s proximity to the sun gives it a surface temperature hot enough to melt some metals. Granted, the opposite side of Mercury is also the coldest place in the Solar System
Yes, a stable equilibrium can be a funny thing. Just like its possible to boil water in a paper bag held over an open flame. The water keeps the bag wet enough so it doesn't catch fire, and the flame keeps the bag dry enough so the water doesn't soak though and tear the bag.
Building illuminations should be off for at least 3 hours per night and not shine any direct light at the sky.
Yea they tried that. However they found that migrating birds could not see the skyscrapers when the lights were off and would slam into them, wiping out entire flocks.
Across the pond they are called 'high beams', and most people in the city have no idea how to use them as they dont appear to do anything if there is a lot of ambient light like from streetlights.
I dont need to hire someone with a degree to pour concrete, but I wouldn't risk a mission critical system by hiring a 'coder' with no training and no credentials. Sorry but thats the way the world works. If you really know how to code, then spending the time to get a degree shouldn't be a problem.
Well when I hire someone to code, since there is no such thing as a degree in coding, I'll hire a CS grad. If I want someone to architect a system I'll hire a software engineer.
Engineers are the architects of the system. They design the structure, incorporating the needs of safety, complexity, target environment and customer needs. This has nothing to do with code or what language is used to implement the software.
The relationship between computer engineer and CS is similar to the relationship between a mechanical engineer and the guy on the CNC machine making the part. Or the structural engineer of a building and the guy who mixes and pours the concrete.
Basically designing the system and proving it is correct to all requirements is the software engineers domain, and implementing that architecture with code and algorithms is the CS domain.
When was the last time you saw your structural engineers do their work from first principles taught at uni, as opposed to spreadsheet design or computer simulation?
The next question is, why should they?
Basically every time that the computer simulation is used. An answer from an algorithm or simulation is only as good as the input to that algorithm or simulation. Doing a basic sanity check on that answer is a must for any good engineer.
The point of this article was that software engineers are not real engineers because they lack rigorous frameworks and rely too much on human factors.
I would argue that the conclusions of the article are completely wrong. Engineering, regardless of discipline will always have a human component of creativity and skill. This does not mean engineering is not rigorous. In most peoples experience software has more problems generating consistent results than other forms of engineering because for some reason there are more arrogant assholes in software that assume they know everything, refuse to listen to other team members or the customer, make up requirements instead of following the real ones simply because they think they know better. No other discipline has these problems - mechanical, electrical, controls, structures, systems engineers all work as part of the team - then over in the corner refusing to talk to anyone is the psychotic software lead.
"We tried walking across it a few times and it stayed up, so it is probably fine" - Yeah, that sounds pretty rigorous to me...
If that's what you think a structured engineering approach is you are sadly mistaken.
Actually, they were all British regulars from Britain....
So you really believe that not one of the British soldiers was born in North America? What were the locals doing? Just watching the British troops stroll through?
Contrary to popular Canadian belief....no Canadians were ever involved in the attack on Washington. The members of that attack were all from the British Isles.
Stop believing this crap, and we'll stop saying you eat whale blubber and live in igloos all year round.
Semantics. Obviously since Canada didn't exist as an independent country until 1867 and the White House burned in 1814, Canada as it is now could not have been involved.
However, if you think there were no people involved that were born on what is now Canadian soil, then you are mistaken. Yes, it was British soldiers simply because Upper and Lower Canada were British colonies, and not all were sent from Britain itself.
Of course... YOU'RE sitting at YOUR computer, on YOUR internet connection using YOUR Firefox installation to learn things yourself. By that logic, YOU'RE smarter than everyone else. Hey, you play WoW don't you? Call it a hunch.
A poor hunch. I don't own a computer - I have one given to me by my employer. I don't use Firefox. I don't and have never played WoW.
With all the better alternatives out there, anybody who uses Adobe software deserve to get malware. Think of it as evolution in action.
Actually I was thinking the same thing but about ftp. I can't remember the last time I needed to use an ftp client. Must be at *least* 5 years ago - probably more.
What's to stop some ant-capitalistic [sic] individual from setting up a non-commercial organisation to distribute the texts cheaper than Bloomsbury...?
What about this do you consider "anti-capitalistic"? Actions need not be motivated by currency to be compatible with capitalism; rational self-interest includes such factors as goodwill and self-esteem in addition to the direct and indirect exchange of material goods and services.
I'm not even sure why anyone would call that anti-capitalism - it's actually model capitalism. To make a business for profit that stimulates competition is one of the definitions of capitalism. And if they are so good at that to charge for a product which then drives someone else out of business that is providing that same product for free is the gold star achievement of capitalism.
In fact providing stuff for free so that everyone has access to it without competition is really socialism, so setting up a competing business is really curtailing the anti-capitalism of Bloomsbury.
First of all, recent studies have concluded that there is a genetic component to diabetes, and that the cause is not well connected to a person's diet.
Agreed. However I would say that a lot of adult onset diabetes is diet and exercise related.
We were taught that our diet should be composed primarily of the very things that make people gain weight, and the "experts" are still teaching this same crap to our kids.
Yes. If I ate as much cereal and bread as they say to I'd literally be 400lbs. I have a fast metabolism and can eat almost anything, including huge meals and desserts when I want. The ONLY thing that makes me gain fat weight is cereal and bread. I cut those out and I'm good. In fact, morning cereal and large amounts of factory bread seems to be a north america phenomenon. If you travel anywhere, that type of breakfast is typically referred to as an 'American' breakfast and is served only in hotels. In Italy, breakfast consisted of a single small pasty and a cappuccino. Similar breakfast in Argentina. It seems most countries have breakfast as the smallest meal of the day, not the largest, and cereal was unheard of but seems to be making inroads among youth that want to mimic NA habits.
My husband and I had to force ourselves to throw ALL of that old information out and basically start anew. I've lost about 35 pounds, and he about 23
Congratulations! And hang in there even though it can sometimes be discouraging. I have friends/family that similarly struggle with keeping the weight off. Just be sure to do it slowly so it doesn't mess up your metabolism.
And I do find it ridiculous that you have to pay more for healthy food. Food became cheap because of corporations cutting corners and focusing on getting a product to market instead of looking at the quality of food. Take grain fed beef instead of range fed. Tie the cow down and force feed it corn and antibiotics, and you can plump up a cow in 6 months for market. Compare this to four years for a range fed cow (and the manual labour of moving the herd from field to field). However range fed is far healthier, but cheap crappy food is more cost effective.
Thats another reason to tax the bad food, so more people will buy the healthy food which in turn drives the price down due to higher volumes.
The original argument was whether there was a nutritional difference between organically-fed cows and corn-fed cows.
Well what I probably over dramatized to make my point, if an animal is expected to die in 6 months I would argue that it is nutritionally different as compared to a cow that was active and healthy.
The police are not entitled to pull over anyone they like whenever they want - the police need probable cause.
If that were true then ride programs where they pull everyone over would be illegal which they are not. They do however need probably cause to search you.
evidence gathered by the police behaving illegally is thrown out of court.
Except for: The doctrine is subject to three main exceptions. The tainted evidence is admissible if (1) it was discovered in part as a result of an independent, untainted source; (2) it would inevitably have been discovered despite the tainted source; or (3) the chain of causation between the illegal action and the tainted evidence is too attenuated.
I'd say the second applies in your friends case since he was drunk.
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Doesn't look like a circle to me... http://gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/geomag/nmp/long_mvt_nmp_e.php
s proximity to the sun gives it a surface temperature hot enough to melt some metals. Granted, the opposite side of Mercury is also the coldest place in the Solar System
Yes, a stable equilibrium can be a funny thing. Just like its possible to boil water in a paper bag held over an open flame. The water keeps the bag wet enough so it doesn't catch fire, and the flame keeps the bag dry enough so the water doesn't soak though and tear the bag.
Well magnetic north has moved over 1100 kilometers in the past 100 years, and the motion is accelerating. It is currently moving about 40km per year.
Building illuminations should be off for at least 3 hours per night and not shine any direct light at the sky.
Yea they tried that. However they found that migrating birds could not see the skyscrapers when the lights were off and would slam into them, wiping out entire flocks.
At night you have to look DOWN stupid!
Rectum? Damn near killed em!
Across the pond they are called 'high beams', and most people in the city have no idea how to use them as they dont appear to do anything if there is a lot of ambient light like from streetlights.
I dont need to hire someone with a degree to pour concrete, but I wouldn't risk a mission critical system by hiring a 'coder' with no training and no credentials. Sorry but thats the way the world works. If you really know how to code, then spending the time to get a degree shouldn't be a problem.
Well when I hire someone to code, since there is no such thing as a degree in coding, I'll hire a CS grad. If I want someone to architect a system I'll hire a software engineer.
No I'm not. Engineers are architects, CS are implementers. Not saying there isn't overlay if the team size is small or the skills are present.
Your confused as to what engineering is.
Engineers are the architects of the system. They design the structure, incorporating the needs of safety, complexity, target environment and customer needs. This has nothing to do with code or what language is used to implement the software.
The relationship between computer engineer and CS is similar to the relationship between a mechanical engineer and the guy on the CNC machine making the part. Or the structural engineer of a building and the guy who mixes and pours the concrete.
Basically designing the system and proving it is correct to all requirements is the software engineers domain, and implementing that architecture with code and algorithms is the CS domain.
When was the last time you saw your structural engineers do their work from first principles taught at uni, as opposed to spreadsheet design or computer simulation? The next question is, why should they?
Basically every time that the computer simulation is used. An answer from an algorithm or simulation is only as good as the input to that algorithm or simulation. Doing a basic sanity check on that answer is a must for any good engineer.
Personally, I feel that software engineering is more difficult than most.
Partially due to the fact that, based on the rest of your post, you don't have the first clue on how to design or test software.
The point of this article was that software engineers are not real engineers because they lack rigorous frameworks and rely too much on human factors.
I would argue that the conclusions of the article are completely wrong. Engineering, regardless of discipline will always have a human component of creativity and skill. This does not mean engineering is not rigorous. In most peoples experience software has more problems generating consistent results than other forms of engineering because for some reason there are more arrogant assholes in software that assume they know everything, refuse to listen to other team members or the customer, make up requirements instead of following the real ones simply because they think they know better. No other discipline has these problems - mechanical, electrical, controls, structures, systems engineers all work as part of the team - then over in the corner refusing to talk to anyone is the psychotic software lead.
"We tried walking across it a few times and it stayed up, so it is probably fine" - Yeah, that sounds pretty rigorous to me...
If that's what you think a structured engineering approach is you are sadly mistaken.
Actually, they were all British regulars from Britain....
So you really believe that not one of the British soldiers was born in North America? What were the locals doing? Just watching the British troops stroll through?
Contrary to popular Canadian belief....no Canadians were ever involved in the attack on Washington. The members of that attack were all from the British Isles. Stop believing this crap, and we'll stop saying you eat whale blubber and live in igloos all year round.
Semantics. Obviously since Canada didn't exist as an independent country until 1867 and the White House burned in 1814, Canada as it is now could not have been involved.
However, if you think there were no people involved that were born on what is now Canadian soil, then you are mistaken. Yes, it was British soldiers simply because Upper and Lower Canada were British colonies, and not all were sent from Britain itself.
Of course... YOU'RE sitting at YOUR computer, on YOUR internet connection using YOUR Firefox installation to learn things yourself. By that logic, YOU'RE smarter than everyone else. Hey, you play WoW don't you? Call it a hunch.
A poor hunch. I don't own a computer - I have one given to me by my employer. I don't use Firefox. I don't and have never played WoW.
You're an idiot.
True. Except for the fact that until it is cut in half, all you have is a rock. You have to cut the rock to see whats inside..
With all the better alternatives out there, anybody who uses Adobe software deserve to get malware. Think of it as evolution in action.
Actually I was thinking the same thing but about ftp. I can't remember the last time I needed to use an ftp client. Must be at *least* 5 years ago - probably more.
What's to stop some ant-capitalistic [sic] individual from setting up a non-commercial organisation to distribute the texts cheaper than Bloomsbury...?
What about this do you consider "anti-capitalistic"? Actions need not be motivated by currency to be compatible with capitalism; rational self-interest includes such factors as goodwill and self-esteem in addition to the direct and indirect exchange of material goods and services.
I'm not even sure why anyone would call that anti-capitalism - it's actually model capitalism. To make a business for profit that stimulates competition is one of the definitions of capitalism. And if they are so good at that to charge for a product which then drives someone else out of business that is providing that same product for free is the gold star achievement of capitalism.
In fact providing stuff for free so that everyone has access to it without competition is really socialism, so setting up a competing business is really curtailing the anti-capitalism of Bloomsbury.
First of all, recent studies have concluded that there is a genetic component to diabetes, and that the cause is not well connected to a person's diet.
Agreed. However I would say that a lot of adult onset diabetes is diet and exercise related.
We were taught that our diet should be composed primarily of the very things that make people gain weight, and the "experts" are still teaching this same crap to our kids.
Yes. If I ate as much cereal and bread as they say to I'd literally be 400lbs. I have a fast metabolism and can eat almost anything, including huge meals and desserts when I want. The ONLY thing that makes me gain fat weight is cereal and bread. I cut those out and I'm good. In fact, morning cereal and large amounts of factory bread seems to be a north america phenomenon. If you travel anywhere, that type of breakfast is typically referred to as an 'American' breakfast and is served only in hotels. In Italy, breakfast consisted of a single small pasty and a cappuccino. Similar breakfast in Argentina. It seems most countries have breakfast as the smallest meal of the day, not the largest, and cereal was unheard of but seems to be making inroads among youth that want to mimic NA habits.
My husband and I had to force ourselves to throw ALL of that old information out and basically start anew. I've lost about 35 pounds, and he about 23
Congratulations! And hang in there even though it can sometimes be discouraging. I have friends/family that similarly struggle with keeping the weight off. Just be sure to do it slowly so it doesn't mess up your metabolism.
There is a fightback against this corporate pushed profit driven grain diet (I kinda want to say conspiracy but wont). Here's a book that you may find useful: http://www.amazon.com/Body-God-Owners-Manual-Maximized/dp/0785263179
And I do find it ridiculous that you have to pay more for healthy food. Food became cheap because of corporations cutting corners and focusing on getting a product to market instead of looking at the quality of food. Take grain fed beef instead of range fed. Tie the cow down and force feed it corn and antibiotics, and you can plump up a cow in 6 months for market. Compare this to four years for a range fed cow (and the manual labour of moving the herd from field to field). However range fed is far healthier, but cheap crappy food is more cost effective.
Thats another reason to tax the bad food, so more people will buy the healthy food which in turn drives the price down due to higher volumes.
Smelling alcohol is probably cause. They can pull you over and check for this even if you are not driving erratically nor did anything else wrong.
The original argument was whether there was a nutritional difference between organically-fed cows and corn-fed cows.
Well what I probably over dramatized to make my point, if an animal is expected to die in 6 months I would argue that it is nutritionally different as compared to a cow that was active and healthy.
There is also evidence to back this up:
Here: http://www.americangrassfedbeef.com/grass-fed-natural-beef.asp
Here: http://www.askahealer.com/grain-fed-beef.htm
Here: http://www.texasgrassfedbeef.com/id54.htm
Here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25723479/
are just a few sites...
The police are not entitled to pull over anyone they like whenever they want - the police need probable cause.
If that were true then ride programs where they pull everyone over would be illegal which they are not. They do however need probably cause to search you.
evidence gathered by the police behaving illegally is thrown out of court.
Except for: The doctrine is subject to three main exceptions. The tainted evidence is admissible if (1) it was discovered in part as a result of an independent, untainted source; (2) it would inevitably have been discovered despite the tainted source; or (3) the chain of causation between the illegal action and the tainted evidence is too attenuated.
I'd say the second applies in your friends case since he was drunk.