I recently finished my degree in Mechanical Engineering. The way I found to be most efficient was to use a pen and paper and subsequently scan the notes. Then, for each of my classes, I had a folder for notes. I would put the scanned copy in all of the classes for which it might be relevant. Not just the one for which they were explicitly for.
The redshift used to measure the speed of objects moving away from us applies primarily to the galaxy as a whole. If you were to normalize the light received to compensate for the redshift of the galaxy as a whole, the additional velocity of the planet, being negligibly small with respect to your new frame of reference would not significantly 'redden' your results. Good question though.
It seems to me this will promote more school/movie theater style shootings in no gun zones by dynamically showing a potential serial killer "no gun zones" on the fly.
I was an engineering student. Graduated this past August and was forced to have a 'liberal arts' education. I took all the courses in the humanities, ethics and anthropology. The list goes on and on and on. Overwhelmingly, these classes were taught by complete idiots and my classmates were complete idiots.
It's true that engineering fills your head with facts and teaches you how the world is. It's also true that you should be a well rounded person with an active roll in current events. But these classes are not how you do that. They are a waste of time and money.
I have become a well rounded person by having intelligent debate with friends of mine in other fields. Friends who's opinions, with which I may strongly disagree, I very much respect. You can't pay a college to make you intelligent. You either are, or you are not.
So, all they have to say is: "no srsly guys, we didn't actually do that."
And we say: "Oh ok. Don't worry everybody! it all checks out, they say they didn't do it!"
I think you're giving the farmer a lot of credit. Most of the farms I know buy whatever's cheap and shoot indiscriminately at trespassers no matter their distance.;)
That is a Miranda right. It does not protect you in a court of law where you can be held in contempt if you refuse to answer a question. That is *if* you didn't have a right not to testify against yourself.
Fair enough. I guess I was focusing too much on the part of TFA that talks about the later-to-be-found-toxic indicator that was used to come to the same conclusion.
I stand corrected.
It doesn't sound to me like nuclear weapon research had anything to do with this. If the link between nuclear research and this has anything to do with carbon-14 vs. carbon-12 then you can link this "brain discovery" to nearly any branch of research using carbon-14 dating...
I realize I could easily look it up. But, what is the leading theory as to why the planet can no longer sustain liquid water. I know that in it's current condition with low gravity and lack of atmosphere it cannot sustain liquid water... But was Mars once larger?
The problem is that AT&T, like Comcast and Charter have a sort of 'geographical monopoly' for some services. I had this problem once when AT&T was my only option for internet. (barring satellite because latency on a good day can be between 900ms and 1200ms). So I had to deal with AT&T. They did suck quite frankly, but I've dealt with Comcast and they suck more for a higher price. The root problem is the lack of real competition between these companies. With the exception of Verizon, Sprint and similar cell phone only companies, they have other revenue streams. In the case of AT&T, TV and Internet service. That keeps them out of competition for certain amounts of revenue and allows them to bully their consumers...
The only problem is that AT&T, like Comcast and Charter have a sort of 'geographical monopoly' for some services. I had this problem once when AT&T was my only option for internet. (barring satellite because latency on a good day can be between 900ms and 1200ms). So I had to deal with AT&T. They did suck quite frankly, but I've dealt with Comcast and they suck more for a higher price. The root problem is the lack of real competition between these companies. With the exception of Verizon, Sprint and similar cell phone only companies, they have other revenue streams. In the case of AT&T, TV and Internet service. That keeps them out of competition for certain amounts of revenue and allows them to bully their consumers...
The car analogy works fine because I didn't expect the job to be perfect. I expected it to be free of functional defects. The only argument I've heard in reply to mine is a mixture of flame and hyperbole.
I agree with you. I'm when the poster says he wants bug free code, he means that he wants code that is not functionally deficient. I'm saying he has every right to expect that. If that's not what he's saying, and he does in fact want there to be 0 bugs, then not only do I disagree with him, but I would also consider that to be realistically impossible to achieve.
Using big words might win you arguments against an unintelligent audience... You are correct. my argument is that programming should be held to workmanship standards because it would be absurd for me to expect less with a car. That argument stands, and I'm not sure I know any good programmers who would be comfortable with you implying they shouldn't hold their work to those same high standards. They do good work, and they don't have a problem standing by their code because they wrote it with quality in mind to begin with.
I should also mention that I'm a mechanical engineer for whom a few programmers work and I hold them to the same standards. They don't suck at their job though. maybe that's the difference.;)
I should emphasize that I don't expect anybody's work to be mistake free. But I do expect them to stand by their work without expecting more compensation.
I do actually expect all work I pay for to be "bug free" I recently had an aftermarket bed liner put in my truck, and it came back with a bug: it was crooked. I took it back and demanded they make it right for free. And you know what happened? They fixed it for free. Everyone makes mistakes, but when the product makes it to the customer it had better be right.
Why are programmers exempt from workmanship standards?
You might be interested in reading the history of the foreign exchange to better understand why the Bitcoin is different. I don't think that Bitcoin is necessarily a bad thing. But it certainly is not a currency and is very different than the US dollar. We use a system of floating exchange rates now in which the US Dollar is "backed" by the British pound, the Yen, the Australian dollar and many more. this system ensures that the value of the US dollar, as well as the others mentioned are relatively stable with respect to commodities. (Like Bitcoin)
Long story short, the Bitcoin is a commodity. Not a currency.
... as long as the majority of PC users are average Joes wanting a machine to browse YouTube and Facebook. The word Linux conjures up feelings of technical ineptitude in most people, even if there's no justification for that, and Apple an inflated price tag. Most people will stick with what they know, which is a PC running the latest version of Windows. To top it off, Microsoft has had a every-other-release-sucks strategy for as long as I can remember. I don't see why it would kill them now if they've managed to survive this long.
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I recently finished my degree in Mechanical Engineering. The way I found to be most efficient was to use a pen and paper and subsequently scan the notes. Then, for each of my classes, I had a folder for notes. I would put the scanned copy in all of the classes for which it might be relevant. Not just the one for which they were explicitly for.
Troll (+1) :)
The redshift used to measure the speed of objects moving away from us applies primarily to the galaxy as a whole. If you were to normalize the light received to compensate for the redshift of the galaxy as a whole, the additional velocity of the planet, being negligibly small with respect to your new frame of reference would not significantly 'redden' your results. Good question though.
You sir, are refreshingly optimistic. I hope you're right. ;)
It seems to me this will promote more school/movie theater style shootings in no gun zones by dynamically showing a potential serial killer "no gun zones" on the fly.
I was an engineering student. Graduated this past August and was forced to have a 'liberal arts' education. I took all the courses in the humanities, ethics and anthropology. The list goes on and on and on. Overwhelmingly, these classes were taught by complete idiots and my classmates were complete idiots.
It's true that engineering fills your head with facts and teaches you how the world is. It's also true that you should be a well rounded person with an active roll in current events. But these classes are not how you do that. They are a waste of time and money.
I have become a well rounded person by having intelligent debate with friends of mine in other fields. Friends who's opinions, with which I may strongly disagree, I very much respect. You can't pay a college to make you intelligent. You either are, or you are not.
Yes.
So, all they have to say is: "no srsly guys, we didn't actually do that." And we say: "Oh ok. Don't worry everybody! it all checks out, they say they didn't do it!"
I think you're giving the farmer a lot of credit. Most of the farms I know buy whatever's cheap and shoot indiscriminately at trespassers no matter their distance. ;)
That is a Miranda right. It does not protect you in a court of law where you can be held in contempt if you refuse to answer a question. That is *if* you didn't have a right not to testify against yourself.
Fair enough. I guess I was focusing too much on the part of TFA that talks about the later-to-be-found-toxic indicator that was used to come to the same conclusion. I stand corrected.
It doesn't sound to me like nuclear weapon research had anything to do with this. If the link between nuclear research and this has anything to do with carbon-14 vs. carbon-12 then you can link this "brain discovery" to nearly any branch of research using carbon-14 dating...
I realize I could easily look it up. But, what is the leading theory as to why the planet can no longer sustain liquid water. I know that in it's current condition with low gravity and lack of atmosphere it cannot sustain liquid water... But was Mars once larger?
Ouch. Too soon. ;)
The problem is that AT&T, like Comcast and Charter have a sort of 'geographical monopoly' for some services. I had this problem once when AT&T was my only option for internet. (barring satellite because latency on a good day can be between 900ms and 1200ms). So I had to deal with AT&T. They did suck quite frankly, but I've dealt with Comcast and they suck more for a higher price. The root problem is the lack of real competition between these companies. With the exception of Verizon, Sprint and similar cell phone only companies, they have other revenue streams. In the case of AT&T, TV and Internet service. That keeps them out of competition for certain amounts of revenue and allows them to bully their consumers...
The only problem is that AT&T, like Comcast and Charter have a sort of 'geographical monopoly' for some services. I had this problem once when AT&T was my only option for internet. (barring satellite because latency on a good day can be between 900ms and 1200ms). So I had to deal with AT&T. They did suck quite frankly, but I've dealt with Comcast and they suck more for a higher price. The root problem is the lack of real competition between these companies. With the exception of Verizon, Sprint and similar cell phone only companies, they have other revenue streams. In the case of AT&T, TV and Internet service. That keeps them out of competition for certain amounts of revenue and allows them to bully their consumers...
I still would like someone to explain to me how the cost of a 3D printer is less than a black market gun.
... Go for it.
If you've got $20k for a one shot weapon that's likely to blow your hand off...
The car analogy works fine because I didn't expect the job to be perfect. I expected it to be free of functional defects. The only argument I've heard in reply to mine is a mixture of flame and hyperbole.
I agree with you. I'm when the poster says he wants bug free code, he means that he wants code that is not functionally deficient. I'm saying he has every right to expect that. If that's not what he's saying, and he does in fact want there to be 0 bugs, then not only do I disagree with him, but I would also consider that to be realistically impossible to achieve.
Using big words might win you arguments against an unintelligent audience... You are correct. my argument is that programming should be held to workmanship standards because it would be absurd for me to expect less with a car. That argument stands, and I'm not sure I know any good programmers who would be comfortable with you implying they shouldn't hold their work to those same high standards. They do good work, and they don't have a problem standing by their code because they wrote it with quality in mind to begin with.
I should also mention that I'm a mechanical engineer for whom a few programmers work and I hold them to the same standards. They don't suck at their job though. maybe that's the difference. ;)
I should emphasize that I don't expect anybody's work to be mistake free. But I do expect them to stand by their work without expecting more compensation.
I do actually expect all work I pay for to be "bug free" I recently had an aftermarket bed liner put in my truck, and it came back with a bug: it was crooked. I took it back and demanded they make it right for free. And you know what happened? They fixed it for free. Everyone makes mistakes, but when the product makes it to the customer it had better be right.
Why are programmers exempt from workmanship standards?
I read this article (popsci.com) a little while back. It shows a promising, relatively speaking low cost, option
http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2013-02/how-two-makers-built-customizable-new-prosthetic-hand-150-and-changed-boys-life
You might be interested in reading the history of the foreign exchange to better understand why the Bitcoin is different. I don't think that Bitcoin is necessarily a bad thing. But it certainly is not a currency and is very different than the US dollar. We use a system of floating exchange rates now in which the US Dollar is "backed" by the British pound, the Yen, the Australian dollar and many more. this system ensures that the value of the US dollar, as well as the others mentioned are relatively stable with respect to commodities. (Like Bitcoin)
Long story short, the Bitcoin is a commodity. Not a currency.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard
http://www.fxtrademaker.com/forex_history.htm
... as long as the majority of PC users are average Joes wanting a machine to browse YouTube and Facebook. The word Linux conjures up feelings of technical ineptitude in most people, even if there's no justification for that, and Apple an inflated price tag. Most people will stick with what they know, which is a PC running the latest version of Windows. To top it off, Microsoft has had a every-other-release-sucks strategy for as long as I can remember. I don't see why it would kill them now if they've managed to survive this long.