In all honesty, I tend to agree with what you're implying. A database solution is great, if you put it into place immediately, otherwise you have to spend a lot of time getting all of the items into the database and properly tagged and sorted.
One way or another the work is going to have to be done, the relevant question is how easily will it be maintained, how will it handled increases in size and how easily can it be backed up.
I'm doing this sort of thing right now with my digital images. Thankfully, I can fall back on meta data to do most of the heavy lifting, which just leaves the process of creating subjective tags for pulling up random files and figuring out a decent backup system. I've been doing it all this week and haven't found a proper solution. Which is really a minimal hassle compared to what the OP is dealing with finding the files and reading them and putting them into some reasonable category, presumably many were created by employees no longer at the company.
To boil it all down a bit, make absolutely sure you've got all the tags you're going to want in, a file hierarchy of some sort for storing the physical files, and the thumb screws for anybody that's not willing to do their part. A system doesn't stay neat and organized on it's own, just because it's residing on some sort of database doesn't mean it's automatically easy to find things. Best bet for files is to organize those by roughly date, depending upon how many, that may require by day, week, month or year to keep them in a reasonable place to find.
Take it relatively slow demand that any new files be created within the realm of the new system and make regular effort at putting the older files into the new system in a consistent manner.
Tell that to the black and Jewish victims of lynching in the south. Yes, in many cases vigilantism can be a form of law enforcement. The problem though is that when a group of citizens answers to no one the potential for abuse and stepping beyond law enforcement is definitely there. And while many of those lynched had committed capital offenses, most hadn't.
Yes, in the two cases cited it seems to have worked out in the interest of justice, but they could just as easily have found somebody that wasn't guilty.
I'm in a union and because we can't just take off on strike or necessary when we are supposed to go home, the contract has provisions for that. No union is ever going to demand that sort of provision, at best it's bad for business at worst it costs lives.
I wouldn't use MS' ODF, last time I wanted to export ODF from MS Office, I used the plug in provided by Sun microsystems. I haven't used it lately, but it's up to version 3.1. Last version I used was 1.1.
I agree, at this point the only thing to really innovate is making them smaller and more efficient. Dumping unnecessary functions into some sort of addon/extension system and slimming them down. As you note there isn't really a whole lot that the average word processor can't do and which people need.
Personally, while I have an old copy of MS Office XP, I haven't used it in years, except to export the files to an interoperable file format, and that wasn't much work, since I had so few of them.
Yes, and a significant number of models are reused episode to episode. I'd be surprised if they haven't got the DOoP headquarters squirreled away somewhere, in case it ever gets rebuilt. They do still have to repaint things as needed, but the work of designing the space and rendering it to model is complete. Just move the camera and rerender.
I have to admit that watching older cartoons, even those that are only 15 years old makes me kind of nostalgic. For the times when long hallways had the same table every 10 feet and every line was composed of the same 6 people queing and requeing as required to fill space.
Basically since Cartoon Network and DVD sales demonstrated that there was great profit in reanimating corpses.
One of the nice things about the trend to releasing TV shows via DVD is that if enough people buy them, the networks start to see dollar signs and are more apt to uncancel them. Admittedly it has to be fairly quick and it doesn't ensure that the show is any good after coming back, but it does give fans at least some hope of getting the show back.
Plus, they're zombie shows, and kids like zombies, right?
I've spent years cleaning up after incompetent teaching. So yes, I'm dead serious. The kind of methodology that you're putting forward is probably the greatest threat to the students outside of a toxic home environment.
I have to say that I'm deeply disturbed at how far this blame the victim bull shit has gone. The main source of problems here is that we're expecting kids to learn without any instruction really at all.
If we were providing instruction and it were genuinely a matter of sloth or incompetence that would be different, although even then the sort of tactics you're suggesting would be dangerous and incompetent.
To sort of cap it off, I've lived in the educational community for most of my life, and have worked for a few years cleaning up the sort of mess that your SO is going to be involved in causing.
Ultimately it comes down to results and what you're proposing just doesn't work in that formula.
Have you never heard of transpiration? Some uses of collected water will get back to the people down stream with little to none missing, but anywater that's used for irrigation is unlikely to make it far. Substantial portions will be lost to evaporation while going to the plants and more will be lost directly from the plants themselves via transpiration.
Spoken as somebody who has clearly never worked in education.
Classroom related anxieties are a genuine problem and this sort of blame the victim ideology has no place in schools. Trivializing this sort of thing just makes it more difficult on the students and teachers and unnecessarily drains talent which could otherwise be out looking for the cure to cancer or fixing other pressing concerns.
Yes, but even a change of policy to make it less anti-education would be a step in the right direction. Expecting people to work for peanuts, fighting the school district's typically laughable curriculum hoping for a few students to win out over incompetent testing standards, isn't something that's likely to draw in the best possible teachers.
High stress, low relation between success and effort low wages; gee I wonder why it's so hard to get men into education. If only there were similar fields that paid better and offered a lot of the same rewards, like say coaching.
Either that or they look the other way when their crackers attack US based computers.
As far as math and science goes, their education system sucks in most ways compared to that of the US, with the exception of there being an identifiable relationship between effort and outcome. We could do the same thing if we fired the sophists currently working in education and replaced them with actual competent educators. If their education system were better than ours, then they wouldn't be coming here in droves to get degrees and head home.
Because somebody else will figure it out and often times corporations refuse to do anything about the exploit until it's been made public. Seriously I'm sick and tired of MS' security by obscurity bug fixing crap. Yes it takes time to get the patch right and releasing a buggy patch can be more harm than good, but still. This whole mantra of pretending like exploits don't exist furthers nobody's interest but the code crackers.
I wish people would stop badmouthing Bender's Big Score, I for one liked it a lot. Complaining because years of wait increased the expectations is completely unfair. Sort of like all the nits that are convinced that Vista was a horrendous mistake.
That was my thought, they had a huge hit with it and will likely get well paid for the new episodes. On top of that from what I gather the most important voice actors seem to all have enjoyed working on Futurama.
So more likely than not it's going to hinge upon actual availability.
Having the computer be able to override things like that can make sense, but not allowing the pilot to ever fully override the autopilot is a huge mistake. You don't have to make it the most convenient thing to do, but it's important to allow for human judgment.
Unfortunately for airbus passengers, if the company maintaining the plane didn't keep it up to date or the sensors fail, a lot can go wrong. A pilot at least has sensors that aren't interconnected into the plane's AI.
Not really, Typically you're going to cover all of the roof, or at as much as the tracking system will allow. If you're limited to doing a third of the roof due to cost considerations then that's feasible, otherwise you're probably going to have to make due with less electricity.
That being said, having even that much is a help, it's more likely to come down to durability than capacity and every bit does help. If they're of comparable durability, then there's definite potential.
Except in this case it's likely to be true. Transistors can only be so small before it becomes technically impossible with infeasible being somewhat before that. Additionally electrons can only go so fast through a circuit and you need a certain number of them to work well. Or to put it another way, we're getting relatively close to the point of diminishing returns on that aspect of computing. Sure engineers could make things go quite a bit faster, but realistically it's questionable as to how much faster a processor can get without being unreasonably expensive.
Cores on the other hand are nowhere near that point, a desktop computer could probably benefit from up to about 16, whereas more specialized requirements benefit from much larger numbers of cores. The main limiting challenges to that are getting them to play well together, energy and physical space on chip/chips.
No, the only way that a President can be removed from office is via impeachment proceedings or I suppose assassination.. Which while they can be high jacked like with Clinton for political reasons, they are strictly limited in scope, and not every crime qualifies under the constitution.
"The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." --US Constitution. Article II, Sec. 4.
That's not an apples to apples comparison. The Ninth circuit court is located in states with different laws than the other circuits are. An appeals court is only able to deal with the cases which are appealed, meaning that there are any number of ways that decisions can get passed to them, and beyond accepting them, there isn't anything that they can do about the types of cases they want.
Additionally, each case tends to be different, just because you have two very similar death penalty cases, doesn't mean that they should be decided the same way, sometimes subtlety of situation makes a huge difference. Ultimately despite what Fox news might suggest, the constitution is not easy to interpret properly, and there will be legitimate disagreements about which test should be applied in which way to a particular case.
And yes, that does mean the 2nd amendment as well, I didn't hear any whining from the strict constructionists when SCOTUS engaged in judicial activism on their behalf, despite 2 plus centuries of constitutional law indicating otherwise.
In this case, unlike getting a job in some of the other areas of the federal government.
In all honesty, I'm not really sure what the point of open ended background checks was. As it is, even after this ruling the government will be allowed to investigate employees suspected of espionage or other security violations, just not without reason. In the grand scheme of things, I'd be surprised if this has any negative impact on the security of the JPL.
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In all honesty, I tend to agree with what you're implying. A database solution is great, if you put it into place immediately, otherwise you have to spend a lot of time getting all of the items into the database and properly tagged and sorted.
One way or another the work is going to have to be done, the relevant question is how easily will it be maintained, how will it handled increases in size and how easily can it be backed up.
I'm doing this sort of thing right now with my digital images. Thankfully, I can fall back on meta data to do most of the heavy lifting, which just leaves the process of creating subjective tags for pulling up random files and figuring out a decent backup system. I've been doing it all this week and haven't found a proper solution. Which is really a minimal hassle compared to what the OP is dealing with finding the files and reading them and putting them into some reasonable category, presumably many were created by employees no longer at the company.
To boil it all down a bit, make absolutely sure you've got all the tags you're going to want in, a file hierarchy of some sort for storing the physical files, and the thumb screws for anybody that's not willing to do their part. A system doesn't stay neat and organized on it's own, just because it's residing on some sort of database doesn't mean it's automatically easy to find things. Best bet for files is to organize those by roughly date, depending upon how many, that may require by day, week, month or year to keep them in a reasonable place to find.
Take it relatively slow demand that any new files be created within the realm of the new system and make regular effort at putting the older files into the new system in a consistent manner.
Tell that to the black and Jewish victims of lynching in the south. Yes, in many cases vigilantism can be a form of law enforcement. The problem though is that when a group of citizens answers to no one the potential for abuse and stepping beyond law enforcement is definitely there. And while many of those lynched had committed capital offenses, most hadn't.
Yes, in the two cases cited it seems to have worked out in the interest of justice, but they could just as easily have found somebody that wasn't guilty.
How exactly is the union bashing here insightful?
I'm in a union and because we can't just take off on strike or necessary when we are supposed to go home, the contract has provisions for that. No union is ever going to demand that sort of provision, at best it's bad for business at worst it costs lives.
I wouldn't use MS' ODF, last time I wanted to export ODF from MS Office, I used the plug in provided by Sun microsystems. I haven't used it lately, but it's up to version 3.1. Last version I used was 1.1.
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I agree, at this point the only thing to really innovate is making them smaller and more efficient. Dumping unnecessary functions into some sort of addon/extension system and slimming them down. As you note there isn't really a whole lot that the average word processor can't do and which people need.
Personally, while I have an old copy of MS Office XP, I haven't used it in years, except to export the files to an interoperable file format, and that wasn't much work, since I had so few of them.
Yes, and a significant number of models are reused episode to episode. I'd be surprised if they haven't got the DOoP headquarters squirreled away somewhere, in case it ever gets rebuilt. They do still have to repaint things as needed, but the work of designing the space and rendering it to model is complete. Just move the camera and rerender.
I have to admit that watching older cartoons, even those that are only 15 years old makes me kind of nostalgic. For the times when long hallways had the same table every 10 feet and every line was composed of the same 6 people queing and requeing as required to fill space.
Basically since Cartoon Network and DVD sales demonstrated that there was great profit in reanimating corpses. One of the nice things about the trend to releasing TV shows via DVD is that if enough people buy them, the networks start to see dollar signs and are more apt to uncancel them. Admittedly it has to be fairly quick and it doesn't ensure that the show is any good after coming back, but it does give fans at least some hope of getting the show back. Plus, they're zombie shows, and kids like zombies, right?
I've spent years cleaning up after incompetent teaching. So yes, I'm dead serious. The kind of methodology that you're putting forward is probably the greatest threat to the students outside of a toxic home environment.
I have to say that I'm deeply disturbed at how far this blame the victim bull shit has gone. The main source of problems here is that we're expecting kids to learn without any instruction really at all.
If we were providing instruction and it were genuinely a matter of sloth or incompetence that would be different, although even then the sort of tactics you're suggesting would be dangerous and incompetent.
To sort of cap it off, I've lived in the educational community for most of my life, and have worked for a few years cleaning up the sort of mess that your SO is going to be involved in causing.
Ultimately it comes down to results and what you're proposing just doesn't work in that formula.
Who do you think posts all those goatse links?
Nah, just taxes everybody for rain on cloudy days and for solar energy on days where you can see the sun.
Have you never heard of transpiration? Some uses of collected water will get back to the people down stream with little to none missing, but anywater that's used for irrigation is unlikely to make it far. Substantial portions will be lost to evaporation while going to the plants and more will be lost directly from the plants themselves via transpiration.
Spoken as somebody who has clearly never worked in education.
Classroom related anxieties are a genuine problem and this sort of blame the victim ideology has no place in schools. Trivializing this sort of thing just makes it more difficult on the students and teachers and unnecessarily drains talent which could otherwise be out looking for the cure to cancer or fixing other pressing concerns.
Yes, but even a change of policy to make it less anti-education would be a step in the right direction. Expecting people to work for peanuts, fighting the school district's typically laughable curriculum hoping for a few students to win out over incompetent testing standards, isn't something that's likely to draw in the best possible teachers.
High stress, low relation between success and effort low wages; gee I wonder why it's so hard to get men into education. If only there were similar fields that paid better and offered a lot of the same rewards, like say coaching.
Either that or they look the other way when their crackers attack US based computers.
As far as math and science goes, their education system sucks in most ways compared to that of the US, with the exception of there being an identifiable relationship between effort and outcome. We could do the same thing if we fired the sophists currently working in education and replaced them with actual competent educators. If their education system were better than ours, then they wouldn't be coming here in droves to get degrees and head home.
Because somebody else will figure it out and often times corporations refuse to do anything about the exploit until it's been made public. Seriously I'm sick and tired of MS' security by obscurity bug fixing crap. Yes it takes time to get the patch right and releasing a buggy patch can be more harm than good, but still. This whole mantra of pretending like exploits don't exist furthers nobody's interest but the code crackers.
I wish people would stop badmouthing Bender's Big Score, I for one liked it a lot. Complaining because years of wait increased the expectations is completely unfair. Sort of like all the nits that are convinced that Vista was a horrendous mistake.
That was my thought, they had a huge hit with it and will likely get well paid for the new episodes. On top of that from what I gather the most important voice actors seem to all have enjoyed working on Futurama.
So more likely than not it's going to hinge upon actual availability.
Having the computer be able to override things like that can make sense, but not allowing the pilot to ever fully override the autopilot is a huge mistake. You don't have to make it the most convenient thing to do, but it's important to allow for human judgment.
Unfortunately for airbus passengers, if the company maintaining the plane didn't keep it up to date or the sensors fail, a lot can go wrong. A pilot at least has sensors that aren't interconnected into the plane's AI.
Nonsense, that would be geothermal. Compare the rates of burned to death by volcanoes with died of skin cancer, I think the answer is obvious.
Not really, Typically you're going to cover all of the roof, or at as much as the tracking system will allow. If you're limited to doing a third of the roof due to cost considerations then that's feasible, otherwise you're probably going to have to make due with less electricity.
That being said, having even that much is a help, it's more likely to come down to durability than capacity and every bit does help. If they're of comparable durability, then there's definite potential.
That's funny, because Fallout 3 for instance is enhanced for multicore. I'd assume there were other games.
I'd be skeptical of allowing smart compilers to do the programming for us, a compiler no matter how smart isn't the programmer.
Except in this case it's likely to be true. Transistors can only be so small before it becomes technically impossible with infeasible being somewhat before that. Additionally electrons can only go so fast through a circuit and you need a certain number of them to work well. Or to put it another way, we're getting relatively close to the point of diminishing returns on that aspect of computing. Sure engineers could make things go quite a bit faster, but realistically it's questionable as to how much faster a processor can get without being unreasonably expensive.
Cores on the other hand are nowhere near that point, a desktop computer could probably benefit from up to about 16, whereas more specialized requirements benefit from much larger numbers of cores. The main limiting challenges to that are getting them to play well together, energy and physical space on chip/chips.
No, the only way that a President can be removed from office is via impeachment proceedings or I suppose assassination.. Which while they can be high jacked like with Clinton for political reasons, they are strictly limited in scope, and not every crime qualifies under the constitution.
"The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." --US Constitution. Article II, Sec. 4.
That's not an apples to apples comparison. The Ninth circuit court is located in states with different laws than the other circuits are. An appeals court is only able to deal with the cases which are appealed, meaning that there are any number of ways that decisions can get passed to them, and beyond accepting them, there isn't anything that they can do about the types of cases they want.
Additionally, each case tends to be different, just because you have two very similar death penalty cases, doesn't mean that they should be decided the same way, sometimes subtlety of situation makes a huge difference. Ultimately despite what Fox news might suggest, the constitution is not easy to interpret properly, and there will be legitimate disagreements about which test should be applied in which way to a particular case.
And yes, that does mean the 2nd amendment as well, I didn't hear any whining from the strict constructionists when SCOTUS engaged in judicial activism on their behalf, despite 2 plus centuries of constitutional law indicating otherwise.
In this case, unlike getting a job in some of the other areas of the federal government.
In all honesty, I'm not really sure what the point of open ended background checks was. As it is, even after this ruling the government will be allowed to investigate employees suspected of espionage or other security violations, just not without reason. In the grand scheme of things, I'd be surprised if this has any negative impact on the security of the JPL.