Don't forget magnetic and electric fields. There is no "particle emission" like the hypothetical "graviton". These two forces bend space similar to the way gravity does, except gravity seems to trump them all: gravity can affect the path of electro-magnetic radiation.
However, anything without boundries is dangerous. Its often those boundries that keep us a civilized society - moving forward.
Who can say what should be right and wrong? It was a little icon. I'm sure if you held everyone in this damn country to the same standard, then rappers and wannabe thugs would be imprisoned for exactly the same shit. School officials should realize that guns are a part of hip-hop culture now and that some students don't view these things as bad - how can they when they see fidy cent doing it all the time? The question is, should this culture be respected?
Have we become so accustomed to conformity that any dissent from athority is met with zero tolerance?
Yes, this is exactly how things have become. I was brought up on charges by my college because I gave a student govt campaign speech against the current fiscal policy. Dissent is a big no-no to these people.
With the first link the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.
And so what happens to the little girl only affects the little girl. But when the civil rights of an individual are violated, it creates a precident that affects ALL of our civil rights. This doesn't just affect the little girl, it affects us all!
As an American, I am proud to have rights. Those rights are worth more than anything you can buy in the whole world!
The problem with the American type of education is that it is too linear. Students only have one cookie cutter option, which absolutely does NOT prepare students for a real life job. What we need is vocational training for those students who don't want to college, and a "college prep" for those that do.
Germany already has this system in place. The students on the "college prep" course attend what is called "Gymnasium" to earn essentially the equivilent of the American Associate's Degree. Those in the vocational programs are taught topics related to the industry of their choice; this includes job placement and an apprenticeship once the vocational degree is earned.
With the current American system, students are almost forced to go to college just to get the vocational skills needed for their chosen industry (certification anyone?). A few of my friends in the IT program are there just for their MCSE and don't plan on earning a degree.
What I like about the German system is that time is not wasted on needless high school courses, and that the cost of vocational education is completely placed on the taxpayers - not the students who don't have any money for the training anyway.
Imagine "Dune: Galaxies". I would totally buy it, but only as long as I could roll a Kwisatz Haderach and ride a sandworm. Yeah... now that would be awesome!
For every ice age or warm period, it takes a timespan of thousands of years for climate change to occur naturally. There are only a few exceptions to this.
One exception I can think of was several billion years ago when cyanobacteria first started contributing substantial amounts Oxygen to the atmosphere. This Oxygen increase reduced the greenhouse effect, which triggered a super ice age.
The difference this time around is that climate change is occuring in the blink of an eye as far as the earth's history is concerned. A few weeks ago I read a story on slashdot with the prediction that the northern ice cap would be totally liquid in the summer time by the end of the century.
One hundred years is not enough time for this phenomenon to be occuring without an extraordinary driving force. Since massive aerobic fungal blooms are not occuring (obviously), the only cause left is humans.
I challenge critics to answer this: considering the billions of tons of carbon emissions human kind produces every day, what greater source could there possibly be at this point in time?
Actually the station could use solar power to sustain and generate the torques needed. The Hubble uses two flywheels, spin maintained and generated by solar power, to adjust the telescope's position. The same could be done with a space station, except more power would be needed as well as other engineering feats such as bigger flywheels (or lots of smaller ones).
That's just what we need. With a few sandworms on the moon, we'll have a nice place to send all the terrorists *ahem* Fremen. Maybe OPEC *ahem* CHOAM will move its operations up there too and leave the poor Caladanian people alone. Great idea! Keep up the good work, you serve the Golden Path well!
Are you sure about this? Pure oxygen is used in hospitals all the time, and don't forget Michael Jackson's oxygen chamber. He's still living, last time I checked.
Actually the moon's gravity would never be able to hold onto any of the gases. Only the heaviest of noble gases would remain traped in a very thin, almost nonexistant, atmophere.
To me, this seems like those CS degree holders just didn't have as much experience as the GED holders. Sure, with a few extra years experience in real programming practice instead of your general ed's and theory upon theory upon theory, those programmers are going to be more valuable to you. That is fine, but I think if those with the degree were given the chance to advance as much as the GED holders did, those with a degree would do just as well (if not better), especially since they also have abstract knowledge that only comes from school.
Being a CS major myself, it scares the hell out of me to hear that I might not have all the knowledge/tools to do a job well after I get out of school. (And will I be fired for it!??) If this is the norm, I would say that schools should get their act together, because students are there to get a job, not to become CS teachers.
Maybe if authorities in the field such as slashdot would stop playing the "zomg outsourcing" card, maybe there wouldn't be so many student's spooked away from the major.
I'm a computer science major, and I see more potential this industry than any other. The fact is that the demand is HUGE while the demographic of those having the capacity to gain REAL talent is very small. If you're good at what you do, there will always be opportunities to make bank.
The amount of land covered by this rising water is extremely small.
Lester Brown estimated that for every meter rise in ocean levels, you would lose a kilometer of coastland. I've heard estimates that the ocean level could rise by 8 meters over the next 100 years, which would (by Lester's formula) flood out most of downtown L.A. And that is just one city. Most of the earth's 6 billion residents live within a few kilometers of the coast. Rising waters would be catastrophic, and if New Orleans is any reminder, the price will not be merely economic. How many people do you think will die in storm surges when mostly every large city on the planet is below sea level? A great many indeed.
Except that humanity's exponentially growing population wouldn't be able to support itself when some previously furtile land turns to desert and all our coastal cities are destroyed by rising waters, which would cause billions of people to develop the heartland (which is where the farms are). While it may not whipe out our species, it will be the death of the modern lifestyle. The resources will just be too expensive.
A thousand years ago, Greenland was populated by the vikings and it was very fertile.
Yeah, and Iceland was a barran wasteland. Give me a break. They only named it "Green"-land because they wanted people to start colonies there. If your country has human settlements in a territory, it becomes easier to claim the land as your own. Greenland is and has always been just a frozen hunk of ice.
What about burnout? Is sanity optional too? Or is busting your balls just a state of mind? I doubt that working 2 shifts while going to a 4-year university and selling blood plasma is really plausible. Actually, no offense, for those of us not on drugs, that is downright impossible. Otherwise, burnout would occur in maybe 1 or 2 semesters and then you're back to square one.
I have been there. I worked 2 campus jobs, did SEO freelance work and web design, and took classes full-time and a half. It was absolutely a slice of hell.
Bush has done lots of good things. He has made the rich richer. He has endorced the oursourcing of our jobs. American globalization has uplifted cultures around the world and remade them in our image. So what if those dead cultures become a jihad. That's what our military is for. And forget North Korea or Iran, Iraq was the real enemy.
Many Americans are hard working. There will always be dumbasses, but you get that in every country. There are several foreign exchange students who take physics with me and I can tell you honestly that the majority of THEM are lazy. Most people are lazy, thats just the nature of the beast when you're taking physics. I have also found that the majority of those who "work hard" do so because they are not as confident in the field as someone who knows it intuitively. In computer science, these intuitive people think of coding as an art, while those who don't just consider it programming.
I do agree though that rap music is a problem with America's youth. However, no self respecting college student would get high and gangbang. Those people will drop out of college and rightfully so.
And just because you had an easy time going though school doesn't mean that every computer science program will be as easy as yours. Other colleges might maintain departments that are much more demanding of the student. If you weren't challenged in school, its not the fault of the "students who get high", but rather the school's fault for not maintaining a challenging computer science program.
I get sick of people blaming general incompetence on some nationality such as "American" or "Indian". Stupidity has nothing to do with nationality. Get over it.
Even though I am heavily interested in computers, I am currently double majoring in math and physics at a local community college.
For the past 3 years, all the science departments have made cuts in courses offered (except for biology for some reason). For example, computer science students are now forced to take online courses for several required classes. 3D Calculus has been cut to only one classroom instead of the previous two when I took it. Same thing with Physics of magnetism and electrostatics, which I am currently taking and so far only accommodates 16 people.
I'm assuming that all serious engineering majors will take 3D calculus and physics; that equates to 16 potential students that might graduate with me. And that is only for an A.S. degree. The community college I attend is also number 1 in students transferring to UCLA and other top local universities in southern California, so that number for other community colleges is likely to be less.
Only 9 years ago, the physics department was booming. According to the department chair, they actually had adjunct faculty (for more classes than the tenure staff can handle) and a laser program.
What is causing students to major in something other than engineering? Is it the threat of outsourcing or, in the case of the USA, the anti-intellectualism of the Bush administration? Or maybe engineering is too old school for gen X. It really irks me to see how much the sciences have gone downhill in only the past 3-4 years.
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Plus if you've ever been arrested you might be denied that pesky little security clearance you needed for your future job!
Don't forget magnetic and electric fields. There is no "particle emission" like the hypothetical "graviton". These two forces bend space similar to the way gravity does, except gravity seems to trump them all: gravity can affect the path of electro-magnetic radiation.
However, anything without boundries is dangerous. Its often those boundries that keep us a civilized society - moving forward.
Who can say what should be right and wrong? It was a little icon. I'm sure if you held everyone in this damn country to the same standard, then rappers and wannabe thugs would be imprisoned for exactly the same shit. School officials should realize that guns are a part of hip-hop culture now and that some students don't view these things as bad - how can they when they see fidy cent doing it all the time? The question is, should this culture be respected?
Have we become so accustomed to conformity that any dissent from athority is met with zero tolerance?
Yes, this is exactly how things have become. I was brought up on charges by my college because I gave a student govt campaign speech against the current fiscal policy. Dissent is a big no-no to these people.
There is a memorable quote on this. It is:
With the first link the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.
And so what happens to the little girl only affects the little girl. But when the civil rights of an individual are violated, it creates a precident that affects ALL of our civil rights. This doesn't just affect the little girl, it affects us all!
As an American, I am proud to have rights. Those rights are worth more than anything you can buy in the whole world!
The problem with the American type of education is that it is too linear. Students only have one cookie cutter option, which absolutely does NOT prepare students for a real life job. What we need is vocational training for those students who don't want to college, and a "college prep" for those that do.
Germany already has this system in place. The students on the "college prep" course attend what is called "Gymnasium" to earn essentially the equivilent of the American Associate's Degree. Those in the vocational programs are taught topics related to the industry of their choice; this includes job placement and an apprenticeship once the vocational degree is earned.
With the current American system, students are almost forced to go to college just to get the vocational skills needed for their chosen industry (certification anyone?). A few of my friends in the IT program are there just for their MCSE and don't plan on earning a degree.
What I like about the German system is that time is not wasted on needless high school courses, and that the cost of vocational education is completely placed on the taxpayers - not the students who don't have any money for the training anyway.
Just my $0.02
FYI, Brazil has just about everyone driving ethanol cars already.
Actually, Brazil uses sugarcane alcohol, not ethanol.
Imagine "Dune: Galaxies". I would totally buy it, but only as long as I could roll a Kwisatz Haderach and ride a sandworm. Yeah... now that would be awesome!
For every ice age or warm period, it takes a timespan of thousands of years for climate change to occur naturally. There are only a few exceptions to this.
One exception I can think of was several billion years ago when cyanobacteria first started contributing substantial amounts Oxygen to the atmosphere. This Oxygen increase reduced the greenhouse effect, which triggered a super ice age.
The difference this time around is that climate change is occuring in the blink of an eye as far as the earth's history is concerned. A few weeks ago I read a story on slashdot with the prediction that the northern ice cap would be totally liquid in the summer time by the end of the century.
One hundred years is not enough time for this phenomenon to be occuring without an extraordinary driving force. Since massive aerobic fungal blooms are not occuring (obviously), the only cause left is humans.
I challenge critics to answer this: considering the billions of tons of carbon emissions human kind produces every day, what greater source could there possibly be at this point in time?
Actually the station could use solar power to sustain and generate the torques needed. The Hubble uses two flywheels, spin maintained and generated by solar power, to adjust the telescope's position. The same could be done with a space station, except more power would be needed as well as other engineering feats such as bigger flywheels (or lots of smaller ones).
That's just what we need. With a few sandworms on the moon, we'll have a nice place to send all the terrorists *ahem* Fremen. Maybe OPEC *ahem* CHOAM will move its operations up there too and leave the poor Caladanian people alone. Great idea! Keep up the good work, you serve the Golden Path well!
Are you sure about this? Pure oxygen is used in hospitals all the time, and don't forget Michael Jackson's oxygen chamber. He's still living, last time I checked.
Actually the moon's gravity would never be able to hold onto any of the gases. Only the heaviest of noble gases would remain traped in a very thin, almost nonexistant, atmophere.
They could force users to make their homepage google.com or getfirefox.com for IE users...
To me, this seems like those CS degree holders just didn't have as much experience as the GED holders. Sure, with a few extra years experience in real programming practice instead of your general ed's and theory upon theory upon theory, those programmers are going to be more valuable to you. That is fine, but I think if those with the degree were given the chance to advance as much as the GED holders did, those with a degree would do just as well (if not better), especially since they also have abstract knowledge that only comes from school. Being a CS major myself, it scares the hell out of me to hear that I might not have all the knowledge/tools to do a job well after I get out of school. (And will I be fired for it!??) If this is the norm, I would say that schools should get their act together, because students are there to get a job, not to become CS teachers.
Maybe if authorities in the field such as slashdot would stop playing the "zomg outsourcing" card, maybe there wouldn't be so many student's spooked away from the major.
I'm a computer science major, and I see more potential this industry than any other. The fact is that the demand is HUGE while the demographic of those having the capacity to gain REAL talent is very small. If you're good at what you do, there will always be opportunities to make bank.
The amount of land covered by this rising water is extremely small.
Lester Brown estimated that for every meter rise in ocean levels, you would lose a kilometer of coastland. I've heard estimates that the ocean level could rise by 8 meters over the next 100 years, which would (by Lester's formula) flood out most of downtown L.A. And that is just one city. Most of the earth's 6 billion residents live within a few kilometers of the coast. Rising waters would be catastrophic, and if New Orleans is any reminder, the price will not be merely economic. How many people do you think will die in storm surges when mostly every large city on the planet is below sea level? A great many indeed.
Say that to the mexicans.
Except that humanity's exponentially growing population wouldn't be able to support itself when some previously furtile land turns to desert and all our coastal cities are destroyed by rising waters, which would cause billions of people to develop the heartland (which is where the farms are). While it may not whipe out our species, it will be the death of the modern lifestyle. The resources will just be too expensive.
A thousand years ago, Greenland was populated by the vikings and it was very fertile.
Yeah, and Iceland was a barran wasteland. Give me a break. They only named it "Green"-land because they wanted people to start colonies there. If your country has human settlements in a territory, it becomes easier to claim the land as your own. Greenland is and has always been just a frozen hunk of ice.
What about burnout? Is sanity optional too? Or is busting your balls just a state of mind? I doubt that working 2 shifts while going to a 4-year university and selling blood plasma is really plausible. Actually, no offense, for those of us not on drugs, that is downright impossible. Otherwise, burnout would occur in maybe 1 or 2 semesters and then you're back to square one.
I have been there. I worked 2 campus jobs, did SEO freelance work and web design, and took classes full-time and a half. It was absolutely a slice of hell.
Nobody besides me seems willing to answer. . .
Bush has done lots of good things. He has made the rich richer. He has endorced the oursourcing of our jobs. American globalization has uplifted cultures around the world and remade them in our image. So what if those dead cultures become a jihad. That's what our military is for. And forget North Korea or Iran, Iraq was the real enemy.
I say, if he's offended then maybe he should be turning cheek instead of starting a flame war on slashdot.
Many Americans are hard working. There will always be dumbasses, but you get that in every country. There are several foreign exchange students who take physics with me and I can tell you honestly that the majority of THEM are lazy. Most people are lazy, thats just the nature of the beast when you're taking physics. I have also found that the majority of those who "work hard" do so because they are not as confident in the field as someone who knows it intuitively. In computer science, these intuitive people think of coding as an art, while those who don't just consider it programming. I do agree though that rap music is a problem with America's youth. However, no self respecting college student would get high and gangbang. Those people will drop out of college and rightfully so. And just because you had an easy time going though school doesn't mean that every computer science program will be as easy as yours. Other colleges might maintain departments that are much more demanding of the student. If you weren't challenged in school, its not the fault of the "students who get high", but rather the school's fault for not maintaining a challenging computer science program. I get sick of people blaming general incompetence on some nationality such as "American" or "Indian". Stupidity has nothing to do with nationality. Get over it.
Even though I am heavily interested in computers, I am currently double majoring in math and physics at a local community college.
For the past 3 years, all the science departments have made cuts in courses offered (except for biology for some reason). For example, computer science students are now forced to take online courses for several required classes. 3D Calculus has been cut to only one classroom instead of the previous two when I took it. Same thing with Physics of magnetism and electrostatics, which I am currently taking and so far only accommodates 16 people.
I'm assuming that all serious engineering majors will take 3D calculus and physics; that equates to 16 potential students that might graduate with me. And that is only for an A.S. degree. The community college I attend is also number 1 in students transferring to UCLA and other top local universities in southern California, so that number for other community colleges is likely to be less.
Only 9 years ago, the physics department was booming. According to the department chair, they actually had adjunct faculty (for more classes than the tenure staff can handle) and a laser program.
What is causing students to major in something other than engineering? Is it the threat of outsourcing or, in the case of the USA, the anti-intellectualism of the Bush administration? Or maybe engineering is too old school for gen X. It really irks me to see how much the sciences have gone downhill in only the past 3-4 years.