In 10,000 years either humans will be gone or we will have shot all the stuff being stored in that mountain into space probably into the sun. If we are all gone what does it matter. Think of this as temporary storage. It's almost like cryogenics. Let's just stick it somewhere till we can cheaply get rid of it forever. And as for terrorists i'd be more worried about biological weapons then them hijacking a train and some how creating a dirty bomb from those overly proctective rail cars. I mean where would they go with it!.. they are on tracks!.. by the time they had it ready they will of been bombed by the air force since the containers wouldn't even dent if you dropped a bomb on them!
Canada??.. we already get too much of your hazardous waste!.. why not mexico!
We here in canada have similar problems anytime anything to do with dumping anything in a new site comes up. We live good lives and we have to deal with the results of our comfort. Until we can shoot that stuff into the sun Nevada will just have live with it!
If you need to have a algoritms book written for you in a certain language then you are missing the point of the study of algorithms completely. Algorithms wither in assembly or high level language still read the same!.. stop complaining about having to use your brain. If you can't understand them because they are written in assembly please take the time to learn to learn it. It will only help your programming believe me i haven't met a compentant programmer that couldn't easily switch his/her fundamental algoritms back and forth between high level and low level without a sweat. besides it's really what is happening behind the scences of your c# code anyways.
I agree with most of what you said but you went a wee bit too far drawing links. Sure the arabs were fine with isreal in the 50's. But i think in the 60's when they were invaded by isreal that probably had more of an impact on fighting than oil money.
The oil companies do control our daily lives but it's only cuz they pay for most of your presidents. If you want to stop this just ban fuel companies from making campaign donations and having lobby groups. (of course it's not the oil companies who are the greedy party, so that won't happen)
this is one of the first posts that i have seen that is rather close to what is expected from a SE.. They do not replace programmers!.. The compliment them.
SE are going to be used only for mission critical applications where they are needed to put a stamp on a product saying this product will not fail.
Of course this topic in it's self is being debated because they must not only prove the code works but always must be aware of the whole subsystem running it ie. Kernel, Processor. etc.
If these have bugs they are responsible for knowing about it also. Therefore a SE must have vast knowledge of everything from coding to chip design and OS design. I am glad i am just coding.. i would find it hard to put a stamp on anything considering the amount of bugs in most OS
s and processors. The SE will be used more for industrial apps since as you can tell bugs in personal apps and business apps don't really seem to matter.
So all you developers out there stop freaking out cuz you don't need or will ever need to go in to the depth of testing and proving that SE will have to in most cases an SE is completely useless.
if you want to know more about it.. Goto www.mcmaster.ca and check out the engineering section they had there first class of graduating professtional SE's last year. And are the university that has started the debate in canada. personnally i don't think it's possible to be a true SE.. what do you think. would you ever be able to certify any of your code with so many outside influences ie processor, OS?
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In 10,000 years either humans will be gone or we will have shot all the stuff being stored in that mountain into space probably into the sun. If we are all gone what does it matter. Think of this as temporary storage. It's almost like cryogenics. Let's just stick it somewhere till we can cheaply get rid of it forever. And as for terrorists i'd be more worried about biological weapons then them hijacking a train and some how creating a dirty bomb from those overly proctective rail cars. I mean where would they go with it!.. they are on tracks!.. by the time they had it ready they will of been bombed by the air force since the containers wouldn't even dent if you dropped a bomb on them!
Canada??.. we already get too much of your hazardous waste!.. why not mexico! We here in canada have similar problems anytime anything to do with dumping anything in a new site comes up. We live good lives and we have to deal with the results of our comfort. Until we can shoot that stuff into the sun Nevada will just have live with it!
If you need to have a algoritms book written for you in a certain language then you are missing the point of the study of algorithms completely. Algorithms wither in assembly or high level language still read the same!.. stop complaining about having to use your brain. If you can't understand them because they are written in assembly please take the time to learn to learn it. It will only help your programming believe me i haven't met a compentant programmer that couldn't easily switch his/her fundamental algoritms back and forth between high level and low level without a sweat. besides it's really what is happening behind the scences of your c# code anyways.
I agree with most of what you said but you went a wee bit too far drawing links. Sure the arabs were fine with isreal in the 50's. But i think in the 60's when they were invaded by isreal that probably had more of an impact on fighting than oil money. The oil companies do control our daily lives but it's only cuz they pay for most of your presidents. If you want to stop this just ban fuel companies from making campaign donations and having lobby groups. (of course it's not the oil companies who are the greedy party, so that won't happen)
this is one of the first posts that i have seen that is rather close to what is expected from a SE.. They do not replace programmers!.. The compliment them.
SE are going to be used only for mission critical applications where they are needed to put a stamp on a product saying this product will not fail.
Of course this topic in it's self is being debated because they must not only prove the code works but always must be aware of the whole subsystem running it ie. Kernel, Processor. etc.
If these have bugs they are responsible for knowing about it also. Therefore a SE must have vast knowledge of everything from coding to chip design and OS design. I am glad i am just coding.. i would find it hard to put a stamp on anything considering the amount of bugs in most OS
s and processors. The SE will be used more for industrial apps since as you can tell bugs in personal apps and business apps don't really seem to matter.
So all you developers out there stop freaking out cuz you don't need or will ever need to go in to the depth of testing and proving that SE will have to in most cases an SE is completely useless.
if you want to know more about it.. Goto www.mcmaster.ca and check out the engineering section they had there first class of graduating professtional SE's last year. And are the university that has started the debate in canada. personnally i don't think it's possible to be a true SE.. what do you think. would you ever be able to certify any of your code with so many outside influences ie processor, OS?