Which is why typical electric cars don't get traction in the US.
A majority of people live in suburban areas - not cities. The way these areas of the country are laid out, one must drive 5-10 minutes to your grocery store, 10-20 minutes to work (usually on a highway requiring speeds of 60+mph / 96kph), 5-10 minutes to the local big-box store (walmart, target, kohls, best buy, etc). This is one of the reasons I hate suburbia - it truly condones and perpetuates impracticality. Imagine riding your bicycle 12 miles to work along a four-lane-wide highway with cars whizzing past at 70mph! The solution to this, of course, is to get people to move out of suburbia and into "new urban" style developments - but people see their houses as an investment instead of a liability (which many houses are proving to be) and are loathe to give them up. Even if they are poorly built McMansions. To learn more about this phenomena, see: TED Talks James Howard Kunstler: The tragedy of suburbia.
That is why this car is so important. It has a decent speed, a long range, and can fill up at regular gas stations.
The electricity is also being diverted out of the main stream to areas in the atmosphere with a high positive charge - which is why you get forking. It's the shortest path to the most positive areas around, which sometimes includes items on the ground but is often just a cloudjump away.
He said proper competition. The RIAA is about as anticompetitive as it gets (music labels band together to price-set, legislate, sue). That's not competition: that's a back-door monopoly.
ADSL is: more expensive, MUCH slower (about 1/8th the nominal speed) Cable is: optimum online, less expensive, faster, but throttle your bandwidth to almost nil if you upload at a continuous 11kBps for more than 24 hours (and to get it back to normal, you have to spend time in customer service hell - and if it happens too often, they drop you as a customer).
Two blocks away the cable provider is Time Warner. Two. Fucking. Blocks. The only reason we are limited to Optimum is because of stupid monopoly laws (those two blocks are the difference between Brooklyn and Queens where I live).
Time Warner didn't do the bullshit throttling. But hey, I can't choose to use them because.. idiotic NY legislature decided to legislate monopolies and stifle competition.
FiOS isn't available in my area yet - apparently all the young professionals moving into the area (northern bushwick bordering Ridgewood / Fresh Pond) haven't had a chance to tip the median household income to the point where verizon thinks it prudent to roll out there yet.
Once FiOS is rolled out more, the cable companies are going to have to do something to remain competitive - and they're scared shitless about it. Which is why they're trying to get this crap written in stone.
Not only this, but using a physical 'maze' to test the shortest path via electricity might further illustrate the results of the double-slit experiment.
You may end up finding out that yes - the electricity makes it through the 'maze' in the same amount of time each time.
But you may find out that each time it passes through the maze, it takes a different route. IANAP (physicist), though.
Letting the concept ruminate, it would probably end up that said electricity would take the same route through the maze each time, since the act of recording it passing nodes in the maze locks the state of the electrons to that path. If you weren't trying to observe the path, things might end up differently:)
Of course you can't write tests first without knowing the business requirements. However, the tests should be defined specifically by business requirements.
Have it work like TDD (Test Driven Development):
1) write a unit test that fails 2) write code (law) to make that unit test pass 3) write more unit tests for each piece of business (legislative) logic needed such that it fails with the current law 4) wirite code(law) to make said unit test pass 5) goto 3
Once all tests needed are written and pass with given legislation, the legislation can be brought to floor.
We use the Yahoo JS library extensively as "sugar" in our client-side library. I'm worried that we may have to actually adhere to decent coding standards and decouple YUI from our codebase with an obfuscation layer! Just in case it dies (or worse - gets taken private and integrated into VS, so only VS users can benefit from the work of the awesome authors that have contributed to it over the past few years).
We don't really use any of its big UI elements, so it's not THAT big of a deal - but it is very useful as sugar for attaching events, dom-related activites, etc..
Could you imagine if DC's water supply got tainted with lsd?
Hundreds of thousands of people would see pretty patterns, a relatively large percentage of those would have a religious experience, and most of them would come out of it feeling refreshed, seeing the world in a new light with optimism and peace.
Sounds like it might end up being pretty rad, not terrorist at all...... that is, if they released it in such a low concentration that you'd only get 4-50 micrograms (as opposed to the typical 100-150 microgram street dose these days, or the 250microgram street dose in the 60s, or a 400 microgram dose that would drive you insane...)
Nah, the only hallucinogen that would supremely cause terror would be if they tainted the water with Datura extract.
Of course, that's a deliriant and not a psychedelic -- but that's splitting hairs.
Standardizing the name of the navigation element, for example, allows a screenreader to find it usefully (on demand instead of in-line with the page). Same with the rest of the elements.
It also helps to standardize the semantic meaning of elements, to allow easier automatic syndication and searching. It's not about making the markup more readable for noobs, it's about making the markup more readable to machines (instead of everyone having a different id or class for their navigation, for example).
, but 1st year students are rarely taught debugging skills
That's funny, I was taught debugging skills in my freshman-highschool Pascal class! When you tried to ask a question, the first thing he'd ask you before he'd answer was, "have you tried stepping through with a few watches?"
I agree completely, which is why I loved my high school computer science classes - in direct contrast with my college CS classes. In HS, we were using borland turbo c++ - admittedly, old. What was fantastic about it, though, is besides the basic io headers, we weren't allowed to use any pre-fix libraries. We had to write our own hash table library; our own linked list library; our own linear algebra library; our own string-handling library; our own self-balancing binary search tree library.
Because we spent so much time learning how to do these basic things, we were more prepared going into college than many other students.
The problem was, in college, we spent time futzing around with libraries in Java instead of learning how to build applications. The best CS course I took in college, actually, was 'math & physics for game programming,' in which we had to build our own physics library.
Admittedly, it was only community college, and I dropped out in order to actually accomplish something in my life (I'm now a JS / C# developer in NY, as opposed to a pizza delivery guy in NC).
Create a "boat" out of aluminum foil. Shape it like a square with a triangle appended to one edge, and fold slightly. Cut a small slit on the back of it (opposite the point), and place carefully on the surface of the pan filled with water. Carefully place a small drop of dish soap onto the slit, and watch the surface tension propel your boat forward!
I'd like to know what you think JavaScript's shortcomings are. It has some lame-brain concepts (like assigning a value to an undeclared variable creates that variable in the global namespace), and (relatively) slow numbercrunching (due to typelessness - but that only REALLY becomes a problem when, say, you're trying to find the square root of millions of numbers in a loop).
Until you realize the language is a functional language with a C format, substituting hash lists for property lists, JavaScript really is kind of sucky because you don't understand how things that work in C won't work in JavaScript. It really is the idiot-savant of programming languages. Its main shortcoming then, I suppose, would be the fact that it tries to be everything (object-oriented with prototypal inheritance), functional (with lambda and closures), all in a language that for most intents and purposes looks like a procedural language.
What makes developing desktop-type applications with DHTML is the sucky event model for the DOM, inconsistent box models across browsers (I'm looking at you, IE), and slow rendering. It would be pretty awesome if someone extended XUL to include stylistic shit that, as a designer I really care about.
Seriously. The reason it took Morimoto a long time to open up a restaurant in NYC was because his former restaurant (for which he was not the head chef) had a non-compete clause. He could not open up a restaurant within NYC for a specified number of years. So he opened his flagship restaurant in Philadelphia, and only recently has opened up a restaurant in NYC.
To make a circle you need to circle-marquee and fill. Or, to make an outlined circle: circle marquee, fill, magic wand, shrink selection, fill.
In photoshop:
Select the circle tool. Edit stroke, fill, gradiant fill, dropshadow, inner glow, outer glow, et cetera. Resize circle as needed. It's a vector, after all.
For two:
Layer goups. I'm sure there's some script-fu that you can wrestle with to get it to work in gimp, but.. how trite.
Gimp is great for learning basics of graphic design. It's terrible for doing any professional-level graphic design work. Sodipodi is better than it, for that.
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Which is why typical electric cars don't get traction in the US.
A majority of people live in suburban areas - not cities. The way these areas of the country are laid out, one must drive 5-10 minutes to your grocery store, 10-20 minutes to work (usually on a highway requiring speeds of 60+mph / 96kph), 5-10 minutes to the local big-box store (walmart, target, kohls, best buy, etc). This is one of the reasons I hate suburbia - it truly condones and perpetuates impracticality. Imagine riding your bicycle 12 miles to work along a four-lane-wide highway with cars whizzing past at 70mph! The solution to this, of course, is to get people to move out of suburbia and into "new urban" style developments - but people see their houses as an investment instead of a liability (which many houses are proving to be) and are loathe to give them up. Even if they are poorly built McMansions. To learn more about this phenomena, see: TED Talks James Howard Kunstler: The tragedy of suburbia.
That is why this car is so important. It has a decent speed, a long range, and can fill up at regular gas stations.
Number of unit tests doesn't necessarily denote good unit tests.
It would be a better metric to show what percentage of your codebase is actually covered by unit tests.
Using Test-Driven Development ensures that this percentage is notably high.
The electricity is also being diverted out of the main stream to areas in the atmosphere with a high positive charge - which is why you get forking. It's the shortest path to the most positive areas around, which sometimes includes items on the ground but is often just a cloudjump away.
Even if they advertise truthfully, in many areas they have a complete and total monopoly - often enforced by state utility laws.
Wait, you live in NYC and have access to multiple carriers?
TimeWarner and Optimum Online/CableVision coverage is exclusive.
FiOS may be exclusive to verizon where they're rolling it out, but it overlaps with the exclusive cable providers.
I don't know how it is in Manhattan, but that's how it is in the boroughs.
He said proper competition. The RIAA is about as anticompetitive as it gets (music labels band together to price-set, legislate, sue). That's not competition: that's a back-door monopoly.
Most people don't even have TWO options!
I do have two, but:
ADSL is: more expensive, MUCH slower (about 1/8th the nominal speed)
Cable is: optimum online, less expensive, faster, but throttle your bandwidth to almost nil if you upload at a continuous 11kBps for more than 24 hours (and to get it back to normal, you have to spend time in customer service hell - and if it happens too often, they drop you as a customer).
Two blocks away the cable provider is Time Warner. Two. Fucking. Blocks. The only reason we are limited to Optimum is because of stupid monopoly laws (those two blocks are the difference between Brooklyn and Queens where I live).
Time Warner didn't do the bullshit throttling. But hey, I can't choose to use them because.. idiotic NY legislature decided to legislate monopolies and stifle competition.
FiOS isn't available in my area yet - apparently all the young professionals moving into the area (northern bushwick bordering Ridgewood / Fresh Pond) haven't had a chance to tip the median household income to the point where verizon thinks it prudent to roll out there yet.
Once FiOS is rolled out more, the cable companies are going to have to do something to remain competitive - and they're scared shitless about it. Which is why they're trying to get this crap written in stone.
Not only this, but using a physical 'maze' to test the shortest path via electricity might further illustrate the results of the double-slit experiment.
:)
You may end up finding out that yes - the electricity makes it through the 'maze' in the same amount of time each time.
But you may find out that each time it passes through the maze, it takes a different route. IANAP (physicist), though.
Letting the concept ruminate, it would probably end up that said electricity would take the same route through the maze each time, since the act of recording it passing nodes in the maze locks the state of the electrons to that path. If you weren't trying to observe the path, things might end up differently
Of course you can't write tests first without knowing the business requirements. However, the tests should be defined specifically by business requirements.
Have it work like TDD (Test Driven Development):
1) write a unit test that fails
2) write code (law) to make that unit test pass
3) write more unit tests for each piece of business (legislative) logic needed such that it fails with the current law
4) wirite code(law) to make said unit test pass
5) goto 3
Once all tests needed are written and pass with given legislation, the legislation can be brought to floor.
Answer:
If copyright is issued to a legal non-human body (ie, corporation, LLC):
Copyright term is 14 years with possibility to re-apply.
If copyright is issued to a human person (as opposed to a corporation or legal body), it is copywritten for 70 years.
We use the Yahoo JS library extensively as "sugar" in our client-side library. I'm worried that we may have to actually adhere to decent coding standards and decouple YUI from our codebase with an obfuscation layer! Just in case it dies (or worse - gets taken private and integrated into VS, so only VS users can benefit from the work of the awesome authors that have contributed to it over the past few years).
We don't really use any of its big UI elements, so it's not THAT big of a deal - but it is very useful as sugar for attaching events, dom-related activites, etc..
Hey man, my hard drives are hot swappable.
Could you imagine if DC's water supply got tainted with lsd?
Hundreds of thousands of people would see pretty patterns, a relatively large percentage of those would have a religious experience, and most of them would come out of it feeling refreshed, seeing the world in a new light with optimism and peace.
Sounds like it might end up being pretty rad, not terrorist at all...... that is, if they released it in such a low concentration that you'd only get 4-50 micrograms (as opposed to the typical 100-150 microgram street dose these days, or the 250microgram street dose in the 60s, or a 400 microgram dose that would drive you insane...)
Nah, the only hallucinogen that would supremely cause terror would be if they tainted the water with Datura extract.
Of course, that's a deliriant and not a psychedelic -- but that's splitting hairs.
1) maintainability
2) understandability
3) code reusability
4) loosely coupled code
5) modular code
If you don't understand how these can be helpful in business and heavy web applications, you've probably never worked on one with a team before..
Seems like it might also help machinereaders.
Standardizing the name of the navigation element, for example, allows a screenreader to find it usefully (on demand instead of in-line with the page). Same with the rest of the elements.
It also helps to standardize the semantic meaning of elements, to allow easier automatic syndication and searching. It's not about making the markup more readable for noobs, it's about making the markup more readable to machines (instead of everyone having a different id or class for their navigation, for example).
Or Secret of Mana...........
I agree completely, which is why I loved my high school computer science classes - in direct contrast with my college CS classes. In HS, we were using borland turbo c++ - admittedly, old. What was fantastic about it, though, is besides the basic io headers, we weren't allowed to use any pre-fix libraries. We had to write our own hash table library; our own linked list library; our own linear algebra library; our own string-handling library; our own self-balancing binary search tree library. Because we spent so much time learning how to do these basic things, we were more prepared going into college than many other students. The problem was, in college, we spent time futzing around with libraries in Java instead of learning how to build applications. The best CS course I took in college, actually, was 'math & physics for game programming,' in which we had to build our own physics library. Admittedly, it was only community college, and I dropped out in order to actually accomplish something in my life (I'm now a JS / C# developer in NY, as opposed to a pizza delivery guy in NC).
Then Summer Glau in a penguin suit shows up and says, "Come with me if you want to live."
After running it over with a car.
And you do, because she just looks so nice.
Try stumbleupon. :)
Alternate experiment:
Create a "boat" out of aluminum foil. Shape it like a square with a triangle appended to one edge, and fold slightly. Cut a small slit on the back of it (opposite the point), and place carefully on the surface of the pan filled with water. Carefully place a small drop of dish soap onto the slit, and watch the surface tension propel your boat forward!
I'd like to know what you think JavaScript's shortcomings are. It has some lame-brain concepts (like assigning a value to an undeclared variable creates that variable in the global namespace), and (relatively) slow numbercrunching (due to typelessness - but that only REALLY becomes a problem when, say, you're trying to find the square root of millions of numbers in a loop).
:)
Until you realize the language is a functional language with a C format, substituting hash lists for property lists, JavaScript really is kind of sucky because you don't understand how things that work in C won't work in JavaScript. It really is the idiot-savant of programming languages. Its main shortcoming then, I suppose, would be the fact that it tries to be everything (object-oriented with prototypal inheritance), functional (with lambda and closures), all in a language that for most intents and purposes looks like a procedural language.
What makes developing desktop-type applications with DHTML is the sucky event model for the DOM, inconsistent box models across browsers (I'm looking at you, IE), and slow rendering. It would be pretty awesome if someone extended XUL to include stylistic shit that, as a designer I really care about.
I'd read crockford.com if I were you
Seriously. The reason it took Morimoto a long time to open up a restaurant in NYC was because his former restaurant (for which he was not the head chef) had a non-compete clause. He could not open up a restaurant within NYC for a specified number of years. So he opened his flagship restaurant in Philadelphia, and only recently has opened up a restaurant in NYC.
Well, for one:
.. how trite.
To make a circle you need to circle-marquee and fill. Or, to make an outlined circle: circle marquee, fill, magic wand, shrink selection, fill.
In photoshop:
Select the circle tool. Edit stroke, fill, gradiant fill, dropshadow, inner glow, outer glow, et cetera. Resize circle as needed. It's a vector, after all.
For two:
Layer goups. I'm sure there's some script-fu that you can wrestle with to get it to work in gimp, but
Gimp is great for learning basics of graphic design. It's terrible for doing any professional-level graphic design work. Sodipodi is better than it, for that.