You "bother" checking to help out the next flight. I've seen a lot of comments in this past and in previous posts related to the shuttle that alway focus on that specific flight and not the long term. We don't want to accept a policy of easily writing off shuttle crews as expendible, But we do want to instill a policy of understanding what is happening and what are the cause and effects at all times to prevent future disasters.
If not having taken a picture of the Columbia in flight leads to the loss of another shuttle, that will be a sad day indeed.
...but, what Werner Von Braun did was not considered unlawful. In Germany his rocket development was probably considered his duty and was seen as patriotic from the German perspective.
He was probably seen as having a lot of integrity as well as genious. You can't say for same for every felon hacker.
The best you can do is consider each person on a case by case basis to judge their new found commitment to doing good, or at least less bad.
Since everyone seems to know what SPAM is, but no one knows how to stop the SPAMMER's, let's tax all financial transactions resulting from a SPAM message by 3000%, at the buyer's cost. That should significantly reduce the financial incentive for the idiots that buy SPAM crap.
If the company utilizes a true, registered return email address no tax would be incurred.
Of course to implement this it would probably take more government monitoring of people's purchases than most would want to tolerate, but at least it would be self funded through the tax and wouldn't require a "stamp" per email. It also wouldn't matter where the sender was located, only the purchaser. If people want to buy SPAM crap in some other country it shouldn't affect our bandwidth that much here.
I had to rethink when my daughter was in 5th and 6h grade it was closer to 8 years ago. She graduated in 2002, but that is when the need for computers started. And, you're right a lot of the teacher didn't know how to use them. Four years ago my midde daugter had to do a report on the Montegnea (sp) Indians and all the Libraries in our immediate area had a combined total of one book. The report as almost totally from Online sources. I was not saying that all the capabilities were required by 1995, but thats about the time it started. For the last 5-6 years you could tell who had access to Excel, powerpoint for the science fair projects. I'm not sure where you live, but phenomenon has been occuring for sometime. I live in a northern Detroit Suburb, not the more affluent variety.
3. Will a child be denied equal access to education because they don't have a PC at home?
Your third point has nearly happened already. When my oldest got to 5th or 6th grade, ten years ago, a computer became necessary. Teachers expect kids to be able to type reports, look up information with search engines, use clip art, print out pictures, etc..
Our community has a pretty good library with excellent web access as well. That is also dependent on the affluence of the area, and libraries are probably better equipped in areas where people can already afford their own computers.
This seems to be more an affluence vs. ethics question though.
What about the professor that uses a post on, lets say/. for example, to gather enough material for his ethics/technology class and then uses the material without giving credit to its source?
Of course this presupposes that enough usable material is gathered and that credit in not given.
We are already in space, we're just sitting at the bottom of a gravity well. We can be ignorant of the universe around us or we can move forward and learn as much as possible about it and ourselves.
If we really want to avoid catastrophe's we should stop smoking, stop drinking (yeah right), stop driving, stop playing with guns, stop being human sheild's for iraqi madmen, and stop any other number of fun things.
The space has provided any number of medical and scientific benefits the improve the lives of those on earth.
We do need to strive to improve our methods, but we shouldn't just stick our heads in the sand and just try to die as slowly as possible (As of course, good health is just the slowest way to die).
This practice will help avert future shuttle disasters. It may not as you indicate help the potentially future damaged shuttle that they take a picture of by satelite.
Remember all the activity that has been underway to determine the root cause of the Columbia disaster? A picture wouldn't have necessarily saved the Columbia, but it could provide the needed information to have prevented future catastrophe's. The benefit is long term and possibly immediate if something is found to be fixable in flight
But more importantly who will be the first to put advertising on the bottom of the shuttle for the picture?
I didn't mean to imply that the creative process was missing or even should be removed. I meant to indicate that as software programming became more of a discipline, that it also became less reliant on sheer artistic creativity.
I've known many software developers that did and still find programming as a creative release, though many of them find the rigidity of CMM processes and amount documentation burdensome.
I also did not say that DOD projects necessarily require less creativity. The DOD some years in the past chartered Carnegie Mellon University to develop what has now become SEI/CMM as a means to get a grasp on requirements, time and dollar estimates related to software development projects.
I don't know if I can agree with the statement anymore that programming is an art form instead of a science. I certainly recognized the creative component when I was programming, and at that time there not much engineering discipline applied.
In the last ten years there has been a lot of movement to add discipline to the software engineering process. The Software Engineering Institute/Capability Maturity Model (SEI/CMM) may be the chief among these, as its creation was originally sponsored by the US Department of Defense. This model does take a lot of the fun out of programming, but it does provide the business benefits of a disciplined approach, which is chiefly a reduction in defects.
I think there is a mechanism in physical engineering that does not carry across well into software engineering organizations that follow SEI/CMM or other programming methodologies. In building construction you have the architect who applies both functional as well as creative/artistic qualities to the work. Then you have the (civil or other ) engineers that apply more of their discipline to make sure that the building works and does not fall down and meets other requirements. This is oversimplified as there is a necessity for creativity at all points of constructions, but I don't think this analogy carries well to software organizations. Maybe it does in web development groups, but those are outside my area of experience.
There are some jobs out there for very very specific skill sets. The recruiters follow the candidate profile to the letter with specific skill sets, specifics certifications, and specific years on specific software/hardware products and versions. People that are very good generalists that are adaptable to many positions are on the outside looking in.
For a while experience with Peoplesoft was a desired skillset, as was Oracle.
Dick Brown is out at EDS. They are considered more of an IT company than software. But a lot of people see that as a positive move, other than his huge severance package.
... which means there are potential problems with this pay system. I may owe only a limited amount of money to a few people, and all the cumulative senders to me may only owe me a few bucks if I decided to collect. That means that there are probably millions of dollars to be collected overall. I some enterprising startup pays 10-25% to individuals for the right to collect on the Debts there is a lot of money to be had and a lot of incentive for someone to pursue it.
With the military using satelite bandwidth, will this have any effect on SPAM? It would be a shame if the whole SPAMMER infrastructure came to a halt during the war. Most likely I just miss out on re-runs of Gilligan's Island.
And as far as politics are concerned, I stopped being ashamed to be an American the day Hill Billy Boy left office.
Hydrogen would not only avoid the patent disputes, but it could be a lot more fun. With a little electric current and a little sulfuric acid (I think) and water you can make your own. On top of that you can make your own Hydrogen - Oxygen mix. Which could be a lot more fun, from a distance. A whole 'nuther way to go postal in the mail delivery field.
At any rate you could have an interesting match between blimp man and tank boy.
If making the books more readable is not another "code" word for dumbing down the subject then I am for it.
I am going through junior high science on my fourth pass now.
No, not what you think I'm helping my third daughter through it, not that #3 needs much help. The books aren't too bad, but the schools spend too much time on none academic subjects, and not on English, Science, History, and Math.
Now I want to sell the instructions to Build your own mine field to this guy's neigbors.
Where was cool stuff like this when I was a kid, or at least when I was small enough to fit inside one of these. I was impressed that the treads were make out of wood, I would've guessed that you would've need an expensive trip too the hardware store to do treads.
I saw her speak in Milwaukee, around 1980 or 1981. She mentioned that she used the nanosecond to visualize the physical limitations that computers had due to the speed of light. She handed out wires that were one nanosecond in length (speed of light in a vacuum) at her talks. She used this to lead into her discussion of distributed computing to solve heavy calculation problems such as weather forecasting as there were limitations as too how fast they could make an individual computer/processor. Pretty visionary for this time period that was nearly pre home computer and pre internet.
The only other thing I remember, other than the first computer bug, was her story of going into the Pentagon and asking for $20,000 to develop a Cobol compiler. She was later told that in the room she me met in no one had ever asked for anything less than $20,000,000 for allocation. She spoke with a lot of pride of developing a good Cobol compiler in six weeks. I can't remember what year this compiler development took place.
You're argument doesn't wash because a cubic meter is based on the length of a meter to begin with. The benefits of the metric don't come from the original given length of one unit, (whether a foot or a meter). The benefits of the metric system come from it being based in base 10. Nearly every thing is don in multiples of 10, and the volume measurements also map evenly to the linear. (ever try to figure cubic inches in a pint) This matches our place value system, which everyone has been ingrained with. If place value system that replaced roman numerals had been based on 8, or 12, or 16, or 42, that system would now be second nature us, and a system of measure based on that system would make sense.
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Would you use software that crashed 1-in-50 times?
Continually, Yep, I'm another of Bill Gates customers.
So far not lives have been lost.
You "bother" checking to help out the next flight. I've seen a lot of comments in this past and in previous posts related to the shuttle that alway focus on that specific flight and not the long term. We don't want to accept a policy of easily writing off shuttle crews as expendible, But we do want to instill a policy of understanding what is happening and what are the cause and effects at all times to prevent future disasters.
If not having taken a picture of the Columbia in flight leads to the loss of another shuttle, that will be a sad day indeed.
...but, what Werner Von Braun did was not considered unlawful. In Germany his rocket development was probably considered his duty and was seen as patriotic from the German perspective.
He was probably seen as having a lot of integrity as well as genious. You can't say for same for every felon hacker.
The best you can do is consider each person on a case by case basis to judge their new found commitment to doing good, or at least less bad.
Since everyone seems to know what SPAM is, but no one knows how to stop the SPAMMER's, let's tax all financial transactions resulting from a SPAM message by 3000%, at the buyer's cost. That should significantly reduce the financial incentive for the idiots that buy SPAM crap. If the company utilizes a true, registered return email address no tax would be incurred. Of course to implement this it would probably take more government monitoring of people's purchases than most would want to tolerate, but at least it would be self funded through the tax and wouldn't require a "stamp" per email. It also wouldn't matter where the sender was located, only the purchaser. If people want to buy SPAM crap in some other country it shouldn't affect our bandwidth that much here.
I had to rethink when my daughter was in 5th and 6h grade it was closer to 8 years ago. She graduated in 2002, but that is when the need for computers started. And, you're right a lot of the teacher didn't know how to use them. Four years ago my midde daugter had to do a report on the Montegnea (sp) Indians and all the Libraries in our immediate area had a combined total of one book. The report as almost totally from Online sources. I was not saying that all the capabilities were required by 1995, but thats about the time it started. For the last 5-6 years you could tell who had access to Excel, powerpoint for the science fair projects. I'm not sure where you live, but phenomenon has been occuring for sometime. I live in a northern Detroit Suburb, not the more affluent variety.
Some further elaboration on your third point.
3. Will a child be denied equal access to education because they don't have a PC at home?
Your third point has nearly happened already. When my oldest got to 5th or 6th grade, ten years ago, a computer became necessary. Teachers expect kids to be able to type reports, look up information with search engines, use clip art, print out pictures, etc..
Our community has a pretty good library with excellent web access as well. That is also dependent on the affluence of the area, and libraries are probably better equipped in areas where people can already afford their own computers.
This seems to be more an affluence vs. ethics question though.
What about the professor that uses a post on, lets say /. for example, to gather enough material for his ethics/technology class and then uses the material without giving credit to its source?
Of course this presupposes that enough usable material is gathered and that credit in not given.
We are already in space, we're just sitting at the bottom of a gravity well. We can be ignorant of the universe around us or we can move forward and learn as much as possible about it and ourselves.
If we really want to avoid catastrophe's we should stop smoking, stop drinking (yeah right), stop driving, stop playing with guns, stop being human sheild's for iraqi madmen, and stop any other number of fun things.
The space has provided any number of medical and scientific benefits the improve the lives of those on earth. We do need to strive to improve our methods, but we shouldn't just stick our heads in the sand and just try to die as slowly as possible (As of course, good health is just the slowest way to die).
This practice will help avert future shuttle disasters. It may not as you indicate help the potentially future damaged shuttle that they take a picture of by satelite.
Remember all the activity that has been underway to determine the root cause of the Columbia disaster? A picture wouldn't have necessarily saved the Columbia, but it could provide the needed information to have prevented future catastrophe's. The benefit is long term and possibly immediate if something is found to be fixable in flight
But more importantly who will be the first to put advertising on the bottom of the shuttle for the picture?
I didn't mean to imply that the creative process was missing or even should be removed. I meant to indicate that as software programming became more of a discipline, that it also became less reliant on sheer artistic creativity.
I've known many software developers that did and still find programming as a creative release, though many of them find the rigidity of CMM processes and amount documentation burdensome.
I also did not say that DOD projects necessarily require less creativity. The DOD some years in the past chartered Carnegie Mellon University to develop what has now become SEI/CMM as a means to get a grasp on requirements, time and dollar estimates related to software development projects.
I don't know if I can agree with the statement anymore that programming is an art form instead of a science. I certainly recognized the creative component when I was programming, and at that time there not much engineering discipline applied.
In the last ten years there has been a lot of movement to add discipline to the software engineering process. The Software Engineering Institute/Capability Maturity Model (SEI/CMM) may be the chief among these, as its creation was originally sponsored by the US Department of Defense. This model does take a lot of the fun out of programming, but it does provide the business benefits of a disciplined approach, which is chiefly a reduction in defects.
I think there is a mechanism in physical engineering that does not carry across well into software engineering organizations that follow SEI/CMM or other programming methodologies. In building construction you have the architect who applies both functional as well as creative/artistic qualities to the work. Then you have the (civil or other ) engineers that apply more of their discipline to make sure that the building works and does not fall down and meets other requirements. This is oversimplified as there is a necessity for creativity at all points of constructions, but I don't think this analogy carries well to software organizations. Maybe it does in web development groups, but those are outside my area of experience.
DoCoMo has the right idea we need money from spammers
... Thats where I want to go ...
way down in Do Co Mo
(with apologies, but not royalties to the Beach Boys)
There are some jobs out there for very very specific skill sets. The recruiters follow the candidate profile to the letter with specific skill sets, specifics certifications, and specific years on specific software/hardware products and versions. People that are very good generalists that are adaptable to many positions are on the outside looking in.
For a while experience with Peoplesoft was a desired skillset, as was Oracle.
Dick Brown is out at EDS. They are considered more of an IT company than software. But a lot of people see that as a positive move, other than his huge severance package.
... which means there are potential problems with this pay system. I may owe only a limited amount of money to a few people, and all the cumulative senders to me may only owe me a few bucks if I decided to collect. That means that there are probably millions of dollars to be collected overall. I some enterprising startup pays 10-25% to individuals for the right to collect on the Debts there is a lot of money to be had and a lot of incentive for someone to pursue it.
Thank god the article only means spoken languages. When I first glanced at the Subject, I thought in meant the death knell for Fortran IV.
With the military using satelite bandwidth, will this have any effect on SPAM? It would be a shame if the whole SPAMMER infrastructure came to a halt during the war. Most likely I just miss out on re-runs of Gilligan's Island. And as far as politics are concerned, I stopped being ashamed to be an American the day Hill Billy Boy left office.
Hydrogen would not only avoid the patent disputes, but it could be a lot more fun. With a little electric current and a little sulfuric acid (I think) and water you can make your own. On top of that you can make your own Hydrogen - Oxygen mix. Which could be a lot more fun, from a distance. A whole 'nuther way to go postal in the mail delivery field.
At any rate you could have an interesting match between blimp man and tank boy.
I don't care what kind of nert it is, the office place doesn't need any nerts.
Your post is bsurd
If making the books more readable is not another "code" word for dumbing down the subject then I am for it. I am going through junior high science on my fourth pass now.
No, not what you think I'm helping my third daughter through it, not that #3 needs much help. The books aren't too bad, but the schools spend too much time on none academic subjects, and not on English, Science, History, and Math.
...Any votes on who will be getting their Bloom County comics on the BearShare or Kazaa aftermarket?...
Cool.
Now I want to sell the instructions to Build your own mine field to this guy's neigbors.
Where was cool stuff like this when I was a kid, or at least when I was small enough to fit inside one of these. I was impressed that the treads were make out of wood, I would've guessed that you would've need an expensive trip too the hardware store to do treads.
I saw her speak in Milwaukee, around 1980 or 1981. She mentioned that she used the nanosecond to visualize the physical limitations that computers had due to the speed of light. She handed out wires that were one nanosecond in length (speed of light in a vacuum) at her talks. She used this to lead into her discussion of distributed computing to solve heavy calculation problems such as weather forecasting as there were limitations as too how fast they could make an individual computer/processor. Pretty visionary for this time period that was nearly pre home computer and pre internet.
The only other thing I remember, other than the first computer bug, was her story of going into the Pentagon and asking for $20,000 to develop a Cobol compiler. She was later told that in the room she me met in no one had ever asked for anything less than $20,000,000 for allocation. She spoke with a lot of pride of developing a good Cobol compiler in six weeks. I can't remember what year this compiler development took place.
I did find a lot of pictures of her on the web.
You're argument doesn't wash because a cubic meter is based on the length of a meter to begin with. The benefits of the metric don't come from the original given length of one unit, (whether a foot or a meter). The benefits of the metric system come from it being based in base 10. Nearly every thing is don in multiples of 10, and the volume measurements also map evenly to the linear. (ever try to figure cubic inches in a pint) This matches our place value system, which everyone has been ingrained with. If place value system that replaced roman numerals had been based on 8, or 12, or 16, or 42, that system would now be second nature us, and a system of measure based on that system would make sense.
Yep, She pointed that out too. I think it's about 30% in a standard wire and closer to 90% in coax, not that I'd ever notice the difference
186,000 miles/second not just a good idea, its the law.