I'd say Latin, as it's used in law and biology and isn't changing. Of course that makes it hard to add technical terms.
We could look to other languages. I think cuniform would be good. I think Egyptian or Myan heiroglyphs would be a good "universal" language because they're all pictures (and computers are fast enough to render them now).
If we wanted to geek-out we could use Stargate's Ancient Alteran (with the benefit of being easy to OCR) but Klingon is more widely spoken in the tech community.
What RETAIL STORE sells these units? discussion of hackintosh and white box PC builds is not on-topic to the cost of RETAIL PCs versus RETAIL Macs. That's not what 90% of the public will ever see or buy.
The Russians are the only ones with CONSISTENT resupply missions. The US has been delaying shuttle missions right and left, and while the supplies do get there, it's not quickly enough. Like the US space toilet that took how many extra month to get there? The Russians have the most astronaut time on the station, when other countries can't afford to keep people up there they just bring them home. The Russians don't exactly have the money to fund the space station either and they probably felt the other countries weren't pulling their weight so they stopped sharing to get the other teams to resupply their astronauts.
I certainly expect China to step up and take care of the workers unions pretty quickly.. after all the workers already have the Communist party to protect the brotherhood.
Science channel was doing a show about the "Big Bang" and when the first calculations were released the Universe was "only" 2 billion years old.. biological evolutionists (i.e. not mathematicians) cried it was "wrong" because it didn't fit their pretend number of zeros needed. So the physicist "researched" until he came up with numbers that made the "evolutionists" happy.... yeah, sure they're not a religion.
because those retired union folk signed on under a certain set of terms and worked for 30 years. Their retirement and health insurance (the biggest items on the chopping block) is just as valid as the people that worked for AIG but still expect their bonuses.
GM is asking people that worked their 30 years to take a "pay cut" because GM can't make good. Along the same line, why should AIG continue to pay bonuses to people that don't work there, as they won't contribute anymore and they nearly went bankrupt for a whole lot worse than GM did?
so what you're saying is that it's professional misconduct for a psychologist to administer this medical diagnostic test for the purpose of disclosing the results to an employer.
half the posters say this test is a "parlour trick" and half say it's "valid research". If it's a trick, then it's full of inapproperiate questions and employers are using science and giving it a bad name as a loophole to break the law. If it's valid research, then the results should be medically confidential, always, especially for employment considerations. There's not really a middle road here.
except in any test there should be a pool of questions covering all areas. Then releasing a few questions is not a problem.
The original forum was about whether people felt abused by the questions and format when presented the test for employment consideration. At that point the test is not being used for "research" but misused and the quantity and types of questions asked become a matter of public discussion. Many of the questions may be illegal to ask as employment consideration... that means illegal, even if they were good research.
I'll correct: Open Source is different (from old and busted we got now) and if you change, you take the blame. Therefore, if there's ANYTHING different... right down to Bob the factory worker has to change his password... then it's YOUR fault for "breaking" things and using that "different crap". Even if it saves labor on your end it's still "your" fault.
This is why Microsoft is SO entrenched! They do what they want and the higher ups are going to buy "new and shiny" first, so when the things are different it's "progress", not "change".
Ultimately Brits are STILL Subjects and not citizens.
They are only allowed to speak in public at the pleasure of the crown (although the Crown tries to exercise restraint)... and that's still legal precedent for many things regarding "individual" rights. Brits have only the rights the Magna Carta and other documents SAY they have... the Crown reserves the right to keep all the others. Versus the US where States and individuals have all the rights unless the government has a good reason to take them away.
That's why we need more newspapers kept alive. Then you can read different reports by a bunch of biased people. You get to know which ones are biased which way (like Fox or Rush) and play the stories off each other to get the real feel of what's going on.
The problem is that it's long been a strategy of newspaper owners to play politics (even before 1900) and use money to silence other views in other newspapers to the aid of whatever robber-baron is footing the bill.
I think you have some concerns about warranty service. If you are doing RAID you need a matching hard drive, buying the latest off the shelf could actually hurt thing if somebody doesn't make sure drive controllers are compatible with the other bits. You can't exactly take down a raid array because you need to update firmware to replace a bad drive. There's a little extra work on the Branded OEM's part to ensure "new" parts match "old" parts in those situations.
"If you are in your thirties and have not discovered how to teach yourself anything you need to learn, then all the schooling you have taken to date is a waste of your time, as well as any future schooling. You will always be surrounded by people making more than you doing the interesting work."
But with a degree you get to be around higher paid people doing more interesting work than the ones you were before... meaning you still get to do interesting work for more money than you were before. Not everybody will be on top, most people at 30 learn to accept that. So then what makes you productive and people will pay you for? And it's a good idea to make it something you like because you spend 40+ hours a week doing it.
you can do it on windows too.. but can you make a mixed-batch play nice? Oh, and the "open source" is new, so IT has to overcome any and all incompatibility problems, because Windows is the standard.
Actually, that's exactly how many "enterprise" requirements are stated by the managers. If your new Open Source tool doesn't play ball with somebody's fancy new scanner/sign-on tech (that the company spend $100k on 5 years ago) then it gets put on the shelf... and the company uses a technology that does play nice.... like Sharepoint!
you had it until the point the colonists of the original 12 colonies destroyed their ships. They didn't destroy their ships, there was thriving commerce for many generations between planets. But early on, you could tell some planets had been turned into "serfs" and menial labor for the "better" planets. That was the cycle of human-on-human abuse they were trying to end as well.
"The only time they showed Earth before the finale, to my knowledge, was the end of season 3 when they panned out of the Milky Way and zoomed into Earth. But that can be resolved by arguing that what we saw then was the second, non-destroyed Earth."
and the they showed that when Starbuck went "down the rabbit hole" for those 6 months. Starbuck saw that Earth, but nobody else in the story did. It was a teaser to remind us they'd get to AN earth.
Of course they could have went back to New Caprica or even Kobol after the Colony was destroyed without worrying about it.
I was getting the feeling she was an "Angel" too, but it would have been a mass-effect, unlike the localized ones for Capirica and Baltar.
In the interview link, Moore mentions not thinking too much about the father thing, that it wasn't really decided by the writers.
If you wanted to get REALLY picky, it appeared her father was Daniel (or maybe another ghost) who taught her the song. Perhaps one Daniel escaped to the colonies after Cavil had them all killed off and the DNA was destroyed so he couldn't be regenerated without reuniting all the "brainwashed" 5. So in fact she was the first hybrid, which would explain her attitude and skills, and the song in her head.
As a side note, the head scientist in Caprica is ALSO a Daniel! It doesn't look like the same character but maybe he donated some knowledge to the cylon cause along the way!
it was a clever little blurb to connect the ending to our "reality"... I liked it better than the robots. There is research that suggests Neanderthals weren't killed by modern man, but rather were "breed out" in to the new race distinctly different from the older one. They were trying to connect that bit of history to the story. Hera would have been the oldest person with the new DNA so it would have been "god's will" for her to be eventually found... the whole "happens again" thing.
it was a good backstory. She was a woman who lost "everything" once already, but got up to get involved in society... and ended up being the leader of everybody. They didn't do a good job of showing where the people came from before they blew everything up. (not being like Lost with all those useless flashbacks that change the story every week)
I liked Adama who was on track (just like our generals) to a nice "consulting" gig with a big company and all the petty politics... decided to ride out the life of his ship as a museum instead. Again, it put him in the right place after not giving up.
the explanation was early on, that Galactica was relatively self-sufficient. Tool rooms to repair ships, fab parts and make uniforms, recycling for air and water and algae tanks to regrow food (from recycled S$$$) in addition to a full supply of MREs. Except Galactic was "mothballed" compared to Pegasus, which was much better equip. So it was already stripped of spare parts, rations, and other essentials to be a museum. The trouble was keeping up the other ships... that's why they needed near slave labor to run supplies of food, parts, and s$$$ back and forth to other ships in the fleet.
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We should change to a more "neutral" language.
I'd say Latin, as it's used in law and biology and isn't changing. Of course that makes it hard to add technical terms.
We could look to other languages. I think cuniform would be good. I think Egyptian or Myan heiroglyphs would be a good "universal" language because they're all pictures (and computers are fast enough to render them now).
If we wanted to geek-out we could use Stargate's Ancient Alteran (with the benefit of being easy to OCR) but Klingon is more widely spoken in the tech community.
What RETAIL STORE sells these units? discussion of hackintosh and white box PC builds is not on-topic to the cost of RETAIL PCs versus RETAIL Macs. That's not what 90% of the public will ever see or buy.
The Russians are the only ones with CONSISTENT resupply missions. The US has been delaying shuttle missions right and left, and while the supplies do get there, it's not quickly enough. Like the US space toilet that took how many extra month to get there? The Russians have the most astronaut time on the station, when other countries can't afford to keep people up there they just bring them home. The Russians don't exactly have the money to fund the space station either and they probably felt the other countries weren't pulling their weight so they stopped sharing to get the other teams to resupply their astronauts.
I certainly expect China to step up and take care of the workers unions pretty quickly.. after all the workers already have the Communist party to protect the brotherhood.
Science channel was doing a show about the "Big Bang" and when the first calculations were released the Universe was "only" 2 billion years old.. biological evolutionists (i.e. not mathematicians) cried it was "wrong" because it didn't fit their pretend number of zeros needed. So the physicist "researched" until he came up with numbers that made the "evolutionists" happy.... yeah, sure they're not a religion.
because those retired union folk signed on under a certain set of terms and worked for 30 years. Their retirement and health insurance (the biggest items on the chopping block) is just as valid as the people that worked for AIG but still expect their bonuses.
GM is asking people that worked their 30 years to take a "pay cut" because GM can't make good. Along the same line, why should AIG continue to pay bonuses to people that don't work there, as they won't contribute anymore and they nearly went bankrupt for a whole lot worse than GM did?
so what you're saying is that it's professional misconduct for a psychologist to administer this medical diagnostic test for the purpose of disclosing the results to an employer.
half the posters say this test is a "parlour trick" and half say it's "valid research". If it's a trick, then it's full of inapproperiate questions and employers are using science and giving it a bad name as a loophole to break the law. If it's valid research, then the results should be medically confidential, always, especially for employment considerations. There's not really a middle road here.
except in any test there should be a pool of questions covering all areas. Then releasing a few questions is not a problem.
The original forum was about whether people felt abused by the questions and format when presented the test for employment consideration. At that point the test is not being used for "research" but misused and the quantity and types of questions asked become a matter of public discussion. Many of the questions may be illegal to ask as employment consideration... that means illegal, even if they were good research.
I'll correct:
Open Source is different (from old and busted we got now) and if you change, you take the blame. Therefore, if there's ANYTHING different... right down to Bob the factory worker has to change his password... then it's YOUR fault for "breaking" things and using that "different crap". Even if it saves labor on your end it's still "your" fault.
This is why Microsoft is SO entrenched! They do what they want and the higher ups are going to buy "new and shiny" first, so when the things are different it's "progress", not "change".
Ultimately Brits are STILL Subjects and not citizens.
They are only allowed to speak in public at the pleasure of the crown (although the Crown tries to exercise restraint)... and that's still legal precedent for many things regarding "individual" rights. Brits have only the rights the Magna Carta and other documents SAY they have... the Crown reserves the right to keep all the others. Versus the US where States and individuals have all the rights unless the government has a good reason to take them away.
That's why we need more newspapers kept alive. Then you can read different reports by a bunch of biased people. You get to know which ones are biased which way (like Fox or Rush) and play the stories off each other to get the real feel of what's going on.
The problem is that it's long been a strategy of newspaper owners to play politics (even before 1900) and use money to silence other views in other newspapers to the aid of whatever robber-baron is footing the bill.
I think you have some concerns about warranty service. If you are doing RAID you need a matching hard drive, buying the latest off the shelf could actually hurt thing if somebody doesn't make sure drive controllers are compatible with the other bits. You can't exactly take down a raid array because you need to update firmware to replace a bad drive. There's a little extra work on the Branded OEM's part to ensure "new" parts match "old" parts in those situations.
Worth the near 100% markup? that's questionable.
"If you are in your thirties and have not discovered how to teach yourself anything you need to learn, then all the schooling you have taken to date is a waste of your time, as well as any future schooling. You will always be surrounded by people making more than you doing the interesting work."
But with a degree you get to be around higher paid people doing more interesting work than the ones you were before... meaning you still get to do interesting work for more money than you were before. Not everybody will be on top, most people at 30 learn to accept that. So then what makes you productive and people will pay you for? And it's a good idea to make it something you like because you spend 40+ hours a week doing it.
another MythBusters experiment gone wrong!
Um... over a mile away!!! Generally that's far enough to be safe.
you can do it on windows too.. but can you make a mixed-batch play nice? Oh, and the "open source" is new, so IT has to overcome any and all incompatibility problems, because Windows is the standard.
Actually, that's exactly how many "enterprise" requirements are stated by the managers. If your new Open Source tool doesn't play ball with somebody's fancy new scanner/sign-on tech (that the company spend $100k on 5 years ago) then it gets put on the shelf... and the company uses a technology that does play nice.... like Sharepoint!
KITT will save us!
you had it until the point the colonists of the original 12 colonies destroyed their ships. They didn't destroy their ships, there was thriving commerce for many generations between planets. But early on, you could tell some planets had been turned into "serfs" and menial labor for the "better" planets. That was the cycle of human-on-human abuse they were trying to end as well.
then again we got Cloverfield.
Don't get your hopes up.
"The only time they showed Earth before the finale, to my knowledge, was the end of season 3 when they panned out of the Milky Way and zoomed into Earth. But that can be resolved by arguing that what we saw then was the second, non-destroyed Earth."
and the they showed that when Starbuck went "down the rabbit hole" for those 6 months. Starbuck saw that Earth, but nobody else in the story did. It was a teaser to remind us they'd get to AN earth.
Of course they could have went back to New Caprica or even Kobol after the Colony was destroyed without worrying about it.
I was getting the feeling she was an "Angel" too, but it would have been a mass-effect, unlike the localized ones for Capirica and Baltar.
In the interview link, Moore mentions not thinking too much about the father thing, that it wasn't really decided by the writers.
If you wanted to get REALLY picky, it appeared her father was Daniel (or maybe another ghost) who taught her the song. Perhaps one Daniel escaped to the colonies after Cavil had them all killed off and the DNA was destroyed so he couldn't be regenerated without reuniting all the "brainwashed" 5. So in fact she was the first hybrid, which would explain her attitude and skills, and the song in her head.
As a side note, the head scientist in Caprica is ALSO a Daniel! It doesn't look like the same character but maybe he donated some knowledge to the cylon cause along the way!
it was a clever little blurb to connect the ending to our "reality"... I liked it better than the robots. There is research that suggests Neanderthals weren't killed by modern man, but rather were "breed out" in to the new race distinctly different from the older one. They were trying to connect that bit of history to the story. Hera would have been the oldest person with the new DNA so it would have been "god's will" for her to be eventually found... the whole "happens again" thing.
it was a good backstory. She was a woman who lost "everything" once already, but got up to get involved in society... and ended up being the leader of everybody. They didn't do a good job of showing where the people came from before they blew everything up. (not being like Lost with all those useless flashbacks that change the story every week)
I liked Adama who was on track (just like our generals) to a nice "consulting" gig with a big company and all the petty politics... decided to ride out the life of his ship as a museum instead. Again, it put him in the right place after not giving up.
the explanation was early on, that Galactica was relatively self-sufficient. Tool rooms to repair ships, fab parts and make uniforms, recycling for air and water and algae tanks to regrow food (from recycled S$$$) in addition to a full supply of MREs. Except Galactic was "mothballed" compared to Pegasus, which was much better equip. So it was already stripped of spare parts, rations, and other essentials to be a museum. The trouble was keeping up the other ships... that's why they needed near slave labor to run supplies of food, parts, and s$$$ back and forth to other ships in the fleet.