"When doctors or nurses use their knowledge of anatomy in order to torture or conduct medical experiments on helpless subjects, we are rightly outraged. Why doesn't society seem to apply the same standards to engineers?"
If the doctor uses their knowledge of anatomy to conduct medical experiments, do we blame the person that created the tool, the tool, or do we blame the doctor? When someone uses a weapon to kill someone, do we blame the person that created the weapon, the weapon, or the person using the weapon.
Too often we will blame the doctor if they did something wrong, in modern day history if someone did something wrong it is not their fault. Its the weapon, the parents, etc.
Engineers are tasked with creating an item (be it a weapon, or a car) to be safe as possible to the user. They have no moral obligation to prevent it from being used incorrectly.
The best plug is a Speakon connector. You twist to make the connection, it locks in place. If modified (for a ground pin) you could easily have the ground connect first in any plug.
With the design, its hard to have any key or item go into the either plug.
Now only if they could be used for power instead of just for audio/video.
Have Volvo engineers ever driven in ice and snow? If they haven't then they know that no vehicle is accident-proof. Accident-resistant maybe, but not accident-proof.
Accident-proof == No matter what conditions you drive in, and no matter how you drive, you will not get into an accident.
Accident-resistant == Depending on the conditions and driving patterns, there are extra features to help prevent an accident.
If this car is accident proof, then I would expect to go 70 mph down an icy road and expect to stop in the same about of time that I expect to stop in excellent conditions without hitting the stopped car in front of me or going into the ditch.
"...if such institution receives fifty (50) or more legally valid notices of infringement as prescribed by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998..."
According to a recently lawsuit against the RIAA on the legality of their tactics, I would question if the notices are legally valid or not.
I work for a major IT company. I started as a tech support for one of their products. While my time in tech support, I took more classes programming, talked with developers of product I was supporting, and even wrote a tool that was implemented while I was working there to help with the job.
Besides doing my best in the job, and all of these things, I was also searching for a development job within the company.
Less than 2 years after I started as tech support, I am now a developer of a different product within the company.
Its not always a dead end, it is if you make it. There were a few people that will always work in that position because they don't want to move on.
Things to do in tech support if you want to move on to something else.
Excel at the current position - Do your best, this will look good at whatever you are looking at
Let your manager know - This depends on the company and your manager. Some managers will help to move you on, others won't.
Find opportunities to do what you want - If you want to get into development, find opportunities to write something that will help the current job.
Actively search for new positions - This is after the minimum time set for a position that the company sets. This way the division doesn't lose any money on their investment in you.
Remember you need to show initiative, and try to move on.
Think about the memory usage. Firefox struggles enough, think about running a full desktop environment. I won't until some of the memory usage comes down quite a bit.
Hillary Clinton - Registered via NetworkSolutions?!? Must have money to burn. John Edwards - Can he make up his mind on a OS? Barack Obama - Full Linux Rudy Giuliani - Windows only, but only one entry John McCain - From FreeBSD to MS? Did MS donate to you? Mitt Romney - All but one Linux (that one is unknow, but I would say Linux)
If you want to learn how to program, start teaching yourself some C/C++ and Java. You might also want to look into.Net (I wouldn't but I know some of people that need to know that language). Go buy some book in one of those languages, work through it.
If you know of someone that is in a job and can mentor, grab them, and learn from them. Since you don't have a formal education, it will be hard, get some basic course first though. Books and basic knowledge will help. You can also start reading some open source sources, some are good some aren't.
If you can prove what you know, look at some of the local shops, if you can get a foot in the door even doing tech support via phone, many places have a career path to get into development.
We admitted we were powerless over open source. (They seem to have given up the hard fight)
Came to believe that a community greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. (Has this happened?)
Made a decision to turn our license over. (Shared Source is a start)
Use a searching engine better then ours as default on IE. (This is where they are)
Admitted to Open Source Community, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Were entirely ready to have Open Source community remove all these defects of our programs.
Humbly asked Open Source community to remove our shortcomings.
Made a list of all open source projects we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
Made direct amends to such projects wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Sought through Open Source community, to improve our Operating system, and applications, and seeking help to carry out the improvements.
Having had a Open Source awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to Microsofties, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
I've looked into liquid cooling for a machine, but haven't done anything yet. From what I've found out, an ideal solution is to go reservoir->pump->cpu->video card (if doing video card)->north bridge-> radiator->reservoir. You get max cooling this way. Introducing a Y splitter introduces another connection (in which liquid can leak) and split forces of liquid. The liquid will take the path of least resistance, so you might not get max colling that way. I've found that Systemcooling.com has a wealth of information. You might want to pose this question on their forums, as they do more liquid cooling and have people who have done many systems.
I work for Executive Forces, a private military company. Open source has put our company on the map, at least in web presences. Our web servers are running Linux with Apache, the email server is also running Linux with postfix, dovecot, apache and SquirrelMail for web access. For a startup, open source has given us oppurtunities that we would not have otherwise.
about:config then search for browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers and set it to 0. This will be 0 pages in the cache per tab. You will get a reload slow down since FF will be going out to the web. You can manually set this to 2 or whatever you want. By default FF will cache upto 8 pages per tab with 1 gig of memory or more.
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I've had Linux a few times fail on me. The only time it has failed though is when there is a hardware problem. Mostly hard drives going bad, causing the kernel to panic. Or even memory going bad causing the same thing.
I have had Linux work perfectly on a machine were Windows had issues with the hardware (Windows gave signs that hardware was going bad)
As a college student, funds are tight. Migrating to Linux I found a plethra of free software that was very useable and worked well. I also found Linux to be easily used on old hardware, which I have alot of. That, and the lack of viruses, and spyware helped in the migration. I don't have to worry about keeping virus definitions upto date, nor spyware definition. I don't even have to worry about a registry!
All the tools that I need are available for Linux, and very customizable. Linux supports everything that I need and more. And then customizing the kernel, and compile flags. Linux is the way I want, not the way someone else wants.
Vista or whatever other operating systems they put out. You can only install Windows once. We all know that if you install windows multiple times, you are a pirate. Forget a reformat. If you do, you have to go buy another windows os.
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"When doctors or nurses use their knowledge of anatomy in order to torture or conduct medical experiments on helpless subjects, we are rightly outraged. Why doesn't society seem to apply the same standards to engineers?" If the doctor uses their knowledge of anatomy to conduct medical experiments, do we blame the person that created the tool, the tool, or do we blame the doctor? When someone uses a weapon to kill someone, do we blame the person that created the weapon, the weapon, or the person using the weapon. Too often we will blame the doctor if they did something wrong, in modern day history if someone did something wrong it is not their fault. Its the weapon, the parents, etc. Engineers are tasked with creating an item (be it a weapon, or a car) to be safe as possible to the user. They have no moral obligation to prevent it from being used incorrectly.
The best plug is a Speakon connector. You twist to make the connection, it locks in place. If modified (for a ground pin) you could easily have the ground connect first in any plug. With the design, its hard to have any key or item go into the either plug. Now only if they could be used for power instead of just for audio/video.
Just like any cable, cables will break. So, yes, they do get old.
Also, there is cat6 cables out with better specs and can handle at least up 10gb/sec.
Have Volvo engineers ever driven in ice and snow? If they haven't then they know that no vehicle is accident-proof. Accident-resistant maybe, but not accident-proof.
Accident-proof == No matter what conditions you drive in, and no matter how you drive, you will not get into an accident.
Accident-resistant == Depending on the conditions and driving patterns, there are extra features to help prevent an accident.
If this car is accident proof, then I would expect to go 70 mph down an icy road and expect to stop in the same about of time that I expect to stop in excellent conditions without hitting the stopped car in front of me or going into the ditch.
"...if such institution receives fifty (50) or more legally valid notices of infringement as prescribed by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998..."
According to a recently lawsuit against the RIAA on the legality of their tactics, I would question if the notices are legally valid or not.
Besides doing my best in the job, and all of these things, I was also searching for a development job within the company.
Less than 2 years after I started as tech support, I am now a developer of a different product within the company.
Its not always a dead end, it is if you make it. There were a few people that will always work in that position because they don't want to move on.
Things to do in tech support if you want to move on to something else.
- Excel at the current position - Do your best, this will look good at whatever you are looking at
- Let your manager know - This depends on the company and your manager. Some managers will help to move you on, others won't.
- Find opportunities to do what you want - If you want to get into development, find opportunities to write something that will help the current job.
- Actively search for new positions - This is after the minimum time set for a position that the company sets. This way the division doesn't lose any money on their investment in you.
Remember you need to show initiative, and try to move on.Top 5 Reasons Blu Ray will never be in my home. (follow up)
Now, Microsoft's business is not to control the platform per se, but in fact to allow it to be exploited by the world's developers.
Let me count the ways!
Don't forget the fastest growing exploit
Think about the memory usage. Firefox struggles enough, think about running a full desktop environment. I won't until some of the memory usage comes down quite a bit.
Hillary Clinton - Registered via NetworkSolutions?!? Must have money to burn.
John Edwards - Can he make up his mind on a OS?
Barack Obama - Full Linux
Rudy Giuliani - Windows only, but only one entry
John McCain - From FreeBSD to MS? Did MS donate to you?
Mitt Romney - All but one Linux (that one is unknow, but I would say Linux)
Everyone but Hillary registered with GoDaddy
If you want to learn how to program, start teaching yourself some C/C++ and Java. You might also want to look into .Net (I wouldn't but I know some of people that need to know that language). Go buy some book in one of those languages, work through it.
If you know of someone that is in a job and can mentor, grab them, and learn from them. Since you don't have a formal education, it will be hard, get some basic course first though. Books and basic knowledge will help. You can also start reading some open source sources, some are good some aren't.
If you can prove what you know, look at some of the local shops, if you can get a foot in the door even doing tech support via phone, many places have a career path to get into development.
I've looked into liquid cooling for a machine, but haven't done anything yet. From what I've found out, an ideal solution is to go reservoir->pump->cpu->video card (if doing video card)->north bridge-> radiator->reservoir. You get max cooling this way. Introducing a Y splitter introduces another connection (in which liquid can leak) and split forces of liquid. The liquid will take the path of least resistance, so you might not get max colling that way. I've found that Systemcooling.com has a wealth of information. You might want to pose this question on their forums, as they do more liquid cooling and have people who have done many systems.
Why would this be good for frames per second?
I work for Executive Forces, a private military company. Open source has put our company on the map, at least in web presences. Our web servers are running Linux with Apache, the email server is also running Linux with postfix, dovecot, apache and SquirrelMail for web access. For a startup, open source has given us oppurtunities that we would not have otherwise.
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Use a firewall, go to jail
about:config then search for browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers and set it to 0. This will be 0 pages in the cache per tab. You will get a reload slow down since FF will be going out to the web. You can manually set this to 2 or whatever you want. By default FF will cache upto 8 pages per tab with 1 gig of memory or more.
what it does to our brain when we talk on the cell phone.
Fried brain coming right up!
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I've had Linux a few times fail on me. The only time it has failed though is when there is a hardware problem. Mostly hard drives going bad, causing the kernel to panic. Or even memory going bad causing the same thing. I have had Linux work perfectly on a machine were Windows had issues with the hardware (Windows gave signs that hardware was going bad)
As a college student, funds are tight. Migrating to Linux I found a plethra of free software that was very useable and worked well. I also found Linux to be easily used on old hardware, which I have alot of. That, and the lack of viruses, and spyware helped in the migration. I don't have to worry about keeping virus definitions upto date, nor spyware definition. I don't even have to worry about a registry! All the tools that I need are available for Linux, and very customizable. Linux supports everything that I need and more. And then customizing the kernel, and compile flags. Linux is the way I want, not the way someone else wants.
this will soon evolve into a human (given millions of years) and then it will be a police officer. So then we have:
RoboCop
Vista or whatever other operating systems they put out. You can only install Windows once. We all know that if you install windows multiple times, you are a pirate. Forget a reformat. If you do, you have to go buy another windows os.
I'm sure plenty of people don't want beta software on their system if they can help it. The question comes, when should I expect it?