There is a GPS standard time. I believe it is based on the Geocentric Celestial Reference System. (as opposed to the Barycentric Celestial Reference System that you may need for positioning beyond Earth orbit.)
Anyway, if you don't like that, you could use the TAI (International Atomic Clock Time) instead.
Leap seconds can be used for displaying time in UTC if you need to, while those that need a constant, uninterrupted tick of the clock could use TAI (or GPS) in the backend.
Anitbiotics are given to poultry & livestock even when they're not sick (yet - given the conditions in some of the factory farms, it can be real easy for them to get sick.) It's done to enhance growth. And some of the antibiotics and their metabolites do make it into milk, feces, and urine.
When will the Boomers finally have enough and stop raping their children?
OK, you may very well be a troll, but I'll bite, because I've seen a lot of this misguided attitude around here.
First they stopped state funding of higher education and replaced that with "easy money" student loans.
Grants vs loans is more of a Democrats vs Republicans thing than a generational thing, but there has never been all out state funding of higher education in the US.
Then they created and crashed the real estate bubble so their kids can't afford a house or even find a job that would pay enough to cover a mortgage.
I don't know how that can be blamed on a generation rather than on the people giving bad loans and the non-baby boomers taking those bad loans as if they were a way to grow money. When I bought my first house inflation was double digits, unemployment was near 8%, and I was happy to get a loan at a relatively low interest rate of 12.125%, while I made considerably less than the median income and bought way less house than most people do nowadays. So don't come crying to me about today's real estate market.
Then they reneged on their pension obligations, substituting investing your retirement funds 401K in a rigged market.
No, baby boomers are the generation that lost pensions to companies that went bankrupt for the express purpose of reneging on obligations - if they had pensions in the first place. Baby boomers are the first to be forced to rely on IRAs and 401Ks, if they could manage to save into them. (I'm not complaining, there were plenty of previous generations that had nothing to retire on, not even a social security check that might bounce.)
I have a bachelor's in accounting, a master's in tax, a CPA license, and a 3.9 GPA. Guess how long it took to get my first entry level job? 2 years from 2009 to 2011.
Ouch, bad timing to be looking during the bottom of the recession. I know the feeling, if not the duration you went through it.
My son got his MS in computer science in 2008 and it took him a little over a year to get a job. I was laid off in 2009, but fortunately it only took me three months to find a new job.
I got my career started in 1980, after looking for work for 9 months. That was a pretty bad economy, with 8% unemployment and 13% inflation. The worst part was that for the 9 months I was looking for a job, I was a newlywed being supported by my wife. Unemployment peaked in 1982 or thereabouts at around 10% and I almost got laid off then, too.
I wasn't kicked out of the house, lived at my parent's until I got married. But my wife was kicked out of her house at the age of 16. Some step fathers can be drunken punks, even if they were part of "the greatest generation".
OK, I misspelled "Martin Luther King". Thanks - I'll watch for that in the future.
Don't feel too bad. When I started college, my parents bought me a dictionary (I think it was Webster's, but don't quote me on it). The first page I opened it to had an entry on "Matin Luther King".
I've worked with PEs that were terrible engineers and un-licensed engineers that were excellent engineers, and vice-versa. On average, PEs were more knowledgeable about their particular area of experience, but the correlation doesn't seem very strong. Better indicators of engineering capabilities are how willing the individual is to take the time and effort to understand the issues, and how aware they are of their own limitations. A lot of that comes with experience rather than schooling.
The above is informative. In the consulting engineering field, I've always maintained that a professional engineering license is a license to hire un-licensed engineers to do all the work. (though others' experiences may be different depending on the field of engineering)
Not necessarily. Engineers are held to a standard of reasonable professional care.
If I used a plastic that hadn't been tested for durability in a product that's supposed to be durable, I would have my hide stapled to the wall. . . It's my responsibility to check every component I use, whether it's by making sure we do it ourselves, or accepting certifications that suppliers provide with an iron-clad contract putting the responsibility in their hands.
Oh, I see, you're conflating professional liability with product liability.
Nobody should be considered a software engineer unless a codified practice of software development is defined such that measurable differences in safety and reliability outcome can come from those practicing it, and a training and testing regime can be used to determine whether someone is practicing it in their work.
Why should software engineering requirements be more strict than most types of engineering?
The place is located on a border of a major industrial area and surrounded by highways.
I wonder what was the measured noise level if it caused a protest - there obviously was quite a lot of noise even without that DC.
A lot of times, it's the tonality of the noise that is irritating. The issue is not necessarily the full spectrum total noise level that most noise ordinances regulate, even if it is weighted like dBA.
Since a DC produces probably 10 times the heat as a average office building. It without a doubt produces much more noise, unless special care is taken to suppress the extra noise.
10 times the heat probably translates to only a few decibels of extra sound power, and less difference than that in sound pressure at the lot line, if they do it right.
Anyway, the complaints were about the noisy backup generators, not the HVAC.
Treaties are above all law, other than the Constitution.
That is explicitly not true (in the USA, at least). Properly ratified treaties trump the US constitution. Because of the way it was "fast tracked" I'm not sure if this would count as a treaty or just a trade agreement, though.
IANAL, YMMV, etc.
And how much of Tut's life details do we really know, anyway? Nothing compared to the terabytes of home movies and photos that we'll forget about of a modern person.
We remember Tutankhamun because his successors erased him from their history lessons and his tomb got buried, so the tomb raiders didn't find him until recently, making his the most well-preserved tomb to study.
He also demonstrated that the alternative book and additional sources covered all materials required by the syllabus and in the more expensive book. This is clearly an attempt by the department leadership to line their own pockets by forcing the purchase of their own material.
At the risk of being modded redundant, one of the Fullerton math professors that voted for the use of the department's choice over the associate professor's choice has commented in TFA:
The textbook proposed by Dr. Bourget is not of equal quality for that course. I am not trying to disparage the other textbook, but rather point out that the textbook needs to suit the course and the level of the audience. The other text is more appropriate for an advanced audience. In fact, Dr. Bourget's supporter, Dr. McMillan, is using the same textbook that Dr. Bourget would like to use but in our advanced linear algebra course this semester!
Linear algebra is generally one course, not multiple.
Not according to one of the math professors commenting in TFA:
The textbook proposed by Dr. Bourget is not of equal quality for that course. I am not trying to disparage the other textbook, but rather point out that the textbook needs to suit the course and the level of the audience. The other text is more appropriate for an advanced audience. In fact, Dr. Bourget's supporter, Dr. McMillan, is using the same textbook that Dr. Bourget would like to use but in our advanced linear algebra course this semester!
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There is a GPS standard time. I believe it is based on the Geocentric Celestial Reference System. (as opposed to the Barycentric Celestial Reference System that you may need for positioning beyond Earth orbit.)
Anyway, if you don't like that, you could use the TAI (International Atomic Clock Time) instead.
Leap seconds can be used for displaying time in UTC if you need to, while those that need a constant, uninterrupted tick of the clock could use TAI (or GPS) in the backend.
Anitbiotics are given to poultry & livestock even when they're not sick (yet - given the conditions in some of the factory farms, it can be real easy for them to get sick.) It's done to enhance growth.
And some of the antibiotics and their metabolites do make it into milk, feces, and urine.
If the Food and Drug Administration regulated food??
OK, you may very well be a troll, but I'll bite, because I've seen a lot of this misguided attitude around here.
Grants vs loans is more of a Democrats vs Republicans thing than a generational thing, but there has never been all out state funding of higher education in the US.
I don't know how that can be blamed on a generation rather than on the people giving bad loans and the non-baby boomers taking those bad loans as if they were a way to grow money. When I bought my first house inflation was double digits, unemployment was near 8%, and I was happy to get a loan at a relatively low interest rate of 12.125%, while I made considerably less than the median income and bought way less house than most people do nowadays. So don't come crying to me about today's real estate market.
No, baby boomers are the generation that lost pensions to companies that went bankrupt for the express purpose of reneging on obligations - if they had pensions in the first place. Baby boomers are the first to be forced to rely on IRAs and 401Ks, if they could manage to save into them. (I'm not complaining, there were plenty of previous generations that had nothing to retire on, not even a social security check that might bounce.)
Ouch, bad timing to be looking during the bottom of the recession. I know the feeling, if not the duration you went through it.
My son got his MS in computer science in 2008 and it took him a little over a year to get a job. I was laid off in 2009, but fortunately it only took me three months to find a new job.
I got my career started in 1980, after looking for work for 9 months. That was a pretty bad economy, with 8% unemployment and 13% inflation. The worst part was that for the 9 months I was looking for a job, I was a newlywed being supported by my wife. Unemployment peaked in 1982 or thereabouts at around 10% and I almost got laid off then, too.
I wasn't kicked out of the house, lived at my parent's until I got married. But my wife was kicked out of her house at the age of 16. Some step fathers can be drunken punks, even if they were part of "the greatest generation".
That's what outsourcing is for!
Don't feel too bad. When I started college, my parents bought me a dictionary (I think it was Webster's, but don't quote me on it). The first page I opened it to had an entry on "Matin Luther King".
Please inform yourself before making proclamations, your ignorance is making your argument meaningless.
You can get a law degree and work in a law firm but if you're not admitted to the bar, you're not an attorney, you're a lawyer.
FTFY
I've worked with PEs that were terrible engineers and un-licensed engineers that were excellent engineers, and vice-versa. On average, PEs were more knowledgeable about their particular area of experience, but the correlation doesn't seem very strong. Better indicators of engineering capabilities are how willing the individual is to take the time and effort to understand the issues, and how aware they are of their own limitations. A lot of that comes with experience rather than schooling.
The above is informative. In the consulting engineering field, I've always maintained that a professional engineering license is a license to hire un-licensed engineers to do all the work. (though others' experiences may be different depending on the field of engineering)
Not necessarily. Engineers are held to a standard of reasonable professional care.
Oh, I see, you're conflating professional liability with product liability.
IANAL, YMMV
Why should software engineering requirements be more strict than most types of engineering?
A lot of times, it's the tonality of the noise that is irritating. The issue is not necessarily the full spectrum total noise level that most noise ordinances regulate, even if it is weighted like dBA.
"Highway sound barriers" are not cheap, and good planning, probably using more sophisticated sound barriers, would be needed to be very effective.
10 times the heat probably translates to only a few decibels of extra sound power, and less difference than that in sound pressure at the lot line, if they do it right.
Anyway, the complaints were about the noisy backup generators, not the HVAC.
It's not so much the amount of heat, it's that the temperature differential is too small to be very useful for much.
That is explicitly not true (in the USA, at least). Properly ratified treaties trump the US constitution. Because of the way it was "fast tracked" I'm not sure if this would count as a treaty or just a trade agreement, though.
IANAL, YMMV, etc.
Well, if there's no contract, then Microsoft is free to change the service at any time.
And how much of Tut's life details do we really know, anyway? Nothing compared to the terabytes of home movies and photos that we'll forget about of a modern person.
We remember Tutankhamun because his successors erased him from their history lessons and his tomb got buried, so the tomb raiders didn't find him until recently, making his the most well-preserved tomb to study.
Which is ironic, because GPS is not adjusted for leap seconds.
At the risk of being modded redundant, one of the Fullerton math professors that voted for the use of the department's choice over the associate professor's choice has commented in TFA:
The textbook proposed by Dr. Bourget is not of equal quality for that course. I am not trying to disparage the other textbook, but rather point out that the textbook needs to suit the course and the level of the audience. The other text is more appropriate for an advanced audience. In fact, Dr. Bourget's supporter, Dr. McMillan, is using the same textbook that Dr. Bourget would like to use but in our advanced linear algebra course this semester!
Not according to one of the math professors commenting in TFA: