Oh FFS, if you are going to insist on having guns then at least use them safely. You don't need fingerprint scanners or triggers that are harder to squeeze. When you aren't using them then you unload them, store the gun and the gun in a secure and locked place (don't know if you have to keep them separate if they are locked away). If you are using it always have the safety on and never put it near a child who can't understand what it is.
It's not that fucking difficult but yet over 30,000 people a year are killed by guns in the US and all you want to do is buy more guns! You have been buying more guns for decades and things have kept getting worse. Maybe it's time to try something different.
A portable shelter in the form of a 20ft or 40ft shipping container might be great because the infrastructure exists to move them around so easily. You could load a couple thousand on a ship to move them to the nearest port and then use a combination of trains and trucks to get them to where you need. Just need a few cranes at the site to take them off the truck and it's ready to go. Would have to be better than the trailers FEMA have before.
Where there are forests lumber is cheap. Just about every house in Canada, probably in the northern half of the US, and most the northern part of Europe has a wood frame and underfloor. I can go to any large hardware store near me and there are rows of lumber available. If I want to build a deck or patio it's the cheapest option. Same for a fence. In Canada we don't use it for the outside of the houses because other options are less maintenance.
A computer science degree will have different areas of focus in the later years. But they will all include much mathematics. If you want to know how efficient an algorithm is you use math to determine it and mathematical notation to express it. That's how you can conveniently compare two or more algorithms that perform the same functionality by using O() notation. Hardware circuits are made up transistors which work on Boolean logic, math. Everything in computer science is based on math. Programming and hardware are just implementations of those algorithms and designs.
If you want me to view your site without an ad blocker then only have a few non-obtrusive ads (no blinking, no flash, no auto-play, not overly large in file size and in screen size), don't link to trackers as you have logs to see how I navigate your site, don't use excessive scripting, make sure your site is secure, your HTML is good so that browser doesn't have render the page again (for example provide image widths and heights), don't use pop-up, and provide good value.
I didn't get the connection between the Nobel prize and it having to be a science. Does that mean Literature and Peace are now sciences?
What most people are forgetting is that is a social science. The leave out the social part. It's going to be different than chemistry and physics. Mind you most of the stuff I hear from economists is either obvious or seems like they pulled it out of their ass.
So the author had to hand over his iPhone in order not to see how to get to the shelter. I wonder if they thought to turn off the frequent locations settings which tells you where you've been because a place out in the middle of nowhere is going to stick out. Once you know where it is then using satellite maps it isn't that hard to find a way there.
I've seen it with software development and with web development. People get fast computers and fast network connections and they forget that other people don't have those. They forget that not everyone is in their country and has that infrastructure. If you want your pages to load faster on the mobile web then do the following (it will also work on regular sites) and it can save on your bandwidth costs too
1. Clean up your HTML - Many content generators add in a lot of extra space that easily double or triple the size of the file. Get rid of it but still keep it nicely formatted for easy debugging.
2. Optimize your images - A lot of graphics artists will just export their work to a jpg, png, or gif and say it's done. However with by choosing the proper format, compression settings, etc it's possible to get the file size down to a quarter or even a tenth of the original in some cases. Changing the image size for the mobile site also helps by creating a smaller file and eliminates the need for the mobile device to do the resizing.
3. Optimize your code - It wasn't a mobile site but I once was maintaining a site and the developer was using JavaScript to match items from one collection to items in another collection using an O(n squared) algorithm. It became very slow, very fast. As both collections came from a database I matched them up there and got rid of the terrible code. It was still a crap application but at least it was a more responsive crap application.
4. Stop with multitude of external ads/trackers - A couple isn't going to be too bad but it's gotten way out of hand. Every request to a different server slows down the page loading/being displayed. Keep it to a minimum. If you want to know what your users are doing on your site analyze your logs, that's what they are there for.
5. Add dimensions to your HTML - If you know what the dimensions are of any images, cells, or anything else then specify them. The browser can use that information and start rendering faster without waiting to receive that information or having to redraw the page. I hate getting part way down a page and it gets redrawn because the final elements have loaded so I have to find my place again.
6. Serve images from the right place - Don't serve your images from an application server. That's not it's place. Create a graphics server and put your images there. It'll be much faster and take a lot of the load off of your application server. Around 2005 I was with a group that was hosting a Cold Fusion site that was really slow to load. I save the HTML and graphics from the main page and put the images in a temporary directory on a graphics server. I showed the project manager two versions of the HTML. One was pointing to the production server which got the images from Cold Fusion and the other got the images from the graphics server. The production server took about ten seconds to load while the graphics server was almost instantaneously. I've seen the same thing with Java application servers though not the same difference
7. Stop the modal pop-up - This won't speed up your site but please stop the modal pop-up. I'm not going to sign up for your newsletter, especially if I just landed on your site. And especially since you brought a pop-up asking me to.
When the lander touched down on the comet it was on the news and in the newspapers the next day. It was pretty popular in the social media too. The same thing happens if we put a robot on Mars. Remember how much attention Spirit and Opportunity got?
Now imagine how much people will be talking when the first person steps onto Mars. There will be billions of people looking at a live (delayed due to distance) feed. Every TV station will be showing it along with every news website. It will be the trending topic of every social media site. It would be like someone who hadn't heard of the end of WWII or the moon landing (even the deniers have heard of that).
So it's hard to see how someone would think that the movie is based on a true story when such a momentous event would be so widely known.
Skip the Walking Dead, ST-DS9, ST-Voyager. Stargate is okay but skip the follow on series. Watch the episode Blink from Doctor Who which was the best one. Then listen to the Doctor Who radio dramas from Big Finish. They are much better than the series, especially the last couple of seasons. The previous Doctors are featured in them. If you want a good sci-fi show I would recommend Babylon 5. The graphics are getting dated but the storyline and characters are great. I don't like Star Trek because for the most part it's the same characters in different stories every week. There's a weak storyline throughout the series. In B5 you can have something that lasts 30 seconds in one episode becoming a major storyline in another episode. And there's a strong story throughout the first four seasons. The fifth season isn't that great. They didn't know if there was going to be a fifth when they finished the fourth so they had to close the main storyline pretty quick and that left the fifth season a bit empty.
Do they hold your hand in college in the US? When I was at university almost everything was self study. The professor and the teaching assistants are available to aid you if you run into trouble but you had to show that you put some effort in first.
In the final year you have a project that is completely on your own. There is no class. You have a professor to which you submit a project proposal and the finished project. They are available to provide guidance (is the project too ambitious to do in a year, where you might get some information, etc).
My experience is from science and engineering so I don't know what the arts was like.
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Oh FFS, if you are going to insist on having guns then at least use them safely. You don't need fingerprint scanners or triggers that are harder to squeeze. When you aren't using them then you unload them, store the gun and the gun in a secure and locked place (don't know if you have to keep them separate if they are locked away). If you are using it always have the safety on and never put it near a child who can't understand what it is.
It's not that fucking difficult but yet over 30,000 people a year are killed by guns in the US and all you want to do is buy more guns! You have been buying more guns for decades and things have kept getting worse. Maybe it's time to try something different.
Of course Swift is cannibalizing Objective-C. Apple intended it to.
The Soviet space shuttle, the Buran, was fully automated from launch to even having to make a second attempt at landing.
A portable shelter in the form of a 20ft or 40ft shipping container might be great because the infrastructure exists to move them around so easily. You could load a couple thousand on a ship to move them to the nearest port and then use a combination of trains and trucks to get them to where you need. Just need a few cranes at the site to take them off the truck and it's ready to go. Would have to be better than the trailers FEMA have before.
Where there are forests lumber is cheap. Just about every house in Canada, probably in the northern half of the US, and most the northern part of Europe has a wood frame and underfloor. I can go to any large hardware store near me and there are rows of lumber available. If I want to build a deck or patio it's the cheapest option. Same for a fence. In Canada we don't use it for the outside of the houses because other options are less maintenance.
It may have been three but they were really big nails.
A computer science degree will have different areas of focus in the later years. But they will all include much mathematics. If you want to know how efficient an algorithm is you use math to determine it and mathematical notation to express it. That's how you can conveniently compare two or more algorithms that perform the same functionality by using O() notation. Hardware circuits are made up transistors which work on Boolean logic, math. Everything in computer science is based on math. Programming and hardware are just implementations of those algorithms and designs.
For an engineer knowing how to code nowadays is a tool like knowing how to use a slide rule was a tool for an engineer in the 1940s.
If you want me to view your site without an ad blocker then only have a few non-obtrusive ads (no blinking, no flash, no auto-play, not overly large in file size and in screen size), don't link to trackers as you have logs to see how I navigate your site, don't use excessive scripting, make sure your site is secure, your HTML is good so that browser doesn't have render the page again (for example provide image widths and heights), don't use pop-up, and provide good value.
Uh, Thanksgiving is in October.
Yes, but those are the one or two things they make that aren't intended for human consumption.
Economists definition of a recession: When the neighbour is unemployed.
Economists definition of a depression: When they are unemployed.
I didn't get the connection between the Nobel prize and it having to be a science. Does that mean Literature and Peace are now sciences?
What most people are forgetting is that is a social science. The leave out the social part. It's going to be different than chemistry and physics. Mind you most of the stuff I hear from economists is either obvious or seems like they pulled it out of their ass.
So the author had to hand over his iPhone in order not to see how to get to the shelter. I wonder if they thought to turn off the frequent locations settings which tells you where you've been because a place out in the middle of nowhere is going to stick out. Once you know where it is then using satellite maps it isn't that hard to find a way there.
How about the pro sports team that threatens to leave unless you put the city heavily in debt in order to build them a new arena/stadium?
Constant total IQ being spread out over an ever increasing number of people?
Well, Trudeau already expressed his love for the Bloc, at least the leader of the Bloc. :)
Wow, science is more difficult and time-consuming than either science or the humanities. No second guesses to tell which of the two you came from.
That works for the Conservative Party of Canada too, especially Harper.
I can believe that just two guys are responsible, just not the two he's pointing at.
Yes because GM has shown a great social conscience when it comes to their customers' safety.
I've seen it with software development and with web development. People get fast computers and fast network connections and they forget that other people don't have those. They forget that not everyone is in their country and has that infrastructure. If you want your pages to load faster on the mobile web then do the following (it will also work on regular sites) and it can save on your bandwidth costs too
1. Clean up your HTML - Many content generators add in a lot of extra space that easily double or triple the size of the file. Get rid of it but still keep it nicely formatted for easy debugging.
2. Optimize your images - A lot of graphics artists will just export their work to a jpg, png, or gif and say it's done. However with by choosing the proper format, compression settings, etc it's possible to get the file size down to a quarter or even a tenth of the original in some cases. Changing the image size for the mobile site also helps by creating a smaller file and eliminates the need for the mobile device to do the resizing.
3. Optimize your code - It wasn't a mobile site but I once was maintaining a site and the developer was using JavaScript to match items from one collection to items in another collection using an O(n squared) algorithm. It became very slow, very fast. As both collections came from a database I matched them up there and got rid of the terrible code. It was still a crap application but at least it was a more responsive crap application.
4. Stop with multitude of external ads/trackers - A couple isn't going to be too bad but it's gotten way out of hand. Every request to a different server slows down the page loading/being displayed. Keep it to a minimum. If you want to know what your users are doing on your site analyze your logs, that's what they are there for.
5. Add dimensions to your HTML - If you know what the dimensions are of any images, cells, or anything else then specify them. The browser can use that information and start rendering faster without waiting to receive that information or having to redraw the page. I hate getting part way down a page and it gets redrawn because the final elements have loaded so I have to find my place again.
6. Serve images from the right place - Don't serve your images from an application server. That's not it's place. Create a graphics server and put your images there. It'll be much faster and take a lot of the load off of your application server. Around 2005 I was with a group that was hosting a Cold Fusion site that was really slow to load. I save the HTML and graphics from the main page and put the images in a temporary directory on a graphics server. I showed the project manager two versions of the HTML. One was pointing to the production server which got the images from Cold Fusion and the other got the images from the graphics server. The production server took about ten seconds to load while the graphics server was almost instantaneously. I've seen the same thing with Java application servers though not the same difference
7. Stop the modal pop-up - This won't speed up your site but please stop the modal pop-up. I'm not going to sign up for your newsletter, especially if I just landed on your site. And especially since you brought a pop-up asking me to.
When the lander touched down on the comet it was on the news and in the newspapers the next day. It was pretty popular in the social media too. The same thing happens if we put a robot on Mars. Remember how much attention Spirit and Opportunity got?
Now imagine how much people will be talking when the first person steps onto Mars. There will be billions of people looking at a live (delayed due to distance) feed. Every TV station will be showing it along with every news website. It will be the trending topic of every social media site. It would be like someone who hadn't heard of the end of WWII or the moon landing (even the deniers have heard of that).
So it's hard to see how someone would think that the movie is based on a true story when such a momentous event would be so widely known.
Skip the Walking Dead, ST-DS9, ST-Voyager. Stargate is okay but skip the follow on series. Watch the episode Blink from Doctor Who which was the best one. Then listen to the Doctor Who radio dramas from Big Finish. They are much better than the series, especially the last couple of seasons. The previous Doctors are featured in them. If you want a good sci-fi show I would recommend Babylon 5. The graphics are getting dated but the storyline and characters are great. I don't like Star Trek because for the most part it's the same characters in different stories every week. There's a weak storyline throughout the series. In B5 you can have something that lasts 30 seconds in one episode becoming a major storyline in another episode. And there's a strong story throughout the first four seasons. The fifth season isn't that great. They didn't know if there was going to be a fifth when they finished the fourth so they had to close the main storyline pretty quick and that left the fifth season a bit empty.
Do they hold your hand in college in the US? When I was at university almost everything was self study. The professor and the teaching assistants are available to aid you if you run into trouble but you had to show that you put some effort in first.
In the final year you have a project that is completely on your own. There is no class. You have a professor to which you submit a project proposal and the finished project. They are available to provide guidance (is the project too ambitious to do in a year, where you might get some information, etc).
My experience is from science and engineering so I don't know what the arts was like.