One thing I find amazing is that many of these catasptophes are worstened because technology WAS NOT APPLIED. At least not modern technology. Many water and sanitation systems date back over 100 years. Road systems are managed under crisis managment with little thought to the future. In Florida it is especially bad. Neighborhoods are being built at a brakneck pace with little thought to infrstructure. Schools, sanitation systems, power grid, flood control all are all lacking. Schools fighting to keep too many kids from showing up for school.
Planning so so poorly thought out, a kid playing SIM City would come up with better plans. And that is exacly my point. We have simulation software that is inextensive. Tons of historical data to pull from. We know how to design better levee systems, bridges and canals. But the political system fails us again and again.
Citizens are taught to hate paying taxes. Politicans abuse their authority for personal gain. The spiral leads to the present situation where systems are allowed to decay to the crisis point.
I see plenty of decent audio chip solutions on the market, what I don't see is a decent inexpensive speaker set. Logitech and the ilk that I have tried have been horrible. I just want a decent, inexpensive 5 speaker plus woofer setup that doesn't take much space and produces good sound throught the sound spectrum. Too much to ask? I'm sick of cheapo speakers in fancy plastic boxes.
Duhhh, bigger society means bigger government using modern communications tech. Yeah, I'd say the govenment cranks out 148X more info today than it dis previously. Maybe in 50 years folks will say the govet is spending $148 on declassifying legacy info for every $1480 spent generating new info.
I did the same thing foir about a year till I came across a biker laying on the sidewalk bleeding as cars sped past. I stopped and helped him up. He said he had been laying there for a couple of minutes but noone stopped. A passing car clipped the end of his handlebar. Don't know how many stitches the guy needed. Point being: till the government starts building MANY more roads with bike lanes, it will be extremely dangerous to ride a bike. At least is isn't as bad as some other countries. In many countries only third-class citizens ride bikes so anyone riding a bike is fair game. I talked to one guy who had been fined the equivalent of $12000 for running down a cyclist and he was pissed over the amount and that the judge made him late for his trip to NY. This was in a Mideastern country.
The problem is that a small breach quickly becomes a large breach as the water rushes in. With a double levee the watter wouldn't rush in and the breach could be repaired. As it stands they are screwed short of parking a battleship in front of the hole.
They should be looking at a double Levee design so a single failure point won't become catastrophic. Much like modern ship design you have a inner and outer containment system with partitioned spaces. Have water flooding stormsewer systems drive pumps to pump down levees.
Fox was going for a different target market than what the show was bringing in. Cosidering it did get decent viewership in spite of the fact they aired the series completely out of order should a one indicator of the suckiness. Another is the fat that it is still one of the top box sets at Amazon two years on with very little marketing.
The EU seems to be all talk, talk talk. Mars missions, GPS satellite, blah,blah,blah. They are broke. Russia could do it with funding but anyome would be weary of throwing money into a Russian blak hole.
Normally I'm not one to comment on someone's coding style, but:
You do realize you can print/echo multiple lines of output at once in PHP? I also recommend using "print" for normal stuff and "echo" for debugging - that's just my preference though.
You also seem to program very linearly (I see a lot of stuff that should be functioned off).
Endless "if" statements can be written more clearly with the "switch" statement.
Stay consistant with HTML case. I would suggest sticking with XHTML lowercase for tags.
If you want to get the most out of AJAX, pass the information back to the client in a compact XML form. I recommend a format with one element per record with attributes for record columns. The whole point of AJAX is to keep the information tyou pass for each request between the client and server to a minimum. Of course, I couldn't fin the XMLHTTPRequest declation in your code either.
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The obvious point here should be that the countyr was sellign them too cheap. Wasting taxpayer dollars. They should have sold them on ebay where they could have gotten much more than $50 without the liability of riots.
I'm in Florida. I did personally call the CS Dept heads at FIT and UCF and send them a copy of the posting to put up. So did our HR folks. Unfortunatle, as I mentions, our company was slow posting the job so we were well into the Spring before we could do interviews.
I begged for an intern but between the slow job posting process at our company and the fact that MS hired the decent local talent it did not go well. In the end we found a person through the grapevine who was looking for a job instead. I doubt I'l bother again. Can't compete with the big companies.
I don't think kant's categorical imperative applies. If Google were to target a specific person in the same way ZDNet did, then sure. But what ZDNet did was the equivalent of my driving my car through the road builders house because someone used the road to drive through my home.
ZDNet seems to have some sort of ethical mental block virus spreading through their staff. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. If you don't get the difference between having access to information about a person from various sources and taking that information and making someone a target by singling them out then I would say you have real problems. How about I take pictures of your kids playing in a public playground and publish them in a forum known to be frequented by pedophiles along with your address? I could but I wouldn't.
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Planning so so poorly thought out, a kid playing SIM City would come up with better plans. And that is exacly my point. We have simulation software that is inextensive. Tons of historical data to pull from. We know how to design better levee systems, bridges and canals. But the political system fails us again and again.
I put up a forum where people can offer or ask for assistance (mostly non-money help). It's called HurricaneVolunteer.com
Anyone know how tp reverse the video? I think it would look cool zooming into Earth too.
Sicne he linked to Newegg (a great company BTW) I did a quick Froogle and found it cheaper. Notably, Buy.com has it for ~$87 with free shipping.
I see plenty of decent audio chip solutions on the market, what I don't see is a decent inexpensive speaker set. Logitech and the ilk that I have tried have been horrible. I just want a decent, inexpensive 5 speaker plus woofer setup that doesn't take much space and produces good sound throught the sound spectrum. Too much to ask? I'm sick of cheapo speakers in fancy plastic boxes.
Duhhh, bigger society means bigger government using modern communications tech. Yeah, I'd say the govenment cranks out 148X more info today than it dis previously. Maybe in 50 years folks will say the govet is spending $148 on declassifying legacy info for every $1480 spent generating new info.
I did the same thing foir about a year till I came across a biker laying on the sidewalk bleeding as cars sped past. I stopped and helped him up. He said he had been laying there for a couple of minutes but noone stopped. A passing car clipped the end of his handlebar. Don't know how many stitches the guy needed. Point being: till the government starts building MANY more roads with bike lanes, it will be extremely dangerous to ride a bike. At least is isn't as bad as some other countries. In many countries only third-class citizens ride bikes so anyone riding a bike is fair game. I talked to one guy who had been fined the equivalent of $12000 for running down a cyclist and he was pissed over the amount and that the judge made him late for his trip to NY. This was in a Mideastern country.
The problem is that a small breach quickly becomes a large breach as the water rushes in. With a double levee the watter wouldn't rush in and the breach could be repaired. As it stands they are screwed short of parking a battleship in front of the hole.
They should be looking at a double Levee design so a single failure point won't become catastrophic. Much like modern ship design you have a inner and outer containment system with partitioned spaces. Have water flooding stormsewer systems drive pumps to pump down levees.
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Maybe those Macromedia folks can teach them how to make a browser plugin that doesn't hang or kill the browser!
I want a morphing robot plane! Robots be kewl!
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Fox was going for a different target market than what the show was bringing in. Cosidering it did get decent viewership in spite of the fact they aired the series completely out of order should a one indicator of the suckiness. Another is the fat that it is still one of the top box sets at Amazon two years on with very little marketing.
It ain't cool unless it got a robot.
The EU seems to be all talk, talk talk. Mars missions, GPS satellite, blah,blah,blah. They are broke. Russia could do it with funding but anyome would be weary of throwing money into a Russian blak hole.
If you want to get the most out of AJAX, pass the information back to the client in a compact XML form. I recommend a format with one element per record with attributes for record columns. The whole point of AJAX is to keep the information tyou pass for each request between the client and server to a minimum. Of course, I couldn't fin the XMLHTTPRequest declation in your code either.
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The obvious point here should be that the countyr was sellign them too cheap. Wasting taxpayer dollars. They should have sold them on ebay where they could have gotten much more than $50 without the liability of riots.
I'm in Florida. I did personally call the CS Dept heads at FIT and UCF and send them a copy of the posting to put up. So did our HR folks. Unfortunatle, as I mentions, our company was slow posting the job so we were well into the Spring before we could do interviews.
I begged for an intern but between the slow job posting process at our company and the fact that MS hired the decent local talent it did not go well. In the end we found a person through the grapevine who was looking for a job instead. I doubt I'l bother again. Can't compete with the big companies.
I don't think kant's categorical imperative applies. If Google were to target a specific person in the same way ZDNet did, then sure. But what ZDNet did was the equivalent of my driving my car through the road builders house because someone used the road to drive through my home.
ZDNet seems to have some sort of ethical mental block virus spreading through their staff. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. If you don't get the difference between having access to information about a person from various sources and taking that information and making someone a target by singling them out then I would say you have real problems. How about I take pictures of your kids playing in a public playground and publish them in a forum known to be frequented by pedophiles along with your address? I could but I wouldn't.
Rename the ".exe" to ".scr", right click on the file and select "Intall". You now have a Drivey screensaver;)