Fair enough, though car designs vary a lot, so I'd still wonder if some cars would lose braking power right away. I'll have to try shutting off my engine sometime in an empty parking lot sometime and see what happens with my brake power. I'd imagine you're right though, since I wouldn't think car manufacturers would design a car to lose brake power when the car stalls, for instance.
The only way you would immediatly lose power braking assist with a dead engine is if the vacuum diaphram on the power unit was ruptured. But if that was the case, you would have a massive vacuum leak to start with which would disrupt the airflow through the intake manifold. The engine would not run well enough (possibly not at all) to allow you to successfully flee the gendarmes in the first place.
Secondly, even if you exhaust the vacuum reservoir that provides power assistance to the breakes, the mechanical braking system is still intact and you should still, with some effort, be able to stop the car. I was once a mechanic, and was a Bendix-certified brake technician back in the day.
For having good offspring one needs to be fit and show it to the females. Hence, smarts is bad. It's better to be athletic. Chances that you reproduce are greater.
It's not just science. Recall that the Lewis and Clark expedition is in the news again celebrating the bicentennial anniversary of their expedition. Yeah, so what? Well, here's the thing that I just learned (thank you PBS!) -- just prior to the Lewis and Clark expedition, a similar trek had been made across Canada by British explorers. They wrote a book about their adventures, in fact, and that book was read by President Jefferson. He understood the implications -- that the nation that controlled passage to the west controlled the economic future or the continent for decades to to come. He then commissioned the Lewis and Clark expedition in what amounted to the 1800's equivalent of the "Space Race" that we and the Soviets engaged in in the 1960's. Of course, few history teachers touch on this (mine certainly did not), preferring instead to have students memorize names and dates, pass the mandated SOL tests, and then move on to the next chapter. And we wonder why we're falling behind...
just so you can see how retarded the US patent system is, see this santa hat patent
Yep -- that's an example of a "Design Patent" Saw a patent application once (granted, I think), for a dog biscuit shaped like a miniature t-bone steak...
Agreed. If the conspiracy theorists don't like your editorial policy, then fsck 'em. They don't have to read Slashdot, and they are free to spend time and money to start a competing site having policies with which they are more comfortable.
Praxis does charge more - about 50% above standard software daily rates - but then when you are getting the results in the same time frame with massively less bugs a paying little extra is worth it... you'll likely save money in the support and maintenance cycle!
But are they Sarbanes-Oxley compliant? That's what *I* want to know!
Oh sweet Christ. Why, oh why, did they have to imply some sort of design? Is this some sort of attempt to get funding from the Creationist Institute?
<sarcasm> Interesting that you chose the epithet "Oh sweet Christ"; somewhat ironic, actually. And yes -- design -- you should see the UML diagrams specifying the class hierarchy for all the objects that have been or will be created...
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"Moles and related animals create holes in the solid medium to move through - they don't travel through the solid medium, they make room for them to travel and then they travel through the empty room."
I see. And fish do not move water molecules out of the way? Birds don't move air molecules out of the way? May I please have some of what you're smoking?
'Despite the notion that hordes of U.S. IT jobs are being sent offshore, in reality, less than 5% of the 10 million people who make up the U.S. IT job market had been displaced by foreign workers through 2004, says Scot Melland, president and CEO of Dice Inc.
Well, here's the rub. Let's assume that the numbers are accurate -- that only a small prtion of jobs are being offshored, and that the ones that are are low-level jobs that don't require all that much skill (far-fetched, I know, but just for the sake of argument).
So -- here's my question: How do you break in new programmers straight out of school? Do you immediately assign them to a critical position working with, say, a corporate accounting system? Do you assign them to write flight control/guidance software for fighter jets or the space shutle? Only if you are insane. Instead, you break them in on drudgework, or less critical maintenance work until their actual skills have caught up with their "book learning".
In my humble (well, not really) opinion, offshoring these types of jobs is the IT equivalent of eating your seed corn. In the long run you wind up starving due to your own stupidity and lack of foresight.
2. Increasing broadband speeds and their adoption rate enables new applications tomorrow.
Exactly. Way back at the turn of the 20th century an inventor created a new type of camera shutter that would allow an exposure rate of many frames per second. His invention was scorned as no one could conceive of the need for such a thing. Until movies came along, of course.
And of course, we really don't need all those gigabytes of ram, do we?
I read the article, and the wikipeda entry, and am left with a question. Without electricity and fule how do we get the compressed gas to run this thing?
I agree with you re: Apache on Windoze. I've run it on my own to test site development (using the hosts file hack you mentioned) and it works just fine. I've not used PHP, but still...
Here's the bottom line -- if someone doesn't know what they are doing, then the odds are they won't do it well, or at all.
The problem with AI is that it is constantly being redefined. At one point, a robot that would vaccum your house without you lifting a finger would have been considered an example of AI. Nowdays, hardly anyone is impressed by a Roomba.
Oh I don't know. It scares hell out of the cats. I'd say they are impressed...
than the recently scaled back US National Ignition Facility? IIRC, this was supposed to use 192 laser beams all focused on a small pellet as well. Don't recall the substance to be used for the pellet though...
I mentioned some years back (about the time that the MS-DOJ anti-trust suit was in full swing) that the anti-trust suit was a waste of time and money. If you wnat to break the back of the MS monoploy, all you need do is decree that all federal, state, and local governments will adopt open standards as of date X, with older documents to be converted in some sort of phased approach. All who wish to supply the government with office-like software will be obliged to support the standards (such compliance to be verified by test suites, certification to be attested to be non-interested third parties).
Millions of dollars saved on fruitless lawsuits, perhaps millions more generated by innovative suppliers who employ people to create such software (or who provide paid support for the existing FOSS office suite(s)). Anyone who wishes to interact with the government from that point forward will also have to have the capability of reading and writing documents in the new format.
Problem solved.
This won't work in all cases, perhaps, but when a viable, well-supported open standard exists (tcp/ip vs. SNA, anyone?, Ethernet, perhaps? Maybe a little HTML/XML?), why support a proprietary standard which does nothing but enrich a monopolist and locks you into their format to boot?
You insensitive clod!! You needn't kill the crocodiles!! Just walk up to the edge of any river in Oz and let the crocodile bite you, thereby injecting the serum and innoculating you against HIV!!
Think man!! Sheesh!
But if they blow him off, what are the odds they'll still be in line for government funding of further research? Yes, I know -- laws exist to forbid that sort of thing. Sure they do...
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that you just _cannot_ trust Microsoft...
It's not just science. Recall that the Lewis and Clark expedition is in the news again celebrating the bicentennial anniversary of their expedition. Yeah, so what? Well, here's the thing that I just learned (thank you PBS!) -- just prior to the Lewis and Clark expedition, a similar trek had been made across Canada by British explorers. They wrote a book about their adventures, in fact, and that book was read by President Jefferson. He understood the implications -- that the nation that controlled passage to the west controlled the economic future or the continent for decades to to come. He then commissioned the Lewis and Clark expedition in what amounted to the 1800's equivalent of the "Space Race" that we and the Soviets engaged in in the 1960's. Of course, few history teachers touch on this (mine certainly did not), preferring instead to have students memorize names and dates, pass the mandated SOL tests, and then move on to the next chapter. And we wonder why we're falling behind...
Print out everything vital on acid-free archival-grade paper. Store it in a cool dry place. Lasts for centuries...
Agreed. If the conspiracy theorists don't like your editorial policy, then fsck 'em. They don't have to read Slashdot, and they are free to spend time and money to start a competing site having policies with which they are more comfortable.
Ah! An Anne Mcaffrey (sp?) afficianado!
So -- here's my question: How do you break in new programmers straight out of school? Do you immediately assign them to a critical position working with, say, a corporate accounting system? Do you assign them to write flight control/guidance software for fighter jets or the space shutle? Only if you are insane. Instead, you break them in on drudgework, or less critical maintenance work until their actual skills have caught up with their "book learning".
In my humble (well, not really) opinion, offshoring these types of jobs is the IT equivalent of eating your seed corn. In the long run you wind up starving due to your own stupidity and lack of foresight.
But that's just me...
And of course, we really don't need all those gigabytes of ram, do we?
It won't happen. State AG's are elected. Federal AG's are appointed and confirmed. Buy off enough pols and the confirmation won't happen.
Here's the bottom line -- if someone doesn't know what they are doing, then the odds are they won't do it well, or at all.
than the recently scaled back US National Ignition Facility? IIRC, this was supposed to use 192 laser beams all focused on a small pellet as well. Don't recall the substance to be used for the pellet though...
Millions of dollars saved on fruitless lawsuits, perhaps millions more generated by innovative suppliers who employ people to create such software (or who provide paid support for the existing FOSS office suite(s)). Anyone who wishes to interact with the government from that point forward will also have to have the capability of reading and writing documents in the new format.
Problem solved.
This won't work in all cases, perhaps, but when a viable, well-supported open standard exists (tcp/ip vs. SNA, anyone?, Ethernet, perhaps? Maybe a little HTML/XML?), why support a proprietary standard which does nothing but enrich a monopolist and locks you into their format to boot?
You insensitive clod!! You needn't kill the crocodiles!! Just walk up to the edge of any river in Oz and let the crocodile bite you, thereby injecting the serum and innoculating you against HIV!! Think man!! Sheesh!
But if they blow him off, what are the odds they'll still be in line for government funding of further research? Yes, I know -- laws exist to forbid that sort of thing. Sure they do...