How many 'software engineers' have taken the FE, and have taken steps towards the PE?
None, because no software engineer could even begin to stumble through the FE, because they don't have ANY of the background information that any of the other engineering disciplines (civil, mechanical, chemical) do.
You didn't take anything related to thermodynamics, you were barely required to take physics. How many labs do software engineers take in their department (Not physics; not chemistry, etc)?
It's not that a 'little temp worker' got caught up in the politics of the place. I care a lot about the Omniplex and I want to see it do well. My relationship with the museum and it's staff extends back about 15 years. I've watched the place take a pronounced nosedive since he took his position.
These firings (from May to August of 2004) weren't related to any new management structure; these summer firings were people that actually do a lot of the work around the museum. Some of them had been there for over twenty years. They had spoken the truth about the negative effects some of the changes that were made in order to affect a change for the better; instead, they got the boot.
When staff member after staff member gets fired for telling the upper managment that things they were trying to do just wouldn't work, and then lo and behold, they don't work, and things continue to get worse, it's hard to not notice.
Not to mention the detrimental effect on personell morale - people were scared to tell the truth for fear they would lose their jobs.
I worked at the Omniplex (the latest place this man was the director) over the summer, and had previously volunteered there for over four years.
When he arrived at the museum he made a lot of sweeping changes without really consulting anyone. He fired most of the upper level people and replaced them with people he worked with in Kansas and I believe in Houston as well.
His changes affected the character of the Omniplex in a detrimental way. The focus seemed to shift from educating people to making money. His management & leadership were piss-poor and had a negative effect on morale that trickled down to us lowly types who actually had to interact with visitors. Turnover was high all throughout the employee structure, and in the summer I worked there no less than 8 people were fired (the total staff is under 100).
I hope that he is forced to leave and that his groupies he brought in leave too. Good riddance.
I have MCE2005, and I use a plugin called "My Movies". It will let you add the titles to a database and import covers, then display them much like the TV part of MCE2005 displays on-air movies (with the summary, rating, etc). It will do AVI files, I'm sure of that, but I'm not 100% about vobs. The plugin page is here:
The problems with sending the waste to the sun at the moment are twofold. One, the cost would be astronomical and two, the safety of the materials would need to be guaranteed (nothing like an asteroid running into your rocket full of tons of radioactive material knocking it back into your atmostphere to ruin your day).
Yucca mountain, at the moment, is the perfect solution, because the material can be safely stored there until such time that we have extremely cheap ways of moving large masses of material into orbit so that a large protective shell can be built around the rocket to the sun for our waste material. This innovation we can certainly expect in the next 500 years, so why the fuss about Yucca Mountain?
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How many 'software engineers' have taken the FE, and have taken steps towards the PE?
None, because no software engineer could even begin to stumble through the FE, because they don't have ANY of the background information that any of the other engineering disciplines (civil, mechanical, chemical) do.
Get this through your head:
Software engineering != Engineering!
You didn't take anything related to thermodynamics, you were barely required to take physics. How many labs do software engineers take in their department (Not physics; not chemistry, etc)?
Two words: Heat and power.
Additionally, the weight of these components would make for an unpleasent experience.
These firings (from May to August of 2004) weren't related to any new management structure; these summer firings were people that actually do a lot of the work around the museum. Some of them had been there for over twenty years. They had spoken the truth about the negative effects some of the changes that were made in order to affect a change for the better; instead, they got the boot.
When staff member after staff member gets fired for telling the upper managment that things they were trying to do just wouldn't work, and then lo and behold, they don't work, and things continue to get worse, it's hard to not notice.
Not to mention the detrimental effect on personell morale - people were scared to tell the truth for fear they would lose their jobs.
When he arrived at the museum he made a lot of sweeping changes without really consulting anyone. He fired most of the upper level people and replaced them with people he worked with in Kansas and I believe in Houston as well.
His changes affected the character of the Omniplex in a detrimental way. The focus seemed to shift from educating people to making money. His management & leadership were piss-poor and had a negative effect on morale that trickled down to us lowly types who actually had to interact with visitors. Turnover was high all throughout the employee structure, and in the summer I worked there no less than 8 people were fired (the total staff is under 100).
I hope that he is forced to leave and that his groupies he brought in leave too. Good riddance.
Possibly.
I have MCE2005, and I use a plugin called "My Movies". It will let you add the titles to a database and import covers, then display them much like the TV part of MCE2005 displays on-air movies (with the summary, rating, etc). It will do AVI files, I'm sure of that, but I'm not 100% about vobs. The plugin page is here:
http://www.binnerup.dk/mce/
Good luck.
actually there's a hack to enable spanning on the iBook. I did, it kicks ass.
He's probably right.
The problems with sending the waste to the sun at the moment are twofold. One, the cost would be astronomical and two, the safety of the materials would need to be guaranteed (nothing like an asteroid running into your rocket full of tons of radioactive material knocking it back into your atmostphere to ruin your day).
Yucca mountain, at the moment, is the perfect solution, because the material can be safely stored there until such time that we have extremely cheap ways of moving large masses of material into orbit so that a large protective shell can be built around the rocket to the sun for our waste material. This innovation we can certainly expect in the next 500 years, so why the fuss about Yucca Mountain?
Found this link: http://blog.wired.com/cultofmac/ Wonder if he'll get a working copy of Panther soon...
Here is a list of his major contributors in his 2000 campaign.
Seem to recall that Shuttle uses convective cooling in their mini system's heatsinks... i'd have to check though.