If you care about print speed, then you are using the print enough that it will never enter power saving mode anyway. I print a few pagers a month. I don't even turn my printer on most weeks. When I do it takes a minute to warm up, but I don't care. freeBSD has a preety good print spooler and is willing to wait for the printer. Sure it would be NICE hit print within a few second hold the printout, but in practice you don't need it instantly.
HP does not make paper. They do however spec paper, and have the cheapest paper mill THAT MEETS SPEC make it. All other manufactures do the same. So the trick isn't just trying with HP paper, it is trying with all brands of paper, on all settings to see what works. Epson might have a slightly different spec for their paper that you happen to prefer in your printer.
Note that the right paper is critical for ink jet printers, while lasers can deal with a large range of papers. However the right paper and quality is often different. There is quality of how the paper handles ink, and quality of the paper itself (watermarks).
What you want to print makes a big difference too. When printing photos that you want to display, use the expensive photo paper in a ink jet, it will look great. Plain text on the same paper won't look enough better to justify the cost. Plain text that matters will look enough better on a laser that you should seriously consider spending extra cash. If you print text often you will save money by buying a laser, since you not only get better text, but it is also cheaper to print with a laser.
In short experiment, not just with the setting, but also with the paper. I doupt that it prints worse when you select normal paper, so much as it puts a different amount of ink on the page. It probably prints better on normal paper in normal mode than hp mode, while on hp paper it prints better in hp mode. With some other brand name paper you will have to compare.
The problem with awards, especcialy first anual awards, is who is the compitition. Austrilia and Samba come to mind instantly. Nothing else though. I fear that next year they will either have to give Samba an award (or a key developer), or give it to something less deserving.
There are thousands of open source projects (look on sourceforge sometime, some even have code). Most are not going anywhere, and are of little use to the average person (or even/. reader).
So the question is what is next? Good for them if they find enough austrilian programers in various projects to keep giving menaingful awards. I suspect they will have trouble though.
I get 1% cash back on all purchases on my credit card. I have to buy my checks for about $.25 each. There is about a $100/year difference between the two.
I know that many poor people cannot get credit cards, but it turns out the really poor people that you worry about can't get checking accounts either (or if they have them write bad checks, either by accident or intent). Thus cash is king amoung the poor, and the middle and above should use credit.
Uh, not exactly. It won't matter at first, when they are doing it because I'm not guilty. However it will some matter when I realise that I can't change my clothes without being on cammera, and as a christain I'm not supposed to be an exhibitionist. And no running to the kitchen in the middle of the night in my underwear anymore. (single people) Or no kids anymore cause sex is on cammera (married people).
Of course you wouldn't have to have the cameras in the bedrooms and bathroom, but then you will discover that those running a brothel just have clients come in via the window. It isn't hard to plant landscaping that looks nice (in a unique way) that makes it easy for clients to get in a window. If the windows are too small, just replace them with modern Low-E windows that just happen to be bigger.
I'm sure you can come up with plenty of ways do all of the above illegal stuff in any room where they don't place cammeras.
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At the time they wrote the help file that was true. Eventially somebody found that at least one game is not solveable (other posts tell you which). Now the help file is out of date - unless they have updated it since your version. I haven't read the help file in 6 years, back then it was not known yet that one game was unsolveable.
GSM, CDMA, TDMA,... There are many standards. I'm not much of a radio engineer, but I'll bet I could come up with a different one that would work in a few days. (It would suck compared to the ones we have now) Who cares though, the point is the standard, the point is the phone works. I've used GSM, CDMA, and a couple other standards IT DIDN'T MATTER! Thats right, all the standards work. You the consumer does not need to care.
Watch service areas. Look for features that you will use. Engineers could build a phone with all standards built in, if they wanted to. (tri-band GSM is common, as is dual band analog/digital) It turns out though, most places in the US that you travel either has coverage in all standards, or no coverage in any.
I don't get why people care which standard their phone uses. That is something for the phone companies to worry about.
There are millions of places looking for someone to enertain them. Nursing homes will gladdly pay you a small sum of money to play. Eleimentry schools, weddings, concerts in the park... Find them, and play.
Every town I know of has some sort of celebration in summer, where they have a parade, carnivel, dinner, communitry awards, contests, games, dance, etc. Find them, and convince they leaders that they need your band to give enertainment. (It might be free, or low profit in itself, but you should have someone selling CDs the entire concert)
If you are truely talented you should have no problem coming up with songs that a nursing home would enjoy over lunch. (note that I didn't say you would like it, at least it is good practice, but you can often come to love creating in a different style)
don't forget your hometown. people will put up with talentless idiots because they are local over slightly talented out of town bands. (Unless the out of town band is heavially promoted) You will likely make the most money by staying close to home.
Do you like other styles of music? There is a small folk music crowd in most towns. If you enjoy that, enough to release a true folk CD, you can get current fans to try something new, and folk fans to try you and perhaps buy your non-folk efforts. Warning though, don't do this unless you understand the style, there are too many bands who call themselves folk music who are not as it is.
Most of all, have fun. Even the most talented musician is not good enough to make someone enjoy music when the feeling is not there. You know this already, but eventially you will have a bad night, and need to find some way to get it back.
I have ideas. Lots of good ideas. I have no interest in actualy following through with them though, I'd rather come up with the next idea. Therefore I would hire a lot of things. I would have 10 artists (mostly stone carvers) on my payroll at any time, carving statues, plaques (thoughtful sayings), and sculptures. I would turn my yard (and my neighbor's yard after I bought their house) into a large sculpture garden. Romantic areas, thoughtful areas, concert areas, maybe a zoo... I don't know exactly. Essentially a large park that is all mine, but you are welcome to visit.
I'd also spend a lot of time exploring nature. Alaska has always interested me, I'd go. Utah has the most amazing geography, I'd have to spend a lot of time there. Fishing, hiking, hunting, camping. I like living in tents for short times. Watch lions kill, visit the pryamids (Egyption and Myan), explore castles.
And as a rich person I would also have a few less useful things. The world's longest brige, streching 100 miles in the ocean, and then ending, with the plan from the start to never cross. Or maybe a life size replica of flood control dam #3. (underground of course)
I've met people who should not own a hammer, who use one anway. They manage to get their pictures hung, but anyone who knows how to use a hammer laughs at the attempt. This is for something simple. They should not put furnature togather, they should buy it assembled.
Note that these people are not stupid, just they have no mechanical skills. Several have honestly (well, as honest as lawyers can be anyway) earned several million dollars.
If you can't handle mechanical things, no problem. There are plenty of people who can be hired to do that for you. I can't do a very good job of cutting hair, but I hire that done. Nor am I a very good lawyer, doctor, writer, dog trainer. No problem, I recignise my limits, and choose what I do. I could be some of the above, but I can't learn all of the above, so I hire experts. (In fact I have hired, or plan to hire all of the above mentioned experts)
Never heard of the "Center for the Study oif the Public Domain"? Perhaps you should start spending more time in the "Your rights Online" section. Not all the good stories are posted to the main page. Read the stories, follow the links. Write your represenitives. Keep an eye on what other countries are doing (lest yours follow in their failings).
I have personally heard of the center for study of the public domain. I also follow all the YRO stories, and read the links. I buy books that cover copyrights. Sure they are not a well known name, but if you haven't heard of them, it is your own fault.
Mind you, there is a difference between not hearing of something, and not being sure they are doing something useful.
You make it sound like spending 42% of his time on vacation is bad. I hate goverment, and since goverment prefers to bring their size up, not down, time on vacation is good, less time to create more boondoggels. I wish he was on vacation instead of working when he came up with the office of homeland security.
Of course if we could get a president that would actually reduce goverment's size, then I might think differently. The fact is most people agree with me in theory, but whenever an actual reduction is proposed they realise they are getting something from that service and disagree. (Never mind that those services could be better provided other ways) And of course this is all my personal opinion, there are plenty (a majority?) of people who completely disagree with my views.
Sure this is cool, but is it useful? 2D screens are old hat, and seem to work well. People play doom and other 3d games on them without problems, so we can fake the 3rd dimention if we try.
I can't be the only person who gets sick watching 3d films. I've only done it a few times, but that is enough that I refuse to considering doing it again. If 3d films become a major part of education, then I'm disabled because I cannot watch them.
You are confusing patents and trademarks. You must defend your trademarks, or you will lose it. With a patent you can let infringment slide as long as you want, and so long as the patent hasn't expired still sue.
Case in point: the gif patent
Not nessicarly. Often they keep some statistics on what the complaint is. Not always, or even often enough, but if you get a person there is a chance that someone is listening.
However your odds that someone listening cares depends on the industry. The Phone companys are used to monopolies, so they can ignore you easier than resteraunts with lots of compitition. Doesn't mean that your complaint at a resteraunt will be passed on though.
So your saying that status is the only reason to get this? Guess I agree.
Me, I prefer to shift my own transmission, roll down my own windows, lock my own doors. Those mechanical parts seem to last a long time, and give less trouble than the electric ones. (not to say that I don't have troubles with mechanical parts) Thats just me though, I don't expect you to be like me, I just ask you to consider if technology is really worth it. Status is of course a consideration.
For a TV fanatic (just about everyone), the large TV coming down from the ceiling is a good idea. However how much of the rest is useful?
The switches in my house work just fine, I walk into the room and turn it on. No looking, because they are all standard I can walk into just about any dark room and turn on the light, and little effort is required. (Note, europe seems to run on a different standard and I can't always find their switches). How is a touch screen different? When a mechanical switch wears out I can fiddle with it a few times until I get the parts to replace it.
The reason the "House of the future" has never caught on is that most of the ideas are not really better. A mechanical light switch is cheap (50 cents), and uses no power. A touch, voice, or motion switch is much more exepnsive, and needs power to operate. In other words, it wastes electrisity without providing functionality we need.
That isn't to say all new technology isn't better. Most houses should be built with sorround sound, because people would use that.
Remember, when building a house, consider what you would really use. It might be interesting to know what the tempature of each room it, but in the end who cares?
Not really. We know how to recycle nuclear waste, and get more energy from the process than we got in the first place.
If I remember correctly, after we do all the recycling we know how to do we end up with just hundreds of pounds of waste (instead of tons from current mythods) with much shorter half lives (read we only need to store the dangerious stuff safely for hundreds of years, not tens of thousands)
Sears Craftsman tools have a lifetime warentiee, if they break you walk into any sears store and get a replacement no questions asked. Snap-on is much higher quality (in general), but they in general don't carry the smaller tools computers need. Many tools are lifetime warentiee, but you can't find where to get it exchanged.
Don't fool youself, you will need that warentiee. The non-warentieed tools are generally soft metal that nearly bends working air, they have no hope of dealing with a real part. (Okay, not quite that bad, but close enough) With the good tools you won't have nearly as many problems, but you will eventialy break something. I can't say what (other than your #2 phillips) you will need it for, but you will need it for something.
Oh, in addition to the above: a #2 square drive screwdriver. I've never seen the need for one in computers, but if you ever come across the person who designs computer packaging ask them to change. Square drive is a lot nicer than phillips, it lasts longer and takes more torque if nessicary. (Warning, don't over torque screws putting them in, but sometimes you get a stubberen on that needs extra help to come out). Opinion I know, but I think it is a good idea.
My guess: the number will go up. That is the more hours you work, the more lines of code per hour get written, especcially at first. What that number will not tell you is number of quality lines of code, or the number of lines of code it would be if it was done right instead.
Case in point: We had a 22,000 line code module, written by an expirenced programer. Brought in a new college grad who re-wrote the whole thing into 3000 lines of code, added some new features (without getting rid of any of the old ones!). Both were written in C, so it wasn't a difference of language, or even libraries. The differences were not all hours worked, (the senior programer should have kept his guitar job) but the good programer would not have seen all the ways to reduce code size if he had been told to work extra hours.
An excellent idea. If you are in crunch mode, it better mean that you pretty much know everything you need to know to finish. You don't need to see your co workers more than once a week anymore cause your interfaces are close to set in stone. (You can email or call when things are not) Working at home is completely different from working at the office. For short bursts you can get a lot more done at home - my boss (several bosses back, I'm not working now) once ordered me not to come in because there was a hard problem and when I was in I got called to help with too many problems that I could solve for other people.
I live in Minnesota. Any Minnesota company (not medical or labor) without a work from home plan is stupid. More than once last winter I looked out the window and decided that while I could probably make it in safe, staying home assured that I would. We have more practice driving on ice and snow than most people, but the truth is we get so much of it that we can't let it stop us, and we go in the ditch a lot. Work from home is also great for the times when you are sick but feel good enough to get something done.
I used to give much the same advice. Then I found myself without a job. I still partially agree, but be very careful not to lose your income before you have a new source. I can survive a couple more months of not working, but much as I would love to make that the rest of my life, I have basic needs that need to be met.
The amount of money I need to live a happy life isn't much, I could get it part time at McDonalds. However I want to keep my computer. (I could keep it working at McDonalds, but there is no point as I couldn't afford the power and internet connection to run it). All I really need is some food, warm clothes in winter (and enough to satisfy basic deciency in summer), and a place I can sleep at night. That isn't the life I want to live though.
Think carefully, what kind of life do you really want to live, and accept the cost of it. I could be a millionare today if I had wanted to be 10 years ago. However the work that I would have to do, to get that million isn't worth it to me. (It is easier in the illeagel jobs, but then you take the risk of prison)
Static protection is too cheap to not take seriously. Wrist straps are dirt cheap. Humidifiers are cheap, (and you need some other enviormental controls anyway) so are smocks, shoes, and the other protections.
Sure it all costs money, but compare protection with the cost of repairs. As a good engineer it won't take more than a few hours to find and repair something. Oh, at $75/hour (remember benifits), and you are taking those hours away from time I could be working on something new to make money. Sure tech can be trained, but only after engineers know the common problems to look for. Better to have so few problems that you never
Don't forget that customers remember products that fail before they are obsolete. For just a little protection you can make sure that poor quality doesn't drive them away.
Last, I have personally destroied electrions with static. I was known (when it happened) as one of the more careful persons in the office, yet I still managed to destroy things with static. It only takes one moment of in a hurry to cost a lot of money.
Not exactly. Male chimps join a different group when they grow up, females stay in the same ones. If a male gets a STD, and then moves to a different group, he could very well wipe out the new one quickly.
I'm not a biochemist, but I can answer the second one: Sometimes. Gene mutations are belived to be random. The chimp doesn't have a SIV specific gene, it has a gene that causes certian types of protiens. The protien then allows certian immunities. It might happen that the gene only affects SIV, more likely it affects several things, which might or might not include HIV.
One of the early vacinations for small pox was bassed on cow pox, once infected by cow pox you were immune to small pox. So yes, one infection can make you resistant to a different one. However there are many different viriues. Most people get the flu every year, and each time they get one strain they become resistant to that and several other, however appearently not the one that strikes the next year.
There are too many random factors in immunities and genetics to really answer your second question, but I tried.
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If you care about print speed, then you are using the print enough that it will never enter power saving mode anyway. I print a few pagers a month. I don't even turn my printer on most weeks. When I do it takes a minute to warm up, but I don't care. freeBSD has a preety good print spooler and is willing to wait for the printer. Sure it would be NICE hit print within a few second hold the printout, but in practice you don't need it instantly.
HP does not make paper. They do however spec paper, and have the cheapest paper mill THAT MEETS SPEC make it. All other manufactures do the same. So the trick isn't just trying with HP paper, it is trying with all brands of paper, on all settings to see what works. Epson might have a slightly different spec for their paper that you happen to prefer in your printer.
Note that the right paper is critical for ink jet printers, while lasers can deal with a large range of papers. However the right paper and quality is often different. There is quality of how the paper handles ink, and quality of the paper itself (watermarks).
What you want to print makes a big difference too. When printing photos that you want to display, use the expensive photo paper in a ink jet, it will look great. Plain text on the same paper won't look enough better to justify the cost. Plain text that matters will look enough better on a laser that you should seriously consider spending extra cash. If you print text often you will save money by buying a laser, since you not only get better text, but it is also cheaper to print with a laser.
In short experiment, not just with the setting, but also with the paper. I doupt that it prints worse when you select normal paper, so much as it puts a different amount of ink on the page. It probably prints better on normal paper in normal mode than hp mode, while on hp paper it prints better in hp mode. With some other brand name paper you will have to compare.
The problem with awards, especcialy first anual awards, is who is the compitition. Austrilia and Samba come to mind instantly. Nothing else though. I fear that next year they will either have to give Samba an award (or a key developer), or give it to something less deserving.
There are thousands of open source projects (look on sourceforge sometime, some even have code). Most are not going anywhere, and are of little use to the average person (or even /. reader).
So the question is what is next? Good for them if they find enough austrilian programers in various projects to keep giving menaingful awards. I suspect they will have trouble though.
I get 1% cash back on all purchases on my credit card. I have to buy my checks for about $.25 each. There is about a $100/year difference between the two.
I know that many poor people cannot get credit cards, but it turns out the really poor people that you worry about can't get checking accounts either (or if they have them write bad checks, either by accident or intent). Thus cash is king amoung the poor, and the middle and above should use credit.
Uh, not exactly. It won't matter at first, when they are doing it because I'm not guilty. However it will some matter when I realise that I can't change my clothes without being on cammera, and as a christain I'm not supposed to be an exhibitionist. And no running to the kitchen in the middle of the night in my underwear anymore. (single people) Or no kids anymore cause sex is on cammera (married people).
Of course you wouldn't have to have the cameras in the bedrooms and bathroom, but then you will discover that those running a brothel just have clients come in via the window. It isn't hard to plant landscaping that looks nice (in a unique way) that makes it easy for clients to get in a window. If the windows are too small, just replace them with modern Low-E windows that just happen to be bigger.
I'm sure you can come up with plenty of ways do all of the above illegal stuff in any room where they don't place cammeras.
At the time they wrote the help file that was true. Eventially somebody found that at least one game is not solveable (other posts tell you which). Now the help file is out of date - unless they have updated it since your version. I haven't read the help file in 6 years, back then it was not known yet that one game was unsolveable.
GSM, CDMA, TDMA, ... There are many standards. I'm not much of a radio engineer, but I'll bet I could come up with a different one that would work in a few days. (It would suck compared to the ones we have now) Who cares though, the point is the standard, the point is the phone works. I've used GSM, CDMA, and a couple other standards IT DIDN'T MATTER! Thats right, all the standards work. You the consumer does not need to care.
Watch service areas. Look for features that you will use. Engineers could build a phone with all standards built in, if they wanted to. (tri-band GSM is common, as is dual band analog/digital) It turns out though, most places in the US that you travel either has coverage in all standards, or no coverage in any.
I don't get why people care which standard their phone uses. That is something for the phone companies to worry about.
There are millions of places looking for someone to enertain them. Nursing homes will gladdly pay you a small sum of money to play. Eleimentry schools, weddings, concerts in the park... Find them, and play.
Every town I know of has some sort of celebration in summer, where they have a parade, carnivel, dinner, communitry awards, contests, games, dance, etc. Find them, and convince they leaders that they need your band to give enertainment. (It might be free, or low profit in itself, but you should have someone selling CDs the entire concert)
If you are truely talented you should have no problem coming up with songs that a nursing home would enjoy over lunch. (note that I didn't say you would like it, at least it is good practice, but you can often come to love creating in a different style)
don't forget your hometown. people will put up with talentless idiots because they are local over slightly talented out of town bands. (Unless the out of town band is heavially promoted) You will likely make the most money by staying close to home.
Do you like other styles of music? There is a small folk music crowd in most towns. If you enjoy that, enough to release a true folk CD, you can get current fans to try something new, and folk fans to try you and perhaps buy your non-folk efforts. Warning though, don't do this unless you understand the style, there are too many bands who call themselves folk music who are not as it is.
Most of all, have fun. Even the most talented musician is not good enough to make someone enjoy music when the feeling is not there. You know this already, but eventially you will have a bad night, and need to find some way to get it back.
I have ideas. Lots of good ideas. I have no interest in actualy following through with them though, I'd rather come up with the next idea. Therefore I would hire a lot of things. I would have 10 artists (mostly stone carvers) on my payroll at any time, carving statues, plaques (thoughtful sayings), and sculptures. I would turn my yard (and my neighbor's yard after I bought their house) into a large sculpture garden. Romantic areas, thoughtful areas, concert areas, maybe a zoo... I don't know exactly. Essentially a large park that is all mine, but you are welcome to visit.
I'd also spend a lot of time exploring nature. Alaska has always interested me, I'd go. Utah has the most amazing geography, I'd have to spend a lot of time there. Fishing, hiking, hunting, camping. I like living in tents for short times. Watch lions kill, visit the pryamids (Egyption and Myan), explore castles.
And as a rich person I would also have a few less useful things. The world's longest brige, streching 100 miles in the ocean, and then ending, with the plan from the start to never cross. Or maybe a life size replica of flood control dam #3. (underground of course)
I've met people who should not own a hammer, who use one anway. They manage to get their pictures hung, but anyone who knows how to use a hammer laughs at the attempt. This is for something simple. They should not put furnature togather, they should buy it assembled.
Note that these people are not stupid, just they have no mechanical skills. Several have honestly (well, as honest as lawyers can be anyway) earned several million dollars.
If you can't handle mechanical things, no problem. There are plenty of people who can be hired to do that for you. I can't do a very good job of cutting hair, but I hire that done. Nor am I a very good lawyer, doctor, writer, dog trainer. No problem, I recignise my limits, and choose what I do. I could be some of the above, but I can't learn all of the above, so I hire experts. (In fact I have hired, or plan to hire all of the above mentioned experts)
Never heard of the "Center for the Study oif the Public Domain"? Perhaps you should start spending more time in the "Your rights Online" section. Not all the good stories are posted to the main page. Read the stories, follow the links. Write your represenitives. Keep an eye on what other countries are doing (lest yours follow in their failings).
I have personally heard of the center for study of the public domain. I also follow all the YRO stories, and read the links. I buy books that cover copyrights. Sure they are not a well known name, but if you haven't heard of them, it is your own fault.
Mind you, there is a difference between not hearing of something, and not being sure they are doing something useful.
You make it sound like spending 42% of his time on vacation is bad. I hate goverment, and since goverment prefers to bring their size up, not down, time on vacation is good, less time to create more boondoggels. I wish he was on vacation instead of working when he came up with the office of homeland security.
Of course if we could get a president that would actually reduce goverment's size, then I might think differently. The fact is most people agree with me in theory, but whenever an actual reduction is proposed they realise they are getting something from that service and disagree. (Never mind that those services could be better provided other ways) And of course this is all my personal opinion, there are plenty (a majority?) of people who completely disagree with my views.
Sure this is cool, but is it useful? 2D screens are old hat, and seem to work well. People play doom and other 3d games on them without problems, so we can fake the 3rd dimention if we try.
I can't be the only person who gets sick watching 3d films. I've only done it a few times, but that is enough that I refuse to considering doing it again. If 3d films become a major part of education, then I'm disabled because I cannot watch them.
You are confusing patents and trademarks. You must defend your trademarks, or you will lose it. With a patent you can let infringment slide as long as you want, and so long as the patent hasn't expired still sue. Case in point: the gif patent
Not nessicarly. Often they keep some statistics on what the complaint is. Not always, or even often enough, but if you get a person there is a chance that someone is listening.
However your odds that someone listening cares depends on the industry. The Phone companys are used to monopolies, so they can ignore you easier than resteraunts with lots of compitition. Doesn't mean that your complaint at a resteraunt will be passed on though.
So your saying that status is the only reason to get this? Guess I agree.
Me, I prefer to shift my own transmission, roll down my own windows, lock my own doors. Those mechanical parts seem to last a long time, and give less trouble than the electric ones. (not to say that I don't have troubles with mechanical parts) Thats just me though, I don't expect you to be like me, I just ask you to consider if technology is really worth it. Status is of course a consideration.
For a TV fanatic (just about everyone), the large TV coming down from the ceiling is a good idea. However how much of the rest is useful?
The switches in my house work just fine, I walk into the room and turn it on. No looking, because they are all standard I can walk into just about any dark room and turn on the light, and little effort is required. (Note, europe seems to run on a different standard and I can't always find their switches). How is a touch screen different? When a mechanical switch wears out I can fiddle with it a few times until I get the parts to replace it.
The reason the "House of the future" has never caught on is that most of the ideas are not really better. A mechanical light switch is cheap (50 cents), and uses no power. A touch, voice, or motion switch is much more exepnsive, and needs power to operate. In other words, it wastes electrisity without providing functionality we need.
That isn't to say all new technology isn't better. Most houses should be built with sorround sound, because people would use that.
Remember, when building a house, consider what you would really use. It might be interesting to know what the tempature of each room it, but in the end who cares?
Not really. We know how to recycle nuclear waste, and get more energy from the process than we got in the first place.
If I remember correctly, after we do all the recycling we know how to do we end up with just hundreds of pounds of waste (instead of tons from current mythods) with much shorter half lives (read we only need to store the dangerious stuff safely for hundreds of years, not tens of thousands)
Sears Craftsman tools have a lifetime warentiee, if they break you walk into any sears store and get a replacement no questions asked. Snap-on is much higher quality (in general), but they in general don't carry the smaller tools computers need. Many tools are lifetime warentiee, but you can't find where to get it exchanged.
Don't fool youself, you will need that warentiee. The non-warentieed tools are generally soft metal that nearly bends working air, they have no hope of dealing with a real part. (Okay, not quite that bad, but close enough) With the good tools you won't have nearly as many problems, but you will eventialy break something. I can't say what (other than your #2 phillips) you will need it for, but you will need it for something.
Oh, in addition to the above: a #2 square drive screwdriver. I've never seen the need for one in computers, but if you ever come across the person who designs computer packaging ask them to change. Square drive is a lot nicer than phillips, it lasts longer and takes more torque if nessicary. (Warning, don't over torque screws putting them in, but sometimes you get a stubberen on that needs extra help to come out). Opinion I know, but I think it is a good idea.
My guess: the number will go up. That is the more hours you work, the more lines of code per hour get written, especcially at first. What that number will not tell you is number of quality lines of code, or the number of lines of code it would be if it was done right instead.
Case in point: We had a 22,000 line code module, written by an expirenced programer. Brought in a new college grad who re-wrote the whole thing into 3000 lines of code, added some new features (without getting rid of any of the old ones!). Both were written in C, so it wasn't a difference of language, or even libraries. The differences were not all hours worked, (the senior programer should have kept his guitar job) but the good programer would not have seen all the ways to reduce code size if he had been told to work extra hours.
An excellent idea. If you are in crunch mode, it better mean that you pretty much know everything you need to know to finish. You don't need to see your co workers more than once a week anymore cause your interfaces are close to set in stone. (You can email or call when things are not) Working at home is completely different from working at the office. For short bursts you can get a lot more done at home - my boss (several bosses back, I'm not working now) once ordered me not to come in because there was a hard problem and when I was in I got called to help with too many problems that I could solve for other people.
I live in Minnesota. Any Minnesota company (not medical or labor) without a work from home plan is stupid. More than once last winter I looked out the window and decided that while I could probably make it in safe, staying home assured that I would. We have more practice driving on ice and snow than most people, but the truth is we get so much of it that we can't let it stop us, and we go in the ditch a lot. Work from home is also great for the times when you are sick but feel good enough to get something done.
I used to give much the same advice. Then I found myself without a job. I still partially agree, but be very careful not to lose your income before you have a new source. I can survive a couple more months of not working, but much as I would love to make that the rest of my life, I have basic needs that need to be met.
The amount of money I need to live a happy life isn't much, I could get it part time at McDonalds. However I want to keep my computer. (I could keep it working at McDonalds, but there is no point as I couldn't afford the power and internet connection to run it). All I really need is some food, warm clothes in winter (and enough to satisfy basic deciency in summer), and a place I can sleep at night. That isn't the life I want to live though.
Think carefully, what kind of life do you really want to live, and accept the cost of it. I could be a millionare today if I had wanted to be 10 years ago. However the work that I would have to do, to get that million isn't worth it to me. (It is easier in the illeagel jobs, but then you take the risk of prison)
Static protection is too cheap to not take seriously. Wrist straps are dirt cheap. Humidifiers are cheap, (and you need some other enviormental controls anyway) so are smocks, shoes, and the other protections.
Sure it all costs money, but compare protection with the cost of repairs. As a good engineer it won't take more than a few hours to find and repair something. Oh, at $75/hour (remember benifits), and you are taking those hours away from time I could be working on something new to make money. Sure tech can be trained, but only after engineers know the common problems to look for. Better to have so few problems that you never
Don't forget that customers remember products that fail before they are obsolete. For just a little protection you can make sure that poor quality doesn't drive them away.
Last, I have personally destroied electrions with static. I was known (when it happened) as one of the more careful persons in the office, yet I still managed to destroy things with static. It only takes one moment of in a hurry to cost a lot of money.
Not exactly. Male chimps join a different group when they grow up, females stay in the same ones. If a male gets a STD, and then moves to a different group, he could very well wipe out the new one quickly.
I'm not a biochemist, but I can answer the second one: Sometimes. Gene mutations are belived to be random. The chimp doesn't have a SIV specific gene, it has a gene that causes certian types of protiens. The protien then allows certian immunities. It might happen that the gene only affects SIV, more likely it affects several things, which might or might not include HIV.
One of the early vacinations for small pox was bassed on cow pox, once infected by cow pox you were immune to small pox. So yes, one infection can make you resistant to a different one. However there are many different viriues. Most people get the flu every year, and each time they get one strain they become resistant to that and several other, however appearently not the one that strikes the next year.
There are too many random factors in immunities and genetics to really answer your second question, but I tried.