The lawsuit was dismissed "with prejudice", and the lawyers still filed an appeal. Apparently the only thing these lawyers understand is physical violence. Wooden stakes might help.
I would be very much amused if they're held in-contempt and thrown in jail for a couple of months.
You know, just long enough to have some moderate real-world consequences.
That's the whole point of parallel construction, it's a method to legitimize their actions. Good luck proving it though, and even if you do successfully demonstrate it, good luck proving its extent sufficient to avoid prosecution.
I suppose that it could be interpreted as a mild degree of programming, but it's certainly not C++ or bash.
In my case it was a lot about portability. Everyone has a spreadsheet application, and I have no more advanced tools other than Linux stuff, and they don't have any of that stuff.
Yes. We all have something that does spreadsheets, and no one has anything more advanced than that nor will they stoop to making that purchase. I did this work on a Linux box, so if it was just for me I could have picked a programming language to work in (I do a lot of quick-and-dirty stuff for myself in bash already) but since it has to be portable without needing anything but the file, Excel (technically Libreoffice in my case) does the job fine.
So what you're really pointing out is that primary school computer programming classes need only consist of one lesson:
"Don't freakin' use Excel ever ever EVER to do anything with numbers!"
What you wrote there would take about half the character count in R or Matlab, and you'd only have to write (and proofread) it once, not 10thousand times in 10thousand different cells.
If what I created didn't have to be sent in editable form to my boss, my boss's boss, a third-party contractor, and to purchasing agents to be used for quotes then I would agree with you.
The only software that we all have in common is Excel. Technically I'm working in Libreoffice and saving as Excel '97-2004 format, but either way, everyone involved in the process already has the software to use the file, and for the freak occurrence where Excel is not available, Libreoffice is.
Besides, that was simple and the entire formula as-written was copy-paste friendly through the whole sheet, depending on the functions of the columns. Worked quite well.
I do not program computers for a living. I do, however, have to figure out how to do a lot of things and often that entails using tools like spreadsheets. Having computer programming training is incredibly helpful when it comes to creating tools that help me accomplish the calculations that I need to perform.
Figuring out how to do multiple test-cases and to do particular math operations based on those test cases is a programming-style task. Coming up with =IF(ISBLANK($C6),IF(ISBLANK($C5),"",IF(ISBLANK($C6),SUMIFS(E$4:E$44,$A$4:$A$44,$A5))),((INDEX($Equip.D$4:D$100,MATCH($C6,$Equip.$C$4:$C$100,0)))*$B6)) without some programming ability would be much more difficult.
While the term STEM is overused and abused, the whole point of lumping Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics together is that they have a huge amount of overlap, or similar kinds of thought processes and mindsets are necessary to successfully pursue careers in fields that apply to the label. Arts, by contrast, does not generally apply in the same way. There are some applications for STEM to the Arts, but generally that's either in-support-of or due to a matter of scale where materials and engineering become essential. Off-hand, designs for new musical instruments that are engineered to sound a certain way, or designs for large statues and ornate buildings come to mind. The aesthetic itself often does not run in parallel though.
Stop trying to lump things together that do not need to be lumped together. It dilutes all of it to the point of mediocrity.
Ethernet is an attempt to use the cheapest cable possible for the longest distance possible for the highest bandwidth possible. That's part why TIA/EIA standards do not specify the cable, they specify the performance characteristics that must be met. This is why it's possible to run Gigbit over some particularly short distances over Category 3, or why it's possible to get 10G out of 6 or 5e for some short distances.
Changing the connector means that the horizontal cable gets more expensive, the jacks get more expensive, the patch cord material and plugs get more expensive.
There already has been interest in changing the connector, larger. There was a cable that put four pins on the top to attempt to electrically separate the pairs to reduce crosstalk. It didn't take off, probably because the developer didn't want to license it cheaply enough, ie, free. There were attempts at hermaphroditic cables, but they were larger and had licensing issues.
The 8P8C jack used as RJ-45 for Ethernet, RJ-48 for T1 and ISDN, and RJ-61 for telephone is not going anywhere.
Cisco's recent Cisco Live! event had a stadium full of attendees watch Aerosmith for two hours. Aerosmith has nothing to do with Cisco, or networking, or computers, or technology outside of what of it they use when the produce music. Should this thing, irrelevant to any topic of Cisco's, be dropped as part of the festivities?
Large events are part informative, part marketing, part celebration, and part entertainment. Maybe these tech companies need to be more inclusive if they're going to use sex for part celebration and part entertainment, but on the other hand, without knowing the demographics of the even I couldn't tell you if their choices were balanced against the attendees or not.
As pointed out earlier, you won't get rid of bus staff even with automated buses because of the need for someone to deal with handicapped passengers and with unruly passengers.
If you remove the company representative from the vehicle, what has started out as a negative experience that has some upsides into a complete shitfest.
Sounds like the biggest problem was that they didn't practice security for themselves. One should assume that being in the security business that one automatically will be a more visible target, and one's security should be set up to meet that head-on.
These guys sound like an old-west movie set. A bunch of authentic-looking fascades held-up by timbers bracing them, no actual building behind the face.
I donno, allowing a person with otherwise-awful teeth to survive seems like a good personal survival tactic. Granted, it may not be that good for the species, but remember, at one time the British ruled much of the planet even with their bad teeth.
One has to go back to borderline-prehistory to find a time when Japan was not an independent nation though. The nations that the Russians keep messing with are former Soviet states, and they've justified their meddling to their own population as protecting the Russians that the Soviet policies relocated to those nations when they attempted to homogenize the Soviet Union. It may be a bit of a BS excuse, but there's at least a history of direct ties.
Second, Japan and China are separated by ocean, which has thwarted China's interests in more than one circumstance. Russia shares a land border with the nations it has been aggressive to, making that aggression a lot easier to carry-out logistically.
I sort of see Japan as the place to look how to make something new, whereas I look at China as the place to look how to make something cheap and in high volume. Those two are not necessarily the same thing.
Well, what I would have done would have been to go to Las Vegas and spend it in the slot machines, but the first time I went to Vegas as an adult I found to my disappointment that the slot machines no longer had slots anymore, and they made the same coin-falling-into-cup sound whether or not the player won.
Not that anyone cares, but that basically was the straw that broke the camel's back for going to Las Vegas without any real reason.
In short, the catastrophic problems at both Chernobyl and at Fukushima Daiichi, despite different reactor designs, were coolant/steam problems. In Chernobyl's case steam voids within the graphite-moderated core caused the pressure to grow to the point it blew-off the upper biological shield, exposing the reactor core and blowing chunks of it out into the environment. In Fukishima Daiichi's case, as temperatures grew steam formed and also hydrogen and oxygen were separated-out from water, so steam and hydrogen explosions resulted.
Keeping that reactor cooled and preventing the buildup of steam inside of the system should be top priority.
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The lawsuit was dismissed "with prejudice", and the lawyers still filed an appeal. Apparently the only thing these lawyers understand is physical violence. Wooden stakes might help.
I would be very much amused if they're held in-contempt and thrown in jail for a couple of months.
You know, just long enough to have some moderate real-world consequences.
That's the whole point of parallel construction, it's a method to legitimize their actions. Good luck proving it though, and even if you do successfully demonstrate it, good luck proving its extent sufficient to avoid prosecution.
I suppose that it could be interpreted as a mild degree of programming, but it's certainly not C++ or bash.
In my case it was a lot about portability. Everyone has a spreadsheet application, and I have no more advanced tools other than Linux stuff, and they don't have any of that stuff.
Yes. We all have something that does spreadsheets, and no one has anything more advanced than that nor will they stoop to making that purchase. I did this work on a Linux box, so if it was just for me I could have picked a programming language to work in (I do a lot of quick-and-dirty stuff for myself in bash already) but since it has to be portable without needing anything but the file, Excel (technically Libreoffice in my case) does the job fine.
So what you're really pointing out is that primary school computer programming classes need only consist of one lesson:
"Don't freakin' use Excel ever ever EVER to do anything with numbers!"
What you wrote there would take about half the character count in R or Matlab, and you'd only have to write (and proofread) it once, not 10thousand times in 10thousand different cells.
If what I created didn't have to be sent in editable form to my boss, my boss's boss, a third-party contractor, and to purchasing agents to be used for quotes then I would agree with you.
The only software that we all have in common is Excel. Technically I'm working in Libreoffice and saving as Excel '97-2004 format, but either way, everyone involved in the process already has the software to use the file, and for the freak occurrence where Excel is not available, Libreoffice is.
Besides, that was simple and the entire formula as-written was copy-paste friendly through the whole sheet, depending on the functions of the columns. Worked quite well.
I do not program computers for a living. I do, however, have to figure out how to do a lot of things and often that entails using tools like spreadsheets. Having computer programming training is incredibly helpful when it comes to creating tools that help me accomplish the calculations that I need to perform.
Figuring out how to do multiple test-cases and to do particular math operations based on those test cases is a programming-style task. Coming up with =IF(ISBLANK($C6),IF(ISBLANK($C5),"",IF(ISBLANK($C6),SUMIFS(E$4:E$44,$A$4:$A$44,$A5))),((INDEX($Equip.D$4:D$100,MATCH($C6,$Equip.$C$4:$C$100,0)))*$B6)) without some programming ability would be much more difficult.
It's the STEAM thing that really pisses me off.
While the term STEM is overused and abused, the whole point of lumping Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics together is that they have a huge amount of overlap, or similar kinds of thought processes and mindsets are necessary to successfully pursue careers in fields that apply to the label. Arts, by contrast, does not generally apply in the same way. There are some applications for STEM to the Arts, but generally that's either in-support-of or due to a matter of scale where materials and engineering become essential. Off-hand, designs for new musical instruments that are engineered to sound a certain way, or designs for large statues and ornate buildings come to mind. The aesthetic itself often does not run in parallel though.
Stop trying to lump things together that do not need to be lumped together. It dilutes all of it to the point of mediocrity.
It's not so much the third version, it's the second revision... Windows 3.1, Windows 95 OSR2, Windows 98 SP2, etc...
Computer Information Systems Ethernet?
So did BeOS, Ardi Executor, and GS/OS.
...iPoS...
I think I had that model. Reintroduction of the LC-series?
Ethernet is an attempt to use the cheapest cable possible for the longest distance possible for the highest bandwidth possible. That's part why TIA/EIA standards do not specify the cable, they specify the performance characteristics that must be met. This is why it's possible to run Gigbit over some particularly short distances over Category 3, or why it's possible to get 10G out of 6 or 5e for some short distances.
Changing the connector means that the horizontal cable gets more expensive, the jacks get more expensive, the patch cord material and plugs get more expensive.
There already has been interest in changing the connector, larger. There was a cable that put four pins on the top to attempt to electrically separate the pairs to reduce crosstalk. It didn't take off, probably because the developer didn't want to license it cheaply enough, ie, free. There were attempts at hermaphroditic cables, but they were larger and had licensing issues.
The 8P8C jack used as RJ-45 for Ethernet, RJ-48 for T1 and ISDN, and RJ-61 for telephone is not going anywhere.
Where does one draw the line?
Cisco's recent Cisco Live! event had a stadium full of attendees watch Aerosmith for two hours. Aerosmith has nothing to do with Cisco, or networking, or computers, or technology outside of what of it they use when the produce music. Should this thing, irrelevant to any topic of Cisco's, be dropped as part of the festivities?
Large events are part informative, part marketing, part celebration, and part entertainment. Maybe these tech companies need to be more inclusive if they're going to use sex for part celebration and part entertainment, but on the other hand, without knowing the demographics of the even I couldn't tell you if their choices were balanced against the attendees or not.
As pointed out earlier, you won't get rid of bus staff even with automated buses because of the need for someone to deal with handicapped passengers and with unruly passengers. If you remove the company representative from the vehicle, what has started out as a negative experience that has some upsides into a complete shitfest.
Pretty much. The backlots at the Hollywood studios and at Old Tucson immediately came to mind.
Sounds like the biggest problem was that they didn't practice security for themselves. One should assume that being in the security business that one automatically will be a more visible target, and one's security should be set up to meet that head-on.
These guys sound like an old-west movie set. A bunch of authentic-looking fascades held-up by timbers bracing them, no actual building behind the face.
Credit cards can be cancelled and transactions reverted, at least to an extent.
They steal your bitcoin wallet information and transfer it, it's gone.
Yep. A negative trait has to impact reproduction rates fairly significantly for it to matter.
I donno, allowing a person with otherwise-awful teeth to survive seems like a good personal survival tactic. Granted, it may not be that good for the species, but remember, at one time the British ruled much of the planet even with their bad teeth.
Based on what he said I sure as hell don't want to subscribe to his cooking blog.
The containment system keeping Akira in check will break down and he will return an destroy a large portion of a city in the process.
One has to go back to borderline-prehistory to find a time when Japan was not an independent nation though. The nations that the Russians keep messing with are former Soviet states, and they've justified their meddling to their own population as protecting the Russians that the Soviet policies relocated to those nations when they attempted to homogenize the Soviet Union. It may be a bit of a BS excuse, but there's at least a history of direct ties.
Second, Japan and China are separated by ocean, which has thwarted China's interests in more than one circumstance. Russia shares a land border with the nations it has been aggressive to, making that aggression a lot easier to carry-out logistically.
I sort of see Japan as the place to look how to make something new , whereas I look at China as the place to look how to make something cheap and in high volume. Those two are not necessarily the same thing.
Well, what I would have done would have been to go to Las Vegas and spend it in the slot machines, but the first time I went to Vegas as an adult I found to my disappointment that the slot machines no longer had slots anymore, and they made the same coin-falling-into-cup sound whether or not the player won.
Not that anyone cares, but that basically was the straw that broke the camel's back for going to Las Vegas without any real reason.
Hell, the cheap surf-n-turf used to be one of the best reasons to vacation in Las Vegas.
In short, the catastrophic problems at both Chernobyl and at Fukushima Daiichi, despite different reactor designs, were coolant/steam problems. In Chernobyl's case steam voids within the graphite-moderated core caused the pressure to grow to the point it blew-off the upper biological shield, exposing the reactor core and blowing chunks of it out into the environment. In Fukishima Daiichi's case, as temperatures grew steam formed and also hydrogen and oxygen were separated-out from water, so steam and hydrogen explosions resulted.
Keeping that reactor cooled and preventing the buildup of steam inside of the system should be top priority.