From the article: However, Ajax is far more than just a fad; it's a powerful approach to building Web sites and it's not nearly as hard to learn as an entire new language.
Interestingly enough, my current approach to building Web sites is also powerful. So, I guess I'm already all set.:)
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> Funnily [snip]
Please note, even though you may find that awkward collection of letters joined together in some dictionaries, it really doesn't deserve to be an actual word.
The problem with nuclear fusion, in my view, is that it's still centralized. Stuff like solar, wind, and biodiesel are (or can be) distributed, giving you no one single point of failure. Distributed energy systems are, I believe, where it's at.
And regarding the batteries,.. Ni-M-Hydride seems to be the as good as it's gonna get for a long while. Lots of money has been spent on research in this area already.
Chris, you're getting a little far afield of the point here. The point is *renewable* energy -- and oil's not renewable on human time scales.
Photovoltaics cost much money (and also have heavy environmental costs). Biodiesel is the sort of stuff you can make in your backyard in old bathtubs, if you really want to get into it.
The poster you replied to is correct. Biodiesel *is* solar. It's a *great* way to store solar energy, and biodiesel is easy to transport too (in a "gastank" in your vehicle, for example:).
It's renewable, since the plants that you grew to make the biodiesel spent their growing time converting CO_2 to to O_2. When you burn the biodiesel, you're simply going back the other direction.
Oil companies will resist biodiesel the way MS resists the GPL. Just watch.:)
> > there's absolutely NO REASON to avoid one-person outfits. If the maintainer bows out, > > at worst you can support yourself, > > That, by itself, is a great reason to avoid one-person outfits.
The OP was referring to the worst case scenario. A better case scenario is that someone very close to the project steps up.
> > He signed away his rights to the name. What did he expect? > > More lies, huge legal bills and going bankrupt for nothing.
Correct.
The way to beat these giants is not by taking them on by yourself. If you try to do that, they'll outgun (well, out-litigate) you every time. You beat them by eating them from the inside out -- which is what GNU/Linux is doing.
It's like a predator which has defeated all it's similar but slightly smaller enemies, but which then gets taken down by something unexpected like a bacterial infection.
> Do the executives at these companies have any morals?
Dunno. Maybe not. Likely, they just don't like to think that bad things happen because of their actions (or lack thereof). Too difficult for them to think about, know what I mean? Might make them sad. Better to leave work a little early today, stop at McDonald's on the way home, and put the game on the TV.
But that might not be the *entire* issue here. I don't know much about these things, but I've read here and there that publicly owned american companies are required (by law?) to do what increases shareholder value. Period.
If that's the case (and I think it is), it's pretty fracked up.
> > "And recall, the goal is 'as simple as possible, but no simpler'. > > Not just 'simple'" > > Again, I ask, what is the scientific reason for this being the goal?
lawpoop, the reason is simply that experience has shown that, most solutions to fundamental problems in physics are simple and elegant. That's it. Most good solutions make the discoverer slap themselves in the forehead and say, "of course! It's so simple! Why didn't I see that before?!". That's just usually the way mother nature works.
Whenever she shows you one of her secrets, she likes you to blush and be astonished.;)
> I heartily recommend Misner, Thorne and Wheeler's "Gravitation"
MTR is a great book for studying gravitation, since, by virtue of it's own mass, it tends to actually warp space around itself for closer study of the phenomena being written about.:)
> Anyway. I'm surprised it took so long for anyone to do this.
Yeah, it seems very weird to me that no one had tried running the numbers taking GR into account...
IMO, what seems to separate the really great physicists from the good ones is a very good gut instinct. Being able to wisely guess what's important (and needs to be kept in the equation) and what's negligible (doesn't affect the solution much, so factor it out to allow a simpler solution).
Maybe, up 'til now, most physicists just assumed that General relativistic effects were negligible for this class of problem, but the instincts of F. I. Cooperstock and S. Tieu told them otherwise...
If you happen to be christian and you're headed down there to pitch in, and you've got an extra box of bibles on-hand just in case you run into folks looking for one, then that's great and I'm sure you'll be appreciated.
Don't bring your bibles. These people need real actual help, they don't need folks coming down there with ulterior motives trying to convert them.
It's very typical of christians to seek out folks who're really suffering, and offer them help in a veiled attempt to bring them "into the flock". Not saying that's you, just making a general observation.
Consider bringing stuff you think the youngest children will need. Kids suffering is the worst.
> Calling himself a washout is the only thing he got right in this article. Plain and > simple: engineering school did not fail him, he failed engineering school.
I believe you may have missed the point.
The point of the article was not to help the author feel better about leaving engineering school, it was supposed to be a wake-up call as to part of the reason why there's fewer engineering students enrolled these days.
That said, the larger part of why things are the way they are has been noted by many others here: why bust your ass to get an advanced degree in the subject you love when you won't be able to find a job doing it after graduation -- so many of those jobs have been outsourced by those MBA's making way more than the engineers.
> Now, as to the prof who could not teach, well, there are a lot of them out there. > No university and curriculum is immune from it.
But that's the whole point.
When you've only got 2 or 3 good profs (i.e. who can *teach*) in the whole department, it's very difficult to convince them to spend their office hours helping teach you the subject that some other lousy prof won't.
Colleges and U's are very resistant to firing incompetent teachers. Very resistant. That's the major part of the problem.
Yeah, it's funny. When I originally heard about the DCCA, I thought, "cool, so, where's Debian?".
If the DCCA wants a better standardized Debian, they should all get together and...... maybe just contribute to Debian itself instead of forming a new distro.
I was starting to feel some pain in my fingers and wrists and switched to dvorak.
I also bought one of the Kinesis-Ergo Classic QD keyboards.
I don't know what the other posters here are talking about, but once you teach your fingers to use a dvorak keyboard, you can no longer touch type in QWERTY. Your fingers forget -- the old muscle memory just goes away, replaced by the new. Once you've learned to type dvorak, you've succeeded in reprogramming your fingers. The old code has been deleted, so to speak.
Now, your *brain* still remembers where the QWERTY keys are. You can still hunt-and-peck fairly quickly on QWERTY keyboard, if you look at the keyboard (you eye will find the keys pretty quickly), but touch-typing on a QWERTY keyboard after learning dvorak is out.
I find that I rarely have to type on someone else's machine, and when I do, it's either a Mac or Windows machine, and those are pretty easy to switch over to dvorak when you need to.
My advice? Switching to dvorak is only half the battle. To really save your joints, you need to get a keyboard that's ergonomically designed (which includes being *symmetrical*) like the kinesis-ergo classic qd, and you *also* need to type with it at the right height for you. I sit mine on my lap, with my feet propped up on one of those little ergo foot stools (to make my lap level), and with my elbows resting on the armrests of the chair. I can type all day with this setup without any discomfort (except when I have to use the mouse).
So I guess there's a last point in there as well: make it a goal to gradually learn more and more keyboard shortcuts to lessen your use of the mouse.
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Did you ever read an article summary and just have no clue at all what they were talking about?
What is "slammed the investigation" supposed to mean?
Is Mei the midwesterner? Who's this "Atlantic" character? Is he the big boss?
Is there someone codenamed "Does 1-25"? Maybe that person is playing "John Doe Number 8" in the off-Broadway version of this article submission?
Also, I think that last sentence about about the RIAA's subpoenas could've used some parentheses in there somewhere.
Arrested Development is such a good show that I refuse to degrade it by watching it on TV. I just wait all season until the DVD comes out.
Can't wait for the season 3 dvd!
Using "print" means that a statement which got executed before the disaster may not make it to console,
You could print STDERR though, since that's not buffered like STDOUT...
I can see why one might want to adapt Python, though, for its batteries.
Yeah, Python comes with some nice Alkaline C cells. Perl OTOH comes with those big deep-cycle bruisers like you find in fork lifts.
From the article:
However, Ajax is far more than just a fad; it's a powerful approach to building Web sites and it's not nearly as hard to learn as an entire new language.
Interestingly enough, my current approach to building Web sites is also powerful. So, I guess I'm already all set. :)
> Funnily [snip]
Please note, even though you may find that awkward collection of letters joined together in some dictionaries, it really doesn't deserve to be an actual word.
Maybe we should focus more on developing regular human intelligence, rather than the artificial kind.
> Gimme nuclear fusion and better batteries!
The problem with nuclear fusion, in my view, is that it's still centralized. Stuff like solar, wind, and biodiesel are (or can be) distributed, giving you no one single point of failure. Distributed energy systems are, I believe, where it's at.
And regarding the batteries,.. Ni-M-Hydride seems to be the as good as it's gonna get for a long while. Lots of money has been spent on research in this area already.
> So I'm sorry to say that plants SUCK at converting sunlight into energy we can use.
:)
The nice thing is though, while they're "sucking" at their job, they're also happily pulling CO_2 out of the atmosphere -- no extra charge!
Chris, you're getting a little far afield of the point here. The point is *renewable* energy -- and oil's not renewable on human time scales.
:).
:)
Photovoltaics cost much money (and also have heavy environmental costs). Biodiesel is the sort of stuff you can make in your backyard in old bathtubs, if you really want to get into it.
The poster you replied to is correct. Biodiesel *is* solar. It's a *great* way to store solar energy, and biodiesel is easy to transport too (in a "gastank" in your vehicle, for example
It's renewable, since the plants that you grew to make the biodiesel spent their growing time converting CO_2 to to O_2. When you burn the biodiesel, you're simply going back the other direction.
Oil companies will resist biodiesel the way MS resists the GPL. Just watch.
> > there's absolutely NO REASON to avoid one-person outfits. If the maintainer bows out,
> > at worst you can support yourself,
>
> That, by itself, is a great reason to avoid one-person outfits.
The OP was referring to the worst case scenario. A better case scenario is that someone
very close to the project steps up.
> > He signed away his rights to the name. What did he expect?
>
> More lies, huge legal bills and going bankrupt for nothing.
Correct.
The way to beat these giants is not by taking them on by yourself. If you try to do that, they'll outgun (well, out-litigate) you every time. You beat them by eating them from the inside out -- which is what GNU/Linux is doing.
It's like a predator which has defeated all it's similar but slightly smaller enemies, but which then gets taken down by something unexpected like a bacterial infection.
> In fact, there is KDE-Apps for independent apps built with the KDE/QT
> framework, while there is no such place to aggregate gnome apps.
Sure there is: http://www.gnomefiles.org/
> Do the executives at these companies have any morals?
Dunno. Maybe not. Likely, they just don't like to think that bad things happen because of their actions (or lack thereof). Too difficult for them to think about, know what I mean? Might make them sad. Better to leave work a little early today, stop at McDonald's on the way home, and put the game on the TV.
But that might not be the *entire* issue here. I don't know much about these things, but I've read here and there that publicly owned american companies are required (by law?) to do what increases shareholder value. Period.
If that's the case (and I think it is), it's pretty fracked up.
> > "And recall, the goal is 'as simple as possible, but no simpler'.
;)
> > Not just 'simple'"
>
> Again, I ask, what is the scientific reason for this being the goal?
lawpoop, the reason is simply that experience has shown that, most solutions to fundamental problems in physics are simple and elegant. That's it. Most good solutions make the discoverer slap themselves in the forehead and say, "of course! It's so simple! Why didn't I see that before?!". That's just usually the way mother nature works.
Whenever she shows you one of her secrets, she likes you to blush and be astonished.
> I heartily recommend Misner, Thorne and Wheeler's "Gravitation"
:)
MTR is a great book for studying gravitation, since, by virtue of it's own mass, it tends to actually warp space around itself for closer study of the phenomena being written about.
> Anyway. I'm surprised it took so long for anyone to do this.
Yeah, it seems very weird to me that no one had tried running the numbers taking GR into account...
IMO, what seems to separate the really great physicists from the good ones is a very good gut instinct. Being able to wisely guess what's important (and needs to be kept in the equation) and what's negligible (doesn't affect the solution much, so factor it out to allow a simpler solution).
Maybe, up 'til now, most physicists just assumed that General relativistic effects were negligible for this class of problem, but the instincts of F. I. Cooperstock and S. Tieu told them otherwise...
If you happen to be christian and you're headed down there to pitch in, and you've got an extra box of bibles on-hand just in case you run into folks looking for one, then that's great and I'm sure you'll be appreciated.
Don't bring your bibles. These people need real actual help, they don't need folks coming down there with ulterior motives trying to convert them.
It's very typical of christians to seek out folks who're really suffering, and offer them help in a veiled attempt to bring them "into the flock". Not saying that's you, just making a general observation.
Consider bringing stuff you think the youngest children will need. Kids suffering is the worst.
> Calling himself a washout is the only thing he got right in this article. Plain and
> simple: engineering school did not fail him, he failed engineering school.
I believe you may have missed the point.
The point of the article was not to help the author feel better about leaving engineering school, it was supposed to be a wake-up call as to part of the reason why there's fewer engineering students enrolled these days.
That said, the larger part of why things are the way they are has been noted by many others here: why bust your ass to get an advanced degree in the subject you love when you won't be able to find a job doing it after graduation -- so many of those jobs have been outsourced by those MBA's making way more than the engineers.
> Now, as to the prof who could not teach, well, there are a lot of them out there.
> No university and curriculum is immune from it.
But that's the whole point.
When you've only got 2 or 3 good profs (i.e. who can *teach*) in the whole department, it's very difficult to convince them to spend their office hours helping teach you the subject that some other lousy prof won't.
Colleges and U's are very resistant to firing incompetent teachers. Very resistant. That's the major part of the problem.
Yeah, it's funny. When I originally heard about the DCCA, I thought, "cool, so, where's Debian?".
... maybe just contribute to Debian itself instead of forming a new distro.
If the DCCA wants a better standardized Debian, they should all get together and...
> But I just don't get it. We're talking about a
> cheesy SatAM cartoon designed as a half-hour long
> toy advertisement. Right?
Dude! The Transformers paved the way for the Hasbro-Mattel Chocobot hour!
Wow. That was fluff. I want my 30 seconds back.
I was starting to feel some pain in my fingers and wrists and switched to dvorak.
I also bought one of the Kinesis-Ergo Classic QD keyboards.
I don't know what the other posters here are talking about, but once you teach your fingers to use a dvorak keyboard, you can no longer touch type in QWERTY. Your fingers forget -- the old muscle memory just goes away, replaced by the new. Once you've learned to type dvorak, you've succeeded in reprogramming your fingers. The old code has been deleted, so to speak.
Now, your *brain* still remembers where the QWERTY keys are. You can still hunt-and-peck fairly quickly on QWERTY keyboard, if you look at the keyboard (you eye will find the keys pretty quickly), but touch-typing on a QWERTY keyboard after learning dvorak is out.
I find that I rarely have to type on someone else's machine, and when I do, it's either a Mac or Windows machine, and those are pretty easy to switch over to dvorak when you need to.
My advice? Switching to dvorak is only half the battle. To really save your joints, you need to get a keyboard that's ergonomically designed (which includes being *symmetrical*) like the kinesis-ergo classic qd, and you *also* need to type with it at the right height for you. I sit mine on my lap, with my feet propped up on one of those little ergo foot stools (to make my lap level), and with my elbows resting on the armrests of the chair. I can type all day with this setup without any discomfort (except when I have to use the mouse).
So I guess there's a last point in there as well: make it a goal to gradually learn more and more keyboard shortcuts to lessen your use of the mouse.