Oh, I am sorry, there were no money for bonuses, since we had to spend it all to purchase MS Office, you absolutelly insisted was necessary for your lessons. Enjoy your even lower than usual paycheck.
This talks about the population averages. We are talking here about the top of the crop. And indeed, Sir, among the best students comming out of schools all over the world, the russians are generally top class. Especially the folks comming out of University of Moscow, the two prominent St. Petersburg schools and one more technical institute, who's name I forgotten. Right on par with them are folks comming out of Uni. of Shanghai (china), then right behind you have Uni. of Warsaw (poland) and the top three in US (Stanford, MIT, Berkley), and some other European top grade schools and this one from South Korea. I never heard about really consistently exceptional Japanese University in this filed (CS).
Damn, on my floor in Oracle HQ, I already cannot hear anything but russian. English became a distant second when you listen to the water cooler chatter. If you think the russians all work for russian companies you are sadly mistaken...
I am perfectly sure its the OS. First of all, I am dual booting SUSE on this and the notebook can run days in Linux without a single problems. Also, I tried to revert back to SP1 and the problem went away. But I need the SP2 to because some other software, so I need to deal with it.
I cannot believe they are trying to force this service pack. I have installed it some time ago and since then, my computer randomly disconnects the harddrive. The system sort of works, but no HDD access is done and it will not reconnect. It happens usually within two hours of working and periods of inactivity make it happen faster. The only course of action is a reboot and when the computer comes up, the profiles of all open software (thunderbird, firefox) are messed up and the windows display resolution is set back to 640x480. Unbelievable.
I think it might have something to do with power management, that the system spins the drive down, but does not spin it up, but even disabling all power management in the OS didn't help.
This was actually the first time, (after years of disrespect for this woman and her work) that I have actually seen her. Now you can call me shallow, but the fact she is like 400 pounds brings a certain personal satisfaction to my heart. I know how difficult your life gets with 50 extra pounds, now 250 extra, thats something. I might almost feel sorry for her... nah... who am I kidding?:)
Well, the last time I read about an electric sports car being compared to Ferrari and other high horse power cars, it beat them hands down in acceleration. With better, stable and smoother acceleration than any of the gas powered cars. Combustion engines are not very good at acceleration. They are very find at maintaining the speed, once the car accelerated. But you don't need such a high horse power for that. So maybe you wanted to say that Americans love cars that accelerate fast and that you have no clue that electric engine is the way to go.
10-15 years ago, all over the university world, MUDs became popular. In last few years MMORPG (a MUD with GUI) are the big trend.
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... the list goes on... whether you know it or not, if its about the computers, it always starts around universities and even if its not invented there, the CS grads are always the early adopters of good technology.
For the reaction to be multiplied by the fact that he is a foreigner is sheer bigotry.
Xenophobia is deeply ingrained in your genes, tribes of our species that lacked this vital feature were all slaughtered in prehistoric ages. We are just more or less trained to repress all actions resulting from it. Saying anything else, or calling someone names for it is a sheer hypocrisy. The only reason, why blacks and other ethnics are accepted in US, is because after a forced period, they already belong. They are part of the tribe and as such accepted. All I need to see the new target for american xenophobia is to read your reactions here on slashdot to H1b visa holders and outsourcing. So stop throwing around words like 'bigotry' and take a better look in the mirror.
Whereas I would expect that the bartender would be upset, but if you made clear that it was a mistake and you wouldn't do it again, you wouldn't have a problem.
Lets try, I will bet $100 to your $20 that you are not going to be able to talk yourself out of it. If its a real pub, you won't leave unbruised and if its a biker pub, you won't leave on your own feet.
You don't understand the basic concept here. And no wonder, you have never faced it. The shopkeeper will likely give you way better service returning the items, they take pride in personal service, in knowing their customers, in knowing their kids by name and age, you as a one-time customer are not so important to him. Even so, he will give you better service than a chain store. He likely knows every toy in the store much better than any clerk in Toys'R'Us ever will and can give you a good advice.
But the important part is that profit is not what drives him. That allows him to stay in business and do what he likes. As soon as there is some profit and he can do what he likes and feed his family, there is no need for more. If he sells toys, its likely because he likes to sell toys.
If this would be in US, the shopkeeper would likely try to make as much profit as possible converting his store in some high margin wares and use the profits to enjoy his hobby outside the work, for which he would not have time left anyway, because of the need to make a lot of profit.
Some people prefer to rather enjoy their life than maximize their productivity in order to drive higher GDP. From my observations, they largely do not live in US or Japan.
I can tell you what set off the shopkeeper. It would happen almost anywhere in europe and I think 100 years ago maybe even in US. But since you have all these faceless corporations like Toys'R'Us that don't care much and who's displays are the whole store, you might not understand this.
In a small store, whatever is on display, is there to bring the customer in. Its not to be touched and many shopkeepers spend hours to arrange the things in the display. He probably had another piece just like this in the back of his store. If you would come to him and say you want that thing, he would bring it to you and if it would be the last one, he would (maybe) take it out of the display to sell you.
By just taking it yourself, you have probably offended him, by being a foreigner, the reaction was multiplied. He probably cares more about his store, than he actually cares about the profit. And you have violated the decor of the store. Its very hard concept, especially for someone brought up in a consumer society, but just take it on my word, what you did is an extremly rude thing.
Would you go in bar, ignore the bartender, pull a bottle from display a pour yourself a drink? I guess you would get thrown out of the bar by a bouncer even if you would be offering to pay for the drink.
Hey, my manager can do that and he is even better at it than I am. His manager can do that quite easily. The manager of his manager (we talk VP here) can do it and not break a sweat and his manager can most certainly do it. And his manager, our CEO , can do it as well or better. So I don't know about you, but all the way up my chain, every manager can do it. And in fact, I could not, with confidence, say that I can do a better job than either of them.
Although the fact that I work for Oracle can possibly have something to do with that...:)
Every manager will profit from being able to make his own custom reports from company databases available to him. There are many databases in each company and the reporting abilities of current business software are very limited. Manager who can do a custom report for himself and even make it into a well generated web page for presentation to his superiors will definitely have an edge in his job.
Here is a big difference. While your kids are going to have totally different fingerprints and even pictures, their DNA to you will be largely similar. So by taking your DNA, you are putting your kids and your relatives in the database as well. If there is a partial match with someone in the database, they will just go after all his relatives and eventually find the right one. They just got a recent mass murder case solved when a daughter of a suspect volunteered to give a DNA sample, when he refused.
Me too, but I wait for Tiger. I add Mac Mini to my collection as soon as... Mainly as my wife's computer. I already got an IP and DNS record for it, all ready to plug in. I even have it pre-configured in my shopping cart on apple site:)
There were numerous hearings on Colliseum in the senate of the Ancient Roman Empire. Even then they understood that the two things you need to give to a nation in order to rule it are Bread and Games. Baseball is one of the most popular sports in US and the modern replacement for gladiator fights. Basically, the Greek version of 'Games'. If the games are at stake, their own bread is at stake here and so they act. Its as simple as that.
Yeah, I got two results with 253 bits using two different algorithms, but then I devised a different algorithm that uses only 216 bits. I might have misses 2-3 bits there, but not likely. Its using the sequence number of the card, so it can needs to record numbers 1-52, 1-51,... so instead of using 6 bits for every number, down to 32, I group few of them together, like the first 4 numbers on base 52, which uses only 23 bits, instead of 24. The next few numbers are base 48 and so on. Its right the calculations are non-trivial.
But for the 253 I actually used an algorithm thats very easy to process. First 51 bits tell you if card is red or black, next 25 tell you for red cards if its heart or diamond, next 25 tell for black,.. then 4*12 bits to say low or high card and so on. I think I could reconstruct the deck pretty fast from that.
I was wondering about the lowest number of bits in which you can stick the full order of a 52 card deck into. So far I can do it in 253 bits of information. Thats about 64 hexadecimal digit number or 78 decimal digits. So you need only some 780 decimal digits to remember order of 10 decks of cards.
Of course, if they are all shuffled together, its much more.
Well, I installed it on my laptop, the only XP machine I have, and since I installed the SP2, the hibernation stopped working correctly. In 70% of cases the system will not restore from hibernation anymore and it will freeze. Once it freezes, the only option is hard restart. After the restart, all different settings are off, especially the display setting down to 640x480x8.
There is another problem with power management, if I leave the machine sitting for a while, even with power management off, and cord plugged into wall, the harddrive stops and when I come back, it does not start again, the disks are disconnected and firefox and thunderbird profiles get screwed up somehow if these are open at the time. The only option is again to restart the computer and after restart the imap account thunderbird was connected to has all different per forlder settings off.
These problems never happened before SP2, they disappeared when I downgraded back to SP1 and reappeared when I got the SP2 back there. Unfortunatelly I need the SP2 for latest security fixes (the machine connects to work), but I wish I could do without.
Since 1886 controversial decision of the U.S. Supreme Court a corporation is a "person". So "We, the People..." naturally includes the corporations, which are persons like you and me. Only possible in the land of free people... err... corporations:)
Just to improve your argument, in many of the socialist countries, people had a right to a job, same as you think about a right to publicly state your opinion or right to carry a gun, which they in turn didn't have. Most of them thought about it as their natural right too, though.
I know that my parents did and they are struggling to grasp a world where they don't have a right to a job guaranteed as hard as you would struggle to live in a world you cannot open your mouth whenever and however you well damn please.
The blurb is a little wrong here, the restructuring and closing of two studios is a result of new, more responsible management that took reins this quarter. Atari used to have some pretty hopeless projects, its only good if the management will concentrate on the good and cut the bad.
The revenue and profit decrease was a result of delaying one game, until its ready and not rushing it to market as happened in the past. It seems to be a sign of the new management trying a new way and build the brand name, instead of just trying to maximaze short term profits.
Besides, the profits for this quarter, although being slightly down year over year, have still beat the average analyst estimates.
The conference call yesterday has been by many characterized as a breath of fresh air, because after years of shady business, there seems to be open and honest management at top of the company, that is forward and plays it straight with the investors.
Despite the fact I have more confidence in the new management, the short term outlook for the company is not any good, at least for a quarter or two. Long term, they will hopefully turn it around.
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Oh, I am sorry, there were no money for bonuses, since we had to spend it all to purchase MS Office, you absolutelly insisted was necessary for your lessons. Enjoy your even lower than usual paycheck.
This talks about the population averages. We are talking here about the top of the crop. And indeed, Sir, among the best students comming out of schools all over the world, the russians are generally top class. Especially the folks comming out of University of Moscow, the two prominent St. Petersburg schools and one more technical institute, who's name I forgotten. Right on par with them are folks comming out of Uni. of Shanghai (china), then right behind you have Uni. of Warsaw (poland) and the top three in US (Stanford, MIT, Berkley), and some other European top grade schools and this one from South Korea. I never heard about really consistently exceptional Japanese University in this filed (CS).
Damn, on my floor in Oracle HQ, I already cannot hear anything but russian. English became a distant second when you listen to the water cooler chatter. If you think the russians all work for russian companies you are sadly mistaken...
Honest mistake, man :) I started with Win 3.0, I am not used to 800x600 being the lowest resolution. For quite some time it was the highest. :)
I am perfectly sure its the OS. First of all, I am dual booting SUSE on this and the notebook can run days in Linux without a single problems. Also, I tried to revert back to SP1 and the problem went away. But I need the SP2 to because some other software, so I need to deal with it.
I think it might have something to do with power management, that the system spins the drive down, but does not spin it up, but even disabling all power management in the OS didn't help.
This was actually the first time, (after years of disrespect for this woman and her work) that I have actually seen her. Now you can call me shallow, but the fact she is like 400 pounds brings a certain personal satisfaction to my heart. I know how difficult your life gets with 50 extra pounds, now 250 extra, thats something. I might almost feel sorry for her. .. nah ... who am I kidding? :)
Well, the last time I read about an electric sports car being compared to Ferrari and other high horse power cars, it beat them hands down in acceleration. With better, stable and smoother acceleration than any of the gas powered cars. Combustion engines are not very good at acceleration. They are very find at maintaining the speed, once the car accelerated. But you don't need such a high horse power for that. So maybe you wanted to say that Americans love cars that accelerate fast and that you have no clue that electric engine is the way to go.
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Xenophobia is deeply ingrained in your genes, tribes of our species that lacked this vital feature were all slaughtered in prehistoric ages. We are just more or less trained to repress all actions resulting from it. Saying anything else, or calling someone names for it is a sheer hypocrisy. The only reason, why blacks and other ethnics are accepted in US, is because after a forced period, they already belong. They are part of the tribe and as such accepted. All I need to see the new target for american xenophobia is to read your reactions here on slashdot to H1b visa holders and outsourcing. So stop throwing around words like 'bigotry' and take a better look in the mirror.
Whereas I would expect that the bartender would be upset, but if you made clear that it was a mistake and you wouldn't do it again, you wouldn't have a problem.
Lets try, I will bet $100 to your $20 that you are not going to be able to talk yourself out of it. If its a real pub, you won't leave unbruised and if its a biker pub, you won't leave on your own feet.
But the important part is that profit is not what drives him. That allows him to stay in business and do what he likes. As soon as there is some profit and he can do what he likes and feed his family, there is no need for more. If he sells toys, its likely because he likes to sell toys.
If this would be in US, the shopkeeper would likely try to make as much profit as possible converting his store in some high margin wares and use the profits to enjoy his hobby outside the work, for which he would not have time left anyway, because of the need to make a lot of profit.
Some people prefer to rather enjoy their life than maximize their productivity in order to drive higher GDP. From my observations, they largely do not live in US or Japan.
In a small store, whatever is on display, is there to bring the customer in. Its not to be touched and many shopkeepers spend hours to arrange the things in the display. He probably had another piece just like this in the back of his store. If you would come to him and say you want that thing, he would bring it to you and if it would be the last one, he would (maybe) take it out of the display to sell you.
By just taking it yourself, you have probably offended him, by being a foreigner, the reaction was multiplied. He probably cares more about his store, than he actually cares about the profit. And you have violated the decor of the store. Its very hard concept, especially for someone brought up in a consumer society, but just take it on my word, what you did is an extremly rude thing.
Would you go in bar, ignore the bartender, pull a bottle from display a pour yourself a drink? I guess you would get thrown out of the bar by a bouncer even if you would be offering to pay for the drink.
Hey, my manager can do that and he is even better at it than I am. His manager can do that quite easily. The manager of his manager (we talk VP here) can do it and not break a sweat and his manager can most certainly do it. And his manager, our CEO , can do it as well or better. So I don't know about you, but all the way up my chain, every manager can do it. And in fact, I could not, with confidence, say that I can do a better job than either of them. Although the fact that I work for Oracle can possibly have something to do with that... :)
Every manager will profit from being able to make his own custom reports from company databases available to him. There are many databases in each company and the reporting abilities of current business software are very limited. Manager who can do a custom report for himself and even make it into a well generated web page for presentation to his superiors will definitely have an edge in his job.
Here is a big difference. While your kids are going to have totally different fingerprints and even pictures, their DNA to you will be largely similar. So by taking your DNA, you are putting your kids and your relatives in the database as well. If there is a partial match with someone in the database, they will just go after all his relatives and eventually find the right one. They just got a recent mass murder case solved when a daughter of a suspect volunteered to give a DNA sample, when he refused.
Me too, but I wait for Tiger. I add Mac Mini to my collection as soon as... Mainly as my wife's computer. I already got an IP and DNS record for it, all ready to plug in. I even have it pre-configured in my shopping cart on apple site :)
There were numerous hearings on Colliseum in the senate of the Ancient Roman Empire. Even then they understood that the two things you need to give to a nation in order to rule it are Bread and Games. Baseball is one of the most popular sports in US and the modern replacement for gladiator fights. Basically, the Greek version of 'Games'. If the games are at stake, their own bread is at stake here and so they act. Its as simple as that.
But for the 253 I actually used an algorithm thats very easy to process. First 51 bits tell you if card is red or black, next 25 tell you for red cards if its heart or diamond, next 25 tell for black, .. then 4*12 bits to say low or high card and so on. I think I could reconstruct the deck pretty fast from that.
I was wondering about the lowest number of bits in which you can stick the full order of a 52 card deck into. So far I can do it in 253 bits of information. Thats about 64 hexadecimal digit number or 78 decimal digits. So you need only some 780 decimal digits to remember order of 10 decks of cards. Of course, if they are all shuffled together, its much more.
I just hope its not Halle Berry...
There is another problem with power management, if I leave the machine sitting for a while, even with power management off, and cord plugged into wall, the harddrive stops and when I come back, it does not start again, the disks are disconnected and firefox and thunderbird profiles get screwed up somehow if these are open at the time. The only option is again to restart the computer and after restart the imap account thunderbird was connected to has all different per forlder settings off.
These problems never happened before SP2, they disappeared when I downgraded back to SP1 and reappeared when I got the SP2 back there. Unfortunatelly I need the SP2 for latest security fixes (the machine connects to work), but I wish I could do without.
Since 1886 controversial decision of the U.S. Supreme Court a corporation is a "person". So "We, the People..." naturally includes the corporations, which are persons like you and me. Only possible in the land of free people... err... corporations :)
I know that my parents did and they are struggling to grasp a world where they don't have a right to a job guaranteed as hard as you would struggle to live in a world you cannot open your mouth whenever and however you well damn please.
The revenue and profit decrease was a result of delaying one game, until its ready and not rushing it to market as happened in the past. It seems to be a sign of the new management trying a new way and build the brand name, instead of just trying to maximaze short term profits.
Besides, the profits for this quarter, although being slightly down year over year, have still beat the average analyst estimates.
The conference call yesterday has been by many characterized as a breath of fresh air, because after years of shady business, there seems to be open and honest management at top of the company, that is forward and plays it straight with the investors.
Despite the fact I have more confidence in the new management, the short term outlook for the company is not any good, at least for a quarter or two. Long term, they will hopefully turn it around.
What is the problem here? 200 mm square is a little over half inch by half inch.