Life is also full of problems caused by thoughtless idiots.
Last cyclotron I saw (admittedly in the 70s) was in a room with massive concrete walls and a powered concrete door for a reason.
OTOH, I cannot imagine that there are no specific laws in place that govern the requirements in terms of building construction and safety.
However, the same applies to biotechnology ("I am a biologist. I want to do some virus research...") and chemistry ("I did chemistry in school. Bet I can make Tabun in my basement ?").
While I agree that people often freak out without reason when "nuclear" is even uttered in conversation (especially when Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) is involved), not everything short of reactor or bomb technology is safe or free of avoidable danger.
Get permission from the Govt. of Ghana first - trying to map places might be looked upon as espionnage and you might end up with a bullet hole in the cranium. Countries can be paranoid. Or they just don't like the idea of someone mapping their country for about 50 other reasons.
Yellowed paper can be scanned even with automated document feeders. The (sorry, have to put a product here, but will use one no longer on sale:) ) Sharp's AR-M350 for instance will gently pull the original and scan both sides at once, without bending. (A MFP that some people buy for that feature:) )
While scanning is a very profitable thing to do professionally, it might still pay to shop around for a professional scanning service. If you do the indexing and preparation yourself, cost will be significantly less.
Simplex or duplex ?
2500 is a huge amount of paper - so you will either need a dedicated scanner with a HUGE intray or make a number of batches, which is the recommended method.
Scanning 2500 sheets at 600dpi with a MFP that my current emplyer builds (no names, sorry:) ) would take about two hours, max.
However, at a compression ratio of 1:20, the resulting scans would result in about four gigs of scan data at 8 bits greyscale...
1. Check the Document Management Continuum ! http://www.archivebuilders.com/whitepapers/index.h tml
2. Get two reasonable scanners that work with whatever software you choose. One with a document feeder (can be monochrome). Modern office MFPs work fine. The other one is a cheap flat bed scanner with color for anything the big one won't process.
3. Doc prep and Indexing will take much longer than the scanning - and unlike OCR, are a lot of manual labour. Expect a couple of weeks, minimum, especially if you have't got an indexing scheme in place.
4. Use TIFF G4 and PDF (OCRed text over the images).
5. Profit.
...scantily clad, hot babes as star fleet officers.
The progressive within all the different incarnations of Star Trek so far is obvious - and Berman seems to understand one thing : Sex sells!
Will ST:XXV finally claim : "Nude Vulcan babe Mud Wrestling!" ?
(Beware ! While some of his books are great, his cooking skills are minimal and "How to prepare your input", his book on cooking, does not live up to his other works.)
Sooner or later you will realize that most programming tasks are similar to something you have done before. This is especially true in commercial software. If you don't mind writing the same stuff over and over again in a world of slowly (if at all) improving tools, there is nothing to keep you. If you get the tools... Sometimes, the tools are out there, saving you ages of time, but the customer insists on manual coding.
In my case, a number of years ago, COBOL was very popular and profitable. There were tools called 4GLs that would allow for rather flexible dialogue handling and report generation. Take a database, extract data (easy if the database was normalized, a nightmare if it was not) and produce a report in something like Access - instead of spending sometimes weeks to do the same in COBOL. The tools paid for themselves in weeks. The customers, however, wanted COBOL.
And I wanted a job that wasn't an insult to my intelligence...
Have you considered training (as a trainer)? Consulting ? High-level support ? Any soft skills to go with it ? Or are you willing to change to a career in management ? This involves working with a very unreliable and buggy rapid prototyping tool called hooman. Paid for by the month, reasonable user interface (often !), but you have to run a bunch of them at the same time, coordinate the stuff they do and make sure you can afford a number of instances. However, they are almost impossible to debug and often display non-ädeterministic behaviour...
And we need the ability to do precisely that. If you find your family shot, you will PRAY for the possibility.
(BTW: Color copier protection is something my employer used since we had them on the market. There are other ways to find out which machine was used, this is just the easiest. And yes, the pro's outweight the con's. Unbelievable, though, that something as obvious as this wasn't public knowledge...)
Fortran IV and 77.
COBOL
Two kinds of Assembler (IBM and 6502)
Followed by a little Pascal, mostly during compiler building... (Not as a language meant for practical use, much too powerless and not productive enough for actual commercial or technical work at that time.)
Hackers might have above-average skills in one area. This does not make them experts in anything else. A thief is a thief. A hacker is a hacker. Some posers call themselves hackers, but are nothing but thieves. (Mind you - call yourself a hacker and you automatically disqualify yourself from being one...)
Nah... TradeWars 2002 !
I still have a license key for it.
The rights to TW have been sold to "a new guy" and you can now even buy a network-enabled server.
While I doubt that the EU will ever have enough of a budget or the will to build a defense against the US
Maybe because the Europeans choose not to be too obvious about some issues?
The military bases in Europe would have a life time measured in hours in case of an armed conflict. Remember that most european states have sizeable armed forces at their disposal. In case of non-nuclear attacks, the US would strictly not have a chance to occupy all of Europe - remember that Iraq is (was?) populated by about 25 million people, about half of them literate. And these few peasants produce a lot of problems. The EU has almost 20 times as many - more than the US by a sizeable amount.
The US would get their ass beaten for what ? Why invade the EU ? The EU would not want to invade the US, either.
Nope - a lot of military spending is just done to keep voters happy and in jobs - and to impress even more voters. One lesson that can be learned from the twin towers is : "If the school bully pisses someone off, they can still put laxative into his school lunch. It will not kill him but his enemies will have a great chuckle (and him out of the way)."
Noise is one problem.
Blocking out sunlight and creating shadows is another problem.
Mind you, wind power is only favoured by people who do not have to live close to a turbine.
The only reasonable approach in my (not humble at all) opinion is to put them at a reasonable distance from places where people live or work.
People who tell you about the disco effect being history are only telling you part of the picture.
I suppose you are serious. How do the US call themselves ? "Land of the free" ?
Everybody else conceives your Govt. as freaking oil thieves - but it's always the general population that has to suffer the treatment fit for the evildoers...
Good luck... I won't travel to the US if I can avoid it. Used to be a nice country, but now ? Stalinist Capitalists.
Precisely the point. The Romanians should, in fact, be jailed. Among other things, medical consultations depend on the availability of Internet connectivity.
OTOH - Romania ? Don't they shoot people that misbehave ? (I remember a rather cost-effective solution to the dictatorship problem...)
While it speeds up hard disks a lot, it won't do much for a flash disk - and use up cycles.
What else would be different ?
On a side note - the "Auto delete after six hours off power" is great for certain security applications, just something you would not want to have on your server HD...
Grow up, people.
The "Virus writers are cool heroes" attitude usually comes from non-professionals who would never, ever be allowed to touch a real installation...
Breaking and entering is illegal - even if the victim knowingly employs bad locks.
The main issue here is not the fact that the idiot just changed some lines, but that he knowingly released it into the wild again. If you use petrol and a lighter to burn down a house and people die, you deserve to be punished. The house could have been a fire trap - but that does not reduce your guilt. (Whoever built it will be sued, too, but the flaw in "virus lover" thinking is that the arsonist should go free because not all houses are fire proof.)
N00b:)
80 columns have nothing whatsoever to do with printers - it's the amount of columns of Hollerith punched cards. These were then taken as granted for IBM's 3270, DECs VT52 etc.pp.
Germany is on the list of these countries. People actually get tax breaks etc. for having children. Population control ? Who would pay for old-age pensions ? (Millons of immigrants, who'd love to, if we'd let them...)
So the hoi polloi breeds an army of will-be-unemployeds...
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Last cyclotron I saw (admittedly in the 70s) was in a room with massive concrete walls and a powered concrete door for a reason.
OTOH, I cannot imagine that there are no specific laws in place that govern the requirements in terms of building construction and safety.
However, the same applies to biotechnology ("I am a biologist. I want to do some virus research...") and chemistry ("I did chemistry in school. Bet I can make Tabun in my basement ?").
While I agree that people often freak out without reason when "nuclear" is even uttered in conversation (especially when Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) is involved), not everything short of reactor or bomb technology is safe or free of avoidable danger.
Anyone left who remembers the fabulously failing Cargolifter AG in Germany? http://www.aerospace-technology.com/projects/cargo lifter/
Get permission from the Govt. of Ghana first - trying to map places might be looked upon as espionnage and you might end up with a bullet hole in the cranium. Countries can be paranoid. Or they just don't like the idea of someone mapping their country for about 50 other reasons.
Yellowed paper can be scanned even with automated document feeders. The (sorry, have to put a product here, but will use one no longer on sale :) ) Sharp's AR-M350 for instance will gently pull the original and scan both sides at once, without bending. (A MFP that some people buy for that feature :) )
While scanning is a very profitable thing to do professionally, it might still pay to shop around for a professional scanning service. If you do the indexing and preparation yourself, cost will be significantly less.
Simplex or duplex ? 2500 is a huge amount of paper - so you will either need a dedicated scanner with a HUGE intray or make a number of batches, which is the recommended method. :) ) would take about two hours, max.
However, at a compression ratio of 1:20, the resulting scans would result in about four gigs of scan data at 8 bits greyscale...
Scanning 2500 sheets at 600dpi with a MFP that my current emplyer builds (no names, sorry
1. Check the Document Management Continuum !h tml
http://www.archivebuilders.com/whitepapers/index.
2. Get two reasonable scanners that work with whatever software you choose. One with a document feeder (can be monochrome). Modern office MFPs work fine. The other one is a cheap flat bed scanner with color for anything the big one won't process.
3. Doc prep and Indexing will take much longer than the scanning - and unlike OCR, are a lot of manual labour. Expect a couple of weeks, minimum, especially if you have't got an indexing scheme in place.
4. Use TIFF G4 and PDF (OCRed text over the images).
5. Profit.
However, these are all directly involved with the stressful situations you mention.
What happens here is just bad taste displayed by insensitive clods.
...scantily clad, hot babes as star fleet officers. The progressive within all the different incarnations of Star Trek so far is obvious - and Berman seems to understand one thing : Sex sells! Will ST:XXV finally claim : "Nude Vulcan babe Mud Wrestling!" ?
(Beware ! While some of his books are great, his cooking skills are minimal and "How to prepare your input", his book on cooking, does not live up to his other works.)
Sometimes, the tools are out there, saving you ages of time, but the customer insists on manual coding.
In my case, a number of years ago, COBOL was very popular and profitable. There were tools called 4GLs that would allow for rather flexible dialogue handling and report generation. Take a database, extract data (easy if the database was normalized, a nightmare if it was not) and produce a report in something like Access - instead of spending sometimes weeks to do the same in COBOL. The tools paid for themselves in weeks. The customers, however, wanted COBOL.
And I wanted a job that wasn't an insult to my intelligence...
Have you considered training (as a trainer)? Consulting ? High-level support ? Any soft skills to go with it ? Or are you willing to change to a career in management ? This involves working with a very unreliable and buggy rapid prototyping tool called hooman. Paid for by the month, reasonable user interface (often !), but you have to run a bunch of them at the same time, coordinate the stuff they do and make sure you can afford a number of instances. However, they are almost impossible to debug and often display non-ädeterministic behaviour...
And we need the ability to do precisely that. If you find your family shot, you will PRAY for the possibility. (BTW: Color copier protection is something my employer used since we had them on the market. There are other ways to find out which machine was used, this is just the easiest. And yes, the pro's outweight the con's. Unbelievable, though, that something as obvious as this wasn't public knowledge...)
Errm... The above is not funny. The thingie will eat up loads of electrical energy...
Fortran IV and 77.
COBOL
Two kinds of Assembler (IBM and 6502)
Followed by a little Pascal, mostly during compiler building... (Not as a language meant for practical use, much too powerless and not productive enough for actual commercial or technical work at that time.)
Hackers might have above-average skills in one area. This does not make them experts in anything else. A thief is a thief. A hacker is a hacker. Some posers call themselves hackers, but are nothing but thieves. (Mind you - call yourself a hacker and you automatically disqualify yourself from being one...)
Hacker ? Me ? I just have a grey beard.
Nah... TradeWars 2002 ! I still have a license key for it. The rights to TW have been sold to "a new guy" and you can now even buy a network-enabled server.
Maybe because the Europeans choose not to be too obvious about some issues?
The military bases in Europe would have a life time measured in hours in case of an armed conflict. Remember that most european states have sizeable armed forces at their disposal.
In case of non-nuclear attacks, the US would strictly not have a chance to occupy all of Europe - remember that Iraq is (was?) populated by about 25 million people, about half of them literate. And these few peasants produce a lot of problems. The EU has almost 20 times as many - more than the US by a sizeable amount.
The US would get their ass beaten for what ? Why invade the EU ? The EU would not want to invade the US, either.
Nope - a lot of military spending is just done to keep voters happy and in jobs - and to impress even more voters. One lesson that can be learned from the twin towers is : "If the school bully pisses someone off, they can still put laxative into his school lunch. It will not kill him but his enemies will have a great chuckle (and him out of the way)."
Blocking out sunlight and creating shadows is another problem.
Mind you, wind power is only favoured by people who do not have to live close to a turbine. The only reasonable approach in my (not humble at all) opinion is to put them at a reasonable distance from places where people live or work.
People who tell you about the disco effect being history are only telling you part of the picture.
I suppose you are serious. How do the US call themselves ? "Land of the free" ?
Everybody else conceives your Govt. as freaking oil thieves - but it's always the general population that has to suffer the treatment fit for the evildoers...
Good luck... I won't travel to the US if I can avoid it. Used to be a nice country, but now ? Stalinist Capitalists.
OTOH - Romania ? Don't they shoot people that misbehave ? (I remember a rather cost-effective solution to the dictatorship problem...)
Google VENONA !
Are people who haven't witnessed flexible floppy disks old enough to post on ./ by now ?
If it's not floppy, it's hard.
What else would be different ?
On a side note - the "Auto delete after six hours off power" is great for certain security applications, just something you would not want to have on your server HD...
Grow up, people.
The "Virus writers are cool heroes" attitude usually comes from non-professionals who would never, ever be allowed to touch a real installation...
Breaking and entering is illegal - even if the victim knowingly employs bad locks.
The main issue here is not the fact that the idiot just changed some lines, but that he knowingly released it into the wild again.
If you use petrol and a lighter to burn down a house and people die, you deserve to be punished. The house could have been a fire trap - but that does not reduce your guilt. (Whoever built it will be sued, too, but the flaw in "virus lover" thinking is that the arsonist should go free because not all houses are fire proof.)
N00b :)
80 columns have nothing whatsoever to do with printers - it's the amount of columns of Hollerith punched cards. These were then taken as granted for IBM's 3270, DECs VT52 etc.pp.
So the hoi polloi breeds an army of will-be-unemployeds...