I'm sure Ella Minnow Pea was consulted. https://www.amazon.com/Ella-Mi...

So this is because each 'trend has been "adjusted"', you say?

Well, I suggest that if you dig back to the early days of climatology, you'll find that in fact a report issued 50 years ago regarding global climate has proven to be spot-on. And this is the original report, not an "adjusted" report. You can dig up a 50-year-old issue of the Journal of Atmospheric Sciences and check the (printed on paper, no White-Out applied) original.

https://sputniknews.com/society/201711131059037711-climate-change-report-exactly-right/

I write a lot of Perl, and almost all of it has regexes throughout (monitoring Oracle logs, data mining, etc.) The last time I heard, Perl and Java had the most comprehensive implementation of the Regular Expression engine of all languages. It's well known for its data munging abilities. So I wonder if it's Perl that people hate, or the regexes that Perl is supporting?

https://www.regular-expression...

Woodie would be proud, I suspect, of anything that reduced regulation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

"Die Broke" by Stephen Pollan, back in 1998, recommended job-hopping as a strategy. He drew the analogy that all of us need to think like pro sports athletes: go where the money is. If your employer cuts you, they'll tell you "it's nothing personal, it's just a business decision". The employees need to feel and act the same way with their employers: "it's just my business decision to leave, it's nothing personal."

It's constantly changing tunes while I'm exercising. Lots of variety, and surprises every now and then.

In the US, if you want to be a mechanical, or civil, or electrical, or plumbing engineer, these are the rules you generally have to follow.

- you go to school and eventually graduate

- you may have to serve as an apprentice (in my state, electricians serve a 5 year apprenticeship)

- you take an exam that's created and run by the state government in which you want to practice (not by a vendor)

- if you pass the exam, then you ask the state, not the vendor, for a license (probably some money involved here too)

- once you're licensed, then you're an engineer, unless

- the state finds out that you aren't following the state's (electrical / civil etc.) code regulations and pulls your license. Then you're no longer an engineer. And by the way, good luck finding your next job.

So whether you're an engineer or not depends on the state government, not a vendor or a school. This also provides more global skills. For example, a plumbing engineer can spec out either a Moen or a Delta faucet for a design. Could a Cisco engineer spec out a Juniper switch? Maybe...or maybe not.

When I was getting my degree (90's) the ACM wrote about the issue of whether software could truly be called "engineering" or not. Two things that they pointed out were that (1) in a couple of US states, it was illegal to call yourself a software engineer because you weren't licensed by the state, and (2) a lot of mechanical etc. engineers are pretty PO'd at the software industry because any fool can call himself / herself a software engineer without having skills, practices or state certs to back it up. Both point to a level of respect and trust in the skills of the person who puts "engineer" in their title. Would you go to a doctor who didn't have a state license? Or use a lawyer who wasn't a member of the state's bar? Probably not, because you don't know if you can trust their skills. A state's "engineer" stamp is a similar scenario: "this person is trustworthy in their trade and their opinions deserve respect."

Yes, I'm reading it. I've never watched it on TV or DVD. I started reading it in June (?) and am now about halfway through the 5th novel. Each one runs right about 1000 pages, apparently regardless of book format (I have Book 4 in small paperback and Book 5 in supersize / trade paperback, and both clock in at something north of 1000 pages).

Needless to say, I'm an avid reader.

Also needless to say, it was a shock to my system when I was finishing up the 4th book, bought the 5th, and *then* found out that there will be 2 more books before this saga wraps up. They've all been really good reads, and Martin weaves a very complex and entertaining tale. I simply didn't realize that I was committing to *not* reading anything else until I get through this. The writing is compelling, and the characters are as good as (e.g.) Tolstoy's - and just as numerous.

I doubt that they'd use the road network. They'd probably prefer to use the Food Network.

One division of my employer is in the business of testing cell phones for compatibility with the various cell switches, prior to the phone's release to the market. Part of my paycheck is funded by the work we do for these companies. NotInHere's comments are true: the consumer is at the mercy of the manufacturer (and probably the cell phone provider too) in terms of receiving updates.

The question should stand, imho.

People probably asked Steven Sasson the same thing back in 1975. He ignored them, and his work resulted in changes to the world. For one thing, he opened up the doors for small projects that would go on to become Facebook, Twitter...I'm sure Sasson didn't picture them when he was working on his invention, but others took it and ran with it very successfully. The same could happen here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_photography

Just because you don't see this as useful to you, right now, doesn't mean that it doesn't have huge implications for the future.

I've taken great delight in using 5 of the options in the past. I haven't talked dirty to the telemarketer...but when I kept getting mortgage refi calls I started by telling the telemarketer "Boy your boss doesn't give a rip about you...you need to get a new job because your employer just doesn't care." In the silence that ensued, I'd explain (truthfully, mind you) that the mortgage (a) had been the previous owner's, not mine, I could tell because I'm not a veteran, and (b) I'd paid off the mortgage 8 years previously. So the employer was feeding the poor telemarketer schmuck contact lists at least 8 years old; how would said schmuck ever make any money with this job? But I have called them back on their own number (very entertaining). And it's also fun to "answer" but just put the receiver down, and see how long their dialer will wait for me to speak before it hangs up. Lately though I'm mostly a "don't answer" or "answer but hang up before they even start" consumer.

Because MightyYar loves his kids, and in the US we have too many nasty men around who are overly interested in children - especially girls? Although imho one child molester is too many.

(am I the only one who's noticed that "it's a management problem. We just need to manage it better" is Donald Trump's answer to virtually every problem raised by the audience in his town halls?)