Maybe, maybe not. However the point is to protect yourself in case the FBI does take interest. When the FBI will take interest (it is unlikely they will, but they will place your report in a file, and if they take interest latter this may help the case) they cannot get you on any aiding and abetting charge.
What is there to go on about his record? He early in the campaign that Kerry's war record was better than his. The swift boat guys may or may not have had a point, and may or may not have had a better record, but they are not Bush. (In any case even if everything they said about Kerry was true in the worse light, Kerry's record is still better than Bush's and Bush would agree)
Of course Someone has to be ready for local problems at all time, even though they are highly unlikely. It is no accident Bush was that person, but it wasn't something you can blame him for - his family was powerful enough that no general in his right mind would all Bush in a likely line of fire, so all the dangerous jobs (like Kerry was one) were out. Bush could have sat in Korea (though that war just cooled, so perhaps not), but not in Vietnam. Even democrat general in charge would make sure that nothing happened to young Bush that could be prevented.
Or are you referring to the lies CBS tried to pass off as truth? Get over it if that is the case - they were forgeries, and now even if true versions would show up nobody would believe them.
NASA has always been about powerful politicians getting the pork home. Doesn't matter who was in charge, that has always been the first priority. Science has always been a backseat. Beating the Russians (Now it is the opposite - keeping Russian rocket scientists from trading their skills for food to someone evil) was important for a while, but even then the pork was what counted more important. Don't blame Bush, both parties do it, and always have. (Well you can, but quit trying to make it seem like something different)
It is illegal in the US to misuse a computer. I'm not sure what the exact details are, but that isn't your problem. It is illegal to enter into a contract to do something illegal. Depending on circumstances, it might be illegal to know someone is attempting to commit a crime, and not tell the police. For all of the above reasons you should inform the police about this. They might not do anything, but you should get some file number so you can prove you tried anyway.
In some cases they will ask you to enter into this contract - for purposes of gathering evidence. Be careful if you do, though in general you should.
At least in my area that would be considered sexual harassment. Get a lawyer and sue them. The only downside is you have to live with every radio station in the world (or at least the US) telling everyone that you have a small penis and are offended by it. If you are happily married this shouldn't be a problem. (though a good marketing weasel could sell smallness to the girls)
This varies from state to state. In some states you have to decide which party you vote for and tell the state. In the state where I live both parties candidates are printed on the ballot, the machine (optical scanner) does not accept ballots where you have marked candidates from two parties, but nobody knows which party you voted for.
Personally I hate primary elections. This is the internal affair of the party, and the state should not be involved at all. IF you care you show up in the smoke filled room (which is normally on a no smoking school property, so there is no smoke) and hash out the issues with other people.
In the mean time I decide which party I like, and then vote for the WORSE candidate in the other one, so my party has a better chance of getting someone in. Then too, it sure felt nice to vote against Welstone twice that one year.
It was not created only in the evening, but it started in the evening. "The evening and the morning were the first day". That is the evening came first. Jewish law starts every day at sundown for this reason.
Eventually. You gotta admit that having the earth open up and swallow those who get it wrong is a lot quicker method of getting the right result though.
With what linux apps. A bare OS is kind of useless. Particularly if they don't include init, some getty, X, or even a frame buffer console.
A PS3 on a HDTV, running KDE, kword, and konqueror would be sweet. (If you are GNOME fan just substitute their equivalents) Unfortunately, nearly all homes have a computer these days, so it isn't the advantage that it could have been in the past.
Then again Atari's XEGS didn't sell, despite having a good enough word processor (for the day).
Well I did it at work in 3 months, removed support for OS/2 (Well obsoleted, most of the code is still there, but it will never be built again), and added support for FreeBSD. If you code is well written it should be a big deal to port to more platforms.
Quark has both Mac and Microsoft Windows versions, so they must have some cross platform stuff. I'll grant that their software is more complex, but I'm not sure how much.
US responds: I see your puny reed button and raise you a red button that brings your entire country to below sea level.
The US has far more bombs than China. MAD works. China might be evil, but they are smart enough to blink before it gets that far. (So is the US, which is why a China/US war won't go nuclear) Now if it was North Korea we were at war with, things are different, they are insane enough to not blink, even if it destroys the country. (though it would be hard to protect South Korea. The US can do a lot of damage to China without affecting other countries)
Then too, SDI might work well enough to stop the attack in the first place. Depends on the time of the attack. (As in not today, but they are working on it, while China doesn't have the best technology to counter it yet)
I don't see a US/China war. China will continue to claim Taiwan, but they well know that doing more will be dangerous.
Poets from NASA
Do not care about comet
stuck on earth writing
That is the best I can come up with tonight. I'm not up for a full sonnet, or anything that ryemes. Guess there is a reason I have a minor in math, not poetry.
You implied that most of our oil comes from the middle east. I have no idea what amount is imported.
I have seen many oil wells in Canada with pumps that look just like the pumps you see in Texas. They have a lot of pumpable oil. Though you are right that most of it is in sands that can't really be pumped.
The cost to extract oil is a continuum, and changes both with inflation and advancing technology.
If by here you mean the US, then you are wrong, Oil does originate here. Texas has a lot of it, as does Alaska. Most of our imports come from Canada and Venezuela (and presumably other South American countries, though I can't think of any others with oil). Only 15-20% of the oil used in the US comes from the middle east.
Getting oil from the middle east is cheaper than you might guess, ships are very cheap to run, and nobody cares that it takes 6 months for the stuff to arrive, so long as a steady stream arrives. A pipeline is cheaper, yet though, and faster.
In fact there is more crude oil under Canada now then there ever was in the Middle East. However oil from the middle east is cheap to pump. Much of that oil in Canada can't be pumped for less than $80/barrel or so. Oil is now selling for ~$50/barrel and everyone is complaining about gas prices! By contrast, int the middle east they can make money at $20/barrel.
I'm not sure what the numbers are like for Europe. I'd guess they get most of theirs from Russia and the middle east. Though I know Norway at least has some offshore rigs that account for something. I'm not aware of any oil being pumped from Europe, but it wouldn't surprise me if there was some.
Ethanol (E-85) is profitable at $1.40/gallon retail (including taxes) today. Is that close enough. It doesn't compete with $.90 gas, but it holds well against today's prices.
I'm not sure how much we can grow/refine, but Minnesota is now at (or soon will be at) 20% ethanol in all gas, and the ethanol market is glutted. (Many farmers have investted in ethanol plants. Though they don't need this investment to profit, so long as it stays in business and buys their crops)
It is wrong that they don't have backups. However a lot of this data is stuff that I want to be on a server that crashes hard, without backups. Preferably in such a way that even disaster recovery places can't get the data back.
Instead of flaming the Linux desktop, why don't you try them. KDE has been perfectly useable on an machine that can run XP or less for several years. Once you get used to the differences you will realize that KDE is better than XP. The intigrated browser works, even on complex CSS web pages.
I'm told that Gnome is very good as well, I don't use it so I'm not qualified to comment.
You clearly don't use either, and are therefore not qualified to comment.
MS has a perfectly fine kernel in Windows NT. They need to get their GUI out of the kernel.
I don't like the way their kernel works, but I can recognize a good (if over complex) design when I see it. NT has always been stable on good hardware. (Good meaning both the hardware, and the drivers) It was the Windows 95 series that blue screen of death-ed all the time. (NT did once in a while, but in most cases it was hardware, so Linux would have failed too)
A gallon of ethanol is cheaper at the pump than gas. (Don't mention subsidies unless you can track down oil subsidies to compare) It is energy positive (though critics like to cling to the early 80's plants that were not, as if technology hasn't moved on). We produce a lot of it. In fact there is a glut in the car ready ethanol market.
Figure how many requests have come in, or what time. Assume that this trend will continue. Assume that your team will continue to spend x% of their time on the project.
Do make sure you account for time getting back into the code after the urgent project though.
There are two problems: knowing how to solve the simple problem, and knowing how to use the solution to the simple problem to a big problem.
You should not be converting.443 to a fraction with a calculator until you can do it by hand. (though ideally we would pick an example where there is some useful reduction) Once you know how to do that, then you are ready for the calculator.
There are places where you don't have a calculator, but need to do calculations. I worked construction for one summer. A calculator would not last a day on the job before it would break. So we did out math by hand. If you go to the attic of any house I worked on you will find a stud with some number multiplied by the sign of a 45 degree angle. (which I used to have memorized, but I can't recall tonight) Many of the students who are not as good in math as you will go onto such positions, and being good at those complex calculations without a machine to help is important.
Yes it is more impressive to figure the volume of an irregular container, with calculus. In the real world trial and error will get you close enough, and often is less effort. (In fact most people don't need this level of math. I used to know how to do it, I even minored in math, but I don't think I could do this today without studying)
If your choice was PHP or Perl (C, or Visual Basic are just as bad) for web development, then yes you would use PHP. However when you could use Python or Ruby instead, PHP is a bad choice. PHP starts out easy, and give me all the C stuff I remember, but I get much more powerful libraries in Python that instead of working like C, work the way I want them to.
Wouldn't it be neat if programs automatically closed all resources when you were done with them? It would be like a book flying back to the bookshelf when you are done reading!
Amazingly, C++ supports this with a concept called RAII (resource allocation is initialization). Your file handles automatically close for you when you are done. Your classes come and go as you need them, without needing to worry about memory yourself. Shared auto pointers work great. They are not perfect, but they solve a lot of problems.
Java can't do this, because the detractors are not called when you are done with the class, they are called sometime latter when the garbage collector gets around to it. This means that you might still have a file locked when you tell a different program to work with it.
Get with modern C++. Garbage collection is neat, but it prevents RAII.
No. In fact C++ would not be good for you. I recommend learning Python. Powerful enough for websites and databases. It tries to force you to write good code. I've also heard good things about Ruby, from programmers I trust, that is the only other option worth considering.
C and C++ are great for performacne counts, low level things. However they are not what you want when creating a web site. You can do it, but it will take 10 times as long to make your website. (If anything it will be worse than python/ruby when you are done)
Visual Basic is the worst place to start because there is a lot of bad VB out there that might influence you. (It has been said that nobody who starts with VB goes on to become a good programmer. I wouldn't go that far, but the sentiment is correct)
Perl and php are bad choices. Perl because it is difficult to come back to your code latter and understand what you meant. Php seems like it should be good, but despite being meant for web pages, it is painful.
Scheme is a great language, but nobody uses it... Someday you should learn it - it will blow your mind when you get it. However because so few people use it, it is hard to learn on your own.
I do most of my programming in python. I know C++, I've used it for years. Python is much easier, and most of the time the advantages of C++ (often 10 times faster for the same algorithm) aren't important.
Just tell your boss no. I will work overtime when a customer runs into a critical bug in the field. I will work overtime once in a while when I don't already have plans, and there is on feature that I need to finish. I will work overtime when there is someone in from the main office explaining something. I will not work overtime because you refuse to cut some features from your over aggressive schedule. Course you alone isn't enough, then can get rid of you. Have your co-workers do it too.
When you allow yourself to be pushed around management things you are spineless, and they will push. When you stand up to the bully they find someone else to pick on.
I have discovered that I do not have even 8 hours of good code per day in me. I end up spending a at least an hour a day doing non-code things (and there are plenty of them) to make up.
Linux users are not running as a normal user because they are smart (though often they are), but because that is the default. All distributions (not counting stupid ones like linspire) have the user create a separate root account, and then encourage them to not use it. Often root accounts are crippled in subtile ways. Many screensavers won't run as root for instance.
There are enough of those 'little' utilities (which include some major things) that except for a few lucky tech savvy people (who don't have one of the many common applications that require administrator rights) and those in large enterprizes every MS Windows user is running as administrator. Games often require administrator access. QuickBook does (or did last I checked). Nobody will deal with switching users all the time.
It isn't hard to write programs for Ms Windows that don't require administrator, but until 2 years ago there was no need as everyone was running a 95 type system anyway. There are many programs out there that assume they still are - and more are written all the time, often for no reason.
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Maybe, maybe not. However the point is to protect yourself in case the FBI does take interest. When the FBI will take interest (it is unlikely they will, but they will place your report in a file, and if they take interest latter this may help the case) they cannot get you on any aiding and abetting charge.
What is there to go on about his record? He early in the campaign that Kerry's war record was better than his. The swift boat guys may or may not have had a point, and may or may not have had a better record, but they are not Bush. (In any case even if everything they said about Kerry was true in the worse light, Kerry's record is still better than Bush's and Bush would agree)
Of course Someone has to be ready for local problems at all time, even though they are highly unlikely. It is no accident Bush was that person, but it wasn't something you can blame him for - his family was powerful enough that no general in his right mind would all Bush in a likely line of fire, so all the dangerous jobs (like Kerry was one) were out. Bush could have sat in Korea (though that war just cooled, so perhaps not), but not in Vietnam. Even democrat general in charge would make sure that nothing happened to young Bush that could be prevented.
Or are you referring to the lies CBS tried to pass off as truth? Get over it if that is the case - they were forgeries, and now even if true versions would show up nobody would believe them.
NASA has always been about powerful politicians getting the pork home. Doesn't matter who was in charge, that has always been the first priority. Science has always been a backseat. Beating the Russians (Now it is the opposite - keeping Russian rocket scientists from trading their skills for food to someone evil) was important for a while, but even then the pork was what counted more important. Don't blame Bush, both parties do it, and always have. (Well you can, but quit trying to make it seem like something different)
It is illegal in the US to misuse a computer. I'm not sure what the exact details are, but that isn't your problem. It is illegal to enter into a contract to do something illegal. Depending on circumstances, it might be illegal to know someone is attempting to commit a crime, and not tell the police. For all of the above reasons you should inform the police about this. They might not do anything, but you should get some file number so you can prove you tried anyway.
In some cases they will ask you to enter into this contract - for purposes of gathering evidence. Be careful if you do, though in general you should.
At least in my area that would be considered sexual harassment. Get a lawyer and sue them. The only downside is you have to live with every radio station in the world (or at least the US) telling everyone that you have a small penis and are offended by it. If you are happily married this shouldn't be a problem. (though a good marketing weasel could sell smallness to the girls)
This varies from state to state. In some states you have to decide which party you vote for and tell the state. In the state where I live both parties candidates are printed on the ballot, the machine (optical scanner) does not accept ballots where you have marked candidates from two parties, but nobody knows which party you voted for.
Personally I hate primary elections. This is the internal affair of the party, and the state should not be involved at all. IF you care you show up in the smoke filled room (which is normally on a no smoking school property, so there is no smoke) and hash out the issues with other people.
In the mean time I decide which party I like, and then vote for the WORSE candidate in the other one, so my party has a better chance of getting someone in. Then too, it sure felt nice to vote against Welstone twice that one year.
It was not created only in the evening, but it started in the evening. "The evening and the morning were the first day". That is the evening came first. Jewish law starts every day at sundown for this reason.
Eventually. You gotta admit that having the earth open up and swallow those who get it wrong is a lot quicker method of getting the right result though.
With what linux apps. A bare OS is kind of useless. Particularly if they don't include init, some getty, X, or even a frame buffer console.
A PS3 on a HDTV, running KDE, kword, and konqueror would be sweet. (If you are GNOME fan just substitute their equivalents) Unfortunately, nearly all homes have a computer these days, so it isn't the advantage that it could have been in the past.
Then again Atari's XEGS didn't sell, despite having a good enough word processor (for the day).
Well I did it at work in 3 months, removed support for OS/2 (Well obsoleted, most of the code is still there, but it will never be built again), and added support for FreeBSD. If you code is well written it should be a big deal to port to more platforms.
Quark has both Mac and Microsoft Windows versions, so they must have some cross platform stuff. I'll grant that their software is more complex, but I'm not sure how much.
US responds: I see your puny reed button and raise you a red button that brings your entire country to below sea level.
The US has far more bombs than China. MAD works. China might be evil, but they are smart enough to blink before it gets that far. (So is the US, which is why a China/US war won't go nuclear) Now if it was North Korea we were at war with, things are different, they are insane enough to not blink, even if it destroys the country. (though it would be hard to protect South Korea. The US can do a lot of damage to China without affecting other countries)
Then too, SDI might work well enough to stop the attack in the first place. Depends on the time of the attack. (As in not today, but they are working on it, while China doesn't have the best technology to counter it yet)
I don't see a US/China war. China will continue to claim Taiwan, but they well know that doing more will be dangerous.
Poets from NASA
Do not care about comet
stuck on earth writing
That is the best I can come up with tonight. I'm not up for a full sonnet, or anything that ryemes. Guess there is a reason I have a minor in math, not poetry.
You implied that most of our oil comes from the middle east. I have no idea what amount is imported.
I have seen many oil wells in Canada with pumps that look just like the pumps you see in Texas. They have a lot of pumpable oil. Though you are right that most of it is in sands that can't really be pumped.
The cost to extract oil is a continuum, and changes both with inflation and advancing technology.
If by here you mean the US, then you are wrong, Oil does originate here. Texas has a lot of it, as does Alaska. Most of our imports come from Canada and Venezuela (and presumably other South American countries, though I can't think of any others with oil). Only 15-20% of the oil used in the US comes from the middle east.
Getting oil from the middle east is cheaper than you might guess, ships are very cheap to run, and nobody cares that it takes 6 months for the stuff to arrive, so long as a steady stream arrives. A pipeline is cheaper, yet though, and faster.
In fact there is more crude oil under Canada now then there ever was in the Middle East. However oil from the middle east is cheap to pump. Much of that oil in Canada can't be pumped for less than $80/barrel or so. Oil is now selling for ~$50/barrel and everyone is complaining about gas prices! By contrast, int the middle east they can make money at $20/barrel.
I'm not sure what the numbers are like for Europe. I'd guess they get most of theirs from Russia and the middle east. Though I know Norway at least has some offshore rigs that account for something. I'm not aware of any oil being pumped from Europe, but it wouldn't surprise me if there was some.
Ethanol (E-85) is profitable at $1.40/gallon retail (including taxes) today. Is that close enough. It doesn't compete with $.90 gas, but it holds well against today's prices.
I'm not sure how much we can grow/refine, but Minnesota is now at (or soon will be at) 20% ethanol in all gas, and the ethanol market is glutted. (Many farmers have investted in ethanol plants. Though they don't need this investment to profit, so long as it stays in business and buys their crops)
It is wrong that they don't have backups. However a lot of this data is stuff that I want to be on a server that crashes hard, without backups. Preferably in such a way that even disaster recovery places can't get the data back.
Instead of flaming the Linux desktop, why don't you try them. KDE has been perfectly useable on an machine that can run XP or less for several years. Once you get used to the differences you will realize that KDE is better than XP. The intigrated browser works, even on complex CSS web pages.
I'm told that Gnome is very good as well, I don't use it so I'm not qualified to comment.
You clearly don't use either, and are therefore not qualified to comment.
MS has a perfectly fine kernel in Windows NT. They need to get their GUI out of the kernel.
I don't like the way their kernel works, but I can recognize a good (if over complex) design when I see it. NT has always been stable on good hardware. (Good meaning both the hardware, and the drivers) It was the Windows 95 series that blue screen of death-ed all the time. (NT did once in a while, but in most cases it was hardware, so Linux would have failed too)
A gallon of ethanol is cheaper at the pump than gas. (Don't mention subsidies unless you can track down oil subsidies to compare) It is energy positive (though critics like to cling to the early 80's plants that were not, as if technology hasn't moved on). We produce a lot of it. In fact there is a glut in the car ready ethanol market.
Figure how many requests have come in, or what time. Assume that this trend will continue. Assume that your team will continue to spend x% of their time on the project.
Do make sure you account for time getting back into the code after the urgent project though.
There are two problems: knowing how to solve the simple problem, and knowing how to use the solution to the simple problem to a big problem.
You should not be converting .443 to a fraction with a calculator until you can do it by hand. (though ideally we would pick an example where there is some useful reduction) Once you know how to do that, then you are ready for the calculator.
There are places where you don't have a calculator, but need to do calculations. I worked construction for one summer. A calculator would not last a day on the job before it would break. So we did out math by hand. If you go to the attic of any house I worked on you will find a stud with some number multiplied by the sign of a 45 degree angle. (which I used to have memorized, but I can't recall tonight) Many of the students who are not as good in math as you will go onto such positions, and being good at those complex calculations without a machine to help is important.
Yes it is more impressive to figure the volume of an irregular container, with calculus. In the real world trial and error will get you close enough, and often is less effort. (In fact most people don't need this level of math. I used to know how to do it, I even minored in math, but I don't think I could do this today without studying)
If your choice was PHP or Perl (C, or Visual Basic are just as bad) for web development, then yes you would use PHP. However when you could use Python or Ruby instead, PHP is a bad choice. PHP starts out easy, and give me all the C stuff I remember, but I get much more powerful libraries in Python that instead of working like C, work the way I want them to.
Wouldn't it be neat if programs automatically closed all resources when you were done with them? It would be like a book flying back to the bookshelf when you are done reading!
Amazingly, C++ supports this with a concept called RAII (resource allocation is initialization). Your file handles automatically close for you when you are done. Your classes come and go as you need them, without needing to worry about memory yourself. Shared auto pointers work great. They are not perfect, but they solve a lot of problems.
Java can't do this, because the detractors are not called when you are done with the class, they are called sometime latter when the garbage collector gets around to it. This means that you might still have a file locked when you tell a different program to work with it.
Get with modern C++. Garbage collection is neat, but it prevents RAII.
No. In fact C++ would not be good for you. I recommend learning Python. Powerful enough for websites and databases. It tries to force you to write good code. I've also heard good things about Ruby, from programmers I trust, that is the only other option worth considering.
C and C++ are great for performacne counts, low level things. However they are not what you want when creating a web site. You can do it, but it will take 10 times as long to make your website. (If anything it will be worse than python/ruby when you are done)
Visual Basic is the worst place to start because there is a lot of bad VB out there that might influence you. (It has been said that nobody who starts with VB goes on to become a good programmer. I wouldn't go that far, but the sentiment is correct)
Perl and php are bad choices. Perl because it is difficult to come back to your code latter and understand what you meant. Php seems like it should be good, but despite being meant for web pages, it is painful.
Scheme is a great language, but nobody uses it... Someday you should learn it - it will blow your mind when you get it. However because so few people use it, it is hard to learn on your own.
I do most of my programming in python. I know C++, I've used it for years. Python is much easier, and most of the time the advantages of C++ (often 10 times faster for the same algorithm) aren't important.
Just tell your boss no. I will work overtime when a customer runs into a critical bug in the field. I will work overtime once in a while when I don't already have plans, and there is on feature that I need to finish. I will work overtime when there is someone in from the main office explaining something. I will not work overtime because you refuse to cut some features from your over aggressive schedule. Course you alone isn't enough, then can get rid of you. Have your co-workers do it too.
When you allow yourself to be pushed around management things you are spineless, and they will push. When you stand up to the bully they find someone else to pick on.
I have discovered that I do not have even 8 hours of good code per day in me. I end up spending a at least an hour a day doing non-code things (and there are plenty of them) to make up.
Linux users are not running as a normal user because they are smart (though often they are), but because that is the default. All distributions (not counting stupid ones like linspire) have the user create a separate root account, and then encourage them to not use it. Often root accounts are crippled in subtile ways. Many screensavers won't run as root for instance.
There are enough of those 'little' utilities (which include some major things) that except for a few lucky tech savvy people (who don't have one of the many common applications that require administrator rights) and those in large enterprizes every MS Windows user is running as administrator. Games often require administrator access. QuickBook does (or did last I checked). Nobody will deal with switching users all the time.
It isn't hard to write programs for Ms Windows that don't require administrator, but until 2 years ago there was no need as everyone was running a 95 type system anyway. There are many programs out there that assume they still are - and more are written all the time, often for no reason.