Right, that's why I wouldn't recommend jumping straight to Danish (unless you really like those shows), but it seems that once you're fluent in German, picking up another Germanic language wouldn't be as difficult, plus even if you don't become fluent in that 3rd language, knowing German will help you learn enough of it to, for instance, make your vacation in Sweden a little easier and more enjoyable.
I'd suggest German. It's a highly industrialized country that makes a ton of high-value engineered goods, there's quite a bit of programming going on there (the KDE project was originally German, for instance), and it's also fairly easy for English-speakers to learn since English is a Germanic language and is still very similar to German in many ways. I'd guess it's actually the easiest foreign language for English speakers to learn for this reason.
Spanish isn't really that useful: sure, there's tons of Spanish speakers in the Americas, but they're far down the socioeconomic ladder, and Spanish-speaking Latin American countries (which excludes Brazil BTW) are generally economic cesspools, not places with lots of IT industry or even many educated people. If you want to have a conversation with your office's janitor, it'd be a good language to learn, but that's about all it's going to do for you in the US. Spanish also isn't quite so easy to learn as it's very different from English in many key ways. It has an extremely low information density (the amount of information per syllable is among the lowest in the world), and makes up for it by forcing speakers to spew syllables at a ridiculously high rate, which can be difficult to get used to when you're learning. German's information density and speaking rate is pretty close to English, by contrast, and doesn't have many sounds that are difficult for English-speakers to vocalize, unlike the mandatory rolled-Rs in Spanish.
On top of that, German is very close to the Scandinavian languages (Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish), and those are also highly industrialized countries with a lot of programming and engineering work, and also the highest living standards in the world. Once you've learned German, becoming conversational in one of those languages won't be hard (or Dutch, another language closely related to German). And if you ever travel to Europe, it'll probably be helpful knowing some German if you go to any of these countries. Traveling to a Spanish-speaking country other than Spain is not a very safe thing to do, due to the huge amount of drug-related violence and K&R in Latin America.
Not only that, but the UK isn't exactly famous for being a giant hotspot for programmers, unlike, say, Silicon Valley. If you want to be fluent in the best language/dialect for programming, it's easily American English, since the USA leads the world in programming. The 2nd-best dialect would probably be Indian English (which is NOT the same as UK English), since there's a bunch of programming going on there too, but they're very friendly with their American teammates these days so the two can understand each other just fine.
Sorry, but the sun set on the British Empire ages ago, and the Brits are just a bunch of has-beens now, and have been for a long time. The only thing they're really excelling at these days is finance, since the London Stock Exchange is located there and is very important in European financial matters, but that's about it, except maybe for aircraft engines.
Even if 3D printing were at that point (which it isn't, and won't be for at least a century or four), if we're talking about an extremely large part, such as a giant magnet, it's not just the manufacturing of the part that's a big problem, it's getting the thing installed. It's probably sorta like trying to replace the front strut tower in a car: I'm not talking about the strut/shock itself, I'm talking about the sheetmetal part of the chassis where that shock/strut has to mount, and even though it's an integral part of the car's welded chassis, has to be put together with sub-millimeter precision. Replacing that part is not a trivial task at all, and generally if it's damaged the car is "totaled". Maybe replacing supercollider magnets isn't quite that difficult, I don't know, but it's a lot easier to just build your collider in a seismically stable location than to worry about such things, instead of picking one of the most earthquake-prone places on the planet.
So? Ebay's worldwide, so unless you live someplace where there's very few Ebay users, it's still a good place to unload things. It's quite popular in Canada, the UK, etc.
Alberta isn't exactly the most populated part of Canada; the Toronto and Montreal areas in the east are much more populated. The other provinces are pretty small by comparison. There's only about 1.2M people in the metro areas of Edmonton and Calgary (each). So no, it's not the 3rd world by any means, but it's much smaller in population than either Ontario or Quebec, and it isn't exactly known for a lot of leading universities. And unlike Switzerland, it may not be that easy to get appropriately skilled people (esp. scientists) to want to move there, as the area has a lot of things going against it (bitter cold, lack of proximity to major world-class cities (no, Calgary doesn't count, Vancouver does but that's a long drive), reputation as a very socially conservative area, etc.).
Truth is stranger than fiction, and as "Goose in Orbit" points out, there's the real-world WBC, who are probably worse than any religious nuts I've ever seen in any movie.
Interesting, I didn't know that. But again, one decent University (which probably doesn't do much in particle physics) in driveable distance doesn't seem sufficient.
I believe on some Cisco routers, they recommend reducing the transmit power to 50% in the dd-wrt forums to keep the radio from overheating, because the unit has insufficient cooling.
Huh? Floppies were never reliable? When did you start using computers, 1996?
Back in the 80s, floppies were ridiculously reliable, and into the early 90s. After storage sizes increased, and floppy drive makers and floppy disk makers started cutting corners because floppy drives became a rarely-used afterthought, floppy drives and disks did indeed become extremely unreliable. But back when they were the primary storage method for home computers, they rarely had any problems, even with extremely frequent usage (remember, on systems like the Apple ][, there was no hard drive, and the floppies were the only storage used).
Doesn't matter: if you already own the hardware, and the software on it is crap, then it's far cheaper to download DD-WRT and install that than to go buy a brand-new router and hope it works better. Besides, even if you go out and spend $100+ on a brand-new router, how do you know it won't have a lot of problems too? You probably thought that when you bought the Linksys unit, and obviously that was a mistake. Trying an alternative firmware is free.
If you don't have compatible hardware, and you're cheap, you can also do what I did: buy something used on Ebay. That's how I got my Cisco/Linksys E1000 for $10-15, which runs great with DD-WRT. Just be really careful you're getting a hardware revision that runs DD-WRT properly; this takes a little research on DD-WRT's website. The hardware makers (all of them, not just Cisco/Linksys) constantly monkey with their hardware, making new revisions, some of which run alternative firmware great, and others which don't. If the seller's ad doesn't show the HW revision, ask him; if he doesn't know, don't buy it, because it's probably the one that doesn't support DD-WRT. The ones that do usually get bid up more.
I have a Cisco/Linksys E1000, and it's excellent. I never have any problems with it.
It cost about $10-15 on Ebay, and it runs DD-WRT. When you buy used hardware on Ebay, make sure to get a hardware revision that runs DD-WRT, because not all do.
Honestly, unless they have a markedly better plan, they might well be best off to just milk the hell out of the high end for as long as they can and then quit and go sit on their pile of money.
Except that that never seems to be a viable plan for any publicly-owned corporation: shareholders always want them to grow (or at least, maintain size and return a healthy dividend). So they keep trying to compete, even when they're hopelessly obsolete, and eventually die out, with all the remaining shareholders getting screwed over in the process.
It can't be built in the USA: we tried this before, about 20 years ago, and it was a disaster. The same thing would happen here: a new President would get elected and suddenly funding would be dropped and the project would never be finished. The USA needs to be left out of all serious science projects like this: we've proven we're simply not capable of following through with any large projects any more.
It certainly can't be built in the USA. We tried that before, and it was a complete disaster. If we tried it again, the same thing would surely happen: a new party would get elected and suddenly funding would be dropped and the project would just be left unfinished.
It needs to be built in a nation that's serious about science and about completing the projects it starts.
Did you never see the movie Contact, where some religious nuts sabotaged the multi-billion dollar project because it was "against God's will"? Kansas and Amarillo are full of people exactly like that.
You don't have to worry about religious extremists in Finland or other parts of Europe.
Sure, buildings in Japan are highly earthquake-resistant, however that comes at a cost. Particle colliders are already ridiculously expensive to build; surely making it able to withstand a magnitude-9 quake is going to make it far, far more expensive. Why not build it someplace that doesn't ever get magnitude-9 quakes, such as Europe? When was the last time a quake of any significant magnitude hit Europe? Plus, there's world class universities and scientists there too, easy access for foreign nationals, willing governments, and a population that doesn't hate science unlike the USA.
Probably not; a serious browser vulnerability could still lead to some sort of malware infection, in theory. However, since the user almost never runs the browser as root on Linux, the malware could only affect that user's account (barring a second, privilege-escalation vulnerability that the malware knows about and can take advantage of) rather than the whole system, but for a single-user system that's probably cold comfort. But more importantly, with the underlying OS being different than the other two OSes which have much greater marketshare and popularity, and also possibly some of the system-dependent code in the browser being different OS-to-OS, a vulnerability in Browser X on Windows, exploited by Malware A, probably isn't going to be a problem on Linux, and the malware authors are unlikely to bother making a Linux version since so many more people use Windows and Mac. Of course, with mobile OSes becoming so popular, both iOS and Android are probably going to be targeted by malware too, but even in the case of Android, the system is very different from Linux (aside from the kernel, which is nearly identical), so Android vulnerabilities are unlikely to affect Linux.
Don't be stupid. Even the biggest moron knows that buying a reliable car (versus an unreliable car) isn't going to protect you from a speeding dump truck or other road hazards, but that it's still smart to pick a reliable car so you don't have to deal with too many mechanical failures. It's the same way here.
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Right, that's why I wouldn't recommend jumping straight to Danish (unless you really like those shows), but it seems that once you're fluent in German, picking up another Germanic language wouldn't be as difficult, plus even if you don't become fluent in that 3rd language, knowing German will help you learn enough of it to, for instance, make your vacation in Sweden a little easier and more enjoyable.
I'd suggest German. It's a highly industrialized country that makes a ton of high-value engineered goods, there's quite a bit of programming going on there (the KDE project was originally German, for instance), and it's also fairly easy for English-speakers to learn since English is a Germanic language and is still very similar to German in many ways. I'd guess it's actually the easiest foreign language for English speakers to learn for this reason.
Spanish isn't really that useful: sure, there's tons of Spanish speakers in the Americas, but they're far down the socioeconomic ladder, and Spanish-speaking Latin American countries (which excludes Brazil BTW) are generally economic cesspools, not places with lots of IT industry or even many educated people. If you want to have a conversation with your office's janitor, it'd be a good language to learn, but that's about all it's going to do for you in the US. Spanish also isn't quite so easy to learn as it's very different from English in many key ways. It has an extremely low information density (the amount of information per syllable is among the lowest in the world), and makes up for it by forcing speakers to spew syllables at a ridiculously high rate, which can be difficult to get used to when you're learning. German's information density and speaking rate is pretty close to English, by contrast, and doesn't have many sounds that are difficult for English-speakers to vocalize, unlike the mandatory rolled-Rs in Spanish.
On top of that, German is very close to the Scandinavian languages (Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish), and those are also highly industrialized countries with a lot of programming and engineering work, and also the highest living standards in the world. Once you've learned German, becoming conversational in one of those languages won't be hard (or Dutch, another language closely related to German). And if you ever travel to Europe, it'll probably be helpful knowing some German if you go to any of these countries. Traveling to a Spanish-speaking country other than Spain is not a very safe thing to do, due to the huge amount of drug-related violence and K&R in Latin America.
Not only that, but the UK isn't exactly famous for being a giant hotspot for programmers, unlike, say, Silicon Valley. If you want to be fluent in the best language/dialect for programming, it's easily American English, since the USA leads the world in programming. The 2nd-best dialect would probably be Indian English (which is NOT the same as UK English), since there's a bunch of programming going on there too, but they're very friendly with their American teammates these days so the two can understand each other just fine.
Sorry, but the sun set on the British Empire ages ago, and the Brits are just a bunch of has-beens now, and have been for a long time. The only thing they're really excelling at these days is finance, since the London Stock Exchange is located there and is very important in European financial matters, but that's about it, except maybe for aircraft engines.
Even if 3D printing were at that point (which it isn't, and won't be for at least a century or four), if we're talking about an extremely large part, such as a giant magnet, it's not just the manufacturing of the part that's a big problem, it's getting the thing installed. It's probably sorta like trying to replace the front strut tower in a car: I'm not talking about the strut/shock itself, I'm talking about the sheetmetal part of the chassis where that shock/strut has to mount, and even though it's an integral part of the car's welded chassis, has to be put together with sub-millimeter precision. Replacing that part is not a trivial task at all, and generally if it's damaged the car is "totaled". Maybe replacing supercollider magnets isn't quite that difficult, I don't know, but it's a lot easier to just build your collider in a seismically stable location than to worry about such things, instead of picking one of the most earthquake-prone places on the planet.
So? Ebay's worldwide, so unless you live someplace where there's very few Ebay users, it's still a good place to unload things. It's quite popular in Canada, the UK, etc.
Alberta isn't exactly the most populated part of Canada; the Toronto and Montreal areas in the east are much more populated. The other provinces are pretty small by comparison. There's only about 1.2M people in the metro areas of Edmonton and Calgary (each). So no, it's not the 3rd world by any means, but it's much smaller in population than either Ontario or Quebec, and it isn't exactly known for a lot of leading universities. And unlike Switzerland, it may not be that easy to get appropriately skilled people (esp. scientists) to want to move there, as the area has a lot of things going against it (bitter cold, lack of proximity to major world-class cities (no, Calgary doesn't count, Vancouver does but that's a long drive), reputation as a very socially conservative area, etc.).
Truth is stranger than fiction, and as "Goose in Orbit" points out, there's the real-world WBC, who are probably worse than any religious nuts I've ever seen in any movie.
Interesting, I didn't know that. But again, one decent University (which probably doesn't do much in particle physics) in driveable distance doesn't seem sufficient.
Or sell it on Ebay. There's always someone on there who'll buy something like that, as long as you start the bidding at $0.99.
I believe on some Cisco routers, they recommend reducing the transmit power to 50% in the dd-wrt forums to keep the radio from overheating, because the unit has insufficient cooling.
Huh? Floppies were never reliable? When did you start using computers, 1996?
Back in the 80s, floppies were ridiculously reliable, and into the early 90s. After storage sizes increased, and floppy drive makers and floppy disk makers started cutting corners because floppy drives became a rarely-used afterthought, floppy drives and disks did indeed become extremely unreliable. But back when they were the primary storage method for home computers, they rarely had any problems, even with extremely frequent usage (remember, on systems like the Apple ][, there was no hard drive, and the floppies were the only storage used).
Sell it on Ebay. There's always some sucker on there that'll buy whatever you don't want any more.
Doesn't matter: if you already own the hardware, and the software on it is crap, then it's far cheaper to download DD-WRT and install that than to go buy a brand-new router and hope it works better. Besides, even if you go out and spend $100+ on a brand-new router, how do you know it won't have a lot of problems too? You probably thought that when you bought the Linksys unit, and obviously that was a mistake. Trying an alternative firmware is free.
If you don't have compatible hardware, and you're cheap, you can also do what I did: buy something used on Ebay. That's how I got my Cisco/Linksys E1000 for $10-15, which runs great with DD-WRT. Just be really careful you're getting a hardware revision that runs DD-WRT properly; this takes a little research on DD-WRT's website. The hardware makers (all of them, not just Cisco/Linksys) constantly monkey with their hardware, making new revisions, some of which run alternative firmware great, and others which don't. If the seller's ad doesn't show the HW revision, ask him; if he doesn't know, don't buy it, because it's probably the one that doesn't support DD-WRT. The ones that do usually get bid up more.
I have a Cisco/Linksys E1000, and it's excellent. I never have any problems with it.
It cost about $10-15 on Ebay, and it runs DD-WRT. When you buy used hardware on Ebay, make sure to get a hardware revision that runs DD-WRT, because not all do.
Have you tried DD-WRT on your WRT120N?
I had one of the oldest ones, a BEFSR41, 4-port router (non-wireless); it was supremely reliable. I never had to reboot it that I can recall.
Honestly, unless they have a markedly better plan, they might well be best off to just milk the hell out of the high end for as long as they can and then quit and go sit on their pile of money.
Except that that never seems to be a viable plan for any publicly-owned corporation: shareholders always want them to grow (or at least, maintain size and return a healthy dividend). So they keep trying to compete, even when they're hopelessly obsolete, and eventually die out, with all the remaining shareholders getting screwed over in the process.
Once Microsoft drops support for Windows 7, you will be upgrading. Trust me. Or get left behind by the business community.
Yes, just like the business community all adopted Windows Vista so quickly and everyone had to move to that or get left behind.
Sounds like the Moon would be a better location than any place on Earth: there's no geologic activity there at all, AFAIK.
It can't be built in the USA: we tried this before, about 20 years ago, and it was a disaster. The same thing would happen here: a new President would get elected and suddenly funding would be dropped and the project would never be finished. The USA needs to be left out of all serious science projects like this: we've proven we're simply not capable of following through with any large projects any more.
It certainly can't be built in the USA. We tried that before, and it was a complete disaster. If we tried it again, the same thing would surely happen: a new party would get elected and suddenly funding would be dropped and the project would just be left unfinished.
It needs to be built in a nation that's serious about science and about completing the projects it starts.
Did you never see the movie Contact, where some religious nuts sabotaged the multi-billion dollar project because it was "against God's will"? Kansas and Amarillo are full of people exactly like that.
You don't have to worry about religious extremists in Finland or other parts of Europe.
No universities or scientists in or near Alberta, and it's too close to the anti-science craziness of the USA.
Sure, buildings in Japan are highly earthquake-resistant, however that comes at a cost. Particle colliders are already ridiculously expensive to build; surely making it able to withstand a magnitude-9 quake is going to make it far, far more expensive. Why not build it someplace that doesn't ever get magnitude-9 quakes, such as Europe? When was the last time a quake of any significant magnitude hit Europe? Plus, there's world class universities and scientists there too, easy access for foreign nationals, willing governments, and a population that doesn't hate science unlike the USA.
Probably not; a serious browser vulnerability could still lead to some sort of malware infection, in theory. However, since the user almost never runs the browser as root on Linux, the malware could only affect that user's account (barring a second, privilege-escalation vulnerability that the malware knows about and can take advantage of) rather than the whole system, but for a single-user system that's probably cold comfort. But more importantly, with the underlying OS being different than the other two OSes which have much greater marketshare and popularity, and also possibly some of the system-dependent code in the browser being different OS-to-OS, a vulnerability in Browser X on Windows, exploited by Malware A, probably isn't going to be a problem on Linux, and the malware authors are unlikely to bother making a Linux version since so many more people use Windows and Mac. Of course, with mobile OSes becoming so popular, both iOS and Android are probably going to be targeted by malware too, but even in the case of Android, the system is very different from Linux (aside from the kernel, which is nearly identical), so Android vulnerabilities are unlikely to affect Linux.
Don't be stupid. Even the biggest moron knows that buying a reliable car (versus an unreliable car) isn't going to protect you from a speeding dump truck or other road hazards, but that it's still smart to pick a reliable car so you don't have to deal with too many mechanical failures. It's the same way here.