The problem is that it is currently a job being done by IT whereas it should be a job facilitated by IT (providing the means to do monitoring), but handled by managers, or people dedicated to such a task.
Actually, it looks like everyone agreed that it was unstable. They just didn't all agree that it was definitely going to explode. And BP didn't agree to paying the extra money and time to take some extra precautions.
Cost and space. Yes, the energy is there, but it 1) costs energy to build these panels 2) costs resources to build these panels (not terribly common minerals) 3) costs land on which to locate these panels. So, it isn't really free, and unfortunately, those costs are currently more than the cost of setting a piece of coal on fire.
Agreed, unfortunately, history says that that doesn't happen unless there is also a cost increase for energy. People like energy, and they keep on finding new and inventive ways to use it. There is some call from consumers to produce things that use less energy, like CFL bulbs, and more efficient TVs and computers. I suspect that for the majority of people, it's price and quality conscious, and far less environmentally conscious. i.e. the CFLs last longer and end up costing less. Likewise, our computers have become disposable commodities, and have become faster because of the lower power per performance unit.
Unfortunately, you need to give people an incentive to cut their energy usage, or they aren't likely to do it, at least not radically. They'll make token trims to get their electric bill to a "reasonable" level. But they aren't going to become the home equivalent of hyper-milers without a strong incentive, which is usually cost.
I don't think it's blowout preventers in general, but this blowout preventer. The golf balls were originally used to force the mechanisms in the blowout preventer to work properly and close the thing up. I do believe, however, that the stability issues aren't just with the blowout preventer. I'm not sure on the details exactly, but they need to get concrete in that hole a good ways to seal the thing up. A rock on top won't do.
This is what they were trying to do with "top kill". They would pump drilling mud into the hole to get the flow of oil to reduce enough that they could then follow it with concrete to seal the well. It didn't work. That's why they are going to drill the relief well. It will reduce the pressure on this well, so they can seal this well, and then they'll do a proper seal up of the relief well. Or that's how I understand it.
The difference with eating butter and salt is that the only person it's going to kill is you. If driving at a certain speed increases not only your risk to yourself, but to others, then there is a moral imperative. That said, I've seen more speed limits set by people who wanted to increase revenue with speed traps or got lobbied by people who had no business determining speed limits, than otherwise.
The problem is, apparently, that the well is incredibly unstable. They had a list of other ideas in the event that their "top kill" method didn't work. They didn't even try them because they were seeing pressure numbers and other signs that the well was unstable. They are, reportedly, afraid that if they try to stop the flow completely at the blowout preventer that the pressure will destroy the blowout preventer and the well creating a huge, uncontrolled leak that is coming out of many more places and at a higher volume than is currently coming out of that riser pipe.
Which is what I do during take-off and landing because I can't have my laptop out. The alternative is to read my paper book, which is strangely allowed while my e-reader isn't, nor are other hand-held electronics...
From radio reports, it sounded like this mud method had risk in that it could damage the blowout preventor causing a worse leak. The other methods were an attempt to avoid breaking the blowout preventer further and causing the hole to become unrestricted and allow for an even greater flow.
I looked up a previous (Mach 5) run of the X-51 and saw 70,000 ft, and used that for back of the napkin calculations in another response. The difference in ground speed is pretty much negligible.
They weren't measuring speed relative to the ground. They were measuring speed relative to itself. Regardless, the increase in distance is negligible. I went and did a quick look up for the X51 and it hit's altitudes of 70,000 feet, or ~13 miles.
Given a mean radius for the Earth of 4182 mi we get a circumference of 26,276 mi. If we add the 13 mi of the test flight, we get a circumference of 26,358 mi. With a grand total increase in distance of 82 mi over the entire surface of the Earth.
Let's even compare the height of the space shuttle on it's Hubble missions (the highest it goes) - 372 mi. It's circumference is 28,614 mi. It's a difference of 2,338 mi which is a lot, but with all of that altitude, is only an increase in 8% relative to the ground.
Which is not what administrators and professors view as Computer Science. That is the realm of a trade school, as opposed to the academic discipline. Aside from some mentions of the above items in a software engineering course, I don't believe any of those items were covered in a single college course I took, and I don't think the professors would feel bad about it either. They intend to teach you Computer Science, and not Computer Programming.
As a purely selfish request, do you have any recommendations of sites, documentation, or books that cover these topics well? As a soon to be grad, I'm finding myself quite daunted by the gap between what I learned in college, and the things that are required in a production development environment. Note: I am reading through Code Complete, 2nd ed. right now.
Unfortunately, there is also a huge disconnect between what colleges teach, and what is required for students to be successful after college. Very little of what you spoke about is taught at a lot of universities. It doesn't mean these students won't eventually make good programmers, but they need something to translate the theory they've learned into somethings that's applicable. It's really daunting.
I've worked in IT (no development) throughout high school and college. All of my "programming" is scripting, and small utility programs that, I now realize, would be destroyed in a code review. And the avenues to learning to be a better programmer aren't terribly clear. I've taken to reading books on good design now, and I'll swing back around to my language books again. Then I'll need some practical experience, and everyone recommends open source projects, but even those are daunting when a young, inexperienced programmer tries to contribute code to a project where the other developers have been programming for 20 years.
So, maybe that 3rd year student will be great in another year when she has spent some time in a production environment and had some practical experience. Unfortunately, short of the universities adapting their curriculum, I don't think we have many other choices to produce new programmers besides slogging through with some bright, young students, who maybe need a little guidance.
Because everywhere else in the US doesn't have other natural disasters. There aren't wildfires in the west, tornadoes in the mid-west, hurricanes in the south, blizzards, snow storms, and ice storms in the north, flooding along the Mississippi...
I look forward to a long-lasting, color, touch screen device that can accurately capture fine touch (pen) for reading and note taking. The modern convertible laptops fit the bill except for their size. The other problem being the content limitations. But, as a graduate student, I can say that I'd love to carry around a light device like a light, android based tablet instead of 2-4 textbooks.
I think they are less inconvenient than it sounds. Most people commute a fairly limited distance, a 300 mile range will handle almost all of the average person's everyday driving. The inconvenience is for people who drive a lot (for business probably) and recreational/vacation driving. I couldn't take a car like this on the 800 mile trip we take every summer to visit family.
That said, people who live in big cities have realized this for years. You own transportation that supports your regular commute habits. In many cases, people who live in NYC don't own cars. They can rent a car for extreme cases. Likewise, our family makes ~2-3 trips a year that would push this car over it's limit. It would be worth it for us to own a car like this for commutes, charging it over-night, and rent a car for those trips.
That said, the cost is still way to high to make it economically feasible for us.
Since Zynga is raking in ~500 million - 1 billion USD a year, I'm pretty sure he can get over the slimy sensation. I hear hundred dollar bills act as a good balm...
Any idea which has more overhead for Facebook? Maybe they are serving MP4 to iPads because they have to, but perhaps as more get converted, they'll serve already converted videos as MP4 instead of Flash... i.e. if someone views that video of your friend on an iPad, it would be interesting to see if they still serve it in flash afterward to everyone else.
It announces where it comes from. It's good, and important for the Mozilla Foundation to get the referral bonus, but it also means an ISP can detect what's going on and intercept it. I suspect if they intercepted a generic google search, people would notice. But if you intercept the search from the little bar in the corner, there are a lot of people who wouldn't know the difference.
They aren't restricting kids from playing violent video games. They're keeping kids from buying them directly. The parent is perfectly allowed to buy the game for their children, if they see fit.
Which is why I bought the Droid. I wanted functionality, and the ability to customize. It doesn't mean I don't have a couple games on there, and I don't facebook. But I think Apple does understand that there is a market for people who want just bauble. There is a market for business people who just want pretty, and email and calendaring, and the iPhone fits that too. If you want the highly technical phone, the iPhone probably isn't for you.
A lot of people don't need smart phones for the high productivity functionality. A lot of people just want to play games on a big pretty screen, and make sure they can check their facebook on the subway. I'm not one of those people, but just because the bauble isn't for you, doesn't mean it doesn't have a place or purpose.
i heard some commentary on this on NPR, and it makes sense, Steve Jobs operates with leaks, but he doesn't do uncontrolled leaks. I can't imagine he'd do anything that would take the wind out of his sail when he decides he's ready to get up on a stage and show off his new toy. He's far more likely to let little specs leak, a couple feature leaks, but not usually releasing the whole device into the wild.
No one is going to go dumpster diving and digging through reams of discarded employee picnic announcements just to try and find some corporate secrets, wait... shoot.
Ok, let's try this again. No one is going to go through piles of keylogger data most of which is filled with lols and a\s\l?s to try and find a persons banking credentials, wait... frick.
No one will do it, except the people that do. There is a buck to be made, people will do it.
Tea partiers aren't an arm of the Republican party. There are Democrats involved, and many people who generally feel disenfranchised by both Democrats and Republicans, mostly because both of them have been taking turns at tooting the same horn, which is larger government and more spending. They just tend to disagree on exactly where to spend that money. Note: I said more spending, I didn't say anything about revenues, because neither party has actually figured out how to pay for any of this stuff they spend on.
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The problem is that it is currently a job being done by IT whereas it should be a job facilitated by IT (providing the means to do monitoring), but handled by managers, or people dedicated to such a task.
Actually, it looks like everyone agreed that it was unstable. They just didn't all agree that it was definitely going to explode. And BP didn't agree to paying the extra money and time to take some extra precautions.
Cost and space. Yes, the energy is there, but it 1) costs energy to build these panels 2) costs resources to build these panels (not terribly common minerals) 3) costs land on which to locate these panels. So, it isn't really free, and unfortunately, those costs are currently more than the cost of setting a piece of coal on fire.
Agreed, unfortunately, history says that that doesn't happen unless there is also a cost increase for energy. People like energy, and they keep on finding new and inventive ways to use it. There is some call from consumers to produce things that use less energy, like CFL bulbs, and more efficient TVs and computers. I suspect that for the majority of people, it's price and quality conscious, and far less environmentally conscious. i.e. the CFLs last longer and end up costing less. Likewise, our computers have become disposable commodities, and have become faster because of the lower power per performance unit.
Unfortunately, you need to give people an incentive to cut their energy usage, or they aren't likely to do it, at least not radically. They'll make token trims to get their electric bill to a "reasonable" level. But they aren't going to become the home equivalent of hyper-milers without a strong incentive, which is usually cost.
I don't think it's blowout preventers in general, but this blowout preventer. The golf balls were originally used to force the mechanisms in the blowout preventer to work properly and close the thing up. I do believe, however, that the stability issues aren't just with the blowout preventer. I'm not sure on the details exactly, but they need to get concrete in that hole a good ways to seal the thing up. A rock on top won't do.
This is what they were trying to do with "top kill". They would pump drilling mud into the hole to get the flow of oil to reduce enough that they could then follow it with concrete to seal the well. It didn't work. That's why they are going to drill the relief well. It will reduce the pressure on this well, so they can seal this well, and then they'll do a proper seal up of the relief well. Or that's how I understand it.
The difference with eating butter and salt is that the only person it's going to kill is you. If driving at a certain speed increases not only your risk to yourself, but to others, then there is a moral imperative. That said, I've seen more speed limits set by people who wanted to increase revenue with speed traps or got lobbied by people who had no business determining speed limits, than otherwise.
The problem is, apparently, that the well is incredibly unstable. They had a list of other ideas in the event that their "top kill" method didn't work. They didn't even try them because they were seeing pressure numbers and other signs that the well was unstable. They are, reportedly, afraid that if they try to stop the flow completely at the blowout preventer that the pressure will destroy the blowout preventer and the well creating a huge, uncontrolled leak that is coming out of many more places and at a higher volume than is currently coming out of that riser pipe.
Which is what I do during take-off and landing because I can't have my laptop out. The alternative is to read my paper book, which is strangely allowed while my e-reader isn't, nor are other hand-held electronics...
From radio reports, it sounded like this mud method had risk in that it could damage the blowout preventor causing a worse leak. The other methods were an attempt to avoid breaking the blowout preventer further and causing the hole to become unrestricted and allow for an even greater flow.
I looked up a previous (Mach 5) run of the X-51 and saw 70,000 ft, and used that for back of the napkin calculations in another response. The difference in ground speed is pretty much negligible.
They weren't measuring speed relative to the ground. They were measuring speed relative to itself. Regardless, the increase in distance is negligible. I went and did a quick look up for the X51 and it hit's altitudes of 70,000 feet, or ~13 miles.
Given a mean radius for the Earth of 4182 mi we get a circumference of 26,276 mi.
If we add the 13 mi of the test flight, we get a circumference of 26,358 mi.
With a grand total increase in distance of 82 mi over the entire surface of the Earth.
Let's even compare the height of the space shuttle on it's Hubble missions (the highest it goes) - 372 mi.
It's circumference is 28,614 mi.
It's a difference of 2,338 mi which is a lot, but with all of that altitude, is only an increase in 8% relative to the ground.
Which is not what administrators and professors view as Computer Science. That is the realm of a trade school, as opposed to the academic discipline. Aside from some mentions of the above items in a software engineering course, I don't believe any of those items were covered in a single college course I took, and I don't think the professors would feel bad about it either. They intend to teach you Computer Science, and not Computer Programming.
As a purely selfish request, do you have any recommendations of sites, documentation, or books that cover these topics well? As a soon to be grad, I'm finding myself quite daunted by the gap between what I learned in college, and the things that are required in a production development environment. Note: I am reading through Code Complete, 2nd ed. right now.
Unfortunately, there is also a huge disconnect between what colleges teach, and what is required for students to be successful after college. Very little of what you spoke about is taught at a lot of universities. It doesn't mean these students won't eventually make good programmers, but they need something to translate the theory they've learned into somethings that's applicable. It's really daunting.
I've worked in IT (no development) throughout high school and college. All of my "programming" is scripting, and small utility programs that, I now realize, would be destroyed in a code review. And the avenues to learning to be a better programmer aren't terribly clear. I've taken to reading books on good design now, and I'll swing back around to my language books again. Then I'll need some practical experience, and everyone recommends open source projects, but even those are daunting when a young, inexperienced programmer tries to contribute code to a project where the other developers have been programming for 20 years.
So, maybe that 3rd year student will be great in another year when she has spent some time in a production environment and had some practical experience. Unfortunately, short of the universities adapting their curriculum, I don't think we have many other choices to produce new programmers besides slogging through with some bright, young students, who maybe need a little guidance.
Because everywhere else in the US doesn't have other natural disasters. There aren't wildfires in the west, tornadoes in the mid-west, hurricanes in the south, blizzards, snow storms, and ice storms in the north, flooding along the Mississippi...
I look forward to a long-lasting, color, touch screen device that can accurately capture fine touch (pen) for reading and note taking. The modern convertible laptops fit the bill except for their size. The other problem being the content limitations. But, as a graduate student, I can say that I'd love to carry around a light device like a light, android based tablet instead of 2-4 textbooks.
I think they are less inconvenient than it sounds. Most people commute a fairly limited distance, a 300 mile range will handle almost all of the average person's everyday driving. The inconvenience is for people who drive a lot (for business probably) and recreational/vacation driving. I couldn't take a car like this on the 800 mile trip we take every summer to visit family.
That said, people who live in big cities have realized this for years. You own transportation that supports your regular commute habits. In many cases, people who live in NYC don't own cars. They can rent a car for extreme cases. Likewise, our family makes ~2-3 trips a year that would push this car over it's limit. It would be worth it for us to own a car like this for commutes, charging it over-night, and rent a car for those trips.
That said, the cost is still way to high to make it economically feasible for us.
Since Zynga is raking in ~500 million - 1 billion USD a year, I'm pretty sure he can get over the slimy sensation. I hear hundred dollar bills act as a good balm...
Any idea which has more overhead for Facebook? Maybe they are serving MP4 to iPads because they have to, but perhaps as more get converted, they'll serve already converted videos as MP4 instead of Flash... i.e. if someone views that video of your friend on an iPad, it would be interesting to see if they still serve it in flash afterward to everyone else.
No, mine produces this: http://www.google.com/search?q=slashdot&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
It announces where it comes from. It's good, and important for the Mozilla Foundation to get the referral bonus, but it also means an ISP can detect what's going on and intercept it. I suspect if they intercepted a generic google search, people would notice. But if you intercept the search from the little bar in the corner, there are a lot of people who wouldn't know the difference.
They aren't restricting kids from playing violent video games. They're keeping kids from buying them directly. The parent is perfectly allowed to buy the game for their children, if they see fit.
Which is why I bought the Droid. I wanted functionality, and the ability to customize. It doesn't mean I don't have a couple games on there, and I don't facebook. But I think Apple does understand that there is a market for people who want just bauble. There is a market for business people who just want pretty, and email and calendaring, and the iPhone fits that too. If you want the highly technical phone, the iPhone probably isn't for you.
A lot of people don't need smart phones for the high productivity functionality. A lot of people just want to play games on a big pretty screen, and make sure they can check their facebook on the subway. I'm not one of those people, but just because the bauble isn't for you, doesn't mean it doesn't have a place or purpose.
i heard some commentary on this on NPR, and it makes sense, Steve Jobs operates with leaks, but he doesn't do uncontrolled leaks. I can't imagine he'd do anything that would take the wind out of his sail when he decides he's ready to get up on a stage and show off his new toy. He's far more likely to let little specs leak, a couple feature leaks, but not usually releasing the whole device into the wild.
No one is going to go dumpster diving and digging through reams of discarded employee picnic announcements just to try and find some corporate secrets, wait... shoot.
... frick.
Ok, let's try this again. No one is going to go through piles of keylogger data most of which is filled with lols and a\s\l?s to try and find a persons banking credentials, wait
No one will do it, except the people that do. There is a buck to be made, people will do it.
Tea partiers aren't an arm of the Republican party. There are Democrats involved, and many people who generally feel disenfranchised by both Democrats and Republicans, mostly because both of them have been taking turns at tooting the same horn, which is larger government and more spending. They just tend to disagree on exactly where to spend that money. Note: I said more spending, I didn't say anything about revenues, because neither party has actually figured out how to pay for any of this stuff they spend on.