Yeah, except what Palin did was idiocy, and not a concerted effort to hide communications from mandated records keeping. Hence the tit-for-tat.
Our major political parties are run as if twelve year olds were in charge.
(Incidentally, I'd also chalk this case up to idiocy as well. Obama's staff should have gone without e-mail for the day. But clearly he's decided that day-1 is so important that his VP shouldn't even be making jokes. I'd hate to see what Obama is going to look like in four years if he already has the weight of the world on his shoulders after a few hours. I bet he wasn't expecting to have to give orders to attack something so soon... With the economic issues getting so much attention, I wonder if he was mentally prepared to be a war-time president at 12:02 on January 20th.)
The whitehouse was a functioning government office with thousands of employees up until 12:00 on Tuesday, and at 12:01 all ~3000 employees were replaced. If it all worked smoothly it would have been nothing short of a miracle.
What's amazing is that a should-have-been-expected bump in the road has turned into a partisan political battle, where Democrats say the Republicans lived in the technological dark ages for 8 years, and Republicans say the Democrats botched the transition.
This is the kind of story that the main-stream media should have filtered out and pushed to the back pages. You know... If responsible journalism still existed.
Yeah, but radioactive iodine is far more radioactive.
This plutonium has a half-life of over 20,000 years. That means it emits radiation at a very low rate. Radioactive iodine has a halflife of mere hours. So even a small amount emits a high dose of radiation.
I'd feel relatively safe sitting in a room with that jar of plutonium (I'd be more afraid of guys coming in with guns to steal it than of the radiation). I wouldn't want to go anywhere near a quantity of radioactive iodine.
But with this we get the worst of both worlds... It's paid for with public dollars, but 100% of the ownership, and 100% of the profit go to a private sector owner (Cape Wind).
Don't let the propaganda fool you. The opposition to this project about who was, and who was, and who wasn't getting a cut of that money. The links in this summary only point to one side of the story. Good luck finding a single word on the Cape Wind site about where the funding is coming from.
I went to school for far too long, and spent far too much time studying for the same math classes and tests that you did to stand aside so you can be on your high horse just because I design software instead of something you consider "worthy".
That said, I also resent being called an "IT guy". IT guys are the ones that install and maintain the systems that software engineers design. As far as designers go, though... At the end of the day, the products of Civil, Mechanical, or Software engineers are just documents describing a (hopefully) functional system.
A more apt comparison would be calling dentists and optometrists "doctor"... Except that wouldn't really validate your point, since we do call them "doctor". Yet I don't see many Ophthalmologists or Oral Surgeons complaining...
If you think the field of software engineering is historically devoid of "science", you are, quite frankly, uninformed and talking out your ass. You don't need to be licensed to be an Engineer. You need to be licensed to be a Licensed Engineer. All you need to do in order to be an Engineer is to practice in your field.
Oh, and engineers don't typically create systems. They design them.
If you want to reduce the cost of oil consumption for other people in the world, or have no clue how global markets work you might buy a Prius
Fixed that for you. People who think that a small isolated group/individual/country can make a dent in the world's environmental problems have a very sheltered view of the world. If you don't have enough people on board, you're just moving the consumption elsewhere while increasing the costs for yourself.
A program guide in the TV is pretty useless for most people who already have a settop box (cable or sat) that provides guide data. For those on an antenna it is a perfectly aceptable feature to have so no problem including it, just provide a way for most owners to turn the darned thing off.
A program guide in a cable box... Or the entire cable box for that matter... is pretty useless when you have a TV with a tuner and guide built in. Instead of "fixing" the TV, why not eliminate the DRM that requires a box full of redundant circuitry? How much CO2 do we emit so that cable companies can needlessly encrypt content?
Sprint has the cheapest data plans by far. $15 for unlimited data with bluetooth tethering on a smartphone.... If you like using data service, and you get Sprint coverage in the places you go frequently, it's a good choice. Yeah, their customer service sucks, especially in their stores, but the same goes for AT&T and Verizon.
If you really don't care what programming paradigm your application uses, then I'm having a hard time seeing how what you've said is incompatible with what I said. Much less how my post is "rubbish". I think that my joke at the expense of "stict OO guys" went right over your head....
With all due respect to the "Gang of Four", many of their design patterns aren't really OO. They just solve common problems you have when you build an OO application. Now it could be that over time, those design patterns become part of the definition of Object Oriented Programming, but to me it seems that they merely recognized that sometimes it's better for the reusability of your code to break from strict OO.
It certainly does. It forces you to use procedural programming, and tricks people into thinking they aren't because the service boundaries are sometimes separated by a network and cross platforms; thus "justifying" the lack of OO.
Services provide and operate on data. The data itself is exchanged independent from the code/information needed to manipulate the data. This is exactly analogous to linking in a library to pass your data structures to. As opposed to the object oriented paradigm where the definition of operations are encapsulated with the data.
Service oriented architectures violate the very definition of Object Oriented design, and provide a convenient way to write procedural applications in Object Oriented languages. All while tricking the OO zealots into thinking they're still using OO.
It's a way to write procedural applications using Object Oriented languages, while still fooling yourself into thinking your system is Object Oriented.
If you suspect things like that which you believe undetectable by black box testing, why would you believe the source code they gave you wasn't scrubbed of the offending sections first?
Getting paid on the Friday where I work 5 days makes it all the more bearable
You're the second person in the thread to say this.
Why does it matter which of the Fridays you get paid on? As long as ((money in) >= (money out)) over any reasonable length of time greater than two weeks, shouldn't it all come out the same at the end?
For the entire decade of the '80s, my grandfather alternated the direction of the toilet paper, and kept a graph of how long each roll lasted. He asserted that if you used the "under" method you took one fewer sheet each time, and thus saved paper. What he proved was that he was a little nuts.
Businesses are taxed on net profit, and on payroll. If you're a services business (all your costs are labor), it's worse than being taxed on revenue. You get taxed even if you have no revenue....
The article can basically be summed up as follows:
Though there are more transmission losses with DC than with AC, if your DC->AC conversion can be done with an outdoor-rated supply, you save more in cooling by doing the conversion outdoors than you'd lose in transmission losses.
It's not "just a coincidence". It's common occurance. Cable cuts happen. All the time. It's just gotten a lot of attention lately because of the attached conspiracy theorists looking to "prove" that Bush was going to attack Iran (he didn't).
If it was an attack of some sort, don't you think they'd have cut all four?
Plenty of phone makers have exclusive phones with one carrier, but different phones with another. Is there some reason to believe that Apple's deal is different than something Motorola, or RIM would have?
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Yeah, except what Palin did was idiocy, and not a concerted effort to hide communications from mandated records keeping. Hence the tit-for-tat.
Our major political parties are run as if twelve year olds were in charge.
(Incidentally, I'd also chalk this case up to idiocy as well. Obama's staff should have gone without e-mail for the day. But clearly he's decided that day-1 is so important that his VP shouldn't even be making jokes. I'd hate to see what Obama is going to look like in four years if he already has the weight of the world on his shoulders after a few hours. I bet he wasn't expecting to have to give orders to attack something so soon... With the economic issues getting so much attention, I wonder if he was mentally prepared to be a war-time president at 12:02 on January 20th.)
The whitehouse was a functioning government office with thousands of employees up until 12:00 on Tuesday, and at 12:01 all ~3000 employees were replaced. If it all worked smoothly it would have been nothing short of a miracle.
What's amazing is that a should-have-been-expected bump in the road has turned into a partisan political battle, where Democrats say the Republicans lived in the technological dark ages for 8 years, and Republicans say the Democrats botched the transition.
This is the kind of story that the main-stream media should have filtered out and pushed to the back pages. You know... If responsible journalism still existed.
"We're looking to gouge customers who are too stupid to look elsewhere."
No, it really *really* matters how much of an effect it has.
If the effect can't overcome the current, or the waves, it will be useless at any cost.
Yeah, but radioactive iodine is far more radioactive.
This plutonium has a half-life of over 20,000 years. That means it emits radiation at a very low rate. Radioactive iodine has a halflife of mere hours. So even a small amount emits a high dose of radiation.
I'd feel relatively safe sitting in a room with that jar of plutonium (I'd be more afraid of guys coming in with guns to steal it than of the radiation). I wouldn't want to go anywhere near a quantity of radioactive iodine.
But with this we get the worst of both worlds... It's paid for with public dollars, but 100% of the ownership, and 100% of the profit go to a private sector owner (Cape Wind).
Don't let the propaganda fool you. The opposition to this project about who was, and who was, and who wasn't getting a cut of that money. The links in this summary only point to one side of the story. Good luck finding a single word on the Cape Wind site about where the funding is coming from.
As far as nuclear waste goes, this stuff isn't so dangerous. It's what you can make it into that is scary.
I went to school for far too long, and spent far too much time studying for the same math classes and tests that you did to stand aside so you can be on your high horse just because I design software instead of something you consider "worthy".
That said, I also resent being called an "IT guy". IT guys are the ones that install and maintain the systems that software engineers design. As far as designers go, though... At the end of the day, the products of Civil, Mechanical, or Software engineers are just documents describing a (hopefully) functional system.
A more apt comparison would be calling dentists and optometrists "doctor"... Except that wouldn't really validate your point, since we do call them "doctor". Yet I don't see many Ophthalmologists or Oral Surgeons complaining...
If you think the field of software engineering is historically devoid of "science", you are, quite frankly, uninformed and talking out your ass. You don't need to be licensed to be an Engineer. You need to be licensed to be a Licensed Engineer. All you need to do in order to be an Engineer is to practice in your field.
Oh, and engineers don't typically create systems. They design them.
Fixed that for you. People who think that a small isolated group/individual/country can make a dent in the world's environmental problems have a very sheltered view of the world. If you don't have enough people on board, you're just moving the consumption elsewhere while increasing the costs for yourself.
A program guide in the TV is pretty useless for most people who already have a settop box (cable or sat) that provides guide data. For those on an antenna it is a perfectly aceptable feature to have so no problem including it, just provide a way for most owners to turn the darned thing off.
A program guide in a cable box... Or the entire cable box for that matter... is pretty useless when you have a TV with a tuner and guide built in. Instead of "fixing" the TV, why not eliminate the DRM that requires a box full of redundant circuitry? How much CO2 do we emit so that cable companies can needlessly encrypt content?
Sprint has the cheapest data plans by far. $15 for unlimited data with bluetooth tethering on a smartphone.... If you like using data service, and you get Sprint coverage in the places you go frequently, it's a good choice. Yeah, their customer service sucks, especially in their stores, but the same goes for AT&T and Verizon.
If you really don't care what programming paradigm your application uses, then I'm having a hard time seeing how what you've said is incompatible with what I said. Much less how my post is "rubbish". I think that my joke at the expense of "stict OO guys" went right over your head....
With all due respect to the "Gang of Four", many of their design patterns aren't really OO. They just solve common problems you have when you build an OO application. Now it could be that over time, those design patterns become part of the definition of Object Oriented Programming, but to me it seems that they merely recognized that sometimes it's better for the reusability of your code to break from strict OO.
It certainly does. It forces you to use procedural programming, and tricks people into thinking they aren't because the service boundaries are sometimes separated by a network and cross platforms; thus "justifying" the lack of OO.
Services provide and operate on data. The data itself is exchanged independent from the code/information needed to manipulate the data. This is exactly analogous to linking in a library to pass your data structures to. As opposed to the object oriented paradigm where the definition of operations are encapsulated with the data.
Service oriented architectures violate the very definition of Object Oriented design, and provide a convenient way to write procedural applications in Object Oriented languages. All while tricking the OO zealots into thinking they're still using OO.
It's a way to write procedural applications using Object Oriented languages, while still fooling yourself into thinking your system is Object Oriented.
Cue the flames from the zealots.
If you suspect things like that which you believe undetectable by black box testing, why would you believe the source code they gave you wasn't scrubbed of the offending sections first?
Theoretically, you could prove the device works through controlled trial without revealing the inner workings or source code of the device.
You're the second person in the thread to say this.
Why does it matter which of the Fridays you get paid on? As long as ((money in) >= (money out)) over any reasonable length of time greater than two weeks, shouldn't it all come out the same at the end?
For the entire decade of the '80s, my grandfather alternated the direction of the toilet paper, and kept a graph of how long each roll lasted. He asserted that if you used the "under" method you took one fewer sheet each time, and thus saved paper. What he proved was that he was a little nuts.
Businesses are taxed on net profit, and on payroll. If you're a services business (all your costs are labor), it's worse than being taxed on revenue. You get taxed even if you have no revenue....
Reports are that just over a million homes aren't ready for the switch.
That's in italics, and I bet you thought it was 'cause it's such a huge number...
It's a drop in the bucket. A fraction of a percent. How ready do we have to be?
The article can basically be summed up as follows:
Though there are more transmission losses with DC than with AC, if your DC->AC conversion can be done with an outdoor-rated supply, you save more in cooling by doing the conversion outdoors than you'd lose in transmission losses.
It's not "just a coincidence". It's common occurance. Cable cuts happen. All the time. It's just gotten a lot of attention lately because of the attached conspiracy theorists looking to "prove" that Bush was going to attack Iran (he didn't).
If it was an attack of some sort, don't you think they'd have cut all four?
Plenty of phone makers have exclusive phones with one carrier, but different phones with another. Is there some reason to believe that Apple's deal is different than something Motorola, or RIM would have?