APEX. The 40% might be low for my old work site. It is probably near 80% by now. Last spring a hatchet man (P.E.) for the new leadership came in and shut the place down, reneged on 3 nice turboprop and jet contracts, and flushed a nice product line down the toilet. I hear he is running the 787 program now. It'll be interesting if he can perform. I doubt it.
Of course the best part of smaller businesses starting up is that the suits lose their jobs. Those useless pricks!
A few months back I left Honeywell Aerospace. They have a new President who is a financial guy with utter disdain for engineers. What started as a 10% performance based pruning has accelerated to over 40% attrition in 1 year! All the while Honeywell is transfering 20000 jobs to India. Forget that there is no one left to train here them! All of this while profits were at a record level. This greedy bastard is looking for 17% margins apparently. Everyone I know has gone to work for Honeywell's competition. Be on the lookout in the news for the new President to be fired on falling earnings and Honeywell Aerospace being sold.
Corporations should learn a lesson, never cut payroll in an up labor market unless it is really necessary. Mobility of labor works both ways!
How would you like to be a high end technical person and know that there will always be the self-appointed 'Chief Architect Gates' to judge your work. No wonder the brain drain at M$ is accelerating.
Let's face it, the only direction China can go is up considering the damage done in the 1960's and 1970's by the madman Mao.
Give 100 poor people from anywhere in the 3rd world a choice: A Visa to China or the United States. My guess is 99% will take growing poverty in the USA.
I have no idea about Linux, but I imagine most Linux computers that are up-to-date can use USB drives with no driver issues. Besides, how many Linux computers on the road do you expect to find?
With Gentoo USB drives can can mount automatically using udev and hotplug. It works very well, Even with M$ DOS formatted flashkeys.
However, if the Greenland and Antarctic ice caps melt, there will be a serious increase in mean sea level.
At least you cite a source, even if it is the BBC. They have made global warming their pet project! But did you know that even in this dire time of George Bush's global warming assault on the environment, the Antarctic ice cap is growing! That kind of damages your argument.
Temperature rises of as little as one degree C over the long-term average cause coral animals to expel the photosynthetic algae that gather nutrients.
You forgot to cite your wikipedia source, simpleton. I guess you are saying that in the mezozoic when there were periods when global temperature was over 10 degrees higher than today there where no coral reefs? I had fossil corals in limestone strata in my backyard (Kansas City) that say otherwise. Local conditions may cause coral to thrive at different heights in the photic zone. Ocean temperatures have risen several degrees since the end of the ice age. Corals are doing just fine and will continue to do so.
I am impressed, you must have gone to the same school where Bush got left behind. Corals have a bit of a problem in warmer water (the reason the sea level goes up in the first place
Quite the opposite, dumbass. Ever wonder why coral grows in tropical waters? Because they like it warm. A degree or two rise in ocean temperature will actually spur coral growth north and south of the tropics. Furthermore, coral growth acts as a sink for the CO2 which helps compensate for fossil fuel burning. Why lash out at Mr. Bush when your own ignorance is the issue?
Not to mention the rising waters flooding pacific islands. Good trade off, cruise destinations in the pacific get flooded, and cruise destinations in the polar region open up.
Ever wonder why many Pacific islands are at sea level? Most are volcanoes eroded to sea level. They become atolls through processes of erosion and a buildup of calcium carbonate that form a ring around the eroded ediface. As sea level rises deposition by coral will equalize with rising sea level. Indeed, flooding by major storms is the *only* mechanism where new material is deposited above sea level at all! This is not new. It has going for the last 12000 years since the end of the last ice age as sea level has risen several meters. So relax, the Pacific islands aren't going anywhere. Why do people discard rational thought when discussing the Kyoto treaty?
It appears that you are getting downmodded for this simple, serious observation. The vandals, that are./'s with mod points, are alive, well, and trying stifle real diversity of opinion. Sad.
Perhaps I have misunderstood, but I thought that Java 3D made OpenGL calls under the covers. Is this the case. Java's fatal flaw has always been that it must use low level NMI modules written in C or C++ to get anything done. When Jim Gosling choose not to have pointers he basically decapitated the language. Therefore, all Java programs that need to manipulate memory mapped registers are a kludge by design.
Making up some magic phenomena for explaining the difference between such a broken model and reality is just bad science. Once they got some believers, this "dark matter" can be used to "explain" all sorts of other phenomena with an appropriate amount of hand waving.
Actually, the best evidence for dark matter and dark energy come from the study of type Ib supernovae and the bizarre observation that the more distant they are the faster they are accelerating away. Check it out here.
Wanna bet China reaches the moon before we go back
Yes, I would. If China succeeds in there next mission they will equal the result of Gemini 4. That puts them only 40 years behind. Remember that they got a jump start too by buying Russion Soyuz spacecraft. Their booster is similar to a Proton. When China produces a real innovation I'll take notice. In the meantime they are also rans.
Meanwhile, back in the US, the Republicans claim they want to take us back to space but aren't willing to put their money where their mouth is (though they're quite happy to cut funding for robotic exploration in order to free up the funds!)
What??? NASA's budget continues to grow in real terms. Robotic exploration of the solar system has never been in better shape. You have the wildly successful Cassini. We have two excellent orbiters circling Mars with a 3rd more powerful one on the way. The Mars rovers are arguably the most successful robotic exploration mission in history! There is another huge rover headed there in 2009, a new Lunar Orbiter... What are you talking about?
and NASA's manned space division doesn't seem to be able to get its act together enough to actually give us a safer orbiter, never mind something that can take us to the Moon or Mars.
NASA has proposed a very workable and exciting exploration plan with the CEV. The major launch components are already there. Where is the risk in its design? NASA kept the wheels on the shuttle program admirably. Nobody can make it safe. The CEV goes back to what works. Real skepticism is healthy. Your nihilism is not.
Yes, those damn corporations (and governments, too!). Actually trying to distill useful (often legally required [wikipedia.org]) information from terabytes of data using a simple declarative language! How dare they! Don't they realize there is an army of unemployed Java/Python/Ruby developers out there...
Now don't get you color up, database guy. I think we both agree companies need data stores of some form. I just think the relational database designs that predominate in business systems stink from a software perspective. Do think so? Try to adapt one large RDB solution to another. You overpaid genius database designers produce relational works of art that work like shit in practice, then call your job done. Then it us poor armies of programmers to glue together systems that cannot work because they have been designed by people who cannot understand complete systems. Remember, Edsgar Dykstra once said (I paraphrase), "programs equal datastructures and algorithms." I wonder if you database guys have that firmly mind.
What does this imply for cosmology and particle physics, both of which have been worrying about other aspects of dark matter?
The case for dark matter has been built for several decades. There is a mountain of evidence that needs an alternative explanation. I would call these new results tentative at best.
It shows a high level of abstraction when you access the DB by simply loading/persisting objects
An idea that is at least 15 years old, and has never worked very well either. The problem is most relational database schemas (structure, types) do not map cleanly C++ or Java to objects. From what I've seen in corporate applications the design of database and software are typically done by separate teams with different modelling skills and design priorities. As a software developer I want speed and simplicity in the RDB and to avoid deadlock at all cost. The RDB person wanted complete problem representation in data. If the requirement is really for the database just to provide for serialization of objects it is surprising that object oriented databases have not become more popular. They've also been around 15 years. Corporations are too hooked on the report and ad hoc query capability of RDBs I guess.
Interesting post. I have a PIC 16c63 that spends 90% of its time doing analog input and needs to use the other 10% percent wisely. I can't just use an ISR and a background loop because I have three tasks. Multiple ISR's have been problematic. I am working with the hardware guys to drop in a better faster PIC. My problems would probably be gone. I like the PIC environent pretty well. The register set is pretty simple and straightforward. Cheers.
I am working to optimize some medical device analog IO code that runs on a PIC processor with 191 bytes of memory. This may help. Real ideas like these are a lot more fun than the flamebait political stuff that has predominated on this forum for the past few years.
The reason for that unstoppability is the lack of an awareness on anyone else's part of the value of an end to end solution where everything works together using the same technology (or at least an unwillingness to commit resources to the construction of such a solution).
It could also be that Microsoft exersizes unchecked monopoly power over PC technologies that have made it very difficult for competitors to survive on equal terms. "Everything just works" is Micro$oft newspeak describing grayscape mediocrity that is the Windows world. "Everything works for Microsoft" might be more accurate.
If the US drops the UN enntirely, I'm sure Toronto would be a nice place for it.
Nice city, but I think Geneva is a more logical choice. With the US the sole superpower does it make sense for it to host an organization has become the primary forum for its adversaries? I don't think so. Move the UN and it shrinks in relevance. This is good for the US given the major negative shift in the UN disposition towards it.
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APEX. The 40% might be low for my old work site. It is probably near 80% by now. Last spring a hatchet man (P.E.) for the new leadership came in and shut the place down, reneged on 3 nice turboprop and jet contracts, and flushed a nice product line down the toilet. I hear he is running the 787 program now. It'll be interesting if he can perform. I doubt it.
If the stripping were real it would be a great result. Instead of reading about it I'd like to see it. Can someone post a link?
Of course the best part of smaller businesses starting up is that the suits lose their jobs. Those useless pricks!
A few months back I left Honeywell Aerospace. They have a new President who is a financial guy with utter disdain for engineers. What started as a 10% performance based pruning has accelerated to over 40% attrition in 1 year! All the while Honeywell is transfering 20000 jobs to India. Forget that there is no one left to train here them! All of this while profits were at a record level. This greedy bastard is looking for 17% margins apparently. Everyone I know has gone to work for Honeywell's competition. Be on the lookout in the news for the new President to be fired on falling earnings and Honeywell Aerospace being sold.
Corporations should learn a lesson, never cut payroll in an up labor market unless it is really necessary. Mobility of labor works both ways!
How would you like to be a high end technical person and know that there will always be the self-appointed 'Chief Architect Gates' to judge your work. No wonder the brain drain at M$ is accelerating.
Let's face it, the only direction China can go is up considering the damage done in the 1960's and 1970's by the madman Mao.
Give 100 poor people from anywhere in the 3rd world a choice: A Visa to China or the United States. My guess is 99% will take growing poverty in the USA.
I have no idea about Linux, but I imagine most Linux computers that are up-to-date can use USB drives with no driver issues. Besides, how many Linux computers on the road do you expect to find?
With Gentoo USB drives can can mount automatically using udev and hotplug. It works very well, Even with M$ DOS formatted flashkeys.
You don't need to invoke global warming to say that life for humans is precarious on low lying islands. Same thing goes for New Orleans.
However, if the Greenland and Antarctic ice caps melt, there will be a serious increase in mean sea level.
At least you cite a source, even if it is the BBC. They have made global warming their pet project! But did you know that even in this dire time of George Bush's global warming assault on the environment, the Antarctic ice cap is growing! That kind of damages your argument.
Temperature rises of as little as one degree C over the long-term average cause coral animals to expel the photosynthetic algae that gather nutrients.
You forgot to cite your wikipedia source, simpleton. I guess you are saying that in the mezozoic when there were periods when global temperature was over 10 degrees higher than today there where no coral reefs? I had fossil corals in limestone strata in my backyard (Kansas City) that say otherwise. Local conditions may cause coral to thrive at different heights in the photic zone. Ocean temperatures have risen several degrees since the end of the ice age. Corals are doing just fine and will continue to do so.
I am impressed, you must have gone to the same school where Bush got left behind. Corals have a bit of a problem in warmer water (the reason the sea level goes up in the first place
Quite the opposite, dumbass. Ever wonder why coral grows in tropical waters? Because they like it warm. A degree or two rise in ocean temperature will actually spur coral growth north and south of the tropics. Furthermore, coral growth acts as a sink for the CO2 which helps compensate for fossil fuel burning. Why lash out at Mr. Bush when your own ignorance is the issue?
Not to mention the rising waters flooding pacific islands. Good trade off, cruise destinations in the pacific get flooded, and cruise destinations in the polar region open up.
Ever wonder why many Pacific islands are at sea level? Most are volcanoes eroded to sea level. They become atolls through processes of erosion and a buildup of calcium carbonate that form a ring around the eroded ediface. As sea level rises deposition by coral will equalize with rising sea level. Indeed, flooding by major storms is the *only* mechanism where new material is deposited above sea level at all! This is not new. It has going for the last 12000 years since the end of the last ice age as sea level has risen several meters. So relax, the Pacific islands aren't going anywhere. Why do people discard rational thought when discussing the Kyoto treaty?
This story certainly reminds me of what V.I. Lenin said -- "The capitalists will sell us the rope with which to hang them."
Don't these words ring hollow given that his Soviet empire collapsed?
It appears that you are getting downmodded for this simple, serious observation. The vandals, that are ./'s with mod points, are alive, well, and trying stifle real diversity of opinion. Sad.
Perhaps I have misunderstood, but I thought that Java 3D made OpenGL calls under the covers. Is this the case. Java's fatal flaw has always been that it must use low level NMI modules written in C or C++ to get anything done. When Jim Gosling choose not to have pointers he basically decapitated the language. Therefore, all Java programs that need to manipulate memory mapped registers are a kludge by design.
Making up some magic phenomena for explaining the difference between such a broken model and reality is just bad science. Once they got some believers, this "dark matter" can be used to "explain" all sorts of other phenomena with an appropriate amount of hand waving.
Actually, the best evidence for dark matter and dark energy come from the study of type Ib supernovae and the bizarre observation that the more distant they are the faster they are accelerating away. Check it out here.
Seems that the world's biggest democracy should run the worlds biggest, free net.
India it is, then!
Wanna bet China reaches the moon before we go back
Yes, I would. If China succeeds in there next mission they will equal the result of Gemini 4. That puts them only 40 years behind. Remember that they got a jump start too by buying Russion Soyuz spacecraft. Their booster is similar to a Proton. When China produces a real innovation I'll take notice. In the meantime they are also rans.
Meanwhile, back in the US, the Republicans claim they want to take us back to space but aren't willing to put their money where their mouth is (though they're quite happy to cut funding for robotic exploration in order to free up the funds!)
What??? NASA's budget continues to grow in real terms. Robotic exploration of the solar system has never been in better shape. You have the wildly successful Cassini. We have two excellent orbiters circling Mars with a 3rd more powerful one on the way. The Mars rovers are arguably the most successful robotic exploration mission in history! There is another huge rover headed there in 2009, a new Lunar Orbiter... What are you talking about?
and NASA's manned space division doesn't seem to be able to get its act together enough to actually give us a safer orbiter, never mind something that can take us to the Moon or Mars.
NASA has proposed a very workable and exciting exploration plan with the CEV. The major launch components are already there. Where is the risk in its design? NASA kept the wheels on the shuttle program admirably. Nobody can make it safe. The CEV goes back to what works. Real skepticism is healthy. Your nihilism is not.
Yes, those damn corporations (and governments, too!). Actually trying to distill useful (often legally required [wikipedia.org]) information from terabytes of data using a simple declarative language! How dare they! Don't they realize there is an army of unemployed Java/Python/Ruby developers out there...
Now don't get you color up, database guy. I think we both agree companies need data stores of some form. I just think the relational database designs that predominate in business systems stink from a software perspective. Do think so? Try to adapt one large RDB solution to another. You overpaid genius database designers produce relational works of art that work like shit in practice, then call your job done. Then it us poor armies of programmers to glue together systems that cannot work because they have been designed by people who cannot understand complete systems. Remember, Edsgar Dykstra once said (I paraphrase), "programs equal datastructures and algorithms." I wonder if you database guys have that firmly mind.
"I very much enjoy watching so-called science minded people defending ideas as though they had some personal stake."
"Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense." -- Carl Sagan
What does this imply for cosmology and particle physics, both of which have been worrying about other aspects of dark matter?
The case for dark matter has been built for several decades. There is a mountain of evidence that needs an alternative explanation. I would call these new results tentative at best.
It shows a high level of abstraction when you access the DB by simply loading/persisting objects
An idea that is at least 15 years old, and has never worked very well either. The problem is most relational database schemas (structure, types) do not map cleanly C++ or Java to objects. From what I've seen in corporate applications the design of database and software are typically done by separate teams with different modelling skills and design priorities. As a software developer I want speed and simplicity in the RDB and to avoid deadlock at all cost. The RDB person wanted complete problem representation in data. If the requirement is really for the database just to provide for serialization of objects it is surprising that object oriented databases have not become more popular. They've also been around 15 years. Corporations are too hooked on the report and ad hoc query capability of RDBs I guess.
Interesting post. I have a PIC 16c63 that spends 90% of its time doing analog input and needs to use the other 10% percent wisely. I can't just use an ISR and a background loop because I have three tasks. Multiple ISR's have been problematic. I am working with the hardware guys to drop in a better faster PIC. My problems would probably be gone. I like the PIC environent pretty well. The register set is pretty simple and straightforward. Cheers.
I am working to optimize some medical device analog IO code that runs on a PIC processor with 191 bytes of memory. This may help. Real ideas like these are a lot more fun than the flamebait political stuff that has predominated on this forum for the past few years.
The reason for that unstoppability is the lack of an awareness on anyone else's part of the value of an end to end solution where everything works together using the same technology (or at least an unwillingness to commit resources to the construction of such a solution).
It could also be that Microsoft exersizes unchecked monopoly power over PC technologies that have made it very difficult for competitors to survive on equal terms. "Everything just works" is Micro$oft newspeak describing grayscape mediocrity that is the Windows world. "Everything works for Microsoft" might be more accurate.
If the US drops the UN enntirely, I'm sure Toronto would be a nice place for it.
Nice city, but I think Geneva is a more logical choice. With the US the sole superpower does it make sense for it to host an organization has become the primary forum for its adversaries? I don't think so. Move the UN and it shrinks in relevance. This is good for the US given the major negative shift in the UN disposition towards it.