We all knew climate change would be bad for polar bears. If I was a polar bear I'd be pissed to hear about this.. If you're a polar bear, that ice age; it's the _best_.
An access tower that houses a spiral staircase? Why? A stained-glass roof by artist David Pearl? Why? Panels of carved poetry by Nigel Jenkins?
Maybe the Marina Towers in Swansea is a pretty good place to host a reception? Perhaps Swansea Astronomical Society is more interested in Astronomy than entertaining??
Car companies make money on big cars and inefficient features. It's hard to buy a car w/out electric windows and air conditioning. Go shop for one. The are hard to find.. Electric motors in windows are heavy. AC is heavy. Costs milage.
If we ever try to pull off a bug stupid change, I say lets go to metric time. This base 60 and base 12/24 stuff is a lot of bother. http://zapatopi.net/metrictime/
In China, the land of the One-Child Policy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy, Tiananmem Square, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square, the phrase safely could mean something very different that it does in Europe or US. How many Chinese can be driven over before the the driverless car is deemed unsafe? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_People's_Republic_of_China
So what's the point.. The Amish still use Buggy Whips.. So you've got a poorly designed extremely limited instrument and it still uses obsolete technology. So what?
When the laws are changed so that any citizen can put up a windmill and then sell power DIRECTLY to their neighbor, then we will have an environment in which the free market can allow for cheap power. Until then we have a government back monopoly based system that will need to be carefully monitored and controlled by the government to prevent/stop involved companies from taking advantage of consumers.
"Deregulation" is just a made up word used to sell us some bullshit. At the end of deregulation in any state there are always even more regulations then when they started, and I still can't sell my extra solar power to my neighbor.
Typing speed has no bearing on how good a programmer is. The time spent actually typing lines of code is not that significant when you factor in design, unit testing, debugging, integration, and so on. BUT, the best programmers tend to spend a LOT of time at the keyboard. They become fast, even if they can't touch-type, their hunting and pecking will become speed pecking. So, while I agree that you don't need to be a fast typer to be a good programmer, I've never met any good programmers that were not also fast typists.
In my opinion Sirius is killing satellite Radio. I've been an avid listener of XM for 4 years or so. I liked the country stations 10 - 13, 16, 17. I really enjoyed the "Visiting with the Legends" shows with Bill Anderson, and also the Outlaw America shows that used to air live during my commute time. Outlaw America had a call-in line that took requests. These shows are now gone. They have an "Outlaw Country" channel that very seldom plays music of the outlaw country genre. They have a hand full of new D.J.s most of which are annoying. Some are too annoying for me. ( Mojo Nixon _really_ _is_ a bugar eating moron. )
I have no idea how they are doing for other kinds of music, but they've totally screwed up the stuff I like. My yearly subscription ends in April. I plan to cancel then.
Dude.. Ritalin, and Adderal can be commonly obtained legally in the United States with a perscription. I've yet to hear anybody say Meth, Coke, Morphine, or OxyContin make you smarter.. If you read the source article carefully they never suggest the drugs were used illegally. I'm sure they would have printed that if they could have.
In the real world the issue of who is the most "deserving" is a bunch of crap and is irelevant.
You can make yourself "smarter" by studying hard, then you can get a better grade. I know some poeple with only average intelligence who have spent 2-3 hours per night through their entire high school and college careers in order to make decent grades. That's great, I respect the effort. A lot of people will say they "deserve" a good spot.
Some smart people I know got the same grades or better with a small fraction of the effort.
I work with some people who got ahead by having the extra time and energy to put forth 2 - 3 hours per night in order to make decent grades. Those people don't have anymore time to do their jobs than I do. They can't get their work done. There is nobody to hold their hand to help them make the grade. They have used that extra effort to get a job that they can only do with a lot of extra effort, and they don't have time to put forth the effort.
But If someone with average intelligence can take a pill that gives them a significant advantage, I'm all for it. My expection would be that if they get a better spot due to better grades, due to smart pills, they will probably keep taking the pills, even at work. They will keep performaing at a higher level.. They'll just "be" smarter. Win. Win. Win.
Do you think a student diagnosed with Attention Deficiet Disorder should be allowed to take Ritalin in order to clear their head? By your measure they probably shouldn't... Right?
Nobody said anybody broke the law. An English test is not a competition. It's a measurement. I will hurt nobody if I get a perfect grade on an English test.
_You_ need some brain enhancement drugs if you can't see a net benefit to society in making our scientists smarter. Our scientists are going to cure cancer, diabetes, and heart disease, combat global warming, and find safer ways to produce energy.
Forget sports. It's a bunch of crap. It's a distraction. It's got you and a billion other people thinking about the best way to waste their time, and how they can be entertained... Not how you can make the best impact on the world.
Science is not a spectator sport. Think of what a great impact computers have had on science. Do you think we should ban computer from use by scientists because it will make solving the world's problems too easy?? That is would be utterly ludicrous. And so is the notion that drugs that could make you think better, faster, clearer should be wrong.
_You_ can drink drugs are "self-defeating".. But who cares? If I used drugs to save my life, then I would say that is good. I won't even stop to think about how I have degraded myself by staying alive. I don't think any cancer survivors feel any smaller because they needed to use drugs to beat cancer..
If I use drugs to clear my head to solve an important problem, then I don't consider that problem any less solved. I'm not working on solving a problem just to see if I can do it... I want to save the world for the world's sake, not my sake.
I would say that this line of thinking is kind of "selfish" in a way. The need for people to believe sports are fair and uncompromised by drugs has skewed the way people think of performance enhancment. Enhancement is good. We like enhancement. Get over it.
BTW, I used to work for Logica, in the telecoms division, and have a LOT of knowledge
If someone HAS cloned your SIM, and both phones are attached at the same time, the network would register a fault, as a SINGLE sim number is assiciated at two different locations. It woudl create a fault in the system which would prevent both yours and the clone SIM from working. This is actually one of the main reasons why Cellphones are not usable on Planes (even if it is prooven to be safe to the electronics). The phone woudl try to log onto multiple cells at the same time, causing a lot of strain on the network, or even malfunction.
What? What about when you are on the ground and happen to be standing in between 3 different towers, an equal distance from each? Wouldn't that be the same kind of situation you are talking about in an air plane? YOu may know a LOT about cell phones, but this thing about Cellphones and Planes sounds wrong to me.
In my opinion, if no harm is done then it should be Okay. People should be assumed innocent until proven guilty, and assumed to be responsible until observed or proven otherwise.
The people that say, "you can't have dangerous chemical because you might not handle them safely" might very well next say, "You can't climb mountains because you might fall off", and "you can't play football because you might blow out your knee"
We should assume that adult citizens can protect themselves and let them be responsible for their own actions. Give people freedom to do things. And also come down on people with the full force of the law of they show that they haven't been responsible enough.
The way I see it, the reason why this work get's done in the third world is because you can make more money at it if you don't have to do it safely. So if you force US or European like EPA rules on the third world you will take this work away from the people who do it now. If they have to follow all the rules that Americans or Europeans have to follow, it probably won't pay to ship the scrap all the way to china just for cheap labor..
So back to my original question/concern. If you take this work away from the people who do it now, what will those people do?
> sees as a persistent failure by the U.S. federal government to stop the > dumping of millions of used computers, TVs, cellphones and other > electronics in the world's developing regions, including those in China
I don't see it as dumping if the Chinese are smuggling the stuff in..
I agree that it sucks to live in a third world country, and it sucks to live in a polluted environment. But what will these people do for food if they can't recycle? Will they starve?
It's easy for rich fat Americans and Europeans to be critical of situations that put people and the environment at risk.. But we mostly all have food to eat every day, and homes, and money. I'm reluctant to pass judgement on other people I don't know or understand. If was starving I would work a dangerous job to buy food.
We are finally comiing out of this 1200 year cold spell. I'm looking foward to a milder climate.. California and Lousiana were too big anyhow. I think people in really cold and really dry place deserve some better weather for a change.
Just because we civilized westerners have stopped keeping slaves doesn't mean that slavery does not exist. It still exists in places like sub-Saharan Africa.
I've been involved in many meetings involving two or more sites spread around the country. These are either working meetings or presentations, but any graphics were always presented via PowerPoint or some other on-screen way, no whiteboard or posters or anything. We use PC's with netmeeting. Each conference room needs to have a high res digital projector for the PC display. Ideally the resolutions of the projectors will match. This way you know that all parties are seeing the same stuff.
MS netmeeting has always worked well for MS Apps and stuff like that not sure how it would all work out with CAD type applications.
We always use phone teleconferencing for the voice part of it. Seems like this started in order to save bandwidth, but it probably has something to do with the fact that I'm in a facility that is not used to keeping microphones and speakers working well on PCs.
We have video teleconferencing equipment that seldom/never gets used even though it works well and is not hard to use.
Not sure what kind of network infrastructure this all requires. I'm suspicous of people that say you need a "T?" Line. My experience is that you'll never be able to install a dedicated network. Even if you could you probably wouldn't want to. And if it's not dedicated, then you'll be sharing it with other people. So what you really need is a "big enough" network. Big/Fast enough for your gear, and everything else..
Also, we have some rooms with special whiteboards that have special markers and can be "be" the "mouse pointer" for the PC that has the projector. I've never seen these used by anybody and can only assume they are junk and should be avoided.
I've spent the last two years in a OOD project with a team of 5 - 15 SW Engineers. I can't speak for the Rational XDE tools, or Rose RT, but Rational Rose really really sucks bad. It's the kind of tool that will make you claw your eyes out.
Any company that can sell a tool like this and claim to be in the buisness of "improving" your software process and productivity has absolutely no credibility with me.
Rose has Modal, non-resizable, dialog boxes that display paths. If the path doesn't fit in the box it is truncated. You can't resize the box. So.. You can't see the end of the path.. ( Error could not write to/some/really/long/pa, really helpful.)
Rose has modal, non-resizable, scrolling boxes. With these it is at least possible to see the path if you need too. But you'll still go mad as the box is only big enough to hold about three 30 character lines. Of course I'm looking through a list of 200 files, and all the paths are 100 characters long.
Rose has sequence diagrams that forget their sequence, and can't be rebuilt.
Rose has a bug that makes it just go insane if a version 0 of a file gets created in UCM/Clear case. And it can't tell that it has gone insane.
Rose can't keep track of files that have changed underneath it. It has a bad habit of hijacking files and not telling you.
Rose has no good way to merge many parts of models.
Rose has a bad habit of "disappearing" modeled objects during a reverse engineer step, and not telling you. If you accidently screw up a path to a file, and reverse engineer, your modeled object will disappear. And all of the other artifacts that depend on it will get corrupted. And god help you if you check everything back in that way.
I'll take my coffee black. I'll take tcsh and vi as my integrated development environment and OOD tool over Rose any day of the week.
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According to wiki:
Patek Philippe created the first wristwatch in 1868 for Countess Koscowicz of Hungary.
Too bad Job wasn't still around. He could "reinvent" that wristwatch.
We all knew climate change would be bad for polar bears. If I was a polar bear I'd be pissed to hear about this.. If you're a polar bear, that ice age; it's the _best_.
An access tower that houses a spiral staircase? Why? A stained-glass roof by artist David Pearl? Why? Panels of carved poetry by Nigel Jenkins?
Maybe the Marina Towers in Swansea is a pretty good place to host a reception? Perhaps Swansea Astronomical Society is more interested in Astronomy than entertaining??
Car companies make money on big cars and inefficient features. It's hard to buy a car w/out electric windows and air conditioning. Go shop for one. The are hard to find.. Electric motors in windows are heavy. AC is heavy. Costs milage.
If we ever try to pull off a bug stupid change, I say lets go to metric time. This base 60 and base 12/24 stuff is a lot of bother. http://zapatopi.net/metrictime/
In China, the land of the One-Child Policy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy, Tiananmem Square, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square, the phrase safely could mean something very different that it does in Europe or US. How many Chinese can be driven over before the the driverless car is deemed unsafe? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_People's_Republic_of_China
So what's the point.. The Amish still use Buggy Whips.. So you've got a poorly designed extremely limited instrument and it still uses obsolete technology. So what?
In nine years my home DVR system will generate more data than the entire internet!
When the laws are changed so that any citizen can put up a windmill and then sell power DIRECTLY to their neighbor, then we will have an environment in which the free market can allow for cheap power. Until then we have a government back monopoly based system that will need to be carefully monitored and controlled by the government to prevent/stop involved companies from taking advantage of consumers.
"Deregulation" is just a made up word used to sell us some bullshit. At the end of deregulation in any state there are always even more regulations then when they started, and I still can't sell my extra solar power to my neighbor.
Typing speed has no bearing on how good a programmer is. The time spent actually typing lines of code is not that significant when you factor in design, unit testing, debugging, integration, and so on. BUT, the best programmers tend to spend a LOT of time at the keyboard. They become fast, even if they can't touch-type, their hunting and pecking will become speed pecking. So, while I agree that you don't need to be a fast typer to be a good programmer, I've never met any good programmers that were not also fast typists.
In my opinion Sirius is killing satellite Radio. I've been an avid listener of XM for 4 years or so. I liked the country stations 10 - 13, 16, 17. I really enjoyed the "Visiting with the Legends" shows with Bill Anderson, and also the Outlaw America shows that used to air live during my commute time. Outlaw America had a call-in line that took requests. These shows are now gone. They have an "Outlaw Country" channel that very seldom plays music of the outlaw country genre. They have a hand full of new D.J.s most of which are annoying. Some are too annoying for me. ( Mojo Nixon _really_ _is_ a bugar eating moron. )
I have no idea how they are doing for other kinds of music, but they've totally screwed up the stuff I like. My yearly subscription ends in April. I plan to cancel then.
Dude.. Ritalin, and Adderal can be commonly obtained legally in the United States with a perscription. I've yet to hear anybody say Meth, Coke, Morphine, or OxyContin make you smarter.. If you read the source article carefully they never suggest the drugs were used illegally. I'm sure they would have printed that if they could have.
In the real world the issue of who is the most "deserving" is a bunch of crap and is irelevant.
You can make yourself "smarter" by studying hard, then you can get a better grade. I know some poeple with only average intelligence who have spent 2-3 hours per night through their entire high school and college careers in order to make decent grades. That's great, I respect the effort. A lot of people will say they "deserve" a good spot.
Some smart people I know got the same grades or better with a small fraction of the effort.
I work with some people who got ahead by having the extra time and energy to put forth 2 - 3 hours per night in order to make decent grades. Those people don't have anymore time to do their jobs than I do. They can't get their work done. There is nobody to hold their hand to help them make the grade. They have used that extra effort to get a job that they can only do with a lot of extra effort, and they don't have time to put forth the effort.
But If someone with average intelligence can take a pill that gives them a significant advantage, I'm all for it. My expection would be that if they get a better spot due to better grades, due to smart pills, they will probably keep taking the pills, even at work. They will keep performaing at a higher level.. They'll just "be" smarter. Win. Win. Win.
Do you think a student diagnosed with Attention Deficiet Disorder should be allowed to take Ritalin in order to clear their head? By your measure they probably shouldn't... Right?
Yes in sports people think that enhancing drugs denigrate. But sports is the only place that people would put a negative spin on enhancement.
Enhancement in other forms of entertainment is totaly Okay. Lots of movie stars get plastic surgery. Should that be Okay? Seems Okay to me...
In the real world enhancement is good. Being able to think clearly when you need to think clearly seems like an Okay thing to me.
Nobody said anybody broke the law. An English test is not a competition. It's a measurement. I will hurt nobody if I get a perfect grade on an English test.
_You_ need some brain enhancement drugs if you can't see a net benefit to society in making our scientists smarter. Our scientists are going to cure cancer, diabetes, and heart disease, combat global warming, and find safer ways to produce energy.
Again, sports muddies the water.
Forget sports. It's a bunch of crap. It's a distraction. It's got you and a billion other people thinking about the best way to waste their time, and how they can be entertained... Not how you can make the best impact on the world.
Science is not a spectator sport. Think of what a great impact computers have had on science. Do you think we should ban computer from use by scientists because it will make solving the world's problems too easy?? That is would be utterly ludicrous. And so is the notion that drugs that could make you think better, faster, clearer should be wrong.
_You_ can drink drugs are "self-defeating".. But who cares? If I used drugs to save my life, then I would say that is good. I won't even stop to think about how I have degraded myself by staying alive. I don't think any cancer survivors feel any smaller because they needed to use drugs to beat cancer..
If I use drugs to clear my head to solve an important problem, then I don't consider that problem any less solved. I'm not working on solving a problem just to see if I can do it... I want to save the world for the world's sake, not my sake.
I would say that this line of thinking is kind of "selfish" in a way. The need for people to believe sports are fair and uncompromised by drugs has skewed the way people think of performance enhancment. Enhancement is good. We like enhancement. Get over it.
I think that Ben Franklin said it best.
If someone HAS cloned your SIM, and both phones are attached at the same time, the network would register a fault, as a SINGLE sim number is assiciated at two different locations. It woudl create a fault in the system which would prevent both yours and the clone SIM from working. This is actually one of the main reasons why Cellphones are not usable on Planes (even if it is prooven to be safe to the electronics). The phone woudl try to log onto multiple cells at the same time, causing a lot of strain on the network, or even malfunction.
What? What about when you are on the ground and happen to be standing in between 3 different towers, an equal distance from each? Wouldn't that be the same kind of situation you are talking about in an air plane? YOu may know a LOT about cell phones, but this thing about Cellphones and Planes sounds wrong to me.
In my opinion, if no harm is done then it should be Okay. People should be assumed innocent until proven guilty, and assumed to be responsible until observed or proven otherwise.
The people that say, "you can't have dangerous chemical because you might not handle them safely" might very well next say, "You can't climb mountains because you might fall off", and "you can't play football because you might blow out your knee"
We should assume that adult citizens can protect themselves and let them be responsible for their own actions. Give people freedom to do things. And also come down on people with the full force of the law of they show that they haven't been responsible enough.
The way I see it, the reason why this work get's done in the third world is because you can make more money at it if you don't have to do it safely. So if you force US or European like EPA rules on the third world you will take this work away from the people who do it now. If they have to follow all the rules that Americans or Europeans have to follow, it probably won't pay to ship the scrap all the way to china just for cheap labor..
So back to my original question/concern. If you take this work away from the people who do it now, what will those people do?
> sees as a persistent failure by the U.S. federal government to stop the > dumping of millions of used computers, TVs, cellphones and other
> electronics in the world's developing regions, including those in China
I don't see it as dumping if the Chinese are smuggling the stuff in..
I agree that it sucks to live in a third world country, and it sucks to live in a polluted environment. But what will these people do for food if they can't recycle? Will they starve?
It's easy for rich fat Americans and Europeans to be critical of situations that put people and the environment at risk.. But we mostly all have food to eat every day, and homes, and money. I'm reluctant to pass judgement on other people I don't know or understand. If was starving I would work a dangerous job to buy food.
We are finally comiing out of this 1200 year cold spell. I'm looking foward to a milder climate.. California and Lousiana were too big anyhow. I think people in really cold and really dry place deserve some better weather for a change.
Just because we civilized westerners have stopped keeping slaves doesn't mean that slavery does not exist. It still exists in places like sub-Saharan Africa.
I've been involved in many meetings involving two or more sites spread around the country. These are either working meetings or presentations, but any graphics were always presented via PowerPoint or some other on-screen way, no whiteboard or posters or anything. We use PC's with netmeeting. Each conference room needs to have a high res digital projector for the PC display. Ideally the resolutions of the projectors will match. This way you know that all parties are seeing the same stuff.
MS netmeeting has always worked well for MS Apps and stuff like that not sure how it would all work out with CAD type applications.
We always use phone teleconferencing for the voice part of it. Seems like this started in order to save bandwidth, but it probably has something to do with the fact that I'm in a facility that is not used to keeping microphones and speakers working well on PCs.
We have video teleconferencing equipment that seldom/never gets used even though it works well and is not hard to use.
Not sure what kind of network infrastructure this all requires. I'm suspicous of people that say you need a "T?" Line. My experience is that you'll never be able to install a dedicated network. Even if you could you probably wouldn't want to. And if it's not dedicated, then you'll be sharing it with other people. So what you really need is a "big enough" network. Big/Fast enough for your gear, and everything else..
Also, we have some rooms with special whiteboards that have special markers and can be "be" the "mouse pointer" for the PC that has the projector. I've never seen these used by anybody and can only assume they are junk and should be avoided.
my $.02.
Kevin
I've spent the last two years in a OOD project with a team of 5 - 15 SW Engineers. I can't speak for the Rational XDE tools, or Rose RT, but Rational Rose really really sucks bad. It's the kind of tool that will make you claw your eyes out.
/some/really/long/pa, really helpful.)
Any company that can sell a tool like this and claim to be in the buisness of "improving" your software process and productivity has absolutely no credibility with me.
Rose has Modal, non-resizable, dialog boxes that display paths. If the path doesn't fit in the box it is truncated. You can't resize the box. So.. You can't see the end of the path.. ( Error could not write to
Rose has modal, non-resizable, scrolling boxes. With these it is at least possible to see the path if you need too. But you'll still go mad as the box is only big enough to hold about three 30 character lines. Of course I'm looking through a list of 200 files, and all the paths are 100 characters long.
Rose has sequence diagrams that forget their sequence, and can't be rebuilt.
Rose has a bug that makes it just go insane if a version 0 of a file gets created in UCM/Clear case. And it can't tell that it has gone insane.
Rose can't keep track of files that have changed underneath it. It has a bad habit of hijacking files and not telling you.
Rose has no good way to merge many parts of models.
Rose has a bad habit of "disappearing" modeled objects during a reverse engineer step, and not telling you. If you accidently screw up a path to a file, and reverse engineer, your modeled object will disappear. And all of the other artifacts that depend on it will get corrupted. And god help you if you check everything back in that way.
I'll take my coffee black. I'll take tcsh and vi as my integrated development environment and OOD tool over Rose any day of the week.
Kevin