If you're going to run a nuclear reactor, you are definitely going to make all of the money back from building it, and a mountain of profits over the lifetime of the plant.
Hmm... then what's the reason for the massive goverment subsidies poured into every single commercial nuclear plant ever built? How come these large injections of capital are never returned? You'd think plant builders would be grateful for all the billions government already poured into hammering out all the R&D... but they also always seem to take the subsidies anyway. Just seems... odd... Most businessess that make mountains of profits give some kind of return on investment other than astronomical cleanup costs when something goes very wrong.
The writer and the reasons for Apple now being in the Dow 30 are both high.
Just... wow. Hate Apple, don't hate Apple, whatever. But to hate them so much to deny that they successfully move product and make lots of money... its self-deluding. You know, it really can't be luck, you know that, right? Its just not possible for Apple to have "lucked" their way into financial global boondoggle, you get that right? Either you realize this, or you are quite stoned my hippie friend.
I think the better question is, has anyone designed and implemented a full-color plotter that uses a pack of crayons as the replacement plotting filiment? Or has anyone designed a full-color display that somehow uses a pack of (maybe mentled) crayons? Then the poster might actually be useful.
It matters not what Casio or any one else acknowledges. Unless Microsoft successfully defends its patent claims in court, the claims are meaningless and unenforceable. Linux, please feel free to "infringe" away.
Not exactly true; "Softwarepiraterie" (literally "software piracy") is a well-known german term
Glad to see that. Even the abbreviated version of the previously used term, unbefugte-oder-illegale-kopieren-und-weitergeben-urheberrechtlich-geschützten-materials was really slowing things down.
(Unless you're talking about 100Mbps divided by the entire apartment complex, which means you could be fighting that kid down the hall with a Usenet account for a shred of 1Mbps.)
Why do I have the feeling that this is precisely the case? What apartment mangement service understands what this stuff means? Which of them that do with vacent apartments would admit to the real bandwidth? Giving free internet as an incentive is common among apartment communities. What isn't common is giving away 100M connections to every tenant, because its overkill... powerusers/bandwidthhogs are very much still in the minority. My bet is the entire complex has a shared 100M connection... with the possibility of moving to 200M when enough people complain about slow interent.
I'm sure it must exist, but good luck finding/funding it. 802.11n is megabit speeds. Yeah, they usually put gigabit ports on them, but in a home setting with less than 10 users, you're not gonna see any difference between one with gigabit or megabit ports unless a wired machine is using the router to hit another wired machine and transfering big files. Most home internet connections are still in the kilobit range... even FiOS. Interestingly enough, my 802.11n router spanks my megabit switch... but its still well within megabit speeds. I think there are some 802.11n routers that can double or triple megabit speeds... using simultaneous connections, but that's still not gigabit.
To show I'm not a hater I think the casting of Ewan McGregor as the young Kenobi was brilliant. He did a very good job.
uh... not so fast, movie-lover... the brilliant casting was convincing Alec Guinness to take the role. Once that happened, it wasn't 'brilliant' to cast McGregor. It was inevitable.
Ah, there's the problem right there! All this time Lucas has had a fundamental misunderstanding of art and its specific, inherent qualities. I got this... OK, quick fix... someone please send that hairy fat bastard a copy of Sartre's Nausea, and perhaps Nietzche's The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music for good measure.
It is accepted that the Minerals Management Servicewas corrupt (some thin front to give Big Oil permission to do whatever they wanted). But I seriously doubt the National Park Service, the Geological Society or the Fish and Wildlife Service are "totally corrupt."
It was my understanding that a planet made entirely of water would not have enough mass to hold together, and would eventually disapate. Thus... wouldn't a planet made of something equal to the density of water also have trouble forming and maintaining coherence?
That's what most people said about XP when Vista was on the horizon.
I think corp IT should have thought long and hard about just staying on XP/Office2003/Server2003 indefinitely. Windows 7/Office2008/Server2008 does not increase the work capacity... it offers nothing for the generic office grunt. They do the same work, at the same pace (eventually, once they get used to it). IT, by upgrading away from XP basically just tossed their entire troubleshooting database (which held all the secrets for making XP work) in the garbage and now must start from scratch on the new OS. XP/Office2003/Server2003 will be fine on an internal Corp net for some time, even without security updates. And when it finally does break... then there's the advantage of upgrading... but why pay tens, possibly hundreds of thousands for OS/office software to upgrade the company when FUCKING LINUX IS FREE AND WORKS BETTER, FASTER, LONGER. Whoa... sorry, sort of lost it there at the end of my point.
There... translated the ambiguous abbreviation in teh summery for ya.... oh, sure... we had a rootkit in UNIX before, but its such rare treat its actually quite valuable. For all intensive purposes, the OP should have just said "Windows," but its likely he's never heard of any other OS. So, again, in the summary,
I get where you're coming from... but control is an illusion. That's default in linux. I only first noticed that stuff when I originally jailbroke my iPhone... saurik turned Darwin (BSD) into linux... at least that's what it looked like. After that, I noticed it was like that in linux... just didn't notice it before. You can customize your command line till you're blue in the face... add paths, colors... etc.. but kind of a waste of time. Or you could just drag your.bashrc or.bash_login around with you, and then feel at home whereever you go. Or... idk, maybe you're right... leave it alone ya damn kids!
I can totally relate to what you are saying because I am one of the worst offenders... yet I'm a painter. I have all these cool brushes and rollers and pneumatic sprayers and scrapers and paint in all manner of colors and shades. But when I get to the client site, I look like an idiot because I have to resort to scraping off old paint with my fingernails and painting several coats of paint with my fingers. It takes forever and I gotta tell you it gets aggravating. But what am I gonna do? I got so used to all the great tools I use at home that I really suck and despise finger painting, and I am constantly having to redo work to correct mistakes. I guess that's what I get by getting so used to working easier with the tools I have collected over my career.
/I'm really a sarcastic sysadmin
Now get off my lawn.:-P
Now... why don't you just c'mon over across the street... go on and head around back... there's a cold keg tapped and the girls are smoking in the hot tub... careful of the dog poo... I don't know who's dogs those are...
An engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, concerned with applying scientific knowledge, mathematics and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical and practical problems. Engineers design materials, structures, machines and systems while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, safety and cost.[1][2] The word engineer is derived from the Latin root ingenerare, meaning "to create". - Wikipedia
Anyone else have a definition they would like to bandy about?
That is a fine definition, but I've also heard the word used to describe a closeby motor.
Social Science is actually science. Formulating a hypothesis and doing a study to prove of disprove them is exactly what science is. It makes predictions about the world and tests them.
Computer Science is not a science by classical definition. If you take it in the more engineering side where you are studying the characteristics of real world electronics, it can be. But if it is in the algorithms/mathematics side, there is no hypothesis, no experiments, no predictions, no tests.
That doesn't make it easy, it just doesn't make it science.
Computer Science can be proper science. Algorithms, Formal Languages et cetera are ultimately based on mathematics and scientific principles. So Computer Science is forgivable.
Whaddya mean? That's all it is. I think the GP was sort of joking, but the joke is built into the name "Computer Science," because CS is really, fundamentally Logic & Mathmatics. Some have said Mathematics doesn't meet the criteria for science (for instance, observation, experimentation are part of science... what is the pure mathematical analog for a provable theory based on observation?).
Now, Software Engineering has a dubious title. It, of course, is not necessarily Computer Science, more an applied discipline, and I only have trouble calling it engineering because I associate engineering with physical objects... you engineer a road, a bridge, an engine, a power plant, some real thing made. Software Engineers make software, which is insanely important, but at the same time it is no more real than, or it is almost as real as, a novel, an authored work (only because books are often printed, physical objects). Generally, we don't think of Mark Twain as an novel engineer, though by today's reformulation of the meaning of "engineer," he absolutely is a novel engineer, and an extremely notable and novel one at that.
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If you're going to run a nuclear reactor, you are definitely going to make all of the money back from building it, and a mountain of profits over the lifetime of the plant.
Hmm... then what's the reason for the massive goverment subsidies poured into every single commercial nuclear plant ever built? How come these large injections of capital are never returned? You'd think plant builders would be grateful for all the billions government already poured into hammering out all the R&D... but they also always seem to take the subsidies anyway. Just seems... odd... Most businessess that make mountains of profits give some kind of return on investment other than astronomical cleanup costs when something goes very wrong.
As in Dow Jones Indus--oh never mind.
The writer and the reasons for Apple now being in the Dow 30 are both high.
Just... wow. Hate Apple, don't hate Apple, whatever. But to hate them so much to deny that they successfully move product and make lots of money... its self-deluding. You know, it really can't be luck, you know that, right? Its just not possible for Apple to have "lucked" their way into financial global boondoggle, you get that right? Either you realize this, or you are quite stoned my hippie friend.
full-color PostScript plotter uses crayons as drawing filiments...
does it exist?
I think the better question is, has anyone designed and implemented a full-color plotter that uses a pack of crayons as the replacement plotting filiment? Or has anyone designed a full-color display that somehow uses a pack of (maybe mentled) crayons? Then the poster might actually be useful.
It matters not what Casio or any one else acknowledges. Unless Microsoft successfully defends its patent claims in court, the claims are meaningless and unenforceable. Linux, please feel free to "infringe" away.
Not exactly true; "Softwarepiraterie" (literally "software piracy") is a well-known german term
Glad to see that. Even the abbreviated version of the previously used term,
unbefugte-oder-illegale-kopieren-und-weitergeben-urheberrechtlich-geschützten-materials
was really slowing things down.
(Unless you're talking about 100Mbps divided by the entire apartment complex, which means you could be fighting that kid down the hall with a Usenet account for a shred of 1Mbps.)
Why do I have the feeling that this is precisely the case? What apartment mangement service understands what this stuff means? Which of them that do with vacent apartments would admit to the real bandwidth? Giving free internet as an incentive is common among apartment communities. What isn't common is giving away 100M connections to every tenant, because its overkill... powerusers/bandwidthhogs are very much still in the minority. My bet is the entire complex has a shared 100M connection... with the possibility of moving to 200M when enough people complain about slow interent.
I'm sure it must exist, but good luck finding/funding it. 802.11n is megabit speeds. Yeah, they usually put gigabit ports on them, but in a home setting with less than 10 users, you're not gonna see any difference between one with gigabit or megabit ports unless a wired machine is using the router to hit another wired machine and transfering big files. Most home internet connections are still in the kilobit range... even FiOS. Interestingly enough, my 802.11n router spanks my megabit switch... but its still well within megabit speeds. I think there are some 802.11n routers that can double or triple megabit speeds... using simultaneous connections, but that's still not gigabit.
To show I'm not a hater I think the casting of Ewan McGregor as the young Kenobi was brilliant. He did a very good job.
uh... not so fast, movie-lover... the brilliant casting was convincing Alec Guinness to take the role. Once that happened, it wasn't 'brilliant' to cast McGregor. It was inevitable.
that's the place where it will live forever.
Ah, there's the problem right there! All this time Lucas has had a fundamental misunderstanding of art and its specific, inherent qualities. I got this... OK, quick fix... someone please send that hairy fat bastard a copy of Sartre's Nausea, and perhaps Nietzche's The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music for good measure.
The purchase more likely has to do with Moto's patents that may have been used against Android than with Google's need to sell phones.
+5 if it really ties the office together
The Interior Department ... is totally corrupt.
It is accepted that the Minerals Management Service was corrupt (some thin front to give Big Oil permission to do whatever they wanted). But I seriously doubt the National Park Service, the Geological Society or the Fish and Wildlife Service are "totally corrupt."
So? The US spent $BILLIONS on all kinds of tech in the Cold War that was a worthless scam, too. Star Wars / SDI is the most obvious
Actually, SDI was one of the most successful missions in the history of cloak and dagger stuff... apparently, it was a cover for a mass assassination mission. 25 scientists working on SDI met mysterious end
calculus
abacus
It was my understanding that a planet made entirely of water would not have enough mass to hold together, and would eventually disapate. Thus... wouldn't a planet made of something equal to the density of water also have trouble forming and maintaining coherence?
This will go far in the field of earthquake prevention,which has been stuck using rams' bladders for that purpose since the fifth century.
That's what most people said about XP when Vista was on the horizon.
I think corp IT should have thought long and hard about just staying on XP/Office2003/Server2003 indefinitely. Windows 7/Office2008/Server2008 does not increase the work capacity... it offers nothing for the generic office grunt. They do the same work, at the same pace (eventually, once they get used to it). IT, by upgrading away from XP basically just tossed their entire troubleshooting database (which held all the secrets for making XP work) in the garbage and now must start from scratch on the new OS. XP/Office2003/Server2003 will be fine on an internal Corp net for some time, even without security updates. And when it finally does break... then there's the advantage of upgrading... but why pay tens, possibly hundreds of thousands for OS/office software to upgrade the company when FUCKING LINUX IS FREE AND WORKS BETTER, FASTER, LONGER. Whoa... sorry, sort of lost it there at the end of my point.
There... translated the ambiguous abbreviation in teh summery for ya.... oh, sure... we had a rootkit in UNIX before, but its such rare treat its actually quite valuable. For all intensive purposes, the OP should have just said "Windows," but its likely he's never heard of any other OS. So, again, in the summary,
OS = Microsoft Windows
I get where you're coming from... but control is an illusion. That's default in linux. I only first noticed that stuff when I originally jailbroke my iPhone... saurik turned Darwin (BSD) into linux... at least that's what it looked like. After that, I noticed it was like that in linux... just didn't notice it before. You can customize your command line till you're blue in the face... add paths, colors... etc.. but kind of a waste of time. Or you could just drag your .bashrc or .bash_login around with you, and then feel at home whereever you go. Or... idk, maybe you're right... leave it alone ya damn kids!
I can totally relate to what you are saying because I am one of the worst offenders... yet I'm a painter. I have all these cool brushes and rollers and pneumatic sprayers and scrapers and paint in all manner of colors and shades. But when I get to the client site, I look like an idiot because I have to resort to scraping off old paint with my fingernails and painting several coats of paint with my fingers. It takes forever and I gotta tell you it gets aggravating. But what am I gonna do? I got so used to all the great tools I use at home that I really suck and despise finger painting, and I am constantly having to redo work to correct mistakes. I guess that's what I get by getting so used to working easier with the tools I have collected over my career.
/I'm really a sarcastic sysadmin
Now get off my lawn. :-P
Now... why don't you just c'mon over across the street... go on and head around back... there's a cold keg tapped and the girls are smoking in the hot tub... careful of the dog poo... I don't know who's dogs those are...
2+2 is more than 5 for extremely large values of two
... and extremely small values of five
...and in binary. But the better question is "when is 5 more than 100?"
An engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, concerned with applying scientific knowledge, mathematics and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical and practical problems. Engineers design materials, structures, machines and systems while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, safety and cost.[1][2] The word engineer is derived from the Latin root ingenerare, meaning "to create". - Wikipedia
Anyone else have a definition they would like to bandy about?
That is a fine definition, but I've also heard the word used to describe a closeby motor.
Science doesn't mean "hard"
Social Science is actually science. Formulating a hypothesis and doing a study to prove of disprove them is exactly what science is. It makes predictions about the world and tests them.
Computer Science is not a science by classical definition. If you take it in the more engineering side where you are studying the characteristics of real world electronics, it can be. But if it is in the algorithms/mathematics side, there is no hypothesis, no experiments, no predictions, no tests.
That doesn't make it easy, it just doesn't make it science.
No more than Mathematics is science.
Well it depends.
Computer Science can be proper science. Algorithms, Formal Languages et cetera are ultimately based on mathematics and scientific principles. So Computer Science is forgivable.
Whaddya mean? That's all it is. I think the GP was sort of joking, but the joke is built into the name "Computer Science," because CS is really, fundamentally Logic & Mathmatics. Some have said Mathematics doesn't meet the criteria for science (for instance, observation, experimentation are part of science... what is the pure mathematical analog for a provable theory based on observation?).
Now, Software Engineering has a dubious title. It, of course, is not necessarily Computer Science, more an applied discipline, and I only have trouble calling it engineering because I associate engineering with physical objects... you engineer a road, a bridge, an engine, a power plant, some real thing made. Software Engineers make software, which is insanely important, but at the same time it is no more real than, or it is almost as real as, a novel, an authored work (only because books are often printed, physical objects). Generally, we don't think of Mark Twain as an novel engineer, though by today's reformulation of the meaning of "engineer," he absolutely is a novel engineer, and an extremely notable and novel one at that.