aww, but launching a giant multi-million dollar rocket filled with liquid oxygen with 2/3 of that fuel carrying just the weight of the fuel is so terribly efficient. How dare they show how retardedly easy it is to just go up and keep going? What next, an air tight, runway take off plane that can increase in altitude until it's in space? What would we do with all the extra taxpayers' money?
Well damn, they obviously haven't seen my fireworks party every year. We give off well over 5 million metric tons of sulfur dioxide in just that night and it's still hotter than holy hell out there:(
Why doesn't the gov just throw everyone at Diebold in jail on one of a large list of federal offenses such as vote altering, false advertising (saying they're safe), and probably receiving money to purposesly add security holes. These things are made in China for God's sake! They probably add a vote or two here and there for any communist party candidates. Someone who knows what the hell they're doing needs to build voting machines. Perfect security is absolutely possibly despite what anyone says, you just have to plan with security first. Logically, if they make the machine have an alert if someone does anything but walk in and vote, that would be a good first step and there are dozens of ways to make sure that the votes are transmitted to a central location axcurately and securely like recording votes onto vacuum sealed canisters with one time write-only holographics memory that's shielded as soon as it's taken out and can only be read by a proprietary laser system kept top secret from anyone else and is read at a central counting location with multiple members of each party watching a robotic arm grab each container, check its encrypted unique location ID for validity, and read from it and come up with the resulting totals. Would that all be so hard? Of course, it'd be cheaper to just pay people to hand count paper ballots:P but that's less secure.
You know, liquid nitrogren doesn't exactly have moving parts either and it uses no electricity unless you want to run it through a radiatior and I believe if it's under pressure, it will go back down to a cold temp quickly by itself.
It's not that hard to just scan for the type of lithium that makes em blow. FedEx has been using the required technology for other mollecules for years. If they did that, all the electronic devices could get on and just use the AC adapter (dunno if they have outlets on a plane though, never flown lol)
well, I guess you never learned any of this at your shit college so here ya go: This applies to most standard application designs from scratch. First imagine the primary form and its controls that the user will see first and branch off from there. Instantiate each other form from the main one unless you have a very good reason not to. Picture what you want the next form to do. It should be a "duh" kind of thing as to what controls to put on it once you know what it has to do. Then go down the all important list: protections for it (read only, close catching, etc), inputs, outputs, and correction then storage of data, sharing with other objects, needed objects that will be instantiated from the form the methods it must have, shared objects between forms and how it will interact with them, naming, form style (full size etc), database functionality and with which tables it will affect and the logic of any SQL it will use, and then move on to any additional forms that will be there. Once you've pictured every form and how they branch to each other and what can control what object and what each form's purpose is, you're set. All the menu design and details like that should just be a "duh" kind of thing while you're actually making the program because you already have in mind what you want the form to do. Same for the accessability and all that basic, intro to programming crap that you've done a million times. An advantage of doing it this way is you don't forget about earlier forms in the chain and have contradicting purposes or sharing/permission issues. Unless there's more than about 25 complicated forms in the app, you...okay well maybe not you but...I can design it in my head without even trying and with no need to put it all down on paper. Doing it all at once like that lets me realize instantly if a form won't be able to do what it needs to because it's in the wrong branch off from the main form or it can't access a class instance that a form in a different branch declared so the messaging system up and down the branch with events writes itself.
In case that all confused you, here's a short, summarized example: when someone says to me, "Write a program that lets users make copies of pictures at a given width and height," I'd take about a minute (if that) and think. : is down one level [ is up one level and , is next item...k here it goes: "opening form: explain what the program does: label [ give brief instructions, go button: open file dialogue object: add multiselection: check input integrity, hide first form, next form instantiated from main: ask for width and height: sequential inputboxes: check input integrity [ ask for appended filename string like pic1 ends up as pic1Thumb if they enter Thumb: third inputbox: check input integrity, show user progress: picturebox to display current picture it's converting, progress bar, for loop to go through array from open file dialog: set bar interval to for loop counting variable and update each loop, next form: label saying completed, load function opens folder containing copied pics, button for close, button for go back to original screen: unhide main form and reset variables, done"
And then I'd go back through it all once more and add in any branch out features like letting the user specify the copy to folder and log creation then tell them it's already written, I just have to go type it out;) Now that was a simple one and I'd have it done in like 15 seconds easy because it's got 3 forms and a linear structure but it doesn't take a whole lot more brain power to do much more complicated programs. With the traditional slow way of designing apps, that thumbnail generator program would have gotten to the "go back to main form with a button click" part and thought, oh crap, we closed that instead of hiding it and have no way of re-instantiating it and they'd go back re-plan a bunch of it until they get it right. That's stupid and a waste of time and money. Btw I know you're going to bitch so I'll say in advance, I'm NOT going to work for a company, I'm going to design and write my own apps to sell and do special custom project work for companies as a contracted outsourcer.
I give stuck up, flaming (in both uses of the word), immature nerds online the respect they deserve...NONE! In real life with polite people, I'm one of the nicest. All of you dumbasses ought to take a hint that you shouldn't act like a jerk or it will come right back at you because decent people don't put up with it.
First of all, I read the title and say "hey, we've known that for hundreds of years." Far away = old in the universe, duh! But really, it's not quite right. Surely I'm not the only one that realizes that when this supposed big bang happened, the things they're looking at weren't 13 billion light-years away. They started at the origin point and moved that far away now. The way they have it stated, it seems like they instantly teleported 13 billion light-years away during the big bang 13 billion years ago and the light is just getting to us now. Then there's the whole our position relative to the origin point relative to the galaxies they're looking at problem.
it's not like we have it posted on a sign outside our college saying it. It's just an interesting fact that most people don't know, even ones that go there (except the printing students, they come here from all over because we're one of the top in the US and probably the world). And since the other comment was referring to the "I went to harvard, hire me" attitude most stupid, rich preps have coming out of there, I don't see how they have anything to do with each other because I'm not putting anything other than my college's name on my resume. People hire students from my school because they know what they're doing and other students that they've hired have done well at their company. And I'm not going to a whoopideedoo special hyped up private college with some bullshit rating because it's a waste of money and my family's far from rich.
aha so you were no good with ancient Unix and moved into networking. Good choice, networking is full of historical crap and theory that you actually need to know.
I DO NOT GO TO ITT TECH OR DEVRY! THOSE COLLEGES ARE OVERRATED!
Oh, and your attitude fucking sucks
Lmao! Are you going to tell "Don't fucking swear" too? Why don't you go back to that theater where they hire asshats like you. You'd be better off there than at a hundred year old college that's teaching you programming stuff that will be outdated by the time you graduate.
wow, that list looks like my old high school's list of choices we had for books to read junior year! What the hell, lol. We actually had to read some of those and forget all that stuff about what's in them, all the ones I read on that list should be banned purely because they suck sooooooooo bad! They are so rip your hair out, eye meltingly boring and stupid that no student should ever have to read them! Why can't we read more books like Huck Finn where at least stuff happens instead of just a bunch of losers sitting around talking about crap?! Btw where was 1984 banned, China? hehehe
One of my teachers said that back in the day she sat down for an interview and the guy gave her a hundred or so page printout of the program they were using writtin in Basic or some ancient thing like that. Then he told her to read it and explain to him how it worked in summary. She didn't get the job and I don't think anyone did. Needless to say, he wasn't an IT department guy, he was a hiring guy.
Whenever companies decide on some ridiculous hiring style, I say forget them. If enough people boycott a stupid hiring trend, it goes away. Though I do think solve the riddle style ones aren't half bad because if you can't solve it, you shouldn't get a job (as long as it's a riddle related to your job area) though they should base it on more than that.
DevRy can kiss my ass. I go to the 2nd best ranked non-private Wisconsin technical college. We have one of the highest hiring rates in the region for the IT department and beat the spread of just about any 4 year college too. In case you didn't learn this in college, reputation and name of your college means nothing when you're looking for a job. Most of the time the employer won't even ask where you went and if they do, they don't care.
way to make the 4 year assumption there. I'm going to write and sell software myself. I looked at the badly designed crap that's out there and decided to become a programmer because I can do infinitely better. That same theory applied to computer repair and that business is running pretty well for me at the moment too.
And 4 year colleges rerun all that info from high school and middle school because they assume you paid no attention and must have cheated on the SAT/ACT's or something to get in. It's an insult really.
and it's just astonishing how you still seem to be less mature than most others around here. It's like you're new but you're not. You must support virtualization.
aha, so they were just saying it's useless and nobody will ever design a usefull app that will use it to its full potential. Sounds like a mac to me. You're better off with a single quad if you're not running multiple apps at once I guess. Good to know:-P
what the hell are you talking about? Put down the hookah and look at what you wrote. Who the hell says I can't code at night? I was up till 2 last night coding and I don't need caffeine, nor do I ever drink it. You're a childish dumbass, were you homeschooled? lol
how about I write a worm for one of the many undiscovered XP holes that updates the BIOS with a version that makes your processor hotter and hotter and disable the auto heat turn off function as long as it's not independedntly controlled? Aww but I don't have your IP, never mind.
I went during my senior year of HS, there does that spell it out enough for you? I also was born in June too but so what. And first of all, you don't have any friends. But if you did and they really went that early, they're stupid because home schooled kids and kids that skip grades in 1-12 end up with messed up social skills which means no job for them so I don't know if I'd call them stupid but unwise would definitely work.
sounds like a pyramid scheme. Why does every single "active" project say Registration is closed? Grrr I know I could win at least a third of those! I'll have to look into it more this christmas break.
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aww, but launching a giant multi-million dollar rocket filled with liquid oxygen with 2/3 of that fuel carrying just the weight of the fuel is so terribly efficient. How dare they show how retardedly easy it is to just go up and keep going? What next, an air tight, runway take off plane that can increase in altitude until it's in space? What would we do with all the extra taxpayers' money?
Well damn, they obviously haven't seen my fireworks party every year. We give off well over 5 million metric tons of sulfur dioxide in just that night and it's still hotter than holy hell out there :(
Why doesn't the gov just throw everyone at Diebold in jail on one of a large list of federal offenses such as vote altering, false advertising (saying they're safe), and probably receiving money to purposesly add security holes. These things are made in China for God's sake! They probably add a vote or two here and there for any communist party candidates. Someone who knows what the hell they're doing needs to build voting machines. Perfect security is absolutely possibly despite what anyone says, you just have to plan with security first. Logically, if they make the machine have an alert if someone does anything but walk in and vote, that would be a good first step and there are dozens of ways to make sure that the votes are transmitted to a central location axcurately and securely like recording votes onto vacuum sealed canisters with one time write-only holographics memory that's shielded as soon as it's taken out and can only be read by a proprietary laser system kept top secret from anyone else and is read at a central counting location with multiple members of each party watching a robotic arm grab each container, check its encrypted unique location ID for validity, and read from it and come up with the resulting totals. Would that all be so hard? Of course, it'd be cheaper to just pay people to hand count paper ballots :P but that's less secure.
You know, liquid nitrogren doesn't exactly have moving parts either and it uses no electricity unless you want to run it through a radiatior and I believe if it's under pressure, it will go back down to a cold temp quickly by itself.
It's not that hard to just scan for the type of lithium that makes em blow. FedEx has been using the required technology for other mollecules for years. If they did that, all the electronic devices could get on and just use the AC adapter (dunno if they have outlets on a plane though, never flown lol)
well, I guess you never learned any of this at your shit college so here ya go: This applies to most standard application designs from scratch. First imagine the primary form and its controls that the user will see first and branch off from there. Instantiate each other form from the main one unless you have a very good reason not to. Picture what you want the next form to do. It should be a "duh" kind of thing as to what controls to put on it once you know what it has to do. Then go down the all important list: protections for it (read only, close catching, etc), inputs, outputs, and correction then storage of data, sharing with other objects, needed objects that will be instantiated from the form the methods it must have, shared objects between forms and how it will interact with them, naming, form style (full size etc), database functionality and with which tables it will affect and the logic of any SQL it will use, and then move on to any additional forms that will be there. Once you've pictured every form and how they branch to each other and what can control what object and what each form's purpose is, you're set. All the menu design and details like that should just be a "duh" kind of thing while you're actually making the program because you already have in mind what you want the form to do. Same for the accessability and all that basic, intro to programming crap that you've done a million times. An advantage of doing it this way is you don't forget about earlier forms in the chain and have contradicting purposes or sharing/permission issues. Unless there's more than about 25 complicated forms in the app, you...okay well maybe not you but...I can design it in my head without even trying and with no need to put it all down on paper. Doing it all at once like that lets me realize instantly if a form won't be able to do what it needs to because it's in the wrong branch off from the main form or it can't access a class instance that a form in a different branch declared so the messaging system up and down the branch with events writes itself. ;) Now that was a simple one and I'd have it done in like 15 seconds easy because it's got 3 forms and a linear structure but it doesn't take a whole lot more brain power to do much more complicated programs. With the traditional slow way of designing apps, that thumbnail generator program would have gotten to the "go back to main form with a button click" part and thought, oh crap, we closed that instead of hiding it and have no way of re-instantiating it and they'd go back re-plan a bunch of it until they get it right. That's stupid and a waste of time and money. Btw I know you're going to bitch so I'll say in advance, I'm NOT going to work for a company, I'm going to design and write my own apps to sell and do special custom project work for companies as a contracted outsourcer.
In case that all confused you, here's a short, summarized example: when someone says to me, "Write a program that lets users make copies of pictures at a given width and height," I'd take about a minute (if that) and think. : is down one level [ is up one level and , is next item...k here it goes: "opening form: explain what the program does: label [ give brief instructions, go button: open file dialogue object: add multiselection: check input integrity, hide first form, next form instantiated from main: ask for width and height: sequential inputboxes: check input integrity [ ask for appended filename string like pic1 ends up as pic1Thumb if they enter Thumb: third inputbox: check input integrity, show user progress: picturebox to display current picture it's converting, progress bar, for loop to go through array from open file dialog: set bar interval to for loop counting variable and update each loop, next form: label saying completed, load function opens folder containing copied pics, button for close, button for go back to original screen: unhide main form and reset variables, done" And then I'd go back through it all once more and add in any branch out features like letting the user specify the copy to folder and log creation then tell them it's already written, I just have to go type it out
I give stuck up, flaming (in both uses of the word), immature nerds online the respect they deserve...NONE! In real life with polite people, I'm one of the nicest. All of you dumbasses ought to take a hint that you shouldn't act like a jerk or it will come right back at you because decent people don't put up with it.
oh well, you're obviously an expert; you even used the correct "you're." But sorry, I wouldn't work for you if you were the last person on earth.
hmm I just got another paid programming job to make a screen recorder. I didn't know when reality bites, it leaves money behind.
First of all, I read the title and say "hey, we've known that for hundreds of years." Far away = old in the universe, duh! But really, it's not quite right. Surely I'm not the only one that realizes that when this supposed big bang happened, the things they're looking at weren't 13 billion light-years away. They started at the origin point and moved that far away now. The way they have it stated, it seems like they instantly teleported 13 billion light-years away during the big bang 13 billion years ago and the light is just getting to us now. Then there's the whole our position relative to the origin point relative to the galaxies they're looking at problem.
it's not like we have it posted on a sign outside our college saying it. It's just an interesting fact that most people don't know, even ones that go there (except the printing students, they come here from all over because we're one of the top in the US and probably the world). And since the other comment was referring to the "I went to harvard, hire me" attitude most stupid, rich preps have coming out of there, I don't see how they have anything to do with each other because I'm not putting anything other than my college's name on my resume. People hire students from my school because they know what they're doing and other students that they've hired have done well at their company. And I'm not going to a whoopideedoo special hyped up private college with some bullshit rating because it's a waste of money and my family's far from rich.
aha so you were no good with ancient Unix and moved into networking. Good choice, networking is full of historical crap and theory that you actually need to know.
Lmao! Are you going to tell "Don't fucking swear" too? Why don't you go back to that theater where they hire asshats like you. You'd be better off there than at a hundred year old college that's teaching you programming stuff that will be outdated by the time you graduate.
wow, that list looks like my old high school's list of choices we had for books to read junior year! What the hell, lol. We actually had to read some of those and forget all that stuff about what's in them, all the ones I read on that list should be banned purely because they suck sooooooooo bad! They are so rip your hair out, eye meltingly boring and stupid that no student should ever have to read them! Why can't we read more books like Huck Finn where at least stuff happens instead of just a bunch of losers sitting around talking about crap?! Btw where was 1984 banned, China? hehehe
One of my teachers said that back in the day she sat down for an interview and the guy gave her a hundred or so page printout of the program they were using writtin in Basic or some ancient thing like that. Then he told her to read it and explain to him how it worked in summary. She didn't get the job and I don't think anyone did. Needless to say, he wasn't an IT department guy, he was a hiring guy.
Whenever companies decide on some ridiculous hiring style, I say forget them. If enough people boycott a stupid hiring trend, it goes away. Though I do think solve the riddle style ones aren't half bad because if you can't solve it, you shouldn't get a job (as long as it's a riddle related to your job area) though they should base it on more than that.
oh pardon me for thinking you were actually that stupid
DevRy can kiss my ass. I go to the 2nd best ranked non-private Wisconsin technical college. We have one of the highest hiring rates in the region for the IT department and beat the spread of just about any 4 year college too. In case you didn't learn this in college, reputation and name of your college means nothing when you're looking for a job. Most of the time the employer won't even ask where you went and if they do, they don't care.
way to make the 4 year assumption there. I'm going to write and sell software myself. I looked at the badly designed crap that's out there and decided to become a programmer because I can do infinitely better. That same theory applied to computer repair and that business is running pretty well for me at the moment too.
And 4 year colleges rerun all that info from high school and middle school because they assume you paid no attention and must have cheated on the SAT/ACT's or something to get in. It's an insult really.
and it's just astonishing how you still seem to be less mature than most others around here. It's like you're new but you're not. You must support virtualization.
aha, so they were just saying it's useless and nobody will ever design a usefull app that will use it to its full potential. Sounds like a mac to me. You're better off with a single quad if you're not running multiple apps at once I guess. Good to know :-P
well at least one 4 year college knows that's the only way they're going to hire their programmers. Too bad more don't catch on.
what the hell are you talking about? Put down the hookah and look at what you wrote. Who the hell says I can't code at night? I was up till 2 last night coding and I don't need caffeine, nor do I ever drink it. You're a childish dumbass, were you homeschooled? lol
how about I write a worm for one of the many undiscovered XP holes that updates the BIOS with a version that makes your processor hotter and hotter and disable the auto heat turn off function as long as it's not independedntly controlled? Aww but I don't have your IP, never mind.
I went during my senior year of HS, there does that spell it out enough for you? I also was born in June too but so what. And first of all, you don't have any friends. But if you did and they really went that early, they're stupid because home schooled kids and kids that skip grades in 1-12 end up with messed up social skills which means no job for them so I don't know if I'd call them stupid but unwise would definitely work.
sounds like a pyramid scheme. Why does every single "active" project say Registration is closed? Grrr I know I could win at least a third of those! I'll have to look into it more this christmas break.