It's not a big surprise that the stories place Eden in the Persian Gulf since all of the people who originally wrote the tales came from the Middle East. They knew that part of the world best. It's not like they knew of North and South America to say Eden was somewhere in the Amazon. If we got the mythology from the Australian aboriginals then Eden (or whatever their version is) would be in Australia.
Bullshit! If it was true then the NRA would be screaming it from the rooftops to prove their point. The last thing you want when there is a shooter on the loose is another civilian trying to shoot the first. It's very, very hard to shoot someone even when you are trained to do it. Look at most mass shooting events and you will see that the number of shots fired far exceed the number of fatalities. And you are advocating someone else to take potshots where they can hit innocent bystanders.
And if you are going to talk about immorality then how about the largest portion of suicides in the US is by firearm. It is scientifically proven that if you remove the convenience of the method to commit suicide a person is far less likely to perform the act because they have time to cool down. For many people it is an impulsive act. So the US shows us that it's absolutely immoral to have an armed populace because 1,000s of people die needlessly every year.
And if someone is browsing the directory on the server, or the files are copied somewhere else for them to do that, then there wouldn't be a save as dialog brought up in the browser. So don't go bringing up TFS with me when you answer your own questioning why there wouldn't be a dialog.
I normally don't play around with themes too much but I do have the Classic Theme Restorer plug-in installed. I wonder if they are doing this just to kill off this type of plug-in and force everyone onto their new interface. I wouldn't put it past them.
Why would the browser be opening a save as dialog for uploading a file? The question didn't say the the uploaded files were going to be accessible on the website. Many sites don't bother checking images if they are just going to be displaying them on the site.
I would have the files upload to a designated directory. Once the upload was complete and the user doesn't need to interact with them right away then a message saying that the transfer was successful would be displayed. One of the last jobs of the upload process would be to signal a waiting process (or it could just wait for the process to notice the file that was uploaded) to verify the new file. Verification would check that the file is what it claims to be and also runs an anti-virus program along with anything else needed. If everything is okay then the file is moved into the safe file repository and any database updates done. If there's a problem the file is deleted and an empty file with that file name is created in another directory to indicate an error happened. An error code could be placed in this file. If the user is waiting for the result the page would have been making calls to check these directories. Otherwise another small process would be run to clean up the errors directory which would notify users that their uploads failed.
While you can get a lease for $300 a month here the article states that they are basically writing the car off after five years of use because some of the drivers are driving 11,000 km a month. To get a $300 a month lease you normally get around 20,000 to 25,000 km. Even the drivers mentioned in the article that weren't doing much distance were still doing 3,000 to 5,000 km a month. I went onto Toyota Canada's website and the most that they will let you put onto a lease is 40,000 km a year which is pretty much were these drivers are starting. Going from 22,500 km to 40,000 on their lease calculator adds $100 a month to the lease so if they got a good annual amount of km thrown in it would be a good package.
Yes but that's because they were using it wrong. Tropical areas that depend on tourists would pay big money to guarantee to have sunny days and the rain between 2AM and 6AM. No more worries about the rainy season killing the tourist season.
I was actually thinking of limiting access to certain sites but the original proposal was to just cut off all access and I was trying to make a point. While an ISP may consider hosting a mirror of updates for Apple or Microsoft (assuming they would go for it) I don't know if they would be interested in doing it for Linux and similar OS's. I've been out of the Linux environment for a while now so I don't know how fragmented it is or has it narrowed down to one or two distributions?
The other problem is what to do with things that aren't traditional computers. Right now it's mostly routers with some thermostats but as the appliance industry tries to throw the Internet into everything what happens when they get taken over? We've seen how slow the manufacturers of routers are to get updates out when there is a security issue. And let's face it even if the ISP called the customer to verify that they had updated computers very few would think to check a router today.
I think Apollo only got the funding that it did because of Kennedy's speech, his assassination, and the timing of the cold war. It had the public support. Besides much of the research into the technology would have had to be done for the military side anyways so the money was going to be spent.
I do think that our next step out into the cosmos has to be a return to the Moon with a base. It's the best place to learn how to live out there. If something goes badly wrong then you can come back in a few days, not like six to nine months for Mars. (If something goes catastrophically wrong then it doesn't really matter if you are on the Moon or Mars.:) ) But going back to the Moon isn't going to fire up the imagination of people. It's more of a been there, done that kind of thing. Will everyone around the world really stop everything and tune in for the next person to walk on the Moon? By the time a habitat is built and people start living on there it will have probably been done incrementally so that we won't even tune it. The first person to step on Mars will be one of those moments as will be the first person born off world.
We need something new. Build a constellation of heliocentric satellites so that we can see the Sun from all sides, top, and bottom at all times. Granted that one is more aimed at the astronomers but I always thought it would be neat to do. Or every ten years launch a probe using the fastest propulsion technology to a nearby star. Sure it'll take forever to get there but it gets people thinking about science and their imagination going. We need something that is new, isn't incremental (which my Sun satellite idea is), and is doable in a generation at most but has real objects being produced in a couple.
While many of the technologies that are being attributed to the Apollo missions (electronics, materials, etc) they would have eventually been made. Apollo may have just sped up things, especially with space technology.
However I would say that it's biggest contribution was capturing the imagination of a generation and getting them interested in science and engineering. People became interested in astronomy, geology, and engineering. Children wanted to fly planes because that's what you had to do to become an astronaut. Science was cool and could do just about anything. There was a smaller effect with the Hubble telescope and the shuttle. But we haven't had anything like that in 30 to 40 years. Sure the Hubble has been giving us great images but everyone has gotten used to it.
We need a "wow" project to recapture people's imagination and get them interested in science again. Show them what science can do and people will want to be part of it. When the Apollo project was going strong there wasn't a problem finding people who wanted to become scientists and engineers. Today science and engineering has gone into the background and people take it for granted. It's become the plumbing that keeps our civilization progressing but not many people are interested in becoming plumbers. We need to make people think of science as the musicians of society.
Immigration grants work visas based on projected requirements. People with those skills apply for a visa and get pre approval which allows them to apply for jobs and enter for interviews. Once an offer is made then if conditions are met (market wage, not a fly-by-night company, guarantee of minimum term, more intensive background checks, etc) then the work visa is granted. Allow the person a certain amount of time to find another job if they lose theirs or to transfer easily as long as it's in the same field. They just become another person competing for jobs.
I know that at one place I was a contractor at the managers level was determined by the number of people that reported to them. That led to the higher up managers trying to steal projects from one another and the mid-level managers hiring like crazy. I swear there were a few new-hires that were doing good to turn on the computer and they were supposed to be programmers. But it was all about the head count.
It's a misconception that to be a PE you are normally a civil engineer. For example the Professional Engineers of Ontario has the following categories: Agricultural Engineering Biochemical Engineering Biomedical Engineering Bioresource Engineering Building Engineering Biosystems Engineering Chemical Engineering Civil Engineering Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering Environmental Engineering Food Engineering Forest Engineering Geological Engineering Geomatics Engineering Industrial Engineering Marine Engineering Mechanical Engineering Metallurgical Engineering Manufacturing Engineering Mining and Mineral Processing Engineering Naval Architectural Engineering Nuclear Engineering Petroleum Engineering Engineering Physics Software Engineering Space Engineering Structural Engineering Transportation Engineering Water Resources Engineering
Becoming a PE isn't just taking a test to ensure that you know a certain minimum amount of the domain knowledge like some of those certification courses. They also ensure that engineers know and abide by specific laws to the jurisdiction that they reside. There is also an ethical code that they must uphold. The training of engineers is much more rigorous compared with other disciplines, at least in Canada, and the requirements to become to PE are very tough. Are there bad engineers? Of course. Just like there are bad doctors, soldiers, accountants,...
In Ontario wines need to put on the label if they contain sulfites. Not if any has been added to the wine, just if the wine contains any. Since sulfites are a byproduct of fermentation all wine contains some and so every wine in Ontario has that stupid message on the label, even the organic wines. If there's a message it should be either stating that sulfites have been added or giving the concentration of sulfites.
Mind you I'm extremely sensitive to the taste of sulfites so that I notice them even in organic wines. In fact there's only one wine that I do like because I don't taste them.
The government data center that I worked in was linked up to a bunch of others which dumped the heat into local river. Worked well except there was a couple of days we had to shut down because a boat dropped its anchor on the discharge pipe into the river damaging it.
I always thought we should have at least used the heat from the data center to create hot water for the building before sending it away to the cooling plant. It would have cost almost nothing for the building to run. Just a little bit of electricity to transfer the heat from our pipes to their tank and they could have saved quite a bit on natural gas.
"The mandatory long-form census was implemented in 1971. Since that time, the census has been comprised of two census forms: a short form and a long form. The short-census includes 8 questions and probes basic household composition information. The long-form census includes an additional 53 questions, probing respondents on a variety of demographic, social, and economic subjects, including things like citizenship and immigration status, ethnic origin, religion, place of birth of parents, education, income and housing, child care and support payments, labour market activities, and unpaid/household work. This data is used to plan public programs and projects such as equalization payments, Employment Insurance benefits, the Old Age Security program, and the Canada Pension Plan. The data also has an impact on public transit and transportation infrastructure, health-care infrastructure, social services, and education.
The short form is sent to 100% of Canadians and is mandatory. Until 2010, the long-form was mandatory, and was sent to 1 in 5 Canadians, with the data extrapolated to the rest of the population. While it was mandatory, the response rate for the long-form census was approximately 94%, producing data from a non-biased sample of the population and serving as one of the most important planning tools in Canada. Because this data is considered representative, data from the mandatory long-form census has been used as an “anchor”, reducing the risk of bias in other StatsCan surveys.
Because of its breadth and high-response rate, the mandatory long-form census has been one of the most reliable data sources in Canada. Reliable statistical information about all parts of society also supports government decisions to fight poverty and reduce the marginalization of disadvantaged groups. Measuring equality requires good, long-term and repeated data in order to determine if we are making progress. Without it, we simply don’t know."
I have my own domain which I host at zoho.com for free since I only need one account. I only use that for incoming mail and spam filtering. Anything I want to keep I transfer over to the IMAP server that's running on my Synology NAS.
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It's not a big surprise that the stories place Eden in the Persian Gulf since all of the people who originally wrote the tales came from the Middle East. They knew that part of the world best. It's not like they knew of North and South America to say Eden was somewhere in the Amazon. If we got the mythology from the Australian aboriginals then Eden (or whatever their version is) would be in Australia.
So far this year in the US the police have killed 876 people through shootings.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-...
Bullshit! If it was true then the NRA would be screaming it from the rooftops to prove their point. The last thing you want when there is a shooter on the loose is another civilian trying to shoot the first. It's very, very hard to shoot someone even when you are trained to do it. Look at most mass shooting events and you will see that the number of shots fired far exceed the number of fatalities. And you are advocating someone else to take potshots where they can hit innocent bystanders.
And if you are going to talk about immorality then how about the largest portion of suicides in the US is by firearm. It is scientifically proven that if you remove the convenience of the method to commit suicide a person is far less likely to perform the act because they have time to cool down. For many people it is an impulsive act. So the US shows us that it's absolutely immoral to have an armed populace because 1,000s of people die needlessly every year.
Actually that mission created a whole lot more terrorists than it ever took care of.
And if someone is browsing the directory on the server, or the files are copied somewhere else for them to do that, then there wouldn't be a save as dialog brought up in the browser. So don't go bringing up TFS with me when you answer your own questioning why there wouldn't be a dialog.
Not really an option since the Mac version doesn't exist and isn't being maintained.
I normally don't play around with themes too much but I do have the Classic Theme Restorer plug-in installed. I wonder if they are doing this just to kill off this type of plug-in and force everyone onto their new interface. I wouldn't put it past them.
Why would the browser be opening a save as dialog for uploading a file? The question didn't say the the uploaded files were going to be accessible on the website. Many sites don't bother checking images if they are just going to be displaying them on the site.
I would have the files upload to a designated directory. Once the upload was complete and the user doesn't need to interact with them right away then a message saying that the transfer was successful would be displayed. One of the last jobs of the upload process would be to signal a waiting process (or it could just wait for the process to notice the file that was uploaded) to verify the new file. Verification would check that the file is what it claims to be and also runs an anti-virus program along with anything else needed. If everything is okay then the file is moved into the safe file repository and any database updates done. If there's a problem the file is deleted and an empty file with that file name is created in another directory to indicate an error happened. An error code could be placed in this file. If the user is waiting for the result the page would have been making calls to check these directories. Otherwise another small process would be run to clean up the errors directory which would notify users that their uploads failed.
While you can get a lease for $300 a month here the article states that they are basically writing the car off after five years of use because some of the drivers are driving 11,000 km a month. To get a $300 a month lease you normally get around 20,000 to 25,000 km. Even the drivers mentioned in the article that weren't doing much distance were still doing 3,000 to 5,000 km a month. I went onto Toyota Canada's website and the most that they will let you put onto a lease is 40,000 km a year which is pretty much were these drivers are starting. Going from 22,500 km to 40,000 on their lease calculator adds $100 a month to the lease so if they got a good annual amount of km thrown in it would be a good package.
Actually syncing your bookmarks is pretty much the whole point.
Amazon so disruptive people are already forgetting B&N's name.
Yes but that's because they were using it wrong. Tropical areas that depend on tourists would pay big money to guarantee to have sunny days and the rain between 2AM and 6AM. No more worries about the rainy season killing the tourist season.
I was actually thinking of limiting access to certain sites but the original proposal was to just cut off all access and I was trying to make a point. While an ISP may consider hosting a mirror of updates for Apple or Microsoft (assuming they would go for it) I don't know if they would be interested in doing it for Linux and similar OS's. I've been out of the Linux environment for a while now so I don't know how fragmented it is or has it narrowed down to one or two distributions?
The other problem is what to do with things that aren't traditional computers. Right now it's mostly routers with some thermostats but as the appliance industry tries to throw the Internet into everything what happens when they get taken over? We've seen how slow the manufacturers of routers are to get updates out when there is a security issue. And let's face it even if the ISP called the customer to verify that they had updated computers very few would think to check a router today.
I think Apollo only got the funding that it did because of Kennedy's speech, his assassination, and the timing of the cold war. It had the public support. Besides much of the research into the technology would have had to be done for the military side anyways so the money was going to be spent.
I do think that our next step out into the cosmos has to be a return to the Moon with a base. It's the best place to learn how to live out there. If something goes badly wrong then you can come back in a few days, not like six to nine months for Mars. (If something goes catastrophically wrong then it doesn't really matter if you are on the Moon or Mars. :) ) But going back to the Moon isn't going to fire up the imagination of people. It's more of a been there, done that kind of thing. Will everyone around the world really stop everything and tune in for the next person to walk on the Moon? By the time a habitat is built and people start living on there it will have probably been done incrementally so that we won't even tune it. The first person to step on Mars will be one of those moments as will be the first person born off world.
We need something new. Build a constellation of heliocentric satellites so that we can see the Sun from all sides, top, and bottom at all times. Granted that one is more aimed at the astronomers but I always thought it would be neat to do. Or every ten years launch a probe using the fastest propulsion technology to a nearby star. Sure it'll take forever to get there but it gets people thinking about science and their imagination going. We need something that is new, isn't incremental (which my Sun satellite idea is), and is doable in a generation at most but has real objects being produced in a couple.
And how do they stop it if they don't have Internet access to download the latest patches? What if there are no patches?
While many of the technologies that are being attributed to the Apollo missions (electronics, materials, etc) they would have eventually been made. Apollo may have just sped up things, especially with space technology.
However I would say that it's biggest contribution was capturing the imagination of a generation and getting them interested in science and engineering. People became interested in astronomy, geology, and engineering. Children wanted to fly planes because that's what you had to do to become an astronaut. Science was cool and could do just about anything. There was a smaller effect with the Hubble telescope and the shuttle. But we haven't had anything like that in 30 to 40 years. Sure the Hubble has been giving us great images but everyone has gotten used to it.
We need a "wow" project to recapture people's imagination and get them interested in science again. Show them what science can do and people will want to be part of it. When the Apollo project was going strong there wasn't a problem finding people who wanted to become scientists and engineers. Today science and engineering has gone into the background and people take it for granted. It's become the plumbing that keeps our civilization progressing but not many people are interested in becoming plumbers. We need to make people think of science as the musicians of society.
Immigration grants work visas based on projected requirements. People with those skills apply for a visa and get pre approval which allows them to apply for jobs and enter for interviews. Once an offer is made then if conditions are met (market wage, not a fly-by-night company, guarantee of minimum term, more intensive background checks, etc) then the work visa is granted. Allow the person a certain amount of time to find another job if they lose theirs or to transfer easily as long as it's in the same field. They just become another person competing for jobs.
Your cat would want you to go to work so it could lick it's ass in peace for a change.
It's the UK. They'll just say that a CD was left on a train and everyone will believe it.
I know that at one place I was a contractor at the managers level was determined by the number of people that reported to them. That led to the higher up managers trying to steal projects from one another and the mid-level managers hiring like crazy. I swear there were a few new-hires that were doing good to turn on the computer and they were supposed to be programmers. But it was all about the head count.
It's a misconception that to be a PE you are normally a civil engineer. For example the Professional Engineers of Ontario has the following categories:
Agricultural Engineering
Biochemical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Bioresource Engineering
Building Engineering
Biosystems Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Computer Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Food Engineering
Forest Engineering
Geological Engineering
Geomatics Engineering
Industrial Engineering
Marine Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Metallurgical Engineering
Manufacturing Engineering
Mining and Mineral Processing Engineering
Naval Architectural Engineering
Nuclear Engineering
Petroleum Engineering
Engineering Physics
Software Engineering
Space Engineering
Structural Engineering
Transportation Engineering
Water Resources Engineering
Becoming a PE isn't just taking a test to ensure that you know a certain minimum amount of the domain knowledge like some of those certification courses. They also ensure that engineers know and abide by specific laws to the jurisdiction that they reside. There is also an ethical code that they must uphold. The training of engineers is much more rigorous compared with other disciplines, at least in Canada, and the requirements to become to PE are very tough. Are there bad engineers? Of course. Just like there are bad doctors, soldiers, accountants, ...
In Ontario wines need to put on the label if they contain sulfites. Not if any has been added to the wine, just if the wine contains any. Since sulfites are a byproduct of fermentation all wine contains some and so every wine in Ontario has that stupid message on the label, even the organic wines. If there's a message it should be either stating that sulfites have been added or giving the concentration of sulfites.
Mind you I'm extremely sensitive to the taste of sulfites so that I notice them even in organic wines. In fact there's only one wine that I do like because I don't taste them.
The government data center that I worked in was linked up to a bunch of others which dumped the heat into local river. Worked well except there was a couple of days we had to shut down because a boat dropped its anchor on the discharge pipe into the river damaging it.
I always thought we should have at least used the heat from the data center to create hot water for the building before sending it away to the cooling plant. It would have cost almost nothing for the building to run. Just a little bit of electricity to transfer the heat from our pipes to their tank and they could have saved quite a bit on natural gas.
The long form is just being restored. It was started in 1971 so it's not new. From http://voices-voix.ca/en/facts...
"The mandatory long-form census was implemented in 1971. Since that time, the census has been comprised of two census forms: a short form and a long form. The short-census includes 8 questions and probes basic household composition information. The long-form census includes an additional 53 questions, probing respondents on a variety of demographic, social, and economic subjects, including things like citizenship and immigration status, ethnic origin, religion, place of birth of parents, education, income and housing, child care and support payments, labour market activities, and unpaid/household work. This data is used to plan public programs and projects such as equalization payments, Employment Insurance benefits, the Old Age Security program, and the Canada Pension Plan. The data also has an impact on public transit and transportation infrastructure, health-care infrastructure, social services, and education.
The short form is sent to 100% of Canadians and is mandatory. Until 2010, the long-form was mandatory, and was sent to 1 in 5 Canadians, with the data extrapolated to the rest of the population. While it was mandatory, the response rate for the long-form census was approximately 94%, producing data from a non-biased sample of the population and serving as one of the most important planning tools in Canada. Because this data is considered representative, data from the mandatory long-form census has been used as an “anchor”, reducing the risk of bias in other StatsCan surveys.
Because of its breadth and high-response rate, the mandatory long-form census has been one of the most reliable data sources in Canada. Reliable statistical information about all parts of society also supports government decisions to fight poverty and reduce the marginalization of disadvantaged groups. Measuring equality requires good, long-term and repeated data in order to determine if we are making progress. Without it, we simply don’t know."
I have my own domain which I host at zoho.com for free since I only need one account. I only use that for incoming mail and spam filtering. Anything I want to keep I transfer over to the IMAP server that's running on my Synology NAS.