Skin cancer from the sun, wouldn't matter if you used CSP or PV to harvest, would still get skin cancer, so no correlation......UNLESS... You built yourself a nice PV covered patio, then used that to relax INSTEAD of speding too much time exposed to the sun!;D
For nuclear, only way to get increased cancer risk is radiation exposure is from contamination or direct exposure: is from nuclear bombs, nuclear reactors, or the rare direct exposure from nature (i.e. radon gas seeping up from basements in areas that have the risk).
Therefore, I say 'full speed ahead' on society increasing its use of Solar energy via PV, CSP, and such.
A little off topic, but my mind is stuck with this thought:
How many people use an Office software product? Billions+ How many people use an Operating System? Everyone with a PC, Billions+ How many people use a web browser? Billions+
Now
How many actual programmers (not including support staff, mgmt and such) does it take to write and maintain an office program suite, or single program, or web site? Perhaps 100 developers? Maybe even less, say 25? 10?
It is my opinion that the dot com bubble bursting, offshoring, and the equation of salary vs hours worked + stress is why people do not pursue programming as a profession.
So it seems it is not that people can't code, it is that there is no motivation to do it as a career.
Hobbyist programmers, or those that do it 'on the side' to their regular career (I am assuming many that participate in open source or linux-based software) will be able to code, but that they will not be counted as a full-time coder.
Google should create _an_alternative_ for bands to sign-up to, so they _do_not_have_to_ go through record labels at all.
My thought: youtube-ish or iTunes-ish where the consumer purchases and downloads songs, per song, and the band/artist gets the payments directly from google.
Audited by a neutral 3rd party too.
That would satisfy my opinion of "doing no evil";D
Anything that will track you, usually uses DNS, and not fixed IP addresses, so view your HTML source (when you can) and add those to your hosts file to 'block'
For example, I dislike some advertisers, so a snip of my hosts file: robert@pip:~$ sudo tail/etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 www.crackle.com 127.0.0.1 ads.revsci.net 127.0.0.1 cs.adxpansion.com...
When I go to slashdot.org/metamod, I no longer see the "+/-" buttons in the top leftmost corner of a comment when using Debian Stable's iceweasel v3.0.6.
Interestingly the "+/-" are appearing and working for slashdot.org/firehose....
Tried slashdot.org/metamod using Debian Stable's iceweasel v3.0.6
As of today the "+/-" buttons are appearing, as they do for firehose (yay!).
BUT, unlike firehose, when I do press either a '+' or '-' button in metamod, the system does not appear to take an action:/...at least not yet.
When I go to slashdot.org/metamod, I no longer see the "+/-" buttons in the top leftmost corner of a comment when using Debian Stable's iceweasel v3.0.6.
Interestingly the "+/-" are appearing and working for slashdot.org/firehose....
If the bus is in sun for most of its service day, then the extra kWh from roof mounted solar panels would help it run the HVAC and get a bit more range.
Some companies, or departments in companies do allow generous telecommuting from home.
Then the cubicle size matters less, and possibly would allow companies to have _larger_ cubicles for the few times an employee needs to use one (aka hotel-ing a workspace).
I only need to go to the office on Mondays in my current department. I telecommute the rest. It rocks.
The good thing about java, and J2EE, was the wealth of libraries that came with the JDK.
With C++, from what I remember (haven't professionally programmed with C++ in a decade) there was Boost, but the rest was using libraries available to the operating system itself, or doing a lot of research (like for libpurple).
Both are great languages, but Java was nice for having such a large available pool of things to work with.
Get hands-on as best you can. If paid, great. If not, seriously consider being a non-paid intern at a reputable corporation, city, or county department.
Once you can demonstrate your work ethic, eagerness to learn, social skills and IT skills... then it is my opinion things will go well for you.
"In the software industry, the only programmers really worth their salt that I've ever met were those who had the drive to train themselves. If you don't happen to have a passion for it, then you aren't going to be motivated to do it on your own. Those who self-train do it because they hvae a passion for it, and that same passion makes them good, and hirable by companies."
That seems fair.
"When I hear candidates who whine that they should be trained by employers, they often turn out to be lazy and disinterested and not very good *no matter how much* training you give them (and hence bad money you throw at them)."
This I disagree with a bit. Sometimes a good potential candidate can really shine given mentorship. Maybe they are right out of school, and school may not have prepared them in things like design patterns, or being new, they have not been exposed to the application-type that their job will support. With a good mentor, they can be guided by someone that has 'been there, done that' and the rewards will be win-win for the new employee and the company.
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Skin cancer from the sun, wouldn't matter if you used CSP or PV to harvest, would still get skin cancer, so no correlation... ...UNLESS... ;D
You built yourself a nice PV covered patio, then used that to relax INSTEAD of speding too much time exposed to the sun!
For nuclear, only way to get increased cancer risk is radiation exposure is from contamination or direct exposure: is from nuclear bombs, nuclear reactors, or the rare direct exposure from nature (i.e. radon gas seeping up from basements in areas that have the risk).
Therefore, I say 'full speed ahead' on society increasing its use of Solar energy via PV, CSP, and such.
There is already existing infrastructure and projects where people can donate their system's computational power: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
A little off topic, but my mind is stuck with this thought:
How many people use an Office software product? Billions+
How many people use an Operating System? Everyone with a PC, Billions+
How many people use a web browser? Billions+
Now
How many actual programmers (not including support staff, mgmt and such) does it take to write and maintain an office program suite, or single program, or web site? Perhaps 100 developers? Maybe even less, say 25? 10?
So, why would Johnny want to code?
It is my opinion that the dot com bubble bursting, offshoring, and the equation of salary vs hours worked + stress is why people do not pursue programming as a profession.
So it seems it is not that people can't code, it is that there is no motivation to do it as a career.
Hobbyist programmers, or those that do it 'on the side' to their regular career (I am assuming many that participate in open source or linux-based software) will be able to code, but that they will not be counted as a full-time coder.
:D
Google should create _an_alternative_ for bands to sign-up to, so they _do_not_have_to_ go through record labels at all.
My thought: youtube-ish or iTunes-ish where the consumer purchases and downloads songs, per song, and the band/artist gets the payments directly from google.
Audited by a neutral 3rd party too.
That would satisfy my opinion of "doing no evil" ;D
"It is a moral imperative" -- Real Genius
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/tsunami/
"Occurred at 23:32 JST 07 Apr 2011
Region name Miyagi-ken Oki
Depth about 40 km
Magnitude 7.4"
Anything that will track you, usually uses DNS, and not fixed IP addresses, so view your HTML source (when you can) and add those to your hosts file to 'block'
For example, I dislike some advertisers, so a snip of my hosts file: /etc/hosts ...
robert@pip:~$ sudo tail
127.0.0.1 www.crackle.com
127.0.0.1 ads.revsci.net
127.0.0.1 cs.adxpansion.com
I agree that Debian is the most important GNU/Linux distribution.
When I go to slashdot.org/metamod, I no longer see the "+/-" buttons in the top leftmost corner of a comment when using Debian Stable's iceweasel v3.0.6.
Interestingly the "+/-" are appearing and working for slashdot.org/firehose....
Tried slashdot.org/metamod using Debian Stable's iceweasel v3.0.6
As of today the "+/-" buttons are appearing, as they do for firehose (yay!).
BUT, unlike firehose, when I do press either a '+' or '-' button in metamod, the system does not appear to take an action :/ ...at least not yet.
When I go to slashdot.org/metamod, I no longer see the "+/-" buttons in the top leftmost corner of a comment when using Debian Stable's iceweasel v3.0.6.
Interestingly the "+/-" are appearing and working for slashdot.org/firehose....
I am sure PJ would appreciate the help.
If the bus is in sun for most of its service day, then the extra kWh from roof mounted solar panels would help it run the HVAC and get a bit more range.
Since brute force attacks rely on many password crack attempts, a system that would
1. allow three tries for an account, then
2. not allow any tries to the accuont for 15 minutes before resetting to "step 1"
Would also help people's accts stay secure.
Then the keystore would be organized as a hashmap of [loginURL,key]
That way each site was secure with a separate authentication key for each site to securely visit.
As always, the worry then would be to keep the browser from getting compromised by malware that would try to steal the keystore of a user.
It would be a pain to maintain, as a user would have to export the keystore and distribute it to each computer they used to access such stuff....
...then all interactions with the site might be like an SSH session, but what a pain to set up!
Some companies, or departments in companies do allow generous telecommuting from home.
Then the cubicle size matters less, and possibly would allow companies to have _larger_ cubicles for the few times an employee needs to use one (aka hotel-ing a workspace).
I only need to go to the office on Mondays in my current department. I telecommute the rest. It rocks.
The fictional standard that all real ones probably should be measured against :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ho4zowaaXI
The good thing about java, and J2EE, was the wealth of libraries that came with the JDK.
With C++, from what I remember (haven't professionally programmed with C++ in a decade) there was Boost, but the rest was using libraries available to the operating system itself, or doing a lot of research (like for libpurple).
Both are great languages, but Java was nice for having such a large available pool of things to work with.
... and that is 20% of the internet's bandwidth no longer available to email spammers, too.
win-win
...if they know of a good virus candidate?
http://www.clamav.net/
Groklaw has mention of the event, too:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100916121940186
Get hands-on as best you can. If paid, great. If not, seriously consider being a non-paid intern at a reputable corporation, city, or county department.
Once you can demonstrate your work ethic, eagerness to learn, social skills and IT skills... then it is my opinion things will go well for you.
"In the software industry, the only programmers really worth their salt that I've ever met were those who had the drive to train themselves. If you don't happen to have a passion for it, then you aren't going to be motivated to do it on your own. Those who self-train do it because they hvae a passion for it, and that same passion makes them good, and hirable by companies."
That seems fair.
"When I hear candidates who whine that they should be trained by employers, they often turn out to be lazy and disinterested and not very good *no matter how much* training you give them (and hence bad money you throw at them)."
This I disagree with a bit. Sometimes a good potential candidate can really shine given mentorship. Maybe they are right out of school, and school may not have prepared them in things like design patterns, or being new, they have not been exposed to the application-type that their job will support. With a good mentor, they can be guided by someone that has 'been there, done that' and the rewards will be win-win for the new employee and the company.