High-tech, OK. How about the device that beams sound directly to someone's head. Then I can yell at the person yapping when they should be driving. Perhaps the millimetre-wave beam that heats skin to uncomfortable levels (does that work through rear window glass?). That should wake them up. Or just a plain old cell-phone-frequency jammer. Their calls keep dropping, so just maybe they'll give up. Nah... never mind that one.
Not-so-high-tech... a fire engine or locomotive horn mounted on my front bumper, or a remote-control paintball marker to mark their car, and we all understand that fuchsia splats mark those who occupy the driver's seat but engage in other activities.
As someone who's fairly proficient with MathType (and MS's Equation Editor, which appears to be a wimpy subset of MathType), I would agree that it's far too slow for note-taking. It would help, however, if one is used to using reverse-polish notation (as on an HP12C calculator). I personally hate it, but using MathType effectively demands thinking from inside the parens outward. Ideally, I'd think you'd want a click-and-drag-the-symbol interface with enough smarts behind it to understand what you're assembling. As for me, after looking at the other entries I'm off to check out LyX.
Then that was necessary for them to do so that we'd think they couldn't crack it. Standard espionage novel fare-let the enemy catch you trying to steal their code machine so they think you need to steal their code machine because you can't crack their code otherwise...
I would certainly expect a side effect of increased **AA-related harassment to be increased use of encryption and anonymizers. My expectation keeps my blood pressure down. Every time I get upset about more ridiculous **AA junk, I consider the probable outcome and how this is all probably a good thing in the long run. While hiding from **AAs, people increase their privacy and make it more difficult for anyone else to eavesdrop at the same time.
This is the same guy who, as US Attorney, had Dmitry Sklyarov arrested because Adobe wanted to punish Elcomsoft. Mueller apparently just can't grasp the modern world. Sure, not everyone knows not to answer unsolicited emails from banks, etc., but Mueller is no more likely to know that than an average citizen.
I can't imagine not going to the Kennedy Space Center once if you haven't been, but try to see a shuttle launch while there are still a few left. Quite impressive, even at such a distance. I hate to say it, but back in the old days (late 60s-early 70s) you could see some cool stuff at Kennedy that you usually can't see today, like the assembly of a Saturn V in the (now named) Vehicle Assembly Building, more pads closeup and more stuff in blockhouses. On the plus side, they finally took care of the Saturn V that was laying in the yard neglected, and walking under it is pretty cool.
Other posts reminded me that there is or was an energy museum near Oak Ridge, TN. Don't know what's there now. I assume there's something left of the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, TN. It sucked for a World's Fair, but the theme was energy and there may be something interesting left there.
One other idea... combine technology and the history of humans in north america and you get cliff dwellings and such. I know there are a lot of sites in the Southwest. I think maybe a few hours north of Phoenix are Montezuma's Castle and Montezuma's Well, ancient abodes which certainly predate Montezuma by a long shot. There are more impressive cliff dwellings elsewhere, and Anasazi ruins begging for visits.
The Smithsonian Air and Space Annex or whatever they're calling it now, located near Dulles Airport has the rest of what you can't see at the Air & Space museum downtown, and I highly recommend it, but they don't have an XB70 Valkyrie because there's only one of two left, and I believe it to be at Wright-Pat. A Mach 3 bomber? You bet. Never went into production, though. I hope to visit sometime, but it's hard for me to come up with any other reason to be in Ohio. One other--I hear the tour of the GE locomotive factory in Erie, PA is pretty good, but haven't yet made it there, either. There might be a good tour of the EMD locomotive factory, too; it's north of the border.
I also think parts of Gary Chapman's Five Love Languages book and ideas are useful, in that you end up with a profile of your and your mate's needs and how they match/mismatch. Mismatched needs can result in huge problems. The key is attitude, and that is worth a long, hard look. Do you feel that your mate deserves to have their needs met in the ways they need them? Does (s)he feel that way about you? How strongly? How high a priority is that to each of you? If it isn't a very high priority and the two of you are poor matches, then you might need to rethink your plans. If you're good matches, then unless one of you is too self-centered, you'll instinctively be able to fill each other's needs. If not, then think about how much trouble it'll be to fill your mate's. Don't write off your own needs, either. You never know when you might become more needy than you are presently and become resentful that your mate won't give you what you need. It's really not about what either of you wants, it's about what you'll each need throughout your lives. Consider areas where you mismatch (at least visit the website, fivelovelanguages.com, and don't throw the baby out with the bathwater; there's good stuff there, even if you find a lot that turns you off) and explore whether one is willing to expend effort to give the other what they need and try to learn to enjoy doing it when it's NOT presently something they like doing. No, not "willing to", but WANTING to. "Willing" is not enough. It connotes "yeah, yeah, I'll do all that stuff." What you really need is "yes, I want to do those things." Beat that dead horse, because it's going to be central to some problems down the road. One other thing... some people do OK by getting a need filled externally. As long as it works for the needer and is definitely OK with the mate, this seems reasonable. But be careful: you might start wondering why you're married if you're getting too many of your needs filled elsewhere. I'm not a counselor, this is stuff I've learned during 24 years of marriage, often the hard way. Do some other comparisons, too. Take the Myers-Briggs and compare your types. Take the Enneagram and compare results. Best of luck.
A recent indash unit purchase has a line to the parking brake sensor so that (if installed according to directions) it won't show video if the parking brake is off, unless the additional line connected to the reverse gear sensor indicates that the car is in reverse, in which case it will display the video sourced from the input supposedly from the backup camera. Like I'm going to dig around and splice into those wires when I could use what's left of my brain to decide not to watch Wildest Police Videos while driving...
It also has an internal motion sensor that overrides the parking brake sensor if it decides the car is in motion, which could be a drawback...
But... THIS device uses satellite info to determine whether the car is in motion relative to Earth's surface. Sometimes I really want to watch a video while on board the 2.5 hour ferry from Ocracoke, but even though no one's driving the car, the system will decide not to show video? Poor design decision, that.
What's more, I use a car GPS device occasionally on my bicycle. Maybe I want to watch TV while bicycling in heavy traffic, because that's still not as dangerous as applying eye makeup while yapping and smoking and swilling coffee behind the wheel.
Hmmmm... it would be easy to blast a Kindle with germicide or UV, but not practical for paper magazines and such due to the time required to turn the pages.
Now we just need to choose germicides and UV spectra and Kindle materials for compatibility.
Having a B.A. from around the customary age, I "went back" and got a CS degree at 33, then went back again and got a BA in another field at 44. I've done some other things, but programming/software development/systems analysis has invariably been in either very small IT shops (1 to 4) or outside of the IT department (the "shadow IT", as one CIO called it when he couldn't do anything to bring it under his control). I see IT departments hiring youngsters and a lot of H-1Bs, but managers in other departments who need general business experience and knowledge and communications skills and aren't billing their department's services out by the hour don't seem to have the same mindset (not to disparage those groups or attract complaints about run-on sentences).
So yes, go for it, IF you're interested in the subject matter. If you don't care to know about a lot of the things taught in CS, I cannot recommend it.
Can't recommend it because I haven't yet done it, but I bought a (I think it was $15 or so) kit to polish out the scratches and restore the look of my old car's headlights. Since the headlight material is similar to that of CDs, I intend to try it on a couple of scratched, skipping discs. Kit came from Autozone, but I suspect most similar stores have similar products.
If you're just using slides in some order, then create them and save them as JPEGs to an SD card, pop it into you're digital camera, and connect it to an NTSC video monitor with the cable included with the camera. Point'n'Shoot cameras are certainly suitable small, no?
I don't know of too many schools that can be classified as strictly one or the other.
That said, I've been to both types for several different degrees, and I value the more theoretical training from the small programs within liberal-arts-leaning schools much more. They taught me (or helped me teach myself) how to think and gave me the tools (or forced me to make/find the tools) I need to analyze problems. They emphasized the whys, the big picture, and the idea development process, which is essential to being a creative/innovative thinker. You can always learn new technical stuff on your own if you understand the underlying theories and how it all should fit together, but it's more difficult to learn the theoretical part on your own, if for no other reason than it requires dedicated time and effort which doesn't likely produce immediately measurable benefits.
College is about preparing for life, not just a vocation or "career." There are surely subjects that you will find interesting which you never dreamed you'd like, and a liberal arts type school will likely give you a better introduction to them. Besides, you might go on Jeopardy someday.
Lastly, aside from a few graduate programs and certain very selective sub-fields, as long as the school of your choice isn't a known slacker magnet, most employers will be more interested in what you can do on the job. The degree gets you in the door, and decent grades in an applicable field from a reputable school can do that.
Markets still work when imperfect substitutes are available, though
not as efficiently. For example, some who might've previously thought
of selling through eBay first may now consider CraigsList first.
How weakly do Weakly Interacting Massive Particles interact? Now we have them colliding and annihilating themselves? Often enough to create enough pressure to offset the gravity trying to pull the "star" together? Just how wimpy are your WIMPs?
And I also am not convinced these hypothetical objects should be called "stars." Quark stars and neutron stars were at least formerly fusion-powered stars before losing their morals and becoming degenerate matter.
simply the best of its time and stayed the best up until NES.
I would include the Atari 5200, but not all games were available for
both (at least where I could find). Coleco did, however, do a good job of running Zaxxon.
is what I would have learned more about if I had it to do over. How
to program using low level network APIs and such.
You can't know too much about data structures and how to do things
at a low level. It may not help you get a job, but it will help you
perform one.
Security and cryptography - the basic hows and whys, is always a good
thing to know.
Personally, I would learn a lot about cartography and geo-spatial
databases and algorithms. Applications using such will only grow
for the foreseeable future.
Best of luck!
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High-tech, OK. How about the device that beams sound directly to someone's head. Then I can yell at the person yapping when they should be driving. Perhaps the millimetre-wave beam that heats skin to uncomfortable levels (does that work through rear window glass?). That should wake them up. Or just a plain old cell-phone-frequency jammer. Their calls keep dropping, so just maybe they'll give up. Nah... never mind that one.
Not-so-high-tech... a fire engine or locomotive horn mounted on my front bumper, or a remote-control paintball marker to mark their car, and we all understand that fuchsia splats mark those who occupy the driver's seat but engage in other activities.
As someone who's fairly proficient with MathType (and MS's Equation Editor, which appears to be a wimpy subset of MathType), I would agree that it's far too slow for note-taking. It would help, however, if one is used to using reverse-polish notation (as on an HP12C calculator). I personally hate it, but using MathType effectively demands thinking from inside the parens outward. Ideally, I'd think you'd want a click-and-drag-the-symbol interface with enough smarts behind it to understand what you're assembling. As for me, after looking at the other entries I'm off to check out LyX.
Then that was necessary for them to do so that we'd think they couldn't crack it. Standard espionage novel fare-let the enemy catch you trying to steal their code machine so they think you need to steal their code machine because you can't crack their code otherwise...
I would certainly expect a side effect of increased **AA-related harassment to be increased use of encryption and anonymizers. My expectation keeps my blood pressure down. Every time I get upset about more ridiculous **AA junk, I consider the probable outcome and how this is all probably a good thing in the long run. While hiding from **AAs, people increase their privacy and make it more difficult for anyone else to eavesdrop at the same time.
This is the same guy who, as US Attorney, had Dmitry Sklyarov arrested because Adobe wanted to punish Elcomsoft. Mueller apparently just can't grasp the modern world. Sure, not everyone knows not to answer unsolicited emails from banks, etc., but Mueller is no more likely to know that than an average citizen.
I suspect there are few MBTI type INTJ/INTP who code with duct tape, aside from prototyping.
Dontcha see? This is an employment program for lawyers. Billions more opportunities for libel/slander suits.
I've tried but failed to successfully remove the plugin that allows me to see real kudzu.
I can't imagine not going to the Kennedy Space Center once if you haven't been, but try to see a shuttle launch while there are still a few left. Quite impressive, even at such a distance. I hate to say it, but back in the old days (late 60s-early 70s) you could see some cool stuff at Kennedy that you usually can't see today, like the assembly of a Saturn V in the (now named) Vehicle Assembly Building, more pads closeup and more stuff in blockhouses. On the plus side, they finally took care of the Saturn V that was laying in the yard neglected, and walking under it is pretty cool.
Other posts reminded me that there is or was an energy museum near Oak Ridge, TN. Don't know what's there now. I assume there's something left of the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, TN. It sucked for a World's Fair, but the theme was energy and there may be something interesting left there.
One other idea... combine technology and the history of humans in north america and you get cliff dwellings and such. I know there are a lot of sites in the Southwest. I think maybe a few hours north of Phoenix are Montezuma's Castle and Montezuma's Well, ancient abodes which certainly predate Montezuma by a long shot. There are more impressive cliff dwellings elsewhere, and Anasazi ruins begging for visits.
The Smithsonian Air and Space Annex or whatever they're calling it now, located near Dulles Airport has the rest of what you can't see at the Air & Space museum downtown, and I highly recommend it, but they don't have an XB70 Valkyrie because there's only one of two left, and I believe it to be at Wright-Pat. A Mach 3 bomber? You bet. Never went into production, though. I hope to visit sometime, but it's hard for me to come up with any other reason to be in Ohio. One other--I hear the tour of the GE locomotive factory in Erie, PA is pretty good, but haven't yet made it there, either. There might be a good tour of the EMD locomotive factory, too; it's north of the border.
I also think parts of Gary Chapman's Five Love Languages book and ideas are useful, in that you end up with a profile of your and your mate's needs and how they match/mismatch. Mismatched needs can result in huge problems. The key is attitude, and that is worth a long, hard look. Do you feel that your mate deserves to have their needs met in the ways they need them? Does (s)he feel that way about you? How strongly? How high a priority is that to each of you? If it isn't a very high priority and the two of you are poor matches, then you might need to rethink your plans. If you're good matches, then unless one of you is too self-centered, you'll instinctively be able to fill each other's needs. If not, then think about how much trouble it'll be to fill your mate's. Don't write off your own needs, either. You never know when you might become more needy than you are presently and become resentful that your mate won't give you what you need. It's really not about what either of you wants, it's about what you'll each need throughout your lives. Consider areas where you mismatch (at least visit the website, fivelovelanguages.com, and don't throw the baby out with the bathwater; there's good stuff there, even if you find a lot that turns you off) and explore whether one is willing to expend effort to give the other what they need and try to learn to enjoy doing it when it's NOT presently something they like doing. No, not "willing to", but WANTING to. "Willing" is not enough. It connotes "yeah, yeah, I'll do all that stuff." What you really need is "yes, I want to do those things." Beat that dead horse, because it's going to be central to some problems down the road. One other thing... some people do OK by getting a need filled externally. As long as it works for the needer and is definitely OK with the mate, this seems reasonable. But be careful: you might start wondering why you're married if you're getting too many of your needs filled elsewhere. I'm not a counselor, this is stuff I've learned during 24 years of marriage, often the hard way. Do some other comparisons, too. Take the Myers-Briggs and compare your types. Take the Enneagram and compare results. Best of luck.
A recent indash unit purchase has a line to the parking brake sensor so that (if installed according to directions) it won't show video if the parking brake is off, unless the additional line connected to the reverse gear sensor indicates that the car is in reverse, in which case it will display the video sourced from the input supposedly from the backup camera. Like I'm going to dig around and splice into those wires when I could use what's left of my brain to decide not to watch Wildest Police Videos while driving...
It also has an internal motion sensor that overrides the parking brake sensor if it decides the car is in motion, which could be a drawback...
But... THIS device uses satellite info to determine whether the car is in motion relative to Earth's surface. Sometimes I really want to watch a video while on board the 2.5 hour ferry from Ocracoke, but even though no one's driving the car, the system will decide not to show video? Poor design decision, that.
What's more, I use a car GPS device occasionally on my bicycle. Maybe I want to watch TV while bicycling in heavy traffic, because that's still not as dangerous as applying eye makeup while yapping and smoking and swilling coffee behind the wheel.
Hmmmm... it would be easy to blast a Kindle with germicide or UV, but not practical for paper magazines and such due to the time required to turn the pages. Now we just need to choose germicides and UV spectra and Kindle materials for compatibility.
Having a B.A. from around the customary age, I "went back" and got a CS degree at 33, then went back again and got a BA in another field at 44. I've done some other things, but programming/software development/systems analysis has invariably been in either very small IT shops (1 to 4) or outside of the IT department (the "shadow IT", as one CIO called it when he couldn't do anything to bring it under his control). I see IT departments hiring youngsters and a lot of H-1Bs, but managers in other departments who need general business experience and knowledge and communications skills and aren't billing their department's services out by the hour don't seem to have the same mindset (not to disparage those groups or attract complaints about run-on sentences).
So yes, go for it, IF you're interested in the subject matter. If you don't care to know about a lot of the things taught in CS, I cannot recommend it.
Can't recommend it because I haven't yet done it, but I bought a (I think it was $15 or so) kit to polish out the scratches and restore the look of my old car's headlights. Since the headlight material is similar to that of CDs, I intend to try it on a couple of scratched, skipping discs. Kit came from Autozone, but I suspect most similar stores have similar products.
You're a suitable camera, right?
If you're just using slides in some order, then create them and save them as JPEGs to an SD card, pop it into you're digital camera, and connect it to an NTSC video monitor with the cable included with the camera. Point'n'Shoot cameras are certainly suitable small, no?
I don't know of too many schools that can be classified as strictly one or the other.
That said, I've been to both types for several different degrees, and I value the more theoretical training from the small programs within liberal-arts-leaning schools much more. They taught me (or helped me teach myself) how to think and gave me the tools (or forced me to make/find the tools) I need to analyze problems. They emphasized the whys, the big picture, and the idea development process, which is essential to being a creative/innovative thinker. You can always learn new technical stuff on your own if you understand the underlying theories and how it all should fit together, but it's more difficult to learn the theoretical part on your own, if for no other reason than it requires dedicated time and effort which doesn't likely produce immediately measurable benefits.
College is about preparing for life, not just a vocation or "career." There are surely subjects that you will find interesting which you never dreamed you'd like, and a liberal arts type school will likely give you a better introduction to them. Besides, you might go on Jeopardy someday.
Lastly, aside from a few graduate programs and certain very selective sub-fields, as long as the school of your choice isn't a known slacker magnet, most employers will be more interested in what you can do on the job. The degree gets you in the door, and decent grades in an applicable field from a reputable school can do that.
I don't know what that means.....
Markets still work when imperfect substitutes are available, though not as efficiently. For example, some who might've previously thought of selling through eBay first may now consider CraigsList first.
I sense the legal dogs of war drooling.
How weakly do Weakly Interacting Massive Particles interact? Now we have them colliding and annihilating themselves? Often enough to create enough pressure to offset the gravity trying to pull the "star" together? Just how wimpy are your WIMPs?
And I also am not convinced these hypothetical objects should be called "stars." Quark stars and neutron stars were at least formerly fusion-powered stars before losing their morals and becoming degenerate matter.
So why one would think it's the phone but not the incessant yapping that's contributing to the cancer?
simply the best of its time and stayed the best up until NES. I would include the Atari 5200, but not all games were available for both (at least where I could find). Coleco did, however, do a good job of running Zaxxon.
is what I would have learned more about if I had it to do over. How to program using low level network APIs and such. You can't know too much about data structures and how to do things at a low level. It may not help you get a job, but it will help you perform one. Security and cryptography - the basic hows and whys, is always a good thing to know. Personally, I would learn a lot about cartography and geo-spatial databases and algorithms. Applications using such will only grow for the foreseeable future. Best of luck!