So if Windows is the least secure because is is the most used, the least used systems must be the most secure? Right? So things like BeOS, Amiga OS etc. are the best thing to migrate to for security!
Take heed citizens! All of these "kill it" suggestions are slashdot insiders on M$, Apple and Google payrolls!!!1 Fight the good fight! I will await your response in my bomb shelter. *puts tinfoil hat back on*
Seems like there are a lot of "As a this or that kind of student" posts so I'll address it from the non-student side. I taught both lecture and labs for O-chem and it is a very good intro for students to what an "intense" course is like. Lots of info in a short period of time. It was my job to make it relevant to the class as a whole so I covered advanced general chem (orbitals, bonding) followed by an intro to what organic is (classes of molecules) followed by several chapters on the chemistry of basic functional groups (learn the mechanism!). The next semester should include more functional group chemistry and a solid into to biochem. All of this is relevant as our bodies (the ones the doctors are treating) are basically doing complex reactions on complex organic molecules with all kinds of functional groups. They are prescribing complex organic molecules for us to take to improve our lives. I'd like my doctor to know the difference between a carboxylic acid and an amine, or a steroid and a opiate. Also - he should have some basic understanding of how any why these molecules interact with our bodies (please please please remember hydrogen bonding). I really don't want him to think of me as a black box and try things in a Edisonian manner.
Also - its a great weedout class:P I got to see my students take exams (I was a nice guy - but some people STILL couldn't get half the questions right) and work in the lab. I had a low dropout rate, but the ones that did ALL told me they were premed and needed more time to get ready for hard classes. I doubt any will be back. I had several pass the course BARELY and decide medicine or vet school probably wasn't in the cards. What it boiled down to was effort. I had some OK students that did really well in the course simply because they put in the effort. They came to office hours (I begged!), they came and found me at lunch, they came to lab sections, they emailed me questions - they were not straight A students but they wanted a good grade in chemistry for the graduate applications. I didn't give them good grades because they were around so much - they got the grades because they asked a lot of questions about topics they were unsure of. Its a complicated science to learn and as hard to teach - some of the stuff is easier to grasp when a teacher is telling and showing you examples rather than reading it from a dry text book. There were a lot of kids in there that will make good doctors - doctors I'd go to, but the ones that didn't make the grade were not putting up the effort. Not the kind of doc you want to have.
One more thing - biochem may be more relevant, but you need more than general chem to understand it. Organic chemistry is the basis of biochem. If you don't know what a carboxylic acid, amine, alcohol, etc. are, you won't understand the fundamentals of biochem. So even if you drop organic - its going to be covered in biochem. You cannot escape.
Anyone else notice that AT&T sends you a notice of updated iPhone firmware that starts with "AT&T Free Msg: Apple has released..." BUT when you get the bill - lo and behold you've been charged $0.20? I only notice this because I never use text messaging. I wonder if there is a way to disable this "feature" . . .
A Chemical Research in Toxicology article here stated that rats and humans handle bisphenol A in very different ways so I'd be careful drawing lines between rat and human results.
"Enterohepatic circulation of bisphenol A glucuronide in rats results in a slow rate of excretion, whereas bisphenol A is rapidly conjugated and excreted by humans due to the absence of enterohepatic circulation. The efficient glucuronidation of bisphenol A and the rapid excretion of the formed glucuronide result in a low body burden of the estrogenic bisphenol A in humans following oral absorption of low doses."
The article actually says humans basically excreet all of the material resulting in extremely low (near undetectable) levels of biphenol A or its metabolite. They fed humans 5mg of isotopicaly labeled bisphenol A and studied what the body does with it - there is no way any plastic bottle or cup is gonna deliver 5mg of bisphenol A to you via drinking or eating its contents. Bisphenol a is an anti-oxidant used in ppm levels in the plastic to keep it from yellowing over time. So IMHO the jury is still out - BUT my kids use BPA free plastics:) With kids why take the chance?
So Ideas are like ***holes. Which means I have a lot of useless ***holes. I've set up a lot of sites that I thought were "great ideas". Set it up and they will come! Here's the development cycle so you can try it too:
1) Light bulb happens. 2) Register domain name. 3) Brush up on MySQL/PHP again - pay particular attention to new functions needed but never used. 3a) Drag out old projects with useful bits of reusable classes/functions. 4) Spend a few weeks hacking around. 5) Rewrite early sections of code that look bad after learning some new functions/technique. 6) Upload the site to the "production server". 6a) Make sure things are search engine friendly! 7) Buy some adwords. 8) Profit!
This model works great up till 7). Costs about $0.25-1.00 per clickthrough so budget accordingly. Used to be $0.25 bought you the fist page of search results - no longer the case.
I abandoned that model for another one:
1) Use my and/or family/friends education + experience to develop an idea to address "mundane" needs.
Boring needs are needs everyone has. i.e. the potential pool of customers is much much larger for mundane ideas than an idea that is an "agent of change" or "cutting edge" or "disruptive". Not saying you can't address mundane needs with disruptive tech - its just that the need had to have a broad potential customer base.
2) Find someone to help me.
This is where you get stuck - and the topic of the OP. Frankly I don't want an "outsider" working on the idea since once its done whats to keep you contractor from selling the idea/software himself? NDA/Non-compete agreements are useless - are you really going to invest your startup funds in suing a contractor? In many states they are unenforceable anyway.
I had one proposal to develop a basic piece of HR software using a family members 30 years experience in HR. Posted a note on craigslist (I know not the best place) to see who might respond. I actually got a response from a really experienced IT professional and he and I were quite excited about the potential collaboration. We started to sketch out some code and immediately ran into a few road-bumps, mainly time-related issues. Anyway - the lesson is that as some posters have stated - execution is the problem - and generally the downfall of many small businesses. Ideas and talk are easy - finding an energetic partner that can coordinate his/her time and energy with yours is much harder. I don't have an answer really, but wanted to relate my experience. If I come up with a good way to solve this problem I'll repost it. . .
As an web developer I thought this meant MY web server directory - maybe it does? Sounds more like the directories on the client. I guess in any case its windows based - but perhaps autoupdate should be turned off on all OSes.
Reading up a bit: "The FISA Court did not reject a single warrant application from its beginning in 1979 through 2002. In 2003 it rejected four applications. In 2004, the number was again zero."
Macbook (not pro). tough plastic shell - reasonably rugged framework. Ours has survived our 2yr old trying to torque on the screen and mashing the keys for over a year now. As a backup the Lenovo thinkpads - nice construction.
The biggest problem I see is how will Apple handle the consumer expectation that the phone will be free in about a year, so just wait for it. There will be a wave of early adopters for sure, but the mass market will "wait for the price to drop" much like most of my family & friends did with gadgets like the Razor. To penetrate beyond the fan base they're going to have to work a lot harder.
Ala Asimov's Foundations series the Earth could be part of a galactic empire in a fallow period. Perhaps our species does inhabit the entire universe but we are in a dark age and the Earth is just coming out of its barbaric period. Just an interesting thought - not a belief.
I currently use Sprint's EvDO and get 1Mbps at my house and about 0.25Mbps at my office (lots of rebar/concrete tho). This would be a nice speed upgrade if it actually delivers. The one big drawback to the cell data tech is latency. Can't really play games too well, but on a good day its passable. I have the Samsung A940 attached to my MacBook right now via a charging/data usb cable. It also works great with bluetooth but the bandwidth is limited to bluetooth transfer speeds.
Given articles like this on the difficulty of using said multi cores it seems like we could use more tools to improve the utility of these chips. More multi-core functionality in Xcode and related tools would be pretty cool.
As the father of a recently born daughter I can't tell you how much I worried about her. I couldn't even sleep the first night because I had to keep checking her breathing. I know its a bit spastic but some sort of instinct kicks in and you can't help it. Some science behind why these little bundles of joy have such a hard time would be greatly welcome.
"...basic research in applied engineering is still done in the US, without the pressure of money and immediate results?"
So think biggest company (revenue wise) in the world. Even their corp. research demands results from basic projects. Corporate research in any company is now considered a Business Unit. ROCI must be maintained! The good old days are gone. When I joined said large company in the early nineties there were perhaps 2 or 3 famous research fellows in-house. By the time I left they had all moved on to academic jobs or startups. Nowadays you'll be lucky to be allowed to do some "side projects" in your career. Maybe spend a few days a month on it. The rest of the time will be meetings while your tech grinds out data. The up side is that you'd be surprised at how much you can expand basic knowledge doing things that academics consider "whoring your self out". Some interesting finds can be made exploring ways to improve products and processes. (and the pay can be pretty sweet) At this point in my life I might welcome an invitation from the Devil again....
So if you can get carbon monoxide out of the process - say by incomplete conversion of methanol - you can copolymerize this using late metal catalysts with something like ethylene to make alternating ethylene-CO copolymers. Not really anything useful though....
An excerpt from "Senator Stevens: How the Internet Works" at dslreports.com
"They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck.
It's a series of tubes.
And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material."
BofA has a version of this thats MUCH less savy. Their site respods with a picture and you confirm the picture is your "key" by entering your password. Just as hackable or perhaps even more so. Its not really a pain but it was really annoying when it was first rolled out.
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So if Windows is the least secure because is is the most used, the least used systems must be the most secure? Right? So things like BeOS, Amiga OS etc. are the best thing to migrate to for security!
Take heed citizens! All of these "kill it" suggestions are slashdot insiders on M$, Apple and Google payrolls!!!1 Fight the good fight! I will await your response in my bomb shelter. *puts tinfoil hat back on*
Seems like there are a lot of "As a this or that kind of student" posts so I'll address it from the non-student side. I taught both lecture and labs for O-chem and it is a very good intro for students to what an "intense" course is like. Lots of info in a short period of time. It was my job to make it relevant to the class as a whole so I covered advanced general chem (orbitals, bonding) followed by an intro to what organic is (classes of molecules) followed by several chapters on the chemistry of basic functional groups (learn the mechanism!). The next semester should include more functional group chemistry and a solid into to biochem. All of this is relevant as our bodies (the ones the doctors are treating) are basically doing complex reactions on complex organic molecules with all kinds of functional groups. They are prescribing complex organic molecules for us to take to improve our lives. I'd like my doctor to know the difference between a carboxylic acid and an amine, or a steroid and a opiate. Also - he should have some basic understanding of how any why these molecules interact with our bodies (please please please remember hydrogen bonding). I really don't want him to think of me as a black box and try things in a Edisonian manner.
Also - its a great weedout class :P I got to see my students take exams (I was a nice guy - but some people STILL couldn't get half the questions right) and work in the lab. I had a low dropout rate, but the ones that did ALL told me they were premed and needed more time to get ready for hard classes. I doubt any will be back. I had several pass the course BARELY and decide medicine or vet school probably wasn't in the cards. What it boiled down to was effort. I had some OK students that did really well in the course simply because they put in the effort. They came to office hours (I begged!), they came and found me at lunch, they came to lab sections, they emailed me questions - they were not straight A students but they wanted a good grade in chemistry for the graduate applications. I didn't give them good grades because they were around so much - they got the grades because they asked a lot of questions about topics they were unsure of. Its a complicated science to learn and as hard to teach - some of the stuff is easier to grasp when a teacher is telling and showing you examples rather than reading it from a dry text book. There were a lot of kids in there that will make good doctors - doctors I'd go to, but the ones that didn't make the grade were not putting up the effort. Not the kind of doc you want to have.
One more thing - biochem may be more relevant, but you need more than general chem to understand it. Organic chemistry is the basis of biochem. If you don't know what a carboxylic acid, amine, alcohol, etc. are, you won't understand the fundamentals of biochem. So even if you drop organic - its going to be covered in biochem. You cannot escape.
Anyone else notice that AT&T sends you a notice of updated iPhone firmware that starts with "AT&T Free Msg: Apple has released ..." BUT when you get the bill - lo and behold you've been charged $0.20? I only notice this because I never use text messaging. I wonder if there is a way to disable this "feature" . . .
A Chemical Research in Toxicology article here stated that rats and humans handle bisphenol A in very different ways so I'd be careful drawing lines between rat and human results.
"Enterohepatic circulation of bisphenol A glucuronide in rats results in a slow rate of excretion, whereas bisphenol A is rapidly conjugated and excreted by humans due to the absence of enterohepatic circulation. The efficient glucuronidation of bisphenol A and the rapid excretion of the formed glucuronide result in a low body burden of the estrogenic bisphenol A in humans following oral absorption of low doses."
The article actually says humans basically excreet all of the material resulting in extremely low (near undetectable) levels of biphenol A or its metabolite. They fed humans 5mg of isotopicaly labeled bisphenol A and studied what the body does with it - there is no way any plastic bottle or cup is gonna deliver 5mg of bisphenol A to you via drinking or eating its contents. Bisphenol a is an anti-oxidant used in ppm levels in the plastic to keep it from yellowing over time. So IMHO the jury is still out - BUT my kids use BPA free plastics :) With kids why take the chance?
So Ideas are like ***holes. Which means I have a lot of useless ***holes. I've set up a lot of sites that I thought were "great ideas". Set it up and they will come! Here's the development cycle so you can try it too:
1) Light bulb happens.
2) Register domain name.
3) Brush up on MySQL/PHP again - pay particular attention to new functions needed but never used.
3a) Drag out old projects with useful bits of reusable classes/functions.
4) Spend a few weeks hacking around.
5) Rewrite early sections of code that look bad after learning some new functions/technique.
6) Upload the site to the "production server".
6a) Make sure things are search engine friendly!
7) Buy some adwords.
8) Profit!
This model works great up till 7). Costs about $0.25-1.00 per clickthrough so budget accordingly. Used to be $0.25 bought you the fist page of search results - no longer the case.
I abandoned that model for another one:
1) Use my and/or family/friends education + experience to develop an idea to address "mundane" needs.
Boring needs are needs everyone has. i.e. the potential pool of customers is much much larger for mundane ideas than an idea that is an "agent of change" or "cutting edge" or "disruptive". Not saying you can't address mundane needs with disruptive tech - its just that the need had to have a broad potential customer base.
2) Find someone to help me.
This is where you get stuck - and the topic of the OP. Frankly I don't want an "outsider" working on the idea since once its done whats to keep you contractor from selling the idea/software himself? NDA/Non-compete agreements are useless - are you really going to invest your startup funds in suing a contractor? In many states they are unenforceable anyway.
I had one proposal to develop a basic piece of HR software using a family members 30 years experience in HR. Posted a note on craigslist (I know not the best place) to see who might respond. I actually got a response from a really experienced IT professional and he and I were quite excited about the potential collaboration. We started to sketch out some code and immediately ran into a few road-bumps, mainly time-related issues. Anyway - the lesson is that as some posters have stated - execution is the problem - and generally the downfall of many small businesses. Ideas and talk are easy - finding an energetic partner that can coordinate his/her time and energy with yours is much harder. I don't have an answer really, but wanted to relate my experience. If I come up with a good way to solve this problem I'll repost it. . .
when you wipe the hard drive and reinstall the OS right after receiving a new computer.
Yep - same here verizon DSL does it and its pretty annoying but not sure about newsworthy.....
As an web developer I thought this meant MY web server directory - maybe it does? Sounds more like the directories on the client. I guess in any case its windows based - but perhaps autoupdate should be turned off on all OSes.
It should be "um-limited" - like the phone commercials.
Reading up a bit: "The FISA Court did not reject a single warrant application from its beginning in 1979 through 2002. In 2003 it rejected four applications. In 2004, the number was again zero."
Macbook (not pro). tough plastic shell - reasonably rugged framework. Ours has survived our 2yr old trying to torque on the screen and mashing the keys for over a year now. As a backup the Lenovo thinkpads - nice construction.
is what they ought to call it. Takes forever to load no matter where I'm browsing from.
The biggest problem I see is how will Apple handle the consumer expectation that the phone will be free in about a year, so just wait for it. There will be a wave of early adopters for sure, but the mass market will "wait for the price to drop" much like most of my family & friends did with gadgets like the Razor. To penetrate beyond the fan base they're going to have to work a lot harder.
Ala Asimov's Foundations series the Earth could be part of a galactic empire in a fallow period. Perhaps our species does inhabit the entire universe but we are in a dark age and the Earth is just coming out of its barbaric period. Just an interesting thought - not a belief.
B.S. Tenure is a political process. That is ALL it is.
Its fearmongering to generate a glut of qualified applicants which allows companies to pay low salaries.
I currently use Sprint's EvDO and get 1Mbps at my house and about 0.25Mbps at my office (lots of rebar/concrete tho). This would be a nice speed upgrade if it actually delivers. The one big drawback to the cell data tech is latency. Can't really play games too well, but on a good day its passable. I have the Samsung A940 attached to my MacBook right now via a charging/data usb cable. It also works great with bluetooth but the bandwidth is limited to bluetooth transfer speeds.
Given articles like this on the difficulty of using said multi cores it seems like we could use more tools to improve the utility of these chips. More multi-core functionality in Xcode and related tools would be pretty cool.
As the father of a recently born daughter I can't tell you how much I worried about her. I couldn't even sleep the first night because I had to keep checking her breathing. I know its a bit spastic but some sort of instinct kicks in and you can't help it. Some science behind why these little bundles of joy have such a hard time would be greatly welcome.
Jiggly watts to warp speed - anyone know the conversion?
"...basic research in applied engineering is still done in the US, without the pressure of money and immediate results?"
So think biggest company (revenue wise) in the world. Even their corp. research demands results from basic projects. Corporate research in any company is now considered a Business Unit. ROCI must be maintained! The good old days are gone. When I joined said large company in the early nineties there were perhaps 2 or 3 famous research fellows in-house. By the time I left they had all moved on to academic jobs or startups. Nowadays you'll be lucky to be allowed to do some "side projects" in your career. Maybe spend a few days a month on it. The rest of the time will be meetings while your tech grinds out data. The up side is that you'd be surprised at how much you can expand basic knowledge doing things that academics consider "whoring your self out". Some interesting finds can be made exploring ways to improve products and processes. (and the pay can be pretty sweet) At this point in my life I might welcome an invitation from the Devil again....
So if you can get carbon monoxide out of the process - say by incomplete conversion of methanol - you can copolymerize this using late metal catalysts with something like ethylene to make alternating ethylene-CO copolymers. Not really anything useful though....
An excerpt from "Senator Stevens: How the Internet Works" at dslreports.com
"They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck.
It's a series of tubes.
And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material."
And these guys are writing the laws.
BofA has a version of this thats MUCH less savy. Their site respods with a picture and you confirm the picture is your "key" by entering your password. Just as hackable or perhaps even more so. Its not really a pain but it was really annoying when it was first rolled out.