When I was in school, I was taught that the standard method was to measure megs in base 10 for transmission (1000000 bits/bytes), and base 2 for storage (1048576 bits/bytes).
Pain in the ass to have to do the conversion back and forth... 1/2 the class took days to 'get it'
It's not a matter of dark ages, it's a matter of infrastructure... while not the largest country in the world (the US is probably third or fourth, I'm not sure), we have by far the most technological infrastructure. It is not feasible to change all that in a short period of time.
A friend is in construction, and guestimates that it will take over 100 years to replace all failing/obsolete tech with the versions in metric equivalents. It just does not make any economic sense to replace a set of, say, water pipes with the metric standard if the current ones will last 20 years. It'll have to be a gradual thing.
Just to be difficult, though, I'd mention that most construction is done in 'tenths of feet', even the surveying equipment is marked this way. Has nothing to do with the metric system, it just makes the math easier...
Short term, not a bad idea... long term, you'd now have (worst case) a singularity relatively close to over 50% of the non-solar mass in the system (asteroid belt and jupiter). You might go from a small BH near the sun to a medium size one that could eat the rest of the system.
Any BH that is created in this manner would dissipate fairly shortly, and not be a threat, as there is not enough matter to 'feed' it. A though though, what if the newly formed BH was showered with matter (a stream of subatomic particles)...
Would it be possible to add enough mass that the BH's gravity started to affect the world in a meaningful way? By consuming the collider, switzerland, etc.?
My father is an electrical inspector... he says that lots of the controllers (for traffic lights) are infested with ants, you have to open the box and spray it with compressed air before you stick your hand in.
Also fun are the black widows...
This makes puns about 'code bugs' waaaay to easy
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Probably the best technical working relationship I ever had was with a graphics artist who understood programming well enough (although she wasn't much of a coder) to know what was and wasn't doable. I very rarely had to have the 'see, the technology just doesn't do that' discussion with her.
Plus, she could whup my butt at photoshop (I'm a PSP man myself):)
Actually, it's a specialization in Computer Info Systems.
And (not that I expect a reasonable answer from an AC) why not? There is more to web development than bolding, if you are any good you become an app developer in a different environment.
Sadly, my school only taught ASP, but I am self taught in CGI (Perl, baby) and Java, which actually helped A LOT when fighting all the 'photoshop developers' out there for a job.
(Disclaimer: Graphic artists need not fume, for I suck at that stuff. I just object to the folks who can barely build a site with Dreamweaver and PhotoShop, and call themselves developers)
When I came out of school (2000) there were way too many people in it just for the money. The worst were:
1) A girl who, 2 months from graduation, couldn't code to save her life (BSA student's didn't have to, sadly), saying 'I Hate Computers' while in CIS...
2) A woman told me that she was graduating in web development. Since that's my field, I attempted to small talk, with 'so, what do you edit HTML with... homesite, notepad... pico?"
She looked at me blankly and said "What's HTML?". I was so shocked that I just said 'uh... hope I interview against you...'
The whole analysis of Neanderthals is somewhat skewed... rack it up to nepotism. I'm intrigued by the fact that they were apparently about as smart as moder humans (brain size is a lousy measure of intelligence between individuals, but decent for species of similar body structure, size, etc.), much stronger and hardier, yet we're still here. Weird.
No, the genus of Lucy is Australopithecus , species afarensis. This was something like 3-4 million years ago. I think that genus Homo is only from the last million or two years.
By definition, they shouldn't have been able to (the definition of a species being a group of creatures that can produce viable, i.e. fertile, offspring similar to themselves), presuming our analysis is correct.
I think this would violate the (rather arbitrary) rules of the taxonomy. Primitive humans, like the (misspelled) Australopithecenes (Lucy and friends) are much closer physically, and presumably genetically, than chimps are.
Actually I know a fair bit about road construction, for someone outside the field. And I wasn't trying to minimize the surveying, etc. I was referring to the fact that the primary elements or roadbuilding that do not have to be repeated (grading, laying down the base layers of rock/aggregate, compaction, etc.).
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When I was in school, I was taught that the standard method was to measure megs in base 10 for transmission (1000000 bits/bytes), and base 2 for storage (1048576 bits/bytes).
Pain in the ass to have to do the conversion back and forth... 1/2 the class took days to 'get it'
It's not a matter of dark ages, it's a matter of infrastructure... while not the largest country in the world (the US is probably third or fourth, I'm not sure), we have by far the most technological infrastructure. It is not feasible to change all that in a short period of time.
A friend is in construction, and guestimates that it will take over 100 years to replace all failing/obsolete tech with the versions in metric equivalents. It just does not make any economic sense to replace a set of, say, water pipes with the metric standard if the current ones will last 20 years. It'll have to be a gradual thing.
Just to be difficult, though, I'd mention that most construction is done in 'tenths of feet', even the surveying equipment is marked this way. Has nothing to do with the metric system, it just makes the math easier...
Short term, not a bad idea... long term, you'd now have (worst case) a singularity relatively close to over 50% of the non-solar mass in the system (asteroid belt and jupiter). You might go from a small BH near the sun to a medium size one that could eat the rest of the system.
Any BH that is created in this manner would dissipate fairly shortly, and not be a threat, as there is not enough matter to 'feed' it. A though though, what if the newly formed BH was showered with matter (a stream of subatomic particles)...
Would it be possible to add enough mass that the BH's gravity started to affect the world in a meaningful way? By consuming the collider, switzerland, etc.?
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sexual harassment issues...
yeah... gotta love the moment when you switch attitudes from 'hah! I am a coding GOD' to "D'Oh! Stupid computer, why are you doing that???"
My father is an electrical inspector... he says that lots of the controllers (for traffic lights) are infested with ants, you have to open the box and spray it with compressed air before you stick your hand in.
Also fun are the black widows...
(ducking)
Just curious... while I can see the value of a speedomter, and maybe an odometer, do you really need to see the tac, oil pressure, etc all the time?
If you're driving an auto you don't care about the tac, and in a stick you usually shift by feel& sound, not by gauge.
Seems to me that the most useful thing would be to project maps connected to a GPS on the screen...
(ducking)
Probably the best technical working relationship I ever had was with a graphics artist who understood programming well enough (although she wasn't much of a coder) to know what was and wasn't doable. I very rarely had to have the 'see, the technology just doesn't do that' discussion with her.
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Plus, she could whup my butt at photoshop (I'm a PSP man myself)
If I interviewed against those, I'd probably be asked to leave...
Actually, it's a specialization in Computer Info Systems. And (not that I expect a reasonable answer from an AC) why not? There is more to web development than bolding, if you are any good you become an app developer in a different environment. Sadly, my school only taught ASP, but I am self taught in CGI (Perl, baby) and Java, which actually helped A LOT when fighting all the 'photoshop developers' out there for a job. (Disclaimer: Graphic artists need not fume, for I suck at that stuff. I just object to the folks who can barely build a site with Dreamweaver and PhotoShop, and call themselves developers)
When I came out of school (2000) there were way too many people in it just for the money. The worst were: 1) A girl who, 2 months from graduation, couldn't code to save her life (BSA student's didn't have to, sadly), saying 'I Hate Computers' while in CIS... 2) A woman told me that she was graduating in web development. Since that's my field, I attempted to small talk, with 'so, what do you edit HTML with... homesite, notepad... pico?" She looked at me blankly and said "What's HTML?". I was so shocked that I just said 'uh... hope I interview against you...'
I've carried a 2 way pager (the cheapie motorola version that does nothing else) for nearly 2 years now...
The whole analysis of Neanderthals is somewhat skewed... rack it up to nepotism. I'm intrigued by the fact that they were apparently about as smart as moder humans (brain size is a lousy measure of intelligence between individuals, but decent for species of similar body structure, size, etc.), much stronger and hardier, yet we're still here. Weird.
Interesting... as I recall, whales eveloved from a wolfish creature, 'bout 50 million years back.
4" makes all the difference in the world :)
No, the genus of Lucy is Australopithecus , species afarensis. This was something like 3-4 million years ago. I think that genus Homo is only from the last million or two years.
By definition, they shouldn't have been able to (the definition of a species being a group of creatures that can produce viable, i.e. fertile, offspring similar to themselves), presuming our analysis is correct.
I think this would violate the (rather arbitrary) rules of the taxonomy. Primitive humans, like the (misspelled) Australopithecenes (Lucy and friends) are much closer physically, and presumably genetically, than chimps are.
In stunning AmberVision (tm): http://www.dumbentia.com/pdflib/last.pdf
Good call. This is a brilliant place to start making fat jokes. Perhaps you'd like to call people geeks and mock programmers whilst you're at it?
Actually I know a fair bit about road construction, for someone outside the field. And I wasn't trying to minimize the surveying, etc. I was referring to the fact that the primary elements or roadbuilding that do not have to be repeated (grading, laying down the base layers of rock/aggregate, compaction, etc.).
Feel free to be offended, but 'twasn't the intent