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- Un(der)employment Blues
- Like Eric Hoffer, the autodidact who blended a doctorate in philosophy and authorship of several works with employment as a longshoreman, I long ago decided that life was too short to invest in one high-pressure career path. I've worked in accounting, transportation and cybernetics (though only low-level help desk), held...
- Tags: Professional development, des949penn@...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-08
- Need (General) help on External File Access Using C++
- I'm attempting to get a commercial adaptation of a rail traffic-control simulation model to interact with a home-brewed program duplicating the dispatcher's thinking, previously written (without any I/O interface) in BASIC a few years ago, now being redeveloped in C++.I've been learning C++ for a couple of months; have no...
- Tags: C/C++, Programming languages, Microsoft Windows XP, des949penn@..., C++, commercial program
- Discussion threads 2007-09-08
- Global Warming? - Conservatives' Minds Aren't Closed
- Attached is a link to the current cover story of National Review. As noted therein, many conservatives/libertarians are prepared to acknowldege the issue, though the link to human activity and the speed and long-tem effects of the phenomenon remain open to a great deal of speculation. Additional links to commentary...
- Tags: des949penn@..., global warming
- Discussion threads 2007-06-27
- Big data centers = big environmental footprints
- Not Quite So SimpleHaving grown up on a dairy farm, I'd like to add that many of those who live in rural areas would welcome the opportunities offered when a more-technically-oriented employer relocates to the area.The subsistence farmers of 50-100 years ago often depended upon their own sons to furnish...
- Tags: des949penn@..., data center, farmer
- Discussion threads 2007-04-17
- Blacksburg
- Like everybody else, I've been examining the mass killings at Virginia tech in the light of my own experience. The usual debate over the control of firearms is already under way, but I'd like to see some input from the membership on some ancillary points.The media already seem determined to...
- Tags: des949penn@...
- Discussion threads 2007-04-17
- The Rising Cost of Getting (Anything) Anywhere
- Although I worked for several years in lower-level technical support, most of my carrer has been spent in and around the field of transportation, and I recently returned to it after a ten-year hiatus. What I have found most disturbing since that time is the increasing fragility of all modes...
- Tags: des949penn@...
- Discussion threads 2007-03-23
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