The reference implementation is under GPLv3. Everyone is of course still free to create their own implementation and license it under whichever license they want.
And any time the reference implementation changes you have to alter your implementation in a non-copyright infringing way. That is a lot harder than it sounds because any time you get a little bit lazy and copy-paste, literally or practically your implementation is now legally fishy. Creating the clean room implementation and paper trail proving you've actually come up with your code independently is actually a lot worse when there is available source code than when it's not. Did you see how much shit Oracle managed to stir up over a few Java interface definitions and trivial bits of code? No company with a sane legal department is going to touch this with a ten foot pole.
Yes. And I've been to Paris, because one time I saw a picture of the Eiffel Tower.
Well, 99.999999% of us aren't going to Mars anyway. Of all the reasons we sent Neil Armstrong and friends to the Moon, giving them the "authentic Moon experience" wasn't one of them. With the budgets for a manned mission to Mars we could do way more unmanned science than today, quite possibly more than with a manned mission. What it really boils down to, which is perhaps hard for many to swallow is whether sending humans will be pioneers exploring and settling new land or just an annoying radiation sensitive, temperature sensitive, pressure and atmosphere sensitive, resource intensive burden for a small army of robots to sustain while they're mostly cowering in their habitat to avoid the extreme climate outside.
For example, I doubt it will be possible to survive a night outside the habitat in any kind of mobile camp site so most likely the action radius is at most half a day's travel from where you landed for the entire trip. And if you want faster vehicles than we have, well they'll also need more energy. Not that there's roads suitable for driving very fast anyway, in double the Lunar Rover's gravity it's all going to take a more powerful engine and construction, more wear on the wheels and suspension and all that. The nice thing about rovers is that we can drop several, where we want them to be while a human mission is one site and that's it. And it might need to be a practical one, not an interesting one.
Let's face it, what could possibly go right? They won't ever know if you've really been in a personal / employment / neighbor / whatever relationship so this will be just random unverified garbage. You could have random spam bots keeping you at a steady 5 star or 1 star average depending on what they feel like. And that's just until somebody sues the hell out of them. It's got zero credibility and is never going to get any.
Politicians do this all the time to (alleged) adults. They frame issues and present a limited menu of options out of which the most appealing option is the one they want you to go for. Works astonishingly effectively
And we're so innocent when a PHB needs to make a decision or stakeholders need to get involved in a process? Marketing is of course an expert at rigging our buying decisions. Contracts, license agreements and terms of service are lawyers rigging your legal choices. We pretty much all do this whenever we have to give someone else a choice and want it to swing a particular way. There's just more and less ethical ways to do it.
So no this isn't going to do much about fraud since card-not-present is actually goging to become the dominant mode of sales (internet). But the pin doesn't help much.
Is that still a big thing? All my online purchases I get a text from "Verified by VISA" with a one-time authentication code. So it's no good online, in stores I use a PIN so it's no good offline either. My impression was that almost all the fraud was either theft of card + PIN (camera, shoulder surfing) alternatively card + cell phone if it will display texts on screen or duplicating the magnetic strip and using it in backwards countries. Either that or somebody got my info on file for recurring/convenient billing and they lose control of it.
That's a bold statement because it goes either way. There are open source products that are better just because they are free and some are better because they simply are better. There are commercial products out there that outweigh open source products just because they have large teams with the right expertise and money to keep it going forward.
This is not really one of those cases though, archiving has become a commodity and the only reasons WinRAR has a huge following is that it is old (1995) from before Windows XP came with built-in ZIP support , it became the de facto archive format on Usenet and there's no open specification so competing tools can't create RAR files. It does absolutely nothing special that other tools don't do.
Whenever you see absurd prices, you must remember some have absurd amounts of money. There are people today who could light a $100 bill on fire and every ten seconds use it to light the next one, all day, all year (about $300 million) and still have more money in the bank next year. And there's people living on less money in a year than I spent on the graphic cards in my gaming rig. The world's wealth is extremely unevenly distributed.
I doubt autonomous cars will be illegal per se - there's already a ton of driver assistance functions that intercede on your behalf. So you can put the car on autopilot, but legally you're responsible. People will of course act like the car drives itself anyway - it happened the first time they let non-project Google employees drive extremely early prototypes, you bet it will happen with average people on a production model. You're not exactly facing the death penalty for falling asleep behind the wheel and killing someone just like so many fiddle with their phones while driving. It will be the de facto introduction of self-driving cars, even if it legally won't.
So what's this vulnerability about? If the E.D. already has access to your computer, but doesn't have admin access, but does notice TrueCrypt is already installed, he can use it to gain admin access from your privilege-restricted user account. However, most Windows users run with admin privileges constantly anyway, so this is not problematic for them for the most part. It's a security concern, however, if you're a sysadmin and you have users on your server that use TrueCrypt. But the data encrypted thereby is totally safe (except for the usual attack vectors: keyloggers, brute force password breaking, etc.).
Well except that gaining admin privileges probably means he gets to install a key logger, so the next time anyone types a password the container is compromised. True, as such the intruder could use any other non-Truecrypt related bug to do it. But it's not good that Truecrypt opens that door. Then again, if you're really worried about what other users might do to your machine physically or logically you'd probably keep it as a single-user system you keep to yourself. In that use case, this vulnerability does nothing.
For example, we had 28,000+ cases of Ebola in west Africa recently so for a moderate effort you could have a fairly lethal disease. If you could manage to mix that with an airborne virus, that's a pretty potent killer. Unless you got a quite expensive airtight system that probably means you're infected, but you'll be a slow suicide bomber. Just ride the subway, maybe take a flight or three through major hubs and for bonus points kill yourself instead of going to the hospital so they never find patient zero and the places you've been. Good luck putting New York in quarantine.
If you life off is selling ad impressions, it sounds like the system works perfectly. The goal of a for-profit company is never to deliver you a product or service, that is only a means to an end.
I don't really see SNS as anything new, and your characterization of them seems the opposite of what actually happens to me. People with few friends have actual, real friends on SNS. People with 10,000 "friends" and 20 million "likes" are actually quite isolated and distant from those people, and crave real life interaction all the more for it.
Sorry, but that doesn't jive with the social media addicts I know. Most of them are the kind that are doing social things all the time and still can't get enough because they can't be everywhere with everybody all the time, so social media is their way of pseudo-staying in contact with an oversized social circle. Like you're on a cabin trip with friends A and B so you couldn't go partying with friends C and D or be at family member E's celebration or colleague F's birthday party but through insta-face-twitter you're trying to take part in everything and let everyone take part in what you're doing anyway.
I remember the teacher let us pick our own groups... once. The three absolutely brightest students in the class and one upper-halfer who would all normally carry a group on their own joined forces, actually doing a quarter of the work each of good quality to begin with, getting good discussion, feedback and QA and some internal competitiveness and finally give the chance to excel meant we delivered a group project that was A+++. Meanwhile, many other groups who were used to at least having one useful team member were suddenly stuck with all slackers and less than gifted pupils. If it was merely graded it might not have been so bad but it also involved presentations in class, where it became painfully obvious to everyone how big the differences were. That never, ever happened again.
I just checked our use here in Norway and the total number of valid codes here is less than 20.000. However, there are a couple orthogonal codes bring the number of combinations way up, like in accident codes there's a code for the cause of injury (16 codes) * location (11 codes) * industry/activity (16 codes) that together is 1000+ combinations but many are non-sensical. And they are orthogonal to the medical codes describing the actual medical injury.
So multiple leg fractures would be S827, a not transported related fall injury W0n, construction area goes under "9 Other" as location as work injuries are typically classified by industry and construction industry is b, so in total "S827 W0n9b". If you sustain the same injury as a pedestrian in a road traffic accident it'd be V0n, location 1, activity usually r Other (everything but work, education, sports and exercise) so "S827 V0n1r". They usually wrap the accident codes up on a single A4 page to choose from, I've actually seen that in the ER room. And of course "Unknown" are options on both. Same thing with the medical codes, instead of multiple fractures you can code each fracture in detail using supplemental codes. It's as complicated as you want it to be.
Momentum Machines is something of a fizzle, it's been years since they made their marketing stunt but they've been unable to convince any of the big burger chains to pick it up or start their own prototype restaurant. All this talk of freshness and customization ignores the fact that the toppings are drowned in dressing and despite offering customization few actually use it because if you order a common burger there's often one almost ready to eat, you don't go there for a made-to-order burger. And 360 burgers an hour is not really impressive for a machine that's sure to need maintenance, repair, refills and what do you do if it's out of order, close the shop? Also I doubt it'll come with all the sensors to spot spoiled/contaminated food, humans have an abundance of sensors that robots only poorly and expensively replicate so most likely it'd fall to a human employee to check before loading it up. And the machine better not have any spills or leaks to ruin the food itself.
I must admit I haven't studied the inside of a burger shop kitchen, but I bet it's Taylorism all around where everything has been timed and optimized to minimize the number of seconds for every job. You can get a lot done by half-automation, during days with big celebrations I've seen an absolutely massive number of burgers coming out of that kitchen in a surprisingly short time if they know they'll be flying off the shelves anyway. It's more surprise on-demand load like a huge group coming in the middle of a slow day that slows them down, but I don't think the latency to put more burgers through production would get substantially better anyway. And when they haven't really embraced self-service ordering which should be the easy part, well I think the employees are safe a little while longer. It's self driving cars that strikes me as the next big revolution,
For liquid water to be there the pressure must have gone up above the nominal 600 pascals to 611 or higher, and the temperature above 0 deg C.
Note that the atmosphere is so thin, in the craters it can be double that. Compared to earth's nominal 101325 pascals, it's still just ~1%. Still, it's a lot more than nothing if you want to make a CO2-rich atmosphere for plants or split it chemically to make oxygen.
In other words, two government bodies which have nothing to do with the actual 5G standard have agreed to agree what 5G is (that is, they won't support different standards). The actual standard itself hasn't been set, and the two bodies which actually do make the standard don't plan to set it until 2020. Was the whole point of this submission to take a shot at the U.S.?
Well I'm hoping the idea is that we can use as much as possible of the same frequency bands and phone hardware all across the world. In that respect, 5 years is actually a very short time if you need to free up a frequency band for use even if it's obscure.
Nobody's going to "flip their shit". The fundamentalists will simply deny it, just as they do evolution, with convoluted tales of how the scientists have made mistakes.
Even the fundies have pretty much given up to claim the earth is flat, that the sky (firmament) is a dome with hanging lights, with the heavens above and waters above that again, that hell is underground and that you ascend/descend in a anything but a proverbial way. There's only so much ridicule religious dogma can take before it becomes a liability they conveniently disregard or re-interpret in a way more compatible with modern science and society. The most convenient hand-waving for everything in the Old Testament is that Jesus made a new covenant which kept all the part we'd like to keep like the ten commandments and abolished all the parts they'd like to forget.
A good example is Leviticus 20:13. I mean it's pretty hard to reinterpret "If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads." to say anything other than what it says, so it has to be invalidated some other way. And the New Testament, well Jesus speaks in allegories so we can liberally interpret the meaning of any story and it's all second-hand accounts and in many cases second-hand words and actions of disciples that can't be literally interpreted as God's will.
For example, it's not very popular to go around telling people of other religions that they're going to hell. But the book of Revelations 21:8 is rather blunt "But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars--their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death." It takes more and more creativity to align ancient texts with the modern world, what you're seeing down in Syria and Iraq is hardcore fundies and a whole Muslim world trying very hard to pretend all that nasty shit isn't in the Quran. Just like the death penalty for homosexuality isn't in the Bible, right?
Ye gods, no. At least not if you're trying to teach people at an early school level and if you're talking university level people know what they want to study.
In math you'd start with basic arithmetic. In computers you'd start with breaking a process down into steps, functions, basic flow control, conditionals, boolean logic, state, scope... I'd leave the pure math out of it for as long as possible because it's a subject many pupils hate and to be honest it's not that essential not even to write business applications at a professional level. Many of them are just forms with data that need to be stored in a database, like here's a list of students, teachers, classes, schedules, grades, absentees... the hardest math job is probably calculating a GPA. Don't throw more math into it than you need to for the level you're aiming at.
The non-technical manager who understands his job is the best, they stay out of the decision-making while getting the necessary high level information they need. The technical manager who understands his job is second best, he can get too involved in low level design and decisions but overall he'll make sound decisions and play his part in office politics. The technical manager who doesn't understand his job can be a pretty terrible manager of budgets, estimates, schedules, deadlines and that short of thing but at least the results are technically sound. The non-technical manager who doesn't understand his job is absolutely worst. You get management by some silly theory with metrics that don't make sense and estimates that don't exist with the accuracy they want.
That Win7 EOL is "coming soon" is a pretty good exaggeration. Very soon now Ubuntu 15.10 is being released, you'll have 16.04 LTS, 16.10, 17.04, 17.10, 18.04 LTS, 18.10, 19.04, 19.10 and 20.04 LTS before Win7 expires. Ten distro versions and three long time support releases later, a lot could change between now and then. I switched to Linux back in early 2007 because Vista was terrible but returned to Win7 in late 2010 mainly because of gaming. And I do have a laptop upgraded to Win10, unlike Vista it's not a bad OS except it comes with too many bundled privacy invasions. The OS is stable, the drivers work, IO handling seems faster, technically I haven't found any reason not to upgrade.except the anti-features.
The cost of getting fuel to the moon is a lot less in a two pilot heavy launch vehicle with no supplies. Compared to a mars destined ship with many people and months of supplies. If the supply ship loses half its fuel to escape gravity, it can transfer the rest to replace what the travel ship lost. I really don't see a problem with the math or logic. Arguing mars direct on its merits seems a better strategy.
From launch to TLI the Saturn V had 1.5% payload. Since the Moon has no atmosphere landing costs you about half, so for every 1000 kg launched about 7.5 kg will arrive on the Moon. And you've not only entered the Moon's gravity well, you've also lost all outward momentum away from the Sun too. It will be much more efficient than from earth but the ascent, breaking lunar orbit and entering Mars orbit means even 20% payload is being kind. That means the 7.5 kg of fuel will deliver 1.5 kg of payload to Mars. Meanwhile the Falcon Heavy will have a launch weight of 1,394,000 kg and can deliver 13,200 kg directly to Mars. That's 10 kg for every 1000 kg launched. I know which one I'd pick. And for pretty much all the same reasons it's better to assemble a big Mars ship in LEO rather than on the moon.
There are rarely such isolated problems in the real world, though. Real programs are far larger and more complex than those produced by these coding competitions. The fact that you can win a coding competition doesn't really say much of anything about your ability to integrate systems, deal with incompatibilities, or to work with other team members. In short, winning a coding competition doesn't say bugger all about your skill as an employable programmer.
Considering that every so often we have stories of CS graduates who couldn't code their way out of a paper bag, I'd say being able to implement complex, correctly working code from a problem description sounds like a very employable senior developer to me. I'd probably put them to work on core back-end technology that isn't very related to the whims of changing business requirements. And they might have potential as architects on larger projects too, just because they don't do it in competitions doesn't mean they can't think bigger but that would be bonus.
Excel still assumes you're entering text instead of numbers! It sucks to type "123+456" and the output is simply the string. Why assume a *spreadsheet* is used for text if you enter numbers?
It's not the spreadsheet way, you put 123 in one cell, 456 in a second cell and the formula in a third. If you just want the answer you might as well use the calculator. Also it's definitively not interpreted as text, if you've ever exported codes with leading zeroes you'd know that. It's Excel's attempt at being automagic, personally I wish they'd just use the text as-is and had a magic wand icon to try auto-interpreting everything.
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The reference implementation is under GPLv3. Everyone is of course still free to create their own implementation and license it under whichever license they want.
And any time the reference implementation changes you have to alter your implementation in a non-copyright infringing way. That is a lot harder than it sounds because any time you get a little bit lazy and copy-paste, literally or practically your implementation is now legally fishy. Creating the clean room implementation and paper trail proving you've actually come up with your code independently is actually a lot worse when there is available source code than when it's not. Did you see how much shit Oracle managed to stir up over a few Java interface definitions and trivial bits of code? No company with a sane legal department is going to touch this with a ten foot pole.
Yes. And I've been to Paris, because one time I saw a picture of the Eiffel Tower.
Well, 99.999999% of us aren't going to Mars anyway. Of all the reasons we sent Neil Armstrong and friends to the Moon, giving them the "authentic Moon experience" wasn't one of them. With the budgets for a manned mission to Mars we could do way more unmanned science than today, quite possibly more than with a manned mission. What it really boils down to, which is perhaps hard for many to swallow is whether sending humans will be pioneers exploring and settling new land or just an annoying radiation sensitive, temperature sensitive, pressure and atmosphere sensitive, resource intensive burden for a small army of robots to sustain while they're mostly cowering in their habitat to avoid the extreme climate outside.
For example, I doubt it will be possible to survive a night outside the habitat in any kind of mobile camp site so most likely the action radius is at most half a day's travel from where you landed for the entire trip. And if you want faster vehicles than we have, well they'll also need more energy. Not that there's roads suitable for driving very fast anyway, in double the Lunar Rover's gravity it's all going to take a more powerful engine and construction, more wear on the wheels and suspension and all that. The nice thing about rovers is that we can drop several, where we want them to be while a human mission is one site and that's it. And it might need to be a practical one, not an interesting one.
Let's face it, what could possibly go right? They won't ever know if you've really been in a personal / employment / neighbor / whatever relationship so this will be just random unverified garbage. You could have random spam bots keeping you at a steady 5 star or 1 star average depending on what they feel like. And that's just until somebody sues the hell out of them. It's got zero credibility and is never going to get any.
Politicians do this all the time to (alleged) adults. They frame issues and present a limited menu of options out of which the most appealing option is the one they want you to go for. Works astonishingly effectively
And we're so innocent when a PHB needs to make a decision or stakeholders need to get involved in a process? Marketing is of course an expert at rigging our buying decisions. Contracts, license agreements and terms of service are lawyers rigging your legal choices. We pretty much all do this whenever we have to give someone else a choice and want it to swing a particular way. There's just more and less ethical ways to do it.
So no this isn't going to do much about fraud since card-not-present is actually goging to become the dominant mode of sales (internet). But the pin doesn't help much.
Is that still a big thing? All my online purchases I get a text from "Verified by VISA" with a one-time authentication code. So it's no good online, in stores I use a PIN so it's no good offline either. My impression was that almost all the fraud was either theft of card + PIN (camera, shoulder surfing) alternatively card + cell phone if it will display texts on screen or duplicating the magnetic strip and using it in backwards countries. Either that or somebody got my info on file for recurring/convenient billing and they lose control of it.
That's a bold statement because it goes either way. There are open source products that are better just because they are free and some are better because they simply are better. There are commercial products out there that outweigh open source products just because they have large teams with the right expertise and money to keep it going forward.
This is not really one of those cases though, archiving has become a commodity and the only reasons WinRAR has a huge following is that it is old (1995) from before Windows XP came with built-in ZIP support , it became the de facto archive format on Usenet and there's no open specification so competing tools can't create RAR files. It does absolutely nothing special that other tools don't do.
Whenever you see absurd prices, you must remember some have absurd amounts of money. There are people today who could light a $100 bill on fire and every ten seconds use it to light the next one, all day, all year (about $300 million) and still have more money in the bank next year. And there's people living on less money in a year than I spent on the graphic cards in my gaming rig. The world's wealth is extremely unevenly distributed.
I doubt autonomous cars will be illegal per se - there's already a ton of driver assistance functions that intercede on your behalf. So you can put the car on autopilot, but legally you're responsible. People will of course act like the car drives itself anyway - it happened the first time they let non-project Google employees drive extremely early prototypes, you bet it will happen with average people on a production model. You're not exactly facing the death penalty for falling asleep behind the wheel and killing someone just like so many fiddle with their phones while driving. It will be the de facto introduction of self-driving cars, even if it legally won't.
So what's this vulnerability about? If the E.D. already has access to your computer, but doesn't have admin access, but does notice TrueCrypt is already installed, he can use it to gain admin access from your privilege-restricted user account. However, most Windows users run with admin privileges constantly anyway, so this is not problematic for them for the most part. It's a security concern, however, if you're a sysadmin and you have users on your server that use TrueCrypt. But the data encrypted thereby is totally safe (except for the usual attack vectors: keyloggers, brute force password breaking, etc.).
Well except that gaining admin privileges probably means he gets to install a key logger, so the next time anyone types a password the container is compromised. True, as such the intruder could use any other non-Truecrypt related bug to do it. But it's not good that Truecrypt opens that door. Then again, if you're really worried about what other users might do to your machine physically or logically you'd probably keep it as a single-user system you keep to yourself. In that use case, this vulnerability does nothing.
For example, we had 28,000+ cases of Ebola in west Africa recently so for a moderate effort you could have a fairly lethal disease. If you could manage to mix that with an airborne virus, that's a pretty potent killer. Unless you got a quite expensive airtight system that probably means you're infected, but you'll be a slow suicide bomber. Just ride the subway, maybe take a flight or three through major hubs and for bonus points kill yourself instead of going to the hospital so they never find patient zero and the places you've been. Good luck putting New York in quarantine.
That's because you're younger (school age or out of school not much more than 5 years).
Take a look at my UID, then guess again.
If you life off is selling ad impressions, it sounds like the system works perfectly. The goal of a for-profit company is never to deliver you a product or service, that is only a means to an end.
I don't really see SNS as anything new, and your characterization of them seems the opposite of what actually happens to me. People with few friends have actual, real friends on SNS. People with 10,000 "friends" and 20 million "likes" are actually quite isolated and distant from those people, and crave real life interaction all the more for it.
Sorry, but that doesn't jive with the social media addicts I know. Most of them are the kind that are doing social things all the time and still can't get enough because they can't be everywhere with everybody all the time, so social media is their way of pseudo-staying in contact with an oversized social circle. Like you're on a cabin trip with friends A and B so you couldn't go partying with friends C and D or be at family member E's celebration or colleague F's birthday party but through insta-face-twitter you're trying to take part in everything and let everyone take part in what you're doing anyway.
I remember the teacher let us pick our own groups... once. The three absolutely brightest students in the class and one upper-halfer who would all normally carry a group on their own joined forces, actually doing a quarter of the work each of good quality to begin with, getting good discussion, feedback and QA and some internal competitiveness and finally give the chance to excel meant we delivered a group project that was A+++. Meanwhile, many other groups who were used to at least having one useful team member were suddenly stuck with all slackers and less than gifted pupils. If it was merely graded it might not have been so bad but it also involved presentations in class, where it became painfully obvious to everyone how big the differences were. That never, ever happened again.
I just checked our use here in Norway and the total number of valid codes here is less than 20.000. However, there are a couple orthogonal codes bring the number of combinations way up, like in accident codes there's a code for the cause of injury (16 codes) * location (11 codes) * industry/activity (16 codes) that together is 1000+ combinations but many are non-sensical. And they are orthogonal to the medical codes describing the actual medical injury.
So multiple leg fractures would be S827, a not transported related fall injury W0n, construction area goes under "9 Other" as location as work injuries are typically classified by industry and construction industry is b, so in total "S827 W0n9b". If you sustain the same injury as a pedestrian in a road traffic accident it'd be V0n, location 1, activity usually r Other (everything but work, education, sports and exercise) so "S827 V0n1r". They usually wrap the accident codes up on a single A4 page to choose from, I've actually seen that in the ER room. And of course "Unknown" are options on both. Same thing with the medical codes, instead of multiple fractures you can code each fracture in detail using supplemental codes. It's as complicated as you want it to be.
Momentum Machines is something of a fizzle, it's been years since they made their marketing stunt but they've been unable to convince any of the big burger chains to pick it up or start their own prototype restaurant. All this talk of freshness and customization ignores the fact that the toppings are drowned in dressing and despite offering customization few actually use it because if you order a common burger there's often one almost ready to eat, you don't go there for a made-to-order burger. And 360 burgers an hour is not really impressive for a machine that's sure to need maintenance, repair, refills and what do you do if it's out of order, close the shop? Also I doubt it'll come with all the sensors to spot spoiled/contaminated food, humans have an abundance of sensors that robots only poorly and expensively replicate so most likely it'd fall to a human employee to check before loading it up. And the machine better not have any spills or leaks to ruin the food itself.
I must admit I haven't studied the inside of a burger shop kitchen, but I bet it's Taylorism all around where everything has been timed and optimized to minimize the number of seconds for every job. You can get a lot done by half-automation, during days with big celebrations I've seen an absolutely massive number of burgers coming out of that kitchen in a surprisingly short time if they know they'll be flying off the shelves anyway. It's more surprise on-demand load like a huge group coming in the middle of a slow day that slows them down, but I don't think the latency to put more burgers through production would get substantially better anyway. And when they haven't really embraced self-service ordering which should be the easy part, well I think the employees are safe a little while longer. It's self driving cars that strikes me as the next big revolution,
For liquid water to be there the pressure must have gone up above the nominal 600 pascals to 611 or higher, and the temperature above 0 deg C.
Note that the atmosphere is so thin, in the craters it can be double that. Compared to earth's nominal 101325 pascals, it's still just ~1%. Still, it's a lot more than nothing if you want to make a CO2-rich atmosphere for plants or split it chemically to make oxygen.
In other words, two government bodies which have nothing to do with the actual 5G standard have agreed to agree what 5G is (that is, they won't support different standards). The actual standard itself hasn't been set, and the two bodies which actually do make the standard don't plan to set it until 2020. Was the whole point of this submission to take a shot at the U.S.?
Well I'm hoping the idea is that we can use as much as possible of the same frequency bands and phone hardware all across the world. In that respect, 5 years is actually a very short time if you need to free up a frequency band for use even if it's obscure.
Nobody's going to "flip their shit". The fundamentalists will simply deny it, just as they do evolution, with convoluted tales of how the scientists have made mistakes.
Even the fundies have pretty much given up to claim the earth is flat, that the sky (firmament) is a dome with hanging lights, with the heavens above and waters above that again, that hell is underground and that you ascend/descend in a anything but a proverbial way. There's only so much ridicule religious dogma can take before it becomes a liability they conveniently disregard or re-interpret in a way more compatible with modern science and society. The most convenient hand-waving for everything in the Old Testament is that Jesus made a new covenant which kept all the part we'd like to keep like the ten commandments and abolished all the parts they'd like to forget.
A good example is Leviticus 20:13. I mean it's pretty hard to reinterpret "If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads." to say anything other than what it says, so it has to be invalidated some other way. And the New Testament, well Jesus speaks in allegories so we can liberally interpret the meaning of any story and it's all second-hand accounts and in many cases second-hand words and actions of disciples that can't be literally interpreted as God's will.
For example, it's not very popular to go around telling people of other religions that they're going to hell. But the book of Revelations 21:8 is rather blunt "But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars--their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death." It takes more and more creativity to align ancient texts with the modern world, what you're seeing down in Syria and Iraq is hardcore fundies and a whole Muslim world trying very hard to pretend all that nasty shit isn't in the Quran. Just like the death penalty for homosexuality isn't in the Bible, right?
Ye gods, no. At least not if you're trying to teach people at an early school level and if you're talking university level people know what they want to study.
In math you'd start with basic arithmetic. In computers you'd start with breaking a process down into steps, functions, basic flow control, conditionals, boolean logic, state, scope... I'd leave the pure math out of it for as long as possible because it's a subject many pupils hate and to be honest it's not that essential not even to write business applications at a professional level. Many of them are just forms with data that need to be stored in a database, like here's a list of students, teachers, classes, schedules, grades, absentees... the hardest math job is probably calculating a GPA. Don't throw more math into it than you need to for the level you're aiming at.
The non-technical manager who understands his job is the best, they stay out of the decision-making while getting the necessary high level information they need.
The technical manager who understands his job is second best, he can get too involved in low level design and decisions but overall he'll make sound decisions and play his part in office politics.
The technical manager who doesn't understand his job can be a pretty terrible manager of budgets, estimates, schedules, deadlines and that short of thing but at least the results are technically sound. The non-technical manager who doesn't understand his job is absolutely worst. You get management by some silly theory with metrics that don't make sense and estimates that don't exist with the accuracy they want.
That Win7 EOL is "coming soon" is a pretty good exaggeration. Very soon now Ubuntu 15.10 is being released, you'll have 16.04 LTS, 16.10, 17.04, 17.10, 18.04 LTS, 18.10, 19.04, 19.10 and 20.04 LTS before Win7 expires. Ten distro versions and three long time support releases later, a lot could change between now and then. I switched to Linux back in early 2007 because Vista was terrible but returned to Win7 in late 2010 mainly because of gaming. And I do have a laptop upgraded to Win10, unlike Vista it's not a bad OS except it comes with too many bundled privacy invasions. The OS is stable, the drivers work, IO handling seems faster, technically I haven't found any reason not to upgrade.except the anti-features.
The cost of getting fuel to the moon is a lot less in a two pilot heavy launch vehicle with no supplies. Compared to a mars destined ship with many people and months of supplies. If the supply ship loses half its fuel to escape gravity, it can transfer the rest to replace what the travel ship lost. I really don't see a problem with the math or logic. Arguing mars direct on its merits seems a better strategy.
From launch to TLI the Saturn V had 1.5% payload. Since the Moon has no atmosphere landing costs you about half, so for every 1000 kg launched about 7.5 kg will arrive on the Moon. And you've not only entered the Moon's gravity well, you've also lost all outward momentum away from the Sun too. It will be much more efficient than from earth but the ascent, breaking lunar orbit and entering Mars orbit means even 20% payload is being kind. That means the 7.5 kg of fuel will deliver 1.5 kg of payload to Mars. Meanwhile the Falcon Heavy will have a launch weight of 1,394,000 kg and can deliver 13,200 kg directly to Mars. That's 10 kg for every 1000 kg launched. I know which one I'd pick. And for pretty much all the same reasons it's better to assemble a big Mars ship in LEO rather than on the moon.
There are rarely such isolated problems in the real world, though. Real programs are far larger and more complex than those produced by these coding competitions. The fact that you can win a coding competition doesn't really say much of anything about your ability to integrate systems, deal with incompatibilities, or to work with other team members. In short, winning a coding competition doesn't say bugger all about your skill as an employable programmer.
Considering that every so often we have stories of CS graduates who couldn't code their way out of a paper bag, I'd say being able to implement complex, correctly working code from a problem description sounds like a very employable senior developer to me. I'd probably put them to work on core back-end technology that isn't very related to the whims of changing business requirements. And they might have potential as architects on larger projects too, just because they don't do it in competitions doesn't mean they can't think bigger but that would be bonus.
Excel still assumes you're entering text instead of numbers! It sucks to type "123+456" and the output is simply the string. Why assume a *spreadsheet* is used for text if you enter numbers?
It's not the spreadsheet way, you put 123 in one cell, 456 in a second cell and the formula in a third. If you just want the answer you might as well use the calculator. Also it's definitively not interpreted as text, if you've ever exported codes with leading zeroes you'd know that. It's Excel's attempt at being automagic, personally I wish they'd just use the text as-is and had a magic wand icon to try auto-interpreting everything.