I can tell you this much: if my team did this to me, and then even HINTED at how "valuable" they were, they'd be fired on the spot, project status be damned.
And then the project dies a brilliant, flaming death, and you get canned as well... smart move!
However, is artifically created fission possible, so far it hasn't been.
Assuming you meant fusion instead of fission (which is how current nuclear plants work):
Sure it is, you ever heard of a "Hydrogen Bomb?"
What hasn't been done yet, is create a sustainable / controllable fusion reaction in a lab. If that ever happens, then we are on the way to being able to harness fusion for energy production, commercially.
This will not work. The reason Mars has no atmosphere is it lost its magnetic field. That was one of the reasons. With no magnetic field the solar winds are able to slowly strip away the atmosphere. Also with out a magnetic feild to to delect the solar winds the surface is also bombarded by solar radiation wich the magnetic feild normaly delects.
Fine, so we just wrap a big ass wad of copper wire all around Mars, hook a big ass DC power source to it, creating the largest electromagnet in the known universe, and BOOM - instant magnetic field!
I think that you'll have a hard time finding an IT job
Nope... I've been steadily employed in the IT field since 1997, and am happily working away now, designing & developing applications for a small ISV/ASP in North Carolina... no Bachelors degree.. hell, I don't even have an associate degree that's related to programming (yet), but yet my peers constantly acknowledge my technical acumen, and the boss formally named me lead architect on our latest project... Lack of Calculus ability has yet to hinder my ability to do my job.
<disclaimer> I do have an associate degree in General Education, and am currently working on my 2nd, 3rd, and 4th college degrees sort-of in concert. I'll finish an Associate Degree in Computer Programming this semester, have already started working on an Associate Degree in High Performance Computing (same school) and am taking transfer classes for when I transfer to a 4-year school to finish my half-finished Bachelors Degree in Computer Science. I'm not knocking the value of higher education, and I actually like math and am looking forward to Calculus. My point is that assuming somebody who doesn't know calculus can't think, is asinine; just like hammering a square peg into a round hole.</disclaimer>
Even if you never use such things, mastery of undergraduate calculus shows that you can think,
Maybe, but it's hardly the only thing that shows you can think.
If I ever interview you, I want to see evidence of these qualities. I don't give a shit if you think it's useful or not. It is useful, though the reasons may not be immediately apparent to you.
Remind me never to apply for a job where you work. You are obviously somebody who has a big batch of pre-determined notions, from which you will not deviate, even if it means trying to put a square peg into a round hole.
Why do I have this image in my head of you, with a big-ass hammer, hammering on a square wooden peg, while somebody in the background yells "Hit it harder, hit it harder!"
Vote Libertarian == Vote Bush If all the wankers who voted for Nader and other useless parties had voted for Gore, we wouldn't be having these problems.
Like Gore would be any better than Bush.. LOL...
Like a famous.sig I've seen here on Slashdot says:
Republicans - The Party of Big Government Democrats - The Party of *really* Big Government
face it, any vote for a Republicrat (or Demopublican if you prefer) is a wasted vote. It's wasted because it's a vote for the status quo, the same old same old. Nothing is going to change as long as we keep electing these freaks like Bush and Gore into office. For my money, the Libertarian Party is the only party that truly represents the ideals this country is founded on.
The Founding Fathers surely recognized that there was no way they could spell out every single imaginable right, explicitly. Hence the 10th Amendment to the Constitution, which has been widely ignored. But remember that any right not explicitly granted to the Federal government is reserved to the States and the People....
To meet regulations, cars need to incorporate exhaust gas recirculation, variable cam timing, complex variable spark timing, catylitic converters, and a host of other complexities.
Not true. I don't have specifics handy, but I've read quite a few tales of performance enthusiasts putting together vehicles that could easily pass the tailpipe emissions tests, without ANY of the factory "smog" equipment. And I'm talking carbureted, 350 ci, small-block chevy engines at that.
This is one reason why performance enthusiasts have argued some vehemently against the required visual inspections to make sure the factory smog equipment is intact. If they can pass the tailpipe test without it, they feel like (and I agree) that they should be able to run without it.
Again, I don't have references handy, but a little digging around in some back issues of Car Craft, Hot Rod, Super Chevy, Popular Hot Rodding, etc., would turn up plenty for anybody who's interested.
Makes perfect sense for any language -- people who know it are 'in' on the secret. I suppose if things really got out of hand with this FBI wiretapping crap, we could all just develop our own languages.
A friend of mine and I actually started down that path several years ago. Turns out, creating a whole language from scratch isn't a trivial task.
Since at the time we were more interested in keeping *verbal* communications secret (and really, we just wanted to be able to talk in "sticky" situations without any casual observer understanding what we were saying), we decided to learn to speak English backwards instead. We never got "fluent" at it, but we could have a conversation, albeit a broken, choppy one, and nobody would probably ever make sense of what we were saying.
Doesn't have much application to e-mail, unfortunately...
Weirdness with your first query... looking at those 79 results, they all appear to the in the state of Michigan... But curiously, when I click the "next page" link, the results banner changes to say "jobs 51-100 of 4430" or so. But, skimming through the first few, they still all appear to be in Michigan, but it seems like Monster has changed the query terms, because there's a lot more crap listed than perl / unix / scripting / linux stuff.
Anyway, I went to the main monster.com query page, ran a query against the entire US, using your search terms, and go back over 5000 listings.
This should be modded flamebait. Talking about violence as a solution to spam is frankly just total bullshit.
Why? If some fucking moron keeps sending me spam, as far as I'm concerned, I should be allowed to beat him/her to the edge of death, and then anal-rape the fucker with a power-auger. Don't like that attitude? Fuck you then, dickhead. And don't let me find your address...
First thing... what are the chances of a true first post getting modded UP!?! What has happened to the slashdot we all knew and loved?
Just playing Devil's Advocate here: IBM sounds touchy-feely about open source but how would they react if Sun were to offer to help IBM open up AIX?
Second thing... bad example, since IBM has already released stuff from AIX as OSS (see the whole SCO vs. IBM debacle)... and they could never open-source the whole thing, because of licensing issues for the base SysV stuff it's built on.
Unless IBM was to buy SCO... in which case, who knows, AIX might just get open-sourced.:-)
So? Who said it did, or that it needed too? The point is, the Patriot Act affects a lot more than just privacy. To say that Liberty != Privacy means the Patriot Act doesn't interfere with Liberty, is just silly.
None at the moment. But he is running again, this time in Florida. Unfortunately, he re-joined the Republicans, last I heard.
Still the point is, getting a major player to "defect" would credibility to a 3rd party. That didn't happen with Smith, because when he first announced his decision, he didn't go from the Republicans to another party, he went independent.
Later he fiddled about with the American Taxpayers Party (now known as the Constitution Party) before going to to the Republicans.
What I would like to see is a specific breakdown. here's what patriot act ACTUALLY SAYS and here's what the constitution says, and show me differences. then I can make an opinion. Here's why X is bad, here's why Y is bad.
I wish I had time to do it for you myself, but here's a pretty good analysis of the USA PATRIOT act and why it's bad:
Physical violence against citizens in the most blatant way, murder, is preventable.
Wrong. The only way that would be possible would be for each and every person in the US to have an armed guard in their company 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. Life is dangerous, that's a fact of life. I've said it before, and I'll say it again.. live long enough, you die. Every time, no exceptions.
Each one of those twenty hijackers made a conscious effort. America did not deserve it. not one person who died deserved it.
No argument there. I'm a firefighter, so 343 of my brothers died on 9/11 as a result. I definitely feel the pain of what happened. But if we start sacrificing our civil liberties in the name of psuedo-safety in the aftermath of 9/11, then those brave men and women died in vain, and there memories are tarnished forevermore.
And it could have been prevented had a decent enough intelligence effort been put forth.
That's debatable. The intelligence we DID have wasn't acted on appropriately. Would more intelligence have really helped?
If the government did NOT put forth efforts to protect us, it would be abdicating its duty.
No, no, no. Nobody has any obligation to protect me (or you) but myself (or yourself). It's a simple concept called personal responsibility, and it used to be considered a basic principle in this country. The government is not a full-time nanny who can watch over each and every one of us around the clock.
The thing is, no matter how careful you are, bad things can still happen. That sucks, but it's life. How many of you really thought you were going to live forever, anyway? But while you are living, you should be able to live with Freedom and Liberty, as a free man, according to the principles defined in the Constitution.
Pretty much, if you are persuiing higher education, that no longer matters, and you can still get drafted. Also, if I read it correctly, it states that everyone HAS to mandatorily serve under military service.
I cannot stand the nazi Bush regime, and their total disregard for our status as human beings.
HOLY SHIT, thanks for posting that!!! I had no idea such a bill was floating around in Congress. I've already e-mailed a boatload of people and a couple of mailing lists I'm on, to let them know about this... Tomorrow I'll be calling my Senate and House reps to let them know how I feel (for all the good it'll do, of course).
People... vote Libertarian... let's put an end to this nonsense... for the love of ( God | Allah | Satan | Mohammhed | Bhudha | insert deity here ) this shit cannot be allowed to continue. This is America damnit, not fucking Soviet Russia.
I think what we need to do is get a Libertarian with some electability on the ballot as either a Democrat or a Republican. The best case scenario would have Libertarians winning both parties' nominations. The trick is getting people on the ballot who aren't well known as having Libertarian tendancies - a 'sleeper' if you will. Normally, I'm very much against political trickery or any kind (you can imagine how warm and fuzzy the current political climate makes me feel), but in this case, I think the good far outweighs the bad.
You're not the only one who feels that way. I believe quite a few Libertarian candidates who run for office wind up doing just what you describe. That actually seems to be a constant point of debate within the party... run AS a Libertarian, or disguise yourself as a Demopublican to get elected...
I for one, if I ever run for public office, will probably run as a Libertarian. In practice, a combination of both is probably best anyway. Actually, what would be nice, would be to get one of those "sleeper" types elected as a Republican or Democrat, and have him/her publicly renounce their party membership and "convert" to the Libertarian Party while in office... Talk about generating some publicity.
I remember when Bob Smith (NH senator) quit the Republican Party and went Independent. That created quite a stir, eh? If we could get somebody that high profile to defect, it would REALLY give some credibility to the Libertarian Party.
And actually... not quite as high profile on the national level, but fairly high profile in California... Judge Jim Gray did just quit the Republican Party and joined the Libertarian Party, and is apparently running for Senate in CA this coming election... If he could score a victory, or at least make it close, in that race, that would be a huge win for Libertarians.
The Red states far outnumber the Blue states, so popular vote becomes a moot point in future elections as the electoral advantage is seded to the Republicans.
Republicans, Democrats, same f'in difference. A vote for either major party is a wasted vote, because you're voting to maintain the status quo.
You want to make a real difference, let's start voting for Libertarian candidates, Reform Party candidates, Constitution Party candidates, Greens, or somebody OTHER than the same corrupt, power-hungry fuckers we've been voting for for years.
Along with a willing Congress, I'd like nothing more than to see the Federal government stripped down better than an unattended Corvette in south-central LA on a Friday night.
No, you're 100% correct. Less intervention in the affairs of foreign (sovereign) nations would do more to cut down on terrorism than creating patriot acts, and departments of homeland security / the new gestapo, etc.
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I can tell you this much: if my team did this to me, and then even HINTED at how "valuable" they were, they'd be fired on the spot, project status be damned.
And then the project dies a brilliant, flaming death, and you get canned as well... smart move!
Nope. The fission reaction is just used to kick off the fusion reaction. Here, read this:
http://people.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-bomb9.htm
However, is artifically created fission possible, so far it hasn't been.
Assuming you meant fusion instead of fission (which is how current nuclear plants work):
Sure it is, you ever heard of a "Hydrogen Bomb?"
What hasn't been done yet, is create a sustainable / controllable fusion reaction in a lab. If that ever happens, then we are on the way to being able to harness fusion for energy production, commercially.
its the HEALTHCARE we want not WAR , not BROADBAND
:-)
Right, cause after all, we all know everybody wants the lowest bidder looking after their health.
This will not work. The reason Mars has no atmosphere is it lost its magnetic field. That was one of the reasons. With no magnetic field the solar winds are able to slowly strip away the atmosphere. Also with out a magnetic feild to to delect the solar winds the surface is also bombarded by solar radiation wich the magnetic feild normaly delects.
Fine, so we just wrap a big ass wad of copper wire all around Mars, hook a big ass DC power source to it, creating the largest electromagnet in the known universe, and BOOM - instant magnetic field!
I think that you'll have a hard time finding an IT job
Nope... I've been steadily employed in the IT field since 1997, and am happily working away now, designing & developing applications for a small ISV/ASP in North Carolina... no Bachelors degree.. hell, I don't even have an associate degree that's related to programming (yet), but yet my peers constantly acknowledge my technical acumen, and the boss formally named me lead architect on our latest project... Lack of Calculus ability has yet to hinder my ability to do my job.
<disclaimer> I do have an associate degree in General Education, and am currently working on my 2nd, 3rd, and 4th college degrees sort-of in concert. I'll finish an Associate Degree in Computer Programming this semester, have already started working on an Associate Degree in High Performance Computing (same school) and am taking transfer classes for when I transfer to a 4-year school to finish my half-finished Bachelors Degree in Computer Science. I'm not knocking the value of higher education, and I actually like math and am looking forward to Calculus. My point is that assuming somebody who doesn't know calculus can't think, is asinine; just like hammering a square peg into a round hole.</disclaimer>
Even if you never use such things, mastery of undergraduate calculus shows that you can think,
Maybe, but it's hardly the only thing that shows you can think.
If I ever interview you, I want to see evidence of these qualities. I don't give a shit if you think it's useful or not. It is useful, though the reasons may not be immediately apparent to you.
Remind me never to apply for a job where you work. You are obviously somebody who has a big batch of pre-determined notions, from which you will not deviate, even if it means trying to put a square peg into a round hole.
Why do I have this image in my head of you, with a big-ass hammer, hammering on a square wooden peg, while somebody in the background yells "Hit it harder, hit it harder!"
Vote Libertarian == Vote Bush If all the wankers who voted for Nader and other useless parties had voted for Gore, we wouldn't be having these problems.
.sig I've seen here on Slashdot says:
Like Gore would be any better than Bush.. LOL...
Like a famous
Republicans - The Party of Big Government
Democrats - The Party of *really* Big Government
face it, any vote for a Republicrat (or Demopublican if you prefer) is a wasted vote. It's wasted because it's a vote for the status quo, the same old same old. Nothing is going to change as long as we keep electing these freaks like Bush and Gore into office. For my money, the Libertarian Party is the only party that truly represents the ideals this country is founded on.
The Founding Fathers surely recognized that there was no way they could spell out every single imaginable right, explicitly. Hence the 10th Amendment to the Constitution, which has been widely ignored. But remember that any right not explicitly granted to the Federal government is reserved to the States and the People....
To meet regulations, cars need to incorporate exhaust gas recirculation, variable cam timing, complex variable spark timing, catylitic converters, and a host of other complexities.
Not true. I don't have specifics handy, but I've read quite a few tales of performance enthusiasts putting together vehicles that could easily pass the tailpipe emissions tests, without ANY of the factory "smog" equipment. And I'm talking carbureted, 350 ci, small-block chevy engines at that.
This is one reason why performance enthusiasts have argued some vehemently against the required visual inspections to make sure the factory smog equipment is intact. If they can pass the tailpipe test without it, they feel like (and I agree) that they should be able to run without it.
Again, I don't have references handy, but a little digging around in some back issues of Car Craft, Hot Rod, Super Chevy, Popular Hot Rodding, etc., would turn up plenty for anybody who's interested.
Makes perfect sense for any language -- people who know it are 'in' on the secret. I suppose if things really got out of hand with this FBI wiretapping crap, we could all just develop our own languages.
A friend of mine and I actually started down that path several years ago. Turns out, creating a whole language from scratch isn't a trivial task.
Since at the time we were more interested in keeping *verbal* communications secret (and really, we just wanted to be able to talk in "sticky" situations without any casual observer understanding what we were saying), we decided to learn to speak English backwards instead. We never got "fluent" at it, but we could have a conversation, albeit a broken, choppy one, and nobody would probably ever make sense of what we were saying.
Doesn't have much application to e-mail, unfortunately...
Weirdness with your first query... looking at those 79 results, they all appear to the in the state of Michigan... But curiously, when I click the "next page" link, the results banner changes to say "jobs 51-100 of 4430" or so. But, skimming through the first few, they still all appear to be in Michigan, but it seems like Monster has changed the query terms, because there's a lot more crap listed than perl / unix / scripting / linux stuff.
Anyway, I went to the main monster.com query page, ran a query against the entire US, using your search terms, and go back over 5000 listings.
results here
What does all this mean? I have no idea, but I think there are more than 79 jobs in the U.S. of the type you're looking for.
This should be modded flamebait. Talking about violence as a solution to spam is frankly just total bullshit.
Why? If some fucking moron keeps sending me spam, as far as I'm concerned, I should be allowed to beat him/her to the edge of death, and then anal-rape the fucker with a power-auger. Don't like that attitude? Fuck you then, dickhead. And don't let me find your address...
You'd get a +1 (Insightful) from me, if I weren't blacklisted from modding... so consider this a "virtual" +1.
First thing... what are the chances of a true first post getting modded UP!?! What has happened to the slashdot we all knew and loved?
:-)
Just playing Devil's Advocate here: IBM sounds touchy-feely about open source but how would they react if Sun were to offer to help IBM open up AIX?
Second thing... bad example, since IBM has already released stuff from AIX as OSS (see the whole SCO vs. IBM debacle)... and they could never open-source the whole thing, because of licensing issues for the base SysV stuff it's built on.
Unless IBM was to buy SCO... in which case, who knows, AIX might just get open-sourced.
It still does not mention privacy.
So? Who said it did, or that it needed too? The point is, the Patriot Act affects a lot more than just privacy. To say that Liberty != Privacy means the Patriot Act doesn't interfere with Liberty, is just silly.
None at the moment. But he is running again, this time in Florida. Unfortunately, he re-joined the Republicans, last I heard.
Still the point is, getting a major player to "defect" would credibility to a 3rd party. That didn't happen with Smith, because when he first announced his decision, he didn't go from the Republicans to another party, he went independent.
Later he fiddled about with the American Taxpayers Party (now known as the Constitution Party) before going to to the Republicans.
What I would like to see is a specific breakdown. here's what patriot act ACTUALLY SAYS and here's what the constitution says, and show me differences. then I can make an opinion. Here's why X is bad, here's why Y is bad.
I wish I had time to do it for you myself, but here's a pretty good analysis of the USA PATRIOT act and why it's bad:
http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/usapatriot
Physical violence against citizens in the most blatant way, murder, is preventable.
Wrong. The only way that would be possible would be for each and every person in the US to have an armed guard in their company 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. Life is dangerous, that's a fact of life. I've said it before, and I'll say it again.. live long enough, you die. Every time, no exceptions.
Each one of those twenty hijackers made a conscious effort. America did not deserve it. not one person who died deserved it.
No argument there. I'm a firefighter, so 343 of my brothers died on 9/11 as a result. I definitely feel the pain of what happened. But if we start sacrificing our civil liberties in the name of psuedo-safety in the aftermath of 9/11, then those brave men and women died in vain, and there memories are tarnished forevermore.
And it could have been prevented had a decent enough intelligence effort been put forth.
That's debatable. The intelligence we DID have wasn't acted on appropriately. Would more intelligence have really helped?
If the government did NOT put forth efforts to protect us, it would be abdicating its duty.
No, no, no. Nobody has any obligation to protect me (or you) but myself (or yourself). It's a simple concept called personal responsibility, and it used to be considered a basic principle in this country. The government is not a full-time nanny who can watch over each and every one of us around the clock.
The thing is, no matter how careful you are, bad things can still happen. That sucks, but it's life. How many of you really thought you were going to live forever, anyway? But while you are living, you should be able to live with Freedom and Liberty, as a free man, according to the principles defined in the Constitution.
Here, here's an even better one: http://infoweb.newsbank.com/correlationbank/StateC orrelations/CO/civics/civigloss.htm
I looked up liberty with KDict, and sure enough, I couldn't find a thing in the definition that the PATRIOT Act effected.
Then what you need is a better dictionary.
Pretty much, if you are persuiing higher education, that no longer matters, and you can still get drafted. Also, if I read it correctly, it states that everyone HAS to mandatorily serve under military service.
I cannot stand the nazi Bush regime, and their total disregard for our status as human beings.
HOLY SHIT, thanks for posting that!!! I had no idea such a bill was floating around in Congress. I've already e-mailed a boatload of people and a couple of mailing lists I'm on, to let them know about this... Tomorrow I'll be calling my Senate and House reps to let them know how I feel (for all the good it'll do, of course).
People... vote Libertarian... let's put an end to this nonsense... for the love of ( God | Allah | Satan | Mohammhed | Bhudha | insert deity here )
this shit cannot be allowed to continue. This is America damnit, not fucking Soviet Russia.
I think what we need to do is get a Libertarian with some electability on the ballot as either a Democrat or a Republican. The best case scenario would have Libertarians winning both parties' nominations. The trick is getting people on the ballot who aren't well known as having Libertarian tendancies - a 'sleeper' if you will. Normally, I'm very much against political trickery or any kind (you can imagine how warm and fuzzy the current political climate makes me feel), but in this case, I think the good far outweighs the bad.
You're not the only one who feels that way. I believe quite a few Libertarian candidates who run for office wind up doing just what you describe. That actually seems to be a constant point of debate within the party... run AS a Libertarian, or disguise yourself as a Demopublican to get elected...
I for one, if I ever run for public office, will probably run as a Libertarian. In practice, a combination of both is probably best anyway. Actually, what would be nice, would be to get one of those "sleeper" types elected as a Republican or Democrat, and have him/her publicly renounce their party membership and "convert" to the Libertarian Party while in office... Talk about generating some publicity.
I remember when Bob Smith (NH senator) quit the Republican Party and went Independent. That created quite a stir, eh? If we could get somebody that high profile to defect, it would REALLY give some credibility to the Libertarian Party.
And actually... not quite as high profile on the national level, but fairly high profile in California... Judge Jim Gray did just quit the Republican Party and joined the Libertarian Party, and is apparently running for Senate in CA this coming election... If he could score a victory, or at least make it close, in that race, that would be a huge win for Libertarians.
The Red states far outnumber the Blue states, so popular vote becomes a moot point in future elections as the electoral advantage is seded to the Republicans.
Republicans, Democrats, same f'in difference. A vote for either major party is a wasted vote, because you're voting to maintain the status quo.
You want to make a real difference, let's start voting for Libertarian candidates, Reform Party candidates, Constitution Party candidates, Greens, or somebody OTHER than the same corrupt, power-hungry fuckers we've been voting for for years.
I'm about ready to start looking into how we can find a strong libertarian presidential candidate who has a good chance of being elected.
Gary Nolan is running, has some name recognition, and seems like a viable candidate to me.
Michael Badnarik is another candidate with some potential.
Along with a willing Congress, I'd like nothing more than to see the Federal government stripped down better than an unattended Corvette in south-central LA on a Friday night.
Likewise.
No, you're 100% correct. Less intervention in the affairs of foreign (sovereign) nations would do more to cut down on terrorism than creating patriot acts, and departments of homeland security / the new gestapo, etc.