Only in the US? I think that that's the fact for the rest of the world too... Telecom companies that doesn't extend broadband to all locations, telecom companies that doesn't permit voice over broadband even though they are providing the broadband, telecom companies that charge extreme fees for roaming mobile phones when in another country (both data and voice).
The list can be made longer... Think you get the idea... Only truth here is "money talks"...
I'm running a two-monitor setup at work, where I have Eclipse in one monitor and running web browsers and other things in the other. If I only had one monitor I would lose about 20% productivity right away.
And at home I'm running a 3 monitor setup. Running 3 monitors is just improving the productivity slightly and is more "because I can". I'm mostly doing programming at home and not much gaming.
And if your monitor still was a leftover that noone really wanted, that shouldn't cause much fuss. Check in with your manager and prove your point.
was when a company I worked for was planning an reorganization, but they were a little overdue with the publication of the new organization.
So what I did was to take PowerPoint and then I made some off the edge fictional organization. On first glance it was really feasible! There were a few that fell for it and got upset. A manager later told me that it was a really good one!
triggered by the dumping of waste by the individuals Fod and Gather. They were later punished by seeing their only son being nailed to a wooden structure.
Evolution may otherwise be described as "survival of the fittest". In reality this means that being fit for one environment probably makes you unfit for another. Place a polar bear in Africa and it will perish from heat, place a lion on Greenland and it will die from the cold.
And being fit for survival may also be represented by adaptability. Many animals aren't able to adapt themselves to large variations in climate. Humans are adapting very well, especially since we are the only animal that actually both build our own dwellings to keep out the worst parts of the climate and also are able to construct clothing that allows us to endure climate that we wouldn't have been able to survive otherwise.
The human body is in it's unprotected state only fit to survive in regions around the equator.
Evolution is otherwise best studied through bacteria. They are able to adapt themselves to the various poisons we throw at them. Several strands of bacteria that earlier were killed off with most drugs have today developed a resistance to most. A more cruel study has to be the black death that actually occured several times from the middle ages up to the 18th century. The first time it occured it was very bad and killed a large number of people. However those who got sick and survived or never got sick even though they were exposed there was a gene that prospered and resulted in the fact that the coming generations were less likely to get infected. Since not everyone got exposed to the black death there were survivors that lacked the gene. It may also be that the gene were a dominant gene, which means that only one copy of it was needed to provide sufficient protection. That resulted in the ability of the plauge to strike again, but with lesser effect each time since the gene were protecting a larger part of the population.
An interesting fact is that humans are likely to be the first speices of Earth that actually is able to propagate beyond the realms of the earth. Unfortunately we are at the same time wasting resources on things that aren't actually profitable in the long run.
Since we still don't know everything about everything (and probably never will) there is always some room left for religion. Most religions are based on part fiction and part reality. Most stories in the Bible (and other scripts) have a reality base, the problematic thing is to know how it has been edited. What has been added and what has been removed? Is the story describing a real event or is it a fiction thrown in to tell the listener/reader some good moral lesson?
From the bible it is known that the new testament comes in four variations, each with a different angle. This is all and well, but it also shows us that even if the basic story is the same it also proves to us that there are information losses and alternations on the way. It is also known that there are other scripts that didn't make it into the bible. Who was to decide what was the right script to enter the bible? Is that decision valid today? The victorious writes the history, so there is always the risk that Judas wasn't the traitor that he was written to be.
Another thing is that a lot of the stories in the old testament may have been passing from mouth to mouth before they were written down. This in turn means that they slowly has changed content before they were written on paper. Even translations from earlier versions of a language using modern references can cause loss of information or misconceptions. There is a translation that were saying that it was hard to put a camel through the eye of a needle. Later language analysis has revealed that the translation shouldn't have been a 'camel' but a 'rope'. In the end it really didn't matter since both translations still works for the goal of proving something hard. What this really indicates is that it is likely that there
See www.splint.org for a really good tool for static code checking when it comes to C.
I have used it sometimes, and as I have noticed that in some cases the version from CVS is better than the released version. (but as always, your mileage may vary).
For C++ it's a lot harder, but the programming rules for C++ and the compilers are a bit stricter too, so you may be helped there.
To make things worse (or better, depending on how you see it:-) ) you can always take a look at PurifyPlus from IBM. It contains three components, Purify; which checks runtime for memory leaks and illegal memory access, Quantify; which checks for performance bottlenecks and PureCoverage; which checks so that all parts of your code actually has been executing during your tests.
C++ is also a lot harder to do static checking on due to the fact that it contains inheritance and still allows a lot of features from C so an object can be passed around in a perfectly legal manner and still be hiding from the syntax checker. Openings for really strange bugs if someone decides to do "smart programming".
When I write something, it will undoubtedly contain information from other sources, and it may even be a case of write-up from memory more than a cut&paste.
The overall issue is probably not that text snippets are cut from existing works, the problem lies in the case that texts from other sources are missing the reference. Omissions may still exists, sometimes they aren't intentional and sometimes it may appear as a copy, but it isn't since the writer happens to write in the same wording as another text has.
that this technique is a goldmine for spammers, phishers and other malware producers.
There is no way of telling if the password used is provided to a third party without consent or if the site is hacked. Be careful with your personal data, and keep your login to yourself as much as possible.
If you create a site with interactive content - think twice before if you really need your visitors to log in to request the content.
aren't the carriers required to provide access to 911, regardless?
Anyway - nothing will actually stop any off-shore our out-of-country IP phone services unless that kind of services are blocked in the broadband network, and that may also prove both inefficient and causing a stir.
A secondary problem that I have seen is that a majority of all VoIP to analog boxes are bound to a service provider. That actually limits the development of VoIP today since the users aren't able to change operator unless they buy a new box.
Assembly language programming is still of interest in education.
A large number of embedded systems can't do without assembly language, even if most are using C or C++. This since there are sometimes time-critical implementations that can't depend on the accuracy of a C compiler to produce consistent code. There are also cases where a C compiler may produce code that in general works fine, but can't produce code for some very specific instructions that a certain processor has. It's not too uncommon that embedded systems base their instruction set on a well-known processor, but extend it with their custom instructions for some features.
And in some cases the use of a high-level language like C is resulting in an overhead that isn't really what's necessary or even possible on the selected hardware. This may be the case for applications were low power consumption is at a premium and every clock cycle counts. It can make a large difference in lifetime of a battery-powered device.
And don't forget, even if most students aren't going to use assembly in the future you can't tell which students that will need that knowledge.
By doing a clean install of an operating system you will get rid of all junk files and junk data that tends to accumulate over time and degrade the performance of the system.
Personally I allocate a partition that's purely dedicated to operating system and software. So in case the OS does a real *uck-up* I won't lose all data and I only have to re-install. The only thing that I'm annoyed with is the "Documents and Settings" directory that is allocated on the OS partition, and I really would like to have the option of reallocating that beast to a different partition.
But of course - you can do it the M$ way and allocate everything in a huge partition and when shit happens you aren't up shit creek, you are up the mother of all shit rivers instead...
A yearly re-installation of Windows seems to be the frequency for me to keep things stable and performing.
Although this is a rather interesting approach, why not at the same time make them modified to dislike human blood? Or prefer to feed on something else than blood? OK, I'm mean here and that may be a little more complicated to resolve than the easy fix it apparently was to make them resistant to malaria.
On the other hand - there are also several other diseases that can be carried by mosquitos and there is a risk that one of these diseases can be carried instead. Just watch your back!
That problem occurs in any type of environment, and the problem is often the mid-level managers that are trying to motivate their presence in the organization. This can turn a profitable sector into a non-profitable sector just by the overhead added by the mid-level management.
And the upper-level management often gives the task to the mid-level management to figure out ways to save money. What happens is that in order to save money they are cutting off investments in development. Cutting down on personnel and then hope that everything still will continue to work. In most cases the functionality will remain but the wear and tear on the remaining resources will increase and get closer to breakdown. The effect of this may nit be visible until after a year or two when the lack of maintenance and motivation has fallen in which case the sector can be deemed to lack profits and is therefore shut down.
And to have the mid-level management to figure out that they are the problem isn't even remotely possible.
Using genetic analysis to cull bad genes may be the way to go for people if humankind shall continue development. The point is that today we are able to defeat most illnesses that earlier were fatal and therefore genes that are bad will now be able to propagate.
So even if there are moral considerations regarding culling bad genes with abortion there has to be considerations with impact for humankind as a whole or the human race will degenerate in the end. This doesn't mean that any gene defect that is detected should be cause for termination, but there are known defects that can be detected early and are causing conditions that are either terminal early in life or causing an individual to rely on others for survival.
Of course - there are also the dualistic genes where a gene may be a survival feature as well as a limitation. One such gene is protection against malaria if it's present in one chromosome but if it's present in both chromosomes it's instead a fatal blood disease. Anyway the real culprit here is malaria, so eradication of that disease should be a more useful goal.
The interesting thing with genes like the gene for Huntington's Disease and some forms of cancer is the fact that they are triggered late in life. This means that they aren't culled by the usual darwinistic rules and therefore has to be caught by other methods.
And genetic engineering of humans are actually possible today or in the near future - the worries about "superhumans" and things like that are usually exaggerated. Of course - the crafted being will be "superhuman" in the way that it lacks the bad genes that were cut out. Adding "super"-genes to make a human more powerful or get features that aren't human-like etc. is actually a lot more complicated and risky.
Skip the laptop. A PDA may be useful, especially if it doubles as a GPS and a phone. Modern mobile phones have cameras, some better than other, but in general the cameras are always having the wrong zoom level so a good digital camera with built-in zoom should be the choice. And only consider the optical zoom levels available.
Personally I have a HP850 which has 8x optical zoom. downside is that it's a bit bulky and also power hungry so it's not very nice on the batteries. Since the camera is a bit old now there are better cameras around, but any camera with decent optics will get bulky.
Another thing you should consider is buying a large amounts of memory cards. SD cards are my preference, anything larger is getting bulky and anything smaller is tricky to handle in less than ideal conditions.
Anyway - pack the memory cards in different pockets so you don't lose all in case something bad happens.
And remember - avoid looking like a tourist unless you really want to. Of course it all depends on where you travel, but a tourist is always fair game - even if it's only salesmen.
As long as the person clearly dictates what's fact regarding a person and what's the writer's/speaker's opinions there shouldn't be a problem.
Of course - facts can be wrong - and if so, a correction has to be made.
And if the writer/speaker does incorrect claims it's more a question of credibility of the writer/speaker than of the targeted person.
And - of course - there are facts that are more pressing for a person than other facts. There are certainly answers to these cases too, and I'm thinking of two examples:
Bill Clinton - In the Lewinsky affair - both YES and NO were the wrong answers; Correct answer should have been that whatever happened were a question between him and his wife and maybe Monica Lewinsky too, but nobody else. (The rest of the world did get a good laugh here!)
Arnold Schwartzenegger - Clearly admit that he had done wrong. Even if he did admit being rude he was clearly taking the edge off every future accusations. It's worth some respect.
Misrepresenting facts - may it be through image manipulation or through incorrect statements will cause credibility questions in the end. It may not show up the next day or the next week, but it will show up. Only very few misrepresentations will be hidden forever. If an image is manipulated and presented as a manipulated image - then there will be no issue with that picture. Removing features from an image is far less critical in most cases than adding incorrect information. (of course it depends on what the image represents). An example is that a person may be cut from an image as a quick fix if a person leaves an organization and there are practical reasons for not taking a new picture. Or if the background doesn't fit it's better to replace it with a neutral background. On the other hand removing parts of a X-ray image describing cracks in a nuclear plant is never right.
but it must be both interesting and developing. The point is that homework should be tasks that normally not can take place at school, but instead be associated with features on the way to the school or at home.
Everyday tasks can be assigned, and the point should be for the pupils to open their eyes to everyday applications of their skills. Reality is an intermix of skills, and that means that even though the task may be for biology it will require writing skills to actually document.
If you can claim that you are unjustly discriminated due to political belief it may take hold. Or you may actually go public in one or another form with your complaint. Check with your local newspaper to see what they think.
And why not go public with the name of the institution in question instead? This will put a lot more pressure on them regarding the issue.
What about the general student community then, are they in general just accepting this or can you whip up enough people to make a considerable demonstration against the policy?
Directional antennas on a rooftop that points directly to the nearest celltower(s).
Omnidirectional antennas indoors at strategic location, one indoor antenna per external antenna.
Use low-loss cabling between the antennas. The cabling and installation of the cables may be the most expensive issue. As this is a completely passive solution you shouldn't have any trouble with FCC.
There are certainly disadvantages with this solution too, and it may not work or be feasible for your situation.
in our galaxy is 0.26 if you apply a certain set of values to the Drake equation.
Of course - the answers you may get can vary wildly depending on the input you give. One question that has to be asked is: Do we have a civilization on earth or are we still barbarians?
We are still barbarians because...
...we still use violence to resolve our differences.
...we still believe in overnatural phenomenons.
...we still try to discredit people that actually tells the truth.
...we still use deception and threats to reach our goals.
...we still have people that thinks that we are engineered.
...we are still falling back on our animal reactions when pressed.
...we as a group are still acting irrational.
And there are actually only two alternatives: Expand or become Extinct, if we are staying on earth it's only a question of when extinction will occur. Be it through a pandemic plauge, asteroid impact or war, pick your poison...
Expanding into the galaxy will certainly require technology that's more advanced than we have today, but we know some of the obstacles that we will encounter and that means that we are on our way.
We know that a large number of stars actually have planetary systems in one way or another. In a near future we are likely to be able to see more and more extrasolar planets in better and better detail. Right now it's more or less guesswork and estimations about the actual composition of the extrasolar planets based on our knowledge of our own planetary system. We may be in for some great surprises!
And expansion of humankind into the galaxy will very likely at the beginning be done with seedships with a very small crew and a large number of frozen embryos. The Science Fiction with large starships crewed by a large number of humans is in a distant future, if ever achieved. A more likely scenario would be the ability to create warp tunnels as in Tunnel in the sky. It would also be far more efficient than a starship since a starship will only be able to transport a few people at a time while a tunnel may be able to transport continuously. We have already observed tunneling on a laboratory level, although it's still a very unpredictable phenomenon.
Any IP rights that has been abandoned (owner has died, company has gone out of business) should after a reasonable time (no more than five years) be considered to go over into the public domain unless somebody can by documentation claim that they have the IP rights.
Of course - there has to be a publication that lists works that are ripe for losing the IP ownership so that anybody that may have claims can oppose the release. The opposing part has to provide reasonable documentation regarding the claim within a reasonable timeframe (not more than six months) or the opposition has to be dropped.
And that's the "svchost.exe", which hides the real process from the user view. How can I as a user know what's going on there when I have a SVCHOST.EXE eating away at my CPU. Is it a bot spamming others with email or is it doing some secret housekeeping?
This may be used both to an advantage and a disadvantage. Unfortunately it is first necessary to create a common semantic directory like UMLS.
The advantage is that it is possible to get your medical journal when you are visiting a different country, which in turn can improve the ability to get the correct medication and avoid medical hazards.
The disadvantage is that it may be used for privacy invasion. There are certainly other risks involved too not to forget the cost that may arise to unify all countries.
Anyway - one way to provide some patient security would be that identification of data and access control to personal data has to be restricted. A multi-level approach has to be in place for the best security. One way may be to use smartcard-equipped health-cards. The card will then hold the key to access of the data. Of course there has to be security measures involved too to handle lost cards etc.
But as a seasoned programmer I also know that some tasks can't be ported. A more efficient method is to actually resolve the problems at link time since most object files doesn't really care about which language you use. Some tasks are better off in one language than in another and porting the "problem" may prove a herculean task ending up as the major time-consumer for a project.
Of course there are also cases when you will need to port the solution to a different language. This may be the cause when the project specifications requires a specific language like Ada.
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The list can be made longer... Think you get the idea... Only truth here is "money talks"...
And at home I'm running a 3 monitor setup. Running 3 monitors is just improving the productivity slightly and is more "because I can". I'm mostly doing programming at home and not much gaming.
And if your monitor still was a leftover that noone really wanted, that shouldn't cause much fuss. Check in with your manager and prove your point.
So what I did was to take PowerPoint and then I made some off the edge fictional organization. On first glance it was really feasible! There were a few that fell for it and got upset. A manager later told me that it was a really good one!
triggered by the dumping of waste by the individuals Fod and Gather. They were later punished by seeing their only son being nailed to a wooden structure.
Evolution may otherwise be described as "survival of the fittest". In reality this means that being fit for one environment probably makes you unfit for another. Place a polar bear in Africa and it will perish from heat, place a lion on Greenland and it will die from the cold.
And being fit for survival may also be represented by adaptability. Many animals aren't able to adapt themselves to large variations in climate. Humans are adapting very well, especially since we are the only animal that actually both build our own dwellings to keep out the worst parts of the climate and also are able to construct clothing that allows us to endure climate that we wouldn't have been able to survive otherwise.
The human body is in it's unprotected state only fit to survive in regions around the equator.
Evolution is otherwise best studied through bacteria. They are able to adapt themselves to the various poisons we throw at them. Several strands of bacteria that earlier were killed off with most drugs have today developed a resistance to most. A more cruel study has to be the black death that actually occured several times from the middle ages up to the 18th century. The first time it occured it was very bad and killed a large number of people. However those who got sick and survived or never got sick even though they were exposed there was a gene that prospered and resulted in the fact that the coming generations were less likely to get infected. Since not everyone got exposed to the black death there were survivors that lacked the gene. It may also be that the gene were a dominant gene, which means that only one copy of it was needed to provide sufficient protection. That resulted in the ability of the plauge to strike again, but with lesser effect each time since the gene were protecting a larger part of the population.
An interesting fact is that humans are likely to be the first speices of Earth that actually is able to propagate beyond the realms of the earth. Unfortunately we are at the same time wasting resources on things that aren't actually profitable in the long run.
Since we still don't know everything about everything (and probably never will) there is always some room left for religion. Most religions are based on part fiction and part reality. Most stories in the Bible (and other scripts) have a reality base, the problematic thing is to know how it has been edited. What has been added and what has been removed? Is the story describing a real event or is it a fiction thrown in to tell the listener/reader some good moral lesson?
From the bible it is known that the new testament comes in four variations, each with a different angle. This is all and well, but it also shows us that even if the basic story is the same it also proves to us that there are information losses and alternations on the way. It is also known that there are other scripts that didn't make it into the bible. Who was to decide what was the right script to enter the bible? Is that decision valid today? The victorious writes the history, so there is always the risk that Judas wasn't the traitor that he was written to be.
Another thing is that a lot of the stories in the old testament may have been passing from mouth to mouth before they were written down. This in turn means that they slowly has changed content before they were written on paper. Even translations from earlier versions of a language using modern references can cause loss of information or misconceptions. There is a translation that were saying that it was hard to put a camel through the eye of a needle. Later language analysis has revealed that the translation shouldn't have been a 'camel' but a 'rope'. In the end it really didn't matter since both translations still works for the goal of proving something hard. What this really indicates is that it is likely that there
I have used it sometimes, and as I have noticed that in some cases the version from CVS is better than the released version. (but as always, your mileage may vary).
For C++ it's a lot harder, but the programming rules for C++ and the compilers are a bit stricter too, so you may be helped there.
To make things worse (or better, depending on how you see it :-) ) you can always take a look at PurifyPlus from IBM. It contains three components, Purify; which checks runtime for memory leaks and illegal memory access, Quantify; which checks for performance bottlenecks and PureCoverage; which checks so that all parts of your code actually has been executing during your tests.
C++ is also a lot harder to do static checking on due to the fact that it contains inheritance and still allows a lot of features from C so an object can be passed around in a perfectly legal manner and still be hiding from the syntax checker. Openings for really strange bugs if someone decides to do "smart programming".
The overall issue is probably not that text snippets are cut from existing works, the problem lies in the case that texts from other sources are missing the reference. Omissions may still exists, sometimes they aren't intentional and sometimes it may appear as a copy, but it isn't since the writer happens to write in the same wording as another text has.
There is no way of telling if the password used is provided to a third party without consent or if the site is hacked. Be careful with your personal data, and keep your login to yourself as much as possible.
If you create a site with interactive content - think twice before if you really need your visitors to log in to request the content.
Anyway - nothing will actually stop any off-shore our out-of-country IP phone services unless that kind of services are blocked in the broadband network, and that may also prove both inefficient and causing a stir.
A secondary problem that I have seen is that a majority of all VoIP to analog boxes are bound to a service provider. That actually limits the development of VoIP today since the users aren't able to change operator unless they buy a new box.
A large number of embedded systems can't do without assembly language, even if most are using C or C++. This since there are sometimes time-critical implementations that can't depend on the accuracy of a C compiler to produce consistent code. There are also cases where a C compiler may produce code that in general works fine, but can't produce code for some very specific instructions that a certain processor has. It's not too uncommon that embedded systems base their instruction set on a well-known processor, but extend it with their custom instructions for some features.
And in some cases the use of a high-level language like C is resulting in an overhead that isn't really what's necessary or even possible on the selected hardware. This may be the case for applications were low power consumption is at a premium and every clock cycle counts. It can make a large difference in lifetime of a battery-powered device.
And don't forget, even if most students aren't going to use assembly in the future you can't tell which students that will need that knowledge.
Personally I allocate a partition that's purely dedicated to operating system and software. So in case the OS does a real *uck-up* I won't lose all data and I only have to re-install. The only thing that I'm annoyed with is the "Documents and Settings" directory that is allocated on the OS partition, and I really would like to have the option of reallocating that beast to a different partition.
But of course - you can do it the M$ way and allocate everything in a huge partition and when shit happens you aren't up shit creek, you are up the mother of all shit rivers instead...
A yearly re-installation of Windows seems to be the frequency for me to keep things stable and performing.
On the other hand - there are also several other diseases that can be carried by mosquitos and there is a risk that one of these diseases can be carried instead. Just watch your back!
And the upper-level management often gives the task to the mid-level management to figure out ways to save money. What happens is that in order to save money they are cutting off investments in development. Cutting down on personnel and then hope that everything still will continue to work. In most cases the functionality will remain but the wear and tear on the remaining resources will increase and get closer to breakdown. The effect of this may nit be visible until after a year or two when the lack of maintenance and motivation has fallen in which case the sector can be deemed to lack profits and is therefore shut down.
And to have the mid-level management to figure out that they are the problem isn't even remotely possible.
So even if there are moral considerations regarding culling bad genes with abortion there has to be considerations with impact for humankind as a whole or the human race will degenerate in the end. This doesn't mean that any gene defect that is detected should be cause for termination, but there are known defects that can be detected early and are causing conditions that are either terminal early in life or causing an individual to rely on others for survival.
Of course - there are also the dualistic genes where a gene may be a survival feature as well as a limitation. One such gene is protection against malaria if it's present in one chromosome but if it's present in both chromosomes it's instead a fatal blood disease. Anyway the real culprit here is malaria, so eradication of that disease should be a more useful goal.
The interesting thing with genes like the gene for Huntington's Disease and some forms of cancer is the fact that they are triggered late in life. This means that they aren't culled by the usual darwinistic rules and therefore has to be caught by other methods.
And genetic engineering of humans are actually possible today or in the near future - the worries about "superhumans" and things like that are usually exaggerated. Of course - the crafted being will be "superhuman" in the way that it lacks the bad genes that were cut out. Adding "super"-genes to make a human more powerful or get features that aren't human-like etc. is actually a lot more complicated and risky.
Personally I have a HP850 which has 8x optical zoom. downside is that it's a bit bulky and also power hungry so it's not very nice on the batteries. Since the camera is a bit old now there are better cameras around, but any camera with decent optics will get bulky.
Another thing you should consider is buying a large amounts of memory cards. SD cards are my preference, anything larger is getting bulky and anything smaller is tricky to handle in less than ideal conditions.
Anyway - pack the memory cards in different pockets so you don't lose all in case something bad happens.
And remember - avoid looking like a tourist unless you really want to. Of course it all depends on where you travel, but a tourist is always fair game - even if it's only salesmen.
As long as the person clearly dictates what's fact regarding a person and what's the writer's/speaker's opinions there shouldn't be a problem.
Of course - facts can be wrong - and if so, a correction has to be made.
And if the writer/speaker does incorrect claims it's more a question of credibility of the writer/speaker than of the targeted person.
And - of course - there are facts that are more pressing for a person than other facts. There are certainly answers to these cases too, and I'm thinking of two examples:
- Bill Clinton - In the Lewinsky affair - both YES and NO were the wrong answers; Correct answer should have been that whatever happened were a question between him and his wife and maybe Monica Lewinsky too, but nobody else. (The rest of the world did get a good laugh here!)
- Arnold Schwartzenegger - Clearly admit that he had done wrong. Even if he did admit being rude he was clearly taking the edge off every future accusations. It's worth some respect.
Misrepresenting facts - may it be through image manipulation or through incorrect statements will cause credibility questions in the end. It may not show up the next day or the next week, but it will show up. Only very few misrepresentations will be hidden forever. If an image is manipulated and presented as a manipulated image - then there will be no issue with that picture. Removing features from an image is far less critical in most cases than adding incorrect information. (of course it depends on what the image represents). An example is that a person may be cut from an image as a quick fix if a person leaves an organization and there are practical reasons for not taking a new picture. Or if the background doesn't fit it's better to replace it with a neutral background. On the other hand removing parts of a X-ray image describing cracks in a nuclear plant is never right.Of course - abusing the rights is never right.
Everyday tasks can be assigned, and the point should be for the pupils to open their eyes to everyday applications of their skills. Reality is an intermix of skills, and that means that even though the task may be for biology it will require writing skills to actually document.
And why not go public with the name of the institution in question instead? This will put a lot more pressure on them regarding the issue.
What about the general student community then, are they in general just accepting this or can you whip up enough people to make a considerable demonstration against the policy?
Directional antennas on a rooftop that points directly to the nearest celltower(s).
Omnidirectional antennas indoors at strategic location, one indoor antenna per external antenna.
Use low-loss cabling between the antennas. The cabling and installation of the cables may be the most expensive issue. As this is a completely passive solution you shouldn't have any trouble with FCC.
There are certainly disadvantages with this solution too, and it may not work or be feasible for your situation.
OK - there may be some need, but abundance in bandwidth will also cause less efficient solutions.
Of course - the answers you may get can vary wildly depending on the input you give. One question that has to be asked is: Do we have a civilization on earth or are we still barbarians?
We are still barbarians because...
And there are actually only two alternatives: Expand or become Extinct, if we are staying on earth it's only a question of when extinction will occur. Be it through a pandemic plauge, asteroid impact or war, pick your poison...
Expanding into the galaxy will certainly require technology that's more advanced than we have today, but we know some of the obstacles that we will encounter and that means that we are on our way.
We know that a large number of stars actually have planetary systems in one way or another. In a near future we are likely to be able to see more and more extrasolar planets in better and better detail. Right now it's more or less guesswork and estimations about the actual composition of the extrasolar planets based on our knowledge of our own planetary system. We may be in for some great surprises!
And expansion of humankind into the galaxy will very likely at the beginning be done with seedships with a very small crew and a large number of frozen embryos. The Science Fiction with large starships crewed by a large number of humans is in a distant future, if ever achieved. A more likely scenario would be the ability to create warp tunnels as in Tunnel in the sky. It would also be far more efficient than a starship since a starship will only be able to transport a few people at a time while a tunnel may be able to transport continuously. We have already observed tunneling on a laboratory level, although it's still a very unpredictable phenomenon.
Of course - there has to be a publication that lists works that are ripe for losing the IP ownership so that anybody that may have claims can oppose the release. The opposing part has to provide reasonable documentation regarding the claim within a reasonable timeframe (not more than six months) or the opposition has to be dropped.
If I make a religion out of making people silly am I protected against all lawsuits then?
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The advantage is that it is possible to get your medical journal when you are visiting a different country, which in turn can improve the ability to get the correct medication and avoid medical hazards.
The disadvantage is that it may be used for privacy invasion. There are certainly other risks involved too not to forget the cost that may arise to unify all countries.
Anyway - one way to provide some patient security would be that identification of data and access control to personal data has to be restricted. A multi-level approach has to be in place for the best security. One way may be to use smartcard-equipped health-cards. The card will then hold the key to access of the data. Of course there has to be security measures involved too to handle lost cards etc.
Of course there are also cases when you will need to port the solution to a different language. This may be the cause when the project specifications requires a specific language like Ada.
As with all programming; your mileage may vary.