Dump her. Now. Find a woman (preferably foreign) that doesn't demand you spend your money on a worthless chunk of rock simply so she can show her friends how much of a chump her man is.
He's an engineer, not an embedded systems guy. Two HP power supplies with GPIB and an internal NI GPIB card are about $1500 worth of hardware. I2C ADC's and a Coldfire would have cost him about $30.
Go back to your box in a building that looks like a box making products that come in boxes. Then get in your nondescript box of a car to go home to your box of a home near a whole bunch of other boxes just like yours. Then sit down in front of the computer box and realize how futile it is for you to make fun of someone who chooses to live outside the box.:)
Stop whining if you lost your job. Become a damn consultant! I was making $4500 a month working at a fulltime job as a grad fresh out of college with an M.S. I got laid off with their entire R&D department. So instead of looking around for another corporate butt to kiss, "please massuh, give me a job...", I started my own consulting company at the age of 25.
Six months later, I'm raking in $8100 a month and surprisingly no one questions my age. I have two patents in the works, and I'm on the verge of renting an office down the street so I can walk to work. I and only I am responsible for my own success or failure.
"Everything was going fine until recently. At what point do you consider they may have just ripped you off, and how do you know when to file complaints and withhold payment?"
If you got this far into the outsourcing process without having asked yourself these questions first, you're an idiot, you deserve all the financial loss you incur as a result, and your company deserves to fold because of your incompetence.
I was stuck in the security line queue at the airport and started thinking how easy to would be to just run up the wall, swing from light to light to light, jump then run along the wall to the escalator.
If you've been outsourced, fired, laid off, underemployed, etc., welcome to the new economy. There are some empty seats on your left, please sit down.
Getting laid off was the best thing to happen to me.
I was punted from one job as a contractor after 3 months because the manufacturing moved to China. I was punted from another job after 6 months because the firmware and manufacturer moved to China and India.
So I joined up with a small company as a consultant, and I'm working a job for both of my previous employers, making 1.5x what I was before! Our company does some defense work, so we only employ US citizens and (so far, thank God) don't employ any women. I get to make my own hours, as well as switch gears totally when I feel stuck. In my opinion, we got to ship out all of the boring work so people in the US could concentrate on the creative side of things.
This job is way more academic and research-oriented, and because I'm a consultant, I don't have to worry about conforming to "the way things have always been done". I'm only 25, and I have one patent with my name on it, and another on the way.
Seriously, start your own business and work for yourself, or someone else as a 1099. I've never been happier at work!
I didn't remember the exact formula (hence the "?"), but that's pretty close. 8x8 arrays can handle about 4 beams with -30dB crosstalk, but you begin to hit fundamental limits (hence the logarithm). You can put 10000 patches on a side and try to discriminate 100 clients, but then each beam winds up being only 1.8 degrees wide. That's just not possible in this configuration.
Also, going from a 1D of N to a 2D array of NxN doesn't increase the number of beams you can handle from k to k^2 like you'd think, its real use is to let you steer those beams in 2D, with a small gain in the number of beams you can handle.
Therefore, the idea is not to use 1 large array to steer lots of beams, but to use multiple smaller arrays that are far enough apart not to interfere with each other.
When I was working at (insert name of huge network equipment company) on their WiFi, we worked on phased-array SDMA, that stands for space division multiple access. The idea was that you could have a system with lots of nodes moving past a central point, at which was a 2D square conformal array of patch antennas. By varying the phase and amplitude of the signals to each patch antenna element, you could accurately track up to floor((2ln(n))? targets with acceptable crosstalk, where n is the number of patches on a side. This would work awesomely with a plane flying over a bunch of omnidirectional access points with a ventral mounted conformal antenna.
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Oh, does it ever burn easily. We buy our Everclear in West Virginia, where they sell it at gas stations.
I'm notorious for getting hammered, then clearing people drunkenly out of the center of a room with a mischevious smile: "Just move, you'll see."
Here's your party trick:
I take a huge swig of Everclear, and light the Zippo I've modified with an extra-long wick so it has a 6" flame right in front of my mouth. About this time, some insightful soul will go "Oh, shit!" and dive for the floor.
Instead of blowing across the pool of Everclear in the bottom of one's mouth like the inexperienced might do, instead I go for effect - I build up a good head of air in my lungs and say "PUHH!" This results in an explosive, spectacular WHUMP as 1.5 oz of aerosolized 190 proof ethanol ignites and burns in about 0.5 seconds. Results vary, but the best one I have a picture of has a fireball about 12-14' long and 5' wide.
I've had people say "Dude, that was really cool! I didn't see it, but I felt the heat on my back from across the room!"
My buddy is kind of pissed because last weekend I set his ceiling fan on fire.:(
"Never been to the site, my relationships forbids, but I can't see what nintendo would possibly have against a free bump from presumably attractive women."
Then you need to reevaluate your relationships. If cupcake explicitly forbids you from looking at what she considers "porn", you're being manipulated. Women who cheat often project onto their mates, demanding their mate's faithfulness while sleeping around themselves.
She considers you as having so little self-control that looking at artistic nudes will lead to you cheating on her. In reality, this is probably a projection of how little self-control SHE has.
"If Bush wins the popular vote it's time for revolution. EVEN IF HE LOSES THE ELECTION."
See, this is where our Time of Troubles is going to start. REGARDLESS OF WHO WINS IN A WEEK, THE OTHER SIDE IS GOING TO SAY THAT THE WINNERS CHEATED AND WILL CALL FOR REVOLT. Think about that. We've brought this upon ourselves with our politics, our electioneering, and our untrackable unaccountable unreliable voting machines. Please, think before you act.
Did anyone notice how none of the Scaled guys wanted to take the microphone? They all kept offering for the other guy to take the stage, not wanting to take any of the credit - these guys are the real deal!
I know that. There was some doubt as to whether the early engine cutoff due to the roll event caused them to not reach their target altitude. Since they did achieve target altitude, they now have two weeks to do it again.
The complete threads of people that have been responding to me is at Google Groups here.
Basically, I have a laptop, and have tried three times to get it to work dual-booting to XP and Linux. I've blown my XP install away twice, and now Linux doesn't want to boot.
Tried restoring using fdisk/mbr. No luck. Tried using a backup dd image of the MBR. No luck. Tried to use the Windows rescue CD. It wouldn't even see the drive. Lastly, I tried sfdisk to restore the drive geometry. At least then the XP recovery CD worked, though I had to reinstall XP.
I think it has something to do with the XP NTLDR.COM. I personally think that it looks at MORE than the first 512 bytes, perhaps the first 540. If it doesn't like what it sees, it hangs.
It's especially the new distros. Older versions of Red Hat and Suse have no problems. The Mandrake 10 Community installer goes in and puts the bootloader into the MBR without even prompting the user, thereby ensuring the system gets hosed.
I have no idea whether this is an RPM based distro problem. That may be the case, as gentoo and Suse might not be tied into that, I don't know.
I've tried Slack 10, and had the same issue. If LILO or GRUB were installed as the bootloader in the MBR, the NTFS filesystem dies.
Yes, I'm sure that's the right filesystem. There are other associated BIOS issues (for example, Logical Block Addressing must be turned on), but they don't apply in the majority of cases.
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The storage industry is going to have a second coming. I just placed an order for 2 more 300GB drives for my home media server. :)
Dump her. Now. Find a woman (preferably foreign) that doesn't demand you spend your money on a worthless chunk of rock simply so she can show her friends how much of a chump her man is.
He's an engineer, not an embedded systems guy. Two HP power supplies with GPIB and an internal NI GPIB card are about $1500 worth of hardware. I2C ADC's and a Coldfire would have cost him about $30.
Classic system though.
A. I've incorporated since then.
:p
B. I'm on retainer as a 1099 to one company as myself.
C. I'm on a larger project as my LLC.
Think before you post, and realize that not everyone is as bitter as you.
You'd never make it on your own anyway, sorry.
:)
Go back to your box in a building that looks like a box making products that come in boxes. Then get in your nondescript box of a car to go home to your box of a home near a whole bunch of other boxes just like yours. Then sit down in front of the computer box and realize how futile it is for you to make fun of someone who chooses to live outside the box.
Stop whining if you lost your job. Become a damn consultant! I was making $4500 a month working at a fulltime job as a grad fresh out of college with an M.S. I got laid off with their entire R&D department. So instead of looking around for another corporate butt to kiss, "please massuh, give me a job...", I started my own consulting company at the age of 25.
Six months later, I'm raking in $8100 a month and surprisingly no one questions my age. I have two patents in the works, and I'm on the verge of renting an office down the street so I can walk to work. I and only I am responsible for my own success or failure.
Life rocks!
"Everything was going fine until recently. At what point do you consider they may have just ripped you off, and how do you know when to file complaints and withhold payment?"
If you got this far into the outsourcing process without having asked yourself these questions first, you're an idiot, you deserve all the financial loss you incur as a result, and your company deserves to fold because of your incompetence.
Dumbass.
I was stuck in the security line queue at the airport and started thinking how easy to would be to just run up the wall, swing from light to light to light, jump then run along the wall to the escalator.
If you've been outsourced, fired, laid off, underemployed, etc., welcome to the new economy. There are some empty seats on your left, please sit down.
Getting laid off was the best thing to happen to me.
I was punted from one job as a contractor after 3 months because the manufacturing moved to China. I was punted from another job after 6 months because the firmware and manufacturer moved to China and India.
So I joined up with a small company as a consultant, and I'm working a job for both of my previous employers, making 1.5x what I was before! Our company does some defense work, so we only employ US citizens and (so far, thank God) don't employ any women. I get to make my own hours, as well as switch gears totally when I feel stuck. In my opinion, we got to ship out all of the boring work so people in the US could concentrate on the creative side of things.
This job is way more academic and research-oriented, and because I'm a consultant, I don't have to worry about conforming to "the way things have always been done". I'm only 25, and I have one patent with my name on it, and another on the way.
Seriously, start your own business and work for yourself, or someone else as a 1099. I've never been happier at work!
I didn't remember the exact formula (hence the "?"), but that's pretty close. 8x8 arrays can handle about 4 beams with -30dB crosstalk, but you begin to hit fundamental limits (hence the logarithm). You can put 10000 patches on a side and try to discriminate 100 clients, but then each beam winds up being only 1.8 degrees wide. That's just not possible in this configuration.
Also, going from a 1D of N to a 2D array of NxN doesn't increase the number of beams you can handle from k to k^2 like you'd think, its real use is to let you steer those beams in 2D, with a small gain in the number of beams you can handle.
Therefore, the idea is not to use 1 large array to steer lots of beams, but to use multiple smaller arrays that are far enough apart not to interfere with each other.
When I was working at (insert name of huge network equipment company) on their WiFi, we worked on phased-array SDMA, that stands for space division multiple access. The idea was that you could have a system with lots of nodes moving past a central point, at which was a 2D square conformal array of patch antennas. By varying the phase and amplitude of the signals to each patch antenna element, you could accurately track up to floor((2ln(n))? targets with acceptable crosstalk, where n is the number of patches on a side. This would work awesomely with a plane flying over a bunch of omnidirectional access points with a ventral mounted conformal antenna.
Phishing, the 21st century's stupidity tax.
Oh, does it ever burn easily. We buy our Everclear in West Virginia, where they sell it at gas stations.
:(
I'm notorious for getting hammered, then clearing people drunkenly out of the center of a room with a mischevious smile: "Just move, you'll see."
Here's your party trick:
I take a huge swig of Everclear, and light the Zippo I've modified with an extra-long wick so it has a 6" flame right in front of my mouth. About this time, some insightful soul will go "Oh, shit!" and dive for the floor.
Instead of blowing across the pool of Everclear in the bottom of one's mouth like the inexperienced might do, instead I go for effect - I build up a good head of air in my lungs and say "PUHH!" This results in an explosive, spectacular WHUMP as 1.5 oz of aerosolized 190 proof ethanol ignites and burns in about 0.5 seconds. Results vary, but the best one I have a picture of has a fireball about 12-14' long and 5' wide.
I've had people say "Dude, that was really cool! I didn't see it, but I felt the heat on my back from across the room!"
My buddy is kind of pissed because last weekend I set his ceiling fan on fire.
We'll all be a lot better off with strobing, screeching, farting phones and I challenge anyone to prove otherwise.
Wow! That got a guffaw louder than last night's Futurama when they depicted a woman working out in a gym, grunting away on a "Kegelsizer"!
"Never been to the site, my relationships forbids, but I can't see what nintendo would possibly have against a free bump from presumably attractive women."
Then you need to reevaluate your relationships. If cupcake explicitly forbids you from looking at what she considers "porn", you're being manipulated. Women who cheat often project onto their mates, demanding their mate's faithfulness while sleeping around themselves.
She considers you as having so little self-control that looking at artistic nudes will lead to you cheating on her. In reality, this is probably a projection of how little self-control SHE has.
"If Bush wins the popular vote it's time for revolution. EVEN IF HE LOSES THE ELECTION."
See, this is where our Time of Troubles is going to start. REGARDLESS OF WHO WINS IN A WEEK, THE OTHER SIDE IS GOING TO SAY THAT THE WINNERS CHEATED AND WILL CALL FOR REVOLT. Think about that. We've brought this upon ourselves with our politics, our electioneering, and our untrackable unaccountable unreliable voting machines. Please, think before you act.
Seconded.
Source for your fucking stupid-ass claim, please?
Thanks so much.
Regarding your sig:
The "The Brigade of Abu Hafs al-Masri (Al Qaeda)" has put out an endorsement for Bush following the Madrid bombings, as reported by Fox News.
Just trying to point out that there are two sides to every issue. We now return to your regular thread.
Did anyone notice how none of the Scaled guys wanted to take the microphone? They all kept offering for the other guy to take the stage, not wanting to take any of the credit - these guys are the real deal!
I know that. There was some doubt as to whether the early engine cutoff due to the roll event caused them to not reach their target altitude. Since they did achieve target altitude, they now have two weeks to do it again.
From spaceflightnow.com:
1512 GMT (11:12 a.m. EDT)
Altitude achieved was 330,000 feet, which was needed for the X Prize.
330k feet is 62.5 miles, or 104.5km. Congratulations guys!!!
The complete threads of people that have been responding to me is at Google Groups here.
Basically, I have a laptop, and have tried three times to get it to work dual-booting to XP and Linux. I've blown my XP install away twice, and now Linux doesn't want to boot.
Tried restoring using fdisk /mbr. No luck. Tried using a backup dd image of the MBR. No luck. Tried to use the Windows rescue CD. It wouldn't even see the drive. Lastly, I tried sfdisk to restore the drive geometry. At least then the XP recovery CD worked, though I had to reinstall XP.
I think it has something to do with the XP NTLDR.COM. I personally think that it looks at MORE than the first 512 bytes, perhaps the first 540. If it doesn't like what it sees, it hangs.
It's especially the new distros. Older versions of Red Hat and Suse have no problems. The Mandrake 10 Community installer goes in and puts the bootloader into the MBR without even prompting the user, thereby ensuring the system gets hosed.
I have no idea whether this is an RPM based distro problem. That may be the case, as gentoo and Suse might not be tied into that, I don't know.
I've tried Slack 10, and had the same issue. If LILO or GRUB were installed as the bootloader in the MBR, the NTFS filesystem dies.
Yes, I'm sure that's the right filesystem. There are other associated BIOS issues (for example, Logical Block Addressing must be turned on), but they don't apply in the majority of cases.
What FS is on your laptop?
No flammage here, just trying to inform