That infrastructure should be in the hills in New Jersey, not on the coast. And, a bunch of it already is.
I live in the hills in NJ. We were without power for 5 days, some parts are still without power. Manhattan never lost power above 34th street. Parts of the area were flooded during Irene; Manhattan was mostly undamaged by Irene. We lost power during the October snowstorm last year; Manhattan was undamaged. Going by that, maybe the infrastructure should be in Washington Heights (upper Manhattan).
Everyone seems to forget that, when looking at a map of New York City, Brooklyn is part of it. Brooklyn sits *right* on the Atlantic ocean. See Rockaway and Long Beach? That's NYC. Now see that narrow gap protecting Manhattan? Half of the gap is Brooklyn and half is Staten Island, which sits across the opening of the lower bay, and is also part of NYC. Staten Island bore the brunt of the last hurricane, along with the outer coastal areas of Brooklyn.
s/Brooklyn/Queens/g
Coney Island, Brooklyn did take the hit from Irene, however.
When you claim you are an "Engineer", do you take full responsibility for screwing up? If not, you are not not fit to be called an "Engineer".
That's part of what the stick-up-their-ass P.Es claim. Of course, if I say yes, they'll then bring up state regulation and licensing and codes of ethics and all that nonsense which has nothing to do with the actual practice of engineering. Nor does taking responsibility.
With great power comes great responsibility. That's why there are P. Eng. that sign off on a critical designs whenever life or other high stake things are being dealt with and these people are legally responsible for approving a design/release.
I've worked on software for medical equipment, with nary a P.E. in sight. Since a P.E. (not being trained in software, as there were no software P.E.s at the time) wouldn't know a pointer from a preprocessor, that's probably just as well.
The 1938 hurricane (a.k.a the Long Island Express) missed New York City. As indeed Sandy did -- it hit Atlantic City, NJ. It did hit Suffolk County, Long Island, which is part of NY State and the NYC metro.
One more note: New York hasn't had that many hurricanes. Historically, we're talking less than one a century.
Totally false. In the 20th century, there's the one everyone knows about, the Long Island Express (1938), category 3 at landfall. But there were actually several hurricanes which made landfall in NY or NJ: 1985: Hurricane Gloria (Category 2) 1976: Hurricane Belle (Category 1) 1960: Hurricane Donna (Category 2) 1954: Hurricane Carol (Category 2 or 3) 1944: Great Atlantic Hurricane (Category 1) 1938: The aforementioned Long Island Express (Category 3) 1903: The "Vagabond Hurricane" (Category 2) -- NJ; all others were Long Island.
Two hurricanes hit in the late 1800s, also.
That's not counting tropical storms, hurricanes which traveled over land to hit NY (e.g. Hazel, 1954), near misses which caused damage, or noreasters (e.g. the big one in 1962). By this standard Sandy doesn't count, as it went extratropical about an hour before striking NJ.
In the 21st century, we have 2012: Sandy (technically post-tropical, but essentially Category 1, NJ) 2011: Irene (Category 1, NY)
Extrapolating two data points into a trend is dangerous business.
Also makes me wonder, if bridge builders or aerospace engineers require an ethics test, shouldn't the guy who writes the software that guides the rocket also require a similar test?
Rocket engineering in the US mostly traces back to Werner von Braun. Given that, do you really think there's any ethics in the business?
Because it pisses off the stick-up-their-ass Professional Engineers who think they own the word, which existed long before their little guilds got formed. The original engineers were military engineers. Next came the general meaning of the term, then the train drivers and the steam engine operators. The PEs are johnny come latelies from the 20th century -- and where Professional Engineering starts, innovation ends.
I believe the only state in the US which demands a P.E. from a Software Engineer is Texas. The utterly "reasonable" requirements? A C.S., engineering, or other degree accepted by their board, 16 years experience, references from 9 people including 5 P.E.s, and a bunch of other educational credentials. Screw that.
Design patterns led to "programming by buzzword". And perhaps as bad, interviewing by buzzword, so people who could recite pattern names by rote would get hired. I suspect they also led to all the terrible syntax around iterators in the STL, but maybe that's just Stroustrup.
Presentation patterns would likely screw up presentations the same way, except they're already screwed up. So maybe no loss.
Giant shared disk storage arrays are going to have much higher utilization than individual drives in people's homes, which are probably on average 50% full (and are also probably full of useless crap).
And you think the giant disk storage arrays aren't full of useless crap?
As for gas, keep in mind this is the NY metro area. Very few people actually *need* gas. If the prices at the stations were allowed to rise to $10, people who do need the gas would be able to get it, and people who don't would take the bus/railroad/subway.
You know what else guarantees shortages? FEMA diverting shipments from gas stations to FEMA and state distribution points, where it gets doled out for free to the politically connected. Plenty of gas at the one near my house (and it's available all the time, though the gas stations are closed after 6pm whether they have fuel or no fuel by order of our fascist mayor), none for regular old peons.
I REALLY hate it when I'm facing an enemy helicopter and the DRM on my rocket launcher decides to quit, leaving me staring at an enemy helicopter.
If the summary is right and I'm reading it right, this would only be for exported weapons, not weapons for use by actual US troops. Put this on US weapons and I suspect the troops would find a way to defeat it, possibly resulting in orders specifically instructing all personnel not to take steps A,B, and C as that would result in disabling the DRM.
Not a car analogy: I'd sure as shit be pissed if I painted Venus de Milo and Playboy came to me and said my painting is too damn convenient and stopping people from buying the magazine, so I should cover up the tits better or something.
The Venus de Milo is a sculpture, you uncultured coward.
I totally agree about plumbers. I can do most labor around my house, but I limit plumbing to replacing toilet floats and flappers. I have tried working with copper tubing and compression fittings and decided that I could afford to pay a plumber.
I'm a truly arrogant nerd tradesman. I've done compression, flare, and sweat joints. I installed the expansion tank in my current house, as well as the recirculation system. I did the base moldings in several rooms (coped joints, not just miter). I installed the disposal, including a new circuit -- and when I had my kitchen redone by professionals, that circuit was the only piece of electrical they didn't rip out and replace (I've had to rip out a lot of the previous owner's electrical "work" -- he didn't do it himself, but I suspect hired his "electrician" on a street corner). I did a gas connection too, no prob....hey, what's that smell?
(no, just kidding; the gas connection I did was for an outdoor grill)
Arrogance is a good pathway to success. Think about the people who tend to be favored and get all the perks. Sports stars. Salespeople. Managers. All arrogant sons of bitches who consider nerds beneath their notice. Politicians, even worse. Being loudly self-assured of one's own superiority seems to be very helpful for success; being unassured of it leads to being stepped on, and being quietly self-assured of it leads to bitterness.
The world's a hierarchy, and you need to display dominance to move up. You only need moderate that arrogance when in the presence of someone who can ruin you. The rest of the time, keep it on full.
Such graphs miss the point; the problem with the hockey stick wasn't the data (or not just the data). The problem was the technique which produced the hockey stick from the data has a tendency to produce hockey sticks, even from other data which is known (because it was constructed that way -- red noise, where each data point is produced by adding a random offset to the previous one) not to contain an actual hockey stick.
It's obviously possible to get a job in the field without a degree of any sort, but a degree will help immensely. And if the "From NAND to Tetris" syllabus is accurate, a solid computer science degree is exactly what you want, and works for the education requirement of almost any job in the field that requires a bachelors degree (a few closer to the hardware end might want an E.E.).
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No. There are few places in the U.S. where a white person WOULD go and have to deal with any form of racism. Lots of places they COULD go, but don't.
I live in the hills in NJ. We were without power for 5 days, some parts are still without power. Manhattan never lost power above 34th street. Parts of the area were flooded during Irene; Manhattan was mostly undamaged by Irene. We lost power during the October snowstorm last year; Manhattan was undamaged. Going by that, maybe the infrastructure should be in Washington Heights (upper Manhattan).
s/Brooklyn/Queens/g
Coney Island, Brooklyn did take the hit from Irene, however.
That's part of what the stick-up-their-ass P.Es claim. Of course, if I say yes, they'll then bring up state regulation and licensing and codes of ethics and all that nonsense which has nothing to do with the actual practice of engineering. Nor does taking responsibility.
I've worked on software for medical equipment, with nary a P.E. in sight. Since a P.E. (not being trained in software, as there were no software P.E.s at the time) wouldn't know a pointer from a preprocessor, that's probably just as well.
The 1938 hurricane (a.k.a the Long Island Express) missed New York City. As indeed Sandy did -- it hit Atlantic City, NJ. It did hit Suffolk County, Long Island, which is part of NY State and the NYC metro.
Totally false. In the 20th century, there's the one everyone knows about, the Long Island Express (1938), category 3 at landfall. But there were actually several hurricanes which made landfall in NY or NJ:
1985: Hurricane Gloria (Category 2)
1976: Hurricane Belle (Category 1)
1960: Hurricane Donna (Category 2)
1954: Hurricane Carol (Category 2 or 3)
1944: Great Atlantic Hurricane (Category 1)
1938: The aforementioned Long Island Express (Category 3)
1903: The "Vagabond Hurricane" (Category 2) -- NJ; all others were Long Island.
Two hurricanes hit in the late 1800s, also.
That's not counting tropical storms, hurricanes which traveled over land to hit NY (e.g. Hazel, 1954), near misses which caused damage, or noreasters (e.g. the big one in 1962). By this standard Sandy doesn't count, as it went extratropical about an hour before striking NJ.
In the 21st century, we have
2012: Sandy (technically post-tropical, but essentially Category 1, NJ)
2011: Irene (Category 1, NY)
Extrapolating two data points into a trend is dangerous business.
Rocket engineering in the US mostly traces back to Werner von Braun. Given that, do you really think there's any ethics in the business?
Because it pisses off the stick-up-their-ass Professional Engineers who think they own the word, which existed long before their little guilds got formed. The original engineers were military engineers. Next came the general meaning of the term, then the train drivers and the steam engine operators. The PEs are johnny come latelies from the 20th century -- and where Professional Engineering starts, innovation ends.
I believe the only state in the US which demands a P.E. from a Software Engineer is Texas. The utterly "reasonable" requirements? A C.S., engineering, or other degree accepted by their board, 16 years experience, references from 9 people including 5 P.E.s, and a bunch of other educational credentials. Screw that.
Design patterns led to "programming by buzzword". And perhaps as bad, interviewing by buzzword, so people who could recite pattern names by rote would get hired. I suspect they also led to all the terrible syntax around iterators in the STL, but maybe that's just Stroustrup.
Presentation patterns would likely screw up presentations the same way, except they're already screwed up. So maybe no loss.
And you think the giant disk storage arrays aren't full of useless crap?
I'm excited just thinking about it!
A lot of the railroads aren't running.
Ha ha. No fire trucks or utility trucks to be found at the place I'm talking about.
You know what else guarantees shortages? FEMA diverting shipments from gas stations to FEMA and state distribution points, where it gets doled out for free to the politically connected. Plenty of gas at the one near my house (and it's available all the time, though the gas stations are closed after 6pm whether they have fuel or no fuel by order of our fascist mayor), none for regular old peons.
I don't think that's the kind of "family" he means. More like the sleeps-with-the-fishes kind of "family".
Not to be confused with WBophilia, which is when your primary or exclusive interest is actresses who just look like they're legally underage.
If the summary is right and I'm reading it right, this would only be for exported weapons, not weapons for use by actual US troops. Put this on US weapons and I suspect the troops would find a way to defeat it, possibly resulting in orders specifically instructing all personnel not to take steps A,B, and C as that would result in disabling the DRM.
Makes sense. Lady Gaga works for the NSA.
You've got the cart before the horse -- the requirements for the advanced degrees are there to justify the H-1Bs, not vice-versa.
The Venus de Milo is a sculpture, you uncultured coward.
I'm a truly arrogant nerd tradesman. I've done compression, flare, and sweat joints. I installed the expansion tank in my current house, as well as the recirculation system. I did the base moldings in several rooms (coped joints, not just miter). I installed the disposal, including a new circuit -- and when I had my kitchen redone by professionals, that circuit was the only piece of electrical they didn't rip out and replace (I've had to rip out a lot of the previous owner's electrical "work" -- he didn't do it himself, but I suspect hired his "electrician" on a street corner). I did a gas connection too, no prob....hey, what's that smell?
(no, just kidding; the gas connection I did was for an outdoor grill)
Arrogance is a good pathway to success. Think about the people who tend to be favored and get all the perks. Sports stars. Salespeople. Managers. All arrogant sons of bitches who consider nerds beneath their notice. Politicians, even worse. Being loudly self-assured of one's own superiority seems to be very helpful for success; being unassured of it leads to being stepped on, and being quietly self-assured of it leads to bitterness.
The world's a hierarchy, and you need to display dominance to move up. You only need moderate that arrogance when in the presence of someone who can ruin you. The rest of the time, keep it on full.
The tone of the summary is rather breathless, and they do claim it's "novel". That opens them up to the sort of jeering they're getting.
Such graphs miss the point; the problem with the hockey stick wasn't the data (or not just the data). The problem was the technique which produced the hockey stick from the data has a tendency to produce hockey sticks, even from other data which is known (because it was constructed that way -- red noise, where each data point is produced by adding a random offset to the previous one) not to contain an actual hockey stick.
It's obviously possible to get a job in the field without a degree of any sort, but a degree will help immensely. And if the "From NAND to Tetris" syllabus is accurate, a solid computer science degree is exactly what you want, and works for the education requirement of almost any job in the field that requires a bachelors degree (a few closer to the hardware end might want an E.E.).