You need to re-evaluate what it takes to live. I know single income families who don't make good wages, and they get by just fine. Mom and dad sleep on a "Murphy" bed in the livingroom, so the girls can have a separate bedroom from the boys. They don't have luxury, but they do have everything they need to enjoy life! There are plenty of other cases if you look around, and if you study their situation you will find that while they budget every penny, money isn't the hardest part of their life.
The first women politician in Minnesota grew up in a one room log cabin, about the size of a small bedroom, with 11 other kids. (Its been a few years since I've looked it up so I might not have the details exactly correct, but they are close)
What do you need to live? A couple changes of clothes, some simple food, and a little shelter. You don't need a TV, much less an entertainment system. You don't need a radio. You might argue a car is needed, but even at that you don't need a new one. (keeping a 15 year old reliable is cheaper than buying a 7 year old car!)
I fully understand the want for a few luxuries. Work hard, and you can afford few. Don't pretend you need to keep up with the Jones.
It is far more complex than that. High school is the years where hormones are the highest. (Jr High is worse!) Take a bunch of kids who know nothing else, of a diverse background and shove them together. Kids who don't know how to relate to others, and they are learning. A relatively small group, and nobody to relate to (no matter what your interests the kids around you didn't share it). Because if hormones you cared what others thought of you, even when in fact they didn't.
In college we learned it didn't matter, in fact many students would go elsewhere next year so you didn't care what they thought. You also self selected to a group that was more like you. (Suddenly I wasn't the only one who cared about computers!)
Notice the part about others not thinking about you... That defines high school kids have not yet learned they are not the center of the universe, so they care about every imagined slight.
I suspect our high school experiences were very similar despite different countries. The largest influences were beyond our control.
I was a carpender for a while. Once in a while I needed to dig a hole, and the only tool that would work was a hammer, so I dug a hole with a hammer. Of course if my job was digging holes I would get a real shovel, but the job rarely involved holes, so I made do.
Printf works great on Unix, so that is often what we use. (often in the form of debug_print so we can turn parts off and on depending on which bug is suspected) Sometimes a debugger would be better, but so long as the pain of learning to use a debugger is greater than the gain we use printf. Eventually we will learn to use a debugger for problems that it is better for. We might or might not make greater use of the debugger after it.
You use the tools you have. You should be aware of other tools, but often the pain of getting a different tool exceeds the gain of the tool. Doesn't matter if it is a carpender digging a hole, or a programmer debugging a program.
You can do some of that with the family though. Drop the second job, and spend the time you would spent at that job finding deals for what you can afford. (This does mean cutting back your standard of living. It is also general advice, which while good often does not fit your specific circumstances)
In addition to what that other guy said, someone who wants a good education can get it from any public school. When parents care, and make sure the kids have to care, the kids to better. When parents don't care, the kids don't care, and the kids don't get a good education. (There might be cases where the kids care and the parents don't, if they exist the kids can still get a good education)
What you need to learn in school is very different from what most of the time and money is spent on. Once you have the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic you can learn the rest from books. A standard 6th grade education is all you really need. After that you are equipped to deal with any problem, if you put your mind to it.
Mind the other things schools spend money on, like sports, computers, art, and so on are worth it. Your education is lacking if you don't learn a little about each of them, but you can get that on your own.
That problem is self solving. If Linux had 90% market share everything would work with linux, while Windows users would complain that nothing supports there system. In other words the situation Macs re in today. (they support nearly everything, but the exceptions are common enough and very annoying.
Best would be the situation like the early 80s when all the good programs had versions for the APPLE II, Atari, C=64, and IBM PC. Or at least some combonation of the above, supporting all was rare, but most companies supported more than one. And that in the days when we didn't have a single command to re-compile, the source was re-written for each. (often in assembly) There were exceptions of course, but they just prove the rule.
Yawn, same old third for license issues, third for introduction... Leaves just a couple sentences to what would be most interesting to a geek: what is he doing with it.
gondola pointing sensor time traces, and bolometer detector, sound more like something that a fiction author made up to this not an astro physicist, but reasonably smart. I'd be much more interested in his research and how the program works than all the boring details around the program and who uses it.
One day a novice came to the master and said "I have this great idea for GC, we just count references." To which the master replied one day a novice came to the master and said "I have this great idea for GC, we just count references."
One of my favorite little sayings that applies here. I suggest you look for the original if you haven't seen it, I can't paraphrase it as good.
Power in the US comes into the house at 240 volts. We normally split in in half for safety reasons. Stoves, dryers, and the like require 240 volts, and it is no problem to get it. Unless they run on gas of course.
There are a few exceptions where only 120 volts are available. Last I heard of one, we called the power company to fix it, and the tech was shocked that something that old was still in use anywhere. Generally you can count on having 240 volts everywhere in the US.
As I recall teachers were onto that trick. I don't recall how, I think the machine beeped differently after that master page was run though. Even if not though, it only takes a moment to check for that box while coping the score down. At least they all said they were, I never tried it, it is easy for someone to catch if they are looking for it so you have to assume someone who says they are onto it really is.
Don't knock waiting tables. A good waiter can make good money. Perhaps not quite as much in the long run as the degreed guy, but the waiter starts at full wages earlier. $60,000 a year is reasonable for a good waiter to take home, without working full time. (just get the lunch crowd in a busness area)
It takes the right personality to do it though. I'd never make a good waiter as I don't have the right people skills. People will wait in line to have the best waiters serve their table, even though others in the resteraunt are free to serve now. Note, other countries don't have the same tips system that the US has, I don't know if this applys there.
For many jobs the paper the degree is printed on is worth more than the words on it. That is the company won't hire you without the degree, but it doesn't matter which one you get. So get the one you want, and then find a job.
Think carefully about putting automount on the floppy and CD. Most users won't need it. Writable media opens up the possibility that a spy is selling your secrets. (Of course they still can sell them without write access, but it is harder) Other users will use the floppy/CD to install non-work related things (games, or pirated software because they have decided foo is better than what the company legally has).
There are a few other arguments against having user accessable media drives on the desktop, which may or may not apply, so think creative to decide if they are issues for you.
Note that I said think about it. There are also good reasons to give some or all users access to media on the desktop. There is no one size fits all.
Ask a racer about water injection sometime. It isn't as popular as nitro, but it is known and it works.
Water slows down combustion just a little bit. I'm not enough of a mechanical engineer to say anything more on why it works.
Somewhere around 5% is considered optimal for a warm engine. However that warm part is critical, an engine that is cold can handle much less. Combine that with water freezing in many areas, and you can see why even though it is known to work, and is cheap, almost nobody uses it to advantage.
Historically you are correct, but an office should select which apps users run. One thing to select on is conformance with Freedesktop.org
standards. KDE and GNOME both follow this, as do most other modern X apps (which is a minority I grant)
My local university offers classes in foreign languages. Off hand I know of Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, and Japanese. Thats just one (though one of the larger ones) I suspect I could find Greek and Hebrew in a religious school somewhere close by. (though not necessarily forms spoken by modern people)
Send your people to school. If you are in a hurry check summer school I used to be able to get a years worth of Spanish in one summer. (used the entire morning 5 days a week though, and worth a full time course load) Even just pay for night school and reduce their responsibilities a little so they can study while at work. Try to get pairs in each language so they can practice together.
You might want to investigate bringing a teacher in to your company for an hour a day if you have a lot of people who might want a second language. It might or might not make sense for you.
Tearing up the citation is likely illegal in itself. However suing for harassment is not.
Being a college campus, 12:30 am is not an unusual hour. Now if the guy happened to be out at say 8:30am I'd agree they need to ask questions. Bars generally stay open until between 1 and 3am (depending on local laws). Even at that I know from experience that campus computer labs were open until 2am the night before big assignments are due...
Completely ignoring what the democrats in high positions at Diebold are doing. There are plenty of both in the company. You can bet they will be watching each other. Now if you were afraid that they would rig elections so third parties couldn't win you might have something, if only because third parties so rarely have a chance, and thus it is hard to notice.
There are a lot of problems with electronic voting. Focus on them, not on things that make you seem paranoid.
Yes and no... Trains would help, but only if they ran on a schedule that made it worth while to use regularly. My job for instance isn't downtown, we have a nice enough bus system already, but it assumes I want to go downtown in the morning, and out to the suburbs again at night.
As for applying to the US and Canada, it is very hard because current cities are too spread out to make it work. they almost make the bus system work for those going down town, and even then most people I know going downtown prefer to drive. (despite paying for parking and dealing with traffic) because it saves so much time.
For starters, instead of letting the heat of condensation go into the air, you can recycle it back to the input stream, greatly reducing the amount of energy needed to heat the ethanol. 100% recovery isn't possible, but it helps a lot.
There is no need for 100% separation. Warm engines run better when a little water is mixed in with the fuel. Some of the cheaper gas stations intentionally mix water in their gas to make it go farther. (or they have, wouldn't surprise me if they were caught and shut down) Of course there is a lot of fine print, but the idea is there.
1: that habitat has mostly been plowed under already, at least in the US. What hasn't is locked up in parks and land that still isn't ecconomicly viabale, and farm pasture. Only the last could be plowed under.
2:top soil has ALWAYS washed away. Farmers are well aware of the problem (Do not be confused with the dust bowl of the 1930s where they were not), and deal with it.
3: True, but start in your own backyard (if this doesn't apply to you, you still know others it does). Many suburban homeowners put more chemicals on their tiny lawn than a farmer will put on an entire field. Farmers are using the latest technology to apply as close to exactly the amount needed as can be done. Not saying it doesn't run off, it does, but farmers are doing a much ebtter job of taking care of it than others are.
4: Not true. for every unit of energy we put into creating ethanol we get out 1.34 units of energy. Technology can get over 2, but that isn't in production yet.
5: It is called fertilizer, and a great thing to spread on your fields, enriching your top soil, and preventing the need for artificial fertilizer. Sometimes you can cycle it through a cow first.
Your subsidies are mostly correct, but don't forget about the political cost of oil. If the middle east didnt' have so much oil they could actually do something productive instead of hijacking planes into our buildings. (Obviously it is a minority who did that, and you have people that evil everywhere, but most places don't have enough money for evil people to follow through, at least not as dramaticly)
Don't forget though that ethanol burns better than gas. Thus with a properly designed engine you can get nearly as much power out per gallon of ethanol despite putting ~2/3s less energy in. Not to mention it burns cleaner than regular gasoline.
Don't forget that after boiling the ethanol off you condense f again to liquid. The energy from boiling the ethanol off that isn't recovered is an inefficacy. Now 100% recovery isn't like, but careful plant design should get close.
Check out Gasoline sometime, last I checked it was about 80% energy recovery, while ethanol is 134%. (with 100% meaning exactly as much comes out as you put in)
No, but I have been in the left lane, safely passing traffic, and had someone come up behind me and tail gate me. I do use the left lane for passing, when when I'm doing 70 in a 70 zone, and the guy in the right lane is doing 68 it will take some time to pass. Just relax, as soon as I'm safely around I will get into the right lane and let you by. (Note the safety part, just because my back bumper is by his front bumper doesn't mean it is safe for me to merge)
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You need to re-evaluate what it takes to live. I know single income families who don't make good wages, and they get by just fine. Mom and dad sleep on a "Murphy" bed in the livingroom, so the girls can have a separate bedroom from the boys. They don't have luxury, but they do have everything they need to enjoy life! There are plenty of other cases if you look around, and if you study their situation you will find that while they budget every penny, money isn't the hardest part of their life.
The first women politician in Minnesota grew up in a one room log cabin, about the size of a small bedroom, with 11 other kids. (Its been a few years since I've looked it up so I might not have the details exactly correct, but they are close)
What do you need to live? A couple changes of clothes, some simple food, and a little shelter. You don't need a TV, much less an entertainment system. You don't need a radio. You might argue a car is needed, but even at that you don't need a new one. (keeping a 15 year old reliable is cheaper than buying a 7 year old car!)
I fully understand the want for a few luxuries. Work hard, and you can afford few. Don't pretend you need to keep up with the Jones.
It is far more complex than that. High school is the years where hormones are the highest. (Jr High is worse!) Take a bunch of kids who know nothing else, of a diverse background and shove them together. Kids who don't know how to relate to others, and they are learning. A relatively small group, and nobody to relate to (no matter what your interests the kids around you didn't share it). Because if hormones you cared what others thought of you, even when in fact they didn't.
In college we learned it didn't matter, in fact many students would go elsewhere next year so you didn't care what they thought. You also self selected to a group that was more like you. (Suddenly I wasn't the only one who cared about computers!)
Notice the part about others not thinking about you... That defines high school kids have not yet learned they are not the center of the universe, so they care about every imagined slight.
I suspect our high school experiences were very similar despite different countries. The largest influences were beyond our control.
When the only tool you have is a hammer though...
I was a carpender for a while. Once in a while I needed to dig a hole, and the only tool that would work was a hammer, so I dug a hole with a hammer. Of course if my job was digging holes I would get a real shovel, but the job rarely involved holes, so I made do.
Printf works great on Unix, so that is often what we use. (often in the form of debug_print so we can turn parts off and on depending on which bug is suspected) Sometimes a debugger would be better, but so long as the pain of learning to use a debugger is greater than the gain we use printf. Eventually we will learn to use a debugger for problems that it is better for. We might or might not make greater use of the debugger after it.
You use the tools you have. You should be aware of other tools, but often the pain of getting a different tool exceeds the gain of the tool. Doesn't matter if it is a carpender digging a hole, or a programmer debugging a program.
You can do some of that with the family though. Drop the second job, and spend the time you would spent at that job finding deals for what you can afford. (This does mean cutting back your standard of living. It is also general advice, which while good often does not fit your specific circumstances)
In addition to what that other guy said, someone who wants a good education can get it from any public school. When parents care, and make sure the kids have to care, the kids to better. When parents don't care, the kids don't care, and the kids don't get a good education. (There might be cases where the kids care and the parents don't, if they exist the kids can still get a good education)
What you need to learn in school is very different from what most of the time and money is spent on. Once you have the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic you can learn the rest from books. A standard 6th grade education is all you really need. After that you are equipped to deal with any problem, if you put your mind to it.
Mind the other things schools spend money on, like sports, computers, art, and so on are worth it. Your education is lacking if you don't learn a little about each of them, but you can get that on your own.
The official split was apparently 1995/10/18 (When the new CVS tree was created), with about 7 months of development before then.
I was able to find mailing list archives back to December 1995 with a little searching.
That problem is self solving. If Linux had 90% market share everything would work with linux, while Windows users would complain that nothing supports there system. In other words the situation Macs re in today. (they support nearly everything, but the exceptions are common enough and very annoying.
Best would be the situation like the early 80s when all the good programs had versions for the APPLE II, Atari, C=64, and IBM PC. Or at least some combonation of the above, supporting all was rare, but most companies supported more than one. And that in the days when we didn't have a single command to re-compile, the source was re-written for each. (often in assembly) There were exceptions of course, but they just prove the rule.
Yawn, same old third for license issues, third for introduction... Leaves just a couple sentences to what would be most interesting to a geek: what is he doing with it.
gondola pointing sensor time traces, and bolometer detector, sound more like something that a fiction author made up to this not an astro physicist, but reasonably smart. I'd be much more interested in his research and how the program works than all the boring details around the program and who uses it.
One of my favorite little sayings that applies here. I suggest you look for the original if you haven't seen it, I can't paraphrase it as good.
Power in the US comes into the house at 240 volts. We normally split in in half for safety reasons. Stoves, dryers, and the like require 240 volts, and it is no problem to get it. Unless they run on gas of course.
There are a few exceptions where only 120 volts are available. Last I heard of one, we called the power company to fix it, and the tech was shocked that something that old was still in use anywhere. Generally you can count on having 240 volts everywhere in the US.
As I recall teachers were onto that trick. I don't recall how, I think the machine beeped differently after that master page was run though. Even if not though, it only takes a moment to check for that box while coping the score down. At least they all said they were, I never tried it, it is easy for someone to catch if they are looking for it so you have to assume someone who says they are onto it really is.
Don't knock waiting tables. A good waiter can make good money. Perhaps not quite as much in the long run as the degreed guy, but the waiter starts at full wages earlier. $60,000 a year is reasonable for a good waiter to take home, without working full time. (just get the lunch crowd in a busness area)
It takes the right personality to do it though. I'd never make a good waiter as I don't have the right people skills. People will wait in line to have the best waiters serve their table, even though others in the resteraunt are free to serve now. Note, other countries don't have the same tips system that the US has, I don't know if this applys there.
For many jobs the paper the degree is printed on is worth more than the words on it. That is the company won't hire you without the degree, but it doesn't matter which one you get. So get the one you want, and then find a job.
Think carefully about putting automount on the floppy and CD. Most users won't need it. Writable media opens up the possibility that a spy is selling your secrets. (Of course they still can sell them without write access, but it is harder) Other users will use the floppy/CD to install non-work related things (games, or pirated software because they have decided foo is better than what the company legally has).
There are a few other arguments against having user accessable media drives on the desktop, which may or may not apply, so think creative to decide if they are issues for you.
Note that I said think about it. There are also good reasons to give some or all users access to media on the desktop. There is no one size fits all.
Ask a racer about water injection sometime. It isn't as popular as nitro, but it is known and it works.
Water slows down combustion just a little bit. I'm not enough of a mechanical engineer to say anything more on why it works.
Somewhere around 5% is considered optimal for a warm engine. However that warm part is critical, an engine that is cold can handle much less. Combine that with water freezing in many areas, and you can see why even though it is known to work, and is cheap, almost nobody uses it to advantage.
Historically you are correct, but an office should select which apps users run. One thing to select on is conformance with Freedesktop.org standards. KDE and GNOME both follow this, as do most other modern X apps (which is a minority I grant)
My local university offers classes in foreign languages. Off hand I know of Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, and Japanese. Thats just one (though one of the larger ones) I suspect I could find Greek and Hebrew in a religious school somewhere close by. (though not necessarily forms spoken by modern people)
Send your people to school. If you are in a hurry check summer school I used to be able to get a years worth of Spanish in one summer. (used the entire morning 5 days a week though, and worth a full time course load) Even just pay for night school and reduce their responsibilities a little so they can study while at work. Try to get pairs in each language so they can practice together.
You might want to investigate bringing a teacher in to your company for an hour a day if you have a lot of people who might want a second language. It might or might not make sense for you.
Tearing up the citation is likely illegal in itself. However suing for harassment is not.
Being a college campus, 12:30 am is not an unusual hour. Now if the guy happened to be out at say 8:30am I'd agree they need to ask questions. Bars generally stay open until between 1 and 3am (depending on local laws). Even at that I know from experience that campus computer labs were open until 2am the night before big assignments are due...
Completely ignoring what the democrats in high positions at Diebold are doing. There are plenty of both in the company. You can bet they will be watching each other. Now if you were afraid that they would rig elections so third parties couldn't win you might have something, if only because third parties so rarely have a chance, and thus it is hard to notice.
There are a lot of problems with electronic voting. Focus on them, not on things that make you seem paranoid.
Yes and no... Trains would help, but only if they ran on a schedule that made it worth while to use regularly. My job for instance isn't downtown, we have a nice enough bus system already, but it assumes I want to go downtown in the morning, and out to the suburbs again at night.
As for applying to the US and Canada, it is very hard because current cities are too spread out to make it work. they almost make the bus system work for those going down town, and even then most people I know going downtown prefer to drive. (despite paying for parking and dealing with traffic) because it saves so much time.
For starters, instead of letting the heat of condensation go into the air, you can recycle it back to the input stream, greatly reducing the amount of energy needed to heat the ethanol. 100% recovery isn't possible, but it helps a lot.
There is no need for 100% separation. Warm engines run better when a little water is mixed in with the fuel. Some of the cheaper gas stations intentionally mix water in their gas to make it go farther. (or they have, wouldn't surprise me if they were caught and shut down) Of course there is a lot of fine print, but the idea is there.
Try doing some research.
1: that habitat has mostly been plowed under already, at least in the US. What hasn't is locked up in parks and land that still isn't ecconomicly viabale, and farm pasture. Only the last could be plowed under.
2:top soil has ALWAYS washed away. Farmers are well aware of the problem (Do not be confused with the dust bowl of the 1930s where they were not), and deal with it.
3: True, but start in your own backyard (if this doesn't apply to you, you still know others it does). Many suburban homeowners put more chemicals on their tiny lawn than a farmer will put on an entire field. Farmers are using the latest technology to apply as close to exactly the amount needed as can be done. Not saying it doesn't run off, it does, but farmers are doing a much ebtter job of taking care of it than others are.
4: Not true. for every unit of energy we put into creating ethanol we get out 1.34 units of energy. Technology can get over 2, but that isn't in production yet.
5: It is called fertilizer, and a great thing to spread on your fields, enriching your top soil, and preventing the need for artificial fertilizer. Sometimes you can cycle it through a cow first.
Your subsidies are mostly correct, but don't forget about the political cost of oil. If the middle east didnt' have so much oil they could actually do something productive instead of hijacking planes into our buildings. (Obviously it is a minority who did that, and you have people that evil everywhere, but most places don't have enough money for evil people to follow through, at least not as dramaticly)
Don't forget though that ethanol burns better than gas. Thus with a properly designed engine you can get nearly as much power out per gallon of ethanol despite putting ~2/3s less energy in. Not to mention it burns cleaner than regular gasoline.
Even if ethanol had Ethanol has a 134% energy recovery rate though, meaning it is energy positive.
Don't forget that after boiling the ethanol off you condense f again to liquid. The energy from boiling the ethanol off that isn't recovered is an inefficacy. Now 100% recovery isn't like, but careful plant design should get close.
Check out Gasoline sometime, last I checked it was about 80% energy recovery, while ethanol is 134%. (with 100% meaning exactly as much comes out as you put in)
No, but I have been in the left lane, safely passing traffic, and had someone come up behind me and tail gate me. I do use the left lane for passing, when when I'm doing 70 in a 70 zone, and the guy in the right lane is doing 68 it will take some time to pass. Just relax, as soon as I'm safely around I will get into the right lane and let you by. (Note the safety part, just because my back bumper is by his front bumper doesn't mean it is safe for me to merge)