with 2.3GB of documentation, assuming that is accurate, a compressed download version should be roughly half the size, since text files, or mostly text compresses fairly well.
What I don't get, is why we don't just wait until we have say a 10 minute leap instead of adjusting by seconds every year, adjust by a few minutes every 10-20 years... much easier to program for, or just ignore and update the computer clocks...
So that's why Jetson was complaining about the 2 hour work day... lol. In any case a 10 hour day wouldn't make much sense, hours would be too long, and 100 would be too many hours in a day, but would be close to equivalent to a quarter hour...
cycle == 1 season rotation (year)
day == 1 planet rotation (approximate)
arn == 1/10 (2.4 hours) day
centarn=1/100 of an arn (1.44 minutes)
microt=1/100 of an centiarn (0.864 seconds)
Some names thanks to farscape.. though microt in this decimal notation is about half a microt on the show.
However, you did sign up for a service from a company using the same company account to do it... If yougot email notifications for edits to shared google docs, tied to your email account, would you not expect this? Google "knows" you asked for it, the same can't be said of the other services. Also, this seems to be tied to the "high" importance header in the emails, not anything directly with gmail.
In the case of "Digital Theft" vs "Physical Theft" many distictions can be made.. physical theft deprives someone of property, usually a business with a storefront that carried he merchandise, not even the media cartels many of us dislike so much. Where digital theft (ie. copyright infrindement) is generally done in instances where no sale would have occured, had the infringing material not been available. This isn't making a moral judgement that one is okay, only that they are different.
Copyright itself was meant to allow the useful arts and sciences a means to make a living while creating works by providing a limited exclusivity "for a limited time"... Where in any place outside of IP would anyone consider life + 75 years a "limited time" by anyone.
I think that jumping into web application dev is something taken too lightly... if you are coming from a UX/Designer background I would encourage to become very good with hand-coded HTML, CSS (start with 2, then 3)... Then start with some JavaScript reading (self-plug). Only then would I start digging into the backend, and would suggest the language(s) your company is using first.
If you try to do html + css + javascript + backend language + backend framework + persistance layer (SQL) all at once it becomes overwhelming, and you'll be very slow to master anything or become proficient with it. There are a lot of layers, parts, syntax and languages that go into web application deelopment... short of using node/express/mongo on the back end very slow learning as well.
Though node and mongo would be a shorter learning path, would still suggest a strongly typed language and some SQL variant after you get the front end and JS down. Mainly for knowledge and exposure.
Tell that to the movie studios who seem perfectly fine showing apple branded computers in movies and on tv, and see how much they continue to push these systems on-screen and off to friends and family. Vocal minorities create movements.. look at linux in the server market.
Both designers and developers often make bad UX (user experience, buzzword) choices... pure designers are as you mention... but developers left to their own devices will often leave out simple usability points, like linked labels for radio buttons and check boxes, or inconsistent look/feel and odd button and control placement that is backwards to typical user interaction. I think dramatically changing a loved application is usually a bad idea... "liked" sure, try to make it better..but when users already love your product and have moved almost in whole from a major competitor, don't rock the boat too much... it's not even like the office bar, where MS was losing ground and needed to shake things up a bit to remain competitive.
I would probably lean towards Python or JavaScript... as they're interpreted and it's easy enough to get into understanding programming decision logic without getting too stuck on low-level semantics. JS is available in every browser, and these days every major browser has a JS console to muck around in. Let alone command-line support via node.js, wscript and other tools. Most of the same can be said for Python. I'm rather fond of JS myself, but either would be better than most compiled alternatives... being able to get hello world with the path of least resistance will inspire further learning, opposed to overwhelming users with complex IDEs or compiler options.
I'm not quite sure I agree with that... people want to be able to use youtube, hulu and netflix online. The first generation netbooks didn't handle this at all well. My Eee PC (901 iirc) bogged out watching youtube (low-res) let alone full screen. Linux on the thing didn't help. The regression issues for intel graphics on Ubuntu 9.04 got me to switch to Windows 7 (then beta) and it was finally a passable experience. At this point, I would probably consider one of the E-350 models, as I miss the form factor. I do find it's more towards ultra-portable now... but ultra-portables were pretty much > $1000 for the longest time, and only Sony for a while was making them. I really liked the form factor, and wanted a bit more power. Today, I would go for an AMD E-350 based netbook... a year and a half ago, I went to a 13" macbook pro. It really is more about the form factor to me... I liked the small/portable system.. was just a little too low-res (would have been okay with 1280x800 over 1024x600) and too low powered.
I haven't bought TF2, though have considered doing one of the valve packs that include it many times... I honestly don't play anything but a handful of times a year, and have turned to QuakeLive when I have (though I've purchased Q3A). Free to play is awesome. I remember the original TF mod to Quake 1, the first weekend I was introduced to it, I think I got about 2 hours of sleep between friday night, and monday morning... that monday was so painful, my hands were just sore.
I don't know what you are searching for... perhaps trying to SEO your own bog against others.. but I rarely see a blogspot blog in my search results...
No kidding... I would love to have a quick order pickup for groceries... though I tend to shop at 3 places... Walmart for canned/dry, Bashas for meat, Albertson's for bakery & Produce,... also Sprouts or Whole Foods for more specialty items... there's just no best of all worlds here.
The top 20 cities in the US in terms of population density would probably be easy enough, mostly east coast though. Arizona, for example averages about 22 people per km^2 (roughly 50 per mi^2). Parts of Phoenix and Tuscon are better, but Arizona alone is about 1/2 the size of the UK.
I was going to mention there is a cost (usually) to calling MS, but at least you can. Try filing a bug report with Google sometime and/or getting a real person.
My guess is that MS will push into the SIP provider space with Exchange/AD integration similar to corporate messenger while continuing free/paid options for consumers.. I do see a drop of the Linux support and integration with Live Messenger.
Not so sure about that, it really depends on which features and language extensions are used with PostgreSQL. If it's a lit of data with peer distribution, MS-SQL could be a pretty drop in replacement. The reality is, it depends. People with enough knowledge of both PostgreSQL and MS-SQL (I refuse to call it "SQL Server" without an MS prefix) to migrate a complicated DB application (meaning code in the DB) are few and far between.
I have to agree there... in the late 70's someone with a CS degree would typically start in the mid 70K/year... now it's lower than that, and even then doesn't account for inflation. I've seen higher-end engineering jobs go from around $200K/year in the 90's to a pretty hard ceiling of $105-120K... which isn't bad, mind you, but not as good as it once was, and the belts tighten, and other fields start looking a lot more compelling.
The flip side is a lot more is expected today. People expect near magic levels of broad, and depth of knowledge and learning on one's own time/dime. To be honest, I've always been actively learning new things. But am getting tired of the grind, and working into more management roles.
Right now, I cost about 6X as much as my overseas counterparts... so they can literally f*ck something up 6 times before it costs more than me doing it once. I also don't churn as fast, because I tend to think things through a bit more. I also have a higher value on craftsmanship which tends to slow things down... but can honestly say my code tends to cost 1/10th as much to maintain, or update.
I disagree with Video Games... Just playing games does inspire some to actually take up programming, and get into robotics from there. My step-son has learned flash/actionscript and a few other (though simplistic) programming tools for simple game dev because he likes to do it for fun. Game modding is the gateway drug to full on coder.
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with 2.3GB of documentation, assuming that is accurate, a compressed download version should be roughly half the size, since text files, or mostly text compresses fairly well.
You can't fix stupid.. unless you want your new computer to com with an embedded DRM laden, hard to remove OS like iOS?
What I don't get, is why we don't just wait until we have say a 10 minute leap instead of adjusting by seconds every year, adjust by a few minutes every 10-20 years... much easier to program for, or just ignore and update the computer clocks...
So that's why Jetson was complaining about the 2 hour work day... lol. In any case a 10 hour day wouldn't make much sense, hours would be too long, and 100 would be too many hours in a day, but would be close to equivalent to a quarter hour...
cycle == 1 season rotation (year)
day == 1 planet rotation (approximate)
arn == 1/10 (2.4 hours) day
centarn=1/100 of an arn (1.44 minutes)
microt=1/100 of an centiarn (0.864 seconds)
Some names thanks to farscape.. though microt in this decimal notation is about half a microt on the show.
I always make people sit with me when I do them favors on their computer... tends to resolve a lot of that... (or they find someone else).
However, you did sign up for a service from a company using the same company account to do it... If yougot email notifications for edits to shared google docs, tied to your email account, would you not expect this? Google "knows" you asked for it, the same can't be said of the other services. Also, this seems to be tied to the "high" importance header in the emails, not anything directly with gmail.
In the case of "Digital Theft" vs "Physical Theft" many distictions can be made.. physical theft deprives someone of property, usually a business with a storefront that carried he merchandise, not even the media cartels many of us dislike so much. Where digital theft (ie. copyright infrindement) is generally done in instances where no sale would have occured, had the infringing material not been available. This isn't making a moral judgement that one is okay, only that they are different.
... Where in any place outside of IP would anyone consider life + 75 years a "limited time" by anyone.
Copyright itself was meant to allow the useful arts and sciences a means to make a living while creating works by providing a limited exclusivity "for a limited time"
I think that jumping into web application dev is something taken too lightly... if you are coming from a UX/Designer background I would encourage to become very good with hand-coded HTML, CSS (start with 2, then 3)... Then start with some JavaScript reading (self-plug). Only then would I start digging into the backend, and would suggest the language(s) your company is using first.
If you try to do html + css + javascript + backend language + backend framework + persistance layer (SQL) all at once it becomes overwhelming, and you'll be very slow to master anything or become proficient with it. There are a lot of layers, parts, syntax and languages that go into web application deelopment... short of using node/express/mongo on the back end very slow learning as well.
Though node and mongo would be a shorter learning path, would still suggest a strongly typed language and some SQL variant after you get the front end and JS down. Mainly for knowledge and exposure.
Tell that to the movie studios who seem perfectly fine showing apple branded computers in movies and on tv, and see how much they continue to push these systems on-screen and off to friends and family. Vocal minorities create movements.. look at linux in the server market.
Both designers and developers often make bad UX (user experience, buzzword) choices... pure designers are as you mention... but developers left to their own devices will often leave out simple usability points, like linked labels for radio buttons and check boxes, or inconsistent look/feel and odd button and control placement that is backwards to typical user interaction. I think dramatically changing a loved application is usually a bad idea... "liked" sure, try to make it better..but when users already love your product and have moved almost in whole from a major competitor, don't rock the boat too much... it's not even like the office bar, where MS was losing ground and needed to shake things up a bit to remain competitive.
Scan-trons are faster and less expensive... One scantron can process 40 voters faster than one e-voting booth with a touchscreen.. AZ has both.
I would probably lean towards Python or JavaScript... as they're interpreted and it's easy enough to get into understanding programming decision logic without getting too stuck on low-level semantics. JS is available in every browser, and these days every major browser has a JS console to muck around in. Let alone command-line support via node.js, wscript and other tools. Most of the same can be said for Python. I'm rather fond of JS myself, but either would be better than most compiled alternatives... being able to get hello world with the path of least resistance will inspire further learning, opposed to overwhelming users with complex IDEs or compiler options.
I'm not quite sure I agree with that... people want to be able to use youtube, hulu and netflix online. The first generation netbooks didn't handle this at all well. My Eee PC (901 iirc) bogged out watching youtube (low-res) let alone full screen. Linux on the thing didn't help. The regression issues for intel graphics on Ubuntu 9.04 got me to switch to Windows 7 (then beta) and it was finally a passable experience. At this point, I would probably consider one of the E-350 models, as I miss the form factor. I do find it's more towards ultra-portable now... but ultra-portables were pretty much > $1000 for the longest time, and only Sony for a while was making them. I really liked the form factor, and wanted a bit more power. Today, I would go for an AMD E-350 based netbook... a year and a half ago, I went to a 13" macbook pro. It really is more about the form factor to me... I liked the small/portable system.. was just a little too low-res (would have been okay with 1280x800 over 1024x600) and too low powered.
I haven't bought TF2, though have considered doing one of the valve packs that include it many times... I honestly don't play anything but a handful of times a year, and have turned to QuakeLive when I have (though I've purchased Q3A). Free to play is awesome. I remember the original TF mod to Quake 1, the first weekend I was introduced to it, I think I got about 2 hours of sleep between friday night, and monday morning... that monday was so painful, my hands were just sore.
I don't know what you are searching for... perhaps trying to SEO your own bog against others.. but I rarely see a blogspot blog in my search results...
Also, the new formats are far better in terms of being able to convert/import/export
No kidding... I would love to have a quick order pickup for groceries... though I tend to shop at 3 places... Walmart for canned/dry, Bashas for meat, Albertson's for bakery & Produce,... also Sprouts or Whole Foods for more specialty items... there's just no best of all worlds here.
The top 20 cities in the US in terms of population density would probably be easy enough, mostly east coast though. Arizona, for example averages about 22 people per km^2 (roughly 50 per mi^2). Parts of Phoenix and Tuscon are better, but Arizona alone is about 1/2 the size of the UK.
I was going to mention there is a cost (usually) to calling MS, but at least you can. Try filing a bug report with Google sometime and/or getting a real person.
My guess is that MS will push into the SIP provider space with Exchange/AD integration similar to corporate messenger while continuing free/paid options for consumers.. I do see a drop of the Linux support and integration with Live Messenger.
Not so sure about that, it really depends on which features and language extensions are used with PostgreSQL. If it's a lit of data with peer distribution, MS-SQL could be a pretty drop in replacement. The reality is, it depends. People with enough knowledge of both PostgreSQL and MS-SQL (I refuse to call it "SQL Server" without an MS prefix) to migrate a complicated DB application (meaning code in the DB) are few and far between.
I have to agree there... in the late 70's someone with a CS degree would typically start in the mid 70K/year... now it's lower than that, and even then doesn't account for inflation. I've seen higher-end engineering jobs go from around $200K/year in the 90's to a pretty hard ceiling of $105-120K ... which isn't bad, mind you, but not as good as it once was, and the belts tighten, and other fields start looking a lot more compelling.
The flip side is a lot more is expected today. People expect near magic levels of broad, and depth of knowledge and learning on one's own time/dime. To be honest, I've always been actively learning new things. But am getting tired of the grind, and working into more management roles.
Right now, I cost about 6X as much as my overseas counterparts... so they can literally f*ck something up 6 times before it costs more than me doing it once. I also don't churn as fast, because I tend to think things through a bit more. I also have a higher value on craftsmanship which tends to slow things down... but can honestly say my code tends to cost 1/10th as much to maintain, or update.
I disagree with Video Games... Just playing games does inspire some to actually take up programming, and get into robotics from there. My step-son has learned flash/actionscript and a few other (though simplistic) programming tools for simple game dev because he likes to do it for fun. Game modding is the gateway drug to full on coder.