Twice rather than once, by picking an application which have a steep learning curve for such a task. I cannot imagine you can make this process so complicated you are ending with a steep learning curve for the end-users while the role of the user interface is to ease everything for the user. How could a old system interface being easier to use than the new one? And easier up to the point it is really complicated and you have to invest a significant amount of time and money on training?
How bad could be your user interface to lead to such a thing?
Very strange reasoning. Since I am one of these older people, I never had so much time to throw at my job. My kids are all working or completing graduate studies. You know, normally, you are young enough to reproduce when you have kids. I mean, usually the mother is less than 35 years old. It is very likely a newly hired young engineer will eventually have family and suddenly shorter nights and all that things which are well beyond for the older ones. Sad to say for you young guys, life doesn't end after 45.
Your problem is hidden in the list of requirements which have absolutely nothing to do with the programming language itself and all with the APIs. No matter how fluent you are in a programming language, if you don't know the specific APIs for GUI desktop, Web, mobile, etc, you will not succeed.
Frankly, I don't feel your question is serious given you are describing yourself as an occasional programmer which needs to be able to program code for almost all platforms and type of interfaces. Seems to me like a forged question to try to find a one-size-fits-all solution for your hypothetical needs.
Nobody learn all the APIs in the world in case. You learn them as you go along and some of them requires major time investment which you will surely avoid to do if you are really an occasional programmer without time to learn in detail the API for perhaps a one-time-shot usage.
By the conservation of the momentum, the two created particles will separate each other by going away from each other so the total momentum is still zero.
Collide is the correct word for this. When two pool balls are colliding, what prevent them to penetrate each other is the electromagnetic force which maintain the integrity of each ball and they interact by this mean. A collision is an interaction when two things are close enough from each other.
The energy of a photon is characterized by its wavelength. In a laser, the wavelength is constant. You have a large amount of photons which are coherent but at an almost single wavelength. When the article is talking about 1 MeV, it falsely interprets this as if the laser is emitting a single photon at 1 MeV. That is not what happen. It emits many photons in coherence which the sum of energy of all the individual photons will reach 1 MeV or more. Each photon cannot create an electron-positron pair and all photons collectively cannot create an electron-positron pair.
A 1 MeV photon would be a gamma ray photon and it is not true at all, your laser doesn't change its wavelenght as more more "energy" is emitted. In fact, we should instead talk about the power of the laser rather than its energy. The power being the amount of energy emitted by unit of time.
However, if you take into account the probability for natural disasters in the SF area, you may end even with Detroit. This article is misleading because it considers the criminality as the only threat to decide to which extent a city is dangerous or not. That's not fair.
Well, did NSA actually knew or not about Heartbleed? Anyone can prove NSA was aware of the bug and did nothing to protect USA from a third party's threat?
Not completely true. Many want to be competent, however nobody wants to pay what this competency worth. You have to invest a lot of time to become competent and at the end, it must pay otherwise you are better to do something else. There is a lot of well paid jobs which don't require the efforts you need to put on something to become competent.
Well, businessmen are not actually a good measure of anything. So, quoting Watson doesn't mean anything and doesn't prove anything neither. You cannot extract a law from these quotes.
Cochlear implants are not restoring hearing as an hearing person believes it is. I have a friend with two deaf daughters and both of them are having cochlear implants since they are young and they cannot communicate normally even with cochlear implants. Many people believe the cochlear implants are correcting the audition like glasses are correcting vision. The correction glasses can be made to exactly compensate for the vision defect. The cochlear implants cannot be adjusted to compensate the hearing loss exactly.
Unfortunately, most comments on/. are just uninformed comments and an occasion for many people to just bash against deaf people. Really sad this subject has been published on/. I never thought people were so narrow minded here.
I believe your description is grossly exagerated. In this world, deaf people are second class citizen, no doubt. This culture is just trying to counter balance the effect to be considered everyday of your life as a second zone citizen. It can be understood that some of them don't want to let go everything that was build around them to compensate for the handicap. This is a normal and perfectly understandable reaction. What I don't understand is why are you so angry against deaf people?
Most people without any hearing loss do not understand how deeply this handicap affect people in everyway in their life. Most of the time people are staring at them as if they are idiots because they didn't understand what was said and so on. As soon as you are shrinking the community, these people who are left behind are becoming completely isolated and left alone.
Deafness affect the relations you can have with others because it affects the communication unlike many other handicaps which do not affect communication but are restricting physical activities.
Sharing among deaf people is also an important part of pain relief.
I would like you to prove your point that deaf people are considering themselves as superior to hearing people. I have never seen that in my whole life and many of my relatives are deaf or hearing impaired. This kind of assertion needs some kind of serious backing. You are attacking a whole community without anything else to offer than your own mind. My experience proves me otherwise.
What about a camera system that will tell you the distance of objects from your car directly on the screen with an evaluation of the speed and direction? I mean, it seems people here are discussing this subject like the camera could only be used to display plain image without any processing. Processing power is cheap these days and we can easily build a camera system that can add many informations directly on the screen and evaluate time to collision with all the objects on the screen. It could even be setup to get attention when needed. The possibilities are not limited to displaying a plain image as the camera is viewing it. We are about to have self driving car. Security camera can detect people and evaluate trajectories, etc. It's XXIst century!
...Full authority digital flight control systems made a lot of people nervous. The Airbus has them, and not only do they have redundant computers, they have a second system cross-checking them which is running on a different kind of CPU, with code written in a different language, written by different people working at a different location. You need that kind of paranoia in life-critical systems.
Code written in a different language is totally helpless here. Unless you believe the avionics is running on an interpreter instead of compiled code. Once compiled, the code is dialect free. An even if it is not my field, I doubt any sane designer will design avionics to run on a interpreter. We are talking about realtime systems here. A different kind of CPU makes sense if you want to isolate the system from bugs in hardware that may be specific to a kind of CPU.
However, despite everything, the incompetency of managers is like the speed of light, a universal constant. No matter the frame of reference you pick, you measure the same speed.
The radar and transponder already provide this data. They have a last seen location on the radar. I don't see what such a device would add. I understand many people and families are anxious about the flight, however if it crashed, there is not much more that could have been done than what is already done.
The article doesn't worth reading beyond this paragraph:
"Ultimately, Yoshida would make headlines when he famously disobeyed instructions from TEPCO headquarters to stop using seawater to cool the reactors. Though he was later reprimanded, his disregard for corporate instructions was possibly the only reason that the reactor cores did not explode."
Obviously, the author doesn't know what he is talking about. A nuclear reactor doesn't explode. It melts. Some hydrogen gas may explode, however it has nothing to do with a nuclear explosion.
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Twice rather than once, by picking an application which have a steep learning curve for such a task. I cannot imagine you can make this process so complicated you are ending with a steep learning curve for the end-users while the role of the user interface is to ease everything for the user. How could a old system interface being easier to use than the new one? And easier up to the point it is really complicated and you have to invest a significant amount of time and money on training?
How bad could be your user interface to lead to such a thing?
Very strange reasoning. Since I am one of these older people, I never had so much time to throw at my job. My kids are all working or completing graduate studies. You know, normally, you are young enough to reproduce when you have kids. I mean, usually the mother is less than 35 years old. It is very likely a newly hired young engineer will eventually have family and suddenly shorter nights and all that things which are well beyond for the older ones. Sad to say for you young guys, life doesn't end after 45.
NSA decided to follow Google's path and annouced a fork of OpenSSL, they will call the new fork SuckingSSL. First reactions are generally positive.
Your problem is hidden in the list of requirements which have absolutely nothing to do with the programming language itself and all with the APIs. No matter how fluent you are in a programming language, if you don't know the specific APIs for GUI desktop, Web, mobile, etc, you will not succeed.
Frankly, I don't feel your question is serious given you are describing yourself as an occasional programmer which needs to be able to program code for almost all platforms and type of interfaces. Seems to me like a forged question to try to find a one-size-fits-all solution for your hypothetical needs.
Nobody learn all the APIs in the world in case. You learn them as you go along and some of them requires major time investment which you will surely avoid to do if you are really an occasional programmer without time to learn in detail the API for perhaps a one-time-shot usage.
Coffins would make the perfect Mars base since first settlers are likely to arrive dead.
NASA lends its name for a publicity marketing bullshit event for half-assed gizmo outfit, making zero progress toward landing men on Mars.
True!
Resistance is futile!
By the conservation of the momentum, the two created particles will separate each other by going away from each other so the total momentum is still zero.
Collide is the correct word for this. When two pool balls are colliding, what prevent them to penetrate each other is the electromagnetic force which maintain the integrity of each ball and they interact by this mean. A collision is an interaction when two things are close enough from each other.
Funny!
Fortran is a scientific programming language. You are an engineer, seems clear enough why you are not using Fortran. Any explanations needed?
The energy of a photon is characterized by its wavelength. In a laser, the wavelength is constant. You have a large amount of photons which are coherent but at an almost single wavelength. When the article is talking about 1 MeV, it falsely interprets this as if the laser is emitting a single photon at 1 MeV. That is not what happen. It emits many photons in coherence which the sum of energy of all the individual photons will reach 1 MeV or more. Each photon cannot create an electron-positron pair and all photons collectively cannot create an electron-positron pair.
A 1 MeV photon would be a gamma ray photon and it is not true at all, your laser doesn't change its wavelenght as more more "energy" is emitted. In fact, we should instead talk about the power of the laser rather than its energy. The power being the amount of energy emitted by unit of time.
However, if you take into account the probability for natural disasters in the SF area, you may end even with Detroit. This article is misleading because it considers the criminality as the only threat to decide to which extent a city is dangerous or not. That's not fair.
He could have leaked the plot to the USA in exchange of hospitality from the USA. ;-)
Well, did NSA actually knew or not about Heartbleed? Anyone can prove NSA was aware of the bug and did nothing to protect USA from a third party's threat?
Not completely true. Many want to be competent, however nobody wants to pay what this competency worth. You have to invest a lot of time to become competent and at the end, it must pay otherwise you are better to do something else. There is a lot of well paid jobs which don't require the efforts you need to put on something to become competent.
Well, businessmen are not actually a good measure of anything. So, quoting Watson doesn't mean anything and doesn't prove anything neither. You cannot extract a law from these quotes.
Cochlear implants are not restoring hearing as an hearing person believes it is. I have a friend with two deaf daughters and both of them are having cochlear implants since they are young and they cannot communicate normally even with cochlear implants. Many people believe the cochlear implants are correcting the audition like glasses are correcting vision. The correction glasses can be made to exactly compensate for the vision defect. The cochlear implants cannot be adjusted to compensate the hearing loss exactly.
Unfortunately, most comments on /. are just uninformed comments and an occasion for many people to just bash against deaf people. Really sad this subject has been published on /. I never thought people were so narrow minded here.
You don't know what you are talking about, really. You surely don't deserve 5 mod points.
I believe your description is grossly exagerated. In this world, deaf people are second class citizen, no doubt. This culture is just trying to counter balance the effect to be considered everyday of your life as a second zone citizen. It can be understood that some of them don't want to let go everything that was build around them to compensate for the handicap. This is a normal and perfectly understandable reaction. What I don't understand is why are you so angry against deaf people?
Most people without any hearing loss do not understand how deeply this handicap affect people in everyway in their life. Most of the time people are staring at them as if they are idiots because they didn't understand what was said and so on. As soon as you are shrinking the community, these people who are left behind are becoming completely isolated and left alone.
Deafness affect the relations you can have with others because it affects the communication unlike many other handicaps which do not affect communication but are restricting physical activities.
Sharing among deaf people is also an important part of pain relief.
I would like you to prove your point that deaf people are considering themselves as superior to hearing people. I have never seen that in my whole life and many of my relatives are deaf or hearing impaired. This kind of assertion needs some kind of serious backing. You are attacking a whole community without anything else to offer than your own mind. My experience proves me otherwise.
What about a camera system that will tell you the distance of objects from your car directly on the screen with an evaluation of the speed and direction? I mean, it seems people here are discussing this subject like the camera could only be used to display plain image without any processing. Processing power is cheap these days and we can easily build a camera system that can add many informations directly on the screen and evaluate time to collision with all the objects on the screen. It could even be setup to get attention when needed. The possibilities are not limited to displaying a plain image as the camera is viewing it. We are about to have self driving car. Security camera can detect people and evaluate trajectories, etc. It's XXIst century!
Code written in a different language is totally helpless here. Unless you believe the avionics is running on an interpreter instead of compiled code. Once compiled, the code is dialect free. An even if it is not my field, I doubt any sane designer will design avionics to run on a interpreter. We are talking about realtime systems here. A different kind of CPU makes sense if you want to isolate the system from bugs in hardware that may be specific to a kind of CPU.
However, despite everything, the incompetency of managers is like the speed of light, a universal constant. No matter the frame of reference you pick, you measure the same speed.
The radar and transponder already provide this data. They have a last seen location on the radar. I don't see what such a device would add. I understand many people and families are anxious about the flight, however if it crashed, there is not much more that could have been done than what is already done.
The article doesn't worth reading beyond this paragraph:
"Ultimately, Yoshida would make headlines when he famously disobeyed instructions from TEPCO headquarters to stop using seawater to cool the reactors. Though he was later reprimanded, his disregard for corporate instructions was possibly the only reason that the reactor cores did not explode."
Obviously, the author doesn't know what he is talking about. A nuclear reactor doesn't explode. It melts. Some hydrogen gas may explode, however it has nothing to do with a nuclear explosion.