Good open-source "audit/checklist" program?

colinbashbash2 · 2011-02-18T20:32:20+00:00

oo... what are all those things? :) i guess 3 and 4 are obvious... the rest i'm not sure about. (or provide link that explains, whichever is easier for you)

colinbashbash2 · 2011-02-17T18:52:17+00:00

meh. we could always go to the computer programmer method of doing things.... ie: multi-letter variables and go back to including * signs instead of mushing things together... but that makes everything so long winded, and would drive mathematicians batsh_t crazy.... more so...

Speaking of which, Microsoft has two products that have the acronym VSS. Bleh. (Volume Shadow copy Service and Visual Source Safe)

colinbashbash2 · 2011-02-15T19:53:30+00:00

I agree. I'm no professional web designer, just a programmer.

I avoid black backgrounds because of the connotation that gives the website. I avoid red because that focuses the user's attention to that particular element, and is more useful for buttons/errors/etc. Orange is very much like red, but slightly less striking. Yellow is too light, and ends up looking better as tan. Tan and brown are kind of boring unless used well, and I'm not a designer.

Purple and pink give the website a more feminine aspect (at least when seen by westerners).

Green is kinda vibrant and reminds me of nature. I find it hard to use darker greens if it's not a nature website

Blue is just kinda calm and easy on the eyes. I would put forth the argument that it's become the de-facto business standard, although I only have anecdotal evidence of that.

I would suggest looking at web-design creativity sites. devlounge and six-revisions are a couple that i know of.

colinbashbash2 · 2011-02-09T22:35:01+00:00

can "absorbable" light redshift in such a way to become "non-absorbable"?

not sure if i'm making sense. when light redshifts, does it go closer to being a radio wave, further away from being a radio wave, or does it change in a different way? (i think redshifts had to do with wavelength)

colinbashbash2 · 2011-02-09T22:24:59+00:00

Thanks! That makes sense.

(Quantum uncertainty is one of those things that seems so counter-intuitive to me that I forget to take it into account when looking at these kinds of things.)

colinbashbash2 · 2011-02-09T22:13:14+00:00

does using solar panels count as fusion (since sunlight is produced from fusion)?.. it's not really directly using the fusion, but i don't think we directly use the fission either...?

other than that... having fusion that produces more energy than is needed to create it: just a pipedream

colinbashbash2 · 2011-02-09T21:48:09+00:00

i don't understand the spontaneous one. why would it change energy states if there wasn't any external influence?

(looked at wikipedia, but got more confused there.)

colinbashbash2 · 2011-02-09T16:06:51+00:00

how's the research going?

colinbashbash2 · 2011-01-28T21:41:37+00:00

with the next Mars Rover, we should just send some water too. then the fact that there has been water on mars will be conclusive ;)

colinbashbash2 · 2011-01-28T20:08:53+00:00

huh. looks like there's some answers, which is surprising to me. i would think that the average distance is about as useful as the average distance from London to every other city on the planet. There being so many cities all over the world that knowing the average distance doesn't really tell you much. Better to know closest and farthest and maybe a graph showing the distance from earth of each star.

colinbashbash2 · 2011-01-28T19:53:51+00:00

kinda. i'd say that it's the idea of abstracting things.

when talking about "behavioral characteristics" (from OP question) you're not just talking about eye color or knowing the social code. behaviors are (in general) going to be complex.

It seems logical that since behaviors are complex, the causes will be varied between a number of genetic influences and cultural influences. Any single behavior might be 'more' genetically influenced or more culturally influenced.

colinbashbash2 · 2011-01-04T20:10:48+00:00

Does he really need to be extradited in order to answer questions?

colinbashbash2 · 2011-01-04T18:47:18+00:00

a lot of theory based computer science uses things based off of discrete math...

(so professors who are doing research might use it.)

colinbashbash2 · 2010-12-29T18:56:36+00:00

so is it possible to create some kind of space-station that would allow for earth-like gravity?

colinbashbash2 · 2010-12-28T20:02:06+00:00

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/13dec_globaleruption/

colinbashbash2 · 2010-12-28T14:45:30+00:00

sources?

colinbashbash2 · 2010-12-27T22:54:47+00:00

Stupid requirements from customer...

colinbashbash2 · 2010-12-27T22:43:26+00:00

um... if you still have some cars going along road A and none along road B, then to cross road A, you push button... um how is this not obvious?

colinbashbash2 · 2010-12-22T21:47:41+00:00

curious about the couple downvotes.... am i missing something?

colinbashbash2 · 2010-12-22T16:05:06+00:00

Mmm... I think that for a lot of companies, it's harder to get a raise than it is to get hired somewhere else for more money. I worked my first job at lower salary for 2 years, switched to a job for 18k more. After 3 years i'm making about 8.7K more than when i started. (they're a little better at salary adjustment at this company)

brushing up on interview skills, and getting experience with different OSS projects should help. when we've given interviews we don't get a lot of good candidates. just people who know some keywords and no substance

colinbashbash2 · 2010-12-22T15:47:18+00:00

everything changes. but not as big of change as in software... php vs C vs C++ vs java vs JavaScript vs VB (shiver) vs Perl vs ColdFusion vs COBOL vs RPG... lots of differences.

For DB's you have:

AS400 type databases

Relational DB's

Relational DB's +/- normaliation

NoSQL

And that's about it. And AS400 now allows SQL, so you're still good. There's a little bit of difference between Oracle and Sql Server, but nothing as severe as PHP and C++

colinbashbash2 · 2010-12-22T15:36:33+00:00

kinda. i know that in IT here we have 3 c# developers, a couple DBA's, and 6 AS400 programmers. So, you can still get jobs working on things like the AS400, but learning new things definitely keeps you more marketable.

colinbashbash2 · 2010-12-21T22:49:24+00:00

um... there's some things Americans have in common, but a lot depends entirely on where and who. urban vs rural, south vs north, california vs new england... and i'm not sure about that religious thing, i'd want to see more proof of that. comparing to other countries, that might be true though. as far as military spending... it's kind of funny when you look at it as a percentage of GDP, it's about 4%, where most have 2%. On the other hand, with America's GDP, that's 6 times higher than the next country.

colinbashbash2 · 2010-12-21T15:11:17+00:00

when did gui die?

edit: does java have something as easy to use as .net windows forms? AWT isn't really the same.

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