I know many people in the military, nearly all would hesitate before killing Americans. Not that they wouldn't do it, but they would hesitate. Some would turn.
Mind you things would have to be a lot worse than they are now. Little groups are un happy all the time, mostly they are ignorable. When that little group becomes large (1% is very large) the US government has to worry. I'm not for revolution now, but I know that if one was offered and it had even 1/2% of the population supporting it I'd be re-evaluating my stance. There are enough things I'm unhappy with that if I thought a revolution would succeed I'd go for it, but not near enough to join any current group, or try to start one. Of course that assumes those behind the revolution are for things I generally am for...
A small group could never win a war against the US government. However it doesn't take a large group to win such a war if they work it right. Big guns don't mean much when 1/2 the population of the US owns guns, and you are not sure which of that group is against you. Trying to take guns from hunters is a sure way to turn them against you. Deer rifles are often more powerful than the typical military gun. Sure the military has bigger guns, but they are not useful in all situations, and those big guns can be taken out with by a good sniper. (deer hunting similar to sniping)
I don't know who would win a revolution in the US. It depends on just how mad the population is. If I'm mad but unwilling to fight, I pretend to be happy, but I "must have slept though" my neighbors late night activities. And if I am willing to fight I can pretend to be an honest guy going to work every day, and only fight when opportunity presents itself.
Considering the length of patents, how long parts last, and how long the parts are typically used I think it is safe to say you can manufacture all the replacement parts for any car you want to, at least by the time anyone wants those parts.
There is no car built before 1984 with any patent protection on it. That includes some nice cars (and a lot of junk). If you get the 1983 model you might find some computers with code under copyright though. You can copy all the physical parts though. Well minue the logos.
Your lucky. My car getting 45mpg saves me $25/week over the truck (getting ~21mpg). Anything I can do to save more money comes back in the long run.
Yes I'm considering moving. There are a few details that I need to take care of. Not just finding a new place, but also assuring the company will be in business long enough to make a move worth it. (I hope so, I don't like looking for a job, but as it stands they won't have enough money/income to last to next year)
10Base5 was designed for running between buildings. If at all possible you should use fiber for that job, but if facing the choice of which segment to replace, get rid of all the 10Bast2 and 10(0)BaseT NOW.
Ground loops are a far more likely problem than lightening, and only 10Base5 has any protection for that. (and then only if your transceivers are designed correctly...)
Even still glass fiber is the only way to go. I'm just giving you a priority of replacing things.
So long as companies like yours accept it when venders each demand to run on their own windows server, using all the resources instead of tight code, venders will deliver. Put some squeeze on venders, when evaluating versions make sure you count how much hardware you will need, and how compatable they are with what you have. They will get the message if you put pressure on them.
Don't say your not big enough, because nobody is big enough alone. Start doing it yourself, and get everyone else you know to do the same.
Yes I have used X over a 14.4 modem. It works just fine so long as you understand that graphics will be slow. netscape 1.1n (IIRC 2.x was in beta but we didn't have it at school) worked though, even if it was a little slow.
Try that with windows... you can't as far as I can tell, you not only have to take the one netscape window you want, but the entire desktop. Compare a small X window to a large desktop with a tiny window that you care about.
Nope, the thirty-aught-six is a 30 caliber (.30), as is the thirty-thirty (and likely other rounds,.30 is a good caliber). The aught six stands for 1906, the year that round was released. (the.30-30 is a 1930 update, smaller to take advantage of better powders developed by then.
When was the last time anyone needed to know how many grams of water were in a cubic meter, other than for trivia purposes? It doesn't happen. In fact in the real world units are never converted if there is any other way, even in metric. Metric airplanes are mesasured in millimeters over the entire length because that way you know nobody mixed up moving a decimal point. (ie turned the length into decimeters instead of meters) Come to think of it, you never turn CCs into liters if you can help it, you stick with one or the others.
Not to mention the other points. Base 12 is much better for measurement systems in general. And the traditional measurements tend to correspond to things you n estimate a little more often.
Assuming (which if I understand the Muslim religion right this is correct) that these people didn't agree to the photo, and also have a prohibition of being seen nude, it is a second wrong to show them without retouching them. Forget about what happened and your concern of seeing it, and consider the rights of the victims. If these photos are available un-retouched, it must be only to those who have a genuine research need to see them, and then only if no other way of getting the information exists.
Note that the official reason the military asked these pictures not to be published right away is so it wouldn't interfer with their investigation and court process. As I understand it (though of course this is from their mouth so I don't know if they are just covering for themselves quickly) the US military was dealing with this situation since it happened.
I hate to see news suppressed, but I am forced to admit that when the public gets involved objectivity goes out the window. People are often willing at the height of these incidences to cry for blood without regard for anyone who might be innocent of wrong doing but caught in the middle.
Too many variables. Some can print the CD after burning it. (Print the CD, not apply a label which is a bad idea) Some are completely automated, just stick a stack in, hit run, and come back latter to a stack of burned CDs. Some are faster than others.
If your quantities are large enough you will find that pressing the disks just like the big music guys to is cheapest. Unless you are really really big this is an outsourced operation. Even if pressing doesn't make sense, it might make sense to outsource to someone who can do it for you.
For dirt cheap it is hard to beat turning an old PC with a burner into your station.
Start by defining your needs. Do you need labels? How many do you need, over what time period? How often are you likely to change what is on the CD? How cheap is labor in your area? How much human attention can you afford to give each burn? What will you be doing after the burn is done?
The answers will define what you need in a solution. They may even define the divide between burning in house and outsourcing.
After sitting in my car for 1.5 hours this afternoon I made it half way home. I estimate that if I hadn't given up and gone shopping in that town it would have taken another hour to get home. My normal commute is bad enough at 1 hour each way, add in Friday traffic (the most popular weekend direction out of the big city is past my home) and I don't want to go to work on Fridays. (And note that the summer traffic hasn't started, I expect it will get worse!)
I can keep my time separate. Even if I blur it a little bit, 9 hours working is less than 8 hours of work plus two hours (on a normal day) driving.
Don't forget about travel costs. Sure my car gets 40+ MPG, (35 in traffic like today though) but 5 days a week ads up really quickly. I'm not even counting environmental cost, but perhaps I should.
I just got this job, if it lasts I will look at moving. First I want to be sure the company will be around long enough to make it worth doing.
Talk to your accountant though. I know some people who do meet the aulifications to deduct their home office and still don't. Something about when they sell the taxes come back...
Tax code changes all the time though, and since I don't meet those aulifications I don't keep up with them. Nor do I keep up with the tax situation of those who do (or used to?) not take a deduction they could.
So don't use those things. It turns out that all the things you cite are things that a few people abuse, and others need. C++ gives you plenty of rope to hang yourself if you want to. However that also means there is enough rope to do something useful.
Why did you use multiple inheritance if you don't like it? Obviously you didn't need it for the problem you wrote about, so why did you use it anyway? The rest of us just avoid multiple inheritance until there is no other choice.
Calculus isn't required I'll give you that. However there is a reason you were told to take it: it teaches you a lot more than any other class. Learning that you will need latter in life, but you won't realize it. I never use calc itself in life, I couldn't do a simple derivative anymore. I use the thinking abilities calc gave me every day.
You are wasting everyone's time by not talking calculus. Most of all your own.
If only it would get you a job... I will program in whatever you pay me to program in, and I can learn that language fast. I've never seen a language with a learning curve that takes more than a couple days to get over. (Note that someone with 10 years in one language will know it better than me after a week, but the difference won't be particularly significant in the real world)
HR still demands 10 years of Java, and 5 years of.net. (Nevermind that they aren't that old) I'm sure in a few years something else will be the fad that they will refuse to hire me because I don't have lots of experience in it.
First of all, most of what you are being taught is not worthless. However it may take years to realize what is useful. Worse, what is useful to you might not be useful to me, just because we don't do the same job.
Sure your language provides a hash table. Until you get into the real world and discover that some do not for various reasons. Or the hash table is good in general, but it fails miserably for a specific application so you end up writing your own anyway. Or in my case I just wrote a simple cache algorithm for work, pure introduction to algorithms work, but the existing ones didn't exactly meet one critical requirement so it was roll my own time.
I went several years without needing big O notation, but suddenly it became a big deal. Now that the algorithm works I likely won't think about that stuff again for years.
I've used X across a 28.8 dial-up and it worked just fine. I just tried VNC across a 640 DSL line and it sucked.
Different apps, different protocols. Its what you do. As the others have said, don't try to run KDE remote, it doesn't work well. Run KDE locally, and you can use that one office app that can't run on your local machine just fine.
I've run plenty of graphical X apps remotely. It isn't fast, but it is fast enough to work. (Unlike VNC, which I gave up on) X across the ocean over a dial-up isn't a big deal, in my experience. Sure you have to be a little careful about what you run, and a few apps are hopeless. You can choose other apps though if you must.
I'm supposed to believe that despite having an exhaust system on my car with temperatures well over the flash point of fuel won't cause problems? For that matter my cell phone is a problem, but my pocket knife wouldn't be if I dropped it? Those cell phone theories don't hold up.
Come to think of it, keeping my foot down to the floor for a mile or so is normal driving for my Geo Metro. (Which I refuse to call busted down, but it is my entry into the how few systems do you really need in a car)
I like getting better than 40 mpg on the hiway. (And I really should do a tune up, the car can get a lot more than that)
I have a rule: nobody in office gets my vote twice. If someone I agreed with a majority of the time actually got in I might change that stance...
I try to follow the rule of vote for the best guy, but sometimes I compromise on a second (or more likely third) best just to get rid of some guy I can't stand. Or in the extreme case I voted for Coleman (republican) last election just because of the stunt the democrats pulled over the Welstone funeral. Generally though the best guy gets my vote, even though it means I almost never vote for a winner.
Remember someone looks at all votes. If a third party starts getting a lot of votes the major parties will notice and start changing their stance to get some of those voters.
Some things are not worth compromising on. We don't like the 10 bullet limit, but might have compromised on that, if it was the only issue. Afterall we can get it removed in a few years if it was the worst restriction we face. The rest of the amendment (not just that one either) went much farther, and were not worth compromising on.
10 bullets sounds like a lot on print, but when you are at the range you realize just how small that number really is.
The best safes are rated at 1/2 and hour for someone who knows what they are doing (in particular has access to the design documents, which a good locksmith will) to get in. The locksmith will often take longer, but only because those safes are expensive enough that they are worth not destroying. Tell a locksmith you want in and you don't care about saving the safe and you will be in, in under and hour.
Those are the best safes, costing thousands of dollars. The typical kmart safe that most people store things in is much easier to break.
Do note though that in many cases the best methods of getting access are not used for marketing reasons. The bank for instance will drill out safe deposit boxes because they don't want you to know how easy they are to pick. (though one can assume there are enough different designs that not all are easy to pick)
Next election start knocking on doors. If you start early you can knock on every door in town and talk to voters. Get some fliers. Show (attend the meetings so you know) how every board member voted. Run yourself if nobody good is running. (But don't put more good people on the ballot than seats, or you divide your vote and let the bad guys in) Get elected, and start changing things.
If you can't do the above, you don't care enough about the issue. (Note that if you don't get elected, or at least come really close, it is a sign that you don't fit into the community and should move someplace where you fit in)
I don't feel sorry for your economic situation though. I put myself through college by working at McDonald's (and other jobs), the assistance I was eligible for wasn't worth it. (I hate dept, I could have got a few loans like everyone else did) I know each situation is different, but make the best of it.
P.S. If you have to go "back" make sure all those MBAs you meet know who you are, careful work can translate that into outsourcing deals for you. Good luck, life isn't easy.
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I know many people in the military, nearly all would hesitate before killing Americans. Not that they wouldn't do it, but they would hesitate. Some would turn.
Mind you things would have to be a lot worse than they are now. Little groups are un happy all the time, mostly they are ignorable. When that little group becomes large (1% is very large) the US government has to worry. I'm not for revolution now, but I know that if one was offered and it had even 1/2% of the population supporting it I'd be re-evaluating my stance. There are enough things I'm unhappy with that if I thought a revolution would succeed I'd go for it, but not near enough to join any current group, or try to start one. Of course that assumes those behind the revolution are for things I generally am for...
A small group could never win a war against the US government. However it doesn't take a large group to win such a war if they work it right. Big guns don't mean much when 1/2 the population of the US owns guns, and you are not sure which of that group is against you. Trying to take guns from hunters is a sure way to turn them against you. Deer rifles are often more powerful than the typical military gun. Sure the military has bigger guns, but they are not useful in all situations, and those big guns can be taken out with by a good sniper. (deer hunting similar to sniping)
I don't know who would win a revolution in the US. It depends on just how mad the population is. If I'm mad but unwilling to fight, I pretend to be happy, but I "must have slept though" my neighbors late night activities. And if I am willing to fight I can pretend to be an honest guy going to work every day, and only fight when opportunity presents itself.
Considering the length of patents, how long parts last, and how long the parts are typically used I think it is safe to say you can manufacture all the replacement parts for any car you want to, at least by the time anyone wants those parts.
There is no car built before 1984 with any patent protection on it. That includes some nice cars (and a lot of junk). If you get the 1983 model you might find some computers with code under copyright though. You can copy all the physical parts though. Well minue the logos.
Your lucky. My car getting 45mpg saves me $25/week over the truck (getting ~21mpg). Anything I can do to save more money comes back in the long run.
Yes I'm considering moving. There are a few details that I need to take care of. Not just finding a new place, but also assuring the company will be in business long enough to make a move worth it. (I hope so, I don't like looking for a job, but as it stands they won't have enough money/income to last to next year)
10Base5 was designed for running between buildings. If at all possible you should use fiber for that job, but if facing the choice of which segment to replace, get rid of all the 10Bast2 and 10(0)BaseT NOW.
Ground loops are a far more likely problem than lightening, and only 10Base5 has any protection for that. (and then only if your transceivers are designed correctly...)
Even still glass fiber is the only way to go. I'm just giving you a priority of replacing things.
So long as companies like yours accept it when venders each demand to run on their own windows server, using all the resources instead of tight code, venders will deliver. Put some squeeze on venders, when evaluating versions make sure you count how much hardware you will need, and how compatable they are with what you have. They will get the message if you put pressure on them.
Don't say your not big enough, because nobody is big enough alone. Start doing it yourself, and get everyone else you know to do the same.
Yes I have used X over a 14.4 modem. It works just fine so long as you understand that graphics will be slow. netscape 1.1n (IIRC 2.x was in beta but we didn't have it at school) worked though, even if it was a little slow.
Try that with windows... you can't as far as I can tell, you not only have to take the one netscape window you want, but the entire desktop. Compare a small X window to a large desktop with a tiny window that you care about.
Nope, the thirty-aught-six is a 30 caliber (.30), as is the thirty-thirty (and likely other rounds, .30 is a good caliber). The aught six stands for 1906, the year that round was released. (the .30-30 is a 1930 update, smaller to take advantage of better powders developed by then.
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When was the last time anyone needed to know how many grams of water were in a cubic meter, other than for trivia purposes? It doesn't happen. In fact in the real world units are never converted if there is any other way, even in metric. Metric airplanes are mesasured in millimeters over the entire length because that way you know nobody mixed up moving a decimal point. (ie turned the length into decimeters instead of meters) Come to think of it, you never turn CCs into liters if you can help it, you stick with one or the others.
Not to mention the other points. Base 12 is much better for measurement systems in general. And the traditional measurements tend to correspond to things you n estimate a little more often.
Assuming (which if I understand the Muslim religion right this is correct) that these people didn't agree to the photo, and also have a prohibition of being seen nude, it is a second wrong to show them without retouching them. Forget about what happened and your concern of seeing it, and consider the rights of the victims. If these photos are available un-retouched, it must be only to those who have a genuine research need to see them, and then only if no other way of getting the information exists.
Note that the official reason the military asked these pictures not to be published right away is so it wouldn't interfer with their investigation and court process. As I understand it (though of course this is from their mouth so I don't know if they are just covering for themselves quickly) the US military was dealing with this situation since it happened.
I hate to see news suppressed, but I am forced to admit that when the public gets involved objectivity goes out the window. People are often willing at the height of these incidences to cry for blood without regard for anyone who might be innocent of wrong doing but caught in the middle.
Too many variables. Some can print the CD after burning it. (Print the CD, not apply a label which is a bad idea) Some are completely automated, just stick a stack in, hit run, and come back latter to a stack of burned CDs. Some are faster than others.
If your quantities are large enough you will find that pressing the disks just like the big music guys to is cheapest. Unless you are really really big this is an outsourced operation. Even if pressing doesn't make sense, it might make sense to outsource to someone who can do it for you.
For dirt cheap it is hard to beat turning an old PC with a burner into your station.
Start by defining your needs. Do you need labels? How many do you need, over what time period? How often are you likely to change what is on the CD? How cheap is labor in your area? How much human attention can you afford to give each burn? What will you be doing after the burn is done?
The answers will define what you need in a solution. They may even define the divide between burning in house and outsourcing.
After sitting in my car for 1.5 hours this afternoon I made it half way home. I estimate that if I hadn't given up and gone shopping in that town it would have taken another hour to get home. My normal commute is bad enough at 1 hour each way, add in Friday traffic (the most popular weekend direction out of the big city is past my home) and I don't want to go to work on Fridays. (And note that the summer traffic hasn't started, I expect it will get worse!)
I can keep my time separate. Even if I blur it a little bit, 9 hours working is less than 8 hours of work plus two hours (on a normal day) driving.
Don't forget about travel costs. Sure my car gets 40+ MPG, (35 in traffic like today though) but 5 days a week ads up really quickly. I'm not even counting environmental cost, but perhaps I should.
I just got this job, if it lasts I will look at moving. First I want to be sure the company will be around long enough to make it worth doing.
Talk to your accountant though. I know some people who do meet the aulifications to deduct their home office and still don't. Something about when they sell the taxes come back...
Tax code changes all the time though, and since I don't meet those aulifications I don't keep up with them. Nor do I keep up with the tax situation of those who do (or used to?) not take a deduction they could.
So don't use those things. It turns out that all the things you cite are things that a few people abuse, and others need. C++ gives you plenty of rope to hang yourself if you want to. However that also means there is enough rope to do something useful.
Why did you use multiple inheritance if you don't like it? Obviously you didn't need it for the problem you wrote about, so why did you use it anyway? The rest of us just avoid multiple inheritance until there is no other choice.
Calculus isn't required I'll give you that. However there is a reason you were told to take it: it teaches you a lot more than any other class. Learning that you will need latter in life, but you won't realize it. I never use calc itself in life, I couldn't do a simple derivative anymore. I use the thinking abilities calc gave me every day.
You are wasting everyone's time by not talking calculus. Most of all your own.
If only it would get you a job... I will program in whatever you pay me to program in, and I can learn that language fast. I've never seen a language with a learning curve that takes more than a couple days to get over. (Note that someone with 10 years in one language will know it better than me after a week, but the difference won't be particularly significant in the real world)
HR still demands 10 years of Java, and 5 years of .net. (Nevermind that they aren't that old) I'm sure in a few years something else will be the fad that they will refuse to hire me because I don't have lots of experience in it.
First of all, most of what you are being taught is not worthless. However it may take years to realize what is useful. Worse, what is useful to you might not be useful to me, just because we don't do the same job.
Sure your language provides a hash table. Until you get into the real world and discover that some do not for various reasons. Or the hash table is good in general, but it fails miserably for a specific application so you end up writing your own anyway. Or in my case I just wrote a simple cache algorithm for work, pure introduction to algorithms work, but the existing ones didn't exactly meet one critical requirement so it was roll my own time.
I went several years without needing big O notation, but suddenly it became a big deal. Now that the algorithm works I likely won't think about that stuff again for years.
I've used X across a 28.8 dial-up and it worked just fine. I just tried VNC across a 640 DSL line and it sucked.
Different apps, different protocols. Its what you do. As the others have said, don't try to run KDE remote, it doesn't work well. Run KDE locally, and you can use that one office app that can't run on your local machine just fine.
I've run plenty of graphical X apps remotely. It isn't fast, but it is fast enough to work. (Unlike VNC, which I gave up on) X across the ocean over a dial-up isn't a big deal, in my experience. Sure you have to be a little careful about what you run, and a few apps are hopeless. You can choose other apps though if you must.
I'm supposed to believe that despite having an exhaust system on my car with temperatures well over the flash point of fuel won't cause problems? For that matter my cell phone is a problem, but my pocket knife wouldn't be if I dropped it? Those cell phone theories don't hold up.
Come to think of it, keeping my foot down to the floor for a mile or so is normal driving for my Geo Metro. (Which I refuse to call busted down, but it is my entry into the how few systems do you really need in a car)
I like getting better than 40 mpg on the hiway. (And I really should do a tune up, the car can get a lot more than that)
I have a rule: nobody in office gets my vote twice. If someone I agreed with a majority of the time actually got in I might change that stance...
I try to follow the rule of vote for the best guy, but sometimes I compromise on a second (or more likely third) best just to get rid of some guy I can't stand. Or in the extreme case I voted for Coleman (republican) last election just because of the stunt the democrats pulled over the Welstone funeral. Generally though the best guy gets my vote, even though it means I almost never vote for a winner.
Remember someone looks at all votes. If a third party starts getting a lot of votes the major parties will notice and start changing their stance to get some of those voters.
Some things are not worth compromising on. We don't like the 10 bullet limit, but might have compromised on that, if it was the only issue. Afterall we can get it removed in a few years if it was the worst restriction we face. The rest of the amendment (not just that one either) went much farther, and were not worth compromising on.
10 bullets sounds like a lot on print, but when you are at the range you realize just how small that number really is.
The best safes are rated at 1/2 and hour for someone who knows what they are doing (in particular has access to the design documents, which a good locksmith will) to get in. The locksmith will often take longer, but only because those safes are expensive enough that they are worth not destroying. Tell a locksmith you want in and you don't care about saving the safe and you will be in, in under and hour.
Those are the best safes, costing thousands of dollars. The typical kmart safe that most people store things in is much easier to break.
Do note though that in many cases the best methods of getting access are not used for marketing reasons. The bank for instance will drill out safe deposit boxes because they don't want you to know how easy they are to pick. (though one can assume there are enough different designs that not all are easy to pick)
Next election start knocking on doors. If you start early you can knock on every door in town and talk to voters. Get some fliers. Show (attend the meetings so you know) how every board member voted. Run yourself if nobody good is running. (But don't put more good people on the ballot than seats, or you divide your vote and let the bad guys in) Get elected, and start changing things.
If you can't do the above, you don't care enough about the issue. (Note that if you don't get elected, or at least come really close, it is a sign that you don't fit into the community and should move someplace where you fit in)
I agree that the immigration system is messed up.
I don't feel sorry for your economic situation though. I put myself through college by working at McDonald's (and other jobs), the assistance I was eligible for wasn't worth it. (I hate dept, I could have got a few loans like everyone else did) I know each situation is different, but make the best of it.
P.S. If you have to go "back" make sure all those MBAs you meet know who you are, careful work can translate that into outsourcing deals for you. Good luck, life isn't easy.