I use automated script systematically to test every features I wrote, making the job much easier.
And I do it immediately, or even while writing it, while it's fresh in my mind and usually easy to do, checking for normal and abnormal conditions. The script test for new and also the old functions, making sure everything is still OK.
Being proud of my code is a good motivator to ensure that no bugs are found.
2) Why they don't pump this oil at the surface of the sea and put it into a super tanker??? Some water would get pump at the same time, but simply let the mixture sit a little while and the water will drop at the bottom could be pump back into the sea afterward. It certainly would not be perfect but it sure could recover a lot of the oil fairly quickly at a relatively low cost.
Currently all my city is doing with the methane that come from its garbage dumb is to burn it in order to reduce odors, but they are planning soon to add a generator, that will:
- get rid of a gaz that is 20 times worst than CO2 at creating the greenhouse effect - generate electricity from a fuel that is free, and since the electricity is local, it reduces transmission line loses, and create local jobs. - the heat generated will be used to heat a greenhouse during the winter, and so create jobs and reduce transportation fees and fuel. - and create revenues for the city.
All that death resulted in a massive decline on everything humans do, reducing significantly green house gases produced for a couple of centuries.
Long term climate data show that we should be into an ice age cycle, but not only we have stopped it, but we are reversing the cycle at a incredibly foolish speed.
One of the best scientist this is neither mad nor a joke could be Dr. Falkin in War Games:
What he says is still so relevent, the nuclear threat is far from over, and with the climate changes, we may very well share the same fate as the dinosaurs, as well explained by Dr. Faken:
Stephen Falken: Now, children, come on over here. I'm going to tell you a bedtime story. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin. Once upon a time, there lived a magnificent race of animals that dominated the world through age after age. They ran, they swam, and they fought and they flew, until suddenly, quite recently, they disappeared. Nature just gave up and started again. We weren't even apes then. We were just these smart little rodents hiding in the rocks. And when we go, nature will start over. With the bees, probably. Nature knows when to give up, David.
A close button on each tabs is indeed a bad idea, not only does it take extra space, but also it takes extra time to find which "x" should be pressed.
Opera uses an "x" button on each tabs and I sure hate it, everytime I want to close a tab I find myself searching for a few seconds which "x" I need to click and to make sure it is the really the right one.
Actually the RIM's demo was not smoke and mirrors, the only problem with their demo was to copy the files into a newer directory, which was interpreted as proof that they were not as old as RIM pretended.
Two days there was an article that said that "Time Has a Geometry" which seems to explain a lot of the unexplained stuff with a relatively small extention to the relativity equations. Among other things, the red shift that is used to measure distances in the universe was mis-calculated, and when the new theory is used, the dark matter and dark energy is no longer needed.
This is an amazing movie! I just can imagine all the work that was needed to make it.
The movie is full of jokes everywhere, it takes serious attention to catch many of them. For STNG and B5 fans, it is a pure delight.
Seeing STNG and B5 fighting against each other put me in a strange position of not knowing for who I should cheer for, both are the "good" guys!
Seeing all those B5 scenes gave me a serious case of nostalgia, it made me want to see the serie all over again (knowing the ending makes me wonder if I would like it as much as I did though).
Lots of the CGI is remarkable in their quality and complexity, many of the big battle scenes gave me the same feeling I had when watch those from B5.
One famous anti-nuclear activist was saying that there was enough nuclear bomb on the planet to kill each of its inhabitant many times!
Now I'm asking you, how many time can you die?
How many bomb do we need to make them an effective deterant? Two were enough to end the second war with Japan, and there were baby bombs compare to those we have now.
So, how many bomb do we need? A Thousand? A Hundred? Or maybe just one?
I think that even if 1% of them were working, it would be plenty to be effective. Furthermore, the world has the capability to build a lot more in short order.
"the experiments will help determine the effects of aging on warheads and help assure they will work as expected, should they be needed"
This is not the first time I read that "excuse" for building those huge lasers, building huge computers, and so on, but I can't understand why it is so difficult and so important to test them.
First, is their aging so impredictable?
Second, why not simply replace the "used" parts?
Third, does it really matter if some are dud?
I really wish someone can answers those "simple" question...
It's fairly easy to secure the vote in the machine, you could use a running MD5 scheme if you wanted, but that does not address the real issue: how to verify the result of a vote that is totally indepedent of the machine.
A printout that can be verified by the voter is a method that is indepedant of the machine to insure that the result is valid.
It's important to keep the vote anonymous, so the printout must not have any marking that can be linked to the voter, and must be it must be put into a bollot box to allow a recount and that nobody can find out the voter's choices.
The receipt can be anonymous, listing only the choices you made, and if you keep it folded and put it in a voting box, nobody will know what choices you made, but you will be able to check your choices are right.
In order to vote, you get a kind of a key at the entrance that let you vote only once, so it's easy to ensure that you get only one printout.
Also, it's easy for someone watching the voting box to check that only one printout is dropped into the box.
The only problem I can see is what if someone says that the printout is wrong, how to you fix that? That can get a bit complicated.
My mother also was schizophrenic paranoid, and despite all her unbounded love, she has made our life a living hell. And despite understanding, none of us made balanced adult, I'm 40, alone, and crying all the time.
My farther has divorced her and got us adopted, unfortunately her limitless efforts allowed her to get us back.
Yes MEDS is the ONLY solution. Don't try to reason with them, the disease makes their determination infinite, they will wear you down, no matter how good you are or how strong you are!
The tragedy is that someone can be forced to take medications only if the person is dangerous to herself or others, and that means that only when somethings terrible happened that finally the treatment can begin.
Fortunately there are meds that are quite effective. Unfortunately her meds makes her very apathic, make her shake and very overweigth, but despite all the side-effects, there is no question about it, it's well worth it. She hate taking the medication and would stop it if she could, but someone comes every month to make a single injection, and that's a very, very good thing!
She does not fully realise that she is sick, but she remember that people were "playing in her head", and that they don't anymore.
If only the medication would have started earlier, so much pain could have been avoided.
mmmh, that's a better question than I first thought.
CO2 also heat up the atmosphere at high altitude.
The glass is darker than the soil, and so it will trap more heat from the sun than the original soil, but the heat will be released closer to space, and so improve the radiation toward the space. I'm not sure what will be the net contribution of adding a solar generator.
Coal add heats to the atmosphere in many ways (fire, CO2, soot) and at many altitude. Compared to coal, I'm pretty sure that the solar generator is less harmfull.
Despite that both the US and Canada are more or less born at the same time, have the same founders (England and France), are similarly educated, share the same continent, there are some differences that might explain a few things:
There are 6 times more people in jail in the US than in Canada per capita.
The rich people in the US are very rich, and the poor way poorer
Canada has universal medical care
US has a strong history of slavery
One common theme on the above is the lack of compassion for those at the bottom of the society, maybe it's that attitude that explain in good part the much larger killing rate we see the US.
People that are hungry (not just for food) tend to be violent. The violence in Palestine/Israel will never be resolved for as long as their life remains as miserable. The same can be said for millions of American.
Someone mentioned that Switzerland has a lot of guns and little killing, and England has very restrictive gun but lots of killing. The amount of guns does not explain the killing, it's more that most in Switzerland are well off, and so many a so poor in England.
In Quebec/Canada (French speaking) and other places, they alternate the "ion" suffix with the "iard" suffix, so you get million, milliard, billion, billiard, etc. So that means a billion is not the same everywhere.
Remember that France was invaded by the Nazi not that long ago!
When one go to a museum that shows what the Nazi did, it's hard to stick to the great principles. Even though I'm for free speech, I can not blame them for being sensitive to Nazi's artifact and the memory those brings.
I don't think that it's fair to say that they re-writting history because of that!
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My father once wrote a 2 pages biography of him, I thought it was very interesting and allowed me know him better.
Write about when she was born and other significant events involving her.
Just make it short and quick, your time is better spent with your family.
I use automated script systematically to test every features I wrote, making the job much easier.
And I do it immediately, or even while writing it, while it's fresh in my mind and usually easy to do, checking for normal and abnormal conditions. The script test for new and also the old functions, making sure everything is still OK.
Being proud of my code is a good motivator to ensure that no bugs are found.
I have 2 questions:
1) Why they don't use those oil eating microbes???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VfypUzx1tI&feature=youtube_gdata
2) Why they don't pump this oil at the surface of the sea and put it into a super tanker??? Some water would get pump at the same time, but simply let the mixture sit a little while and the water will drop at the bottom could be pump back into the sea afterward. It certainly would not be perfect but it sure could recover a lot of the oil fairly quickly at a relatively low cost.
Currently all my city is doing with the methane that come from its garbage dumb is to burn it in order to reduce odors, but they are planning soon to add a generator, that will:
- get rid of a gaz that is 20 times worst than CO2 at creating the greenhouse effect
- generate electricity from a fuel that is free, and since the electricity is local, it reduces transmission line loses, and create local jobs.
- the heat generated will be used to heat a greenhouse during the winter, and so create jobs and reduce transportation fees and fuel.
- and create revenues for the city.
Not bad for something that was just a nuisance.
About a year ago Scientific American had an interesting explanation for the little ice age: the death of millions of people around that time.
The little age was from around 1500 to 1850AD, as per the article, which correspond to a massive decimation of the population world wide:
Columbus got to America in 1492, and soon afterward about 90% of the Amerindians died from all the diseases the European brought with them.
The black death killed about 1/3 of the European starting in the mid-14th century, followed by multiple waves all over the world, up to about 1700AD.
All that death resulted in a massive decline on everything humans do, reducing significantly green house gases produced for a couple of centuries.
Long term climate data show that we should be into an ice age cycle, but not only we have stopped it, but we are reversing the cycle at a incredibly foolish speed.
One of the best scientist this is neither mad nor a joke could be Dr. Falkin in War Games:
What he says is still so relevent, the nuclear threat is far from over, and with the climate changes, we may very well share the same fate as the dinosaurs, as well explained by Dr. Faken:
Stephen Falken: Now, children, come on over here. I'm going to tell you a bedtime story. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin. Once upon a time, there lived a magnificent race of animals that dominated the world through age after age. They ran, they swam, and they fought and they flew, until suddenly, quite recently, they disappeared. Nature just gave up and started again. We weren't even apes then. We were just these smart little rodents hiding in the rocks. And when we go, nature will start over. With the bees, probably. Nature knows when to give up, David.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/quotes
Good suggestion! I tried the mouse gestures, and I liked it! :)
Still, I think that a "x" on each tab is a bad idea.
A close button on each tabs is indeed a bad idea, not only does it take extra space, but also it takes extra time to find which "x" should be pressed.
Opera uses an "x" button on each tabs and I sure hate it, everytime I want to close a tab I find myself searching for a few seconds which "x" I need to click and to make sure it is the really the right one.
Actually the RIM's demo was not smoke and mirrors, the only problem with their demo was to copy the files into a newer directory, which was interpreted as proof that they were not as old as RIM pretended.
Two days there was an article that said that "Time Has a Geometry" which seems to explain a lot of the unexplained stuff with a relatively small extention to the relativity equations. Among other things, the red shift that is used to measure distances in the universe was mis-calculated, and when the new theory is used, the dark matter and dark energy is no longer needed.
n ed.pdf
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Check page 5 for a list of what among other things is affected:
http://www.stanford.edu/~afmayer/docs/Lecture2Sig
The main page is at:
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/
If what he says proves to be correct, a lot of books will need to be re-written.
I know how to use "to" and "too".
The question is why so many use "to" instead of "too".
I have seen to often the wrong spelling that I no longer believe it's a simple typo, it's intentional.
Great job CmdrTaco! It's great to see someone that is more interested by the content than the form!
Still I have a question. I always thought that "too" was written with two "o", but often people write it with a single "o", why?
Is "to" the correct spelling in some countries?
Is "to" the correct spelling in some school?
Is "to" some kind of an abreviation?
Is "to" the accepted spelling on the internet?
Is "to" simply a bad habit, or is there more to it than that?
As you can see, I'm genuinely interested by the origin of the spelling of "too" with a single "o".
You need a different TIFF viewer, as described at
http://www.uspto.gov/patft/help/images.htm
Depending on the browser, you will need to download the right one.
This is an amazing movie! I just can imagine all the work that was needed to make it.
The movie is full of jokes everywhere, it takes serious attention to catch many of them. For STNG and B5 fans, it is a pure delight.
Seeing STNG and B5 fighting against each other put me in a strange position of not knowing for who I should cheer for, both are the "good" guys!
Seeing all those B5 scenes gave me a serious case of nostalgia, it made me want to see the serie all over again (knowing the ending makes me wonder if I would like it as much as I did though).
Lots of the CGI is remarkable in their quality and complexity, many of the big battle scenes gave me the same feeling I had when watch those from B5.
Really great work guy!
For some reason a copy of acroread.exe remains working even after closing all the PDF documents, and that's the one that locks up the browser.
To recover from that lock, all you need is to open the task manager window, and shut down that faulty acroread.exe.
One famous anti-nuclear activist was saying that there was enough nuclear bomb on the planet to kill each of its inhabitant many times!
Now I'm asking you, how many time can you die?
How many bomb do we need to make them an effective deterant? Two were enough to end the second war with Japan, and there were baby bombs compare to those we have now.
So, how many bomb do we need? A Thousand? A Hundred? Or maybe just one?
I think that even if 1% of them were working, it would be plenty to be effective. Furthermore, the world has the capability to build a lot more in short order.
So again, does it matter is some are duds?
I'm sure that money could be better spent.
"the experiments will help determine the effects of aging on warheads and help assure they will work as expected, should they be needed"
This is not the first time I read that "excuse" for building those huge lasers, building huge computers, and so on, but I can't understand why it is so difficult and so important to test them.
First, is their aging so impredictable?
Second, why not simply replace the "used" parts?
Third, does it really matter if some are dud?
I really wish someone can answers those "simple" question...
It's fairly easy to secure the vote in the machine, you could use a running MD5 scheme if you wanted, but that does not address the real issue: how to verify the result of a vote that is totally indepedent of the machine.
A printout that can be verified by the voter is a method that is indepedant of the machine to insure that the result is valid.
It's important to keep the vote anonymous, so the printout must not have any marking that can be linked to the voter, and must be it must be put into a bollot box to allow a recount and that nobody can find out the voter's choices.
The receipt can be anonymous, listing only the choices you made, and if you keep it folded and put it in a voting box, nobody will know what choices you made, but you will be able to check your choices are right.
In order to vote, you get a kind of a key at the entrance that let you vote only once, so it's easy to ensure that you get only one printout.
Also, it's easy for someone watching the voting box to check that only one printout is dropped into the box.
The only problem I can see is what if someone says that the printout is wrong, how to you fix that? That can get a bit complicated.
My mother also was schizophrenic paranoid, and despite all her unbounded love, she has made our life a living hell. And despite understanding, none of us made balanced adult, I'm 40, alone, and crying all the time.
My farther has divorced her and got us adopted, unfortunately her limitless efforts allowed her to get us back.
Yes MEDS is the ONLY solution. Don't try to reason with them, the disease makes their determination infinite, they will wear you down, no matter how good you are or how strong you are!
The tragedy is that someone can be forced to take medications only if the person is dangerous to herself or others, and that means that only when somethings terrible happened that finally the treatment can begin.
Fortunately there are meds that are quite effective. Unfortunately her meds makes her very apathic, make her shake and very overweigth, but despite all the side-effects, there is no question about it, it's well worth it. She hate taking the medication and would stop it if she could, but someone comes every month to make a single injection, and that's a very, very good thing!
She does not fully realise that she is sick, but she remember that people were "playing in her head", and that they don't anymore.
If only the medication would have started earlier, so much pain could have been avoided.
mmmh, that's a better question than I first thought.
CO2 also heat up the atmosphere at high altitude.
The glass is darker than the soil, and so it will trap more heat from the sun than the original soil, but the heat will be released closer to space, and so improve the radiation toward the space. I'm not sure what will be the net contribution of adding a solar generator.
Coal add heats to the atmosphere in many ways (fire, CO2, soot) and at many altitude. Compared to coal, I'm pretty sure that the solar generator is less harmfull.
electric car polute a great deal!
it polute to generate and distribute the electricity
it polute to create the infrastructure
it polute to wait for it to be ready
The hybrid car cut the polution in half and more, use the existing infrastructure and is ready now.
Despite that both the US and Canada are more or less born at the same time, have the same founders (England and France), are similarly educated, share the same continent, there are some differences that might explain a few things:
There are 6 times more people in jail in the US than in Canada per capita.
The rich people in the US are very rich, and the poor way poorer
Canada has universal medical care
US has a strong history of slavery
One common theme on the above is the lack of compassion for those at the bottom of the society, maybe it's that attitude that explain in good part the much larger killing rate we see the US.
People that are hungry (not just for food) tend to be violent. The violence in Palestine/Israel will never be resolved for as long as their life remains as miserable. The same can be said for millions of American.
Someone mentioned that Switzerland has a lot of guns and little killing, and England has very restrictive gun but lots of killing. The amount of guns does not explain the killing, it's more that most in Switzerland are well off, and so many a so poor in England.
In Quebec/Canada (French speaking) and other places, they alternate the "ion" suffix with the "iard" suffix, so you get million, milliard, billion, billiard, etc. So that means a billion is not the same everywhere.
When one go to a museum that shows what the Nazi did, it's hard to stick to the great principles. Even though I'm for free speech, I can not blame them for being sensitive to Nazi's artifact and the memory those brings.
I don't think that it's fair to say that they re-writting history because of that!