From the link "The CodePlex Foundation will complement existing open source foundations and organizations, providing a forum in which best practices and shared understanding can be established by a broad group of participants, both software companies and open source communities."
Seems like a meta-organization for open source entities, under the watchful eye of Redmond.
It varies by department here. The U as a whole is Windows, but our Geology department runs a Beowulf cluster (CHAOS distribution, used for modeling, mostly - but it's part of the network) and has a lab with a couple dozen other networked Linux boxes. I'm sure other departments have similar ad hoc set-ups. The school does heavily subsidize the purchase of Windows; OS for about twenty bucks, full professional office suite for under a hundred.
If you can't figure out how to get a degree in this day and age, you probably aren't college material in the first place. Work part-time, take out loans, apply for grants, use employer tuition assistance, join the military and use the GI Bill...there are any number of ways to pay tuition. Hell, move to Florida; you can get a BS from one of the big schools (UF/FSU/USF/UCF) for less than ten grand, and it only takes a year to become a resident.
Depending on your field, graduate school can be free as well; science and engineering colleges typically have plenty of TA positions that pay 15 to 25k annually, sometimes with health-insurance, and almost inevitably with the tuition waived.
Depends on the size of the ship. The daily rate for the R/V Suncoaster, a 100-foot research vessel that could handle this sort of search and recovery mission (assuming a few extra sonar-type add-ons), exclusive of fuel, is about $3,500 per day. Fuel would probably add about $5,000 per day if running at full speed, which is unlikely if searching for something. The above costs include crew salaries but not the salaries of researchers who might be assisting in the search; that would probably add another $1,000. Smaller vessels cost somewhat less. Note that the R/V Suncoaster, like many research vessels, is partially subsidized by the government.
I still think "Microserfs" is the best book about coders, ever. I worked as a programmer in Seattle for a year back in the late 90's and it was pretty much dead on.
One of the first items on USAspending's page states "A journey towards greater Transparency and Accountability...". Seems to me like the site is a work in progress and will improve with time.
Communications ("information") technology has been the biggest change in the last twenty years. Internet, cell phones, gps, wireless...none of this existed (to any significant degree) in the 1980s. Also, this list of patents by calendar year indicates that inventiveness, at least as measured by pursuit of IP protection, has a trend of increasing annually.
Journals are ranked by impact; there is a quantified pecking order. This matters a great deal in the "real world" of academia and research; promotions (e.g. government research grade increase, assist prof to associate to full prof), tenure (yes/no), and grant awards are all influenced by a researcher's summary journal impact rating. Read Impact Factor if you want to know more about this. Journal publications are part of the reality of working and publishing in science. If it isn't published, you might as well not have done the work. Although many journals are available on-line, most of the high-impact journals still produce print versions.
As far as a specific example - in the 1990's CDs came packaged in cardboard boxes that were two or three times as long as the jewel-case. Now, there is only a jewel box.
Packaging in Europe is minimal compared to packaging in the US. Stores are also required (in Germany, at least) to dispose of your packaging if you don't want to take it home. People take advantage of this because the once-a-week curbside garbage cans are about a third of the size of the twice-a-week American bins. Hopefully we will move in that direction in the upcoming decade. Deposit-beverage containers would be a great start.
My first year as a CS major I took "symbolic logic" to supplement to required Pascal, Fortran, and Assembly Language courses. After all that, I always thought of the symbolic logic class as the "Latin of programming". Personally, I think any language which is free and gives quick results would be suitable for beginners...Python, for example.
I take it you mean 1914. Well, for one thing we aren't led by a Kaiser with a Schlieffen Plan. Unless we live in alternate realities, there also weren't nukes around in 1914.
That is an incredibly naive view of a complex international situation. Your own link points out that WWI had a number of causes:
[snip]
* Fervent and uncompromising nationalism
* Unresolved previous disputes
* Intricate system of alliances
* The perceived breakdown of the balance of power in Europe
* Misperceptions of intent â" e.g., the German belief Great Britain would remain neutral[16][17]
* Convoluted and fragmented governance
* Delays and misunderstandings in diplomatic communications
* Arms races of the previous decades
* Previous military planning[18]
* Imperial and colonial rivalry for wealth, power and prestige
* Economic and military rivalry in industry and trade
[/snip]
Funny, Gavrilo Princip, the assassin, isn't mentioned anywhere. The Great War took over a week to start; quite a bit different than the nuclear scenario being discussed here. Besides, Europe was *looking* for a reason to start a war; it wasn't an accident.
Read Tucher's "Guns of August" if you want to know what really caused World War One.
A repeat of the 2008 Mumbai attacks would hardly start a nuclear war given that 9-11 didn't. It takes a bit more than a few idiots with light weapons to escalate to that level of conflict.
Personally, I use Folder Lock, it is inexpensive and allows you to selectively encrypt entire folder trees using the Blowfish (256b) algorithm. Easy to install (even on USB) and it doesn't hog resources by encrypting every file, only those you want it to. The software can also erase your tracks when you close it.
The postal service's establishment in Article I, Section 8, of the US Constitution pretty much supports this view. The USPS isn't going anywhere, short of an amendment.
It would probably be more cost effective for Google to just buy Rosetta Stone and shut it down. Sales are obviously down - but at the prices they charge, that's hardly surprising.
Science is a collaborative effort that relies on peer-review to separate the wheat and chaff. Individual viewpoints are fairly irrelevant. It is also quite competitive (limited funding, search for prestige, a better position); even scientists that agree on issues or share viewpoints don't cut each other any slack.
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From the link "The CodePlex Foundation will complement existing open source foundations and organizations, providing a forum in which best practices and shared understanding can be established by a broad group of participants, both software companies and open source communities."
Seems like a meta-organization for open source entities, under the watchful eye of Redmond.
Not into elf pr0n?
Will Hitler be in it too?
It varies by department here. The U as a whole is Windows, but our Geology department runs a Beowulf cluster (CHAOS distribution, used for modeling, mostly - but it's part of the network) and has a lab with a couple dozen other networked Linux boxes. I'm sure other departments have similar ad hoc set-ups. The school does heavily subsidize the purchase of Windows; OS for about twenty bucks, full professional office suite for under a hundred.
If you can't figure out how to get a degree in this day and age, you probably aren't college material in the first place. Work part-time, take out loans, apply for grants, use employer tuition assistance, join the military and use the GI Bill...there are any number of ways to pay tuition. Hell, move to Florida; you can get a BS from one of the big schools (UF/FSU/USF/UCF) for less than ten grand, and it only takes a year to become a resident. Depending on your field, graduate school can be free as well; science and engineering colleges typically have plenty of TA positions that pay 15 to 25k annually, sometimes with health-insurance, and almost inevitably with the tuition waived.
Depends on the size of the ship. The daily rate for the R/V Suncoaster, a 100-foot research vessel that could handle this sort of search and recovery mission (assuming a few extra sonar-type add-ons), exclusive of fuel, is about $3,500 per day. Fuel would probably add about $5,000 per day if running at full speed, which is unlikely if searching for something. The above costs include crew salaries but not the salaries of researchers who might be assisting in the search; that would probably add another $1,000. Smaller vessels cost somewhat less. Note that the R/V Suncoaster, like many research vessels, is partially subsidized by the government.
Just about every astronaut would qualify as a well-known engineer. They generally aren't introverts.
If you are interested in this sort of material, try this: Dynamics of adaptation and diversification: a 10,000-generation experiment with bacterial populations. Bottom line: mutation matters. Notice the article is 15 years old.
I still think "Microserfs" is the best book about coders, ever. I worked as a programmer in Seattle for a year back in the late 90's and it was pretty much dead on.
One of the first items on USAspending's page states "A journey towards greater Transparency and Accountability...". Seems to me like the site is a work in progress and will improve with time.
Communications ("information") technology has been the biggest change in the last twenty years. Internet, cell phones, gps, wireless...none of this existed (to any significant degree) in the 1980s. Also, this list of patents by calendar year indicates that inventiveness, at least as measured by pursuit of IP protection, has a trend of increasing annually.
Journals are ranked by impact; there is a quantified pecking order. This matters a great deal in the "real world" of academia and research; promotions (e.g. government research grade increase, assist prof to associate to full prof), tenure (yes/no), and grant awards are all influenced by a researcher's summary journal impact rating. Read Impact Factor if you want to know more about this. Journal publications are part of the reality of working and publishing in science. If it isn't published, you might as well not have done the work. Although many journals are available on-line, most of the high-impact journals still produce print versions.
As far as a specific example - in the 1990's CDs came packaged in cardboard boxes that were two or three times as long as the jewel-case. Now, there is only a jewel box. Packaging in Europe is minimal compared to packaging in the US. Stores are also required (in Germany, at least) to dispose of your packaging if you don't want to take it home. People take advantage of this because the once-a-week curbside garbage cans are about a third of the size of the twice-a-week American bins. Hopefully we will move in that direction in the upcoming decade. Deposit-beverage containers would be a great start.
My first year as a CS major I took "symbolic logic" to supplement to required Pascal, Fortran, and Assembly Language courses. After all that, I always thought of the symbolic logic class as the "Latin of programming". Personally, I think any language which is free and gives quick results would be suitable for beginners...Python, for example.
I take it you mean 1914. Well, for one thing we aren't led by a Kaiser with a Schlieffen Plan. Unless we live in alternate realities, there also weren't nukes around in 1914.
That is an incredibly naive view of a complex international situation. Your own link points out that WWI had a number of causes: [snip] * Fervent and uncompromising nationalism * Unresolved previous disputes * Intricate system of alliances * The perceived breakdown of the balance of power in Europe * Misperceptions of intent â" e.g., the German belief Great Britain would remain neutral[16][17] * Convoluted and fragmented governance * Delays and misunderstandings in diplomatic communications * Arms races of the previous decades * Previous military planning[18] * Imperial and colonial rivalry for wealth, power and prestige * Economic and military rivalry in industry and trade [/snip] Funny, Gavrilo Princip, the assassin, isn't mentioned anywhere. The Great War took over a week to start; quite a bit different than the nuclear scenario being discussed here. Besides, Europe was *looking* for a reason to start a war; it wasn't an accident. Read Tucher's "Guns of August" if you want to know what really caused World War One.
A repeat of the 2008 Mumbai attacks would hardly start a nuclear war given that 9-11 didn't. It takes a bit more than a few idiots with light weapons to escalate to that level of conflict.
Dirt cheap foam pipe insulation from Home Depot. Works like a charm.
Personally, I use Folder Lock, it is inexpensive and allows you to selectively encrypt entire folder trees using the Blowfish (256b) algorithm. Easy to install (even on USB) and it doesn't hog resources by encrypting every file, only those you want it to. The software can also erase your tracks when you close it.
For more factual information about algal blooms, the Geological Survey has produced: http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:PYtvMJ0lJ3QJ:pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2006/3147/pdf/FS2006_3147.pdf+usgs+algal+bloom&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Videotape.
The postal service's establishment in Article I, Section 8, of the US Constitution pretty much supports this view. The USPS isn't going anywhere, short of an amendment.
That's funny, I thought it was from the Hitchhiker's Guide ("Googleplex").
It would probably be more cost effective for Google to just buy Rosetta Stone and shut it down. Sales are obviously down - but at the prices they charge, that's hardly surprising.
Science is a collaborative effort that relies on peer-review to separate the wheat and chaff. Individual viewpoints are fairly irrelevant. It is also quite competitive (limited funding, search for prestige, a better position); even scientists that agree on issues or share viewpoints don't cut each other any slack.