If you have a source code, you that option of going under the hood and making changes yourself. Yes, this requires a fair bit of knowledge. No, this does not require a programming degree. (Well, depends on what you're doing. Hopefully the person who designed my house was a trained architect, but I don't need a degree to paint a room or add a book shelf. Damn, that's not a car analogy.)
And if you can't or won't go under the hood yourself, you can hire someone (anyone you chose) to make code changes for you. With closed sourced software, you can only go back to the original vendor.
On the other hand, for all the warnings about the dominance of MS and Windows and the dangers of monoculture, you can pop over here where many of those same people are arguing FOR monoculture and against individual choice.
He's a doctor, a faculty member (professor), and a division head (administration/management).
So which one of those qualifications means he's also an expect code debugger and available 24x7?
What happens when a bug in the networking stack on this rogue server starts flooding the hospital network? What happens if the DHCP client decides to ignore address expiration?
You're willing to vouch that this guy will a) be available, and 2) know what to do?
Setting up BSD is not any indication of some great skill set. Wouldn't you want to see how well that set up was implemented? Of course, if I make a comment about not knowing the different between Linux and BSD, you might object to my tone.:)
Frankly, the OP is a douche nozzle for questioning suspiciously someone who is offering help him.
As for Google vs. rouge server, at least a Google calendar can only compromise the information in the calendar. A rouge server is a threat to the network.
But seriously, the request is reasonable. MORE than reasonable. That he comes to us for advice is not a mark in his favor.
Of course, all of this is subject to available chemistry. The idea of black plants is quite far fetched. Compounds such as chlorophyll are photoreactive to only certain frequencies. That leaves on earth reflect rather than absorb green light has nothing to do with the number of suns we have. It has to do with the chemistry of what's in leaves.
To get a black leaf, you'd have to have a large variety of organic compounds built around different metals to absorb wide ranges of frequencies.
The gaping whole I am leaving has my former employer in a bit of a bind now, since I was the last person with the knowledge and skills to support a key system. They have offered to promote me now, but it's too late.
Well there's your problem. If you make yourself irreplaceable, you'll never get promoted. If you wanted to show your previous employer you were serious about changing positions, you would have trained someone to replace, or at least documented as much as you could, so you could be replaced.
In other words, if you were really ready to move on, you wouldn't be leaving a hole.
I see so many folks in IT and IS who set themselves up as gatekeepers of information and then complain when they don't get promoted. As much as your boss wants to help your career (and many bosses really do want to see people advance in the company) they don't want to leave a gaping hole when you're gone.
Make yourself easy to replace and you make it easy for your boss to promote you.
Some might reply, you make it easy to fire you as well. So be it. Look around. Is this where you want to be, what you want to do, for the rest of your professional life?
Because the taller trees absorb the light from the more powerful light source. The light of differing frequencies from the weaker light source aren't worth harnessing (from the trees perspective) and so pass through.
The underbrush take advantage of what light reaches them.
Kind of like life in our oceans. Why don't fish at the bottom of the ocean eat the same things fish near the surface eat? Because the surface food doesn't make it's way down to the deep. What falls down to the depths of the ocean is the crap from the fish above.
Why don't the fish above eat crap? Because they don't have to.
If you're talking about a system with 2 very similar stars in terms of distance, length of day, intensity, etc.
But what if one star is dominant? At what point is it not worth harvesting light from the secondary star?
Rather than black plants that absorb a fuller range of frequencies, you might get 2 parallel evolutionary paths. Green trees would grow tall from the light of the large yellow star, while the underbrush would be full of red leafy ferns which absorb light from the smaller star.
Wouldn't plants in a single-star system also maximize energy absorption? It's not like plants support the stars, so plants in multi-star systems don't need more energy than plants in single-start systems.
Do you think fish in the ocean maximize water usage more than insects in the desert?
So I'll say, my needs haven't changed. I still want a DVR to do what I originally purchased a TiVo to do, and my TiVo still does that. The digital TV switch thing had minimal effect.
If what you need a computer to do is within what your 286 does, that I'd say it isn't obsolete.
As far as the state of obsolescence being a standard of current technology and not strictly the functionality of the device, the comment I replied to referred to analog TiVos made obsolete by "that whole digital TV switch thing."
By that standard, my analog TiVos are not obsolete (or at least not any more obsolete than they were before the time of digital TV signals).
This is someone looking entirely uncool by trying to look cool.
It's drop, as in a Hip Hop artist referring to an album release date as when it's going to drop.
Unfortunately, it only works in the context of a Hip Hop artist releasing an album. In any other context, it reads as, "I'm only this white because the sun doesn't reach my mom's basement."
1) The world doesn't owe you a living, no matter how many degrees you get. If you're so smart, create a job for yourself.
2) No one wants to hear about your GPA. If you graduated #1 in your class or with honors, that can go on your resume. After that, no one cares. #2 in your class? Congratulations, you were the first loser. (Just keeping it real.)
3) Why are you willing to work for less than your discipline commands? (Or rather, why would you tell anyone?) You are the person most familiar with your skill level. By pricing your services at below market, you're saying, I realize my work isn't as good as the average Joe or Jane off the street.
(And that GPA, 3.65, is nothing to brag about. If it's undergrad, it's pretty good but not great, and since you have the MS, it's old news. What have you done lately? If that's your MS-work GPA, it's not bad, but it's not good.)
Since it sounds like you're desperate to try anything, apply to some higher level positions. And whatever you do, DO NOT talk salary until you have a written offer in hand.
Meanwhile, if you're in the northern hemisphere and the suburbs, Spring is here. Instead of borrowing money from the folks, borrow their lawn mower. Go door to door, put up fliers around the neighborhood. You can probably get 50 bucks cash money for a couple hours of exercise and fresh air.
Weren't there arrests at several of Bush's (Jr) speeches?
Let's see how my google fu is today.
There's this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4672676.stm which is a little bit different, as it's at the State of the Union, not a public speech. Just remember, our best and brightest men and women are over there fighting for your freedoms. So don't dishonor them by actually exercising any of those freedoms.
Basically, if you aren't economically able to provide access to the internet for your citizens, you aren't committing a great injustice or war crime or whatever. But if you could provide it, and you choose to ban it instead, then that would sound like something wrong to me.
You're ignoring the difference between banning and not providing. You're also ignoring the difference between right and human right.
If my wife eats all the Ben & Jerry's Americone Dream and doesn't save me any, that's not right. But that doesn't mean access to ice cream is a human right.
I mean, leave. Go away. With all due respect to many great accomplishments, this is ridiculous.
"Web access should be seen as a right, too, because anyone who lacks Web access will fall behind their more connected peers."
Anyone who lacks $1,000,000 in their bank account will fall behind their more moneyed peers. Is being rich now a right?
And what does this mean, to be a right? Free speech as right means the government doesn't have to subsidize my printing press, but if I have a printing press, the government can't tell me what to print or not print.
Does web access is a right mean the government doesn't have to subsidize my computer, but if I have a computer the government can't prevent my access?
So if I find an insufficiently secured WiFi access point, the government can't stop my access? I can't be arrest for theft of service?
If you live in a state with a sales tax, then shopping on the internet isn't any more tax-free than shopping block and mortar. Shops without a physical presence in-state aren't obligated and generally don't collect sales tax.
But that doesn't mean tax isn't owed. Granted I've only live in four states during my tax return-completing years, but forms for those states all had a line for unpaid sales or excise taxes.
I'm surprised states haven't started trying to get at credit card statements to find unpaid sales tax or driving around looking for houses with Amazon boxes out front. Any one else remember tax police from NY taking pictures of license plates in NJ malls to find sales tax cheats?
This is all just laying the groundwork for a national sales tax similar to the VAT.
I don't think they have a true 13th fold, as definded by the previous record holder:
"For a sheet to be considered folded n times it must be convincingly documented and independently verified that (2n) unique layers are in a straight line. Sections that do not meet these criteria are not counted as a part of the folded section. " http://pomonahistorical.org/12times.htm
You do realize by that definition, a "fold" just means rotating a section of paper some distance around an axis across the width of the paper? The 13th fold could be one degree.
If we add to the definition that the straight line must be perpendicular to each of the 2n layers, then the fold would have to go 180 degrees.
This has very little to do with MIT. They just used a 825-foot "infinite" hallway that connects many of MIT's main buildings. The folding was done by high school students, under guidance of their teacher.
And so what if it was MIT? No adult should ever try to do something better than a high school student? Do we need to worry about hurting the feelings of a precious snowflake?
Gallivan's work is great. I certainly wasn't doing anything on that level at that age. But that doesn't mean no one should ever fold anything again.
When I was in high school there was a kid who could play guitar better than just about anyone. Does that mean everyone should stop playing guitar so they don't "outshine" him?
I think the real story here is, at MIT they consider 825 feet to be infinite.
The challenge for space travel is to get buy-in from the broader population, and to do that it has to have the same visceral, senseless emotional response that warfare has.
So if you gave people a choice between (a) Mars mission and (b) current wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, you think the majority would choose (b)?
But that's not the choice we face. The choice we have is not between you go to (a) Mars) or (b) Iraq.
The choice is, you pay for someone else to go to (a) Mars or (b) Iraq.
Theres no similar observation about space travel, we aren't scratching our heads about our inability to do it with men while inanimate objects defy the rules.
Did you read what you wrote? There is exactly a similar observation about space travel. We have sent inanimate objects to other planets and even outside of the solar system. (Outer limits? Not sure where the solar system ends.)
This is precisely a case of trying to do with people what we've done with inanimate objects.
Three issues I have with the article 1) why plan a round trip? I skimmed the article, and it addresses the issue of launching enough stuff to keep folks alive there and back. Forget that, what about the time?
It's going to take so long to get anywhere, it'll be time to turn around and come home as soon as you arrive. Make it a one way mission.
2) As for the amount of stuff to support the mission, yes it's too expensive to launch all the needed supplies from Earth. So don't do it. Let's assume any interplanetary mission will have to pick up supplies on the way. So we have to have a target with water, for example, or plan to harvest a comet on the way. But none of that means it can't be done.
3) So it doesn't work with current technology. Technology changes. Yes, rocket technology does not have the growth of Moore's Law or the amount of pr0n on the internet. So what?
The limit on the amount of stuff we can launch from the surface of Earth is one small aspect of the problem, and one we can work around.
The algebra, trig, and geometry is all pre-calc. I would hope a high school junior expecting to go to college would get most of those. (Certainly one expecting to go to Harvard or study any hard science.) The only one I doubt I'd get was the one with square rods.
As for the Latin & Greek, give me a zero on that section.
I comfort myself knowing my physics and chemistry would win multiple Nobel prizes.
"Physicists at Fermi Lab have found a 'suspicious bump' in there data that could indicate they've found a new elementary particle or even a new force of nature."
Most hour shows come down to 41-42 minutes, with a few minutes of network promos which don't count as "advertising." So if I say 15 minutes of advertising per hour of programming, 20 minutes of ads means 80 minutes of total watching time.
For every 5 people who watch no TV advertising over the weekend, 4 people watch the equivalent of a 3-hour sporting event.
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I'll go both ways on this.
If you have a source code, you that option of going under the hood and making changes yourself. Yes, this requires a fair bit of knowledge. No, this does not require a programming degree. (Well, depends on what you're doing. Hopefully the person who designed my house was a trained architect, but I don't need a degree to paint a room or add a book shelf. Damn, that's not a car analogy.)
And if you can't or won't go under the hood yourself, you can hire someone (anyone you chose) to make code changes for you. With closed sourced software, you can only go back to the original vendor.
On the other hand, for all the warnings about the dominance of MS and Windows and the dangers of monoculture, you can pop over here where many of those same people are arguing FOR monoculture and against individual choice.
Just sayin'.
He's a doctor, a faculty member (professor), and a division head (administration/management).
So which one of those qualifications means he's also an expect code debugger and available 24x7?
What happens when a bug in the networking stack on this rogue server starts flooding the hospital network? What happens if the DHCP client decides to ignore address expiration?
You're willing to vouch that this guy will a) be available, and 2) know what to do?
Setting up BSD is not any indication of some great skill set. Wouldn't you want to see how well that set up was implemented? Of course, if I make a comment about not knowing the different between Linux and BSD, you might object to my tone. :)
Frankly, the OP is a douche nozzle for questioning suspiciously someone who is offering help him.
As for Google vs. rouge server, at least a Google calendar can only compromise the information in the calendar. A rouge server is a threat to the network.
But seriously, the request is reasonable. MORE than reasonable. That he comes to us for advice is not a mark in his favor.
At certain frequencies, yes.
Of course, all of this is subject to available chemistry. The idea of black plants is quite far fetched. Compounds such as chlorophyll are photoreactive to only certain frequencies. That leaves on earth reflect rather than absorb green light has nothing to do with the number of suns we have. It has to do with the chemistry of what's in leaves.
To get a black leaf, you'd have to have a large variety of organic compounds built around different metals to absorb wide ranges of frequencies.
The gaping whole I am leaving has my former employer in a bit of a bind now, since I was the last person with the knowledge and skills to support a key system. They have offered to promote me now, but it's too late.
Well there's your problem. If you make yourself irreplaceable, you'll never get promoted. If you wanted to show your previous employer you were serious about changing positions, you would have trained someone to replace, or at least documented as much as you could, so you could be replaced.
In other words, if you were really ready to move on, you wouldn't be leaving a hole.
I see so many folks in IT and IS who set themselves up as gatekeepers of information and then complain when they don't get promoted. As much as your boss wants to help your career (and many bosses really do want to see people advance in the company) they don't want to leave a gaping hole when you're gone.
Make yourself easy to replace and you make it easy for your boss to promote you.
Some might reply, you make it easy to fire you as well. So be it. Look around. Is this where you want to be, what you want to do, for the rest of your professional life?
Because the taller trees absorb the light from the more powerful light source. The light of differing frequencies from the weaker light source aren't worth harnessing (from the trees perspective) and so pass through.
The underbrush take advantage of what light reaches them.
Kind of like life in our oceans. Why don't fish at the bottom of the ocean eat the same things fish near the surface eat? Because the surface food doesn't make it's way down to the deep. What falls down to the depths of the ocean is the crap from the fish above.
Why don't the fish above eat crap? Because they don't have to.
If you're talking about a system with 2 very similar stars in terms of distance, length of day, intensity, etc.
But what if one star is dominant? At what point is it not worth harvesting light from the secondary star?
Rather than black plants that absorb a fuller range of frequencies, you might get 2 parallel evolutionary paths. Green trees would grow tall from the light of the large yellow star, while the underbrush would be full of red leafy ferns which absorb light from the smaller star.
Wouldn't plants in a single-star system also maximize energy absorption? It's not like plants support the stars, so plants in multi-star systems don't need more energy than plants in single-start systems.
Do you think fish in the ocean maximize water usage more than insects in the desert?
That makes sense.
So I'll say, my needs haven't changed. I still want a DVR to do what I originally purchased a TiVo to do, and my TiVo still does that. The digital TV switch thing had minimal effect.
If what you need a computer to do is within what your 286 does, that I'd say it isn't obsolete.
As far as the state of obsolescence being a standard of current technology and not strictly the functionality of the device, the comment I replied to referred to analog TiVos made obsolete by "that whole digital TV switch thing."
By that standard, my analog TiVos are not obsolete (or at least not any more obsolete than they were before the time of digital TV signals).
I don't think obsolete means what you think it means.
I have 2 analog Series 2 TiVos running right now, and they do everything they were advertised to do.
Without TPM this idea is a joke. I think you can see where this is going.
It's Jar Jar, isn't it?
OMFG, it's Jar Jar!
This is someone looking entirely uncool by trying to look cool.
It's drop, as in a Hip Hop artist referring to an album release date as when it's going to drop.
Unfortunately, it only works in the context of a Hip Hop artist releasing an album. In any other context, it reads as, "I'm only this white because the sun doesn't reach my mom's basement."
1) The world doesn't owe you a living, no matter how many degrees you get. If you're so smart, create a job for yourself.
2) No one wants to hear about your GPA. If you graduated #1 in your class or with honors, that can go on your resume. After that, no one cares. #2 in your class? Congratulations, you were the first loser. (Just keeping it real.)
3) Why are you willing to work for less than your discipline commands? (Or rather, why would you tell anyone?) You are the person most familiar with your skill level. By pricing your services at below market, you're saying, I realize my work isn't as good as the average Joe or Jane off the street.
(And that GPA, 3.65, is nothing to brag about. If it's undergrad, it's pretty good but not great, and since you have the MS, it's old news. What have you done lately? If that's your MS-work GPA, it's not bad, but it's not good.)
Since it sounds like you're desperate to try anything, apply to some higher level positions. And whatever you do, DO NOT talk salary until you have a written offer in hand.
Meanwhile, if you're in the northern hemisphere and the suburbs, Spring is here. Instead of borrowing money from the folks, borrow their lawn mower. Go door to door, put up fliers around the neighborhood. You can probably get 50 bucks cash money for a couple hours of exercise and fresh air.
Weren't there arrests at several of Bush's (Jr) speeches?
Let's see how my google fu is today.
There's this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4672676.stm
which is a little bit different, as it's at the State of the Union, not a public speech. Just remember, our best and brightest men and women are over there fighting for your freedoms. So don't dishonor them by actually exercising any of those freedoms.
And it's not just in the US of A:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16752321/
Hey Fosters, what's Australian for brown shirts?
Ah...here we go:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20310306/
And this:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RU8eAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VccEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2056,2962921
Remember, the Republicans want to protect your freedoms! That's why they want to take them away and hide them in an undisclosed location.
That's like saying only gold miners could use gold coins as currency.
No. It's like saying only the arcade down by the boardwalk uses those tickets from skee ball as currency.
Basically, if you aren't economically able to provide access to the internet for your citizens, you aren't committing a great injustice or war crime or whatever. But if you could provide it, and you choose to ban it instead, then that would sound like something wrong to me.
You're ignoring the difference between banning and not providing. You're also ignoring the difference between right and human right.
If my wife eats all the Ben & Jerry's Americone Dream and doesn't save me any, that's not right. But that doesn't mean access to ice cream is a human right.
Yes please. Go.
I mean, leave. Go away. With all due respect to many great accomplishments, this is ridiculous.
"Web access should be seen as a right, too, because anyone who lacks Web access will fall behind their more connected peers."
Anyone who lacks $1,000,000 in their bank account will fall behind their more moneyed peers. Is being rich now a right?
And what does this mean, to be a right? Free speech as right means the government doesn't have to subsidize my printing press, but if I have a printing press, the government can't tell me what to print or not print.
Does web access is a right mean the government doesn't have to subsidize my computer, but if I have a computer the government can't prevent my access?
So if I find an insufficiently secured WiFi access point, the government can't stop my access? I can't be arrest for theft of service?
I don't get it.
If you live in a state with a sales tax, then shopping on the internet isn't any more tax-free than shopping block and mortar. Shops without a physical presence in-state aren't obligated and generally don't collect sales tax.
But that doesn't mean tax isn't owed. Granted I've only live in four states during my tax return-completing years, but forms for those states all had a line for unpaid sales or excise taxes.
I'm surprised states haven't started trying to get at credit card statements to find unpaid sales tax or driving around looking for houses with Amazon boxes out front. Any one else remember tax police from NY taking pictures of license plates in NJ malls to find sales tax cheats?
This is all just laying the groundwork for a national sales tax similar to the VAT.
I don't think they have a true 13th fold, as definded by the previous record holder:
"For a sheet to be considered folded n times it must be convincingly documented and independently verified that (2n) unique layers are in a straight line. Sections that do not meet these criteria are not counted as a part of the folded section. "
http://pomonahistorical.org/12times.htm
You do realize by that definition, a "fold" just means rotating a section of paper some distance around an axis across the width of the paper? The 13th fold could be one degree.
If we add to the definition that the straight line must be perpendicular to each of the 2n layers, then the fold would have to go 180 degrees.
?
This has very little to do with MIT. They just used a 825-foot "infinite" hallway that connects many of MIT's main buildings. The folding was done by high school students, under guidance of their teacher.
And so what if it was MIT? No adult should ever try to do something better than a high school student? Do we need to worry about hurting the feelings of a precious snowflake?
Gallivan's work is great. I certainly wasn't doing anything on that level at that age. But that doesn't mean no one should ever fold anything again.
When I was in high school there was a kid who could play guitar better than just about anyone. Does that mean everyone should stop playing guitar so they don't "outshine" him?
I think the real story here is, at MIT they consider 825 feet to be infinite.
The challenge for space travel is to get buy-in from the broader population, and to do that it has to have the same visceral, senseless emotional response that warfare has.
So if you gave people a choice between (a) Mars mission and (b) current wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, you think the majority would choose (b)?
But that's not the choice we face. The choice we have is not between you go to (a) Mars) or (b) Iraq.
The choice is, you pay for someone else to go to (a) Mars or (b) Iraq.
Sadly, more people picked (b).
This would take ages. Really, several generations. And cost trillions of dollars. it sound cool, but it just isn't realistic.
I think you've just conceded the point.
It's entirely doable. It's a matter of people deciding it's worth the effort.
Theres no similar observation about space travel, we aren't scratching our heads about our inability to do it with men while inanimate objects defy the rules.
Did you read what you wrote? There is exactly a similar observation about space travel. We have sent inanimate objects to other planets and even outside of the solar system. (Outer limits? Not sure where the solar system ends.)
This is precisely a case of trying to do with people what we've done with inanimate objects.
Three issues I have with the article 1) why plan a round trip? I skimmed the article, and it addresses the issue of launching enough stuff to keep folks alive there and back. Forget that, what about the time?
It's going to take so long to get anywhere, it'll be time to turn around and come home as soon as you arrive. Make it a one way mission.
2) As for the amount of stuff to support the mission, yes it's too expensive to launch all the needed supplies from Earth. So don't do it. Let's assume any interplanetary mission will have to pick up supplies on the way. So we have to have a target with water, for example, or plan to harvest a comet on the way. But none of that means it can't be done.
3) So it doesn't work with current technology. Technology changes. Yes, rocket technology does not have the growth of Moore's Law or the amount of pr0n on the internet. So what?
The limit on the amount of stuff we can launch from the surface of Earth is one small aspect of the problem, and one we can work around.
The algebra, trig, and geometry is all pre-calc. I would hope a high school junior expecting to go to college would get most of those. (Certainly one expecting to go to Harvard or study any hard science.) The only one I doubt I'd get was the one with square rods.
As for the Latin & Greek, give me a zero on that section.
I comfort myself knowing my physics and chemistry would win multiple Nobel prizes.
"Physicists at Fermi Lab have found a 'suspicious bump' in there data that could indicate they've found a new elementary particle or even a new force of nature."
Where data?
My bad. Missed the advertising part.
Most hour shows come down to 41-42 minutes, with a few minutes of network promos which don't count as "advertising." So if I say 15 minutes of advertising per hour of programming, 20 minutes of ads means 80 minutes of total watching time.
For every 5 people who watch no TV advertising over the weekend, 4 people watch the equivalent of a 3-hour sporting event.
Yeah, I'd buy that.