I am also an architecture student, not far off from getting licensed.
Mies' design was brilliant if you look at it from a programmatic perspective. His so-called "universal space" is just that. It just so happens to be that a library program fits in the particular building shown in TFA. I have not been to this library, so this is purely speculation, but it seems that the program elements can be rearranged to deal with the changing idea of "library" just fine.
And if the program of library becomes removed from actually needing a physical structure (which I highly doubt), then this building has the potential to become used with another program.
This is more successful design than specific, entirely program-driven designs, which provide one solution to one problem. Say what you will about Modernism, but Mies created buildings that were generally program agnostic, rendering them useful beyond their first intended use.
Architects, like most people, cannot predict the future, but they can take an educated guess. Designing for what may appear to be tomorrow's library may not, and probably will not happen. The real design challenge is to create a building that can accommodate the future, without compromising quality, aesthetics, or usability.
Architects do just provide a service. They certify their design to "the best of their knowledge and ability," in accordance with building codes, etc. This is known as the standard of care. They cannot provide any sort of guarantee that their building will be leak-proof, falling ice proof, or whatever.
A sound building is not necessarily a perfect building. MIT basically has to prove that Gehry & Partners knew that they were designing faulty flashing/drainage details, or neglecting to design them at all, and allow the contractor to "figure it out" in the field.
Architects provide a service, they can't guarantee/warranty anything. That's the contractor's realm.
Gehry, love him or hate him was hired to design a building, which MIT signed off on, window boxes and all. He was also paid to draw up plans, details, etc. explaining to the contractor how to build the building. All architects are held to a "standard of care," which basically means that you have to operate in a manner consistent to what other architects would do in the same situation. Despite what you might think, the building does not have to be perfect.
To prove negligence, MIT has to show that Gehry acted in a manner inconsistent with other professionals in his field. Being a complicated building, MIT should have known the risks involved.
I work at an architecture firm that specializes in designing office spaces. Sure, most office buildings today have Central Air, but building management is not going to want to run it all night long. In the evening, they turn the A/C way down or off. Any space in which the tenant will be working after regular hours or has a substantial server room usually requires supplemental air conditioning. I worked on such a job a few months ago, and we called for the A/C units to be in the server room, and floor drains had to be drilled into the floor deck. The client's IT department had no problem with this configuration.
I think that more integration with the OS would be the ideal way to go.
I've had the unfortunate experience of installing Norton Antivirus (supplied to me for free by my university) on my Mac. I ran it, it found some files, deleted them, and no harm done. However, every time I plugged in my firewire or flash drives, it would immediately start scanning them, each and every time they were plugged in. Obviously, a simple trashing of the Norton folder did nothing to get rid of the obtrusive software.
Basically, if you have antivirus software running, it gets in your face at every possible chance, which is ironic, given the fact that its sole purpose is to prevent your computer from acting up on you in the first place. An integrated solution where it all happens in the background, out of site from the user would be much better.
Would it be possible for the OS to actually check a program before allowing it to run? That way, the user would only be prompted if there was actually a problem, not while doing everyday tasks.
In architecture, almost everything written on construction documents (aside from long blocks of text) is in caps. In this case, the caps lock key is very, very handy.
It could, however, be located in a different place, as to not be accidentally toggled while typing.
They're precious because DeBeers makes sure they stay that way. IIRC, they are not allowed to operate in the US, as they are a monopoly, and therefore have to distribute via different companies here.
But they stand a lot to lose, with these diamonds made in a lab. They'll probably try to say that unless a diamond came from the ground, it isn't real... but how would a diamond from the ground and a diamond from the lab any different? Do the kind from the lab have fewer imperfections?
It'd be interesting if there was a certain amount of imperfections that were desirable in a diamond. Say, if there were too many, it would obviously be low quality, and if there were too few, it'd obviously be from a lab.
But wouldn't these new diamonds have any other uses than to just look nice on some 'high class' woman's finger?
Not just new features... they have to add features that people actually want. Apple does this.
For example, Expose was the big hit of Panther, and now Spotlight and Dashboard are going to be the big hits of Tiger. Sure, the performance and GUI enhancements are nice (except for perhaps the Finder), but they are a sideshow.
Microsoft needs to add something that will make people actually want to upgrade. They can say they will improve security, but that isn't something the average user will notice right away. In fact, it should be something the user doesn't notice at all since the OS should protect them in the first place. Microsoft needs to have something that has a tangible effect on the end user.
If people can't tell between XP (or 2000, or ME for that matter), they are in for trouble. Then they won't bother purchasing it. But if they see that there is a good reason to upgrade, they will.
Jaguar and Panther could both play DVDs, surf the web and play games... but Apple came out with features in Panther that made people able to do those things easier and/or better than before.
My point is that most new features are mostly marketing fluff, and if M$ wants really pull this off, they have to offer something truly innovative and useful.
I spent a year in the dorms at UIC and people's accounts would routinely get suspended for a week, that is, if they downloaded more than 1GB/day. First time offenders would only get a warning. It seems fair to me, though, and I never ran into any problems, although my girlfriend did from downloading too much music.
UIC has bigger fish to fry than some minor complaints about its internet EULA. Personally, I'd be complaining to them about the amount of server space students get (something like a total of 22 mb for both email and personal webspace). So if someone sends me a photoshop attachment that is over 10mb, I usually end up with an email written in all caps telling me that my inbox is at 120%.
I'm a 3rd year architecture student at UIC, and we have the 5th floor studio in the A+A Bldg, in which the roof leaks around each of the four "skylights." This has been going on for years, and the higher-ups keep on ignoring requests from the school director for fixing the roof, which not only destroys students' work, but university property like desks and ceiling tiles and so on. Not to mention causing potential illnesses attributable to mold, in which case a viable legal case could be brought against the school.
If you seriously think the people up on the 28th floor of UH give a damn about some internet policy, you're sadly mistaken. And the removal of your account is going to get laughed out of court, if something of the sort were to ever happen. But don't worry, nothing will ever happen, they aren't going to check for any "controversial" material... they just don't care. They might, however, if you upload illegal or infringing content to their servers, and they have the legal right to close your account, and possibly even kick you out of the university for that. But something "controversial"?
I had a bit of the opposite with SBC here in Chicago. I ordered a land line for DSL when I moved into my apartment, and a guy came out and did something, but there was no dial tone, and he claimed he had put in a work order to fix something. So this other guy never showed up, and I had to call them a bunch of times, being switched between installation and repairs and whatnot. Eventually I contacted the Citizen's Utility Board about the problem, and finally I got a call from an SBC rep who wasn't from a call center, he was an executive assistant or something. Apparently he helped fix the problem.
By the time I finally had my line installed, it was about 7 weeks since I had placed the order. But in Illinois, they passed a law a few years back that says that for every day after they miss your appointment they have to credit your account $20 a day. So I ended up with an $800 credit, and haven't paid for DSL yet.
I saw this in the news, and I believe that it was just a school board in a town in Ohio where they voted to have "intelligent design" included in the biology curriculum. However, the teachers refused to teach it, saying it wasn't science. But I don't know about the entire Dept of Education being on board.
I have an 800 MHz TiBook, and this sort of thing used to happen to me occasionally after I had first purchased it. However, closing the lid and reopening it did not work, and I had to forcibly restart it. IIRC, the backlight was not coming back on, yet the display was still functioning. This has not happened to me in a very long time, though, and I figured they had already fixed the problem in an earlier release.
I don't design processors either, but wouldn't increasing their size actually make them go slower since there would have to be longer circuits? And don't longer circuits mean more overall resistance?
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I am also an architecture student, not far off from getting licensed.
Mies' design was brilliant if you look at it from a programmatic perspective. His so-called "universal space" is just that. It just so happens to be that a library program fits in the particular building shown in TFA. I have not been to this library, so this is purely speculation, but it seems that the program elements can be rearranged to deal with the changing idea of "library" just fine.
And if the program of library becomes removed from actually needing a physical structure (which I highly doubt), then this building has the potential to become used with another program.
This is more successful design than specific, entirely program-driven designs, which provide one solution to one problem. Say what you will about Modernism, but Mies created buildings that were generally program agnostic, rendering them useful beyond their first intended use.
Architects, like most people, cannot predict the future, but they can take an educated guess. Designing for what may appear to be tomorrow's library may not, and probably will not happen. The real design challenge is to create a building that can accommodate the future, without compromising quality, aesthetics, or usability.
Architects do just provide a service. They certify their design to "the best of their knowledge and ability," in accordance with building codes, etc. This is known as the standard of care. They cannot provide any sort of guarantee that their building will be leak-proof, falling ice proof, or whatever.
A sound building is not necessarily a perfect building. MIT basically has to prove that Gehry & Partners knew that they were designing faulty flashing/drainage details, or neglecting to design them at all, and allow the contractor to "figure it out" in the field.
Your landscape argument doesn't work.
Architects provide a service, they can't guarantee/warranty anything. That's the contractor's realm.
Gehry, love him or hate him was hired to design a building, which MIT signed off on, window boxes and all. He was also paid to draw up plans, details, etc. explaining to the contractor how to build the building. All architects are held to a "standard of care," which basically means that you have to operate in a manner consistent to what other architects would do in the same situation. Despite what you might think, the building does not have to be perfect.
To prove negligence, MIT has to show that Gehry acted in a manner inconsistent with other professionals in his field. Being a complicated building, MIT should have known the risks involved.
I wouldn't mind a $40 beer coupon from the government.
I work at an architecture firm that specializes in designing office spaces. Sure, most office buildings today have Central Air, but building management is not going to want to run it all night long. In the evening, they turn the A/C way down or off. Any space in which the tenant will be working after regular hours or has a substantial server room usually requires supplemental air conditioning. I worked on such a job a few months ago, and we called for the A/C units to be in the server room, and floor drains had to be drilled into the floor deck. The client's IT department had no problem with this configuration.
When you drag a removable device to the trash, the trash can icon actually becomes an eject symbol. So technically you aren't putting it in the trash.
I agree, though, Apple could implement a more intuitive solution.
So you advocate guilty until proven innocent? You sicken me.
Insightful? By that logic, it means a higher up in your business/organization/whatever is a pedophile, then so are 50% of the others.
You've got it completely backwards. Edison promoted DC, while Tesla was backed by Westinghouse.
Tesla developed AC, and sold the patents to Westinghouse.
I think that more integration with the OS would be the ideal way to go.
I've had the unfortunate experience of installing Norton Antivirus (supplied to me for free by my university) on my Mac. I ran it, it found some files, deleted them, and no harm done. However, every time I plugged in my firewire or flash drives, it would immediately start scanning them, each and every time they were plugged in. Obviously, a simple trashing of the Norton folder did nothing to get rid of the obtrusive software.
Basically, if you have antivirus software running, it gets in your face at every possible chance, which is ironic, given the fact that its sole purpose is to prevent your computer from acting up on you in the first place. An integrated solution where it all happens in the background, out of site from the user would be much better.
Would it be possible for the OS to actually check a program before allowing it to run? That way, the user would only be prompted if there was actually a problem, not while doing everyday tasks.
In architecture, almost everything written on construction documents (aside from long blocks of text) is in caps. In this case, the caps lock key is very, very handy.
It could, however, be located in a different place, as to not be accidentally toggled while typing.
They'll just pea it out later.
Nope.
They're precious because DeBeers makes sure they stay that way. IIRC, they are not allowed to operate in the US, as they are a monopoly, and therefore have to distribute via different companies here.
But they stand a lot to lose, with these diamonds made in a lab. They'll probably try to say that unless a diamond came from the ground, it isn't real... but how would a diamond from the ground and a diamond from the lab any different? Do the kind from the lab have fewer imperfections?
It'd be interesting if there was a certain amount of imperfections that were desirable in a diamond. Say, if there were too many, it would obviously be low quality, and if there were too few, it'd obviously be from a lab.
But wouldn't these new diamonds have any other uses than to just look nice on some 'high class' woman's finger?
You never know. They might be sued by that band Survivor.
"they just need to add new features"
Not just new features... they have to add features that people actually want. Apple does this.
For example, Expose was the big hit of Panther, and now Spotlight and Dashboard are going to be the big hits of Tiger. Sure, the performance and GUI enhancements are nice (except for perhaps the Finder), but they are a sideshow.
Microsoft needs to add something that will make people actually want to upgrade. They can say they will improve security, but that isn't something the average user will notice right away. In fact, it should be something the user doesn't notice at all since the OS should protect them in the first place. Microsoft needs to have something that has a tangible effect on the end user.
If people can't tell between XP (or 2000, or ME for that matter), they are in for trouble. Then they won't bother purchasing it. But if they see that there is a good reason to upgrade, they will.
Jaguar and Panther could both play DVDs, surf the web and play games... but Apple came out with features in Panther that made people able to do those things easier and/or better than before.
My point is that most new features are mostly marketing fluff, and if M$ wants really pull this off, they have to offer something truly innovative and useful.
Which google says equals 1.00432767 inches
The GP poster said " almost exactly" 1 in/s.
Close enough, I'd say.
I heard that it started when a bloke called Archie Duke shot an ostrich 'cause he was hungry.
I spent a year in the dorms at UIC and people's accounts would routinely get suspended for a week, that is, if they downloaded more than 1GB/day. First time offenders would only get a warning. It seems fair to me, though, and I never ran into any problems, although my girlfriend did from downloading too much music.
UIC has bigger fish to fry than some minor complaints about its internet EULA. Personally, I'd be complaining to them about the amount of server space students get (something like a total of 22 mb for both email and personal webspace). So if someone sends me a photoshop attachment that is over 10mb, I usually end up with an email written in all caps telling me that my inbox is at 120%.
I'm a 3rd year architecture student at UIC, and we have the 5th floor studio in the A+A Bldg, in which the roof leaks around each of the four "skylights." This has been going on for years, and the higher-ups keep on ignoring requests from the school director for fixing the roof, which not only destroys students' work, but university property like desks and ceiling tiles and so on. Not to mention causing potential illnesses attributable to mold, in which case a viable legal case could be brought against the school.
If you seriously think the people up on the 28th floor of UH give a damn about some internet policy, you're sadly mistaken. And the removal of your account is going to get laughed out of court, if something of the sort were to ever happen. But don't worry, nothing will ever happen, they aren't going to check for any "controversial" material... they just don't care. They might, however, if you upload illegal or infringing content to their servers, and they have the legal right to close your account, and possibly even kick you out of the university for that. But something "controversial"?
Dude, let it go.
The local sperm bank?
I had a bit of the opposite with SBC here in Chicago. I ordered a land line for DSL when I moved into my apartment, and a guy came out and did something, but there was no dial tone, and he claimed he had put in a work order to fix something. So this other guy never showed up, and I had to call them a bunch of times, being switched between installation and repairs and whatnot. Eventually I contacted the Citizen's Utility Board about the problem, and finally I got a call from an SBC rep who wasn't from a call center, he was an executive assistant or something. Apparently he helped fix the problem.
By the time I finally had my line installed, it was about 7 weeks since I had placed the order. But in Illinois, they passed a law a few years back that says that for every day after they miss your appointment they have to credit your account $20 a day. So I ended up with an $800 credit, and haven't paid for DSL yet.
Hold on...
I saw this in the news, and I believe that it was just a school board in a town in Ohio where they voted to have "intelligent design" included in the biology curriculum. However, the teachers refused to teach it, saying it wasn't science. But I don't know about the entire Dept of Education being on board.
I have an 800 MHz TiBook, and this sort of thing used to happen to me occasionally after I had first purchased it. However, closing the lid and reopening it did not work, and I had to forcibly restart it. IIRC, the backlight was not coming back on, yet the display was still functioning. This has not happened to me in a very long time, though, and I figured they had already fixed the problem in an earlier release.
I don't design processors either, but wouldn't increasing their size actually make them go slower since there would have to be longer circuits? And don't longer circuits mean more overall resistance?