31 OLD? LOLOLOL. I taught my dad to code in C when he was 68. He went on and founded a small software company. My college thesis advisor was awarded a Nobel Prize in 2001 - for work he did in his early 70's. I started programming professionally with my first coding job at age 50.
This reminds me of an incident that occured when I lived in the upstate NY snow belt. One year the city of Rochester got a really bad snowfall that ran as several blizzards over the course of about 3 weeks. During week one the city towed cars that were parked illegally to emergency parkng lots. During week two the lots filled up to the point where they were jammed solid and people couldn't get their cars out. During week three the city resorted to stacking the cars in the parking lots as much as 3 deep in order to keep the emergency snow routes open.
The films of the stacking operation were quite amazing. The people doing the stacking were NOT gentle with the cars.
What I did to solve this was to buy a used HP Jetdirect print server on EBay. I got mine for about $40, and have used it with 2 different printers. It works very well.
I decided a long time ago if I need a large vehicle on an infrequent basis it is way more sensible to rent one when I need it so I don't have to drive an extra 2000 ponds of metal around on the way to work, etc.
The station wagon is probably better for a number of reasons:
1. Less likely to run out of gas while sitting at the gas pump.
2. Less likely to cause you to exceed credit limit while refueling.
3. Less likely to roll over while on highway exit ramp.
4. Less likely to be targeted by thieves.
5. Less likely to use so much disposable income you have to shop at Target.
General Welfare is mentioned outside the preamble. For example Article 1, section 8.
As far as Madison's writings, the Federalist contains a lively debate between Hamilton and Madison as to the scope of the meaning of the words - the two primary authors didn't even agree. Citations that present only Madison's views are disingenious at best.
In fact even from the earliest days of the federal Government the Hamilton sense has been used :
Assuming they can't pick up a book and learn it yourself (imagine that!) - which he did, by the way.
This person hasn't. My experience in the work place is that self-taught programmers miss out in the area of applied math rather badly. For example they are almost always surprised by rounding errors in floating point calculations and do logical tests for equality of floating point numbers. They don't understand why some Java collections have larger memory requirements than others and run into trouble because of that.
I'm curious - do you have a specific anecdote to back up this generalization?
Sure. You saw it in the employment trough during the dot-bomb crash. Having a formal degree was pretty much an absolute requirement before getting an interview.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
We have this sort of thing where I work too. The person without a degree has built up a great deal of knowledge about the business rules and domain issues over the years and as such is very valuable to the company. Where they run into problems is anything more advanced than high school math, understanding of algorithms, etc. Also, their skill portability is very limited so getting laid off would likely be a bigger blow than if they had a better grounding in the maths.
Actually that is probably true in a lot of places especially in developed nations. Modern analytical techniques have become exquisitely refined to the point where parts per trillion can be routinely detected, and understanding of toxicology is far better leading to better pollution control. Some of the worst environmental disasters occured in the era of the 'Silent Spring' and earlier - the London smogs in the 1950's killed thousands of people.
I call bullshit. Modern humans excel in many feats of endurance such as rowing a boat across the Atlantic ocean, running a marathon at advanced age, marathon swimming and so on. One of the most impressive to me was the solo ascent of Everest without oxygen by Reinhold Messner in 1980.
That is a really really bad idea. If one country starts down that road, all will retaliate and follow, the result of which will be a huge impediment to international commerce that will cripple economic growth on a global scale. It is reminscint of the concept of a tarriff war which is always very destructive economically.
It's stupid to be mindlessly patriotic. However patriotism is not necessarily mindless. Common definitions of patriotism include self-sacrifice in order to improve the country in which you live - in other words place the interests of the community above one's own personal interests.
Consider the opposite of patriotism - placing your own personal interests above those of your nation or community. Surely this is not desireable.
Famous cases of patriotism include the "Philhellenes," western Europeans who fought in the Greek War of Independence, or the Americans who fought on the Allied side before the entry of their country into the First World War. Such cases call into question what we mean by "patriotism": for instance, was Lafayette an American patriot, or the Philhellenes Greek patriots?
What is evil is governments exploiting natural feelings of patriotism amoung their citizens to promote immoral causes. This exploitation has led to much harm. But this does not make patriotism itself a wrong - merely those who use it exploitively wrong.
Over the first half of this year I have been doing just that - pulling my money out of the markets and putting it into cash instruments. I think I am 90+% in cash at the moment. Interest rates are going up and I think the market is at or near the top of an economic cycle. The risk/reward for cash is much better than stocks right now.
Right now the stock market is not good because we are pobably at a market maximum. Plus you will probably want that money in a few years for a car or downpayment on a house. I'd suggest a good money market fund such as those offered by Vangaurd. They will pay a bit more interest than other cash investments plus your money will be liquid.
Once you graduate and get a job your priorities should be starting a 401K, paying off loans and building a rainy day fund (6 months income) as a cusion in case of unemployment.
Empirically it is difficult to tell if they are throttling you or just giving you lower priority. Personally I think it is the former because it seems to me that on occasion returned disks don't show up as returned when they should. A priority based system would probably only show slowdowns on the outbound side.
Some type A people really get bent out of shape with the idea that they are being throttled. I guess my personality is more relaxed - on the whole the service still works for me, even though I pretty much know I am being throttled.
That is exactly what I was thinking yesterday - my mother was recently diagnosed with a metastatic brain tumor, and while we can see the thing very well, all that wonderful imaging technology does is tell the doctor where it is. It does nothing to prevent it, and the treatment is still very crude - knives and protons.
Where is the application of these technologies to preventing the disease in the first place - genetic therapy, immune therapy, and so on?
We still fumble around with trying to predict the tertiary structure of a protein - we just do not have enough control of the biochemistry - once we have the ability to really target cancer we are still dancing around the margins.
The facile comments by the author of this article about doctors becoming obsolete show a complete lack of understanding of where the real problems are in current medicine.
Given how some of my UPS packages arrive looking like they were dragged to my house behind the truck, I would say that it is pretty likely that UPS is doing things to the batteries that my computer store doesn't.
I attended graduate school at Yale University. I got to learn from some truly great teachers, and have that experience to rely on for the rest of my life. I also benefit from being able to send my resume to just about any company and get an interview - I've never had a problem getting a job.
Because we are still bearing some of the scars of our brief skirmish with II-B English, it is natural that we should be enchanted by Mr. Bernard Shaw's current campaign for a simplified alphabet.
Obviously, as Mr. Shaw points out, English spelling is in much need of a general overhauling and streamlining. However, our own resistance to any change requiring a large expenditure of mental effort in the near future would cause us to view with some apprehension the possibility of some day receiving a morning paper printed in - to us - Greek.
Our own plan would achieve the same end as the legislation proposed by Mr. Shaw, but in a less shocking manner, as it consists merely of an acceleration of the normal processes by which the language is continually modernized.
As a catalytic agent, we would suggest that a National Easy Language Week be proclaimed, which the President would inaugurate, outlining some short cut to concentrate on during the week, and to be adopted during the ensuing year. All school children would be given a holiday, the lost time being the equivalent of that gained by the spelling short cut.
In 1946, for example, we would urge the elimination of the soft 'c', for which we would substitute 's'. Sertainly, such an improvement would be selebrated in all sivic-minded sircles as being suffisiently worth the trouble, and students in all sities in the land would be reseptive towards any change eliminating the nesessity of learning the differense between the two letters.
In 1947, sinse only the hard 'c' would be left, it would be possible to substitute 'k' for it, both letters being pronounsed identikally. Imagine how greatly only two years of this prosess would klarify the konfusion in the minds of students. Already we would have eliminated an entire letter from the alphabet.
Typewriters and linotypes, kould all be built with one less letter, and all the manpower and materials previously devoted to making 'c's kould be turned towards raising the national standard of living.
In the fase of so many notable improvements, it is easy to foresee that by 1948, 'National Easy Language Week' would be a pronounsed suksess. All skhool tshildren would be looking forward with konsiderable exsitement to the holiday, and in a blaze of national publisity it would be announsed that the double konsonant 'ph' no longer existed, and that the sound would henseforth be written 'f' in all words. This would make sutsh words as 'fonograf' twenty persent shorter in print.
By 1949, publik interest in a fonetik alfabet kan be expekted to have inkreased to the point where a more radikal step forward kan be taken without fear of undue kritisism. We would therefore urge the elimination, at that time of al unesesary double leters, whitsh, although quite harmles, have always been a nuisanse in the language and a desided deterent to akurate speling. Try it yourself in the next leter you write, and see if both writing and reading are not fasilitated.
With so mutsh progres already made, it might be posible in 1950 to delve further into the posibilities of fonetik speling. After due konsideration of the reseption aforded the previous steps, it should be expedient by this time to spel al difthongs fonetikaly. Most students do not realize that the long 'i' and 'y', as in 'time' and 'by', are aktualy the difthong 'ai', as it is writen in 'aisle', and that the long 'a' in 'fate', is in reality the difthong 'ei' as in 'rein'. Although perhaps not imediately aparent, the saving in taime and efort wil be tremendous when we leiter elimineite the sailent 'e', as meide posible bai this last tsheinge.
For, as is wel known, the horible mes of 'e's apearing in our written language is kaused prinsipaly bai the present nesesity of indikeiting whether a vowel is long or short. Therefore, in 1951 we kould simply eliminate al sailent 'e's, and kontinu to read and wrait merily along as though we wer in an atomik ag of edukation.
In 1951 we would urg a greit step forward. Sins bai this taim it w
This is certainly a step forward for users everywhere, but what about MS-Project? There is no open interoperability between MS Project and any other tools at all.
Eh - I used to work with highly crosslinked polymers where the net weight of the container was actually the molecular weight. So it isn't IMPOSSIBLE for the container size to affect the molecular weight.
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31 OLD? LOLOLOL. I taught my dad to code in C when he was 68. He went on and founded a small software company. My college thesis advisor was awarded a Nobel Prize in 2001 - for work he did in his early 70's. I started programming professionally with my first coding job at age 50.
This reminds me of an incident that occured when I lived in the upstate NY snow belt. One year the city of Rochester got a really bad snowfall that ran as several blizzards over the course of about 3 weeks. During week one the city towed cars that were parked illegally to emergency parkng lots. During week two the lots filled up to the point where they were jammed solid and people couldn't get their cars out. During week three the city resorted to stacking the cars in the parking lots as much as 3 deep in order to keep the emergency snow routes open.
The films of the stacking operation were quite amazing. The people doing the stacking were NOT gentle with the cars.
What I did to solve this was to buy a used HP Jetdirect print server on EBay. I got mine for about $40, and have used it with 2 different printers. It works very well.
I decided a long time ago if I need a large vehicle on an infrequent basis it is way more sensible to rent one when I need it so I don't have to drive an extra 2000 ponds of metal around on the way to work, etc.
The station wagon is probably better for a number of reasons:
1. Less likely to run out of gas while sitting at the gas pump.
2. Less likely to cause you to exceed credit limit while refueling.
3. Less likely to roll over while on highway exit ramp.
4. Less likely to be targeted by thieves.
5. Less likely to use so much disposable income you have to shop at Target.
General Welfare is mentioned outside the preamble. For example Article 1, section 8.
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As far as Madison's writings, the Federalist contains a lively debate between Hamilton and Madison as to the scope of the meaning of the words - the two primary authors didn't even agree. Citations that present only Madison's views are disingenious at best.
In fact even from the earliest days of the federal Government the Hamilton sense has been used :
http://straylight.law.cornell.edu/usc-cgi/get_ext
To be honest it is ridiculous to try to present the Madisonian view of this clause - the US has never been governed in this manner.
Assuming they can't pick up a book and learn it yourself (imagine that!) - which he did, by the way.
This person hasn't. My experience in the work place is that self-taught programmers miss out in the area of applied math rather badly. For example they are almost always surprised by rounding errors in floating point calculations and do logical tests for equality of floating point numbers. They don't understand why some Java collections have larger memory requirements than others and run into trouble because of that.
I'm curious - do you have a specific anecdote to back up this generalization?
Sure. You saw it in the employment trough during the dot-bomb crash. Having a formal degree was pretty much an absolute requirement before getting an interview.
There is no constitutional authority.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
We have this sort of thing where I work too. The person without a degree has built up a great deal of knowledge about the business rules and domain issues over the years and as such is very valuable to the company. Where they run into problems is anything more advanced than high school math, understanding of algorithms, etc. Also, their skill portability is very limited so getting laid off would likely be a bigger blow than if they had a better grounding in the maths.
Actually that is probably true in a lot of places especially in developed nations. Modern analytical techniques have become exquisitely refined to the point where parts per trillion can be routinely detected, and understanding of toxicology is far better leading to better pollution control. Some of the worst environmental disasters occured in the era of the 'Silent Spring' and earlier - the London smogs in the 1950's killed thousands of people.
I call bullshit. Modern humans excel in many feats of endurance such as rowing a boat across the Atlantic ocean, running a marathon at advanced age, marathon swimming and so on. One of the most impressive to me was the solo ascent of Everest without oxygen by Reinhold Messner in 1980.
That is a really really bad idea. If one country starts down that road, all will retaliate and follow, the result of which will be a huge impediment to international commerce that will cripple economic growth on a global scale. It is reminscint of the concept of a tarriff war which is always very destructive economically.
It isn't my definition. It is what you find on WordNet and similar internet sources.
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn2.1
Defining patriotism as pride in country is not at all consistent with the historical meaning of the word.
It's stupid to be mindlessly patriotic. However patriotism is not necessarily mindless. Common definitions of patriotism include self-sacrifice in order to improve the country in which you live - in other words place the interests of the community above one's own personal interests.
Consider the opposite of patriotism - placing your own personal interests above those of your nation or community. Surely this is not desireable.
Famous cases of patriotism include the "Philhellenes," western Europeans who fought in the Greek War of Independence, or the Americans who fought on the Allied side before the entry of their country into the First World War. Such cases call into question what we mean by "patriotism": for instance, was Lafayette an American patriot, or the Philhellenes Greek patriots?
What is evil is governments exploiting natural feelings of patriotism amoung their citizens to promote immoral causes. This exploitation has led to much harm. But this does not make patriotism itself a wrong - merely those who use it exploitively wrong.
Over the first half of this year I have been doing just that - pulling my money out of the markets and putting it into cash instruments. I think I am 90+% in cash at the moment. Interest rates are going up and I think the market is at or near the top of an economic cycle. The risk/reward for cash is much better than stocks right now.
Right now the stock market is not good because we are pobably at a market maximum. Plus you will probably want that money in a few years for a car or downpayment on a house. I'd suggest a good money market fund such as those offered by Vangaurd. They will pay a bit more interest than other cash investments plus your money will be liquid.
Once you graduate and get a job your priorities should be starting a 401K, paying off loans and building a rainy day fund (6 months income) as a cusion in case of unemployment.
Its competitors are the Power64 chip and Sun's latest and greatest -not some $300 chip you buy at Fry's.
That's what Intel wants you to think. In the real world X64 clusters are eating the lunch of big iron UNIX.
The Itanium is a marginal competitor in a space that is losing market share. Waste of corporate resources IMHO.
Empirically it is difficult to tell if they are throttling you or just giving you lower priority. Personally I think it is the former because it seems to me that on occasion returned disks don't show up as returned when they should. A priority based system would probably only show slowdowns on the outbound side.
Some type A people really get bent out of shape with the idea that they are being throttled. I guess my personality is more relaxed - on the whole the service still works for me, even though I pretty much know I am being throttled.
That is exactly what I was thinking yesterday - my mother was recently diagnosed with a metastatic brain tumor, and while we can see the thing very well, all that wonderful imaging technology does is tell the doctor where it is. It does nothing to prevent it, and the treatment is still very crude - knives and protons.
Where is the application of these technologies to preventing the disease in the first place - genetic therapy, immune therapy, and so on?
We still fumble around with trying to predict the tertiary structure of a protein - we just do not have enough control of the biochemistry - once we have the ability to really target cancer we are still dancing around the margins.
The facile comments by the author of this article about doctors becoming obsolete show a complete lack of understanding of where the real problems are in current medicine.
Given how some of my UPS packages arrive looking like they were dragged to my house behind the truck, I would say that it is pretty likely that UPS is doing things to the batteries that my computer store doesn't.
I attended graduate school at Yale University. I got to learn from some truly great teachers, and have that experience to rely on for the rest of my life. I also benefit from being able to send my resume to just about any company and get an interview - I've never had a problem getting a job.
I TOLD them that they should use Windows ME as an operating system for this thing.
Because we are still bearing some of the scars of our brief skirmish with II-B English, it is natural that we should be enchanted by Mr. Bernard Shaw's current campaign for a simplified alphabet.
Obviously, as Mr. Shaw points out, English spelling is in much need of a general overhauling and streamlining. However, our own resistance to any change requiring a large expenditure of mental effort in the near future would cause us to view with some apprehension the possibility of some day receiving a morning paper printed in - to us - Greek.
Our own plan would achieve the same end as the legislation proposed by Mr. Shaw, but in a less shocking manner, as it consists merely of an acceleration of the normal processes by which the language is continually modernized.
As a catalytic agent, we would suggest that a National Easy Language Week be proclaimed, which the President would inaugurate, outlining some short cut to concentrate on during the week, and to be adopted during the ensuing year. All school children would be given a holiday, the lost time being the equivalent of that gained by the spelling short cut.
In 1946, for example, we would urge the elimination of the soft 'c', for which we would substitute 's'. Sertainly, such an improvement would be selebrated in all sivic-minded sircles as being suffisiently worth the trouble, and students in all sities in the land would be reseptive towards any change eliminating the nesessity of learning the differense between the two letters.
In 1947, sinse only the hard 'c' would be left, it would be possible to substitute 'k' for it, both letters being pronounsed identikally. Imagine how greatly only two years of this prosess would klarify the konfusion in the minds of students. Already we would have eliminated an entire letter from the alphabet.
Typewriters and linotypes, kould all be built with one less letter, and all the manpower and materials previously devoted to making 'c's kould be turned towards raising the national standard of living.
In the fase of so many notable improvements, it is easy to foresee that by 1948, 'National Easy Language Week' would be a pronounsed suksess. All skhool tshildren would be looking forward with konsiderable exsitement to the holiday, and in a blaze of national publisity it would be announsed that the double konsonant 'ph' no longer existed, and that the sound would henseforth be written 'f' in all words. This would make sutsh words as 'fonograf' twenty persent shorter in print.
By 1949, publik interest in a fonetik alfabet kan be expekted to have inkreased to the point where a more radikal step forward kan be taken without fear of undue kritisism. We would therefore urge the elimination, at that time of al unesesary double leters, whitsh, although quite harmles, have always been a nuisanse in the language and a desided deterent to akurate speling. Try it yourself in the next leter you write, and see if both writing and reading are not fasilitated.
With so mutsh progres already made, it might be posible in 1950 to delve further into the posibilities of fonetik speling. After due konsideration of the reseption aforded the previous steps, it should be expedient by this time to spel al difthongs fonetikaly. Most students do not realize that the long 'i' and 'y', as in 'time' and 'by', are aktualy the difthong 'ai', as it is writen in 'aisle', and that the long 'a' in 'fate', is in reality the difthong 'ei' as in 'rein'. Although perhaps not imediately aparent, the saving in taime and efort wil be tremendous when we leiter elimineite the sailent 'e', as meide posible bai this last tsheinge.
For, as is wel known, the horible mes of 'e's apearing in our written language is kaused prinsipaly bai the present nesesity of indikeiting whether a vowel is long or short. Therefore, in 1951 we kould simply eliminate al sailent 'e's, and kontinu to read and wrait merily along as though we wer in an atomik ag of edukation.
In 1951 we would urg a greit step forward. Sins bai this taim it w
This is certainly a step forward for users everywhere, but what about MS-Project? There is no open interoperability between MS Project and any other tools at all.
Eh - I used to work with highly crosslinked polymers where the net weight of the container was actually the molecular weight. So it isn't IMPOSSIBLE for the container size to affect the molecular weight.