The first course should be a basic course for all engineering disciplines, and then an advanced course dealing with the software that each discipline typically has to use.
It would be pointless to teach all engineering disciplines AutoCad, because disciplines such as electrical engineering and computer engineering will never use it.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the "token black character" scene and the other scenes at the end of the show aren't actually going to be on the next episode, just like Arrested Development's "On the next episode of Arrested Development..." gags. Granted, it is a shameless rip-off.
Arrested Development is probably the poster-boy for this. Every time the Fox Network asked the show's creators to do something or threatened to cancel the show, the show would get really snarky about that request. For example, during the first season, they asked the creators to make an episode where the main character teaches his son "a lesson" (apparently, a quote from the memo). They did do this, but in the process, "the lesson" got warped into an elaborate thing involving a drug deal gone bad, fake cop strippers, and a one-armed man getting his fake arm shot off. In the end, it was the main character's father teaching him the lesson. What was that lesson? Don't teach lessons to your son, of course.
Getting back to the advertisement thing, apparently the show's creators were asked to heavily feature Burger King in a second-season episode of the show (as product placement). They did so while turning the whole thing into one big joke. The episode was originally called the "Tendercrisp Chicken Comedy Half-Hour," and features such quotes as, "It really is a wonderful restaurant." Carl Weathers, the actor turned cheapskate in his role on the show, also went on a long diatribe about how BK would underwrite the cost of filming a scene from a show if it took place in a Burger King. (Ironically, that very scene took place in a BK.)
What ended up happening to the show? Well, it survived into the second season by winning five Emmys and being loved by pretty much every critic, but by this point, the only advertisements for the show would appear ten seconds before its airing (as opposed to American Idol, which has an ad every commercial break). In the second season, its episode order was cut by four episodes so that Fox could show more reruns of Family Guy. *ugh* In its third season, it only had 13 episodes ordered, was moved to Monday nights, and was finally cancelled. Its last four episodes, including its series finale, were dumped on February 10th, during the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics.
Note that this is the same network which also cancelled the Bernie Mac Show and Malcolm in the Middle this year without having any good sitcoms to replace them with. Instead, they're airing The War at Home, the Loop, and Free Ride, FOX's equivalent of Yes, Dear and According to Jim.
You'd rather vote for someone with an agenda that you disagree with then vote for someone with no agenda? I'd consider someone without an agenda to be much less malicious than someone with one that is harmful.
I know this may initially seem like a silly thing for people to build, but don't be fooled. Just as helicopters and airplanes have both found their niche, it is possible that ornithopters could one day fill another one. The fact that such a large one can fly even for a short amount of time is truly remarkable.
It's your life. Blaming someone else for your failures isn't going to make your life any better.
They're not the ones blamings others. We're blaming you. You're the one trying to justify the fact that you beat them up by calling them "losers" and saying that they deserved it. Ironically, you're shifting the blame of your actions from yourself to them. You should listen to your own advice.
If you want to get rid of a bad habit, you must replace it with a good one.
Or, you can replace it with a similar but less bad one. For example, I quit my nail-biting habit about eight months ago. To do this, every time that I put my hands up to my mouth to bite, I put my fingers in my teeth and simply didn't bite. Obviously, that's still disgusting, but eventually, it gave way to me losing the compunction to putting my fingers in my mouth at all.
No legal action is possible on my part because of the relative sizes of the two organisations. I should never have let them get wind of it in the first place, by holding onto my trade secrets.
First of all, to make a business and sell a product, you have to have investors. To convince investors to invest, you need to disclose information. That's a fact: you cannot simply "hold on to your trade secrets." Secondly, if your case against the large company really is so cut-and-dry, any good lawyer would be happy to take on your case on contingency (i.e., for a certain cut of the settlement). It's really quite common in the U.S.
They are, in all likelihood, paid to do their research out of the public purse. Canadians have already paid for this research, and the scientists in question were already motivated to perform it.
Most engineering professors get the money for their research by directly appealing to outside organizations. Though the university/public pays their salary, this is for teaching and for the prestige that they bring to the university, not for their research.
Patents are less than useless to society. A competator is copying your ingenius invention? Welcome to the real world. This is what other businesses have to put up with all the time.
Many times, it wouldn't even get that far. Say that you invent something truly remarkable, and a large company gets wind of it. They'll have a version of your invention out before you can even get a business up and running. No competition can occur because of the relative sizes of the two organizations. Of course, you'll never see a dime. Does that seem fair to you?
The scientific consensus is that global warming has been caused by people. It is the politicians and their devoted followers who think that there is some sort of controversy. Secondly, from TFA, solar fluctuations and volcanic activity cannot explain the increase in temperature alone. Finally, you're asking scientists to conclusively PROVE that global warming has been caused by humans. This is impossible. Likewise, it's impossible to PROVE that quantum mechanics and general relativity are true. All scientists can do is look at the evidence and surmise what they think is happening. That's what they're doing, and you're ignoring them because they're telling you what you don't want to hear.
It's the Stonecutters. As a matter of fact, they also control the British Crown, keep the metric system down, keep Atlantis off the maps, keep the Martians under wraps, hold back the electric car, make Steve Guttenberg a star, rob cavefish of their sight and rig every Oscar night.
You're assuming that increased C02 emissions have had immediate effects on the environment, when there is no evidence to suggest that. A system the size of the atmosphere is very inert, so it would be expected that the atmosphere lags decades or even centuries behind.
I completely agree. My grandfather recently died from Alzheimer's after a relatively short bout with it: he went from diagnosis to end-stage in about four years. According to the Wikipedia page, this time span is on the low end. For me, the hardest part about it wasn't its effects on my grandfather, whom I had known reasonably well, but on my father, who's 47 years old and is now convinced that the same thing will happen to him. If this gets developed, it will offer him one of the most important things: peace of mind.
The scientific community has reached the same conclusions as many so-called "envirowackos" regarding global warming. It's the politicians (mostly Republicans) who have turned the issue into a "debate." Somehow, those on the Right have managed to convince many people (yourself included) that there is a substantial debate within the scientific community, but that is simply not the case. Sure, there are fringe people who disagree with the mainstream, but any scientific theory has people on its fringe. The key is to not let the voice of the minority distract you from the voice of the vast majority.
If you'd like another example of how the Right has managed to convince people of the existence of a "debate" where there is none, consider the whole "controversy" behind Evolution and Intelligent Design.
They're the executives of the companies. The act was designed to protect against their misdeeds. Moreover, the benefits can't exactly be measured in terms of dollars, because a large part of the act is preventive. That is, you can't measure what never occurred, especially when there is little statistical data from which to back up an analysis.
At my university, press releases aren't written by the researchers. Rather, they're written by people whose job it is to dumb them down for the general populace and insert buzzwords for corporations. The result is often that the press releases are misleading, a fact which the researchers recognize, but cannot rectify. For example, one electrical engineering professor was just telling me about how one such release talked about the quantum computing applications of a novel device, even though the professor had mentioned none and the device had no such applications.
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You had me until you mentioned homeopathy. Homeopathy is pseudoscience, and has been thoroughly refuted. Any benefits that anyone claims to get from it is just a placebo effect.
regen's fine, if it can S-T-O-P stop, not "hmm...maybe someday" stop
Have you ever driven a Prius? It's regenerative braking is so fast that it's difficult to use. In fact, the first time I drove one, it was like I was fifteen years old again and learning how to drive for the first time.
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The first course should be a basic course for all engineering disciplines, and then an advanced course dealing with the software that each discipline typically has to use.
It would be pointless to teach all engineering disciplines AutoCad, because disciplines such as electrical engineering and computer engineering will never use it.
Why gold and silver? They're just so...arbitrary. I'd rather have my money backed up by something that can actually do something, like energy.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the "token black character" scene and the other scenes at the end of the show aren't actually going to be on the next episode, just like Arrested Development's "On the next episode of Arrested Development..." gags. Granted, it is a shameless rip-off.
I don't see it as a show. Maybe a movie?
Arrested Development is probably the poster-boy for this. Every time the Fox Network asked the show's creators to do something or threatened to cancel the show, the show would get really snarky about that request. For example, during the first season, they asked the creators to make an episode where the main character teaches his son "a lesson" (apparently, a quote from the memo). They did do this, but in the process, "the lesson" got warped into an elaborate thing involving a drug deal gone bad, fake cop strippers, and a one-armed man getting his fake arm shot off. In the end, it was the main character's father teaching him the lesson. What was that lesson? Don't teach lessons to your son, of course.
Getting back to the advertisement thing, apparently the show's creators were asked to heavily feature Burger King in a second-season episode of the show (as product placement). They did so while turning the whole thing into one big joke. The episode was originally called the "Tendercrisp Chicken Comedy Half-Hour," and features such quotes as, "It really is a wonderful restaurant." Carl Weathers, the actor turned cheapskate in his role on the show, also went on a long diatribe about how BK would underwrite the cost of filming a scene from a show if it took place in a Burger King. (Ironically, that very scene took place in a BK.)
What ended up happening to the show? Well, it survived into the second season by winning five Emmys and being loved by pretty much every critic, but by this point, the only advertisements for the show would appear ten seconds before its airing (as opposed to American Idol, which has an ad every commercial break). In the second season, its episode order was cut by four episodes so that Fox could show more reruns of Family Guy. *ugh* In its third season, it only had 13 episodes ordered, was moved to Monday nights, and was finally cancelled. Its last four episodes, including its series finale, were dumped on February 10th, during the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics. Note that this is the same network which also cancelled the Bernie Mac Show and Malcolm in the Middle this year without having any good sitcoms to replace them with. Instead, they're airing The War at Home, the Loop, and Free Ride, FOX's equivalent of Yes, Dear and According to Jim.
You'd rather vote for someone with an agenda that you disagree with then vote for someone with no agenda? I'd consider someone without an agenda to be much less malicious than someone with one that is harmful.
What you've just described is commonly known as Maxwell's demon, and is thought by most physicists to violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
I know this may initially seem like a silly thing for people to build, but don't be fooled. Just as helicopters and airplanes have both found their niche, it is possible that ornithopters could one day fill another one. The fact that such a large one can fly even for a short amount of time is truly remarkable.
It's your life. Blaming someone else for your failures isn't going to make your life any better.
They're not the ones blamings others. We're blaming you. You're the one trying to justify the fact that you beat them up by calling them "losers" and saying that they deserved it. Ironically, you're shifting the blame of your actions from yourself to them. You should listen to your own advice.
If you want to get rid of a bad habit, you must replace it with a good one.
Or, you can replace it with a similar but less bad one. For example, I quit my nail-biting habit about eight months ago. To do this, every time that I put my hands up to my mouth to bite, I put my fingers in my teeth and simply didn't bite. Obviously, that's still disgusting, but eventually, it gave way to me losing the compunction to putting my fingers in my mouth at all.
No legal action is possible on my part because of the relative sizes of the two organisations. I should never have let them get wind of it in the first place, by holding onto my trade secrets.
First of all, to make a business and sell a product, you have to have investors. To convince investors to invest, you need to disclose information. That's a fact: you cannot simply "hold on to your trade secrets." Secondly, if your case against the large company really is so cut-and-dry, any good lawyer would be happy to take on your case on contingency (i.e., for a certain cut of the settlement). It's really quite common in the U.S.
They are, in all likelihood, paid to do their research out of the public purse. Canadians have already paid for this research, and the scientists in question were already motivated to perform it.
Most engineering professors get the money for their research by directly appealing to outside organizations. Though the university/public pays their salary, this is for teaching and for the prestige that they bring to the university, not for their research.
Patents are less than useless to society. A competator is copying your ingenius invention? Welcome to the real world. This is what other businesses have to put up with all the time.
Many times, it wouldn't even get that far. Say that you invent something truly remarkable, and a large company gets wind of it. They'll have a version of your invention out before you can even get a business up and running. No competition can occur because of the relative sizes of the two organizations. Of course, you'll never see a dime. Does that seem fair to you?
To: Brainwashed Conservative,
The scientific consensus is that global warming has been caused by people. It is the politicians and their devoted followers who think that there is some sort of controversy. Secondly, from TFA, solar fluctuations and volcanic activity cannot explain the increase in temperature alone. Finally, you're asking scientists to conclusively PROVE that global warming has been caused by humans. This is impossible. Likewise, it's impossible to PROVE that quantum mechanics and general relativity are true. All scientists can do is look at the evidence and surmise what they think is happening. That's what they're doing, and you're ignoring them because they're telling you what you don't want to hear.
Signed,
Someone who listens to the experts
It's the Stonecutters. As a matter of fact, they also control the British Crown, keep the metric system down, keep Atlantis off the maps, keep the Martians under wraps, hold back the electric car, make Steve Guttenberg a star, rob cavefish of their sight and rig every Oscar night.
You're assuming that increased C02 emissions have had immediate effects on the environment, when there is no evidence to suggest that. A system the size of the atmosphere is very inert, so it would be expected that the atmosphere lags decades or even centuries behind.
I completely agree. My grandfather recently died from Alzheimer's after a relatively short bout with it: he went from diagnosis to end-stage in about four years. According to the Wikipedia page, this time span is on the low end. For me, the hardest part about it wasn't its effects on my grandfather, whom I had known reasonably well, but on my father, who's 47 years old and is now convinced that the same thing will happen to him. If this gets developed, it will offer him one of the most important things: peace of mind.
The scientific community has reached the same conclusions as many so-called "envirowackos" regarding global warming. It's the politicians (mostly Republicans) who have turned the issue into a "debate." Somehow, those on the Right have managed to convince many people (yourself included) that there is a substantial debate within the scientific community, but that is simply not the case. Sure, there are fringe people who disagree with the mainstream, but any scientific theory has people on its fringe. The key is to not let the voice of the minority distract you from the voice of the vast majority.
If you'd like another example of how the Right has managed to convince people of the existence of a "debate" where there is none, consider the whole "controversy" behind Evolution and Intelligent Design.
Wow, your menu has impressive graphics. What did you use to make them?
On a side note, the script-blocking image is making me type "molest" to continue. How nice.
They're the executives of the companies. The act was designed to protect against their misdeeds. Moreover, the benefits can't exactly be measured in terms of dollars, because a large part of the act is preventive. That is, you can't measure what never occurred, especially when there is little statistical data from which to back up an analysis.
Duh, the question marks are where they monitor your behavior to see whether you'll press the button every 108 minutes or not.
No, you're the only one.
At my university, press releases aren't written by the researchers. Rather, they're written by people whose job it is to dumb them down for the general populace and insert buzzwords for corporations. The result is often that the press releases are misleading, a fact which the researchers recognize, but cannot rectify. For example, one electrical engineering professor was just telling me about how one such release talked about the quantum computing applications of a novel device, even though the professor had mentioned none and the device had no such applications.
Have you ever seen Groundhog Day?
You had me until you mentioned homeopathy. Homeopathy is pseudoscience, and has been thoroughly refuted. Any benefits that anyone claims to get from it is just a placebo effect.
regen's fine, if it can S-T-O-P stop, not "hmm...maybe someday" stop
Have you ever driven a Prius? It's regenerative braking is so fast that it's difficult to use. In fact, the first time I drove one, it was like I was fifteen years old again and learning how to drive for the first time.