If this principle is broken, then two objects dropped in a gravitational field should fall at slightly different rates.
Only if the physical constants are different for the two objects. If, within the context in which they fall, the constants are the same, the objects will drop at the same rate. The experiments show that these constants vary over extreme amounts of time, with no proof as of yet that they vary over distance.
I'm 41. I had lasik surgery 3 years ago. At the time I decided that I'd lived enough of my life tied to glasses and contacts, and I wasn't going to win any beauty contests anytime soon. I trusted the procedure and the doctor enough to believe that nothing overly bad would happen. Worst case, I'd still be wearing glasses afterwards.
As it turns out, I have perfect vision in my right eye and near perfect in my left. It's certainly disconcerting to have someone peeling your eye, burning part of the front off, then gluing the peel back on (that's my maximum-gross-out version of what happens), but I no longer wear glasses. The bridge of my nose smoothed out, but the dents behind my ears seem to be permanent. I can see in the shower and in the rain, I can kiss my wife without taking off my glasses first, etc.
I remember, for the first time, realizing I didn't have to look down while walking in the rain because there were no glasses to get spotty. I stopped, looked up, and watched the rain fall on my face. It was beautiful.
I now have a large collection of sunglasses. I could never wear them before without putting on contacts first, and contacts were a pain to deal with. Now I have a selection, and I'm never without a sporty pair.
I wish I'd done it about 10 years sooner, but the procedures and the equipment for performing them weren't as advanced as they are now.
I have no interest in living in a "true welfare state". I'm not impressed with the European version, and I don't see why an American version would be any better. Just give me a portion of my taxes back, thank you, when the Iraq occupation ends.
Not me. I don't want a "welfare state", but I do want well funded, well thought-out social programs. As for the taxes going to destabilize the Middle East, I'd like for mine to simply go where I wanted them to go in the first place:
Education
Defense (secure borders, rebuild military to pre-Iraq levels, go after Bin Laden until he's caught, chase down al Qaeda and Taliban until they're exterminated)
Social net programs
In that order. There are more, but those are good for right now.
"'But it can't be the case that that right trumps over the right that Americans would like to see, the ability of the federal government to go after criminal activity,' he said. 'And so those two principles have to be accommodated.'" So our 1st amendment rights don't trump the right of the federal government to violate them?"
That's not what he said. He said that our 1st Amendment rights don't trump the desire of the federal government to violate them. The fed has no right except that which is explicitly outlined in the Constitution. Any rights not explicitly assigned to the federal government are reserved for the states and the people. That too, is in the Constitution. The federal government, much to the chagrin of the puppet Attorney General, has no right to violate any part of the Constitution, regardless of the circumstances we find ourselves in. To obtain rights not already guaranteed it, the government must propose and pass amendments to the Constitution, and that would require the approval of the people. Rather than run the risk of not receiving that approval, Bush and his lapdog Gonzales have seen fit to simply ignore the Constitution where that document's strictures have proven inconvenient.
This stands in contrast to an earlier ethos to rush to beat rivals with new software, and, of course, brings tradeoffs: 'Revamping the software-development process creates a Catch 22: being more careful can mean missing deadlines.'
As with everything in a project, adherence to security guidelines must be figured into the time estimates for a project. Time estimates must in turn be based on department-reviewed technical specs. Tech specs are based on design and development reviewed functional specs. Functional specs are based on user and business requirements. If the project manager pushes for concrete time estimates using comprehensive one-to-one project description methodology, deadlines will still get missed, but it won't be because of a single requirement like security. Sometimes this means the project manager has to push back on the developers to say something like, "Are you sure it's only going to take you 80 hours to implement centralized licensing?" But that's what the project manager is supposed to do.
Business sometimes requires that releases occur on a schedule. Ok, fine, but that means scaling back the features included, not the quality of the product, and in today's market, security is one of the variables in determining quality.
With the sheer volume of patents they hold, the smart move would be to avoid garnering too much attention from Congress and instead sell advantage to competing companies. In other words, their primary source of income wouldn't come from pure patent protection litigation, it would come from companies paying them to tie up their competitors' product lines with injunctions and patent violation suits. The 800 lbs. gorilla would get richer as a hitman than as a tyrant.
There was once a semi-theory that GUI interfaces use would would cause us to grow one long finger (for mouse clicking) and cause one eye to get bigger and the other to disappear (since you only need one eye to look at a mionitor).
Oh sure. It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye...
1. Tell parents that they'll be over at billy's house for a while
2. Parents see child over at billys house on thier GPS system.
3. Kid leaves phone on doorstep of Billy's house, proceeds to go to the overpass to drop rocks on cars.
4. Cops show up at door with child. 5. Child spends the next week in the bathroom trying trying to crap out my shoe. 6. Child never pulls that stunt again. 7. Child tells the story to his grandkids of the time he tried to pull a fast one on his Dad and ended up passing a size 11 Nike Field General...
Even if you see through the FUD, Mircosoft's rumblings about "naked" PCs lending themselves to promoting piracy is just silly. Next, the DOJ should warn land developers about selling homes to people that don't have cars to put in the garages, since an empty garage might promote car theft. Other instances where "nakedness" promoting bad behaviour:
o MP3 players
o Wallets
o Refrigerators
o Frat parties
Patents are commodities, and patent infringement cases are a business unto themselves. Patent rights can be bought, sold, licensed, collected, litigated, released, etc. And you're suggesting that M$ declare the billions in patent rights it holds to be evil and destructive?
Y'know, on the off chance that that would work, I'm going to write Bill Gates and explain to him the evil of money. At the end, I'll offer to take all that nasty money off his hands and dispose of it.
Good point. No one has to pay them -- and they don't have to guarantee the use of the machines. If your lawn was dying while you were on vacation and your neighbor called you, offered to water it if you'd pay for the water, and you refused, what do you end up with?
That's right. Dead grass.
Diebold is being held accountable for the veracity of the machines. If the clerk had a third party check the machines, that's fine, so long as the third party is willing to certify the machines and pay for any problems that now arise through their use. Otherwise, I'd cough up the money to have Diebold recertify the machines.
On the flip side, it seems to me that Diebold would do well to build clauses into their contracts that allow for third party verification followed by Diebold recertification. Policy and procedure for carrying out third party verification would avoid these types of issues in the future.
Actually, they're really easy to tamper with. In fact, Vegas police recently busted a guy that figured out how to surreptitiously stick an EPROM writer into a machine through one of the side service panels using a long rod and reprogram the machine to give a win on the next spin. He and his crew were cleaning up until greed and stupidity had them pushing it too far.
No, I like the ATM idea better. If you're going to use an existing technology, go with something that's made to be secure, even when unattended.
I can't understand why this entry hasn't been modded up. It's actually a great idea. They've got full color screens in some ATMS -- the system could even present the user with a picture of the candidate for confirmation before recording the vote. The communications are secure enough for financial institutions, and they're designed to deter tampering.
And if I can transfer funds from savings to checking and buy stamps while I'm there, all the better!
1. When trying to get cable 'net access from Comcast to my wife's salon, we were told they couldn't string a cable to her suite. Which was odd because a) the Comcast building was RIGHT BEHIND her suite, and b) the folks next door had cable TV. What the -? Only after I put up a page on her website slamming Comcast and saying we would be going with Verizon did they decided that, "Oh, wait, yeah we think we can have that ready by this weekend..."
2. So you're stealing cable TV and fiber 'net? Hm.... Y'think your local telco is auditing their lines right about now?
So let me get this straight: The new and highly advanced $1.7 million (USD) scramjet that took 3 decades to develop only works going downhill??
Um. I'll pass...
Oh wait, this was developed by Aussies? Well that makes sense. They live on the bottom of the world, so the plane thought it was climbing. Yeah, that must be it.
My boss tells an hysterical story about the time she was driving to work through a hilly area and passed a car that was trying to pull over as flames were shooting out from underneath it. As she drove on, she called 911 and something like the following transpired:
911: Dispatch, what's your emergency?
Boss: I just passed a car on Highway 50 that's on fire.
911: What color is the car?
Boss: (thought for a moment) Black. With flames....
Today, IBM's VP of Innovation and Technology announced that innovation was dead, stating there would never again be the "next big thing", that every really big innovation had already been discovered.
In other news, the VP of Human Resources for Microsoft announced they wouldn't be hiring anyone else because, "we've pretty much hired everyone worth hiring."
The VP of Product Development for Maxtor announced today that Maxtor's R&D department was shutting down because, "The human race has pretty much stored everything that can be stored already, and in the case of some poorly lit movie files, thanks to peer-to-peer file trading services, stored them repeatedly across half the hard drives in existence."
Borland's Chief of Technology announced they were selling off their software development tools because, "All the really good software has already been developed. Now we're going turn to the business of inserting actualizing process into the B2C2B2WTF stream to variably potentiate the arrogating corporate officer pool's bottom line."
Yup, looks like innovation is just GRINDING TO A FRIKKIN' HALT.....
We've produced the best fighter jet in existence, and it can't be turned against us. Y'know, I'm just not seeing a downside here. If they don't want the best, let them get a second rate jet without our security features. No problem. They can then turn those jets against us, but we'll have the better fighters, and they'll be raining out of the sky. Or they can be smart about it, buy the jets, and just not use them against us.
I say screw'em. In the end, they'll buy the jets.
Of course, they'll then turn a team of 12 year old hackers on them and probably have them cracked in a single weekend, but that's a separate issue.....
VB is not a decent structured language and bears little resemblance to one. I agree with the posters that say that using a wizard is not the same as programming.
I would recommend Java instead or, better yet for a beginner, Borland Pascal. Notice I didn't say Delphi. If you want them to actually focus on coding and not on making buttons pop up windows, start the beginner off with structured, object oriented concepts, then work your way up to GUI IDEs. Java comes with more widgets and networking goodies, but is less forgiving.
The point being to put the person in front of a clear, concise, readable language implemented in an easy-to-use compiler without distractions like GUI controls.
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If this principle is broken, then two objects dropped in a gravitational field should fall at slightly different rates.
Only if the physical constants are different for the two objects. If, within the context in which they fall, the constants are the same, the objects will drop at the same rate. The experiments show that these constants vary over extreme amounts of time, with no proof as of yet that they vary over distance.
I'm 41. I had lasik surgery 3 years ago. At the time I decided that I'd lived enough of my life tied to glasses and contacts, and I wasn't going to win any beauty contests anytime soon. I trusted the procedure and the doctor enough to believe that nothing overly bad would happen. Worst case, I'd still be wearing glasses afterwards.
As it turns out, I have perfect vision in my right eye and near perfect in my left. It's certainly disconcerting to have someone peeling your eye, burning part of the front off, then gluing the peel back on (that's my maximum-gross-out version of what happens), but I no longer wear glasses. The bridge of my nose smoothed out, but the dents behind my ears seem to be permanent. I can see in the shower and in the rain, I can kiss my wife without taking off my glasses first, etc.
I remember, for the first time, realizing I didn't have to look down while walking in the rain because there were no glasses to get spotty. I stopped, looked up, and watched the rain fall on my face. It was beautiful.
I now have a large collection of sunglasses. I could never wear them before without putting on contacts first, and contacts were a pain to deal with. Now I have a selection, and I'm never without a sporty pair.
I wish I'd done it about 10 years sooner, but the procedures and the equipment for performing them weren't as advanced as they are now.
Not me. I don't want a "welfare state", but I do want well funded, well thought-out social programs. As for the taxes going to destabilize the Middle East, I'd like for mine to simply go where I wanted them to go in the first place:
In that order. There are more, but those are good for right now.
"'But it can't be the case that that right trumps over the right that Americans would like to see, the ability of the federal government to go after criminal activity,' he said. 'And so those two principles have to be accommodated.'" So our 1st amendment rights don't trump the right of the federal government to violate them?"
That's not what he said. He said that our 1st Amendment rights don't trump the desire of the federal government to violate them. The fed has no right except that which is explicitly outlined in the Constitution. Any rights not explicitly assigned to the federal government are reserved for the states and the people. That too, is in the Constitution. The federal government, much to the chagrin of the puppet Attorney General, has no right to violate any part of the Constitution, regardless of the circumstances we find ourselves in. To obtain rights not already guaranteed it, the government must propose and pass amendments to the Constitution, and that would require the approval of the people. Rather than run the risk of not receiving that approval, Bush and his lapdog Gonzales have seen fit to simply ignore the Constitution where that document's strictures have proven inconvenient.
These Five Orders of Ignorance play an tremendously important role in systems development
Apparently they also play a heavy role in Donald Rumsfeld's job.
This stands in contrast to an earlier ethos to rush to beat rivals with new software, and, of course, brings tradeoffs: 'Revamping the software-development process creates a Catch 22: being more careful can mean missing deadlines.'
As with everything in a project, adherence to security guidelines must be figured into the time estimates for a project. Time estimates must in turn be based on department-reviewed technical specs. Tech specs are based on design and development reviewed functional specs. Functional specs are based on user and business requirements. If the project manager pushes for concrete time estimates using comprehensive one-to-one project description methodology, deadlines will still get missed, but it won't be because of a single requirement like security. Sometimes this means the project manager has to push back on the developers to say something like, "Are you sure it's only going to take you 80 hours to implement centralized licensing?" But that's what the project manager is supposed to do.
Business sometimes requires that releases occur on a schedule. Ok, fine, but that means scaling back the features included, not the quality of the product, and in today's market, security is one of the variables in determining quality.
With the sheer volume of patents they hold, the smart move would be to avoid garnering too much attention from Congress and instead sell advantage to competing companies. In other words, their primary source of income wouldn't come from pure patent protection litigation, it would come from companies paying them to tie up their competitors' product lines with injunctions and patent violation suits. The 800 lbs. gorilla would get richer as a hitman than as a tyrant.
There was once a semi-theory that GUI interfaces use would would cause us to grow one long finger (for mouse clicking) and cause one eye to get bigger and the other to disappear (since you only need one eye to look at a mionitor).
Oh sure. It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye...
Ah, so you like to beat _and_ spy on your children. You must be a quite lovely individual.
Actually, I love spying on my children. To be a good parent, you have to be an informed parent. My kids know that I probably will, too.
I also don't have a problem with spanking them, although that's used as a last resort. Here are my full views on spanking.
I sincerely hope you don't breed any more than you already have...
You too.
Take a breath. Then go to eBay and buy yourself a sense of humor...
1. Tell parents that they'll be over at billy's house for a while
2. Parents see child over at billys house on thier GPS system.
3. Kid leaves phone on doorstep of Billy's house, proceeds to go to the overpass to drop rocks on cars.
4. Cops show up at door with child.
5. Child spends the next week in the bathroom trying trying to crap out my shoe.
6. Child never pulls that stunt again.
7. Child tells the story to his grandkids of the time he tried to pull a fast one on his Dad and ended up passing a size 11 Nike Field General...
Works for me.
Even if you see through the FUD, Mircosoft's rumblings about "naked" PCs lending themselves to promoting piracy is just silly. Next, the DOJ should warn land developers about selling homes to people that don't have cars to put in the garages, since an empty garage might promote car theft. Other instances where "nakedness" promoting bad behaviour:
o MP3 players
o Wallets
o Refrigerators
o Frat parties
Where will the madness end?!
Part 121 traffic. Dunno.
Part 135 traffic. Dunno.
Class B airspace. Dunno.
Why can't they just use one code for "Dunno"?
just kidding... ok, going back to work now.....
Patents are commodities, and patent infringement cases are a business unto themselves. Patent rights can be bought, sold, licensed, collected, litigated, released, etc. And you're suggesting that M$ declare the billions in patent rights it holds to be evil and destructive?
Y'know, on the off chance that that would work, I'm going to write Bill Gates and explain to him the evil of money. At the end, I'll offer to take all that nasty money off his hands and dispose of it.
Hey, it could work...
Good point. No one has to pay them -- and they don't have to guarantee the use of the machines. If your lawn was dying while you were on vacation and your neighbor called you, offered to water it if you'd pay for the water, and you refused, what do you end up with?
That's right. Dead grass.
Diebold is being held accountable for the veracity of the machines. If the clerk had a third party check the machines, that's fine, so long as the third party is willing to certify the machines and pay for any problems that now arise through their use. Otherwise, I'd cough up the money to have Diebold recertify the machines.
On the flip side, it seems to me that Diebold would do well to build clauses into their contracts that allow for third party verification followed by Diebold recertification. Policy and procedure for carrying out third party verification would avoid these types of issues in the future.
Actually, they're really easy to tamper with. In fact, Vegas police recently busted a guy that figured out how to surreptitiously stick an EPROM writer into a machine through one of the side service panels using a long rod and reprogram the machine to give a win on the next spin. He and his crew were cleaning up until greed and stupidity had them pushing it too far.
No, I like the ATM idea better. If you're going to use an existing technology, go with something that's made to be secure, even when unattended.
I can't understand why this entry hasn't been modded up. It's actually a great idea. They've got full color screens in some ATMS -- the system could even present the user with a picture of the candidate for confirmation before recording the vote. The communications are secure enough for financial institutions, and they're designed to deter tampering.
And if I can transfer funds from savings to checking and buy stamps while I'm there, all the better!
GH is a softer sound than G.
DH is a softer sound than D,
And if you enough add extra 'H's, you can just hiss the entire name while occasionally injecting a tongue flap or lip smack....
Two thoughts on this:
1. When trying to get cable 'net access from Comcast to my wife's salon, we were told they couldn't string a cable to her suite. Which was odd because a) the Comcast building was RIGHT BEHIND her suite, and b) the folks next door had cable TV. What the -? Only after I put up a page on her website slamming Comcast and saying we would be going with Verizon did they decided that, "Oh, wait, yeah we think we can have that ready by this weekend..."
2. So you're stealing cable TV and fiber 'net? Hm.... Y'think your local telco is auditing their lines right about now?
So let me get this straight: The new and highly advanced $1.7 million (USD) scramjet that took 3 decades to develop only works going downhill??
Um. I'll pass...
Oh wait, this was developed by Aussies? Well that makes sense. They live on the bottom of the world, so the plane thought it was climbing. Yeah, that must be it.
No. I'll still pass...
Aussies, Brits, Irish, Scots.... Whatever, you all look the same to me...
My boss tells an hysterical story about the time she was driving to work through a hilly area and passed a car that was trying to pull over as flames were shooting out from underneath it. As she drove on, she called 911 and something like the following transpired:
...
911: Dispatch, what's your emergency?
Boss: I just passed a car on Highway 50 that's on fire.
911: What color is the car?
Boss: (thought for a moment) Black. With flames.
Today, IBM's VP of Innovation and Technology announced that innovation was dead, stating there would never again be the "next big thing", that every really big innovation had already been discovered.
In other news, the VP of Human Resources for Microsoft announced they wouldn't be hiring anyone else because, "we've pretty much hired everyone worth hiring."
The VP of Product Development for Maxtor announced today that Maxtor's R&D department was shutting down because, "The human race has pretty much stored everything that can be stored already, and in the case of some poorly lit movie files, thanks to peer-to-peer file trading services, stored them repeatedly across half the hard drives in existence."
Borland's Chief of Technology announced they were selling off their software development tools because, "All the really good software has already been developed. Now we're going turn to the business of inserting actualizing process into the B2C2B2WTF stream to variably potentiate the arrogating corporate officer pool's bottom line."
Yup, looks like innovation is just GRINDING TO A FRIKKIN' HALT.....
We've produced the best fighter jet in existence, and it can't be turned against us. Y'know, I'm just not seeing a downside here. If they don't want the best, let them get a second rate jet without our security features. No problem. They can then turn those jets against us, but we'll have the better fighters, and they'll be raining out of the sky. Or they can be smart about it, buy the jets, and just not use them against us.
I say screw'em. In the end, they'll buy the jets.
Of course, they'll then turn a team of 12 year old hackers on them and probably have them cracked in a single weekend, but that's a separate issue.....
VB is not a decent structured language and bears little resemblance to one. I agree with the posters that say that using a wizard is not the same as programming.
I would recommend Java instead or, better yet for a beginner, Borland Pascal. Notice I didn't say Delphi. If you want them to actually focus on coding and not on making buttons pop up windows, start the beginner off with structured, object oriented concepts, then work your way up to GUI IDEs. Java comes with more widgets and networking goodies, but is less forgiving.
The point being to put the person in front of a clear, concise, readable language implemented in an easy-to-use compiler without distractions like GUI controls.
Just my $.02.
If you think adherence to a requisite number is required to obtain a title, you weren't paying attention in 2000.