Teach them to learn, not teach them to use one particular program. Sames as the old teach a man to fish thing. Give them a computer, and tell them they must write a paper with it. Mark all the spelling mistakes up and then write a note: next time use the spell checker. They will learn, and in the process learn to find what the rest of the program can do.
Of course it is much easier to teach someone one program than to teach them to think. In the end though thinkers are what the world needs.
Actually they use electrolysis to smelt the aluminum, so there isn't much different. Other than smelting aluminum is something that has been researched in great depth by companies looking to save money, while separating water isn't as common.
Ever hear of freeways? Most cities have them. Although there are congested areas, if they are long you should be writing your congressman to fix them. In most of the Minneapolis metro area you can drive 55mph on the freeway during rush hour. Enough that if your trip is more than a few miles the freeway is faster than city driving. Thus most of your trip is in areas where hybrids make less sense than a good diesel.
Heck, my Geo Metro missing on one cylinder still gets just as good of milage at 70mph as a hybrid. (I do this daily) You need to take into account that with a hybrid you are also carrying around heavy batteries and motors.
Maybe, maybe not. In my state you do not have to accept any offers, only offers which a reasonable person would accept.
I don't have to accept a job at McDonalds even though they would offer me one. (Though if my previous job was a Burger King this would not be true) However I cannot refuse a job working as a programer for Microsoft for a reasonable wage just because I don't like them. I of course can find a new job 2 months latter and quit, and I don't have to apply at Microsoft. However if Microsoft calls me up when I'm looking for programing work I have to take it or have a good reason to refuse.
If a judge says that I loose my enemployment if I refuse to sign such a document, then I am signing such a document under duress, and contracts sign under duress are not valid in any state! In fact many such agreements are invalid because you can easily show a court that you had no reasonable choice at the time.
See a lawyer for how this applies to your exact situation.
In some states (but not all), that agreement hold no force because you need to sign it to get a job and you need a job to eat. Or in short you were under duress at the time. In the US you have rights to a jury trial, an few juries will hold that non-work creations on your own time belong to work, and this can prevent a conviction if your lawyer is good enough. However only a lawyer can advise you on what applies (and what is worth applying).
If this is work that you did on company time because the company needed it done, then the company owns copyright to your work. I don't know of any state that would disagree. However they do not own copyright to the other included work, so they have a choice have recreating the rest, or distributing under the GPL.
IF this is work that you did entirely on your own time, and someone else in the company discovered it and decided to market it, it is questionable if they can claim ownership. Even if they can, point out the by claiming ownership they are also agreeing to be liable for code not written to their standards. In short if you write code that kills someone they are liable!
It isn't clear what the exact situation is. If for some reason he is here, but not convicted of a crime (I can't figure out what such a reason would be, but the article isn't clear), then they don't have any right to restrict his reading. However they can also refuse to guarantee results if he does read such a thing. For the rest of this post I'm going to assume he has been convicted of a crime.
In this situation they have rights to restrict any reading material that might allow him to cheat treatment. He is a criminal. He has prooven himself unable to handle freedom, therefore we need to restrict his freedoms until he learns how to deal with the responsibilities freedom provides.
Many people complain (rightly so) that jails do not treat criminals, they just pull them off the street for a while. Iowa is attempting treatment, using the best we have. Polygraphs are easy enough to cheat when you don't know how, books that teach you how can quickly make them completely worthless. Unfortunately things like polygraphs are one of the few things we have to use in treatment. I would expect that those using them understand the limitations, but that is a reason to not use them.
Personally I would physically destroy it. As in place it in a crucible and turn it into a sculpture of something else.
The FBI can read disks after being erased 7 times. (Or so they have admitted. Technology has changed since then so I don't know what the current abilities are) SRM (secure rm, google it) might be able to do something, but when the police are after me I wouldn't trust it.
Note when I say destroy it, I don't mean you do it. I mean she should do this. You don't want to be charged with anything.
Several companies make write-once tape drives. We use Sony AIT drives at work, but there is no reason to assume the others won't work. (I know DLT has a write-once mode)
Tape drives are common hardware for enterprize backup, more common that CD/DVDs. CD/DVD is consumer media, I it easy to show in court that they are not up to the other standards that anyone who must save data must maintain.
If C++ will run "shockingly better" that necessarily means it was shockingly bad to start with.
Clearly you have never worked with C++ under gcc compared to other compilers, or this would not be a surprise. Gcc is free, and it works good enough on just about every platform. Nobody makes the claim that it is anything other than bad. However it is normally good enough, so we use it anyway.
MN. We only had one phone, until I helped dad install a new one. My gradparents (mom's side) had more than one, but they ran a business so they needed those lines. On Dad's side I don't think they have two phone YET, though when they are in the house they are in the room where the phone is so there is no need.
Now that I think of it, there were some houses with more than one phone jack installed. You still had to pay extra if you wanted to plug a phone into any of them. Few people had the extra phone because you paid for it. (Though considering quality less than what you pay for a phone today)
Up until about 1986 (+/- 3 years) the US was the same way. Everyone except a few freaks had one phone in their house, and no other jacks. The phone company owned the wires and changed for each phone they connected for you.
With the breakup of "MaBell" and AT&T you suddenly owned your own wires and the right to install as many phones you could could. (but you only got enough power for 4 ringers which was an issue for a few) Thereafter everyone started adding jacks where they wanted them.
Brick and plaster is no fun to get through, but if you are determined you can do it.
Honeywell has a long history in weapons systems. Their thermostats and furnace/boiler controllers have always paid the bills, allowing management to spend time on interesting military projects.
In Minnesota (where I live, I don't know about other areas where Honeywell has offices) Honeywell is known as a boom-bust place. They are always either hiring lots of engineers for some secret weapons system, or laying them off because the contract is up.
Where do you find a restaurant that will serve the same quality foods that you just bought? I know of a few, but they are $20/meal or more. 1 Pound of shrimp is $10, but buy it at a restaurant and you are looking at $20/pound. (though it is hard to compare since you get some cheap vegetable with it)
(I hate juices from concentrate for a variety of reasons)
Have you read the labels? Last time I checked I couldn't get any juice at my local grocery store that wasn't from concentrate. Now it has been several years since I last looked, so maybe things have changed. As I recall though, all the juice was from concentrate. The store brands are even more likely to be from concentrate.
I love not from concentrate juice. However the only place I've been able to find it is at the gas station (and not all of them) in one serving sizes. Cost nearly as much as the grocer's gallon jugs of juice.
Speaking as an old school sunOS fan (Anything pre-Solaris), CDE was almost as big a mistake as going sysV for Solaris. Openlook was much better. I never even looked at CDE, it was so ugly on my neighbor's desktop. (I was one of the last to get rid of the ELC off my desk, one of the downsides of being a intern, so I didn't have it as an option for years after a few switched to it)
This is one of the few areas where libertarians want the government to get involved. It is a clear cut case of contract violation. They promised to remove spyway, and didn't do it. Simple violation of contract.
Libertarians are not anarchists. There is a time and place for government. Libertarians want government to deal with crimes against people (murder and other assult), property. (theft, vandalism), and enforcement of contracts. (This is not a complete list)
First is hardware. Each processor uses different signaling. Voltages are not always comparable, and where the clock triggers (raising, falling, both) and the like. There are over-comable issues, but it really isn't
(or hasn't been) worth anyone's effort.
Second is the OS needs to know about it, otherwise it will randomly shut down the lower power processor when there isn't much work to do, which doesn't give the gains you want. OSes are now working on (and mostly done with) making a process stay on one processor as much as they can for cache reasons. So you might end up with the processor intensive task running on the weak processors while your clock runs on the powerful one. Again, an overcomeable issue, but nobody it really interested.
On a system of this size yes they do. Look close, there isn't much room for ports in the size they are allowed. PS/2 ports take up some space that could be better used for other things. Firewire, for instance, though even more USB ports would be handy and more useful.
Its been too long since I've seen the 386 specs....
However the short of it is: adding these changes to the 386 is fairly trivial in that no changes to the instruction set are required, and only changes to a small part of the hardware. (Of course this isn't to imply any idiot could do it, only that it isn't a major effort)
You do not under stand money. The dollar is backed by nothing at all. The US doesn't have to worry about where the money comes from because the US can print as much or as little as it wants. The job of the fed (Perhaps you have heard of Alan Greenspan who is president) is to decide how much to print. Now there are downsides to printing too much, but they affect those outside the US more than those inside.
Note that most money isn't printed anymore. It is just an item in a computer database somewhere.
You miss one important point: there are only 3 shuttles left. Back before the Columbia accident there was a full list of missions planned for 4 shuttles. Now we have lost one of those shuttles, and a couple years while we figure out how to prevent it again. Something has to be dropped from the schedule: 1 shuttles worth of work. (Not one trip, many trips).
There is no choice, they US only has one method of getting people into space, it is limited, and cannot be expanded in the near future. (We have no working designs. Even building a new shuttle would take years, and it would be stupid to reuse a 30 year old experimental design today)
Something has to give. The US has committed to doing ISS, and in fact committed ISS missions are enough to take up the remaining shuttle fleet.
It isn't about money, though that is always an issue. It is about the work we have to do.
As the other guy said, not true. The 32 bit 80386 supported more than 4GB of RAM, if you could find that much back when it was a used (you couldn't). You just had to use segmented memory which everyone hated. (Back then the 286 was still fresh in everyone's mind, and the 286 couldn't do anything non-trivial without segmented memory. Today we are spoiled because few people care about such things.
The 80386 supported more than 4GB of memory. I don't think anyone actually built a motherboard that could take that much memory, but it could in theory deal with it. You just had to use the same ugly segmented memory model that everyone hated about the 286 while in 32 bit mode. Everyone just set their segment to 0, since that still allowed 4GB of ram, and nobody with a 80386 had that much memory.
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Teach them to learn, not teach them to use one particular program. Sames as the old teach a man to fish thing. Give them a computer, and tell them they must write a paper with it. Mark all the spelling mistakes up and then write a note: next time use the spell checker. They will learn, and in the process learn to find what the rest of the program can do.
Of course it is much easier to teach someone one program than to teach them to think. In the end though thinkers are what the world needs.
Plastics can be made from things other than oil. In fact they often are, though mostly as demonstrations to farmers.
Actually they use electrolysis to smelt the aluminum, so there isn't much different. Other than smelting aluminum is something that has been researched in great depth by companies looking to save money, while separating water isn't as common.
Ever hear of freeways? Most cities have them. Although there are congested areas, if they are long you should be writing your congressman to fix them. In most of the Minneapolis metro area you can drive 55mph on the freeway during rush hour. Enough that if your trip is more than a few miles the freeway is faster than city driving. Thus most of your trip is in areas where hybrids make less sense than a good diesel.
Heck, my Geo Metro missing on one cylinder still gets just as good of milage at 70mph as a hybrid. (I do this daily) You need to take into account that with a hybrid you are also carrying around heavy batteries and motors.
Maybe, maybe not. In my state you do not have to accept any offers, only offers which a reasonable person would accept.
I don't have to accept a job at McDonalds even though they would offer me one. (Though if my previous job was a Burger King this would not be true) However I cannot refuse a job working as a programer for Microsoft for a reasonable wage just because I don't like them. I of course can find a new job 2 months latter and quit, and I don't have to apply at Microsoft. However if Microsoft calls me up when I'm looking for programing work I have to take it or have a good reason to refuse.
If a judge says that I loose my enemployment if I refuse to sign such a document, then I am signing such a document under duress, and contracts sign under duress are not valid in any state! In fact many such agreements are invalid because you can easily show a court that you had no reasonable choice at the time.
See a lawyer for how this applies to your exact situation.
In some states (but not all), that agreement hold no force because you need to sign it to get a job and you need a job to eat. Or in short you were under duress at the time. In the US you have rights to a jury trial, an few juries will hold that non-work creations on your own time belong to work, and this can prevent a conviction if your lawyer is good enough. However only a lawyer can advise you on what applies (and what is worth applying).
If this is work that you did on company time because the company needed it done, then the company owns copyright to your work. I don't know of any state that would disagree. However they do not own copyright to the other included work, so they have a choice have recreating the rest, or distributing under the GPL.
IF this is work that you did entirely on your own time, and someone else in the company discovered it and decided to market it, it is questionable if they can claim ownership. Even if they can, point out the by claiming ownership they are also agreeing to be liable for code not written to their standards. In short if you write code that kills someone they are liable!
It isn't clear what the exact situation is. If for some reason he is here, but not convicted of a crime (I can't figure out what such a reason would be, but the article isn't clear), then they don't have any right to restrict his reading. However they can also refuse to guarantee results if he does read such a thing. For the rest of this post I'm going to assume he has been convicted of a crime.
In this situation they have rights to restrict any reading material that might allow him to cheat treatment. He is a criminal. He has prooven himself unable to handle freedom, therefore we need to restrict his freedoms until he learns how to deal with the responsibilities freedom provides.
Many people complain (rightly so) that jails do not treat criminals, they just pull them off the street for a while. Iowa is attempting treatment, using the best we have. Polygraphs are easy enough to cheat when you don't know how, books that teach you how can quickly make them completely worthless. Unfortunately things like polygraphs are one of the few things we have to use in treatment. I would expect that those using them understand the limitations, but that is a reason to not use them.
Personally I would physically destroy it. As in place it in a crucible and turn it into a sculpture of something else.
The FBI can read disks after being erased 7 times. (Or so they have admitted. Technology has changed since then so I don't know what the current abilities are) SRM (secure rm, google it) might be able to do something, but when the police are after me I wouldn't trust it.
Note when I say destroy it, I don't mean you do it. I mean she should do this. You don't want to be charged with anything.
Several companies make write-once tape drives. We use Sony AIT drives at work, but there is no reason to assume the others won't work. (I know DLT has a write-once mode)
Tape drives are common hardware for enterprize backup, more common that CD/DVDs. CD/DVD is consumer media, I it easy to show in court that they are not up to the other standards that anyone who must save data must maintain.
If C++ will run "shockingly better" that necessarily means it was shockingly bad to start with.
Clearly you have never worked with C++ under gcc compared to other compilers, or this would not be a surprise. Gcc is free, and it works good enough on just about every platform. Nobody makes the claim that it is anything other than bad. However it is normally good enough, so we use it anyway.
MN. We only had one phone, until I helped dad install a new one. My gradparents (mom's side) had more than one, but they ran a business so they needed those lines. On Dad's side I don't think they have two phone YET, though when they are in the house they are in the room where the phone is so there is no need.
Now that I think of it, there were some houses with more than one phone jack installed. You still had to pay extra if you wanted to plug a phone into any of them. Few people had the extra phone because you paid for it. (Though considering quality less than what you pay for a phone today)
Up until about 1986 (+/- 3 years) the US was the same way. Everyone except a few freaks had one phone in their house, and no other jacks. The phone company owned the wires and changed for each phone they connected for you.
With the breakup of "MaBell" and AT&T you suddenly owned your own wires and the right to install as many phones you could could. (but you only got enough power for 4 ringers which was an issue for a few) Thereafter everyone started adding jacks where they wanted them.
Brick and plaster is no fun to get through, but if you are determined you can do it.
Honeywell has a long history in weapons systems. Their thermostats and furnace/boiler controllers have always paid the bills, allowing management to spend time on interesting military projects.
In Minnesota (where I live, I don't know about other areas where Honeywell has offices) Honeywell is known as a boom-bust place. They are always either hiring lots of engineers for some secret weapons system, or laying them off because the contract is up.
Are you kidding. I want to know about government X-Rays when they kill the canary, and tinfoil will block them[1].
[1]Anyone who wears a tin foil hat will believe that.
Where do you find a restaurant that will serve the same quality foods that you just bought? I know of a few, but they are $20/meal or more. 1 Pound of shrimp is $10, but buy it at a restaurant and you are looking at $20/pound. (though it is hard to compare since you get some cheap vegetable with it)
(I hate juices from concentrate for a variety of reasons)
Have you read the labels? Last time I checked I couldn't get any juice at my local grocery store that wasn't from concentrate. Now it has been several years since I last looked, so maybe things have changed. As I recall though, all the juice was from concentrate. The store brands are even more likely to be from concentrate.
I love not from concentrate juice. However the only place I've been able to find it is at the gas station (and not all of them) in one serving sizes. Cost nearly as much as the grocer's gallon jugs of juice.
Speaking as an old school sunOS fan (Anything pre-Solaris), CDE was almost as big a mistake as going sysV for Solaris. Openlook was much better. I never even looked at CDE, it was so ugly on my neighbor's desktop. (I was one of the last to get rid of the ELC off my desk, one of the downsides of being a intern, so I didn't have it as an option for years after a few switched to it)
This is one of the few areas where libertarians want the government to get involved. It is a clear cut case of contract violation. They promised to remove spyway, and didn't do it. Simple violation of contract.
Libertarians are not anarchists. There is a time and place for government. Libertarians want government to deal with crimes against people (murder and other assult), property. (theft, vandalism), and enforcement of contracts. (This is not a complete list)
There are two issues.
First is hardware. Each processor uses different signaling. Voltages are not always comparable, and where the clock triggers (raising, falling, both) and the like. There are over-comable issues, but it really isn't (or hasn't been) worth anyone's effort.
Second is the OS needs to know about it, otherwise it will randomly shut down the lower power processor when there isn't much work to do, which doesn't give the gains you want. OSes are now working on (and mostly done with) making a process stay on one processor as much as they can for cache reasons. So you might end up with the processor intensive task running on the weak processors while your clock runs on the powerful one. Again, an overcomeable issue, but nobody it really interested.
On a system of this size yes they do. Look close, there isn't much room for ports in the size they are allowed. PS/2 ports take up some space that could be better used for other things. Firewire, for instance, though even more USB ports would be handy and more useful.
Its been too long since I've seen the 386 specs....
However the short of it is: adding these changes to the 386 is fairly trivial in that no changes to the instruction set are required, and only changes to a small part of the hardware. (Of course this isn't to imply any idiot could do it, only that it isn't a major effort)
You do not under stand money. The dollar is backed by nothing at all. The US doesn't have to worry about where the money comes from because the US can print as much or as little as it wants. The job of the fed (Perhaps you have heard of Alan Greenspan who is president) is to decide how much to print. Now there are downsides to printing too much, but they affect those outside the US more than those inside.
Note that most money isn't printed anymore. It is just an item in a computer database somewhere.
You miss one important point: there are only 3 shuttles left. Back before the Columbia accident there was a full list of missions planned for 4 shuttles. Now we have lost one of those shuttles, and a couple years while we figure out how to prevent it again. Something has to be dropped from the schedule: 1 shuttles worth of work. (Not one trip, many trips).
There is no choice, they US only has one method of getting people into space, it is limited, and cannot be expanded in the near future. (We have no working designs. Even building a new shuttle would take years, and it would be stupid to reuse a 30 year old experimental design today)
Something has to give. The US has committed to doing ISS, and in fact committed ISS missions are enough to take up the remaining shuttle fleet.
It isn't about money, though that is always an issue. It is about the work we have to do.
As the other guy said, not true. The 32 bit 80386 supported more than 4GB of RAM, if you could find that much back when it was a used (you couldn't). You just had to use segmented memory which everyone hated. (Back then the 286 was still fresh in everyone's mind, and the 286 couldn't do anything non-trivial without segmented memory. Today we are spoiled because few people care about such things.
The 80386 supported more than 4GB of memory. I don't think anyone actually built a motherboard that could take that much memory, but it could in theory deal with it. You just had to use the same ugly segmented memory model that everyone hated about the 286 while in 32 bit mode. Everyone just set their segment to 0, since that still allowed 4GB of ram, and nobody with a 80386 had that much memory.