IANAA (Astrophysicist), but I believe asteroids of that size would reach the earth. Depending what it's made of, it could break into a lot of pieces, though.
This is a pretty small asteroid and (again, I'm no expert) but its orbit means that it wouldn't have a great relative velocity if it did strike earth (nothing like a comet, by comparison). There were some estimates on the damage it would do if it were to strike in the referenced article and this doesn't seem to be a major concern.
I wonder how this automatic man in the middle handles SSL connections? Does it pass that traffic though? Does it open a new connection and handle the SSL handshake in the cloud? Sniffing people's bank accounts is a great service, would bring 1 click buy to a new level.
I think this advice is good in most cases, but there are some cases where it might not be applicable.
This might be good advice for people fresh out of school, but I'd like to point out that some companies make it difficult for people to do anything public outside of work.
Also, not everyone is interested in web work. In those cases, I'd expect those people to have blogs where they discuss their projects, show code and relate experiences.
Another issue is that certain school programs are pretty demanding and don't leave much time for work outside. A prospective employee going through one of these schools might be also doing internships at one of the companies that don't allow you to do work outside.
In all these cases, the prospective employee should have code that they can show and explain, a portfolio.
Do you have inside information concerning the subsidies, because that's privileged information. I'd be surprised if the adware and MSN pays for the OEM Windows license, but maybe I could be surprised.
I do recall that netbooks used to be cheaper without windows. I think MS has since struck arrangements that make this no longer possible, but that's the way it used to be.
Huh? Of the 3 Republicans you mentioned, there was one alleged gay and two men with women on the side. These are your examples of closted gays and "diaper wearers" in the Republican Party? Mark Sanford resigned. Larry Craig actually resigned, but took it back.
I'm surprised you didn't mention Mark Foley, but then, he did resign, so I guess that wouldn't fit with your theme.
Spitzer resigned, true. He had lots of powerful enemies on Wall Street, he was seriously weakened by "Troopergate" and was under investigation for financial misdeeds surrounding the prostitutes (bribery, misuse of campaign funds) he was procuring that it's hardly surprising that he had to go. Note that Patterson suffered not a bit when he admitted to infidelity.
It's pretty surprising, actually, that Clinton survived. He was caught in a clear case of harassment, it doesn't matter a whit if it's consensual, the difference in power between a President and an Intern would have been harassment in a reasonable world. There was also that little matter of lying in open court. Martha Stewart goes to Prison for lying to an investigator and Clinton skates on lying in open court?
What other Democrat had to resign? Are you saying the Democrats are pure on this account and Spitzer and Clinton are the only examples?
I agree that the media applies different standards to Democrats when it comes to scandal. Like the blackout on the stories about Gore that have been known to reporters for years and are just now coming out.
So, now well-connected sites run by media companies will have more relevance in Search results vs. minority opinions put out on a cheap web host?
'Do no evil' is meaningless if you don't actually examine what you are doing.
If you are into chess, Google Translate opens up a whole world of chess blogs to you. I haven't used it extensively, but I was quite impressed with
this translation.
To the chess players out there, note how it picks up notation interspersed with the text. It's not perfect and seems to fall back into Spanish algebraic in odd places, but I think they are the only translation tool that even tries to do chess notation.
I wonder if there are other "special purpose" translations that Google Translate attempts. It's pretty impressive to me that they even bother with the small chess blog reading public.
Oh, Google Translate does a lot better job on the non-chess parts of blogs, too.
You don't know that. Some of the posters might have been relatively further away and it just took the message longer to get to you, but they might have posted at earlier.
When government tells you to jump, you jump. Gitmo is an ugly hotel for those who refuse.
could be qualified as flamebait. I've not heard that there is anyone in Gitmo for refusing to "jump". Of course, many are there for reasons that are unclear or classified, so it's hard to disprove. Nevertheless, a comment like that is meant to attract a flame war, not real discussion.
Maybe Google is only in talks to drive M$ crazy and make them pay too much. We know that Balmer personally hates Google. That might be expected to make M$ behave irrationally with regard to their negotiations with TW.
On the bright side, just think of how much damage they might be doing if they were actually running around in the real world.
It's hard to imagine a place where they could commit more long-term serious damage than in teaching children.
Maybe managing nuclear warheads or environmental cleanup, but those things are widely recognized as being important and are heavily reviewed. Your comment is representative of an attitude where it's thought acceptable to shift incompetents into this area.
It's pretty clear that you didn't read the article, or didn't understand it.
According to 1998 edition of Contraceptive Technology, 85% of women who use no method of family planning will get pregnant in one year. The percent of women who will become pregnant during the first year of perfect use of a "user-controlled" method is as follows:
Cervical cap 9-26%
Spermicides 6%
Diaphragm 6%
Female condom 5%
Male condom 3%
Birth control pills 0.1-0.5%
Standard Days Method TM 5% (2002 Georgetown study)
My reading of this is that a woman having sex using this method will have a 5% chance of getting pregnant in one year, similar to a number of other methods commonly used.
If effectiveness, convenience and long-term costs are your only criteria, then sterilization might prove to be the best option. What? There are other considerations? OK, then...
In any case, I didn't want to get into a contraception debate, the link I provided called it 'effective' and I said it was 'very effective', you are free to quibble over what 'very' means here. I just wanted to point out the inaccuracy of the poster who said that the Catholic Church disallowed all contraception.
...a devout Catholic is not allowed to have sex except if trying to have kids. No contraception, no masturbation even, nothing.
This is not true. IANACLA (Catholic Legal Authority), but I believe that the actual Catholic position is a lot more complex than this. For example, a devout Catholic who is sterile, either due to age or other natural circumstances is not committing a sin when having sex with a partner to whom they are legally (in the eyes of the Church) married.
Furthermore, what is commonly known as the "Rhythm Method", a form of contraception that has recently been shown to be very effective, is allowed to devout Catholics.
Pretty much every time a faster CPU is released, there are always a few that are marveled by the rate at which CPUs get faster but loathe the sluggish rate that storage evolves.
On the contrary, I've always been amazed at the rate of price/performance evolution in HD technology.
Consider that in 1982 a 10 MB disk cost something on the order of $3500 while today you can reasonably expect to get an 80 GB disk for $50, that's a drive that has 8000x the storage for 1/70 the price or a price/MB improvement of roughly 420,000x. And, that doesn't take into account the dramatic improvement in reliability and speed (both access and interface) that the newer drives exhibit. Do you think CPUs have kept up with this?
I've heard people predict the end of moving-parts mass storage for years now, but it still seems pretty distant considering the great values we're getting with HD technology.
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IANAA (Astrophysicist), but I believe asteroids of that size would reach the earth. Depending what it's made of, it could break into a lot of pieces, though.
This is a pretty small asteroid and (again, I'm no expert) but its orbit means that it wouldn't have a great relative velocity if it did strike earth (nothing like a comet, by comparison). There were some estimates on the damage it would do if it were to strike in the referenced article and this doesn't seem to be a major concern.
I wonder how this automatic man in the middle handles SSL connections? Does it pass that traffic though? Does it open a new connection and handle the SSL handshake in the cloud?
Sniffing people's bank accounts is a great service, would bring 1 click buy to a new level.
0 click buy!
I think this advice is good in most cases, but there are some cases where it might not be applicable.
This might be good advice for people fresh out of school, but I'd like to point out that some companies make it difficult for people to do anything public outside of work.
Also, not everyone is interested in web work. In those cases, I'd expect those people to have blogs where they discuss their projects, show code and relate experiences.
Another issue is that certain school programs are pretty demanding and don't leave much time for work outside. A prospective employee going through one of these schools might be also doing internships at one of the companies that don't allow you to do work outside.
In all these cases, the prospective employee should have code that they can show and explain, a portfolio.
I'd use them to assign off-topic to all the posts concerning teacher pay, benefits, workload and state budgets.
Come on people. This teacher is just trying to do a good job and we have to turn into an on-line teaparty or NEA advocacy forum?
Sounds like they've reinvented Broadway.
I always thought it sounded like a neat idea, but it went exactly nowhere 14 YEARS AGO.
Do you have inside information concerning the subsidies, because that's privileged information. I'd be surprised if the adware and MSN pays for the OEM Windows license, but maybe I could be surprised.
I do recall that netbooks used to be cheaper without windows. I think MS has since struck arrangements that make this no longer possible, but that's the way it used to be.
Huh? Of the 3 Republicans you mentioned, there was one alleged gay and two men with women on the side. These are your examples of closted gays and "diaper wearers" in the Republican Party? Mark Sanford resigned. Larry Craig actually resigned, but took it back.
I'm surprised you didn't mention Mark Foley, but then, he did resign, so I guess that wouldn't fit with your theme.
Spitzer resigned, true. He had lots of powerful enemies on Wall Street, he was seriously weakened by "Troopergate" and was under investigation for financial misdeeds surrounding the prostitutes (bribery, misuse of campaign funds) he was procuring that it's hardly surprising that he had to go. Note that Patterson suffered not a bit when he admitted to infidelity.
It's pretty surprising, actually, that Clinton survived. He was caught in a clear case of harassment, it doesn't matter a whit if it's consensual, the difference in power between a President and an Intern would have been harassment in a reasonable world. There was also that little matter of lying in open court. Martha Stewart goes to Prison for lying to an investigator and Clinton skates on lying in open court?
What other Democrat had to resign? Are you saying the Democrats are pure on this account and Spitzer and Clinton are the only examples?
I agree that the media applies different standards to Democrats when it comes to scandal. Like the blackout on the stories about Gore that have been known to reporters for years and are just now coming out.
Stop right there.
So, now well-connected sites run by media companies will have more relevance in Search results vs. minority opinions put out on a cheap web host?
'Do no evil' is meaningless if you don't actually examine what you are doing.
If you are into chess, Google Translate opens up a whole world of chess blogs to you. I haven't used it extensively, but I was quite impressed with this translation.
To the chess players out there, note how it picks up notation interspersed with the text. It's not perfect and seems to fall back into Spanish algebraic in odd places, but I think they are the only translation tool that even tries to do chess notation.
I wonder if there are other "special purpose" translations that Google Translate attempts. It's pretty impressive to me that they even bother with the small chess blog reading public.
Oh, Google Translate does a lot better job on the non-chess parts of blogs, too.
We're not just broke, our debt is unbelievably large!
...largely.
You don't know that. Some of the posters might have been relatively further away and it just took the message longer to get to you, but they might have posted at earlier.
Or, maybe that's the point...
Here's a list of Perl implementations for Windows. I don't know very much about most of them, but I've heard good things about PXPerl.
Maybe Google is only in talks to drive M$ crazy and make them pay too much. We know that Balmer personally hates Google. That might be expected to make M$ behave irrationally with regard to their negotiations with TW.
It's hard to imagine a place where they could commit more long-term serious damage than in teaching children.
Maybe managing nuclear warheads or environmental cleanup, but those things are widely recognized as being important and are heavily reviewed. Your comment is representative of an attitude where it's thought acceptable to shift incompetents into this area.
I should have added that I saw this on the excellent PLNews: Programming Language News site.
It's similarly effective to a lot of methods that you hear advocated widely, such as condoms and is allowed to devout Catholics. Also, women with certain health risks are advised against hormonal contraception.
If effectiveness, convenience and long-term costs are your only criteria, then sterilization might prove to be the best option. What? There are other considerations? OK, then...
In any case, I didn't want to get into a contraception debate, the link I provided called it 'effective' and I said it was 'very effective', you are free to quibble over what 'very' means here. I just wanted to point out the inaccuracy of the poster who said that the Catholic Church disallowed all contraception.
This is not true. IANACLA (Catholic Legal Authority), but I believe that the actual Catholic position is a lot more complex than this. For example, a devout Catholic who is sterile, either due to age or other natural circumstances is not committing a sin when having sex with a partner to whom they are legally (in the eyes of the Church) married.
Furthermore, what is commonly known as the "Rhythm Method", a form of contraception that has recently been shown to be very effective, is allowed to devout Catholics.
A planet with a nice ring? That'd be Saturn.
On the contrary, I've always been amazed at the rate of price/performance evolution in HD technology.
Consider that in 1982 a 10 MB disk cost something on the order of $3500 while today you can reasonably expect to get an 80 GB disk for $50, that's a drive that has 8000x the storage for 1/70 the price or a price/MB improvement of roughly 420,000x. And, that doesn't take into account the dramatic improvement in reliability and speed (both access and interface) that the newer drives exhibit. Do you think CPUs have kept up with this?
I've heard people predict the end of moving-parts mass storage for years now, but it still seems pretty distant considering the great values we're getting with HD technology.