Perhaps they mean teaching the theory and not the applied physics?
I mean there was a whole lot of high school physics that didn't need any math whatsoever to understand, but the math simply helped its application.
And as a side note, All they layed out was a puzzle in Linear Algebra. Essentially, linear algebra branches off into some complex systems like encryption and game-theory, but in essence the math behind it is not any more complex than using constants to define variables.
Good God, you're absolutely right. Every geek and nerd in the verse is a perfect target to send on missions to space... We have to warn... Somebody... wait... whats bad about this?
Can I answer "You need to know how to build a cheap, recycled, sustainable building"?
Heh, had to get that out of my system.
I suppose the questions I would ask have to deal with legal regards? I don't know what its like in London. I don't REALLY know what its like in the states either, I'm Canadian, but I hear news stories about Americans in various states who run into issues with the law when they don't have the 40% plant coverage on their lawn, or homes that use solar powered get in scuffles with the electric and heating companies because the house isn't capable of heating itself proper in the winter.
I mean, all that stuff aside, you'll need the land, and I don't know how you plan to do water and heating hookups, especially without a basement.
Perhaps they could get the people who have been scammed to report the telephone number and work with the teleco's to find out where the scammers are hiding?
This worked in my city when Scammers would steal wallets and purses and then call later claiming to be the police, and to meet them in "unmarked white police vans".
It's true, you can't fix stupid - but the smarter ones can... you know... at least provide useful information aiding in the capture.
It might be that he is tired of his spreadsheet and wants to take it a step up in terms of user interfacing. Microsoft Excel spreadsheets allow you to program VB into them, which definately bumps it up a notch, but he mentions OSX/Linux - so I don't know if he's using Excel. I actually haven't looked into programming into something like Open Office's spreadsheet (I mean, I know there are plugins and add-ons, but that isn't exactly what I'm talking about).
Anyways, I think the idea is that he wants a little bit more out of it.
I don't mean this in an arrogant fashion or anything, but do you have any programming experience? Inventory Systems are really the easiest kinds of systems to set up, since you generally only have to track what goes in, what goes out, and sometimes what works together.
You can grab a Java for dummies book, maybe SQuirreL, and Eclipse, and have some fun developing an inventory system yourself, the only limits being how much you want to put into it. I mean you didn't mention any special features so its hard to recommend anything I might have heard of.
But yeah, my recommendation, since its all about hobbies, perhaps you could tackle it yourself.
Still, its not like Apple HAS to play along. Essentially if everyone else jumps on board, wouldn't it take away from Apple's value if its the ONLY laptop without the interchangable power brick?
Who am I kidding, they'll tote it as an exclusive feature.
The "moving" part doesn't complicate anything once you're in space. It wouldn't be like a fly landing on a bullet; the asteroid is only moving relative to other objects in space. As far as the spacecraft is concerned the asteroid is stationary and it can take all the time it needs to land on it.
Try adding a rotation into the mix. Imagine your asteroid is rotating around any axis - and trying to get a space-ship to FOLLOW that rotation without the gravity necessary to actually pull it in.
It's much more complicated than high school physics class.
The part where you are wrong is your second sentence. Culture does NOT belong to everyone. I mean it'd be nice if it could but there is always some differences that occur in social hierarchy. Culture's been neatly and crafted to aim towards those with moneys for longer than ticketmaster has been around. By essentially cutting down ticket prices to $15 at a bar, you're still shunning the homeless from participating, or even those that have trouble covering all the bills.
Basically this line will always be artificially created, and the price simply determine where it lies.
And of course, you always have the option of NOT participating in a $100 show. If you want your band to offer tickets for less, perhaps you should be discussing that with your band, via fan mail. They are not obligated to use ticketmaster. But perhaps the band you idolize on stage is after it for the money as well, and is more than happy to take it from you. Just things to consider when complaining about ticket prices.
Hear hear. What people apparently don't realize about those arguments is the fact that they're describing Communism. Everyone should work to the common good, nobody should have more than anybody else,...
But hey, it worked so well in the Soviet Union, right?
Okay, you know, I hear this a lot - and it's really starting to bug me. How can one bash on "how well" Communism worked when it's spread was deliberately stopped by the west? Vietnam War? Korean War? Afghanistan?
Seriously, Communism was on a roll. And if you actually studied it, it wasn't a bad system.
Remotely controlled and Automated are different things. Automated processes do not require humans, remotely controlled systems do. The robots in the oil spill are remotely controlled.
Since it requires human hands on it, what have Deep Sea Divers done that has helped the oil spill recently?
It's a good analogy in that Y2K was more than just a scare, required a lot of people working on it to prepare, and even though there WERE issues, we managed to evade the catastrophy due to hard work and determination.
The only issue we have right now is that Global Warming doesn't have the same commitment the Y2K scare had, and Global Warming is not something that can be fixed by computer scientists alone.
1) No. Though I am not hired as a developer at my work (more of a technician). I am a rare case where my experience in software development lets me work in that field but a majority of my work isn't. However, I do believe that the company has a policy that any systems developed based on any existing systems at our company belong to the company, and anything done during work hours belongs to the company. Anything after hours is not related to the company.
2) I'm not sure how that would work, but essentially, no. I'm not allowed to help with shipping, invoicing, or anything else. I am expected to do IT, it's a full time job, and there is never a moment when there isn't anything left to do. Our management has ensured that we have proper short term and long term plans, so if you've finished putting out the fires for the day you can work on the long term plans.
3) I'd have to check with my manager before I did anything other than what I've been told to do. I can't take old monitors and desktops down to electronic recycling without his go-ahead. They've drawn the lines clearly to me of what I can do without permission and what I can do on my own. And they've shown me what exactly it is I need to do every day.
4) There are only four of us in IT, it's a company of about 800 employees, across Canada. We rotate who is On-Call for the week. On-Call is not met with any extra pay, it is agreed that it is simply part of the job.
5) Not at all. I'd say I make about 5k to 10k below average.
Always actively searching, but the job market in my city isn't doing too hot for IT right now.
Warming or cooling we're negatively affecting the environment - at least that much has been proven. The only thing that seems to unclear is how bad it is yet.
We may not have caused global warming on a massive scale yet, but if we keep it up, we will. Better to change our habits now, it's not like we've got much else to worry about. Once the scientists have figured out the whole interstellar space travel thing, we can take off and nuke the planet from orbit, and then we'll be sure.
I don't know if you were just jesting at the poorly formed sentence, or completely missed that the range changed from 75 million to 250 million Africans at risk of severe water shortages to 90 million to 220 Africans at risk of severe water shortages - the 10 years thing is constant.
As an astronaught I'd be a little grateful I made it into space in the first place, spending my entire life working towards living on the space station perhaps doing the stuff that a human is NEEDED for rather than the stuff technology is designed for. I mean the astronaughts themselves didn't do the calculations for the launch pattern, someone else did and trained them.
When it comes to math, computers have consistently shown to be faster and more accurate.
And this was just a perfect example on how the automated system worked. So, sorry if I put more trust in a computer to be more precise than a human, and I expect the best option to be undertaken. There isn't even a whole lot of glory with docking with the ISS, like there was with landing on the moon.
Hello, I work in Information Technology. This is not any different for you or anyone else because we are all expected to keep up with our own professional development, but it is not expected to be done on company hours. They actively encourage me to go get certification for various fields, check out new products and systems, attend Microsoft (we're a primarily microsoft shop) events and so on and so forth. However, from 8 till 5 Monday to Friday, we are expected to be at our desk, running regular maintenance of the back end, and supporting co-workers through the help desk system. We are not supposed to browse any sites other than those needed to help in our daily activities. Any research or professional development can be done at home, when you aren't getting paid to do specific tasks.
It successfully docked on the second try by using the autonomous system instead.
Why didn't they use the automated system in the first place? As a programmer I'd be a little pissed if I spent a lot of time working on a system as complicated as docking a shuttle, only to find out its second string to human piloting. Maybe it should be if the automated system fails, THEN try it with human interaction.
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Perhaps they mean teaching the theory and not the applied physics?
I mean there was a whole lot of high school physics that didn't need any math whatsoever to understand, but the math simply helped its application.
And as a side note, All they layed out was a puzzle in Linear Algebra. Essentially, linear algebra branches off into some complex systems like encryption and game-theory, but in essence the math behind it is not any more complex than using constants to define variables.
On the other hand, the Military gets tons of Cash and they have NEVER released a video game.
Good God, you're absolutely right. Every geek and nerd in the verse is a perfect target to send on missions to space... We have to warn... Somebody... wait... whats bad about this?
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1. Desiring no more than what one has; satisfied.
Sounds like a pretty good life to me.
Can I answer "You need to know how to build a cheap, recycled, sustainable building"?
Heh, had to get that out of my system.
I suppose the questions I would ask have to deal with legal regards? I don't know what its like in London. I don't REALLY know what its like in the states either, I'm Canadian, but I hear news stories about Americans in various states who run into issues with the law when they don't have the 40% plant coverage on their lawn, or homes that use solar powered get in scuffles with the electric and heating companies because the house isn't capable of heating itself proper in the winter.
I mean, all that stuff aside, you'll need the land, and I don't know how you plan to do water and heating hookups, especially without a basement.
Yeah. What morally responsible individual would ruin the good name of Microsoft?
Perhaps they could get the people who have been scammed to report the telephone number and work with the teleco's to find out where the scammers are hiding?
This worked in my city when Scammers would steal wallets and purses and then call later claiming to be the police, and to meet them in "unmarked white police vans".
It's true, you can't fix stupid - but the smarter ones can... you know... at least provide useful information aiding in the capture.
It might be that he is tired of his spreadsheet and wants to take it a step up in terms of user interfacing. Microsoft Excel spreadsheets allow you to program VB into them, which definately bumps it up a notch, but he mentions OSX/Linux - so I don't know if he's using Excel. I actually haven't looked into programming into something like Open Office's spreadsheet (I mean, I know there are plugins and add-ons, but that isn't exactly what I'm talking about).
Anyways, I think the idea is that he wants a little bit more out of it.
I don't mean this in an arrogant fashion or anything, but do you have any programming experience? Inventory Systems are really the easiest kinds of systems to set up, since you generally only have to track what goes in, what goes out, and sometimes what works together.
You can grab a Java for dummies book, maybe SQuirreL, and Eclipse, and have some fun developing an inventory system yourself, the only limits being how much you want to put into it. I mean you didn't mention any special features so its hard to recommend anything I might have heard of.
But yeah, my recommendation, since its all about hobbies, perhaps you could tackle it yourself.
Not that I am a grammar freak (I am a french Canadian)
Okay, this has to be modded funny, just for that.
Still, its not like Apple HAS to play along. Essentially if everyone else jumps on board, wouldn't it take away from Apple's value if its the ONLY laptop without the interchangable power brick?
Who am I kidding, they'll tote it as an exclusive feature.
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What if it is ALL rotating?
The "moving" part doesn't complicate anything once you're in space. It wouldn't be like a fly landing on a bullet; the asteroid is only moving relative to other objects in space. As far as the spacecraft is concerned the asteroid is stationary and it can take all the time it needs to land on it.
Try adding a rotation into the mix. Imagine your asteroid is rotating around any axis - and trying to get a space-ship to FOLLOW that rotation without the gravity necessary to actually pull it in.
It's much more complicated than high school physics class.
The part where you are wrong is your second sentence. Culture does NOT belong to everyone. I mean it'd be nice if it could but there is always some differences that occur in social hierarchy. Culture's been neatly and crafted to aim towards those with moneys for longer than ticketmaster has been around. By essentially cutting down ticket prices to $15 at a bar, you're still shunning the homeless from participating, or even those that have trouble covering all the bills.
Basically this line will always be artificially created, and the price simply determine where it lies.
And of course, you always have the option of NOT participating in a $100 show. If you want your band to offer tickets for less, perhaps you should be discussing that with your band, via fan mail. They are not obligated to use ticketmaster. But perhaps the band you idolize on stage is after it for the money as well, and is more than happy to take it from you. Just things to consider when complaining about ticket prices.
Hear hear. What people apparently don't realize about those arguments is the fact that they're describing Communism. Everyone should work to the common good, nobody should have more than anybody else, ...
But hey, it worked so well in the Soviet Union, right?
Okay, you know, I hear this a lot - and it's really starting to bug me. How can one bash on "how well" Communism worked when it's spread was deliberately stopped by the west? Vietnam War? Korean War? Afghanistan?
Seriously, Communism was on a roll. And if you actually studied it, it wasn't a bad system.
Sorry, what was that?
I couldn't hear you with my iPod earbuds in, pumping numbers in my head and all.
Second job? I don't think they'd mind so long as I didn't have to work during my on-call weekends (which is 1 in every 4).
Writing reports and such will only be done if they are requested for.
Two things:
Remotely controlled and Automated are different things. Automated processes do not require humans, remotely controlled systems do. The robots in the oil spill are remotely controlled.
Since it requires human hands on it, what have Deep Sea Divers done that has helped the oil spill recently?
It's a good analogy in that Y2K was more than just a scare, required a lot of people working on it to prepare, and even though there WERE issues, we managed to evade the catastrophy due to hard work and determination.
The only issue we have right now is that Global Warming doesn't have the same commitment the Y2K scare had, and Global Warming is not something that can be fixed by computer scientists alone.
1) No. Though I am not hired as a developer at my work (more of a technician). I am a rare case where my experience in software development lets me work in that field but a majority of my work isn't. However, I do believe that the company has a policy that any systems developed based on any existing systems at our company belong to the company, and anything done during work hours belongs to the company. Anything after hours is not related to the company.
2) I'm not sure how that would work, but essentially, no. I'm not allowed to help with shipping, invoicing, or anything else. I am expected to do IT, it's a full time job, and there is never a moment when there isn't anything left to do. Our management has ensured that we have proper short term and long term plans, so if you've finished putting out the fires for the day you can work on the long term plans.
3) I'd have to check with my manager before I did anything other than what I've been told to do. I can't take old monitors and desktops down to electronic recycling without his go-ahead. They've drawn the lines clearly to me of what I can do without permission and what I can do on my own. And they've shown me what exactly it is I need to do every day.
4) There are only four of us in IT, it's a company of about 800 employees, across Canada. We rotate who is On-Call for the week. On-Call is not met with any extra pay, it is agreed that it is simply part of the job.
5) Not at all. I'd say I make about 5k to 10k below average.
Always actively searching, but the job market in my city isn't doing too hot for IT right now.
Warming or cooling we're negatively affecting the environment - at least that much has been proven. The only thing that seems to unclear is how bad it is yet.
We may not have caused global warming on a massive scale yet, but if we keep it up, we will. Better to change our habits now, it's not like we've got much else to worry about. Once the scientists have figured out the whole interstellar space travel thing, we can take off and nuke the planet from orbit, and then we'll be sure.
I don't know if you were just jesting at the poorly formed sentence, or completely missed that the range changed from 75 million to 250 million Africans at risk of severe water shortages to 90 million to 220 Africans at risk of severe water shortages - the 10 years thing is constant.
As an astronaught I'd be a little grateful I made it into space in the first place, spending my entire life working towards living on the space station perhaps doing the stuff that a human is NEEDED for rather than the stuff technology is designed for. I mean the astronaughts themselves didn't do the calculations for the launch pattern, someone else did and trained them.
When it comes to math, computers have consistently shown to be faster and more accurate.
And this was just a perfect example on how the automated system worked. So, sorry if I put more trust in a computer to be more precise than a human, and I expect the best option to be undertaken. There isn't even a whole lot of glory with docking with the ISS, like there was with landing on the moon.
Hello, I work in Information Technology. This is not any different for you or anyone else because we are all expected to keep up with our own professional development, but it is not expected to be done on company hours. They actively encourage me to go get certification for various fields, check out new products and systems, attend Microsoft (we're a primarily microsoft shop) events and so on and so forth. However, from 8 till 5 Monday to Friday, we are expected to be at our desk, running regular maintenance of the back end, and supporting co-workers through the help desk system. We are not supposed to browse any sites other than those needed to help in our daily activities. Any research or professional development can be done at home, when you aren't getting paid to do specific tasks.
It successfully docked on the second try by using the autonomous system instead.
Why didn't they use the automated system in the first place? As a programmer I'd be a little pissed if I spent a lot of time working on a system as complicated as docking a shuttle, only to find out its second string to human piloting. Maybe it should be if the automated system fails, THEN try it with human interaction.