Do you want me to edit that? You've got a lot of errors in there. Or maybe that's just normal speak translated to Idiot. Why else would you spell "maintenance" like this: Maintence
I use wordpress because the MySQL DB is easy to back up (and small compared to a bunch of Word docs), the web interface means I can access it from anywhere with a connection, it has a bookmarklet that lets me blog interesting sites, and I type a lot faster than I write.
I tried starting a paper-and-pen journal, but I never got more than three days in before the entries got way too long. And most of the stuff I did got forgotten over the course of a day. My blog is a lot easier to use.
I graduated from a Penn State branch campus. I got a much better education (more personal, more hands-on, more up-to-date), had a better time, and my diploma still says "Penn State University."
If you're not the social type (or the bastard frat boy type, or you have a girlfriend and don't want VD from sorority girls), I'd wholeheartedly suggest looking into branch campuses.
Let's just hope to $DEITY they don't make an audiobook about the iPod, and then play it on an iPod. The universe would fold in on itself out of sheer redundancy.
It's about as far from the Delta Clipper as possible while still looking the same. The DCX was a tail-sitter, SSTO VTOL rocket. This sits on top of a booster and lands with a parachute, oriented horizontally.
Well, yeah. If you took the silhouette of a car or plane or whatever from the direction of motion, and calculated the area in shadow, you'd have the cross section of it. This, combined with how it's shaped and what it's made of provides the drag coefficient.
No, they'll give it some cutesy name, like "Happy Funfun Home Camera Bill." Then, when congressmen vote against it, their opponents can use it in campaign ads:
"See the little smiling camera on top of your TV. It's cute, right? Well, Congressmen X voted against the government giving you such a nice new addition to your home audio system! He doesn't like cute things! He also eats puppies! Vote for Mr. Y for Congress."
Birthdate - How about just the year? That'll compute age well enough.
Race - valid
Gender - also valid
Address - How about graduating high school? That provides a cross-section of the local population, and gives you the ability to quickly generate reports based on high schools if the database is relational.
SS# - None of your damn business, thankyouverymuch
So, two of the five criteria are equally or better served by more anonymous information, and one shouldn't be there.
Or the Russian Revolution in 1917. That was started by a bunch of young, middle-class, educated people, too.
College-age people from middle-class society are smart enough to know what's going on, have little to lose from an overthrow of government, and are just coming off the hormonal roller-coaster of puberty and therefore have very strong emotions.
I'm sure with the right equations and about three hours I could find it. But you have to remember, drag is proportional to the cross-section area of the plane. A long, skinny plane with long, thin, narrow wings has lower drag than a short, wide plane with stumpy wings.
Or as Burt said: "You can take a lot of air and move it a little, or a little air and move it a lot. The former is very efficient, but not powerful, and the latter is the opposite."
Like the government commitment to space exploration. Or the government commitment to social security.
No, we need a technological solution to this. One that doesn't increase net traffic, but also financially penalizes spammers for their disgusting habit.
I have the opposite problem. I test everything in Firefox and then have to break it so it renders correctly (or doesn't throw some idiotic error) in IE.
Say it's someone else's script. You'd have to write another script to process the original script to add the escape characters where they're needed and regular linebreaks where they're not.
And I still think that if there's not a visible character there, it shouldn't mean anything. It goes against logic: Nothing isn't something.
Ah, but I am charging for the service, not the software. Since MythTV is freely downloadable and they're making personal use of it, I am merely an intermediary who rigs the whole shebang up.
And if you wouldn't ever have to shell out a monthly fee, or deal with DRM crapola? If the MythTV box cost $250 more than a comparable TiVo out-of-the-box, it would *still* be about the same total price.
Or you could do custom systems. How much would someone pay for a personal "On Demand" system? That is, a big server with multiple tuners and a RAID in the basement with MythTV serving up recorded shows and DVD rips and music, networked to every TV in the house wirelessly or wired using cheap front-end boxes (about the size of a router), with permissions so you could let your kids use it without worrying about them seeing inappropriate programming. I bet you could get a contract to set one up for $10,000 and make 50% profit. Plus support costs! Now *that's* a money-maker.
With idiots like them teaching classes, requiring a Master's and at least 18 graduate hours makes enormous sense.
I've had idiot profs, that's why I want to teach: one less idiot for people to deal with. Seeing someone do a job very poorly makes you want to take it from them.
I've often thought of making a little spreadin' around money from building MythTV systems and selling them. I think a lot of people would buy them, especially if they don't have to deal with TiVo.
Really, the only three things holding me back are a lack of time, a lack of money, and liability issues should one of them catch fire and burn someone's house down or something.
Problem: Most people love to do nothing. Or the something they love to do is so popular (sports) that they'll never make any money doing it.
Very, very few people make enough money at what they love to live off of it. And most of them are very good.
So the phrase should be "Do what you're best at, or what nobody else will do, and the money will follow." If that happens to correlate with what you love, all the better.
Example: Say you're debugging a script on an 80 character wide TTY display. Do you really want to go through each line, scrolling all the way to the end because your language has significant whitespace?
Just like a Wookie on Endor, it doesn't make sense.
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Do you want me to edit that? You've got a lot of errors in there. Or maybe that's just normal speak translated to Idiot. Why else would you spell "maintenance" like this: Maintence
Not to mention young coeds with pert breasts feeling grateful for having saved their computer...
Your view is gloomy because you're not charging enough.
I tried starting a paper-and-pen journal, but I never got more than three days in before the entries got way too long. And most of the stuff I did got forgotten over the course of a day. My blog is a lot easier to use.
Wow... you must be makin' good bucks. You can shell out money for a ColdFusion license. Little ol' me can only afford PHP.
If you're not the social type (or the bastard frat boy type, or you have a girlfriend and don't want VD from sorority girls), I'd wholeheartedly suggest looking into branch campuses.
Let's just hope to $DEITY they don't make an audiobook about the iPod, and then play it on an iPod. The universe would fold in on itself out of sheer redundancy.
Hit them where it hurts, their bank account. Confiscate any and all funds attributed to the spam.
And then take their bank's license away for having paid interest on said funds.
The only thing that kills roaches like that is other roaches.
The black tiles are specially treated to resist higher temperatures than the white tiles, since they bear the highest thermal load on reentry.
I miss the DCX. :-(
Factors that affect drag.
"See the little smiling camera on top of your TV. It's cute, right? Well, Congressmen X voted against the government giving you such a nice new addition to your home audio system! He doesn't like cute things! He also eats puppies! Vote for Mr. Y for Congress."
"I'm Mr. Y and I approved this message."
Race - valid
Gender - also valid
Address - How about graduating high school? That provides a cross-section of the local population, and gives you the ability to quickly generate reports based on high schools if the database is relational.
SS# - None of your damn business, thankyouverymuch
So, two of the five criteria are equally or better served by more anonymous information, and one shouldn't be there.
College-age people from middle-class society are smart enough to know what's going on, have little to lose from an overthrow of government, and are just coming off the hormonal roller-coaster of puberty and therefore have very strong emotions.
It's good that you left teaching. You obviously weren't very good at it.
Or as Burt said: "You can take a lot of air and move it a little, or a little air and move it a lot. The former is very efficient, but not powerful, and the latter is the opposite."
No, we need a technological solution to this. One that doesn't increase net traffic, but also financially penalizes spammers for their disgusting habit.
I have the opposite problem. I test everything in Firefox and then have to break it so it renders correctly (or doesn't throw some idiotic error) in IE.
And I still think that if there's not a visible character there, it shouldn't mean anything. It goes against logic: Nothing isn't something.
Ah, but I am charging for the service, not the software. Since MythTV is freely downloadable and they're making personal use of it, I am merely an intermediary who rigs the whole shebang up.
Or you could do custom systems. How much would someone pay for a personal "On Demand" system? That is, a big server with multiple tuners and a RAID in the basement with MythTV serving up recorded shows and DVD rips and music, networked to every TV in the house wirelessly or wired using cheap front-end boxes (about the size of a router), with permissions so you could let your kids use it without worrying about them seeing inappropriate programming. I bet you could get a contract to set one up for $10,000 and make 50% profit. Plus support costs! Now *that's* a money-maker.
I've had idiot profs, that's why I want to teach: one less idiot for people to deal with. Seeing someone do a job very poorly makes you want to take it from them.
I've often thought of making a little spreadin' around money from building MythTV systems and selling them. I think a lot of people would buy them, especially if they don't have to deal with TiVo.
Really, the only three things holding me back are a lack of time, a lack of money, and liability issues should one of them catch fire and burn someone's house down or something.
Very, very few people make enough money at what they love to live off of it. And most of them are very good.
So the phrase should be "Do what you're best at, or what nobody else will do, and the money will follow." If that happens to correlate with what you love, all the better.
Just like a Wookie on Endor, it doesn't make sense.