Finally, a topic where I'll agree 100% that the Europeans do this better than the Americans. I know there are all sorts of laws about alcohol in Europe, but they run a distributed system that would not be bothered by an isolated crash.
Sure. Everyone voting for one side line up together. Everoyone voting for the other side line up together. Count. Require an anonymous secret ballot? Do it in the dark with your eyes closed, could be fun.
There is an obligation to provide the source to the people you've provided the binary. This can be done through any method and a nominal fee may be charged for the separate distribution of the source.
This really depends on what you need. If you're using one main app that has tons of sub-windows (CAD, graphics), one big monitor is nice.
When I'm writing code, dual monitors is better. Each window can be expanded to fit an entire monitor (or more). A single large monitor just doesn't have the total width that you could get buying 2 monitors for the same price.
I get the biggest gains having four windows open at once, with diminishing returns after that: 1 window for the code I'm writing 1 window for other code (like when writing both sides of an api) 1 window for documentation 1 window that runs this stuff
At the same time, I might have 15 other windows open, but these are the four that I want to be able to look at without interrupting my concentration to look for something. Note that I didn't include my build window. The build is usually run at the end of a stint of concentration and its ok to look down for that.
Its all about not stopping that train of thought.
A humorous aside: At home I have multiple monitors and its a joy to program with. At work I have multiple computers. I challenge anyone to have this setup and not try to cut and paste between computers at least once.
That's better. Doh! Starts to look more like RPN. Better stop now before I add a bunch of numbers and it starts to look like a functional language (where we think postfix but prefix is easier to read).
I'd have to say that to people that understand the numbers they are working with, RPN is far more intuitive. It follows the way people do things for real not by rote.
RPN is all about working with numbers. Numbers you can leave in plain sight, sitting on the stack. You may be able to store numbers in a TI, but try pulling them out, rearranging them, making multiple copies, etc. RPN is built to do all those things as part of its normal operation.
The TI style of calculator is designed to type in an equation and hit the equals key. I hope you're right the first try because you won't have intermediate steps to check things.
I can see good arguments against the single line RPN calculators since you'd have to remember the order of numbers currently in the stack. The modern RPN calculators, however, provide an excellent workspace and set of functions to manipulate numbers. This is the why so many engineers and mathematicians love their HP's. They have the numbers at the start of a problem and then go to work with them. They don't just have an equation sent from heaven to type in.
I didn't read question so much as "how would you change it given the
last 2 years?" but rather "in retrospect, how would you change it?"
Terror and security are both terms that conjure up their own demons
and have had major, quick impacts on American society. True, they
aren't as big as Television but they are certainly Television's
friends. I just mentioned them because they pop to mind, which is
exactly how gods came and went as described in his book.
Mind you, I'd hate to read a book mythologizing terror and security.
It would be interesting to know if he thought he left out or
overlooked one or two.
What made me think of security was not actually the link to terror but
the more general case of security which plagues American society. I
mean the lack of diving boards at pools, kids that will wait 12 or
more years to ride in the front seat, no smoking anywhere and all the
other things that are too dangerous for us these days. That god of
no-fun has come on strong and fast since I was born. Remember the joy
of shaking up a soda and pulling back the pop-top to get a well
directed spray at soemone? Try that now and coke goes every which
direction, it's just not the same. (admittedly this example is a good
one since the loss is more than equaled by never stepping on one of
those damn pop-tops again, even if it obsolesces Mr. Buffet's big
song. I think Lucky got his ass handed to him by security over the
last 30 years.
But there couldn't be a more boring god than the one that represents
the banning of fireworks and instigator of class action suits against
McDonald's.
No matter what you eat at McDonald's, just how bad it is for you is entirely relative to your age, health, exercise, genetics, etc... If you want to make McDonald's culpable for the bad effects of their food you need to grant them the authority to control all those other factors as well.
I have no sympathy for the 5' tall girl who failed to notice that eating every meal there was unhealthy until she was 270 pounds. If they had turned her away at the counter we'd be hearing a different lawsuit about discrimination against fat people.
Its because of crap like this that I wonder if my son will ever get to use a real diving board or shoot fireworks or understand the lyrics "stepped on a pop top".
I tend to think of the McDonald's lawsuit by the people that just found out the food is bad for them.
I used to think that all those suits should be thrown out of court immediately, but I've changed my opinion.
They should be given class action status. They should win. McDonald's will then be assigned all responsibility for every patron's health. McDonald's will decide your every dietary intake. McDonald's will assign workout schedules which you must follow under penalty of law.
I suppose someting similar can be worked out for Sony and kids. Sony will assign all extra-curricular activities.
Slashdot Mirror
WRR, Dallas. Classical music.
Umm, that's the end of my list.
Finally, a topic where I'll agree 100% that the Europeans do this better than the Americans. I know there are all sorts of laws about alcohol in Europe, but they run a distributed system that would not be bothered by an isolated crash.
Sure. Everyone voting for one side line up together. Everoyone voting for the other side line up together. Count. Require an anonymous secret ballot? Do it in the dark with your eyes closed, could be fun.
If the next close call with an asteroid is exactly 6' from the Earth, it will be a whole new ball game for short vs tall.
There is an obligation to provide the source to the people you've provided the binary. This can be done through any method and a nominal fee may be charged for the separate distribution of the source.
If they're so smart, how come their beer sucks?
This really depends on what you need. If you're using one main app that has tons of sub-windows (CAD, graphics), one big monitor is nice.
When I'm writing code, dual monitors is better. Each window can be expanded to fit an entire monitor (or more). A single large monitor just doesn't have the total width that you could get buying 2 monitors for the same price.
I get the biggest gains having four windows open at once, with diminishing returns after that:
1 window for the code I'm writing
1 window for other code (like when writing both sides of an api)
1 window for documentation
1 window that runs this stuff
At the same time, I might have 15 other windows open, but these are the four that I want to be able to look at without interrupting my concentration to look for something. Note that I didn't include my build window. The build is usually run at the end of a stint of concentration and its ok to look down for that.
Its all about not stopping that train of thought.
A humorous aside:
At home I have multiple monitors and its a joy to program with. At work I have multiple computers. I challenge anyone to have this setup and not try to cut and paste between computers at least once.
For minimal sys admin they should first master pen and paper.
Yea, they immigrated to the US because your beer sucks.
Yea, here in the US we've got good hockey teams.
I'm building a penalty box.
Roughing, 2 minutes...both of you!
Did you get the original Boba Fett from the cereal offer?
I ate a lot of cereal so that my little brother could get his Boba Fett
Like the system bell in vi.
Clippy
You add from left to right, eh?
4 + 5 = 9
So you start adding to 4 *before* you get to 5?
4
+_5_
9
That's better. Doh! Starts to look more like RPN. Better stop now before I add a bunch of numbers and it starts to look like a functional language (where we think postfix but prefix is easier to read).
I'd have to say that to people that understand the numbers they are working with, RPN is far more intuitive. It follows the way people do things for real not by rote.
RPN is all about working with numbers. Numbers you can leave in plain sight, sitting on the stack. You may be able to store numbers in a TI, but try pulling them out, rearranging them, making multiple copies, etc. RPN is built to do all those things as part of its normal operation.
The TI style of calculator is designed to type in an equation and hit the equals key. I hope you're right the first try because you won't have intermediate steps to check things.
I can see good arguments against the single line RPN calculators since you'd have to remember the order of numbers currently in the stack. The modern RPN calculators, however, provide an excellent workspace and set of functions to manipulate numbers. This is the why so many engineers and mathematicians love their HP's. They have the numbers at the start of a problem and then go to work with them. They don't just have an equation sent from heaven to type in.
And that beer should be free as in software.
Terror and security are both terms that conjure up their own demons and have had major, quick impacts on American society. True, they aren't as big as Television but they are certainly Television's friends. I just mentioned them because they pop to mind, which is exactly how gods came and went as described in his book.
Mind you, I'd hate to read a book mythologizing terror and security. It would be interesting to know if he thought he left out or overlooked one or two.
What made me think of security was not actually the link to terror but the more general case of security which plagues American society. I mean the lack of diving boards at pools, kids that will wait 12 or more years to ride in the front seat, no smoking anywhere and all the other things that are too dangerous for us these days. That god of no-fun has come on strong and fast since I was born. Remember the joy of shaking up a soda and pulling back the pop-top to get a well directed spray at soemone? Try that now and coke goes every which direction, it's just not the same. (admittedly this example is a good one since the loss is more than equaled by never stepping on one of those damn pop-tops again, even if it obsolesces Mr. Buffet's big song. I think Lucky got his ass handed to him by security over the last 30 years.
But there couldn't be a more boring god than the one that represents the banning of fireworks and instigator of class action suits against McDonald's.
The gods of terror and security leap to mind. Especially since both those terms are used in an emotional rather than logical sense so often.
Google, when used as a verb means to search for something.
MicroSoft used as a verb is more likely to replace fubar than google.
No matter what you eat at McDonald's, just how bad it is for you is entirely relative to your age, health, exercise, genetics, etc... If you want to make McDonald's culpable for the bad effects of their food you need to grant them the authority to control all those other factors as well.
I have no sympathy for the 5' tall girl who failed to notice that eating every meal there was unhealthy until she was 270 pounds. If they had turned her away at the counter we'd be hearing a different lawsuit about discrimination against fat people.
Its because of crap like this that I wonder if my son will ever get to use a real diving board or shoot fireworks or understand the lyrics "stepped on a pop top".
I tend to think of the McDonald's lawsuit by the people that just found out the food is bad for them.
I used to think that all those suits should be thrown out of court immediately, but I've changed my opinion.
They should be given class action status. They should win. McDonald's will then be assigned all responsibility for every patron's health. McDonald's will decide your every dietary intake. McDonald's will assign workout schedules which you must follow under penalty of law.
I suppose someting similar can be worked out for Sony and kids. Sony will assign all extra-curricular activities.
Punch cards! Puh-lease.
We had to poke holes in our arms.
What they are worried about is that you'll find out the movie sucked before you've given them your money.
Excellent wrap up of a most disappointing book. I'm still a bit ticked that I read that.
/. when someone knocking Gooding's crap suggested George R.R. Martin.
I did pick up one good tip on