Actually, that isn't true - in Texas he can buy and drink alcohol in a bar, even, the caveat being he needs his parent's approval (source). Paradoxical considering he's an adult at 18.
In most states there are exceptions to the 21 drinking age. For instance, I could legally drink in my parent's house with their permission, but they were teetotalers, so I usually did at a friend's house because he had permission from his dad. Therefore, I was breaking the law, he wasn't.
Split licensing for plugins with the GPL is only possible if the plugin forks or an exception is given in the license. If the main program is GPL, the plugins can be non-GPL only if they fork or exec (or otherwise don't touch the GPL code), otherwise they must be GPL. If the scripts or whatever are not executing in GPL code, then no problem, and if they are, it is a violation of the GPL. It may be a paradox - both a violation of the GPL and not if, say, you are running a javascript plugin in a GPL web browser vs one that isn't GPL or give an exception that doesn't apply to all places a user runs the plugin.
I told the GPL 3 people plugins would be hugely problematic and argued some of these same points, but they (the GPL vetting folks) didn't think it was an issue and vetted it anyway. In fact, they originally told me plugins could not be GPL, only libraries could, but they chose to open that can of worms after that, and I knew they would.
Congress may have legislative power, but Obama has some sway over the Department of Energy. If he tells them coal must use CCS (Carbon Capture and Sequestration), for instance, it is up to the DoE to develop a plan to implement it, because let's face it, coal plant owners will never do it voluntarily because it makes no sense from a business standpoint. 30% less efficient and therefore 30% less profitable to... save the environment? Why would you do that if you can spend 1% (or less) supporting global warming doubters that say it isn't an issue?
For raw data, of course, but since the house is mostly planar surfaces you most likely could massively reduce the data using octrees, kd-trees, or other methods.
You need to prove you did it before April of 1995 though (the filing date). I have to wonder if the patent is valid though - they had ample opportunity to sue Netscape by now, and they were using embedded html in email in the mid-to-late 1990s. I seem to recall if a company sits on their hands until the technology is ubiquitous, their patent claims usually get thrown out.
That applies to Gen II nuclear reactors based on 1950s designs. If we actually developed the technology and were building Gen IV reactors like Russia is, such as their BN-800, we'd have much more efficient and safer reactors. That one is closed cycle (probably due to the mostly unfounded fear of proliferation), but if continuous reprocessing is done, these things are nearly 100% fuel efficient (and not 99.5% waste). Some Gen IV designs can actually be turned off and on within hours (and early test reactors were shut down for the weekend), so no 24/7 cycles required.
The US is building A1000s, a Gen III+ tech, but these are kinda like mounting a water tower on top of a Gen II reactor, so they still have piss-poor fuel efficiency, but they are much simpler than 1950s reactors construction-wise and have passive safety, so they should be significantly cheaper to build and run.
As for the grandparent, storage method aside for making it a full time energy, solar has some serious problems - long transmission with lots of loss, poor efficiency of panels (they are getting better), only creating power during daylight hours, relatively expensive replacement and maintenance costs, etc. On a similar note there conventional power plants talk about flywheel mechanical energy storage, but any energy storage will have some loss, so power companies are wary to add such things and hope they can sell all the energy.
Actually, I've been concerned that the government has torn up the fourth amendment, pissed on it, and shoved it in America's face already.
Illegal telephone searches justified by the Patriot Act is the tip of the iceberg. Going back to FISA in 1978, then to their attempts to push CISPA through (even though FISA and Patriot largely already do that), it seems congress has already done that one in.
Yep - with the US abandoning all (government funded) research on Gen IV reactors based on whacko-liberal "facts" over a decade ago (some only applied to Gen II reactors, let alone Gen III or higher, and thank you John Kerry for your ignorance when presenting these) and continuing to use 1950s technology (Gen II reactors), I had my doubts we'd ever build another reactor in the US. I can't say the AP1000 is my favorite of the Gen III+ models, as it seems to cut a lot of corners, it is still probably safer than any Gen II reactor.
The ONE major problem with Gen IV designs is they all require reprocessing for efficiency and this is the one ding against them. Obama has continued the ban on any reprocessing fearing proliferation, but when you look at it, the argument is ridiculous - you'd need to get into the facility, find and grabbed the fuel (you'd likely need to separate it from a stew of highly radioactive chemicals or slowly siphon off Protactinium and wait for it to decay to Uranium), exit the facility undetected by radiation detectors or in a hail of bullets with your personal army, and get to someplace where you have time to build it into a bomb. Yeah, that's going to happen.
Great example - I actually like that with our Agile team, we are not only directly working with our product marketing team (the team that gets specs and works with customers on refining them), but also get nearly immediate customer feedback when we have questions about the design, and we get the product features our customers absolutely need now quickly and give them the ones they want in future releases depending on demand. In contrast, our Waterfall teams are sometimes working 5 years out (they are planning 2019 already), often to rigid specifications. If a feature is no longer needed by customers because it was replaced by some other tech, well too bad - it goes in anyway.
On the other hand, the Waterfall stuff tends to be well tested and integrated, while the Agile stuff is more haphazard. When you have a lot of configurations like we do, that can lead to some major testing gaps without a full time testing team working it over for a couple of months after it is done. For us, that usually means post release patching, sometimes before the product goes to market (due to manufacturing lead times), aka the zero day patch.
I haven't personally seen an Agile project for a car with 4 wheels and a steering wheel end up with two wheels and handlebars - you'd pretty much have to scrap your requirements and start over to get that. Now a sports coupe vs a minivan vs an F1, sure - that is Agile's nature - you refine based on what your customer(s) require by grabbing additional features off the priority stack. Sometimes you've got to go back, as well - the steering wheel in the F1 is going to be a bit different than the minivan - but if that isn't in there, the product doesn't ship.
I'm in your boat - while I never owned ET, I did rent it for a couple of weeks, and I'm pretty sure I beat it a couple of times. I did read the manual, mainly because I had a lot of time between renting the game and getting home (we lived 10 miles out of town and a good half of that was city). While I didn't have fond memories of it, I didn't abhor it like some people. Now 2600 Pac Man was abhorrent, especially after playing it on a ColecoVision and Intellivision first.
I agree - when you're talking about a club or even a high school level class, you're going to get people of all skill levels and interests. Since it's a club, find out what the kids want to get out of it, and don't make it about teaching programming, try to make it about learning from each other. If you can find people with similar interests, group them together on projects, even if their skill levels are drastically different. I learned how to write 6502 Assembly when I was 12 by looking over a friend's shoulder because I was curious. I also learned how to crack software the same way and from the same friend, but let's leave the notorious stuff out.
You will always have someone with no programming experience that wants to come in and write and MMO and will be dejected that they can't do it in 3 days, but there isn't much you can do about this sort. You may be able to get them to download Unity free and write a simple scene, but usually they get dejected and quit.
Yeah - I managed to pay rent making minimum wage myself, and a part time job to boot, but the place I lived in was a former drug dealer's flat (found crack paraphanalia under the fireplace grate) three doors down from the soup kitchen and had gunfire daily as entertainment, and we crammed 3 people into a 1 "bedroom" apartment (technically it had zero) and ate a LOT of ramen, potatoes, eggs (they were dirt cheap at the time), and white bread. I scraped by on about $15-20 a month on food (when ramen packets went on sale for 5 cents each we bought 600). No car, biked, walked, or took the bus everywhere. I budgeted like mad and always paid the rent on time, but it was hard living.
Now I hire people from the shelter to do my yard work and pay them nearly twice minimum wage. Most of them can't get real work due to felonies on their records and my seasonal allergies kill me this time of year, so they want to work, I am willing to pay for a good job done, win-win (not reported as income, I'm sure, but they feel better about it than panhandling).
I actually had all the classes required for both a math and physics minor due to first starting as a Computer Engineer and then switching schools and majors to computer science, and having different requirements, but I never filed the transfer paperwork. CE required Calculus up to 6, solid state physics and some other requirements, CS required classes like Vectors and Matrices that counted as math and oddly enough, a general physics course. It also required a bunch of basic classes that I tested out of after learning the language because they failed to transfer (Scheme based courses that taught stuff like linked lists that I had in Pascal because my original school taught in stone age languages until the year I left).
I like VMWare for larger installations as well. We also have special requirements, specifically we need GPUs. Until recently, that meant offloading that work to real hardware, but nVidia GRID is a godsend because we can install that part on the VMWare server (this is still in beta at my company, so I don't yet personally have access to it, but I've seen demos and I have to do the multi-server setup by hand and that is no fun).
I don't think it's calls they are talking about - I know people checking for and responding to texts every 3-4 minutes all day long. I send 1-2 texts a month and am lucky if I even check my phone 3x a day, so I'm drastically below average.
I imagine with moderate to severe myopia (like me) you wouldn't see the lines at all. With corrective lenses, the results were as expected for me, so I don't think this is a factor (with vision correction).
It also says people with higher IQs have a harder time detecting movement in the larger image. I imagine someone that sees both equally is pretty average. I actually played the video first before reading the article, and the results for me were typical high IQ - small ones were far easier to see the movement on than large ones. Having also had an IQ test when I was 18 that put me in the top.1% (and I'm not trying to brag - I know people far smarter than I am - this is just where my score fell), these results are as they expect.
Tried that once. Several kids (the bully's posse - kids that had "done a hit for him" by beating up kids he didn't like) teamed up and beat me down. While I was lying on the ground in pain, bully drag-threw me by one arm across the blacktop, skinning both knees and my elbow severely (it needed stitches). Then he kicked me in the ribs a half dozen times and was stomping on my back and head when a teacher pulled him off and scared off the rest of his gang. His punishment for the crime? He apparently spent 10 minutes in the Principal's office before being sent back to class because it was just "kids being kids." They didn't even call his parents. I GOT FU*KING stitches, and was lucky to not have broken bones.
This is like fighting patent trolls in east Texas. You can try to fight, but they have dozens of friends and a sympathetic judge (in my case, Principal) and the deck is completely stacked against you.
On the other hand, my mom was APPALLED by the inaction and transferred me and my brother to a different school. This is like moving to Canada because the US rules are batshit crazy.
Blackmail is criminal in the US, as is slander and defamation of character (and heck, I'm probably missing 100 similar charges for the country where using the internet is a felony by some interpretations of law). Even in the best case, this will scare people that don't know better than to pirate by proxy (anonymous proxies, coffee shops, etc), and even then, being nearly impossible to prove (without a search warrant and raid) will result in every single person involved suing them. This is going to backfire on them like a backward facing shotgun.
That and the 6 string guitar. Space Oddity is a quintessential 12 string song... and for a segue, Brian May also played 12 string on several songs ('39 and A Night At the Opera come to mind) and he played with Freddy Mercury in Queen.
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Actually, that isn't true - in Texas he can buy and drink alcohol in a bar, even, the caveat being he needs his parent's approval (source). Paradoxical considering he's an adult at 18.
In most states there are exceptions to the 21 drinking age. For instance, I could legally drink in my parent's house with their permission, but they were teetotalers, so I usually did at a friend's house because he had permission from his dad. Therefore, I was breaking the law, he wasn't.
Split licensing for plugins with the GPL is only possible if the plugin forks or an exception is given in the license. If the main program is GPL, the plugins can be non-GPL only if they fork or exec (or otherwise don't touch the GPL code), otherwise they must be GPL. If the scripts or whatever are not executing in GPL code, then no problem, and if they are, it is a violation of the GPL. It may be a paradox - both a violation of the GPL and not if, say, you are running a javascript plugin in a GPL web browser vs one that isn't GPL or give an exception that doesn't apply to all places a user runs the plugin.
I told the GPL 3 people plugins would be hugely problematic and argued some of these same points, but they (the GPL vetting folks) didn't think it was an issue and vetted it anyway. In fact, they originally told me plugins could not be GPL, only libraries could, but they chose to open that can of worms after that, and I knew they would.
Congress may have legislative power, but Obama has some sway over the Department of Energy. If he tells them coal must use CCS (Carbon Capture and Sequestration), for instance, it is up to the DoE to develop a plan to implement it, because let's face it, coal plant owners will never do it voluntarily because it makes no sense from a business standpoint. 30% less efficient and therefore 30% less profitable to... save the environment? Why would you do that if you can spend 1% (or less) supporting global warming doubters that say it isn't an issue?
For raw data, of course, but since the house is mostly planar surfaces you most likely could massively reduce the data using octrees, kd-trees, or other methods.
You need to prove you did it before April of 1995 though (the filing date). I have to wonder if the patent is valid though - they had ample opportunity to sue Netscape by now, and they were using embedded html in email in the mid-to-late 1990s. I seem to recall if a company sits on their hands until the technology is ubiquitous, their patent claims usually get thrown out.
That applies to Gen II nuclear reactors based on 1950s designs. If we actually developed the technology and were building Gen IV reactors like Russia is, such as their BN-800, we'd have much more efficient and safer reactors. That one is closed cycle (probably due to the mostly unfounded fear of proliferation), but if continuous reprocessing is done, these things are nearly 100% fuel efficient (and not 99.5% waste). Some Gen IV designs can actually be turned off and on within hours (and early test reactors were shut down for the weekend), so no 24/7 cycles required.
The US is building A1000s, a Gen III+ tech, but these are kinda like mounting a water tower on top of a Gen II reactor, so they still have piss-poor fuel efficiency, but they are much simpler than 1950s reactors construction-wise and have passive safety, so they should be significantly cheaper to build and run.
As for the grandparent, storage method aside for making it a full time energy, solar has some serious problems - long transmission with lots of loss, poor efficiency of panels (they are getting better), only creating power during daylight hours, relatively expensive replacement and maintenance costs, etc. On a similar note there conventional power plants talk about flywheel mechanical energy storage, but any energy storage will have some loss, so power companies are wary to add such things and hope they can sell all the energy.
Perspective is everything... Michelle Bachmann thinks she is moderate, after all. There probably are liberals that think Occupy is right wing.
Actually, I've been concerned that the government has torn up the fourth amendment, pissed on it, and shoved it in America's face already.
Illegal telephone searches justified by the Patriot Act is the tip of the iceberg. Going back to FISA in 1978, then to their attempts to push CISPA through (even though FISA and Patriot largely already do that), it seems congress has already done that one in.
Yep - with the US abandoning all (government funded) research on Gen IV reactors based on whacko-liberal "facts" over a decade ago (some only applied to Gen II reactors, let alone Gen III or higher, and thank you John Kerry for your ignorance when presenting these) and continuing to use 1950s technology (Gen II reactors), I had my doubts we'd ever build another reactor in the US. I can't say the AP1000 is my favorite of the Gen III+ models, as it seems to cut a lot of corners, it is still probably safer than any Gen II reactor.
The ONE major problem with Gen IV designs is they all require reprocessing for efficiency and this is the one ding against them. Obama has continued the ban on any reprocessing fearing proliferation, but when you look at it, the argument is ridiculous - you'd need to get into the facility, find and grabbed the fuel (you'd likely need to separate it from a stew of highly radioactive chemicals or slowly siphon off Protactinium and wait for it to decay to Uranium), exit the facility undetected by radiation detectors or in a hail of bullets with your personal army, and get to someplace where you have time to build it into a bomb. Yeah, that's going to happen.
Great example - I actually like that with our Agile team, we are not only directly working with our product marketing team (the team that gets specs and works with customers on refining them), but also get nearly immediate customer feedback when we have questions about the design, and we get the product features our customers absolutely need now quickly and give them the ones they want in future releases depending on demand. In contrast, our Waterfall teams are sometimes working 5 years out (they are planning 2019 already), often to rigid specifications. If a feature is no longer needed by customers because it was replaced by some other tech, well too bad - it goes in anyway.
On the other hand, the Waterfall stuff tends to be well tested and integrated, while the Agile stuff is more haphazard. When you have a lot of configurations like we do, that can lead to some major testing gaps without a full time testing team working it over for a couple of months after it is done. For us, that usually means post release patching, sometimes before the product goes to market (due to manufacturing lead times), aka the zero day patch.
I haven't personally seen an Agile project for a car with 4 wheels and a steering wheel end up with two wheels and handlebars - you'd pretty much have to scrap your requirements and start over to get that. Now a sports coupe vs a minivan vs an F1, sure - that is Agile's nature - you refine based on what your customer(s) require by grabbing additional features off the priority stack. Sometimes you've got to go back, as well - the steering wheel in the F1 is going to be a bit different than the minivan - but if that isn't in there, the product doesn't ship.
I'm in your boat - while I never owned ET, I did rent it for a couple of weeks, and I'm pretty sure I beat it a couple of times. I did read the manual, mainly because I had a lot of time between renting the game and getting home (we lived 10 miles out of town and a good half of that was city). While I didn't have fond memories of it, I didn't abhor it like some people. Now 2600 Pac Man was abhorrent, especially after playing it on a ColecoVision and Intellivision first.
Just to answer your question
~3.7%, and not even for a bachelors, that is 2 year MCSE sorts and above, well below the official jobless rate of 7.5%
I agree - when you're talking about a club or even a high school level class, you're going to get people of all skill levels and interests. Since it's a club, find out what the kids want to get out of it, and don't make it about teaching programming, try to make it about learning from each other. If you can find people with similar interests, group them together on projects, even if their skill levels are drastically different. I learned how to write 6502 Assembly when I was 12 by looking over a friend's shoulder because I was curious. I also learned how to crack software the same way and from the same friend, but let's leave the notorious stuff out.
You will always have someone with no programming experience that wants to come in and write and MMO and will be dejected that they can't do it in 3 days, but there isn't much you can do about this sort. You may be able to get them to download Unity free and write a simple scene, but usually they get dejected and quit.
Yeah - I managed to pay rent making minimum wage myself, and a part time job to boot, but the place I lived in was a former drug dealer's flat (found crack paraphanalia under the fireplace grate) three doors down from the soup kitchen and had gunfire daily as entertainment, and we crammed 3 people into a 1 "bedroom" apartment (technically it had zero) and ate a LOT of ramen, potatoes, eggs (they were dirt cheap at the time), and white bread. I scraped by on about $15-20 a month on food (when ramen packets went on sale for 5 cents each we bought 600). No car, biked, walked, or took the bus everywhere. I budgeted like mad and always paid the rent on time, but it was hard living.
Now I hire people from the shelter to do my yard work and pay them nearly twice minimum wage. Most of them can't get real work due to felonies on their records and my seasonal allergies kill me this time of year, so they want to work, I am willing to pay for a good job done, win-win (not reported as income, I'm sure, but they feel better about it than panhandling).
what's so funny?
I actually had all the classes required for both a math and physics minor due to first starting as a Computer Engineer and then switching schools and majors to computer science, and having different requirements, but I never filed the transfer paperwork. CE required Calculus up to 6, solid state physics and some other requirements, CS required classes like Vectors and Matrices that counted as math and oddly enough, a general physics course. It also required a bunch of basic classes that I tested out of after learning the language because they failed to transfer (Scheme based courses that taught stuff like linked lists that I had in Pascal because my original school taught in stone age languages until the year I left).
I like VMWare for larger installations as well. We also have special requirements, specifically we need GPUs. Until recently, that meant offloading that work to real hardware, but nVidia GRID is a godsend because we can install that part on the VMWare server (this is still in beta at my company, so I don't yet personally have access to it, but I've seen demos and I have to do the multi-server setup by hand and that is no fun).
I don't think it's calls they are talking about - I know people checking for and responding to texts every 3-4 minutes all day long. I send 1-2 texts a month and am lucky if I even check my phone 3x a day, so I'm drastically below average.
I imagine with moderate to severe myopia (like me) you wouldn't see the lines at all. With corrective lenses, the results were as expected for me, so I don't think this is a factor (with vision correction).
It also says people with higher IQs have a harder time detecting movement in the larger image. I imagine someone that sees both equally is pretty average. I actually played the video first before reading the article, and the results for me were typical high IQ - small ones were far easier to see the movement on than large ones. Having also had an IQ test when I was 18 that put me in the top .1% (and I'm not trying to brag - I know people far smarter than I am - this is just where my score fell), these results are as they expect.
Tried that once. Several kids (the bully's posse - kids that had "done a hit for him" by beating up kids he didn't like) teamed up and beat me down. While I was lying on the ground in pain, bully drag-threw me by one arm across the blacktop, skinning both knees and my elbow severely (it needed stitches). Then he kicked me in the ribs a half dozen times and was stomping on my back and head when a teacher pulled him off and scared off the rest of his gang. His punishment for the crime? He apparently spent 10 minutes in the Principal's office before being sent back to class because it was just "kids being kids." They didn't even call his parents. I GOT FU*KING stitches, and was lucky to not have broken bones.
This is like fighting patent trolls in east Texas. You can try to fight, but they have dozens of friends and a sympathetic judge (in my case, Principal) and the deck is completely stacked against you.
On the other hand, my mom was APPALLED by the inaction and transferred me and my brother to a different school. This is like moving to Canada because the US rules are batshit crazy.
Alcatel-Lucent owns what is left of Bell Labs
Blackmail is criminal in the US, as is slander and defamation of character (and heck, I'm probably missing 100 similar charges for the country where using the internet is a felony by some interpretations of law). Even in the best case, this will scare people that don't know better than to pirate by proxy (anonymous proxies, coffee shops, etc), and even then, being nearly impossible to prove (without a search warrant and raid) will result in every single person involved suing them. This is going to backfire on them like a backward facing shotgun.
That and the 6 string guitar. Space Oddity is a quintessential 12 string song... and for a segue, Brian May also played 12 string on several songs ('39 and A Night At the Opera come to mind) and he played with Freddy Mercury in Queen.