The next president, whether Republican or Democrat, is likely to terminate the remains of the US manned program.
As long as the ISS is up there the US will continue putting people into orbit. I can't see the powers that be letting it come down in a screaming ball of fire anytime soon. Too much has already been sunk into the project.
Have you looked at the nutritional info on their salads? They aren't what I would consider healthy. When you count in the salad dressing, they really aren't much better than a Big Mac.
You know what, I just took a look at the nutritional information on McDonalds website and it looks like between adding the greazy chicken parts and the dressings you can really max out on saturated fats and sodium.
I'm not a dietician but as I understand it the best kind of salad is where you replace the watery iceberg lettuce with spinach (a superfood) and go for a lighter oil dressing instead of slathering on the "white goo" dressings.
Only upside to all this that I can see is a salad at McD's is going to be a lot better for you than eating the fries/burgers/nuggets. Also I've heard (and agree that) portion control goes a hell of a long way in helping you reduce your weight and intake of bad fats and such. In fact I read a decent article about it right here. (warning: free sub required)
IIRC it's not just a molten core, but a spinning molten core made up mostly of iron which allows for a significant magnetic field to deflect solar winds.
I *think* I recall hearing that one of the reasons Mars could not "keep it together" the way the Earth did is because the core may have a different atomic/elemental makeup.
Any planetary scientists that can attest to/debunk this?
Agreed, they've started selling salads and healthier offerings (what isn't healthier than a mound of fried greasy stuff) but I have to think it's going to be a tough sell to their regular customer base. The people that already go to McGrease go there for...the grease. People that don't subscribe to the fast food diet wouldn't be caught dead in this place.
Anyway, to the topic at hand, video games for the kids is just an attempt at winning hearts and minds to get another generation addicted to McGrease and we all know it.
Layoffs are never pleasant for the layee, but if the budget stays the same I can see one upside to it. The administration could use this as a chance to get rid of the "dead wood" and clock watchers that seem to accumulate over time in any organization. Maybe we'll be getting better engineers for our tax dollars.
I don't think most people get inspired by much of anything these days. it's kind of depressing.
Agreed. I think having a solid leader, someone with integrity that we could look up to running this country is what we need. Someone who would stand up and own their mistakes, at least try to do the right thing, make this country and the world a better place as much as possible. Stop the partisan crap and start serving the we, the people.
Once again I'm sure we'll be faced with a crappy dem/rep candidate for Pres come next election time. All we can be thankful for at this point is GWB is out of the White House for sure.
I do feel though that the price needs to be slightly adjusted. Take a 22 episode TV season... that's almost $44 in iTunes. I could buy the DVD (if it was available) for less. TPTB need to keep that in mind.
Yes the price is lower, but the point is the portability right? Lugging a DVD player and tube around with you because you saved a few bucks on the purchase price of the show....well you see where I'm headed with this.
Well I'm sure it was clear to you that this is just what I've *heard* and I don't have much in the way of facts to back it up at this point. I understand where you're coming from, why only outsource part of it and manage it from United States? How long until the whole darned thing (tech business) is just shipped "over there" somewhere until that economy gets played out and it's on to the next place? I agree with the sentiment of your post that there is nothing unique or necessary about our management skills here that mandates the jobs stay here.
At the same I think there is still some need in America for people with technical skills (I'm an example of this). I believe "they" won't be able to outsource everything no matter how hard they try and there will certainly be a backlash from how much outsourcing has already taken place. There are plenty of signs that while there is some cost savings WRT salary, there are lots of other reasons not to send the jobs offshore, for example communication issues due to time zone differences and the fact that it's tough to keep people in a job for more than a few months before they get a better offer. Again, no hard numbers, just a feeling I get from what I am seeing happen here in the trenches.
Also I think it's in the govt's best interest to keep up happy and gainfully employed or the rich and powerful won't be for very long!
Sorry for offtopic rambling, am I agreeing with Gates here? First time for everything I suppose.
I've read about him doing these college talks several times in the near past. My guess is the video would show something similar to what he's been saying. Something about how they need more CompSci majors, especially with some kind of business masters type skills for project management assignments. I've *heard* that these project management jobs are tougher to outsource than the straight technical stuff but I'm not sure how much I believe it.
I would say that it's difficult to make this statement about any one provider, and that claiming one is "the best" is obviously an exercise in subjectivity.
I think the reason it's tough to make this claim is because you have a lot of factors coming into play including:
1. Which vendors infrastructure Verizon might be using in that area (Nortel, Lucent, Motorola, Qualcomm, etc.) since the base stations will affect RF quality,
2. The number and location of the base stations/antennae Verizon has chosen to deploy, or even was able to obtain a site license for (the land the tower is on)
3. What other vendors operate in that area, and what kind of stuff is happening around there that can raise the noise floor, which CDMA (IS-95/IS-2000) is particularly susceptible too
4. Time of day even, since the system can "breathe" with the traffic patterns of the users. To illustrate this point, consider all the cell sites along the freeway in your area. Each day at rush hour the quality could degrade because there are more users, so there is more power needed to maintain a link to each radio (handset). That means the "radius" of the site goes down and there are a lot fewer channels available (maybe even none left) for you to make a call on. All you see on your handset is some message about "call failed", frustrating at best.
5. How the infrastructure is optimized. There are hundreds or parameters that are set based on the RF environment, how many buildings/hills/obstacles you might have in your area, heck even the up/down tilt of the antennas on top of that big pole comes in to play. It takes months to tune a system and it's never done, hence the real basis for the "can you hear me now" guy who never seems to get where he's going.
6. Maybe some other things which I am forgetting now but will recall later.
Anyway a blanket statement like "Verizon service [does|does not] suck" really doesn't mean much considering everything it takes for a call to happen.
Cheers!
Hmm all I can say is maybe you're doing it wrong. Your story is entertaining, not much in the way of real detail though.
I travel quite a bit for work international and domestic and haven't have a problem outside the usual "weather" delays and things of that nature. I'd say I'm an "average American", not the GW/Fox News type, I admit, but blend in to the crowd pretty well even though I'm 6'5". Maybe it's helpful to have a good disposition?
Google will be able to help NASA get the overwhelming amount of information they have on their web sites and collaborative sites in order to make it easier to find things. There is a lot of great information out there but it's so hard to what's there unless you already have something specific in mind.
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As long as the ISS is up there the US will continue putting people into orbit. I can't see the powers that be letting it come down in a screaming ball of fire anytime soon. Too much has already been sunk into the project.
You know what, I just took a look at the nutritional information on McDonalds website and it looks like between adding the greazy chicken parts and the dressings you can really max out on saturated fats and sodium.
I'm not a dietician but as I understand it the best kind of salad is where you replace the watery iceberg lettuce with spinach (a superfood) and go for a lighter oil dressing instead of slathering on the "white goo" dressings.
Only upside to all this that I can see is a salad at McD's is going to be a lot better for you than eating the fries/burgers/nuggets. Also I've heard (and agree that) portion control goes a hell of a long way in helping you reduce your weight and intake of bad fats and such. In fact I read a decent article about it right here. (warning: free sub required)
Happy eating/gaming, McFriends!
I *think* I recall hearing that one of the reasons Mars could not "keep it together" the way the Earth did is because the core may have a different atomic/elemental makeup.
Any planetary scientists that can attest to/debunk this?
Anyway, to the topic at hand, video games for the kids is just an attempt at winning hearts and minds to get another generation addicted to McGrease and we all know it.
Layoffs are never pleasant for the layee, but if the budget stays the same I can see one upside to it. The administration could use this as a chance to get rid of the "dead wood" and clock watchers that seem to accumulate over time in any organization. Maybe we'll be getting better engineers for our tax dollars.
Agreed. I think having a solid leader, someone with integrity that we could look up to running this country is what we need. Someone who would stand up and own their mistakes, at least try to do the right thing, make this country and the world a better place as much as possible. Stop the partisan crap and start serving the we, the people.
Once again I'm sure we'll be faced with a crappy dem/rep candidate for Pres come next election time. All we can be thankful for at this point is GWB is out of the White House for sure.
Yes the price is lower, but the point is the portability right? Lugging a DVD player and tube around with you because you saved a few bucks on the purchase price of the show....well you see where I'm headed with this.
At the same I think there is still some need in America for people with technical skills (I'm an example of this). I believe "they" won't be able to outsource everything no matter how hard they try and there will certainly be a backlash from how much outsourcing has already taken place. There are plenty of signs that while there is some cost savings WRT salary, there are lots of other reasons not to send the jobs offshore, for example communication issues due to time zone differences and the fact that it's tough to keep people in a job for more than a few months before they get a better offer. Again, no hard numbers, just a feeling I get from what I am seeing happen here in the trenches.
Also I think it's in the govt's best interest to keep up happy and gainfully employed or the rich and powerful won't be for very long!
Sorry for offtopic rambling, am I agreeing with Gates here? First time for everything I suppose.
I've read about him doing these college talks several times in the near past. My guess is the video would show something similar to what he's been saying. Something about how they need more CompSci majors, especially with some kind of business masters type skills for project management assignments. I've *heard* that these project management jobs are tougher to outsource than the straight technical stuff but I'm not sure how much I believe it.
There is CDMA in South America too.
Uhmm... sorry but, wouldn't that make them faster than light?
I would say that it's difficult to make this statement about any one provider, and that claiming one is "the best" is obviously an exercise in subjectivity.
I think the reason it's tough to make this claim is because you have a lot of factors coming into play including:
1. Which vendors infrastructure Verizon might be using in that area (Nortel, Lucent, Motorola, Qualcomm, etc.) since the base stations will affect RF quality,
2. The number and location of the base stations/antennae Verizon has chosen to deploy, or even was able to obtain a site license for (the land the tower is on)
3. What other vendors operate in that area, and what kind of stuff is happening around there that can raise the noise floor, which CDMA (IS-95/IS-2000) is particularly susceptible too
4. Time of day even, since the system can "breathe" with the traffic patterns of the users. To illustrate this point, consider all the cell sites along the freeway in your area. Each day at rush hour the quality could degrade because there are more users, so there is more power needed to maintain a link to each radio (handset). That means the "radius" of the site goes down and there are a lot fewer channels available (maybe even none left) for you to make a call on. All you see on your handset is some message about "call failed", frustrating at best.
5. How the infrastructure is optimized. There are hundreds or parameters that are set based on the RF environment, how many buildings/hills/obstacles you might have in your area, heck even the up/down tilt of the antennas on top of that big pole comes in to play. It takes months to tune a system and it's never done, hence the real basis for the "can you hear me now" guy who never seems to get where he's going.
6. Maybe some other things which I am forgetting now but will recall later.
Anyway a blanket statement like "Verizon service [does|does not] suck" really doesn't mean much considering everything it takes for a call to happen. Cheers!
In Soviet Russia, cluster grow you.
It's just you.
I travel quite a bit for work international and domestic and haven't have a problem outside the usual "weather" delays and things of that nature. I'd say I'm an "average American", not the GW/Fox News type, I admit, but blend in to the crowd pretty well even though I'm 6'5". Maybe it's helpful to have a good disposition?
It's not so bad, really. Things are already starting to lighten up again as the 9/11 memory fades.
Only place that really bothers me is Israel since it takes so much longer to get through their security.
Google will be able to help NASA get the overwhelming amount of information they have on their web sites and collaborative sites in order to make it easier to find things. There is a lot of great information out there but it's so hard to what's there unless you already have something specific in mind.