The volcano is right between two decent sized lakes so there's plenty of water available.
As far as water "shortages", it's really a water distribution problem. There's plenty of fresh water flowing down rivers into the ocean. But people like to live in desert climates like Phoenix and Las Vegas where they don't have to worry about rainy days messing up the golf they play on irrigated fairways.
Garvey and her family have lived in shelters and hotels since she was a little girl
Don't believe everything you see on TV. The family hasn't had it easy, but to say she's "lived in shelters and hotel since she was a little girl" is false.
For the past decade the majority of programmers came out of college knowing how to wire together modules in Java, and that's about all they know. What we're seeing now is a huge shift to languages used on mobile devices. Native apps on Android aside, what TIOBE saw this year is an entire generation of programmers trying to learn a second programming language.
Her father was renting a place that was too expensive, he couldn't afford the rent so they were evicted. Stayed for free in a shelter for a few days until he found something else. What do you find "wrong" about that? Society helped them out with a safety net until they were able to help themselves.
useful rule of thumb is that programmers should produce documentation that's "good enough" -- and no more. If it gets the job done, it's probably good enough. Any additions are just as likely to be redundant. If that sounds vague, that's because it is;
Thanks Mr. McAllister, that clears it up completely. Bribe, threaten, or otherwise coerce programmers to do... something, but I don't know what that something is.
I worked on a very large project a few years ago where the company did a study to correlate the number of comments with the number of reported bugs in the code. It revealed exactly what I already knew: the more comments in the code, the more bugs were reported against it. There are several reasons for that (complexity of code, skill of programmer, etc). Fact was that while fixing all those bugs we found that the comments around the bad code were usually incorrect: the code didn't do what the documentation said it did. So out of necessity we adapted to the situation, first thing to do when fixing broken code was remove the comments (because you shouldn't trust them), then figure out what the code really did, fix it to do what it was supposed to do, and (possibly) add back a few succinct comments that were correct.
In my experience the answer to that question is "no". Every place I've ever worked has strongly encouraged employees to take all available vacation time. And if you really feel the need to have more time off just ask for unpaid time.
It isn't really "the company" that punishes those who work shorter hours and take lots of time off. Some employees are very ambitious and work their butts off for every promotion, you can compete with them or decide not to, your choice.
Once their servers were compromised it's hard to tell what all was communicating with China, probably every device on the LAN (since the thermostat and printers were almost certainly made in China to begin with).
Chinese probably went through a proxy too, sounds like it took a while to sort out what all was happening.
Instead we blow more than the entire NASA budge air conditioning tents for a war in a god forsaken land
There's plenty of room for debate, but many people believe that without protecting its own interests, the US would risk becoming one of those god forsaken lands. The risk might be small but nobody wants to take that chance.
Absolutely ownership has significant impact on what gets printed and covered, and how.
True, but AC questioned the assertion that ownership by a few large companies is proof that there's no liberal bias. Whether you think there's bias depends on your point of view. You either think it's National Pinko Radio or you think it's Faux News. Large companies owning large media outlets doesn't prove or disprove bias.
Non-conventional extraction of hydrocarbons is the next wave of production, including natural gas and oil – at least according to its advocates. One of the most controversial of the technologies being used is hydraulic fracture drilling,
The entire post is nonsense. Fracturing has been used extensively for over sixty years. It's hardly new or "non-conventional". It only became controversial when the AlGore fanboys realized how much natural gas is available in this country.
Water wells that are contaminated with natural gas are easy to find in many parts of the country, especially where coal is found close to the surface. I had an uncle in eastern Ohio who tried to drill a water well on his farm but hit gas instead; he capped it and used the gas to heat his house.
was a mining engineer. His administration took a lot of the blame for the Great Depression, but it was really the result of a bubble from a former administration popping, same as the Great Recession we're in now.
In our world there are innovators and there are also people that will vow to re-use existing suboptimal solutions with all their pros and cons until it is absolutely necessary to adopt something else.
The headline of this story illustrates your point perfectly. High oil prices should push us to seek other, less expensive sources of energy. But the current administration is fixated on solar and wind. They can't see past those suboptimal "clean" sources to the other alternatives available to us (*cough* nuclear *cough*).
I doubt this is practical for general transportation. It works well for short distance moving of cargo from a point source to a staging area, especially when the need for the transportation is temporary such as in Skyline Logging. It's hard to envision this as a permanent solution replacing trains outside of mining or forestry.
Absolutely true. When I signed up for DSL I had the option of 3, 5, or 10Mb. The prices weren't much different, but the customer support person I was talking to said there's no reason to get more that 3Mb, I'd never see any difference with the faster speeds. So now I'm one of the luddites without "fast broadband".
Once you get beyond the Early Adopters who need to have the latest kewl toy, the rest of the mobile phone market doesn't really care what device they're using. A reliable phone, texting, email, GPS, and maybe a couple of basic apps like scheduler, alarm clock, and web browser are all most users need. So it's very difficult for one vendor to differentiate them self from the next.
"But such and such has thousands of apps in their app store". Who cares? Not me, I look at what's out there and almost all of them are arcade games. Truly useful apps are available on every platform.
The most probable goal is direct control of the internet...
Nah. The most probable goal is to make people like gp poster think the US doesn't have the capability. As you said, "military doesn't advertise its capabilities". But intelligence agencies are well served by you thinking they're a bunch of bumbling fools.
Another potential crime which is not often spoken about..
Ah, no. That topic has been beaten to death in the blogosphere. There's a reason no charges were ever filed for a few emails that touched on official business, get over it.
On their own, children can get about 30% of the knowledge required to pass exams
This quote is very telling. Education isn't (or at least shouldn't be) focused on passing the exam. It should teach students how to think on their own, how to recognize and solve problems they've ever seen before.
So much today is oriented toward answering the test or interview questions. I see many programmers who are experts in a particular IDE and programming language, but who are helpless once they get outside that specific tool set. These people tend to be terrible designers as well, they simply can't go someplace where they don't have the answer memorized.
There has GOT to be a good solar desalinization scheme
Not necessarily. The basic problem with solar anything is that there just isn't very much energy per square meter striking the Earth's surface, and you only get that small amount for less than half the day. It takes a huge area to collect enough to be useful. Wind can be marginally cost effective in some locations because it uses heat collected from many thousand square kilometers. But small scale collection of energy such as photovoltaic or solar desalinization that only cover a few acres simply can't capture enough, the energy density just isn't there.
how about no program can install another program? Download only, and it sits harmlessly until the user specifically goes, finds it, and runs it.
Because "user...runs it" really means "user runs a program that runs it"; i.e. user runs a program that could have an exploit which fills in the captcha and installs the malware.
I was a bit surprised that the Applications Targeted by Drive-By Exploits graph indicates Java about 25% of the time, roughly half the rate of Internet Explorer. And I dislike Adobe software even more after looking at that graph.
Can we get an "R" and "D" next to each candidates name?
The fact that they're missing tells you that the guy who is correct is the "R" and the one who got caught in a lie is "D". Otherwise it would have been called out for you. But of course that's the point you are making...
Picking the news outlet you agree with is a sure way of getting a slanted view of the world. Here's a story that made the rounds a couple of days ago, Obama answering the question about his faith. See if you can pick the outlet from the way they present the story. Choices (not in order are): AP, Fox, NPR, USAToday, CNN, US News & World Report
Outlet #1: These guys leave no doubt what they want you to think. "Christian Bona Fides"?
A woman threw the president a slow-pitch of a question — "Why are you a Christian? she asked.
That allowed Obama to once again state his Christian bona fides in an attempt to beat back the Doubting Thomases, including those who insist he's a Muslim
Outlet #2: This one seems unbiased to me...
An event billed as a discussion on the economy turned personal Tuesday when a woman asked President Barack Obama about his Christian faith and views on abortion.
Outlet #3: More opinion than news here...
Should Barack Obama turn out to be a one-term president, students of his presidency who attempt to explain his fate will cite high among their reasons for the president’s downfall his insistence on being too clever by a half. No better example of this process at work could be found than in Obama’s answer yesterday to the obviously planted question, “Why are you a Christian?”
Outlet #4: Again, this one seems unbiased...
Obama talked about his beliefs when he was asked, "Why are you a Christian." The question was posed by a woman at a backyard conversation here, part of a series of meetings Obama is holding to talk informally with Americans.
Outlet #5: Stating the facts here too...
Asked about his spiritual beliefs by a local woman during a question and answer session with the crowd, the president said the church came "later in life."
Outlet #6: Another place with a subliminal message for you. Only Obama knows for sure if they are "false claims", but these guys want to be sure you think they are.
Why are you a Christian?
What about abortion?
"I'm a Christian by choice," replied Obama, who has spent a good part of his public life fending off false claims he is a Muslim.
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As far as water "shortages", it's really a water distribution problem. There's plenty of fresh water flowing down rivers into the ocean. But people like to live in desert climates like Phoenix and Las Vegas where they don't have to worry about rainy days messing up the golf they play on irrigated fairways.
Garvey and her family have lived in shelters and hotels since she was a little girl
Don't believe everything you see on TV. The family hasn't had it easy, but to say she's "lived in shelters and hotel since she was a little girl" is false.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jyIz1qpm12mq4KEy3-CS4Z0HVcgg?docId=13c4979840884373a3c0e477d2aea9aa
For the past decade the majority of programmers came out of college knowing how to wire together modules in Java, and that's about all they know. What we're seeing now is a huge shift to languages used on mobile devices. Native apps on Android aside, what TIOBE saw this year is an entire generation of programmers trying to learn a second programming language.
Her father was renting a place that was too expensive, he couldn't afford the rent so they were evicted. Stayed for free in a shelter for a few days until he found something else. What do you find "wrong" about that? Society helped them out with a safety net until they were able to help themselves.
useful rule of thumb is that programmers should produce documentation that's "good enough" -- and no more. If it gets the job done, it's probably good enough. Any additions are just as likely to be redundant. If that sounds vague, that's because it is;
Thanks Mr. McAllister, that clears it up completely. Bribe, threaten, or otherwise coerce programmers to do ... something, but I don't know what that something is.
I worked on a very large project a few years ago where the company did a study to correlate the number of comments with the number of reported bugs in the code. It revealed exactly what I already knew: the more comments in the code, the more bugs were reported against it. There are several reasons for that (complexity of code, skill of programmer, etc). Fact was that while fixing all those bugs we found that the comments around the bad code were usually incorrect: the code didn't do what the documentation said it did. So out of necessity we adapted to the situation, first thing to do when fixing broken code was remove the comments (because you shouldn't trust them), then figure out what the code really did, fix it to do what it was supposed to do, and (possibly) add back a few succinct comments that were correct.
...is now just a scan away. Anybody have the markup for that?
Do Companies Punish Workers Who Take Vacations?
In my experience the answer to that question is "no". Every place I've ever worked has strongly encouraged employees to take all available vacation time. And if you really feel the need to have more time off just ask for unpaid time.
It isn't really "the company" that punishes those who work shorter hours and take lots of time off. Some employees are very ambitious and work their butts off for every promotion, you can compete with them or decide not to, your choice.
Once their servers were compromised it's hard to tell what all was communicating with China, probably every device on the LAN (since the thermostat and printers were almost certainly made in China to begin with). Chinese probably went through a proxy too, sounds like it took a while to sort out what all was happening.
Instead we blow more than the entire NASA budge air conditioning tents for a war in a god forsaken land
There's plenty of room for debate, but many people believe that without protecting its own interests, the US would risk becoming one of those god forsaken lands. The risk might be small but nobody wants to take that chance.
Absolutely ownership has significant impact on what gets printed and covered, and how.
True, but AC questioned the assertion that ownership by a few large companies is proof that there's no liberal bias. Whether you think there's bias depends on your point of view. You either think it's National Pinko Radio or you think it's Faux News. Large companies owning large media outlets doesn't prove or disprove bias.
It has been rotting children's brains for years, now we have adults who prattle on for hours about Seinfeld, Lost, and Super Bowl commercials.
Non-conventional extraction of hydrocarbons is the next wave of production, including natural gas and oil – at least according to its advocates. One of the most controversial of the technologies being used is hydraulic fracture drilling,
The entire post is nonsense. Fracturing has been used extensively for over sixty years. It's hardly new or "non-conventional". It only became controversial when the AlGore fanboys realized how much natural gas is available in this country.
Water wells that are contaminated with natural gas are easy to find in many parts of the country, especially where coal is found close to the surface. I had an uncle in eastern Ohio who tried to drill a water well on his farm but hit gas instead; he capped it and used the gas to heat his house.
was a mining engineer. His administration took a lot of the blame for the Great Depression, but it was really the result of a bubble from a former administration popping, same as the Great Recession we're in now.
In our world there are innovators and there are also people that will vow to re-use existing suboptimal solutions with all their pros and cons until it is absolutely necessary to adopt something else.
The headline of this story illustrates your point perfectly. High oil prices should push us to seek other, less expensive sources of energy. But the current administration is fixated on solar and wind. They can't see past those suboptimal "clean" sources to the other alternatives available to us (*cough* nuclear *cough*).
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I doubt this is practical for general transportation. It works well for short distance moving of cargo from a point source to a staging area, especially when the need for the transportation is temporary such as in Skyline Logging. It's hard to envision this as a permanent solution replacing trains outside of mining or forestry.
Absolutely true. When I signed up for DSL I had the option of 3, 5, or 10Mb. The prices weren't much different, but the customer support person I was talking to said there's no reason to get more that 3Mb, I'd never see any difference with the faster speeds. So now I'm one of the luddites without "fast broadband".
Once you get beyond the Early Adopters who need to have the latest kewl toy, the rest of the mobile phone market doesn't really care what device they're using. A reliable phone, texting, email, GPS, and maybe a couple of basic apps like scheduler, alarm clock, and web browser are all most users need. So it's very difficult for one vendor to differentiate them self from the next.
"But such and such has thousands of apps in their app store". Who cares? Not me, I look at what's out there and almost all of them are arcade games. Truly useful apps are available on every platform.
The most probable goal is direct control of the internet...
Nah. The most probable goal is to make people like gp poster think the US doesn't have the capability. As you said, "military doesn't advertise its capabilities". But intelligence agencies are well served by you thinking they're a bunch of bumbling fools.
Another potential crime which is not often spoken about..
Ah, no. That topic has been beaten to death in the blogosphere. There's a reason no charges were ever filed for a few emails that touched on official business, get over it.
On their own, children can get about 30% of the knowledge required to pass exams
This quote is very telling. Education isn't (or at least shouldn't be) focused on passing the exam. It should teach students how to think on their own, how to recognize and solve problems they've ever seen before.
So much today is oriented toward answering the test or interview questions. I see many programmers who are experts in a particular IDE and programming language, but who are helpless once they get outside that specific tool set. These people tend to be terrible designers as well, they simply can't go someplace where they don't have the answer memorized.
There has GOT to be a good solar desalinization scheme
Not necessarily. The basic problem with solar anything is that there just isn't very much energy per square meter striking the Earth's surface, and you only get that small amount for less than half the day. It takes a huge area to collect enough to be useful. Wind can be marginally cost effective in some locations because it uses heat collected from many thousand square kilometers. But small scale collection of energy such as photovoltaic or solar desalinization that only cover a few acres simply can't capture enough, the energy density just isn't there.
how about no program can install another program? Download only, and it sits harmlessly until the user specifically goes, finds it, and runs it.
Because "user...runs it" really means "user runs a program that runs it"; i.e. user runs a program that could have an exploit which fills in the captcha and installs the malware.
I was a bit surprised that the Applications Targeted by Drive-By Exploits graph indicates Java about 25% of the time, roughly half the rate of Internet Explorer. And I dislike Adobe software even more after looking at that graph.
Can we get an "R" and "D" next to each candidates name?
The fact that they're missing tells you that the guy who is correct is the "R" and the one who got caught in a lie is "D". Otherwise it would have been called out for you. But of course that's the point you are making...
Corn is a species of grass.A big, tall species of grass that produces lots of big seeds, but it's still a grass.
Picking the news outlet you agree with is a sure way of getting a slanted view of the world. Here's a story that made the rounds a couple of days ago, Obama answering the question about his faith. See if you can pick the outlet from the way they present the story. Choices (not in order are): AP, Fox, NPR, USAToday, CNN, US News & World Report
Outlet #1: These guys leave no doubt what they want you to think. "Christian Bona Fides"?
A woman threw the president a slow-pitch of a question — "Why are you a Christian? she asked.
That allowed Obama to once again state his Christian bona fides in an attempt to beat back the Doubting Thomases, including those who insist he's a Muslim
Outlet #2: This one seems unbiased to me...
An event billed as a discussion on the economy turned personal Tuesday when a woman asked President Barack Obama about his Christian faith and views on abortion.
Outlet #3: More opinion than news here...
Should Barack Obama turn out to be a one-term president, students of his presidency who attempt to explain his fate will cite high among their reasons for the president’s downfall his insistence on being too clever by a half. No better example of this process at work could be found than in Obama’s answer yesterday to the obviously planted question, “Why are you a Christian?”
Outlet #4: Again, this one seems unbiased...
Obama talked about his beliefs when he was asked, "Why are you a Christian." The question was posed by a woman at a backyard conversation here, part of a series of meetings Obama is holding to talk informally with Americans.
Outlet #5: Stating the facts here too...
Asked about his spiritual beliefs by a local woman during a question and answer session with the crowd, the president said the church came "later in life."
Outlet #6: Another place with a subliminal message for you. Only Obama knows for sure if they are "false claims", but these guys want to be sure you think they are.
Why are you a Christian?
What about abortion?
"I'm a Christian by choice," replied Obama, who has spent a good part of his public life fending off false claims he is a Muslim.
Outlets
1) NPR
2) CNN
3) US News & World Report
4) AP
5) Fox
6) USAToday