Warehouse inventory. Instead of dragging around a laptop on a cart, you can carry this in your hand outfitted with a barcode scanner.
Any other kind of inventory system. I was recently at a large chain supermarket after hours and some employee was checking barcodes in the aisles with a laptop on a cart. Perfect place for this type of machine.
I'm working on a system that does the exact same thing except that it's PocketPC-based with built-in wireless (802.11 and GPRS).
1GHz is a huge overkill for something like this. Although our current system is an embedded VB app, the next version is going to be.Net, Java or web-based.... and even then you won't need this kind of power.
The current specs we're using: ARM PXA255 processor with 64 MB split between ram/storage
Regarding the seizure of equipment, though. Why on Earth would they bother taking all of that equipment off-line to conduct their investigation? Whenever I deal with Federal level investigators, they always make an image of the hard drive and work off of that. They NEVER work off of the hard drives, themselves.
Exactly, in order to establish the non-tamperedness of the hardware, they *MUST* work off the images instead of actual. Imagine if some bad/new tech accidentally did a "rm -Rf". If they worked on the originals, then they could easily claim that the company did it.
The Macro-Evolutionary model (the transition from one species into another) is a THEORY which fits the observed phenomenon.
Like other models/theories in the past, it may be proven incorrect (see Copernicus' model of the Solar System) or more phenomenon may be discovered to support the theory. Unfortunately, since it occurs over such long periods of time or due to cataclysmic events, it is hard to make predictions and test it directly.
Therefore, Macro-Evolution is in itself *NOT* a "fact". It is a model/theory which fits a set if facts/phenomenon.
This was what I was trying to point out in the first place.
At no point did I dispute claim that humans released additional CO2 into the atmosphere. Even a single human would produce *some* additional CO2 than no humans.
If "evolution was accepted as fact" why would "Darwin advanced a theory to explain it"?
It is a THEORY or a FACT. It cannot be both.
The passing of genetic material and traits through offspring is obviously a fact. I don't dispute this at all. This has been demonstrated and seen time and time again. This is called "micro-evolution".
If you are speaking of the transformation of species into another species, we have what is generally classified as "macro-evolution". This is the theory part which I was pointing out.
Nope, I'm saying that people can twist the interpretation of facts according to their agenda.
This is why non-white people were "proven" to be inferior during the 1700's and 1800's. Obviously this is BS. These "proofs" were developed in accordance with the prevelant beliefs of the day and are unfortunately still believed by some nuts.
I simply listed a few specific cases that I knew about and if you read the post you'll notice that I ask if there are others that I'm missing.
There are two separate ideas that fall under the name "evolution."
Yes, you are correct.
In simplified terms, there is micro-evolution and macro-evolution.
Micro-evolution is quite simple to see. Some people have cited insects becoming resistant to pesticides and other simple things along those lines. Small changes that happen in a population and propogate.
Macro-evolution is the transition of one species into another species. Articles referenced here only discuss archeoptryx (sp?) as one such transitional species. But one single instance of something is NOT proof.
So called "Conclusive" proof such as Lucy, the Piltdown Man and others have been thouroughly repudiated, are there others that I'm missing?
Semi-interestingly, the USSR had problems with Darwinian evolution too. Obviously not because of belief in creationism, but because they felt it went against communist ideals.
Actually Darwinism goes directly against communist ideals. It DEPENDS on there being differences and on one group (species) benefiting from those differences while others suffer and die from not having those differences.
ie. "Suvival of the fittest"
Darwinism and Communism can't get along. You can't believe that "everyone is treated equally" and at the same time say "all life came from evolution".
There is no such thing as the "fact of evolution". You should really check your sources on that one. It's called a theory for a reason.
Do you have any numbers to describe how much CO2 is released into the atmosphere by humans every year?
Do you have any numbers to describe how much CO2 is released into the atmosphere by nature every year?
Now you have to compare the two. Which one is larger? Is the smaller one of significant size compared to the larger one?
I think your "at an alarming rate" is a meaningless statement. I'm not disputing that climate change happens. It happened when the dinosaurs were wiped out.... and mammals took over.
There will be climate change. We can't prevent that without fundamentally changing how the Earth has changed over the past.
I don't mean this as flamebait, but how about keeping a medium-sized notebook with you all the time.
I'll second this one. I kept a notebook for about 3 years of these sorts of things. I always dated the pages too in order to establish when I came up with things.
In the last year or so, I've created a small mysql database where I can jot down notes, mark entries as "related to" other entries. It's not perfect but phpMyAdmin is mind-bogglingly simple to use.
This lays out some rules incredibly clearly... some of the rules will cause you to say "Duh, that's obvious" but there will be others that make you say "Doh, I should have been doing this already!"
Yes, I believe computer engineering is much more closely related to electric engineering. You are dealing with mostly hardware. They normally cover software too, but probably not beyond Assembly and C.
The CO's at my undergrad (a small, very well-respected eng school in the midwest) were VERY different from both the EE's and the CS's. They were sort of the bastard children of each department...
They didn't take the Emag Fields, Emag Waves, or Analog Analysis that the EE's took, so we didn't consider them "one of us", but they didn't take the deep CS classes that would make them one of them.
They took quite a bit in terms of architecture, interfacing, and numerous languages (c, assembly, java).
I'm looking for 2 people (dev guys with some asp or java exp). Unfortunately, we find out that most of the resumes that we get are total bull as soon as we ask the candidate our first question.
New grads can be worse... Come on guys, atleast list class projects instead of your "Extensive Customer Experience" at McDonalds. Your resume has to be interesting enough that someone WANTS to talk to you.
Ideally, if you can have someone else keep them and/or have timestamps, it's even better.
I interned for a guy during the summer of 2000. he paid me for the first half of the summer, but not the second half. The state I was in allowed damages to be 200% of the original wages, plus attorney's fees, plus damages.
After 2+ years, I just didn't care anymore. I had graduated from college, had a real job, and had pretty well moved on with my life. So I went for my wages plus attorney's fees and got it.
Another year later (2 months ago) when I was getting my background check, they contacted him. Needless to say, he torpedoed me... which caused me to lose my job. I since have a new job (in 27 days), but I know to never even mention his company's name and/or his name.
Beware, if you go after this company, be sure to have one point of contact who can and will speak positively about your work there
Slashdot Mirror
Good call. Someone did an "ask slashdot" about pc diagnostics and I mentioned this one.
The rules are really pretty straightforward and simple... that's why I think they need to be repeated every so often.
Warehouse inventory. Instead of dragging around a laptop on a cart, you can carry this in your hand outfitted with a barcode scanner.
.Net, Java or web-based.... and even then you won't need this kind of power.
Any other kind of inventory system. I was recently at a large chain supermarket after hours and some employee was checking barcodes in the aisles with a laptop on a cart. Perfect place for this type of machine.
I'm working on a system that does the exact same thing except that it's PocketPC-based with built-in wireless (802.11 and GPRS).
1GHz is a huge overkill for something like this. Although our current system is an embedded VB app, the next version is going to be
The current specs we're using:
ARM PXA255 processor with 64 MB split between ram/storage
Regarding the seizure of equipment, though. Why on Earth would they bother taking all of that equipment off-line to conduct their investigation? Whenever I deal with Federal level investigators, they always make an image of the hard drive and work off of that. They NEVER work off of the hard drives, themselves.
Exactly, in order to establish the non-tamperedness of the hardware, they *MUST* work off the images instead of actual. Imagine if some bad/new tech accidentally did a "rm -Rf". If they worked on the originals, then they could easily claim that the company did it.
NO. STAY AWAY FROM XP.
That damn autoupdate pisses me off.
To recap those who are just joining us:
The Macro-Evolutionary model (the transition from one species into another) is a THEORY which fits the observed phenomenon.
Like other models/theories in the past, it may be proven incorrect (see Copernicus' model of the Solar System) or more phenomenon may be discovered to support the theory. Unfortunately, since it occurs over such long periods of time or due to cataclysmic events, it is hard to make predictions and test it directly.
Therefore, Macro-Evolution is in itself *NOT* a "fact". It is a model/theory which fits a set if facts/phenomenon.
This was what I was trying to point out in the first place.
mod parent up.
At no point did I dispute claim that humans released additional CO2 into the atmosphere. Even a single human would produce *some* additional CO2 than no humans.
I simply requested numbers to compare the two.
Thank you for some actual numbers.
If "evolution was accepted as fact" why would "Darwin advanced a theory to explain it"?
It is a THEORY or a FACT. It cannot be both.
The passing of genetic material and traits through offspring is obviously a fact. I don't dispute this at all. This has been demonstrated and seen time and time again. This is called "micro-evolution".
If you are speaking of the transformation of species into another species, we have what is generally classified as "macro-evolution". This is the theory part which I was pointing out.
Nope, I'm saying that people can twist the interpretation of facts according to their agenda.
This is why non-white people were "proven" to be inferior during the 1700's and 1800's. Obviously this is BS. These "proofs" were developed in accordance with the prevelant beliefs of the day and are unfortunately still believed by some nuts.
I simply listed a few specific cases that I knew about and if you read the post you'll notice that I ask if there are others that I'm missing.
I find it interesting that he only responded to the first line of my reply.
Either he:
* read no further,
* ignored the rest purposely, or
* does not have facts to support his assertion.
Unfortunately, we don't have enough information to determine which possibility is correct.
There are two separate ideas that fall under the name "evolution."
Yes, you are correct.
In simplified terms, there is micro-evolution and macro-evolution.
Micro-evolution is quite simple to see. Some people have cited insects becoming resistant to pesticides and other simple things along those lines. Small changes that happen in a population and propogate.
Macro-evolution is the transition of one species into another species. Articles referenced here only discuss archeoptryx (sp?) as one such transitional species. But one single instance of something is NOT proof.
So called "Conclusive" proof such as Lucy, the Piltdown Man and others have been thouroughly repudiated, are there others that I'm missing?
Semi-interestingly, the USSR had problems with Darwinian evolution too. Obviously not because of belief in creationism, but because they felt it went against communist ideals.
Actually Darwinism goes directly against communist ideals. It DEPENDS on there being differences and on one group (species) benefiting from those differences while others suffer and die from not having those differences.
ie. "Suvival of the fittest"
Darwinism and Communism can't get along. You can't believe that "everyone is treated equally" and at the same time say "all life came from evolution".
There is no such thing as the "fact of evolution". You should really check your sources on that one. It's called a theory for a reason.
Do you have any numbers to describe how much CO2 is released into the atmosphere by humans every year?
Do you have any numbers to describe how much CO2 is released into the atmosphere by nature every year?
Now you have to compare the two. Which one is larger? Is the smaller one of significant size compared to the larger one?
I think your "at an alarming rate" is a meaningless statement. I'm not disputing that climate change happens. It happened when the dinosaurs were wiped out.... and mammals took over.
There will be climate change. We can't prevent that without fundamentally changing how the Earth has changed over the past.
I don't mean this as flamebait, but how about keeping a medium-sized notebook with you all the time.
I'll second this one. I kept a notebook for about 3 years of these sorts of things. I always dated the pages too in order to establish when I came up with things.
In the last year or so, I've created a small mysql database where I can jot down notes, mark entries as "related to" other entries. It's not perfect but phpMyAdmin is mind-bogglingly simple to use.
Now I just need a way of representing the info...
Oh, and I forgot:
"Debugging : the nine indispensable rules for finding even the most elusive software and hardware problems"
Here's some reviews
This lays out some rules incredibly clearly... some of the rules will cause you to say "Duh, that's obvious" but there will be others that make you say "Doh, I should have been doing this already!"
My 0.02
Andy Hunt, of Pragmatic Programmer fame just released a series on Unit testing while emphacising *NOT* screwing productivity.
I just got to see a presentation from him this past Saturday. He's a sharp guy.
Psst. Read the review. He says that the author challenges this directly.
Yes, I believe computer engineering is much more closely related to electric engineering. You are dealing with mostly hardware. They normally cover software too, but probably not beyond Assembly and C.
The CO's at my undergrad (a small, very well-respected eng school in the midwest) were VERY different from both the EE's and the CS's. They were sort of the bastard children of each department...
They didn't take the Emag Fields, Emag Waves, or Analog Analysis that the EE's took, so we didn't consider them "one of us", but they didn't take the deep CS classes that would make them one of them.
They took quite a bit in terms of architecture, interfacing, and numerous languages (c, assembly, java).
I'll second much of this...
I'm looking for 2 people (dev guys with some asp or java exp). Unfortunately, we find out that most of the resumes that we get are total bull as soon as we ask the candidate our first question.
New grads can be worse... Come on guys, atleast list class projects instead of your "Extensive Customer Experience" at McDonalds. Your resume has to be interesting enough that someone WANTS to talk to you.
I lost my job on Nov 13th. After 6 interviews, I got 4 job offers and accepted a new job on Dec 5th.
Total time: 22 days
Of course, I'm a EE who can program numerous languages... not too different from my CO buddies.
No, eventually that 0.1% is going to build their own city in the mountains and escape while everyone else wipes themselves out.
If a cat can do your job, you better hope that your boss doesn't read
Before the categories were as developed as they are now, a college roommate picked up a "Play Staion" for cheap.
With the categories and the "Going Going Gone" auctions these don't stay hidden as easily, but they're still there.
Oops.
My bad, after further research, it is a state by state issue unless it crosses state lines (as in the Tripp/Lewinsky case).
Ideally, if you can have someone else keep them and/or have timestamps, it's even better.
I interned for a guy during the summer of 2000. he paid me for the first half of the summer, but not the second half. The state I was in allowed damages to be 200% of the original wages, plus attorney's fees, plus damages.
After 2+ years, I just didn't care anymore. I had graduated from college, had a real job, and had pretty well moved on with my life. So I went for my wages plus attorney's fees and got it.
Another year later (2 months ago) when I was getting my background check, they contacted him. Needless to say, he torpedoed me... which caused me to lose my job. I since have a new job (in 27 days), but I know to never even mention his company's name and/or his name.
Beware, if you go after this company, be sure to have one point of contact who can and will speak positively about your work there