That has to do with a union being granted legal control of a dictionary. That doesn't have anything to do with engineering. Try linguistics or political science.
Engineer is a title that is given to someone who drives a train. Or more generally, someone who works on engines. The meaning of the word "engineer" is analogous to the modern terms "mechanic" or "driver" and association in other fields extends analogously.
Is there a coal plant in Centralia?
I don't know, but I suspect not.
I do know that if there is, that it processes a lot less than 28,000 tons of coal a day -- No 10 plants in the world combines process that amount combined.
According to this site:
http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/text/ colmain.html
in 1982 (a year in which more coal was burned than 2005) the entire world processed 2.8 billion tons, but you'd have us believe that one plant in Centralia output 1.2 billion tons of Carbon Dioxide in a year from processing coal? If that's true, it'd explain the dismal overcast over western Washington most of the time, but if you're right, most of it didn't come from coal.
Since I decided to look up statistics, I decided to find out, and yes, there is actually a coal plant in Centralia, though it's a model of efficiency and low environmental impact:
http://www.power-technology.com/projects/centralia /
According to the site, it provides roughly enough power for all of Seattle.
And they explained how the teleporter works in Star Wars with mumbo jumbo too, but it wasn't until little Spocks started looking up the words that they realized that they were nonsense.
A fake word and a lack of evidence does not a valid conclusion make.
I'll dispute the end effects of global warming, if you tell me what they are. If you come up with an end effect and agree to stand by it, I'll even accept your premise of global warming if it comes true.
The end effects of global warming aren't in dispute because they are unknown. In fact, the big scare of global warming goes something like this "If the globe keeps warming up... who knows what the end result will be?"
It's a pretty good scare tactic, but it's a little short on conclusions, but also flawed in its initial premise, which is that the globe might be warming up, never mind how long it has been or will continue.
Termites use twigs to fish ants out of anthills?
Apes use termites to fish ants out of anthills?
Apes use twigs to termite ants out of anthills?
Apes use twigs to fish termites out of anthills?
Apes use twigs to fish ants out of termites?
None of these make sense, but apes do, in fact, use twigs to fish ants out of anthills.
Thereby stating your conclusion that humans are unique and special and that killing off certain kinds owls and moss is acceptable in order to preserve this unique species. Possibly even to the point of having our pet cats, dogs, cattle, rats, and viruses eliminate other species merely for our (uniquely attainable) pleasure.
Actually, we ship out rice too. At one point in recent years (but possibly no longer true), more rice grown in California was exported to China than was harvested domestically in that country. Granted, that was mostly due to the inefficiencies of communism, but it's still a lot of surplus rice.
I remember how the opposition's stance was that there was a new ice age coming in the 1970s and when they needed an excuse to lean on farmers in the 1980s they claimed that water was disappearing and it would never rain again and then in the 1990s they came up with global warming and nowadays the official stance is, well, maybe not global warming, but "regional" "climate change" and they're already hedging against the comedians speculations about the climate staying the same by putting out feelers that "climate not change" would be a disaster too.
There is a pretty strong marketing campaign (to the tune of several hundred millions of dollars potential revenue) to dissuade people from using JBoss, so take criticism "buzz" with a grain of salt.
Note that I don't have anything to do with JBoss, or any of its direct competitors, and have never met Marc Fluery, or any of his detractors.
Most of his most outspoken critics have received large checks from IBM, BEA, etc.
but poor people will still get richer. The rich get richer by taking a part of the poor's newly created wealth. So there is no incentive for the rich to stop the poor from getting richer.
Geronimo was spearheaded by a bunch of former JBoss developers who wanted to be able to sell a closed source copy. They used JBoss to bootstrap, and benefitted from their experience working on JBoss codebase. It's a pretty good assumption that if someone who is not in a cleanroom situation makes something that looks alot like what they are trying to clone, that there is copyright infringment. In big business you'd never get away with this. Think of the extreme measures Compaq took to reverse engineer the IBM PC BIOS. If they had merely hired some of the IBM employees who had worked on the BIOS, promising that any similarities were pure coincidence would never have stood up.
The thing that Office does, that typical webapps can't is turn those simple memos into a searchable, actionable, versioned database (and make a pretty chart out of it all.) That's what he's talking about a few power user making everyone else more productive.
Sun Star Division Open Office can do a decent job of formatting documents, but it doesn't have the scriptability and collaboration that Office has. They have successfully cloned the unusability, but not the real features. Office is slowly rebuilding itself into a competitor with the web. And when you place a few Ajax widgets against that, you're going to lose. Word and Excel are the next level of rich internet applications.
Too bad they have the baggage of all the other Microsoft Server crap that you have to work with.
So Vista won't be ready for another year. Or two. Or three. Novell Netware lost the race to a vaporware NT5, but it was Linux and then Active Directory that killed it.
Microsoft has a habit of delivering late, and poorly. But they are bringing onnovation to the (mainstream) desktop. Yes, Unix is a better architecture. But Windows is so much more featureful than Gnome, KDE, or *especally* Mac OS X.
Office is 10 years ahead of any of it's clones. Granted, the main reason Star Office is so far behind is because most of their energy is spent on compatibility. But they shouldn't worry too much about it. Like Word Perfect shouldn't have. Microsoft saw a collaboration suite where everyone else saw desktop publishing. Office 2003 is a credible competitor to the browser for application development. With a growing.NET library and the push to port decent scripting languages (like python & php5) to the CLR, it's a compelling platform. Infopath is the new Visual Basic form, only backed by SQL Server and XML instead of Access.
I'm not praising MS unconditionally. They still have weird, arcane ways of doing things. And lots and lots of bugs -- and security issues. But they're offering more in functionality than anyone else. Ajax isn't a competitor to OLE.
I'm simply noting that unless an *alternative* to MS Office integration is offered, alot of open source zealots (like myself) will be switching over. I'd love to see an open source web framework tied to Windows and Office automation, but I don't see it happening.
I wrote a list of Microsoft technologies I'd need to learn to be as productive as I am using open source. It was a long list and it was ugly, too, with words like "Exchange", "IIS", and "VBA" on it. I don't want to learn to use Active Directory (but at least it's not NT Domain Controllers), and it is a pretty good LDAP server, too. I don't want to learn VB, VB.net, and C#. (and maybe I won't have to, at least no more than necessary to translate api's to Python or Ruby.)
But Office and Exchange are unmatched in the open source world, and there's really not a reason they should be.
I saw a girl with Ms. Pacman on her phone. It made me want to buy the phone. And I've always taken the free phone when I could get it.
Throw centipede, joust, donkey kong, tetris, pacman, defender, qix, or other popular old games with real playability on a phone and people will want them. And you don't even need to do research or take a chance with retro games.
But people aren't going to pay a website. Only the Britney Spears crowd will pay to download a ringtone or game. But if it comes on the phonebill (or even better: free with the phone -- that'll get people to upgrade) they'll take it.
However, I think the problem with the current crop of games won't be solved by a 24 hour game design. Too much of that already.
What ever happened to snakes, anyway? Losing that standby game turned me off of my current carrier.
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That has to do with a union being granted legal control of a dictionary. That doesn't have anything to do with engineering. Try linguistics or political science.
Engineer is a title that is given to someone who drives a train. Or more generally, someone who works on engines. The meaning of the word "engineer" is analogous to the modern terms "mechanic" or "driver" and association in other fields extends analogously.
when was the last time a corporate officer went to jail for anything other than percieved ties with Republicans?
There are roughly 280 to 560 times as many active volcanoes in the world as Mt. St. Helens.
Is there a coal plant in Centralia? I don't know, but I suspect not. I do know that if there is, that it processes a lot less than 28,000 tons of coal a day -- No 10 plants in the world combines process that amount combined. According to this site: http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/text/ colmain.html
in 1982 (a year in which more coal was burned than 2005) the entire world processed 2.8 billion tons, but you'd have us believe that one plant in Centralia output 1.2 billion tons of Carbon Dioxide in a year from processing coal? If that's true, it'd explain the dismal overcast over western Washington most of the time, but if you're right, most of it didn't come from coal.
Since I decided to look up statistics, I decided to find out, and yes, there is actually a coal plant in Centralia, though it's a model of efficiency and low environmental impact:
http://www.power-technology.com/projects/centralia /
According to the site, it provides roughly enough power for all of Seattle.
And they explained how the teleporter works in Star Wars with mumbo jumbo too, but it wasn't until little Spocks started looking up the words that they realized that they were nonsense. A fake word and a lack of evidence does not a valid conclusion make.
I'll dispute the end effects of global warming, if you tell me what they are. If you come up with an end effect and agree to stand by it, I'll even accept your premise of global warming if it comes true. The end effects of global warming aren't in dispute because they are unknown. In fact, the big scare of global warming goes something like this "If the globe keeps warming up... who knows what the end result will be?" It's a pretty good scare tactic, but it's a little short on conclusions, but also flawed in its initial premise, which is that the globe might be warming up, never mind how long it has been or will continue.
Termites use twigs to fish ants out of anthills? Apes use termites to fish ants out of anthills? Apes use twigs to termite ants out of anthills? Apes use twigs to fish termites out of anthills? Apes use twigs to fish ants out of termites? None of these make sense, but apes do, in fact, use twigs to fish ants out of anthills.
Thereby stating your conclusion that humans are unique and special and that killing off certain kinds owls and moss is acceptable in order to preserve this unique species. Possibly even to the point of having our pet cats, dogs, cattle, rats, and viruses eliminate other species merely for our (uniquely attainable) pleasure.
And yet we export immense quantities of meat and fruit/vegetables. Much of Latin America and Asia import both of these from the USA.
Actually, we ship out rice too. At one point in recent years (but possibly no longer true), more rice grown in California was exported to China than was harvested domestically in that country. Granted, that was mostly due to the inefficiencies of communism, but it's still a lot of surplus rice.
God damn respiration!
I remember how the opposition's stance was that there was a new ice age coming in the 1970s and when they needed an excuse to lean on farmers in the 1980s they claimed that water was disappearing and it would never rain again and then in the 1990s they came up with global warming and nowadays the official stance is, well, maybe not global warming, but "regional" "climate change" and they're already hedging against the comedians speculations about the climate staying the same by putting out feelers that "climate not change" would be a disaster too.
Alfred Chueng, stop posting as obender
The press might become a bigger threat if your competitor buys lots of advertising from them and takes them out to buy them beers, strippers, etc.
There is a pretty strong marketing campaign (to the tune of several hundred millions of dollars potential revenue) to dissuade people from using JBoss, so take criticism "buzz" with a grain of salt. Note that I don't have anything to do with JBoss, or any of its direct competitors, and have never met Marc Fluery, or any of his detractors. Most of his most outspoken critics have received large checks from IBM, BEA, etc.
but poor people will still get richer. The rich get richer by taking a part of the poor's newly created wealth. So there is no incentive for the rich to stop the poor from getting richer.
Geronimo was spearheaded by a bunch of former JBoss developers who wanted to be able to sell a closed source copy. They used JBoss to bootstrap, and benefitted from their experience working on JBoss codebase. It's a pretty good assumption that if someone who is not in a cleanroom situation makes something that looks alot like what they are trying to clone, that there is copyright infringment. In big business you'd never get away with this. Think of the extreme measures Compaq took to reverse engineer the IBM PC BIOS. If they had merely hired some of the IBM employees who had worked on the BIOS, promising that any similarities were pure coincidence would never have stood up.
Or pay more for training and consulting
The thing that Office does, that typical webapps can't is turn those simple memos into a searchable, actionable, versioned database (and make a pretty chart out of it all.) That's what he's talking about a few power user making everyone else more productive. Sun Star Division Open Office can do a decent job of formatting documents, but it doesn't have the scriptability and collaboration that Office has. They have successfully cloned the unusability, but not the real features. Office is slowly rebuilding itself into a competitor with the web. And when you place a few Ajax widgets against that, you're going to lose. Word and Excel are the next level of rich internet applications. Too bad they have the baggage of all the other Microsoft Server crap that you have to work with.
So Vista won't be ready for another year. Or two. Or three. Novell Netware lost the race to a vaporware NT5, but it was Linux and then Active Directory that killed it. Microsoft has a habit of delivering late, and poorly. But they are bringing onnovation to the (mainstream) desktop. Yes, Unix is a better architecture. But Windows is so much more featureful than Gnome, KDE, or *especally* Mac OS X. Office is 10 years ahead of any of it's clones. Granted, the main reason Star Office is so far behind is because most of their energy is spent on compatibility. But they shouldn't worry too much about it. Like Word Perfect shouldn't have. Microsoft saw a collaboration suite where everyone else saw desktop publishing. Office 2003 is a credible competitor to the browser for application development. With a growing .NET library and the push to port decent scripting languages (like python & php5) to the CLR, it's a compelling platform. Infopath is the new Visual Basic form, only backed by SQL Server and XML instead of Access.
I'm not praising MS unconditionally. They still have weird, arcane ways of doing things. And lots and lots of bugs -- and security issues. But they're offering more in functionality than anyone else. Ajax isn't a competitor to OLE.
I'm simply noting that unless an *alternative* to MS Office integration is offered, alot of open source zealots (like myself) will be switching over. I'd love to see an open source web framework tied to Windows and Office automation, but I don't see it happening.
I wrote a list of Microsoft technologies I'd need to learn to be as productive as I am using open source. It was a long list and it was ugly, too, with words like "Exchange", "IIS", and "VBA" on it. I don't want to learn to use Active Directory (but at least it's not NT Domain Controllers), and it is a pretty good LDAP server, too. I don't want to learn VB, VB.net, and C#. (and maybe I won't have to, at least no more than necessary to translate api's to Python or Ruby.)
But Office and Exchange are unmatched in the open source world, and there's really not a reason they should be.
I saw a girl with Ms. Pacman on her phone. It made me want to buy the phone. And I've always taken the free phone when I could get it.
Throw centipede, joust, donkey kong, tetris, pacman, defender, qix, or other popular old games with real playability on a phone and people will want them. And you don't even need to do research or take a chance with retro games.
But people aren't going to pay a website. Only the Britney Spears crowd will pay to download a ringtone or game. But if it comes on the phonebill (or even better: free with the phone -- that'll get people to upgrade) they'll take it.
However, I think the problem with the current crop of games won't be solved by a 24 hour game design. Too much of that already.
What ever happened to snakes, anyway? Losing that standby game turned me off of my current carrier.
... Instead, turn your equity into tangible assets ASAP... People tried that too. Remember the Great Real Estate Slump of 2006?
have you ever used unicode?
And the other 5% need the speed and stability of Oracle, so Postgres is out.