When it crashes, you, the pilot, absorbs the entire forces involved. Chances of survival are dimmed if not non existent.
That plane is an experimental plane for one.
Secondly, I see planes like that at my local airport with gasoline engines (single engine in the rear - I forgot what they're called.). This plane isn't out of the ordinary when it comes to any crash abilities or lack thereof.
Lastly, have you ever flown in a Cessna 172? It's a tin can with an engine. The trick is not to crash - hence all the safety training pilots go through even for the Sport Pilot license.
“There’s been this assumption that there’s a global hierarchy of work, that all the high-end service work, knowledge work, R.&D. work would stay in U.S., and that all the lower-end work would be transferred to emerging markets,” said Hal Salzman, a public policy professor at Rutgers and a senior faculty fellow at Heldrich Center for Workforce Development
IT, including software development and engineering is a commodity. It can be done anywhere in the World and when you consider that there are over 7 Billion people on Earth with many of their governments paying for their educations in tech, finding a few million to do that work really cheap isn't that hard.
Humanity is turning itself into a cheap commodity.
My employer is hiring, both full-time and contractor. My previous employer was hiring as well. In neither case could we get qualified candidates.
Thats because HR is requiring 10 years of experience with winders 2008 server, so by definition the only resumes that make it thru the HR filtration plant are liars / con men / inside-referrals.
Whenever I see someone say that "they can't get qualified people" it's always for these reasons:
Unreasonable qualifications as the parent stated or incompetent HR. And it's not just tech skills, it's also for subjective reasons too; such as, "they wouldn't fit in" or some nonsense.
Here's an example that I over heard fixing a friend's computer who lives with an HR person that works at home. They were on a conference call and it was on speaker phone. One of the HR people came on to talk about a candidate. The candidate by her own admission had an impressive resume - all the skills, education and experience required by the job. Anyway, this person commented that when the candidate came in the room "he sucked the air out of the room" and he wouldn't be good for the company.
Now, was it brought up that the guy could have been a bit nervous because he was unemployed for several months? Nope. He was passed over because the HR person didn't think she was allowed to have enough air.
The Golden Rule is the Gold standard of Ethics (Confucius was the first to say it, btw. ). It's short and concise - everything else is just mental masturbation.
Gee, is it ethical to [...]?
Hmm, would I want that to happen to me? No? It's unethical.
The article is "blah blah blah security blah blah risks blah blah blah...."
Why not concentrate on the folks who are exposing critical systems to the internet - if, in fact, they are?
I know folks in the defense industry - all the critical stuff has not physical path to the internet. To access that information means switching machines.
Same goes for other industries. I mean, network admins aren't stupid - it's pretty obvious that if it's really critical you don't connect it to the internet. Even the PHBs get that.
So, if we could figure out a way to prove that terrorism, hunger, poverty, AIDS, or whatever injustice hurts the corporate bottom line, we'd see action being taken to clear it up in no time?
This picture was created from images from the Wide Field Channel of the Advanced Camera for Surveys on Hubble. Images through a yellow filter (F606W, coloured blue) were combined with images through a near-infra red filter (F804W, coloured red). The exposure times were 11 minutes and 22 minutes respectively and the field of view spans about 80 arcseconds.
Did they download the image and someone said "hey, let's run this through PhotoShop and see what pops up when we mess with the filters."?
Nah. I think it's a chick that realized she banged a famous guy and is trying to get her 15 minutes of fame with the hopes of a reality show or some such horseshit - everyone is a media whore these days.
New reality show for MTV: "Wikileak bangers! with Ron Jeremy and the chick that accused Jullian of rape!" Staurday's at 11:PM on MTV!
I agree. Here's what I normally do when I code - regardless of language (For 'C' style languages):
/* (and a lot more asterisks) * Function: FooBar * * Input: void. * Output: Returns 'true' if there's a bar * * Purpose: This function checks to see if there's bar etc...etc...etc... * * * (a lot more asterisks)*/
I tell you my employer LOVED it. It made it much easier for the Indians to understand my code when they took it over after the company canned me.
"We cover the tea bag material with nano-structured fibres, and instead of tea inside the tea bag, we incorporate activated carbon.
"The function of the activated carbon is to remove most of the dangerous chemicals that you would find in water."
1. It would have to be one shot - I don't see that little bag filtering more than one bottle.Wouldn't that little bit of carbon be exhausted after 500ml?
2. The pour rate would have to be really slow so that the water stays in contact with the carbon long enough to absorb the toxic stuff. Five minutes+ for a cup of water??
Not only that, I'm just waiting for the day when not having an online social network will be considered a "bad" thing. Kind of like how not having a credit history makes you a: bad credit risk - worse than having bad credit, unemployable, a terrorist (the TSA does credit checks when flying to see if you a "risk"), etc...
Well, now, using Einstein's time dilation equations and multiplying by the number of years that IE has existed, the internet, the speed of the signals around the net, that 15 years from our perspective is actually 30 by IE's perspective.
Steve Hawking goes into a little more depth in his new book and Greene actually says String theory supports it too.
We're on our way to a Unified Theory all thanks to IE and Microsoft.
"You bring a programmer or network administrator on board, and they don't have the big-picture view of how the business runs," he says. One recent hire, he notes, could program user interfaces but had no concept of a database. Another didn't know what an invoice was.
Business rules are the business analyst's job - not a programmer's. A programmer's job really isn't the big picture. His job is to implement a design. It's one thing if the job description is a business analyst who can code but it's another to expect a programmer to also be a business analyst.
The key, he says, is to keep investing in yourself, through reading and training, in both IT and business areas. One rule of thumb suggests spending 3% of your salary and time in self-training, he says. Buzzell attends industry conferences and has been doing research in lean manufacturing, Six Sigma and business processes.The key, he says, is to keep investing in yourself, through reading and training, in both IT and business areas. One rule of thumb suggests spending 3% of your salary and time in self-training, he says. Buzzell attends industry conferences and has been doing research in lean manufacturing, Six Sigma and business processes.
When I mention self training, I am always asked, "How much on the job experience you have with that?"
"None"
"Sorry, we need people with experience."
Here's the only decent advice I saw in the article:
Silver emphasizes the importance of diversifying your skill set, possibly through job rotation programs. "If you've been writing code for a while, maybe there's a project management rotation you can take, or you can work in different business units," he suggests. There will be a growing need for people with business intelligence skills, as well as leadership and communication capabilities, he adds.
Yep. Here's the sucky thing about it, though: everyone else will be trying to do the same thing. There's only so many management positions available. If you're lucky, you'll be with a bunch of folks who have this attitude, "I'm technical. I don't do the business shit."
I know plenty of Africans (People from Nigeria and there about - real African Americans) and people of African decent (also with a history of slavery no less) who speak perfect English and are also highly educated - have Dr. as a title many times. If you call them "African Americans" they take it as an insult, btw. And then there are educated American blacks who speak perfectly.
It's more of a sub set of our black population that doesn't want to learn or get educated; which also happens to be the part of the population with the highest crime rate.
And I find it interesting, when I'm being spoken to in AAVE (*rolls eyes at the PCness*) and find the speech incomprehensible, usually I hear very clearly, "What, you don't understand English?" - they're fucking with the white boy.
Its beyond offensive and disgusting that any post that defends and advocates terrorism like the above does is moderated insightful.
The moderators should be ashamed of themselves here.
Who's advocating terrorism?
This is what was said:
Feels like terrorism against governments is the only meaningful life pursuit at this point.
Notice the "Feels" part? The poster was expressing feelings of outrage and his frustration with his inability to stop Governments from abusing their power. He was expressing the frustration that Democracies or Republics still do not prevent a Government from abusing its citizens. No matter how we vote or who we vote for, what letters we write that fall on deaf ears, or protest and get our asses kicked by the cops, it seems as though, we the little people get shit on. People who are trying to show how possible finagling of the voting process gets done and hopefully prevent some of those injustices end up being victims of the powers that be.
I'm sure with events in the present and past, many of us had fantasies of disintegrating Congress (See "Mars Attacks!"). Would we do it? No. The only thing we can do is express our outrage and impotence with regards to controlling a government.
The rich and powerful have been doing this since time began. They manipulate the populace with jingoism, bogus issues to distract us, and in the background, they're taking their power to boost their own pathetic (much wealthier) little life.
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...I see a potential problem:
When it crashes, you, the pilot, absorbs the entire forces involved. Chances of survival are dimmed if not non existent.
That plane is an experimental plane for one.
Secondly, I see planes like that at my local airport with gasoline engines (single engine in the rear - I forgot what they're called.). This plane isn't out of the ordinary when it comes to any crash abilities or lack thereof.
Lastly, have you ever flown in a Cessna 172? It's a tin can with an engine. The trick is not to crash - hence all the safety training pilots go through even for the Sport Pilot license.
“There’s been this assumption that there’s a global hierarchy of work, that all the high-end service work, knowledge work, R.&D. work would stay in U.S., and that all the lower-end work would be transferred to emerging markets,” said Hal Salzman, a public policy professor at Rutgers and a senior faculty fellow at Heldrich Center for Workforce Development
IT, including software development and engineering is a commodity. It can be done anywhere in the World and when you consider that there are over 7 Billion people on Earth with many of their governments paying for their educations in tech, finding a few million to do that work really cheap isn't that hard.
Humanity is turning itself into a cheap commodity.
My employer is hiring, both full-time and contractor. My previous employer was hiring as well. In neither case could we get qualified candidates.
Thats because HR is requiring 10 years of experience with winders 2008 server, so by definition the only resumes that make it thru the HR filtration plant are liars / con men / inside-referrals.
Whenever I see someone say that "they can't get qualified people" it's always for these reasons:
Unreasonable qualifications as the parent stated or incompetent HR. And it's not just tech skills, it's also for subjective reasons too; such as, "they wouldn't fit in" or some nonsense.
Here's an example that I over heard fixing a friend's computer who lives with an HR person that works at home. They were on a conference call and it was on speaker phone. One of the HR people came on to talk about a candidate. The candidate by her own admission had an impressive resume - all the skills, education and experience required by the job. Anyway, this person commented that when the candidate came in the room "he sucked the air out of the room" and he wouldn't be good for the company.
Now, was it brought up that the guy could have been a bit nervous because he was unemployed for several months? Nope. He was passed over because the HR person didn't think she was allowed to have enough air.
You want qualified candidates? Bypass HR.
Gee, is it ethical to [...]?
Hmm, would I want that to happen to me? No? It's unethical.
A collection of Desert Eagle .50 caliber handguns just doesn't cut it.
Why not concentrate on the folks who are exposing critical systems to the internet - if, in fact, they are?
I know folks in the defense industry - all the critical stuff has not physical path to the internet. To access that information means switching machines.
Same goes for other industries. I mean, network admins aren't stupid - it's pretty obvious that if it's really critical you don't connect it to the internet. Even the PHBs get that.
So, if we could figure out a way to prove that terrorism, hunger, poverty, AIDS, or whatever injustice hurts the corporate bottom line, we'd see action being taken to clear it up in no time?
This picture was created from images from the Wide Field Channel of the Advanced Camera for Surveys on Hubble. Images through a yellow filter (F606W, coloured blue) were combined with images through a near-infra red filter (F804W, coloured red). The exposure times were 11 minutes and 22 minutes respectively and the field of view spans about 80 arcseconds.
Did they download the image and someone said "hey, let's run this through PhotoShop and see what pops up when we mess with the filters."?
New reality show for MTV: "Wikileak bangers! with Ron Jeremy and the chick that accused Jullian of rape!" Staurday's at 11:PM on MTV!
Or how often wacky chicks just accuse famous people for their own narcissistic reasons.
* Function: FooBar
*
* Input: void.
* Output: Returns 'true' if there's a bar
*
* Purpose: This function checks to see if there's bar etc...etc...etc...
*
*
* (a lot more asterisks)*/
I tell you my employer LOVED it. It made it much easier for the Indians to understand my code when they took it over after the company canned me.
Keep this in mind the next time you shop for your airline ticket based on price.
1. Doesn't make a difference because they all do it.
2. Therefore, I will keep shopping by price.
3. It's still much much safer than driving - especially with all those morons yakking on their cells phones and driving erratically.
Flying planes will become just a leisure activity in our lifetime. The military will use just drones.
I know I would stop flying IMMEDIATELY on any airline that even CONSIDERED doing that...
If their fares were low enough, I'd fly them and I'd bet it would still be safer than driving.
Red or blue one?
we need more research to tell if this is first or not.
I am unable to reproduce your results.
"We cover the tea bag material with nano-structured fibres, and instead of tea inside the tea bag, we incorporate activated carbon.
"The function of the activated carbon is to remove most of the dangerous chemicals that you would find in water."
1. It would have to be one shot - I don't see that little bag filtering more than one bottle.Wouldn't that little bit of carbon be exhausted after 500ml?
2. The pour rate would have to be really slow so that the water stays in contact with the carbon long enough to absorb the toxic stuff. Five minutes+ for a cup of water??
3. It doesn't say anything about metals.
Not only that, I'm just waiting for the day when not having an online social network will be considered a "bad" thing. Kind of like how not having a credit history makes you a: bad credit risk - worse than having bad credit, unemployable, a terrorist (the TSA does credit checks when flying to see if you a "risk"), etc...
Steve Hawking goes into a little more depth in his new book and Greene actually says String theory supports it too.
We're on our way to a Unified Theory all thanks to IE and Microsoft.
So, they will be going after Facebook sometime. Facebook isn't exactly a poor startup anymore.
Well, so that elective you took as an undergrad "PH 376: Philosophy of Science" finally has paid off!
"You bring a programmer or network administrator on board, and they don't have the big-picture view of how the business runs," he says. One recent hire, he notes, could program user interfaces but had no concept of a database. Another didn't know what an invoice was.
Business rules are the business analyst's job - not a programmer's. A programmer's job really isn't the big picture. His job is to implement a design. It's one thing if the job description is a business analyst who can code but it's another to expect a programmer to also be a business analyst.
The key, he says, is to keep investing in yourself, through reading and training, in both IT and business areas. One rule of thumb suggests spending 3% of your salary and time in self-training, he says. Buzzell attends industry conferences and has been doing research in lean manufacturing, Six Sigma and business processes.The key, he says, is to keep investing in yourself, through reading and training, in both IT and business areas. One rule of thumb suggests spending 3% of your salary and time in self-training, he says. Buzzell attends industry conferences and has been doing research in lean manufacturing, Six Sigma and business processes.
When I mention self training, I am always asked, "How much on the job experience you have with that?"
"None"
"Sorry, we need people with experience."
Here's the only decent advice I saw in the article:
Silver emphasizes the importance of diversifying your skill set, possibly through job rotation programs. "If you've been writing code for a while, maybe there's a project management rotation you can take, or you can work in different business units," he suggests. There will be a growing need for people with business intelligence skills, as well as leadership and communication capabilities, he adds.
Yep. Here's the sucky thing about it, though: everyone else will be trying to do the same thing. There's only so many management positions available. If you're lucky, you'll be with a bunch of folks who have this attitude, "I'm technical. I don't do the business shit."
Don't know why anyone ever trusted Oracle or Ellison. Ill never trust anyone who is too much of a pussy to eat meat.
I see, so Oracle, and Apple = BAD/EVIL While MS = GOOD/TRUSTWORTHY
Arbitrary logic is arbitrary.
Yes, indeed.
It's more of a sub set of our black population that doesn't want to learn or get educated; which also happens to be the part of the population with the highest crime rate.
And I find it interesting, when I'm being spoken to in AAVE (*rolls eyes at the PCness*) and find the speech incomprehensible, usually I hear very clearly, "What, you don't understand English?" - they're fucking with the white boy.
Its beyond offensive and disgusting that any post that defends and advocates terrorism like the above does is moderated insightful.
The moderators should be ashamed of themselves here.
Who's advocating terrorism?
This is what was said:
Feels like terrorism against governments is the only meaningful life pursuit at this point.
Notice the "Feels" part? The poster was expressing feelings of outrage and his frustration with his inability to stop Governments from abusing their power. He was expressing the frustration that Democracies or Republics still do not prevent a Government from abusing its citizens. No matter how we vote or who we vote for, what letters we write that fall on deaf ears, or protest and get our asses kicked by the cops, it seems as though, we the little people get shit on. People who are trying to show how possible finagling of the voting process gets done and hopefully prevent some of those injustices end up being victims of the powers that be.
I'm sure with events in the present and past, many of us had fantasies of disintegrating Congress (See "Mars Attacks!"). Would we do it? No. The only thing we can do is express our outrage and impotence with regards to controlling a government.
The rich and powerful have been doing this since time began. They manipulate the populace with jingoism, bogus issues to distract us, and in the background, they're taking their power to boost their own pathetic (much wealthier) little life.