Programming is everywhere! (tm) For the last 30 years, 90% of the our new hires were EEs. We do mostly embedded programming, so reading a schematic and a chip spec is just as important as math. Basic (no pun) math skills are a daily need, but higher math is rare. The other 10% employees handle the hairy math and hairy programming, the rest of us are clean shaven (/pun).
As always, in a "free" country, the question is who watches the watchers? Embarrassing vs Dangerous or both? Is the "reporter" out for glory or sees real criminal behavior or a political agenda? Who gets to decide? If they are arrested, a jury/judge gets to watch the watchers. The correct answer: all of the above.
My rush hour is from 5:00 to 5:05. Small Town of 35,000. Large City is 30-45 mins for major shopping trip. We have a handfull that use a bicycle during the good weather. Company has showers and lockers!
You attack Fox News as agenda based, so are any of the big networks honest? NBC, CBS, ABC, BBC, MSNBC, climatologists? Please advise as I would like to see and hear honest news. What is the definition of honest news? It usually depends on the listener. The only honest think you have to say is the Register and Andrew Orlowski can't take criticism.
I've forgotten most of the book. Did he elaborate on how they dealt with divergent views on politics, morals, philosophy? How do you deal with stagnation (one world view) vs change (anarchy)? All of these "sciences" are opinion based and have change over time. For example, "God chose the king" changes to democracy.
Just because you can buy it "cheap", does not mean a "clear majority" of people would know it is a possible spy attempt. i.e., you need to close your blinds so people can not see you... (insert crime here)
OTOH: wiretapping is commonly known as a possibility, yet you still need a court order (ignoring patriot act-for sake of argument).
Also ignoring, that most people believe cell phones are secure.
I forgot the sarcasm tags around the Olympics portion. My comment is calling attention to the hypocrisy of child labor laws not applying to sports. I consider gymnastics specifically, as well as any other mostly under 18 Olympic competition to be child abuse.
"one set of rules for us, one for everyone else" is a very simplified look at reality. As most models do, they simplify by throw out the details, to make it understandable, but then lose accuracy.
The real question is: "What do we want out of the UN?" There is no simple answer to this question. One World Government vs National Sovereignty, again is a simplification. Making the UN a world police organization?
UN - The UN is a joke to many. It is consider a super-congress. Politicians only looking out for themselves. Full of corruption, greed, and power grabbing.
none of the responsibilities - What about France, China, etc. taking responsibilities for spreading conventional & nuclear weapons to out of control countries?
Convention on the Rights of the Child - creates the UN as a one world government, conflicts with US constitution. The US has signed and ratified both (military and sale/prostitution) of the optional protocols to the Convention.
Why provide the facilities for all these other countries to come in and make agreements, and not participate yourself? - The United States government played an active role in the drafting of the Convention and signed it on 16 February 1995, but has not ratified it.
I suggest you look it up on Wikipedia before opening you mouth and confirming that you do not know basic facts.
If this were a valid law, no one under the age of 18 would be allowed to full-time train, or compete in the Olympics.
Hacker is... Yes, I simplified it for the "common man" (Idiots guide to...:)
Open Source... again I simplified. I have the Four Software Freedoms posted on my wall at work.
Big States... Small states, like Okla. (Me) have very little power to have books made to meet their requirements that are different than say Cal. i.e., Different pace, or "semesters" (bi vs tri vs quad), or different curriculum.
In conclusions, I commenting, not writing a thesis.
Did you forget to attach the sarcasm tag? To quote "The Princess Bride", "You keep using that word (hacker). I do not think it means what you think it means."
The correct word is cracker. Hacker is just a programmer.
Changing the [program, books, picure] IS the point of the open source license.
Creative Commons (home of Creative Commons License) has a web portal http://learn.creativecommons.org/ dedicated to "Open Source" textbooks, learning, etc.
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.... Hello! My name is... You... my...! Prepare to Die! (fill in the blanks to meet current situation).
As pointed out elsewhere, this is probable a violation of company policy or even Federal law. Careful or men wearing coat and ties will show up. (see signature below).
Our PHB IT's went very tight on network security. (haha) User's have to authenticate with the firewall every 12 hours. They originally wanted 8 hours. We pointed out that the main users (R&D), would work 10-12 hours a day. Everyone else is on a different network. It slows down starting up a windoze PC, every morning by about 10-20 minutes, as many taskbar apps, automatically start-up and check the network for updates. We have removed auto-connecting networks disks and moved them to a script, started manually after authentication. How much does this cost in productivity?
Screens savers automatically lock at predetermined 15 minutes.
I guess no one (stifle, stifle) here ever watched "The Librarian: Quest for the Spear". Nicole Noone (Sonya Walger) was/is so HOT! A geek dream come true!
Your comment shows a *bias* against the police. I have meet both "power drunk" police and courteous police. Therefore we see the situation differently. What I see, from the news reports is as follows: The officer was *called* to the scene of a "possible" break-in. He did *not* go looking for a black to harass. It was his duty to determine reality. The angry, biased (whether against all cops or white cops) professor, over reacted and caused the situation to escalate. I have been in similar situations, when a false burglar alarm, triggered the police arrival. I was courteous, respectful, and showed my id, no big deal. I was also in the opposite situation when a cop was verbally abusive to a teen that drove his car into my house. I waited till it was over, before I complained to the cop.
Hugh Laurie STAYS in USA! Send Stephie Fry STAYS too. We also want Alan Davies and Caroline Quentin.
Wait? are there any good actors in USA to trade to UK? OK, Here is the deal! You get them all back, if you promise to make Aland Davies the next Doctor Who.
Madonna we ship to North Korea! Oops, That is a violation of the rules of war. WMD used on civilians.
One of my tasks at work, around 1980 was to redo the source code to a gas chromatograph used in oil refinery control. The original development machine was a Unix that was limited on the number of variables, the size of the names and the size of files. Much of the code was hard coded to start at a location for each subroutine and the program used hard coded address for variables and data. It was so spaghetti, that They could no longer make any changes safely. So I took TWO years to re-do and test to a "modern" assembler. I had to use hardware manuals for the chips and schematics of the custom board to develop a hardware address table, and EQU statements for hardware commands. I would compile, then do a binary compare against the last know good prom image. Repeat until it all matched. Then I took out all of the hard coded subroutine addresses and hard coded variables. Test all of functionality. Then I had to do the same thing for each of the plug-in boards for serial communication. Back in those days, 90% of our programmers where EEs, that had had taken more than normal (FORTRAN) programming.
One of our programmers, got in BIG trouble. He had inserted a message to come up on the operators terminal (2 x 40 display) when an "impossible" condition occurred: "BANG YOUR DEAD". Murphy's law said that it would show up at the worst possible time. The President of an very BIG oil company called our President about how UNPROFESSIONAL this was, and safety was not a joke in a refinery.
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Programming is everywhere! (tm)
For the last 30 years, 90% of the our new hires were EEs.
We do mostly embedded programming, so reading a schematic and a chip spec is just as important as math.
Basic (no pun) math skills are a daily need, but higher math is rare.
The other 10% employees handle the hairy math and hairy programming, the rest of us are clean shaven (/pun).
As always, in a "free" country, the question is who watches the watchers?
Embarrassing vs Dangerous or both?
Is the "reporter" out for glory or sees real criminal behavior or a political agenda?
Who gets to decide? If they are arrested, a jury/judge gets to watch the watchers.
The correct answer: all of the above.
My rush hour is from 5:00 to 5:05. Small Town of 35,000. Large City is 30-45 mins for major shopping trip. We have a handfull that use a bicycle during the good weather. Company has showers and lockers!
You attack Fox News as agenda based, so are any of the big networks honest? NBC, CBS, ABC, BBC, MSNBC, climatologists? Please advise as I would like to see and hear honest news. What is the definition of honest news? It usually depends on the listener. The only honest think you have to say is the Register and Andrew Orlowski can't take criticism.
Appearing in black face is illegal in many states.
I've forgotten most of the book. Did he elaborate on how they dealt with divergent views on politics, morals, philosophy? How do you deal with stagnation (one world view) vs change (anarchy)? All of these "sciences" are opinion based and have change over time. For example, "God chose the king" changes to democracy.
not in general use
v.s.
commonly available
Just because you can buy it "cheap", does not mean a "clear majority" of people would know it is a possible spy attempt. ... (insert crime here)
i.e., you need to close your blinds so people can not see you
OTOH:
wiretapping is commonly known as a possibility, yet you still need a court order (ignoring patriot act-for sake of argument).
Also ignoring, that most people believe cell phones are secure.
I forgot the sarcasm tags around the Olympics portion. My comment is calling attention to the hypocrisy of child labor laws not applying to sports. I consider gymnastics specifically, as well as any other mostly under 18 Olympic competition to be child abuse.
"one set of rules for us, one for everyone else" is a very simplified look at reality. As most models do, they simplify by throw out the details, to make it understandable, but then lose accuracy.
The real question is: "What do we want out of the UN?" There is no simple answer to this question. One World Government vs National Sovereignty, again is a simplification. Making the UN a world police organization?
I suggest you look it up on Wikipedia before opening you mouth and confirming that you do not know basic facts.
If this were a valid law, no one under the age of 18 would be allowed to full-time train, or compete in the Olympics.
They will be court ordered to attend anger management classes.
In conclusions, I commenting, not writing a thesis.
Did you forget to attach the sarcasm tag?
To quote "The Princess Bride", "You keep using that word (hacker). I do not think it means what you think it means."
Creative Commons (home of Creative Commons License) has a web portal http://learn.creativecommons.org/ dedicated to "Open Source" textbooks, learning, etc.
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means. ... ... You ... my ...! Prepare to Die! (fill in the blanks to meet current situation).
Hello! My name is
We would save a lot of time and bytes, if everyone would just watch the B&W movie "Miracle on 34th Street".
As pointed out elsewhere, this is probable a violation of company policy or even Federal law. Careful or men wearing coat and ties will show up. (see signature below).
Our PHB IT's went very tight on network security. (haha) User's have to authenticate with the firewall every 12 hours. They originally wanted 8 hours. We pointed out that the main users (R&D), would work 10-12 hours a day. Everyone else is on a different network. It slows down starting up a windoze PC, every morning by about 10-20 minutes, as many taskbar apps, automatically start-up and check the network for updates. We have removed auto-connecting networks disks and moved them to a script, started manually after authentication. How much does this cost in productivity?
Screens savers automatically lock at predetermined 15 minutes.
Trade sanctions
Trade fines
World Court, etc.
There is no such thing as a sovereign nation anymore.
I guess no one (stifle, stifle) here ever watched "The Librarian: Quest for the Spear". Nicole Noone (Sonya Walger) was/is so HOT! A geek dream come true!
Your comment shows a *bias* against the police. I have meet both "power drunk" police and courteous police. Therefore we see the situation differently. What I see, from the news reports is as follows: The officer was *called* to the scene of a "possible" break-in. He did *not* go looking for a black to harass. It was his duty to determine reality. The angry, biased (whether against all cops or white cops) professor, over reacted and caused the situation to escalate. I have been in similar situations, when a false burglar alarm, triggered the police arrival. I was courteous, respectful, and showed my id, no big deal. I was also in the opposite situation when a cop was verbally abusive to a teen that drove his car into my house. I waited till it was over, before I complained to the cop.
Just like Obama's "police acted stupidly" remark.
I enjoyed her performance in Johnathan Creek and Blue Murder.
Not your cup of tea?
Hugh Laurie STAYS in USA!
Send Stephie Fry STAYS too.
We also want Alan Davies and Caroline Quentin.
Wait? are there any good actors in USA to trade to UK?
OK, Here is the deal! You get them all back, if you promise to make Aland Davies the next Doctor Who.
Madonna we ship to North Korea! Oops, That is a violation of the rules of war. WMD used on civilians.
One of my tasks at work, around 1980 was to redo the source code to a gas chromatograph used in oil refinery control. The original development machine was a Unix that was limited on the number of variables, the size of the names and the size of files. Much of the code was hard coded to start at a location for each subroutine and the program used hard coded address for variables and data. It was so spaghetti, that They could no longer make any changes safely. So I took TWO years to re-do and test to a "modern" assembler. I had to use hardware manuals for the chips and schematics of the custom board to develop a hardware address table, and EQU statements for hardware commands. I would compile, then do a binary compare against the last know good prom image. Repeat until it all matched. Then I took out all of the hard coded subroutine addresses and hard coded variables. Test all of functionality. Then I had to do the same thing for each of the plug-in boards for serial communication. Back in those days, 90% of our programmers where EEs, that had had taken more than normal (FORTRAN) programming.
One of our programmers, got in BIG trouble. He had inserted a message to come up on the operators terminal (2 x 40 display) when an "impossible" condition occurred: "BANG YOUR DEAD". Murphy's law said that it would show up at the worst possible time. The President of an very BIG oil company called our President about how UNPROFESSIONAL this was, and safety was not a joke in a refinery.
I went to the manufacturer's website, it list optional add-ons - not yet available - of stereo cameras and motion tracking.