It's ok for genes to predicate athletic ability, but not other abilities or behaviours?
Obviously our genes influence other behaviours. The small minded might not like that, but that's the way it is. Those who cry "racism" do a diservice to humanity in general - the bell curve applies to all populations, and the distribution of genes within a population is widely distributed. Studying how those genes interact is a good thing!
Nuclear technologies offer unlimited, high quality, stable power. Fission, and fusion. Base research into particle physics may provide additional breakthroughs in decades to come - antimatter, etc.
We just elect not to exploit them because oil is easy.. and thermodynamics and energy cycles are hard for the average person to understand.
Massive gold deposits would make settlement there easier, but not for economic reasons. Gold is easily alloyed and makes a great material for all sorts of things. Like electric machinery, needed to process ore, water, ventilation, etc.
Bandwidth is cheap and it gets cheaper every year. Carriers make a lot of money on bandwidth resale even at the fairly small level (few gbits/sec feeds). Not many people are aware of HOW cheap it actually is though.
Most of the problem can stem from the fact municipalities were too short sighted, or unable legally, to run fiber infrastructure that could be leased to ISPs (egress). A modern fiber network has effectively unlimited bandwidth.. and then there's next year's kit coming.
A better question is what's going to happen to the content / cable providers in a gigabit unlimited environment.
FM VHF isn't very big spectrum either. You don't need a large carrier to move voice signals.
The fact these systems carry a long way works against them too. The line of sight / local bounce propagation from the microwave bands allows for a much higher density of cells that are all synchronized. More transmitters means more bandwidth / spectrum re-use. If the transmitters see each other with stronger signals, your noise floor and interference go up, and your throughput goes down.
I consider it no accident that the defacto standard language C (aka, "portable assembler") has a lot to do with not only it being the language of choice for UNIX, but the fact that it was accompanied by one of the masterpieces of programming documentation - "The C Programming Language" - By K&R, who most know also designed and developed the language itself.
Your ideas are no good if they can't be communicated to others. Often, inability to communicate good ideas is more an indicator the ideas aren't that good, than the documentation is lacking.
One of the great democratizing things that's happened with the rise of App Stores, free tools, computers so cheap they're effectively free, open access to information.. and access to virtual manufacturing tools - is that now you can start a company with little capital from just about anywhere.
Keep whining. Soon you won't be needed, and the technically minded can connect directly with those who want the goods and services produced by their skills.
Much like Napster and iTunes fortold the end of the multi-million dollar record deals, but enabled a whole generation of new musicians to make a decent living, access to cheap tools, social networking connections, kickstarter type operations, and virtual machine and manufacturing shops will be the end to the Bill Gates empires of the world.
Or maybe not, but I like to think the free market, like nature abhors a vacuum and while slow, will respond in kind.
I might be a little older now, but I'm not jaded yet.
I'd say the next Pirate Bay VPN located there will sure meet your description of a globally distributing film/music/software company based in Portugal.:)
Genes play a big factor, but most of it is thermodynamics.
Eat less than you burn. You will lose weight and stay skinny. Eat more, you will get fat. Period.
A collary of that is you can eat mainly fast food and not get fat. I've done this for periods of my life when I was very busy. Healthy? Probably not. It is not about the type of food, it is about the CALORIES. The food energy. That's it.
Yes there are a myriad of reasons why some people gain more weight than others, and a myriad of reasons why some lose it quicker. Ultimately, you have free will, and you choose to do these things. Make better choices and you'll be healthier. Those choices may be difficult, sure. Suck it up princess.
..and the point being missed is that you can be someone who worked on cars their entire life, have a mechanical engineering degree, too - those are the guys who work on F1 cars.
The best candidates will have proper academic training AND drive. They're not exclusive!
I grew up taking apart 8-bit machines, hacking opcodes in memory and messing with analog phone lines. First I wanted to know how stuff worked.. then I wanted to know WHY stuff worked.
The analysis is more clouded than the pundits think.
If you are average to slightly above, and risk-adverse, getting a degree is a logical choice.
If you are above average, and entrepreneurial, chances are you will succeed no matter what you do. If the opportunity cost is not to high, a degree is a good bet.
Those who do well with degrees are more likely to do well without them, on a different path - and that makes the analysis more difficult, as the variable is the opportunity cost while in school.
Many moons ago now I thought about CS or physics but did EE instead. It was probably harder but left open doors to management and different careers that would not have been there otherwise. My sister was going to do Chemistry but I persuaded her to do do Chemical Engineering instead. That opened up doors to a PhD in Nuclear Engineering that would not have otherwise been there in a pure science track.
If you want the practical, and you don't have a trust fund, then do what's practical, and that's engineering in a post-secondary, technology environment. If you have an engineering degree and are personable, you will not want for a job.
Do what you love, not what is easy, the life will follow. Not my words but wise ones.
If you've got the chops for a real CS degree, you have largely the same options open for you with an electrical engineering degree, and a lot of other ones you'd be excluded from, too.
If you want to do applied math.. well.. I'd get a math degree and take some CS courses to bolster the programming. Discrete mathematics is just that. Math degrees aren't that common, and IIRC, sought after, especially in finance and statistical analysis.
CS is in an awkward spot. It never was meant to be a trade degree.. somewhere along the lines it was expected to be one. Hilarity did not ensue.
A referral to an online service is pretty stupid for a long-term idea. Nobody will care in 100 years.
What IS neat is QR codes can store information directly, in a standard format, that can be manually decoded BY HAND if you have to. This is useful for "the long haul". Most people are not aware there are different sizes of QR codes, and the standard encoding can hold a kilobyte or so of information.
Etching the QR code on the stone is not ideal. If I wanted it to last very long time, I'd look at using a gold or platinum protective film (perferably coated as to not look valuable) with the QR code lithographically etched onto an aluminum plate, or something along those lines.
A more interesting idea would be the design of a long-life semiconductor that could flash out a message in morse code. I think it'd be feasible to design something that would remain functional for 100 years or more with current technology. Maybe more with descretes, and if you didn't want to have an onboard power source like a small solar cell / gold ultracapacitor.
For really long term, it has to be decodable by hand or with the information on the device.
The reason is simple. Apple products are build well and when held in comparison to other products, make them look like cheaply made, MBA designed, trash.
Slashdot Mirror
or largest number of people locked up, say..
It's ok for genes to predicate athletic ability, but not other abilities or behaviours?
Obviously our genes influence other behaviours. The small minded might not like that, but that's the way it is. Those who cry "racism" do a diservice to humanity in general - the bell curve applies to all populations, and the distribution of genes within a population is widely distributed. Studying how those genes interact is a good thing!
Nuclear technologies offer unlimited, high quality, stable power. Fission, and fusion. Base research into particle physics may provide additional breakthroughs in decades to come - antimatter, etc.
We just elect not to exploit them because oil is easy.. and thermodynamics and energy cycles are hard for the average person to understand.
Talk to someone that works in a technical capacity. You'll take my 3 30" monitors from me over my dead body..
Now, will they go back to the minicomputer era pricing? Probably.
Massive gold deposits would make settlement there easier, but not for economic reasons. Gold is easily alloyed and makes a great material for all sorts of things. Like electric machinery, needed to process ore, water, ventilation, etc.
The market will fix this, or legislation will.
Bandwidth is cheap and it gets cheaper every year. Carriers make a lot of money on bandwidth resale even at the fairly small level (few gbits/sec feeds). Not many people are aware of HOW cheap it actually is though.
Most of the problem can stem from the fact municipalities were too short sighted, or unable legally, to run fiber infrastructure that could be leased to ISPs (egress). A modern fiber network has effectively unlimited bandwidth.. and then there's next year's kit coming.
A better question is what's going to happen to the content / cable providers in a gigabit unlimited environment.
The AM band is very small.
FM VHF isn't very big spectrum either. You don't need a large carrier to move voice signals.
The fact these systems carry a long way works against them too. The line of sight / local bounce propagation from the microwave bands allows for a much higher density of cells that are all synchronized. More transmitters means more bandwidth / spectrum re-use. If the transmitters see each other with stronger signals, your noise floor and interference go up, and your throughput goes down.
Physics is a bitch sometimes.
I consider it no accident that the defacto standard language C (aka, "portable assembler") has a lot to do with not only it being the language of choice for UNIX, but the fact that it was accompanied by one of the masterpieces of programming documentation - "The C Programming Language" - By K&R, who most know also designed and developed the language itself.
Your ideas are no good if they can't be communicated to others. Often, inability to communicate good ideas is more an indicator the ideas aren't that good, than the documentation is lacking.
A good teacher shouldn't need a book.
There's lots of old, free books. Why not use those?
One of the great democratizing things that's happened with the rise of App Stores, free tools, computers so cheap they're effectively free, open access to information.. and access to virtual manufacturing tools - is that now you can start a company with little capital from just about anywhere.
Keep whining. Soon you won't be needed, and the technically minded can connect directly with those who want the goods and services produced by their skills.
Much like Napster and iTunes fortold the end of the multi-million dollar record deals, but enabled a whole generation of new musicians to make a decent living, access to cheap tools, social networking connections, kickstarter type operations, and virtual machine and manufacturing shops will be the end to the Bill Gates empires of the world.
Or maybe not, but I like to think the free market, like nature abhors a vacuum and while slow, will respond in kind.
I might be a little older now, but I'm not jaded yet.
I'd say the next Pirate Bay VPN located there will sure meet your description of a globally distributing film/music/software company based in Portugal. :)
Genes play a big factor, but most of it is thermodynamics.
Eat less than you burn. You will lose weight and stay skinny. Eat more, you will get fat. Period.
A collary of that is you can eat mainly fast food and not get fat. I've done this for periods of my life when I was very busy. Healthy? Probably not. It is not about the type of food, it is about the CALORIES. The food energy. That's it.
Yes there are a myriad of reasons why some people gain more weight than others, and a myriad of reasons why some lose it quicker. Ultimately, you have free will, and you choose to do these things. Make better choices and you'll be healthier. Those choices may be difficult, sure. Suck it up princess.
That message is lost along the way.
Hire Carly?
IBM's hiring and interview process is very robust. (or at least it was when I went through it in the 90's).
I'm guessing the population of people who work at IBM may be skewed.
..you're doing WHAT to that Yoda doll?
I don't remember most of the articles, but there's art in some of the trolls.
Where is OOG? What will he smash now that there are no more open souce CDs? OOG SMASH TORRENT LINK.. just doesn't have the same ring to it.
Is Natalie Portman still naked and petrified after all these years? :-)
Correct. But the ones looking for an electrical or computer engineer (I'd only ever do EE) sure can tell the difference and do distinguish.
Why limit yourself?
..and the point being missed is that you can be someone who worked on cars their entire life, have a mechanical engineering degree, too - those are the guys who work on F1 cars.
The best candidates will have proper academic training AND drive. They're not exclusive!
I grew up taking apart 8-bit machines, hacking opcodes in memory and messing with analog phone lines. First I wanted to know how stuff worked.. then I wanted to know WHY stuff worked.
YMMV. It's not black and white.
The analysis is more clouded than the pundits think.
If you are average to slightly above, and risk-adverse, getting a degree is a logical choice.
If you are above average, and entrepreneurial, chances are you will succeed no matter what you do. If the opportunity cost is not to high, a degree is a good bet.
Those who do well with degrees are more likely to do well without them, on a different path - and that makes the analysis more difficult, as the variable is the opportunity cost while in school.
Many moons ago now I thought about CS or physics but did EE instead. It was probably harder but left open doors to management and different careers that would not have been there otherwise. My sister was going to do Chemistry but I persuaded her to do do Chemical Engineering instead. That opened up doors to a PhD in Nuclear Engineering that would not have otherwise been there in a pure science track.
If you want the practical, and you don't have a trust fund, then do what's practical, and that's engineering in a post-secondary, technology environment. If you have an engineering degree and are personable, you will not want for a job.
Do what you love, not what is easy, the life will follow. Not my words but wise ones.
If you've got the chops for a real CS degree, you have largely the same options open for you with an electrical engineering degree, and a lot of other ones you'd be excluded from, too.
If you want to do applied math.. well.. I'd get a math degree and take some CS courses to bolster the programming. Discrete mathematics is just that. Math degrees aren't that common, and IIRC, sought after, especially in finance and statistical analysis.
CS is in an awkward spot. It never was meant to be a trade degree.. somewhere along the lines it was expected to be one. Hilarity did not ensue.
YMMV.
A referral to an online service is pretty stupid for a long-term idea. Nobody will care in 100 years.
What IS neat is QR codes can store information directly, in a standard format, that can be manually decoded BY HAND if you have to. This is useful for "the long haul". Most people are not aware there are different sizes of QR codes, and the standard encoding can hold a kilobyte or so of information.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code
Etching the QR code on the stone is not ideal. If I wanted it to last very long time, I'd look at using a gold or platinum protective film (perferably coated as to not look valuable) with the QR code lithographically etched onto an aluminum plate, or something along those lines.
A more interesting idea would be the design of a long-life semiconductor that could flash out a message in morse code. I think it'd be feasible to design something that would remain functional for 100 years or more with current technology. Maybe more with descretes, and if you didn't want to have an onboard power source like a small solar cell / gold ultracapacitor.
For really long term, it has to be decodable by hand or with the information on the device.
Mortality is a bitch.
Right?
This is not the price of freedom. It is the price of being human, and some people are crazy. Sometimes, homicidal.
Do you think prisons are any safer?
Damn, it's not funny anymore.
The reason is simple. Apple products are build well and when held in comparison to other products, make them look like cheaply made, MBA designed, trash.
That's all folks.