Quick back-of the braincell calculation says no.
Running at 2500rpm max, on a 60cm dia tyre, my (admittedly ropey) maths chuck out a travelling speed around 175 mph.
So you did (((0.393700787 x 60 x pi x 2500)/12)/5280) x 60
in year head? Somehow me thinks you used a calculator, if not "Good job Rain Man!" I got 175.688 mph using 3.1415926 for pi.
I just traded in a 19" viewsonic crt monitor for an envision 19" LCD. They are like night and day, the colors "look" better to me. The brightness and contrast seem superior and I have never seen ghosting or bluring even playing UT2004. The LCD is easier on my eyes, takes up very little deskspace, and can even be rotated. I don't have any spec numbers, just my impressions. Which is what really counts in the end. Three years ago the 19" monitor cost $399, the LCD was purchased for $299 after mail in rebate from CompUSA.
There are so many scientific apps that are used that were never on the shelf and probably never will be.
I work as a consultant/contractor for nasa so I agree 100%. Many of the above programs and or protocols I mentioned were created by researchers. HTML, Mosaic, beowulf clustering were created by researchers. I call this open source because they shared their inventions and others were able to build on them. To me that's open source. I think people who think of open source as only Linux,Gnome, KDE, Mozilla etc. are missing the whole picture. Without perl,html, open source databases etc. many projects would never see funding because of the costs. It's when people are able to do things they normally couldn't without these tools that things get reaal interesting.
Do you realize how many software projects never make it to market? Many successful programs are copies of other things. Excel well, what about Visicalc? Which was more innovative? Many companies abandon programs before they ever get released.
Do they? What does Gnumeric offer over Excel? What do Gnome or KDE offer over OS X?
What does Windows offer over CDE? The innovation is in the details. One thing KDE offers is the ability to customize almost every aspect of the interface. That idea goes against the grain, Miscrosoft or Apple never allowed that amount of user control. The reason it's important for many power users is we have to spend 8 hours a day using it, staring at that same damn screen every single day. Having the ability to tailor it to your needs and not some 'experts' idea is why I use it. I have 2 apple machines, a new iMac and a powerbook. I like them not for the UI but the iApps, Tigers search function is also extremely useful. But I like KDE better, I have the konqueror filemanger profile set up just they way I want it. The whole desktop is setup like a hybrid Mac/Windows machine. The desktop works well for me, and I am probably the only one who would apreciate it. But that's really the point, true personalization. Not just a wallpaper or a screensaver. That customization ability spawned kde-look.org, before that themes.org
Truly revolutionary things are rare even in companies. Most successful software products are copies of something else. Many truly innovative things never make lasting commercial success. Think about where things came from to see my point. HTML,Mosaic,Visicalc, Wordstar, sendmail, pine,ftp,irc etc. These things were the starting points that companies and open source each expanded on. The wheel, the cart, automobiles, each was founded on the works of others. Well, I'm not sure about the wheel except I 'll bet somebody probably put logs under rocks to hold them, the axle seems to me to be the real innovation! The model T was not the first car, just the first truly succesful one. Innovation is market speek, in reality it's as rare in companies as it is in open source.
Yes, there are security problems with windows, but no, you have to be a giant fucktard newbie to actually ever be affected by them.
I personally prefer my powerbook and a Linux desktop. I have administered hundreds of windows machines and have 2 windows machines (laptop and a desktop). I have never had problems with security on any of my machines. That said, I have worked in companies that have 50 vice presidents and have had to clean up the crap off their machines. Try telling someone who makes a seven figure salary they can't install whatever the hell they want! They don't have to worry about consequences any problems are my fault. By bringing that powerbook to every meeting, I have slowly over 2 years converted 10 people to powerbooks. They in turn show their peers their new toy! After someone gets a powerbook, they ask questions for about a month. After that, I never have to worry about them again. Unless they drop it!
The open source guys can scrape together enough resources to reverse engineer stuff. That's easy. It's way cheaper to reverse engineer something than to create something new. But if the world goes to 100% open source, innovation goes to zero.
The open source guys hate it when I say this, but...
I found these three examples on one google search page.
Saying something as broad as "Open Source is not Innovative" without some sort of proof to back it up just proves your talking out your rear!
That statement is like saying "Innovative Products are never invented by anyone outside of a corporation"! Airplanes, the first Apple, come to mind.
Will take music from your ipod on the mac so you can back them up to DVD or CD in case your comuter hard drive dies. get it here
Ephpod will allow windows users the same ability. get it here!
Ephpod runs pretty well under wine.
Yes I know apple doesn't include that ability in iTunes. But that just leaves opportunities open for third party apps. The RIAA can now be more at ease with Apple and can concentrate on suing their customers. I'll bet the number of people who download mp3's and don't own CD's of any music is pretty slim. Lawsuits can only make people more determined not to get caught.
I know Christopher Reeve would like to thank you too...unfortunately he's feeling rather dead at the moment.
If it were not for his noteriety and money Christopher Reeve may have died even if we had a stem cell breakthrough. I imagine a headline that goes:
A florida judge has ordered people from feeding Christopher Reeve today. His family, unable to pay for costly stem cell treatment agreed that his quality of life suffered greatly and therefore had to be put down.
Exactly. This could have been us...but now we get to play catch-up.
So by your logic, if the Germans had only been allowed to continue experimenting on Jews, they could have created cures for diseases that others willing to experiment on humans have.
Who cares where a medical breakthrough is made!
If China invented a safe and effective cure for AIDS or cancer does that make all those countries that didn't discover it any less competitive?
Does the US taxpayer have to fund every single piece of research regardless of whether they agree with it morally? The President was elected by his supporters. The US is still a democracy. California and Oregon voters didn't agree and they fund the stem cell research that the federal government doesn't.
If I wanted to study something morally offensive like possible benificial effects to society of forced sterilization of a ethnic or racial group, should I bitch and moan when things don't go my way and the research gets banned in the US? Even if a minority, like Neo Nazi's want it? Research on new fetal stem cell lines didn't get funded, big deal! Get over it, move on! Vote next election!
You know what would also be cool? If they took your tuition money to Atlantic City and plunked it all down on red 36.
Not really, if nothing meets your needs nobody wins the cash. This is alot different than the government which pays a contractor. If the contractor loses the contract do to poor work, they usually get paid for the work up done to that point.
Sure he can if he can prove that thousands of people didn't download the file. You would be hard pressed to show that they didn't lose the sale price several thousand times! And yes it assumes anyone who copied the file would have bought it.
But uploading a song is not a crime in any real sense of the word. If I lend you a book, and you make illegal photocopies from that book, I'm not a criminal for allowing you to borrow it.
It depends, are you a public library? Because if your not and say you have a store with a copier in it and you advertise make unlimited copies of all the current bestsellers for free. And then pass out books to customers to copy. You will find yourself being sued out business. Libraries for years have dealt with lawsuits over just that. In fact, early on record companies were being sued by sheet music publishers. The RIAA have also sued DJ's and Karaoke bars over performing copyrighted works.
Your missing the point. Uploading you can say the RIAA is out thousands of dollars because concievably you caused them a lack of sales. But downloading only denies them one, the downloader. Now the press and some juries may be dumb enough to award damages. But any good laywer could reduce the damages to sale price and a penalty fine.
If someone smeared your name to a national audience and called you a pedophile would you step forward and say "No, I really am not" or would you figure since nobody is going to believe you anyway you may as well accept it?
I'd very quiet and visit that person late at night. They would never type another coherent sentence afterwards.
A shared library is not a program! A DLL that cannot be changed or written over by any program would not allow a virus or malware and still provide your code reuse.
Granted those Desktops & OS X have browsers but they can be uninstalled. They aren't integrated into the system. A shared library doesn't get infected by malware, browser do! When have you heard about a stdlib worm, or a gtkhtml,gecko data miner. Unfortunately, there are known DLL's that are part of Malware packages. But allowing programs the ability to write to the sys32 directory is asking for trouble.
The reason its 'part of the OS' is that the back-end http protocol handlers are reused by every application (well, those that don't want to reinvent the wheel) to connect to the internet. 'Remove' IE (and I guess you don't mean remove 'just the GUI') would cripple a great many programs out there.
Why then can Solaris,Linux,BeOS, QNX access the internet without a integrated browser installed? Why could you uninstall IE 3 without serious harm?
You mean, you tried to remove some spyware app, but because you couldn't it's therefore IE's fault.
Well since ActiveX component technology is what allows these programs to become part of IE, I say hell yeah it's IE's fault, to an extent. A burglar is not the homeowners fault per say. But if you place a note on the door saying "no one is at home the key is under the mat", your doing everything short of asking known robbers to steal from you.
The back-end http protocol handlers are reused by every application (well, those that don't want to reinvent the wheel)
A shared library is not a program! A DLL that cannot be changed or written over by any program would not allow a virus or malware and still provide your code reuse.
Sorry about the formatting I accidently hit the submit instead of preview. The incident that causes me to believe my friend, and knowing him personally to be credible.
1947 - Colonel E.E. Kirkpatrick of the U.S. Atomic Energy Comission issues a secret document (Document 07075001, January 8, 1947) stating that the agency will begin administering intravenous doses of radioactive substances to human subjects.
Well here is just a small list of incidents that can easily be verified:
The CDC Tuskegee experiment
1955 - Army Chemical Corps continues LSD research, studying its potential use as a chemical incapacitating agent. More than 1,000 Americans participate in the tests, which continue until 1958.
1955 - The CIA, in an experiment to test its ability to infect human populations with biological agents, releases a bacteria withdrawn from the Army's biological warfare arsenal over Tampa Bay, Fl.
1953 - Joint Army-Navy-CIA experiments are conducted in which tens of thousands of people in New York and San Francisco are exposed to the airborne germs Serratia marcescens and Bacillus glogigii.
1953 - CIA initiates Project MKULTRA. This is an eleven year research program designed to produce and test drugs and biological agents that would be used for mind control and behavior modification. Six of the subprojects involved testing the agents on unwitting human beings.
1953 - U.S. military releases clouds of zinc cadmium sulfide gas over Winnipeg, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Fort Wayne, the Monocacy River Valley in Maryland, and Leesburg, Virginia. Their intent is to determine how efficiently they could disperse chemical agents.
1953 UK. NAZI scientists were involved in the nerve gas research that led to the 'suspicious' deaths of at least 25 ex-servicemen at the top secret Porton Down base. [Media] British nerve gas death tests 'had Nazi scientists'
1951 - Department of Defense begins open air tests using disease-producing bacteria and viruses. Tests last through 1969 and there is concern that people in the surrounding areas have been exposed.
1950 - Department of Defense begins plans to detonate nuclear weapons in desert areas and monitor downwind residents for medical problems and mortality rates.
1950 - I n an experiment to determine how susceptible an American city would be to biological attack, the U.S. Navy sprays a cloud of bacteria from ships over San Franciso. Monitoring devices are situated throughout the city in order to test the extent of infection. Many residents become ill with pneumonia-like symptoms.
1947 - Colonel E.E. Kirkpatrick of the U.S. Atomic Energy Comission issues a secret document (Document 07075001, January 8, 1947) stating that the agency will begin administering intravenous doses of radioactive substances to human subjects.
1947 - The CIA begins its study of LSD as a potential weapon for use by American intelligence. Human subjects (both civilian and military) are used with and without their knowledge.
1946 - Patients in VA hospitals are used as guinea pigs for medical experiments. In order to allay suspicions, the order is given to change the word "experiments" to "investigations" or "observations" whenever reporting a medical study performed in one of the nation's veteran's hospitals.
1945 - Project Paperclip is initiated. The U.S. State Department, Army intelligence, and the CIA recruit Nazi scientists and offer them immunity and secret identities in exchange for work on top secret government projects in the United States.
1944 - U.S. Navy uses human subjects to test gas masks and clothing. Individuals were locked in a gas chamber and exposed to mustard gas and lewisite.
1943 - In response to Japan's full-scale germ warfare program, the U.S. begins research on biological weapons at Fort Detrick, MD.
1942 - Chemical Warfare Services begins mustard gas experiments on approximately 4,000 servicemen. The experiments continue until 1945 and made use of Seventh Day Adventists who chose to become human guinea pigs rather than serve on active duty.
1945 - "Program F" is implemented by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). This is the most extensive U.S. study of the health effects of fluoride, which was the key chemical component in atomic bomb production. One of the most toxic chemicals known to man, fluoride, it is found, causes marked adverse effects to the central nervous system but much of the information is squelched in the name of na
Does this mean Internet users will become test subjects moreso than the usual college students and elderly?"
So when did we change from prisoners and the military. I know a WWII & Korean War veteran who claims he was subjected to radiation to "test it's effects".
Actually after looking at all these ideas, I'm gonna stop by the CS department at CNU in Newport News, VA and offer it up to someone in need. I'll give it to one of my favorite Profs to decide.
I have 10 year old Gateway laptop. It runs windows95, has 64 Mb of memory (Absolute Maximm) a 13Gb hard drive and a Pentium 200 MMX processor. It also has at one time or another had BeOS 4 and RedHat 6.2 on it. It is almost totally useless. It is just a piece of junk I still keep around for god knows why. I never use it. It's battery doesn't hold a charge for more than 2-3 minutes, just long enough to move it from one room to another and plug it in. If I had that battery in a new laptop, I'd probably buy a new laptop long before the battery ran out.
I agree! Who wants to keep paying for the same song!
If I buy a streaming service that is $2 monthly say. If happen to currently like a certain 20 songs that are my favorites. I end up paying $2 a month to listen to the same 20 songs! I am 45 years old, I still listen to about 100 songs I grew up with. I listen to alot of other stuff too. But regularly, I listen to the songs that bring back good memories. At $24 year to listen to songs I own on CD, have owned on cassette & LP, a few probably on 8 track, would be absolutely ludicrous.
She started with simple concepts. An ascii based tic-tac toe program, a couple of puzzles, etc. In another class we created a java battle ship program to teach basic sockets. She gave us just enough code to get started. I had this professor through 2 out of 4 C++ based classes, 2 java clases, object oriented programming, and software engineering. We always worked in groups of 2-3. Along the way we also made a java IM client and server, and a simulation of a forest fire, with parameters taken from a real scenario. We were able to predict the geometrical shape and size of the devastation, quite accurately with what had actually occured. Nothing we created was earth shattering, but it kept us challenged and interested. The only other professor that could do for me was my physics professor.
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Nice Troll, conveniently left out which South East Asian country. I'm guessing you wouldn't want to leave room for someone to do some fact checking. I checked out rapidnirvana.com though. If your so literate, why was there nothing but a calendar. Clicking on the main category got "error 404: File not found".
Here parents pray their kids end up on the school/college football teams for both bragging rights as well as the potential for a lot of moolah in the future (mostly I think its bragging rights). Jocks get limelighted every step, every game, gets the hotter looking babe and scrapes through academics yet has no trouble getting in to college due to his sports background.
Aren't we a little jealous! So the jock got the girl. Most parents know their kids strengths and weaknesses. As a parent with two kids in college. I can say with all certainty that all a parent wants is their child to be successful, happy and not make the same mistakes they did. And with the rising cost of health care, a doctor in the family would be something to brag about.
You get them interested by getting them to create their own games. That's how my college professor did it. We created half-assed cheasy little games. But in the process learned the basics of simulation, object oriented programming, algorithms and managing a software project.
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So you did (((0.393700787 x 60 x pi x 2500)/12)/5280) x 60 in year head? Somehow me thinks you used a calculator, if not "Good job Rain Man!" I got 175.688 mph using 3.1415926 for pi.
I just traded in a 19" viewsonic crt monitor for an envision 19" LCD. They are like night and day, the colors "look" better to me. The brightness and contrast seem superior and I have never seen ghosting or bluring even playing UT2004. The LCD is easier on my eyes, takes up very little deskspace, and can even be rotated. I don't have any spec numbers, just my impressions. Which is what really counts in the end. Three years ago the 19" monitor cost $399, the LCD was purchased for $299 after mail in rebate from CompUSA.
I work as a consultant/contractor for nasa so I agree 100%. Many of the above programs and or protocols I mentioned were created by researchers. HTML, Mosaic, beowulf clustering were created by researchers. I call this open source because they shared their inventions and others were able to build on them. To me that's open source. I think people who think of open source as only Linux,Gnome, KDE, Mozilla etc. are missing the whole picture. Without perl,html, open source databases etc. many projects would never see funding because of the costs. It's when people are able to do things they normally couldn't without these tools that things get reaal interesting.
Do they? What does Gnumeric offer over Excel? What do Gnome or KDE offer over OS X?
What does Windows offer over CDE? The innovation is in the details. One thing KDE offers is the ability to customize almost every aspect of the interface. That idea goes against the grain, Miscrosoft or Apple never allowed that amount of user control. The reason it's important for many power users is we have to spend 8 hours a day using it, staring at that same damn screen every single day. Having the ability to tailor it to your needs and not some 'experts' idea is why I use it. I have 2 apple machines, a new iMac and a powerbook. I like them not for the UI but the iApps, Tigers search function is also extremely useful. But I like KDE better, I have the konqueror filemanger profile set up just they way I want it. The whole desktop is setup like a hybrid Mac/Windows machine. The desktop works well for me, and I am probably the only one who would apreciate it. But that's really the point, true personalization. Not just a wallpaper or a screensaver. That customization ability spawned kde-look.org, before that themes.org
Truly revolutionary things are rare even in companies. Most successful software products are copies of something else. Many truly innovative things never make lasting commercial success. Think about where things came from to see my point. HTML,Mosaic,Visicalc, Wordstar, sendmail, pine,ftp,irc etc. These things were the starting points that companies and open source each expanded on. The wheel, the cart, automobiles, each was founded on the works of others. Well, I'm not sure about the wheel except I 'll bet somebody probably put logs under rocks to hold them, the axle seems to me to be the real innovation! The model T was not the first car, just the first truly succesful one. Innovation is market speek, in reality it's as rare in companies as it is in open source.
I personally prefer my powerbook and a Linux desktop. I have administered hundreds of windows machines and have 2 windows machines (laptop and a desktop). I have never had problems with security on any of my machines. That said, I have worked in companies that have 50 vice presidents and have had to clean up the crap off their machines. Try telling someone who makes a seven figure salary they can't install whatever the hell they want! They don't have to worry about consequences any problems are my fault. By bringing that powerbook to every meeting, I have slowly over 2 years converted 10 people to powerbooks. They in turn show their peers their new toy! After someone gets a powerbook, they ask questions for about a month. After that, I never have to worry about them again. Unless they drop it!
HTML MOSAIC
PERL
Bit Torrent
The open source guys hate it when I say this, but...
I found these three examples on one google search page. Saying something as broad as "Open Source is not Innovative" without some sort of proof to back it up just proves your talking out your rear! That statement is like saying "Innovative Products are never invented by anyone outside of a corporation"! Airplanes, the first Apple, come to mind.
Ephpod will allow windows users the same ability. get it here!
Ephpod runs pretty well under wine.
Yes I know apple doesn't include that ability in iTunes. But that just leaves opportunities open for third party apps. The RIAA can now be more at ease with Apple and can concentrate on suing their customers. I'll bet the number of people who download mp3's and don't own CD's of any music is pretty slim. Lawsuits can only make people more determined not to get caught.
If it were not for his noteriety and money Christopher Reeve may have died even if we had a stem cell breakthrough. I imagine a headline that goes:
A florida judge has ordered people from feeding Christopher Reeve today. His family, unable to pay for costly stem cell treatment agreed that his quality of life suffered greatly and therefore had to be put down.
Exactly. This could have been us...but now we get to play catch-up.
So by your logic, if the Germans had only been allowed to continue experimenting on Jews, they could have created cures for diseases that others willing to experiment on humans have.
Who cares where a medical breakthrough is made! If China invented a safe and effective cure for AIDS or cancer does that make all those countries that didn't discover it any less competitive? Does the US taxpayer have to fund every single piece of research regardless of whether they agree with it morally? The President was elected by his supporters. The US is still a democracy. California and Oregon voters didn't agree and they fund the stem cell research that the federal government doesn't. If I wanted to study something morally offensive like possible benificial effects to society of forced sterilization of a ethnic or racial group, should I bitch and moan when things don't go my way and the research gets banned in the US? Even if a minority, like Neo Nazi's want it? Research on new fetal stem cell lines didn't get funded, big deal! Get over it, move on! Vote next election!
Not really, if nothing meets your needs nobody wins the cash. This is alot different than the government which pays a contractor. If the contractor loses the contract do to poor work, they usually get paid for the work up done to that point.
Sure he can if he can prove that thousands of people didn't download the file. You would be hard pressed to show that they didn't lose the sale price several thousand times! And yes it assumes anyone who copied the file would have bought it.
It depends, are you a public library? Because if your not and say you have a store with a copier in it and you advertise make unlimited copies of all the current bestsellers for free. And then pass out books to customers to copy. You will find yourself being sued out business. Libraries for years have dealt with lawsuits over just that. In fact, early on record companies were being sued by sheet music publishers. The RIAA have also sued DJ's and Karaoke bars over performing copyrighted works.
Your missing the point. Uploading you can say the RIAA is out thousands of dollars because concievably you caused them a lack of sales. But downloading only denies them one, the downloader. Now the press and some juries may be dumb enough to award damages. But any good laywer could reduce the damages to sale price and a penalty fine.
I'd very quiet and visit that person late at night. They would never type another coherent sentence afterwards.
A shared library is not a program! A DLL that cannot be changed or written over by any program would not allow a virus or malware and still provide your code reuse.
Granted those Desktops & OS X have browsers but they can be uninstalled. They aren't integrated into the system. A shared library doesn't get infected by malware, browser do! When have you heard about a stdlib worm, or a gtkhtml,gecko data miner. Unfortunately, there are known DLL's that are part of Malware packages. But allowing programs the ability to write to the sys32 directory is asking for trouble.
Why then can Solaris,Linux,BeOS, QNX access the internet without a integrated browser installed? Why could you uninstall IE 3 without serious harm?
You mean, you tried to remove some spyware app, but because you couldn't it's therefore IE's fault.
Well since ActiveX component technology is what allows these programs to become part of IE, I say hell yeah it's IE's fault, to an extent. A burglar is not the homeowners fault per say. But if you place a note on the door saying "no one is at home the key is under the mat", your doing everything short of asking known robbers to steal from you. The back-end http protocol handlers are reused by every application (well, those that don't want to reinvent the wheel)
A shared library is not a program! A DLL that cannot be changed or written over by any program would not allow a virus or malware and still provide your code reuse.
1947 - Colonel E.E. Kirkpatrick of the U.S. Atomic Energy Comission issues a secret document (Document 07075001, January 8, 1947) stating that the agency will begin administering intravenous doses of radioactive substances to human subjects.
The CDC Tuskegee experiment
1955 - Army Chemical Corps continues LSD research, studying its potential use as a chemical incapacitating agent. More than 1,000 Americans participate in the tests, which continue until 1958. 1955 - The CIA, in an experiment to test its ability to infect human populations with biological agents, releases a bacteria withdrawn from the Army's biological warfare arsenal over Tampa Bay, Fl. 1953 - Joint Army-Navy-CIA experiments are conducted in which tens of thousands of people in New York and San Francisco are exposed to the airborne germs Serratia marcescens and Bacillus glogigii. 1953 - CIA initiates Project MKULTRA. This is an eleven year research program designed to produce and test drugs and biological agents that would be used for mind control and behavior modification. Six of the subprojects involved testing the agents on unwitting human beings. 1953 - U.S. military releases clouds of zinc cadmium sulfide gas over Winnipeg, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Fort Wayne, the Monocacy River Valley in Maryland, and Leesburg, Virginia. Their intent is to determine how efficiently they could disperse chemical agents. 1953 UK. NAZI scientists were involved in the nerve gas research that led to the 'suspicious' deaths of at least 25 ex-servicemen at the top secret Porton Down base. [Media] British nerve gas death tests 'had Nazi scientists' 1951 - Department of Defense begins open air tests using disease-producing bacteria and viruses. Tests last through 1969 and there is concern that people in the surrounding areas have been exposed. 1950 - Department of Defense begins plans to detonate nuclear weapons in desert areas and monitor downwind residents for medical problems and mortality rates. 1950 - I n an experiment to determine how susceptible an American city would be to biological attack, the U.S. Navy sprays a cloud of bacteria from ships over San Franciso. Monitoring devices are situated throughout the city in order to test the extent of infection. Many residents become ill with pneumonia-like symptoms. 1947 - Colonel E.E. Kirkpatrick of the U.S. Atomic Energy Comission issues a secret document (Document 07075001, January 8, 1947) stating that the agency will begin administering intravenous doses of radioactive substances to human subjects. 1947 - The CIA begins its study of LSD as a potential weapon for use by American intelligence. Human subjects (both civilian and military) are used with and without their knowledge. 1946 - Patients in VA hospitals are used as guinea pigs for medical experiments. In order to allay suspicions, the order is given to change the word "experiments" to "investigations" or "observations" whenever reporting a medical study performed in one of the nation's veteran's hospitals. 1945 - Project Paperclip is initiated. The U.S. State Department, Army intelligence, and the CIA recruit Nazi scientists and offer them immunity and secret identities in exchange for work on top secret government projects in the United States. 1944 - U.S. Navy uses human subjects to test gas masks and clothing. Individuals were locked in a gas chamber and exposed to mustard gas and lewisite. 1943 - In response to Japan's full-scale germ warfare program, the U.S. begins research on biological weapons at Fort Detrick, MD. 1942 - Chemical Warfare Services begins mustard gas experiments on approximately 4,000 servicemen. The experiments continue until 1945 and made use of Seventh Day Adventists who chose to become human guinea pigs rather than serve on active duty. 1945 - "Program F" is implemented by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). This is the most extensive U.S. study of the health effects of fluoride, which was the key chemical component in atomic bomb production. One of the most toxic chemicals known to man, fluoride, it is found, causes marked adverse effects to the central nervous system but much of the information is squelched in the name of na
So when did we change from prisoners and the military. I know a WWII & Korean War veteran who claims he was subjected to radiation to "test it's effects".
Actually after looking at all these ideas, I'm gonna stop by the CS department at CNU in Newport News, VA and offer it up to someone in need. I'll give it to one of my favorite Profs to decide.
kenny before the surgery.
I have 10 year old Gateway laptop. It runs windows95, has 64 Mb of memory (Absolute Maximm) a 13Gb hard drive and a Pentium 200 MMX processor. It also has at one time or another had BeOS 4 and RedHat 6.2 on it. It is almost totally useless. It is just a piece of junk I still keep around for god knows why. I never use it. It's battery doesn't hold a charge for more than 2-3 minutes, just long enough to move it from one room to another and plug it in. If I had that battery in a new laptop, I'd probably buy a new laptop long before the battery ran out.
I agree! Who wants to keep paying for the same song! If I buy a streaming service that is $2 monthly say. If happen to currently like a certain 20 songs that are my favorites. I end up paying $2 a month to listen to the same 20 songs! I am 45 years old, I still listen to about 100 songs I grew up with. I listen to alot of other stuff too. But regularly, I listen to the songs that bring back good memories. At $24 year to listen to songs I own on CD, have owned on cassette & LP, a few probably on 8 track, would be absolutely ludicrous.
She started with simple concepts. An ascii based tic-tac toe program, a couple of puzzles, etc. In another class we created a java battle ship program to teach basic sockets. She gave us just enough code to get started. I had this professor through 2 out of 4 C++ based classes, 2 java clases, object oriented programming, and software engineering. We always worked in groups of 2-3. Along the way we also made a java IM client and server, and a simulation of a forest fire, with parameters taken from a real scenario. We were able to predict the geometrical shape and size of the devastation, quite accurately with what had actually occured. Nothing we created was earth shattering, but it kept us challenged and interested. The only other professor that could do for me was my physics professor.
Here parents pray their kids end up on the school/college football teams for both bragging rights as well as the potential for a lot of moolah in the future (mostly I think its bragging rights). Jocks get limelighted every step, every game, gets the hotter looking babe and scrapes through academics yet has no trouble getting in to college due to his sports background.
Aren't we a little jealous! So the jock got the girl. Most parents know their kids strengths and weaknesses. As a parent with two kids in college. I can say with all certainty that all a parent wants is their child to be successful, happy and not make the same mistakes they did. And with the rising cost of health care, a doctor in the family would be something to brag about.
You get them interested by getting them to create their own games. That's how my college professor did it. We created half-assed cheasy little games. But in the process learned the basics of simulation, object oriented programming, algorithms and managing a software project.