Well, cancer rates, birth defects, etc are much higher in those two cities. Many born after those two weapons hit have died because them. So yes, you are right.
I certainly do not agree. I would think that small pox would have a dramatic death toll... initially. A hydrogen bomb thermonuclear warhead would not only vaporizes thousands on explosion, and kills thousands (or millions) more in hours/days after the hit, but also implant radiation into the environment to cause a dead zone for years to come. No, I think that the thermonuclear warhead wins in the contest of "Greater of Two Evils".
That's a really good point. I know the little plimps they have at football games, etc, have electic propellers or "fans" to move them. Perhaps the plimp could have a "station keeping" mode that locked into a GPS coordinate and kept the plimp in one place, more or less.
Also, just from the fact that you can call from a moving car I have to think that a stationary attenae is not all that important. Again, I am a compsci and not a EE so I am probably wrong.
Why not a blimp with CDMA cells tied to an anchor (truck, etc) with power running from the anchor? Seriously, you could probably tow a launch platform (uhaul sized trailer) behind a small pickup, suv, van etc with an He supply and a generator.
You drive to site, inflate, and let her pop-up. Crank up your Honda generator and away you go. And now let the EEs shoot down my idea (not literally).
I appreciate your zeal for security and FOSS, but the vast, vast majority of IT departments are not going to have the time or resources to dedicate to auditing code at this level. It is not a practical solution for almost anyone, especially when you consider patches, bug fixes, and incrimental version releases plus keeping someone on staff expert in the technology (.net, java, etc, etc).
In the end, most people have to trust someone. They will also need to ensure that the code has not been tampered with. The two parts of digital signatures I have mentioned go a long way to helping secure code from trusted sources.
I am still a little confused by your terminology and information on.NET. Given that all.NET stacks ship with a compiler Are you refering to the runtime? Versions of the.NET runtime do come with a compiler. I don't understand your use of the term "stack". Is this what you meant, in your words stack = runtime? You aren't refering to.NET assmeblies... I assume your word "stack" means the.NET runtime, or Mono runtime.
So you argument is not with.NET, but with trusting signed applications? Correct?
Signed applications do two things for you, assuming the vendor is not going to send your source or you don't have time to go through all the code to audit it:
1) A trusted 3rd party vendor issues the certificate. That 3rd party verifies the details of the vendor. So, you can easily track back any malicious code, which is a very big deterrent from having malicious code included in the app.
2).NET Signed code used a hash similar to MD5 sums to make sure the code has not been tinkered with since it was originally authored. Any classes binding to the code know the correct digital sig, and will not run the code if it has been messed with.
I have been digging through the documentation, but haven't found anything on whether 1.0 supports power pc. We run AIX on ppc chips. I tried to get Mono to run on this platform a few months back without any real success. Does anyone close to the project know if this is working now?
You don't know a dang thing about *Nix of.NET, do you? VB.NET is a full on OOP language. You are thinking of VBScript running in Outlook and IE for your virus claims...
The only thing that makes C# and VB RAD is the IDE. The languages on their own, while using features like garbage collection and foreach contructs to simplify and speed up development, are not RAD. C# is very similar to C++. It even has pointers!
I would imagine a nice shell scripts running with the correct access could be more dangerous in the hands of a script kiddie. With.NET you can sign your apps, which gives sysadmins another level of security. There are a number of other security features built into.NET. I am not trying to sound like a fanboy here, just pointing out how completely off target or statement is!
BRYN MAWR, Pa. - Herman Heine Goldstine, a mathematician who worked on the earliest electronic computers and helped the military develop the famous ENIAC, died June 16 at his home in Bryn Mawr. He was 90.
His death was announced by the T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., which renamed a postdoctoral fellowship in the mathematical sciences in his honor. No cause of death was given.
Goldstine, a winner of the National Medal of Science, worked on the ENIAC, as the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer was code named, when he was in the Army during World War II. He then became one of the chief scientists of the International Business Machine Corp. for 26 years.
In retirement, he followed his interest in putting science into the larger human context as executive officer of the American Philosophical Society from 1984 to 1997.
During World War II, Goldstine was an ordnance mathematician calculating artillery firing tables. When the War Department embarked on a top-secret program to develop ENIAC, the Army put him in charge of its part of the project.
The result had 18,000 vacuum tubes arrayed as number-crunching machinery, measuring 30 feet by 60 feet and weighing 30 tons. It took 30 months and 200,000 hours of work to contrive; the results were kept under wraps until after the war.
After that, Goldstine pursued the new computer science in academia and private industry. Born in Chicago, the lawyer's son studied mathematics at the University of Chicago, receiving a bachelor's degree (and was named to Phi Beta Kappa) in 1933, a master's degree in 1934 and a doctorate in 1936.
He taught at the University of Michigan but left when war broke out to become a ballistics officer in the Army. He advanced to lieutenant colonel and was awarded several medals, eventually being named to the Hall of Fame of the Army Ordnance Department in 1997.
In 1946, Goldstine joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton as a permanent member and assistant project director of its electronic computer project. His work contributed to the second-generation calculator built at the institute by John von Neumann. Von Neumann introduced it in 1952 as EDVAC, for Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer.
Goldstine joined IBM as manager, later director, of mathematical sciences for research in 1958. In 1965, he became director of scientific development for data processing. Part of his responsibilities was to act as liaison between the academic community and the company's research centers. After 1969, he was a scientific consultant to the research director and an IBM fellow.
What if there really are big diamonds like in The Core? It would be odd seeing a forklift wheeling out the back room of the jeweler's bearing a single engagement ring.
Sounds like Jo Lo's next wedding ring (after divorcing her current husband).
I am rowing the boat you are in. Phuk, I hate commuting. I worked from home for about a year which was just awesome. Not so lucky to have that contact any longer:-(
I cannot back you on this enough! So many people believe that they will get their dream job out of college.
Once you get into ANY job, opportunities will begin to present themselves. You may be able to stear your career with your employer, or gain skills and experience for other positions.
It is always easier to find a job when you have a job, but make sure to put in at least a year (actually, go for 2+) at your first job if you can. Unless you really like it, then stay!
One last rule of thumb: Never change jobs for less that a 10% pay increase.
I was going to post something about "sufficient security", but figured I would getted modded hard on troll. That is the type of phrase that comes back to bite you in the arse.
you mention beige - well don't use it! Propably the best place I have ever works allowed use (with some approval) to paint our offices however we wanted to. This makes a suprising difference.
Also, I really like group spaces but make sure everyone has their own office.
And this may sound simple, but make sure everyone has plenty of fridge space. Let people live in their space.
From past readings, most respectable rail guns launch their ammunition at a significant percentage of the speed of light (1/4?). I would assume that the curvature of the earth could be become a problem for direct shots with such a weapon. I bet it will fire at a much lower speed and use an arc like conventional naval guns.
One thing that might work very well would be a shotgun style rail gun for anti-missile defense. Among other tactics, the US Navy currently uses rapid fire, Gatling style guns to shoot down inbound missiles. Can you imagine thousands of tiny particles accelerated to 1/4 the speed of light, then dispersing like the bb pellets in a shotgun? Even with the tiny mass of each of these, with this type of velocity they would really do some serious damage to a missile. And I have to think that over a short distance they will decelerate, and not cause any down-range destruction.
After ReadingTFA and looking at some of the past stuff on this issue, there is still not a clear reason (at least for me) to duplicate GPS. Why does Europe want to spend all that money? Couldn't they put up other sats with the money, like Internet, etc? Is it just a control thing i.e. the EU doesn't want to be at the mercy of the US on this (wouldn't blame them)?
Being from Wyoming, and now living in Texas, I am used to long stretches of nothing. I love rest areas. In Wyoming the rest areas are actually pretty nice, solar power facilities. Here in Texas they are not so nice (some nice, some not so nice). Wi-fi will be a welcome addition. I can really some opening up my laptop at the rest area.
As far as safety at rest stops, I have always packed my hand gun while traveling and always have it on-person at rest areas. Don't screw with me while I am taking a leak! This is just a force of habit, and a good habit at that. I know the "Michael Moore is God and we love Rosie O'Donnell" crowd will be all over my ass. Seriously, a rest area in the middle of nowhere means the only law might be you. So if you don't feel safe at a rest area (like a truck stop, etc is any better) please check into local gun safety classes and a nice Colt or Glock.
So there you go. When in Texas, carry your wi-fi enable device and a nice hand gun, and you will have a great stay!
This is like New Coke, where everyone went up in arms when Coca-Cola was going to get rid of the original formula. All kinds of people rallied and the Original Coca-Cola gained tons of popularity and PR.
Many suspected that Coca-Cola Corp had pulled off one of the best PR stunts of all time, that they had never intended on getting rid of the original. Do you think this is what Terra Lycos has done with WebMonkey?
I would put a CGI page counter at the bottom of every page. I think the one with flame numbers works the best for this, but the digital looking on also works well.
Will you have any significant vote in the decision? In a similar situation a coworker asked some fairly tough questions. And none of them mattered, as a manager ended up picking someone that no one on the interview board (but her) liked.
Asking really tough questions could make an enemy for you, an enemy that will be your boss. I do not envy your position.
Also note that you will probably have to work with those that do not get the position. And one of those individuals may someday rise to a psotion of power, since they have already proven they have ambition.
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Well, cancer rates, birth defects, etc are much higher in those two cities. Many born after those two weapons hit have died because them. So yes, you are right.
I certainly do not agree. I would think that small pox would have a dramatic death toll... initially. A hydrogen bomb thermonuclear warhead would not only vaporizes thousands on explosion, and kills thousands (or millions) more in hours/days after the hit, but also implant radiation into the environment to cause a dead zone for years to come. No, I think that the thermonuclear warhead wins in the contest of "Greater of Two Evils".
That's a really good point. I know the little plimps they have at football games, etc, have electic propellers or "fans" to move them. Perhaps the plimp could have a "station keeping" mode that locked into a GPS coordinate and kept the plimp in one place, more or less.
Also, just from the fact that you can call from a moving car I have to think that a stationary attenae is not all that important. Again, I am a compsci and not a EE so I am probably wrong.
Why not a blimp with CDMA cells tied to an anchor (truck, etc) with power running from the anchor? Seriously, you could probably tow a launch platform (uhaul sized trailer) behind a small pickup, suv, van etc with an He supply and a generator.
You drive to site, inflate, and let her pop-up. Crank up your Honda generator and away you go. And now let the EEs shoot down my idea (not literally).
In the end, most people have to trust someone. They will also need to ensure that the code has not been tampered with. The two parts of digital signatures I have mentioned go a long way to helping secure code from trusted sources.
I am still a little confused by your terminology and information on .NET. Given that all .NET stacks ship with a compiler Are you refering to the runtime? Versions of the .NET runtime do come with a compiler. I don't understand your use of the term "stack". Is this what you meant, in your words stack = runtime? You aren't refering to .NET assmeblies... I assume your word "stack" means the .NET runtime, or Mono runtime.
So you argument is not with .NET, but with trusting signed applications? Correct?
Signed applications do two things for you, assuming the vendor is not going to send your source or you don't have time to go through all the code to audit it:
1) A trusted 3rd party vendor issues the certificate. That 3rd party verifies the details of the vendor. So, you can easily track back any malicious code, which is a very big deterrent from having malicious code included in the app.
2).NET Signed code used a hash similar to MD5 sums to make sure the code has not been tinkered with since it was originally authored. Any classes binding to the code know the correct digital sig, and will not run the code if it has been messed with.
I have been digging through the documentation, but haven't found anything on whether 1.0 supports power pc. We run AIX on ppc chips. I tried to get Mono to run on this platform a few months back without any real success. Does anyone close to the project know if this is working now?
You don't know a dang thing about *Nix of .NET, do you? VB.NET is a full on OOP language. You are thinking of VBScript running in Outlook and IE for your virus claims...
.NET you can sign your apps, which gives sysadmins another level of security. There are a number of other security features built into .NET. I am not trying to sound like a fanboy here, just pointing out how completely off target or statement is!
The only thing that makes C# and VB RAD is the IDE. The languages on their own, while using features like garbage collection and foreach contructs to simplify and speed up development, are not RAD. C# is very similar to C++. It even has pointers!
I would imagine a nice shell scripts running with the correct access could be more dangerous in the hands of a script kiddie. With
New York Times
Jun. 28, 2004 12:00 AM
BRYN MAWR, Pa. - Herman Heine Goldstine, a mathematician who worked on the earliest electronic computers and helped the military develop the famous ENIAC, died June 16 at his home in Bryn Mawr. He was 90.
His death was announced by the T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., which renamed a postdoctoral fellowship in the mathematical sciences in his honor. No cause of death was given.
Goldstine, a winner of the National Medal of Science, worked on the ENIAC, as the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer was code named, when he was in the Army during World War II. He then became one of the chief scientists of the International Business Machine Corp. for 26 years.
In retirement, he followed his interest in putting science into the larger human context as executive officer of the American Philosophical Society from 1984 to 1997.
During World War II, Goldstine was an ordnance mathematician calculating artillery firing tables. When the War Department embarked on a top-secret program to develop ENIAC, the Army put him in charge of its part of the project.
The result had 18,000 vacuum tubes arrayed as number-crunching machinery, measuring 30 feet by 60 feet and weighing 30 tons. It took 30 months and 200,000 hours of work to contrive; the results were kept under wraps until after the war.
After that, Goldstine pursued the new computer science in academia and private industry. Born in Chicago, the lawyer's son studied mathematics at the University of Chicago, receiving a bachelor's degree (and was named to Phi Beta Kappa) in 1933, a master's degree in 1934 and a doctorate in 1936.
He taught at the University of Michigan but left when war broke out to become a ballistics officer in the Army. He advanced to lieutenant colonel and was awarded several medals, eventually being named to the Hall of Fame of the Army Ordnance Department in 1997.
In 1946, Goldstine joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton as a permanent member and assistant project director of its electronic computer project. His work contributed to the second-generation calculator built at the institute by John von Neumann. Von Neumann introduced it in 1952 as EDVAC, for Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer.
Goldstine joined IBM as manager, later director, of mathematical sciences for research in 1958. In 1965, he became director of scientific development for data processing. Part of his responsibilities was to act as liaison between the academic community and the company's research centers. After 1969, he was a scientific consultant to the research director and an IBM fellow.
Sounds like Jo Lo's next wedding ring (after divorcing her current husband).
I am rowing the boat you are in. Phuk, I hate commuting. I worked from home for about a year which was just awesome. Not so lucky to have that contact any longer :-(
I cannot back you on this enough! So many people believe that they will get their dream job out of college.
Once you get into ANY job, opportunities will begin to present themselves. You may be able to stear your career with your employer, or gain skills and experience for other positions.
It is always easier to find a job when you have a job, but make sure to put in at least a year (actually, go for 2+) at your first job if you can. Unless you really like it, then stay!
One last rule of thumb: Never change jobs for less that a 10% pay increase.
I was going to post something about "sufficient security", but figured I would getted modded hard on troll. That is the type of phrase that comes back to bite you in the arse.
you mention beige - well don't use it! Propably the best place I have ever works allowed use (with some approval) to paint our offices however we wanted to. This makes a suprising difference. Also, I really like group spaces but make sure everyone has their own office. And this may sound simple, but make sure everyone has plenty of fridge space. Let people live in their space.
I am sure similar comments were being made 20, 30, 40, 50 etc years ago.
From past readings, most respectable rail guns launch their ammunition at a significant percentage of the speed of light (1/4?). I would assume that the curvature of the earth could be become a problem for direct shots with such a weapon. I bet it will fire at a much lower speed and use an arc like conventional naval guns.
One thing that might work very well would be a shotgun style rail gun for anti-missile defense. Among other tactics, the US Navy currently uses rapid fire, Gatling style guns to shoot down inbound missiles. Can you imagine thousands of tiny particles accelerated to 1/4 the speed of light, then dispersing like the bb pellets in a shotgun? Even with the tiny mass of each of these, with this type of velocity they would really do some serious damage to a missile. And I have to think that over a short distance they will decelerate, and not cause any down-range destruction.
You didn't get my comment. The point was that the money could be spent on, say, communication satellites instead.
After ReadingTFA and looking at some of the past stuff on this issue, there is still not a clear reason (at least for me) to duplicate GPS. Why does Europe want to spend all that money? Couldn't they put up other sats with the money, like Internet, etc? Is it just a control thing i.e. the EU doesn't want to be at the mercy of the US on this (wouldn't blame them)?
Being from Wyoming, and now living in Texas, I am used to long stretches of nothing. I love rest areas. In Wyoming the rest areas are actually pretty nice, solar power facilities. Here in Texas they are not so nice (some nice, some not so nice). Wi-fi will be a welcome addition. I can really some opening up my laptop at the rest area.
As far as safety at rest stops, I have always packed my hand gun while traveling and always have it on-person at rest areas. Don't screw with me while I am taking a leak! This is just a force of habit, and a good habit at that. I know the "Michael Moore is God and we love Rosie O'Donnell" crowd will be all over my ass. Seriously, a rest area in the middle of nowhere means the only law might be you. So if you don't feel safe at a rest area (like a truck stop, etc is any better) please check into local gun safety classes and a nice Colt or Glock.
So there you go. When in Texas, carry your wi-fi enable device and a nice hand gun, and you will have a great stay!
The posting is a bit late, check out this story. The ship has already set the record and landed.
I was going fo funny.
This is like New Coke, where everyone went up in arms when Coca-Cola was going to get rid of the original formula. All kinds of people rallied and the Original Coca-Cola gained tons of popularity and PR.
Many suspected that Coca-Cola Corp had pulled off one of the best PR stunts of all time, that they had never intended on getting rid of the original. Do you think this is what Terra Lycos has done with WebMonkey?
I would put a CGI page counter at the bottom of every page. I think the one with flame numbers works the best for this, but the digital looking on also works well.
Will you have any significant vote in the decision? In a similar situation a coworker asked some fairly tough questions. And none of them mattered, as a manager ended up picking someone that no one on the interview board (but her) liked.
Asking really tough questions could make an enemy for you, an enemy that will be your boss. I do not envy your position.
Also note that you will probably have to work with those that do not get the position. And one of those individuals may someday rise to a psotion of power, since they have already proven they have ambition.
Walk on egg shells!