"The school's job is to pour a bit of knowledge in his head. Teaching morality and values is the parent's job. They need to stay the hell off of my turf and stop overstepping their bounds. Period. What my son's personality is like, his habits, etc is none of their business outside that building." I agree except I also demand that they teach the morals as represented by the Constitution! I refuse to stand by have them teach my children that his or her rights can be ignored.
Actually I would say that somebody should be up on criminal charges. How do they know that my wife or daughter are not changing in that room when they decide to spy. How do I know that they are not recording nude pictures of my children? Your right that a class action law case will only help the lawyers. I want to see people go to jail for this.
I consider myself a moderate politically. Some might even say conservative but in this case I must say. WHAT THE HECK DO THEY THINK THEY ARE DOING! This has got to be in violation of federal wiretap laws! And as far as what is inappropriate behavior at home! Unless it is breaking the law the only person that gets to say what is inappropriate behavior in my home is wife and myself! In this case I say that criminal charges should be filled.
I am an old programmer. Yes I did learn about hashes and btrees in school but frankly this new hire made me doubt what they where teaching in University these days. I have found that experienced programmers will will take a look at a task and know immediately that they should use this algorithm or that. Also from experience you tend to learn to look past the initial requirements of an application and see what a user may want in the future and design for those. Of course in a larger institution you will have a project architect that will handle that type of planing. I work in a small development house so the programmers are given a large amount of freedom and responsibility.
Wow your a nasty little fellow. I said you where write and that I should have clarified my statment to say at least or in production. The point which you missed completely was that several US companies have kept producing new reactors for the US Navy during the time period that no new US power reactors where being built. The Enterprise doesn't in any counter the claim that reactors where being built in the US during that time.
I meant in current production. There are still some none nuclear aircraft carriers still in service but for the last 30 or is it now forty odd years all carriers have been built using two reactors. The Enterprise is a one off and was the first. Yes those reactors use more highly enriched uranium and burnable poisons to extend the core life. It isn't as easy to refuel a ship as it is a power plant so it is worth it.
True and you are talking about the embedded space. C# in embedded just makes my head hurt. It must be an ARM at least. Is it running CE? Once you hit embedded it is almost like the good old days where you didn't just have to know the language but also the machine that runs it. I was talking about the application space where things are a lot simpler. Heck in the embedded space you might even have to right your own sort because the one in the library isn't good enough or uses too much memory.
That is what is taught but did they learn it? I ran into a "programmer" from a local university with a degree that had no idea what a hash was much less when to use it.
"Oh — and the Fermi Paradox applies especially well. Assume that it takes even ten thousand years to colonize a remote solar system, and the entire galaxy would have been overrun by now if a colonizing civilization had started in the terrestrial Jurassic period." Unless we are the first.
You do understand that besides a nuclear powered ion or plasma thruster system "and flight times of decades". All interstellar propulsion systems have a large amount of handwave produced parts and giant question marks?
Well there is another reason. You can only take so many Gs. Odds are that only a small percentage of the hydrogen is being fused just as in a jet engine only a small amount of the o2 is burned. The rest you use as extra reaction mass. In theory you could fuse all the way to Iron with a net gain of power but each step gets you less and less and would probably add more and more mass to the ship for less gain. Of course all of this is "future tech" and outside the realm of anything but guessing. Of course you could just make a deal with the Outsiders and buy hyperdrive and be done with it.
Yes it has been covered in many sci-fi stories because real physicist and scientists like yourself read those stories. The then write the author who as a who have a real love of science add them to future stores.
As your spelling error I didn't notice. You see I unlike a lot of people have a high enough IQ that I can skill over and correct minor errors in spelling and grammar on the fly. It must be terrible to have such a limited IQ that such little errors cause people to miss the content of the message.
"The fact that you have 30 years of COBOL experience doesn't help you if you don't learn new technologies." learning a new language is easy. Learning to program is hard. c, java, c#, php, perl, are all very much alike. Once you know one learning the rest are easy. In your typical application program so much code is now offloaded to the libraries that once you leave school you are unlikly to have to write a HASH or a sort every again. What experence teachs you is when you need to use a hash vs a btree.
Actually no reason to dump it in a subduction zone. Properly reprocessed waste will drop to ore level radiation within about 100 years. The really nasty stuff has a very short half life so it isn't a big problem. The really low level stuff is just that really low level and lasts a very long time. The stuff in the middle is the hard to deal with but most of that is fuel or can become fuel or can be pushed in a fast neutron reactor to high level short lived waste.
Some corrected facts about nuclear energy. "1/Nuclear energy does not make economic sense. http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50308 [ipsnews.net] (translation: it is expensive)" But cheaper than oil, natural gas, Wind, and Solar. Only coal and Hydro are cheaper. "2/Having to store waste for over 100000 years is not what someone with any common sense would call 'green'." You don't you just reprocess the fuel rods like they do in France and Japan and have for years. "3/limited liability. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93Anderson_Nuclear_Industries_Indemnity_Act [wikipedia.org]" Yes that one does exist. Of course since you have nut balls claiming that wifi makes them sick.... "4/fuel-dependency" Yes it is terrible if we move to a thorium cycle we only have a few centuries of fuel left. With breeders maybe no more than two or three centuries.
What I do find interesting is more snow means more light gets reflected. More light gets reflected the colder it gets. Could be a self regulating mechanism kicking in. If CO2 levels don't keep rising then it may reach a new and not terrible equilibrium.
I can give you more examples. CDs from Phillips is one. You say that Microsoft's big R&D lap hasn't produced anything? Sync? And a lot of what they research may be in many of the different products that you may use from Microsoft. Also some of it may come out in ten or twenty years. That is the point of long range research. Things just don't always spring to life overnight. Some projects can take decades. It doesn't matter because I have given you example after example of "Big companies" producing amazing stuff that we use every day. All you spout is unsupported opinion. And no the transistor would not have languished. The Military wanted them yesterday to replace tubes in everything from radar, radios, sonar, to the first computers. TV was getting ready to take off. The market was huge and the transistor was the answer. No I say you need both and have given examples of it. As I said Intel, AMD, and IBM today are all pushing things tech at a fast rate and getting products in to the hands of customers. The New I7, AMDs new Fusion coming soon, and IBMs latest revision of the Power line all have a pile of new tech from each of their labs. Give me as many examples outside of software where new tech has come from small companies that match what Bell Labs, Xerox, TI, Intel, AMD, and IBM have done.
Well I guess I am not from her Generation but sampling started when I was in my early 20s. If done correctly in music it is like a collage and it is a new piece of art. When done wrong it is theft. I am thinking of Ice Ice Baby as a good example of done wrong. In this books case I would say it is theft from the story "In one case, an entire page was lifted with few changes." Dude that isn't sampling that is a cover!
Or to put another way. Every generation at 17 thinks that the world is a totally different place from the one their parents lived in. By the time we hit 35 we all start to think man it probably really wasn't. And at 40 we all start saying What the hell where we thinking when we where 17. What idiots we where but it sure was fun. So no she is just another dumb 17 year old that thinks the rules don't apply anymore because things are so different.
None what so ever. If you have a smartphone then you would have the option to use wifi. If you have a feature phone you could use Bluetooth. If you in the US AT&T and TMobile will let you use that sim when hell freezes over. Really just about any smartphone could do this right now except the phone companies don't want you to do it. You see you will have a much better end user experience using a separate device like a USB stick. And you would only have to pay an extra 50 to 90 dollars a month for it. So you see you are much better off not using any type of tethering. "This message brought to you by your friendly US Cell companies. "
That depends on the rocket. The Redstone, Thor, Jupiter, Atlas, Delta, Saturn IB and the first stage of the Saturn V all used what is basically jet fuel. The USSR used liquid fueled rockets on subs and yes they did a few issues with that. BTW the Navy was going use the Jupiter on subs but they decided that solid fuel was the way to go for the reasons you gave. In that case it wouldn't be the fuel so much as all that LOX and fuel together. I do agree that there is a difference but If I had not included that statment you know that somebody would say, "What about the Regulus, Harpoon, and Tomahawk? They are liquid fueled." And I really didn't want to deal with that today.
You are only talking about Xerox. Bell did get transistors, lasers, fiber optics, and many other technologies out into the hands of customers. The thing was that Bell Labs customer was AT&T. It was forced to licenses those technologies to other companies because it was a monopoly. Xerox blew it big time with the GUI but the other companies all did get that tech out. As I said breakthrough tech often comes from big companies small companies often take that tech and make break through products. You must have booth. Take Apple as an example. They create good and innovative products but really contribute very little in the way of real tech. Heck even the new "Apple" chip is using an ARM core. Intel and AMD produce a lot innovative tech and get that out products but those products are too us just faster CPUs and in AMD's case GPUs.
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"The school's job is to pour a bit of knowledge in his head. Teaching morality and values is the parent's job. They need to stay the hell off of my turf and stop overstepping their bounds. Period. What my son's personality is like, his habits, etc is none of their business outside that building."
I agree except I also demand that they teach the morals as represented by the Constitution! I refuse to stand by have them teach my children that his or her rights can be ignored.
Actually I would say that somebody should be up on criminal charges. How do they know that my wife or daughter are not changing in that room when they decide to spy. How do I know that they are not recording nude pictures of my children?
Your right that a class action law case will only help the lawyers. I want to see people go to jail for this.
I consider myself a moderate politically. Some might even say conservative but in this case I must say.
WHAT THE HECK DO THEY THINK THEY ARE DOING!
This has got to be in violation of federal wiretap laws!
And as far as what is inappropriate behavior at home! Unless it is breaking the law the only person that gets to say what is inappropriate behavior in my home is wife and myself!
In this case I say that criminal charges should be filled.
I am an old programmer. Yes I did learn about hashes and btrees in school but frankly this new hire made me doubt what they where teaching in University these days.
I have found that experienced programmers will will take a look at a task and know immediately that they should use this algorithm or that. Also from experience you tend to learn to look past the initial requirements of an application and see what a user may want in the future and design for those. Of course in a larger institution you will have a project architect that will handle that type of planing. I work in a small development house so the programmers are given a large amount of freedom and responsibility.
Wow your a nasty little fellow. I said you where write and that I should have clarified my statment to say at least or in production. The point which you missed completely was that several US companies have kept producing new reactors for the US Navy during the time period that no new US power reactors where being built. The Enterprise doesn't in any counter the claim that reactors where being built in the US during that time.
It shouldn't be all that hard to create a program to handle those configuration issues.
It was meant to be funny...
I meant in current production. There are still some none nuclear aircraft carriers still in service but for the last 30 or is it now forty odd years all carriers have been built using two reactors. The Enterprise is a one off and was the first.
Yes those reactors use more highly enriched uranium and burnable poisons to extend the core life. It isn't as easy to refuel a ship as it is a power plant so it is worth it.
True and you are talking about the embedded space. C# in embedded just makes my head hurt. It must be an ARM at least. Is it running CE?
Once you hit embedded it is almost like the good old days where you didn't just have to know the language but also the machine that runs it.
I was talking about the application space where things are a lot simpler. Heck in the embedded space you might even have to right your own sort because the one in the library isn't good enough or uses too much memory.
That is what is taught but did they learn it? I ran into a "programmer" from a local university with a degree that had no idea what a hash was much less when to use it.
I have moved from Pascal to Moduala-2 to c to Perl to PHP to javascript to java to c++ to objective c. It just isn't that terrible of a task.
"Oh — and the Fermi Paradox applies especially well. Assume that it takes even ten thousand years to colonize a remote solar system, and the entire galaxy would have been overrun by now if a colonizing civilization had started in the terrestrial Jurassic period."
Unless we are the first.
You do understand that besides a nuclear powered ion or plasma thruster system "and flight times of decades". All interstellar propulsion systems have a large amount of handwave produced parts and giant question marks?
Well there is another reason. You can only take so many Gs. Odds are that only a small percentage of the hydrogen is being fused just as in a jet engine only a small amount of the o2 is burned. The rest you use as extra reaction mass.
In theory you could fuse all the way to Iron with a net gain of power but each step gets you less and less and would probably add more and more mass to the ship for less gain. Of course all of this is "future tech" and outside the realm of anything but guessing.
Of course you could just make a deal with the Outsiders and buy hyperdrive and be done with it.
Yes it has been covered in many sci-fi stories because real physicist and scientists like yourself read those stories. The then write the author who as a who have a real love of science add them to future stores.
As your spelling error I didn't notice. You see I unlike a lot of people have a high enough IQ that I can skill over and correct minor errors in spelling and grammar on the fly. It must be terrible to have such a limited IQ that such little errors cause people to miss the content of the message.
"The fact that you have 30 years of COBOL experience doesn't help you if you don't learn new technologies."
learning a new language is easy. Learning to program is hard.
c, java, c#, php, perl, are all very much alike. Once you know one learning the rest are easy.
In your typical application program so much code is now offloaded to the libraries that once you leave school you are unlikly to have to write a HASH or a sort every again.
What experence teachs you is when you need to use a hash vs a btree.
GE and Westinghouse have been building reactors and new reactors for years. Every sub in the Navy has one and every Aircraft carrier has two.
Actually no reason to dump it in a subduction zone. Properly reprocessed waste will drop to ore level radiation within about 100 years.
The really nasty stuff has a very short half life so it isn't a big problem. The really low level stuff is just that really low level and lasts a very long time.
The stuff in the middle is the hard to deal with but most of that is fuel or can become fuel or can be pushed in a fast neutron reactor to high level short lived waste.
Some corrected facts about nuclear energy.
"1/Nuclear energy does not make economic sense. http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50308 [ipsnews.net] (translation: it is expensive)"
But cheaper than oil, natural gas, Wind, and Solar. Only coal and Hydro are cheaper.
"2/Having to store waste for over 100000 years is not what someone with any common sense would call 'green'."
You don't you just reprocess the fuel rods like they do in France and Japan and have for years.
"3/limited liability. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93Anderson_Nuclear_Industries_Indemnity_Act [wikipedia.org]"
Yes that one does exist. Of course since you have nut balls claiming that wifi makes them sick....
"4/fuel-dependency"
Yes it is terrible if we move to a thorium cycle we only have a few centuries of fuel left. With breeders maybe no more than two or three centuries.
What I do find interesting is more snow means more light gets reflected. More light gets reflected the colder it gets. Could be a self regulating mechanism kicking in. If CO2 levels don't keep rising then it may reach a new and not terrible equilibrium.
I can give you more examples. CDs from Phillips is one.
You say that Microsoft's big R&D lap hasn't produced anything? Sync? And a lot of what they research may be in many of the different products that you may use from Microsoft. Also some of it may come out in ten or twenty years. That is the point of long range research. Things just don't always spring to life overnight. Some projects can take decades.
It doesn't matter because I have given you example after example of "Big companies" producing amazing stuff that we use every day. All you spout is unsupported opinion.
And no the transistor would not have languished. The Military wanted them yesterday to replace tubes in everything from radar, radios, sonar, to the first computers. TV was getting ready to take off. The market was huge and the transistor was the answer.
No I say you need both and have given examples of it. As I said Intel, AMD, and IBM today are all pushing things tech at a fast rate and getting products in to the hands of customers. The New I7, AMDs new Fusion coming soon, and IBMs latest revision of the Power line all have a pile of new tech from each of their labs.
Give me as many examples outside of software where new tech has come from small companies that match what Bell Labs, Xerox, TI, Intel, AMD, and IBM have done.
Well I guess I am not from her Generation but sampling started when I was in my early 20s. If done correctly in music it is like a collage and it is a new piece of art.
When done wrong it is theft.
I am thinking of Ice Ice Baby as a good example of done wrong.
In this books case I would say it is theft from the story "In one case, an entire page was lifted with few changes."
Dude that isn't sampling that is a cover!
Or to put another way. Every generation at 17 thinks that the world is a totally different place from the one their parents lived in. By the time we hit 35 we all start to think man it probably really wasn't. And at 40 we all start saying What the hell where we thinking when we where 17. What idiots we where but it sure was fun.
So no she is just another dumb 17 year old that thinks the rules don't apply anymore because things are so different.
None what so ever.
If you have a smartphone then you would have the option to use wifi.
If you have a feature phone you could use Bluetooth.
If you in the US AT&T and TMobile will let you use that sim when hell freezes over.
Really just about any smartphone could do this right now except the phone companies don't want you to do it.
You see you will have a much better end user experience using a separate device like a USB stick. And you would only have to pay an extra 50 to 90 dollars a month for it. So you see you are much better off not using any type of tethering.
"This message brought to you by your friendly US Cell companies. "
That depends on the rocket.
The Redstone, Thor, Jupiter, Atlas, Delta, Saturn IB and the first stage of the Saturn V all used what is basically jet fuel. The USSR used liquid fueled rockets on subs and yes they did a few issues with that.
BTW the Navy was going use the Jupiter on subs but they decided that solid fuel was the way to go for the reasons you gave. In that case it wouldn't be the fuel so much as all that LOX and fuel together.
I do agree that there is a difference but If I had not included that statment you know that somebody would say, "What about the Regulus, Harpoon, and Tomahawk? They are liquid fueled."
And I really didn't want to deal with that today.
You are only talking about Xerox. Bell did get transistors, lasers, fiber optics, and many other technologies out into the hands of customers. The thing was that Bell Labs customer was AT&T. It was forced to licenses those technologies to other companies because it was a monopoly.
Xerox blew it big time with the GUI but the other companies all did get that tech out. As I said breakthrough tech often comes from big companies small companies often take that tech and make break through products. You must have booth.
Take Apple as an example. They create good and innovative products but really contribute very little in the way of real tech. Heck even the new "Apple" chip is using an ARM core.
Intel and AMD produce a lot innovative tech and get that out products but those products are too us just faster CPUs and in AMD's case GPUs.