You can build the dams on all of those new rivers you keep making in the US./s
Most (all?) of the spots suitable for dams in the US already have dams built. There's a few spots left in Canada. You can't just put a dam where there is a river. You need the right terrain, the right ground (so that it can support the weight of the dam and the water), and there can't be anything important up river for quite a way from the proposed dam. Plus the river needs to be a certain size too, without a lot of silt, no endangered animals dependant on the river,... There's lots of things that I don't even know about since it isn't my field. There just aren't a lot of good spots to build a dam.
For fossil fuels to be stored solar energy the world would have to be more than 6,000 years old and everyone knows that's just not true. Fossil fuels are God's gift for us to use however we want and they won't damage His environment because He loves us. It's all in the Bible.
At least in Ontario our nuclear and hydroelectric generation is expensive. It contributed 40% to our price hike last fall. Of course that's most likely over paying the employees.
Firstly, I've found that people tend to talk louder when they are on the phone. Maybe it's because there is no feedback to adjust their speaking volume. Almost everyone on the phone on the bus is loud while many people having a conversation together speak in a lowered voice.
If the F35 was just a test plane then it wouldn't be such an issue but they are already in production. It's the new model for the military industrial complex. Spread the work out across the whole country and get it into production as early as possible to make it as politically tricky to cancel and keep as much money coming in as possible.
The issue with the F35 isn't that these issues are happening with test pilots who are highly trained to expect anything to happen at anytime. The problem is that planes that aren't ready are being shoved out to the front line. While the pilots are highly trained they aren't test pilots. This is all being done so that a company can make money. It has nothing to do with delivering the best plane to the pilots.
Activating stolen keys isn't copyright infringement. They found a lead on a person who had stolen property which is a criminal offence. It wasn't a person who was pirating their software. Well, they may have done that too.
My point was that it could have been a lot easier for them to go to the police saying that they found a lead on the stolen software and let the police find the person. Then get their lawyers involved to find out what the results of the investigation were.
No, this is not copyright theft. If I steal a license key and use it then I deprive you of the income from the legitimate sale of the key. It isn't pirating the software. People think they are getting a valid license where the money was paid to the manufacturer. If the person was pirating Windows and installing it then it would be a straight copyright issue. If this was a box of CDs with license keys that was stolen would still say that it's just a copyright issue?
They may support it but not every site generates static pages and shows them. Many create their content dynamically even if it would be more efficient to use static pages.
One place I was at was looking at implementing a new CMS and at one meeting we were discussing the options for the architecture of the system. I was from the maintenance group and was there to provide feedback because we would be looking after it long term. I was in favour of having the system generate static HTML pages whenever a change happens (something the software supported and that we saw another department implement) because it would reduce the hardware required for serving the site. Well, we had the servers already so it would allow us greater capacity with what we had. Also if the CMS goes down the site still is live.
Anyway I promptly got told that I didn't know what I was doing because it was much harder to generate the static HTML than to create the pages dynamically. I've always wondered why that was because the static HTML was exactly the same as what was going to be sent to the user as what was dynamically generated. I didn't stick around to ask because the first question I would have asked the head software architect was how he would have known whether what I was doing was right or wrong because after a couple of years of cleaning up his messes he certainly was qualified to tell.
Came here to say that. "Designers" and most people that create websites are all concerned about style and not about how it functions. Toss in the fact that they are all on well equipped machines and good networks which makes everything load quickly and they never see the problem so it never gets fixed. It would be great if they even just optimized the images for size!
About ten years ago I was on the maintenance group for a bunch of government websites and there was one site on Cold Fusion. It was slow as molasses and took about 20 seconds to load the main page on our local network. One day I looked into it and I got the page to load in under a second. I showed it to the manager responsible for the site and she was amazed at the difference. One simple change. I moved the graphics off of the Cold Fusion server and onto Apache. All of our web applications were serving graphics from the application servers. Almost all of our apps were written in Java and it would have been easy to move the images to the Apache server and change an environment variable. It wouldn't have been as dramatic improvement but the whole site would have improved as the application servers wouldn't have spent so much time handling requests for images.
They found the IP address of someone who is using the activation keys that are known to have been stolen. Why didn't they turn this information over to the police and let them go after the person? That is supposed to be their job, not Microsofts. At the very least the person would be someone of interest in the theft of the activation keys and I'm sure the police would like to look at the possible large scale piracy of software going on.
If the job could fit a template then you wouldn't need AI to fix it. The point of using AI is to solve the non-standard cases.
That being said I don't see the good developers having anything to be worried about. They will just continue to move further away from the hardware and work in more abstract terms. Maybe we'll be able to just give specifications to the computer for what an object (class) will be and it will write all of the code behind the scenes picking the appropriate parent classes and storage for properties. It would be great to be able to get to the point where one can go I want the data I've configured over here to be shown up as a list here and the details to be shown here when a user selects one and make sure it all goes into the persistent storage. Then you just go and tidy up the screens.
It would take some AI to do that and take some drudgery out of the building. Though it would be good to know what goes on behind the scenes. The developer will always play a part in the process, like a conductor of the orchestra.
You probably want them to have a keyboard. All they really need is a keypad with two keys: 0 and 1. If they were really good programmers they could just use a switch like a telegraph operator to input code based on timing. Press down for a 1 and nothing for a 0. The better the programmer the faster they set the timing.
Forcing people to buy insurance isn't socialized healthcare. Yes many millions more people have insurance that they wouldn't have had before but there are still way too many people without healthcare in the US to be saying that the ACA is successful.
And that explains why most sites are crap. You get someone who is experienced in making things look good to "design" the site when you need someone who knows about information architecture to design the site. Then you bring in the person with Photoshop to make it look pretty.
I've read the previous edition to Information Architecture For the Web and Beyond (this is the 4th) and it's a great book. http://shop.oreilly.com/produc... I really wish more designers would read it because making a site is more than just putting a menu up top and some common options like Contact Us down in the footer with the content in the middle.
If only sick people would stop going to there maybe there wouldn't be so many infectious diseases at hospitals.
Part of the problem with transmission is that doctors and nurses are not as good as they should be at washing their hands. For example this study looked at two hospital wards and found doctors were about 47% compliant. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
Does anyone know of a good alternative for the Mac? The one thing that is really keeping me on Firefox is it's ability to restore my session after a crash (either browser or system). A few years ago I tried a couple other browsers and they would lose tabs that I had open if they quit unexpectedly but Firefox doesn't do that.
It's important because right now my system freezes sometimes when it goes to sleep. The screen will turn back on and I can move the pointer around with the mouse but that's as responsive as the system gets. Even the time shows what time the system went to sleep. So that's why I want a browser that can reliably keep my session for me.
And I don't want Flash installed on my computer. I got tired of it updating every week or two and having to restart my browsers along with a couple of other applications. And the curious thing is that except for a couple of sites (BBC mainly) I don't even notice that it's gone.
And the private sector is no better. After all an accident will send the share price down and the shareholders won't like that. Do you think that if BP could have gotten away with not reporting the oil spill in the gulf they would not have tried? They certainly tried to downplay the extent of it for as long as possible.
Many of the superfund sites in the US that are related to nuclear energy are from the government because they were created at a time when the government was the only real player in nuclear energy.
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You can build the dams on all of those new rivers you keep making in the US. /s
Most (all?) of the spots suitable for dams in the US already have dams built. There's a few spots left in Canada. You can't just put a dam where there is a river. You need the right terrain, the right ground (so that it can support the weight of the dam and the water), and there can't be anything important up river for quite a way from the proposed dam. Plus the river needs to be a certain size too, without a lot of silt, no endangered animals dependant on the river, ... There's lots of things that I don't even know about since it isn't my field. There just aren't a lot of good spots to build a dam.
For the humour challenged I was joking and made that BS up.
For fossil fuels to be stored solar energy the world would have to be more than 6,000 years old and everyone knows that's just not true. Fossil fuels are God's gift for us to use however we want and they won't damage His environment because He loves us. It's all in the Bible.
At least in Ontario our nuclear and hydroelectric generation is expensive. It contributed 40% to our price hike last fall. Of course that's most likely over paying the employees.
http://globalnews.ca/news/2279...
Firstly, I've found that people tend to talk louder when they are on the phone. Maybe it's because there is no feedback to adjust their speaking volume. Almost everyone on the phone on the bus is loud while many people having a conversation together speak in a lowered voice.
Secondly, it's harder to ignore half a conversation. http://www.scientificamerican....
Root vegetables don't like being underwater.
If the F35 was just a test plane then it wouldn't be such an issue but they are already in production. It's the new model for the military industrial complex. Spread the work out across the whole country and get it into production as early as possible to make it as politically tricky to cancel and keep as much money coming in as possible.
The issue with the F35 isn't that these issues are happening with test pilots who are highly trained to expect anything to happen at anytime. The problem is that planes that aren't ready are being shoved out to the front line. While the pilots are highly trained they aren't test pilots. This is all being done so that a company can make money. It has nothing to do with delivering the best plane to the pilots.
Activating stolen keys isn't copyright infringement. They found a lead on a person who had stolen property which is a criminal offence. It wasn't a person who was pirating their software. Well, they may have done that too.
My point was that it could have been a lot easier for them to go to the police saying that they found a lead on the stolen software and let the police find the person. Then get their lawyers involved to find out what the results of the investigation were.
No, this is not copyright theft. If I steal a license key and use it then I deprive you of the income from the legitimate sale of the key. It isn't pirating the software. People think they are getting a valid license where the money was paid to the manufacturer. If the person was pirating Windows and installing it then it would be a straight copyright issue. If this was a box of CDs with license keys that was stolen would still say that it's just a copyright issue?
They may support it but not every site generates static pages and shows them. Many create their content dynamically even if it would be more efficient to use static pages.
One place I was at was looking at implementing a new CMS and at one meeting we were discussing the options for the architecture of the system. I was from the maintenance group and was there to provide feedback because we would be looking after it long term. I was in favour of having the system generate static HTML pages whenever a change happens (something the software supported and that we saw another department implement) because it would reduce the hardware required for serving the site. Well, we had the servers already so it would allow us greater capacity with what we had. Also if the CMS goes down the site still is live.
Anyway I promptly got told that I didn't know what I was doing because it was much harder to generate the static HTML than to create the pages dynamically. I've always wondered why that was because the static HTML was exactly the same as what was going to be sent to the user as what was dynamically generated. I didn't stick around to ask because the first question I would have asked the head software architect was how he would have known whether what I was doing was right or wrong because after a couple of years of cleaning up his messes he certainly was qualified to tell.
Came here to say that. "Designers" and most people that create websites are all concerned about style and not about how it functions. Toss in the fact that they are all on well equipped machines and good networks which makes everything load quickly and they never see the problem so it never gets fixed. It would be great if they even just optimized the images for size!
About ten years ago I was on the maintenance group for a bunch of government websites and there was one site on Cold Fusion. It was slow as molasses and took about 20 seconds to load the main page on our local network. One day I looked into it and I got the page to load in under a second. I showed it to the manager responsible for the site and she was amazed at the difference. One simple change. I moved the graphics off of the Cold Fusion server and onto Apache. All of our web applications were serving graphics from the application servers. Almost all of our apps were written in Java and it would have been easy to move the images to the Apache server and change an environment variable. It wouldn't have been as dramatic improvement but the whole site would have improved as the application servers wouldn't have spent so much time handling requests for images.
Nothing got done.
They found the IP address of someone who is using the activation keys that are known to have been stolen. Why didn't they turn this information over to the police and let them go after the person? That is supposed to be their job, not Microsofts. At the very least the person would be someone of interest in the theft of the activation keys and I'm sure the police would like to look at the possible large scale piracy of software going on.
Or check for fungus. Dry rot is a pain.
If the job could fit a template then you wouldn't need AI to fix it. The point of using AI is to solve the non-standard cases.
That being said I don't see the good developers having anything to be worried about. They will just continue to move further away from the hardware and work in more abstract terms. Maybe we'll be able to just give specifications to the computer for what an object (class) will be and it will write all of the code behind the scenes picking the appropriate parent classes and storage for properties. It would be great to be able to get to the point where one can go I want the data I've configured over here to be shown up as a list here and the details to be shown here when a user selects one and make sure it all goes into the persistent storage. Then you just go and tidy up the screens.
It would take some AI to do that and take some drudgery out of the building. Though it would be good to know what goes on behind the scenes. The developer will always play a part in the process, like a conductor of the orchestra.
You probably want them to have a keyboard. All they really need is a keypad with two keys: 0 and 1. If they were really good programmers they could just use a switch like a telegraph operator to input code based on timing. Press down for a 1 and nothing for a 0. The better the programmer the faster they set the timing.
Forcing people to buy insurance isn't socialized healthcare. Yes many millions more people have insurance that they wouldn't have had before but there are still way too many people without healthcare in the US to be saying that the ACA is successful.
And that explains why most sites are crap. You get someone who is experienced in making things look good to "design" the site when you need someone who knows about information architecture to design the site. Then you bring in the person with Photoshop to make it look pretty.
I've read the previous edition to Information Architecture For the Web and Beyond (this is the 4th) and it's a great book. http://shop.oreilly.com/produc... I really wish more designers would read it because making a site is more than just putting a menu up top and some common options like Contact Us down in the footer with the content in the middle.
What, someone doing the job that definitely is for someone else. No, you can't go around doing that. The union won't allow it!
If only sick people would stop going to there maybe there wouldn't be so many infectious diseases at hospitals.
Part of the problem with transmission is that doctors and nurses are not as good as they should be at washing their hands. For example this study looked at two hospital wards and found doctors were about 47% compliant. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
Does anyone know of a good alternative for the Mac? The one thing that is really keeping me on Firefox is it's ability to restore my session after a crash (either browser or system). A few years ago I tried a couple other browsers and they would lose tabs that I had open if they quit unexpectedly but Firefox doesn't do that.
It's important because right now my system freezes sometimes when it goes to sleep. The screen will turn back on and I can move the pointer around with the mouse but that's as responsive as the system gets. Even the time shows what time the system went to sleep. So that's why I want a browser that can reliably keep my session for me.
And I don't want Flash installed on my computer. I got tired of it updating every week or two and having to restart my browsers along with a couple of other applications. And the curious thing is that except for a couple of sites (BBC mainly) I don't even notice that it's gone.
Yes, they need something reliable to run their platform on. :)
And the private sector is no better. After all an accident will send the share price down and the shareholders won't like that. Do you think that if BP could have gotten away with not reporting the oil spill in the gulf they would not have tried? They certainly tried to downplay the extent of it for as long as possible.
Many of the superfund sites in the US that are related to nuclear energy are from the government because they were created at a time when the government was the only real player in nuclear energy.
That would be a wall with Canada.
in Firefox 53 due out in a couple of months where they will take out bookmarks because nobody has touched the code in a couple of weeks.