No, you are supposed to feel confident that the higher-ups like someone who takes a risk and pitches an idea, even if it doesn't pan out. That they'd rather someone take the risk and pitch their idea, rather than sit on it, thinking they would get laughed out of there and lose the respect of their bosses. The main goal is to remove the self-doubt.
The jury part of jury duty I have no problem with. The wait-around-doing-literally-nothing for 4 days, 7h, 30min of the 5 working days you're required to be there is what I have issue with. It could be different where you live, but where I live the potential jurors are treated so disrespectfully it ruins the entire process.
100% agree. I've been in my house for a year now, but the couple we bought it from ran cabling ALL over the house (mostly when they finished the basement). Not just cat5, but HDMI and coax (wired up to my antenna) too. They also ran speaker wires to the backyard and in the ceiling/walls. If you are finishing a basement or doing some renovations, its pretty cheap to do and will have great returns. Visually, not having wires all over the place looks great. Cost wise, it's nice to have one receiver that can play music to the entire house and the backyard.
Except they identified a particular protein that is created in these depressed males that causes them to turn to alcohol. Considering ~50% of fly proteins have homologs in humans, it may be a good target for drugs in the future. Still think it's a useless study?
Binary search is a great example because it is a very simple algorithm that is incredibly easy to mess up. Conceptually simple, but riddled with subtle obstacles.
It is a lot easier to just leave a box unchecked when renewing your license, saying you're against organ donation for "religious reasons," then it is to say "no" when a loved one is dying. I'd tend to believe his anecdotes.
Did it while I was in school. Glad I did it, but wouldn't do it again. Everything was great, but software got out of date quickly, and upgrading anything in the middle of the dependency tree or higher just required too much time and baby-sitting. Just took way too much time to maintain.
I do agree it was silly. Nonetheless, I (somewhat) recently read Kevin Mitnick's autobiography Ghost in the Wires. At some point he was basically going around collecting the source code of phone operating systems. For one OS, he went so far as to have someone mail out a set of floppies with the OS on it, since he couldn't get in from the outside.
Pretty sure he's talking about his use of the laptop off company hours. That is, he gets home from a long day of work and wants to browse the web. He's on a plane and wants to play a game. That kind of stuff.
Part of buying a car is also gauging the replacement costs for parts. Not necessarily new, but from a junkyard too. You could buy a very reliable sports car, but if replacing the motor costs 5x that of a more popular car, than you'll need it to be at least 5x as reliable to break even. The same goes for most other parts. If you don't mind working on your own car, sometimes a slightly less reliable car may be better, if the parts are substantially cheaper.
The fine article is in the National Post. I'm not a huge fan, but that is certainly mainstream. Also, it was mostly known the Conservatives were behind this when the news broke around election time. That EC has now found some more evidence isn't too surprising. However, I'm sure they'll not get enough evidence to actually do anything about it.
Only large emails get LZMA (much better than bzip fyi).
For text Bzip2 is actually quite good. It is also substantially faster than LZMA, which means he may have been able to hit his 10MB/s mark and compress everything. Further, Bzip2 actually operates in blocks (max 900kb) using up to 6 dictionaries. I'd actually assume pretty much all compression algorithms at least support a mode amenable to streaming, if it's not baked in from the get go. In general, more dictionaries are actually better, if you can get away with the overhead. A super giant dictionary, for general compression, would perform quite poorly. There is a trade-off is between dictionary overhead and the number of dictionaries.
Today we decide to permit flexibility in the delivery of communications by Mobile Satellite Service (MSS) providers [cut]. Specifically, we permit MSS licensees to integrate ancillary terrestrial components (ATCs) into their MSS networks
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We will authorize MSS ATC subject to conditions that ensure that the added terrestrial component remains ancillary to the principal MSS offering. We do not intend, nor will we permit, the terrestrial component to become a stand-alone service.
That is, the decision was to let those offering mobile satellite services the ability to enhance their networks. This guy wanted to create a stand-alone cell phone network, which was explicitly not permitted in the 2003 decision.
I went to BestBuy during lunch the other day to get a USB Micro USB B cable, since I needed it that day. I was expecting to pay far more than it was worth, probably $10. Nope. $20 + tax. For a 3 ft. cable. I walked back to work, went on Monoprice.com, and got 4 cables shipped for $10. Knocking up prices for those impulsive buys is fine, I expect it, but keep it within reason. $10 for a USB cable is overpriced, but $20 is completely unjustifiable.
Yes. What people are really mad about was that there was a period of 2-3 years where data was abundant and demand was low, so data plans were grossly underpriced. Now that everyone and their grandmother have smartphones, demand is high, networks are congested, and carriers are using price discrimination as a load balancer (as well as their primary purpose to make money of course).
The Windows update one does make a lot of sense, as it directly benefits the ISP to have their customers' computers up-to-date with the latest security patches. Moreover, I don't see much of a win for MS, since I highly doubt that even 1 person would choose Windows over OS X or Linux because their monthly windows update is exempt. "Man, I love me some Linux, but the thought of that exempt 100mb download each month is too hard to resist!"
There is "Earth Hour," but it is such a joke. Usually you'll get every 2nd or 3rd house with its lights off, but Walmart will still have their parking lot blazing bright and the city streetlights will all be on (at least here). What we need is another 3-day blackout, like back in 2003. I walked around the streets at night for hours; it was so surreal and made for great skies.
As an opposing point, I used to live in a neighbourhood where it was pretty common knowledge that if you didn't chain and padlock your BBQ to your house, it would be stolen within a couple weeks. Usually in daylight while people were at work/school. In this case, the thieves did go after the easiest targets.
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No, you are supposed to feel confident that the higher-ups like someone who takes a risk and pitches an idea, even if it doesn't pan out. That they'd rather someone take the risk and pitch their idea, rather than sit on it, thinking they would get laughed out of there and lose the respect of their bosses. The main goal is to remove the self-doubt.
The jury part of jury duty I have no problem with. The wait-around-doing-literally-nothing for 4 days, 7h, 30min of the 5 working days you're required to be there is what I have issue with. It could be different where you live, but where I live the potential jurors are treated so disrespectfully it ruins the entire process.
100% agree. I've been in my house for a year now, but the couple we bought it from ran cabling ALL over the house (mostly when they finished the basement). Not just cat5, but HDMI and coax (wired up to my antenna) too. They also ran speaker wires to the backyard and in the ceiling/walls. If you are finishing a basement or doing some renovations, its pretty cheap to do and will have great returns. Visually, not having wires all over the place looks great. Cost wise, it's nice to have one receiver that can play music to the entire house and the backyard.
Posting to reverse accidental negative mod. Sorry.
http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#Why_is_my_trivial_program_such_a_large_binary
Yes, you've found the cure for everything: cynicism!
Except they identified a particular protein that is created in these depressed males that causes them to turn to alcohol. Considering ~50% of fly proteins have homologs in humans, it may be a good target for drugs in the future. Still think it's a useless study?
people die, yet we study the drinking habits of fruit-fly
There are over 75,000 alcohol related deaths per year in the U.S. alone. Is that enough to warrant some research?
Binary search is a great example because it is a very simple algorithm that is incredibly easy to mess up. Conceptually simple, but riddled with subtle obstacles.
It is a lot easier to just leave a box unchecked when renewing your license, saying you're against organ donation for "religious reasons," then it is to say "no" when a loved one is dying. I'd tend to believe his anecdotes.
But it was a rewarding experience. Glad I did it while I had some spare time, as I feel never in my life I'll be able to do it again.
Exactly. I miss school... mostly for the craploads of free time I had.
I actually moved to Gentoo from LFS. And to Ubuntu from Gentoo. I've simply run out of time in the day to spend installing/maintaining software.
Anyone who uses Linux should do it at least once.
Did it while I was in school. Glad I did it, but wouldn't do it again. Everything was great, but software got out of date quickly, and upgrading anything in the middle of the dependency tree or higher just required too much time and baby-sitting. Just took way too much time to maintain.
I do agree it was silly. Nonetheless, I (somewhat) recently read Kevin Mitnick's autobiography Ghost in the Wires. At some point he was basically going around collecting the source code of phone operating systems. For one OS, he went so far as to have someone mail out a set of floppies with the OS on it, since he couldn't get in from the outside.
Pretty sure he's talking about his use of the laptop off company hours. That is, he gets home from a long day of work and wants to browse the web. He's on a plane and wants to play a game. That kind of stuff.
Part of buying a car is also gauging the replacement costs for parts. Not necessarily new, but from a junkyard too. You could buy a very reliable sports car, but if replacing the motor costs 5x that of a more popular car, than you'll need it to be at least 5x as reliable to break even. The same goes for most other parts. If you don't mind working on your own car, sometimes a slightly less reliable car may be better, if the parts are substantially cheaper.
The fine article is in the National Post. I'm not a huge fan, but that is certainly mainstream. Also, it was mostly known the Conservatives were behind this when the news broke around election time. That EC has now found some more evidence isn't too surprising. However, I'm sure they'll not get enough evidence to actually do anything about it.
Only large emails get LZMA (much better than bzip fyi).
For text Bzip2 is actually quite good. It is also substantially faster than LZMA, which means he may have been able to hit his 10MB/s mark and compress everything. Further, Bzip2 actually operates in blocks (max 900kb) using up to 6 dictionaries. I'd actually assume pretty much all compression algorithms at least support a mode amenable to streaming, if it's not baked in from the get go. In general, more dictionaries are actually better, if you can get away with the overhead. A super giant dictionary, for general compression, would perform quite poorly. There is a trade-off is between dictionary overhead and the number of dictionaries.
According to the actual 2003 decision by the FCC:
Today we decide to permit flexibility in the delivery of communications by Mobile Satellite Service (MSS) providers [cut]. Specifically, we permit MSS licensees to integrate ancillary terrestrial components (ATCs) into their MSS networks
...
We will authorize MSS ATC subject to conditions that ensure that the added terrestrial component remains ancillary to the principal MSS offering. We do not intend, nor will we permit, the terrestrial component to become a stand-alone service.
That is, the decision was to let those offering mobile satellite services the ability to enhance their networks. This guy wanted to create a stand-alone cell phone network, which was explicitly not permitted in the 2003 decision.
Yes, but there are no Walmarts in downtown Toronto, so going to a Walmart, when I "want it now," is no better than just ordering it on-line.
I went to BestBuy during lunch the other day to get a USB Micro USB B cable, since I needed it that day. I was expecting to pay far more than it was worth, probably $10. Nope. $20 + tax. For a 3 ft. cable. I walked back to work, went on Monoprice.com, and got 4 cables shipped for $10. Knocking up prices for those impulsive buys is fine, I expect it, but keep it within reason. $10 for a USB cable is overpriced, but $20 is completely unjustifiable.
Yes. What people are really mad about was that there was a period of 2-3 years where data was abundant and demand was low, so data plans were grossly underpriced. Now that everyone and their grandmother have smartphones, demand is high, networks are congested, and carriers are using price discrimination as a load balancer (as well as their primary purpose to make money of course).
The Windows update one does make a lot of sense, as it directly benefits the ISP to have their customers' computers up-to-date with the latest security patches. Moreover, I don't see much of a win for MS, since I highly doubt that even 1 person would choose Windows over OS X or Linux because their monthly windows update is exempt. "Man, I love me some Linux, but the thought of that exempt 100mb download each month is too hard to resist!"
There is "Earth Hour," but it is such a joke. Usually you'll get every 2nd or 3rd house with its lights off, but Walmart will still have their parking lot blazing bright and the city streetlights will all be on (at least here). What we need is another 3-day blackout, like back in 2003. I walked around the streets at night for hours; it was so surreal and made for great skies.
As an opposing point, I used to live in a neighbourhood where it was pretty common knowledge that if you didn't chain and padlock your BBQ to your house, it would be stolen within a couple weeks. Usually in daylight while people were at work/school. In this case, the thieves did go after the easiest targets.