the choices have been made for you and the configuration required is minimal. Netmax is an example of such an appliance distribution based on RedHat, but I am sure you could find others that are better, cheaper (free), or based on other distributions.
Like it or not, the military is and has been the major driver in technological advancement.
Why?
Survival is good motivation. Fall behind in technology and you die.
They can afford to pay for cutting edge tech that would not be economical to produce for the consumer market which sometimes keeps the technology alive and kicking until it is economical for everyday apps.
Want to see some of the tech the DoD is funding? Check out their SBIR Program, specifically the recent Project Awwards
I would relate programming (writing algorithms) to an everyday activity that most of the kids would be familiar with such as cooking.
You could even demonstrate a simple recipe like smores or peanut butter & jelly sandwich or fruit salad (for you Wiggles fans out there) and relate it to a simple program showing how each is just step by step instructions for doing something. One for making something to eat, the other for telling a computer what to do. The kids could get a little treat at the end:)
That's the $64K question isn't it? I was hoping someone more clever than I would help out on that. This account of using small claims to get a windows refund is interesting. I wonder if linux developers who have had their copyright infringed or reputation damaged would have a claim.
Imagine SCO having to show up at court in a thousand different places at a thousand different times. Imagine the billable hours, travel expenses. Imagine the default judgements for not showing up. Imagine the leins on SCO property for not paying. Imagine SCO cedit rating going through the floor.
Want to destroy SCO? Contribute to a Death of a thousand cuts by filing suit in small claims court. Only a 150,000 such suits should tap
SCOX's market cap.
You might re-evaluate whether the area you are working/studying is really something that you enjoy doing. It sounds like you may not be.
Granted, there will always be days where what you are doing seems like drudgery. But, if it is chronic, you might just be struggling down the wrong career path. Better to adjust your course now while you are still in college than suddenly realise while sitting in your cubicle 15 years from now that you really wished you had become a vetrinarian (or lawyer, or MBA, or plumber or whatever).
My experience has been that if I'm doing something I enjoy, productivity flows effortlessly.
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If making money is not a necessity. Approach what you consider the "ideal" successful business (the one that would look good on your resume) in your area and offer to work for free if necessary. You might be suprised that after a while they might offer you employment, especially if you treat it like a real job despite the lack of pay. As in no showing up just when you feel like it or generally making a goof of yourself.
Regardless of the outcome, you will get to "hang around" and pick up valuable real world business knowledge. From the businesses perspective, it is a relatively low risk option to see if you are worth their time.
Rekall is not a bad database frontend with Access like style, but that can be used with a range of database backends (mysql, postgresql, etc). Like other Kompany products its is even dual licensed under the GPL. See RekallRevealed.Org
The unfortunate conclusion is that there is no magic bullet (solar, nuclear, wind, biomass) to replace fossil fuel at this time without major technological advances or environmental compromises.
Oh yea, we're running out of fossil fuel too. I feel screwed.
The success of Free Software in a capitalist market is illustrated by considering the iterated prisoner's dilemma. Self-interested, profit motivated corporations will cooperate for mutual benefit. The GPL maintains a Nash equilibrium by punishing defection (cheating).
Many people ignore the fact that no business model is required for open source to be successful. Confederations of users can drive successful open source projects. Internal developers of non-software businesses pooling their resources to produce software to make their jobs easier and more productive. Apache comes to mind.
His books contain a wealth of information. Specifically, Physics of Semiconductor Devices, although Semiconductor Devices: Physics and Technology, 2nd Edition may also be useful. Used copies (or the library) won't set you back too much.
What makes me the most nervous is that every one seems to assume that the status quo is peachy?
There is actually no great hurry in moving spent fuel away from reactors--it can be stored safely for many decades in dry casks.
So what if the Yucca site isn't good for 10,000 years, maybe its good for a thousand. At least the waste would be consolidated at one secure site instead of spread out everywhere. If a better repository is found, move it.
There is also a lot more radioactive waste than just spent reactor fuel and it residing in corroding steel tanks that will leak into the water table if breached.
Transportation costs are a major factor in recycling glass. This results in a finite radius around glass plants in which it is economical to ship recycled glass back to the manufacturer. Transportation costs are also why you will typically find glass plants located close to sources of glass grade sand such as the Saint Louis area. Given that commodity prices for industrial grade sand is roughly $18/ton, see USGS mineral commodity summary, it doesn't take many miles before transportation costs become prohibitive.
Transportation costs are also environmentally important. It doesn't make sense to recycle something, if the environmental cost of increased fossil fuel usage to transport the material outweighs the recycling benefits
The primary benefit of plastic bottles over glass is consumer safety. Plastic bottles don't fracture into razor sharp shards.
Mixed glass (clear, brown green) is a major problem in glass recycling. Clear glass is produced in the largest tonnage, but it doesn't take much brown or green glass contamination in the cullet before it is unusable for producing clear glass. Higher percentages of mixed glass can be tolerated in colored glass production, but they aren't produced in the tonnages of clear glass and could not consume the volume of mixed glass cullet. This is why segragating recycled glass by color is so important.Of course, there are alternative uses of recycled mixed glass cullet. One of which is glasphalt. The advantage being that recycled glass can be used locally without incurring prohibitive transportation costs.
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1. Form a small business
2. Write Phase I proposal
3. Receive Phase I award
4. Write Phase II proposal
5. Recieve Phase II award
6. $$$
Check out the NIH SBIR page. You might be interested in the "Clinical Technology Applications" topic for the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR).
First rule of being a sysadmin: You NEVER put a compiler on a production server. Ever. All software (including updates) is compiled and tested on a dev machine (preferably on a disconnected network), then moved to the production machine once you're satisfied that it won't break anything. This pretty much precludes Gentoo.
True. True. False. It is relatively easy to build and package on your Gentoo dev machine and then merge to your production servers.
Stability is not measured in point releases. Stability is measured by testing. As in you testing, in your configuration.
So why not take it to the next step and apply your patches, enable your config flags, do your compiling, what you said.
Pat doesn't include anything he hasn't tested.
This seems to contradict your point #2, or is Pat considered your testing. All the Gentoo naysayers loath the clueless newbie Gentoo cheerleading, but then mindlessly parrot back those same statements as evidence of its weakness. Gentoo is a very powerful concept in *skilled* hands. You never hear the same b*tching about *BSD ports.
What distibution do you recommend for this
Since the asker of the question does not seem to be skilled in linux, I would recommend going with an *appliance* distribution, i.e. one where all the choices have been made for you and the configuration required is minimal. Netmax is an example of such an appliance distribution based on RedHat, but I am sure you could find others that are better, cheaper (free), or based on other distributions.
Like it or not, the military is and has been the major driver in technological advancement.
Why?
Want to see some of the tech the DoD is funding? Check out their SBIR Program, specifically the recent Project Awwards
Nanoscale titania (esp. anatase) is also useful for pollution cleanup. Some researchers are even combining it with nanoscale iron oxed.
See this Google search and this page
I would relate programming (writing algorithms) to an everyday activity that most of the kids would be familiar with such as cooking.
You could even demonstrate a simple recipe like smores or peanut butter & jelly sandwich or fruit salad (for you Wiggles fans out there) and relate it to a simple program showing how each is just step by step instructions for doing something. One for making something to eat, the other for telling a computer what to do. The kids could get a little treat at the end :)
What am I filing for?
That's the $64K question isn't it? I was hoping someone more clever than I would help out on that. This account of using small claims to get a windows refund is interesting. I wonder if linux developers who have had their copyright infringed or reputation damaged would have a claim.
Legitimate claims would be devastating.
Imagine SCO having to show up at court in a thousand different places at a thousand different times. Imagine the billable hours, travel expenses. Imagine the default judgements for not showing up. Imagine the leins on SCO property for not paying. Imagine SCO cedit rating going through the floor.
See small claims FAQ.
Want to destroy SCO? Contribute to a Death of a thousand cuts by filing suit in small claims court. Only a 150,000 such suits should tap SCOX's market cap.
Nothing against Gentoo, but let's give credit where credit it due. It's going to be a long time before Gentoo can be lumped in with the above distros.
Like the LWN Distribution list of Leading Distributions.
You might re-evaluate whether the area you are working/studying is really something that you enjoy doing. It sounds like you may not be.
Granted, there will always be days where what you are doing seems like drudgery. But, if it is chronic, you might just be struggling down the wrong career path. Better to adjust your course now while you are still in college than suddenly realise while sitting in your cubicle 15 years from now that you really wished you had become a vetrinarian (or lawyer, or MBA, or plumber or whatever).
My experience has been that if I'm doing something I enjoy, productivity flows effortlessly.
Or buy shares in Snapster.