Complaining, no matter how much you dislike it, is an essential feedback mechanism for the market because it provides context for the easily overlooked non-action of not spending money. Been part of the market since the beginning, and it isn't going to change.
I had three full sets of teeth too. I got hit in the face by my little sister when I was ~16 (don't ask), and the front teeth came right out. I could feel and see the nubs of the new teeth coming in right beneath them, and the teeth that came out were clearly not adult teeth though they weren't exactly like baby teeth either. Ultimately I lost all my teeth that year. Oddly, when I was ~24 my canines got loose and came out, with a new set below them, so 4 sets of canines. X-Rays confirm I'm on my adult teeth now, which sucks. I liked having spares.
A few of my brothers and sisters had 3 sets of canines, but I was the only one with three complete sets out of 9 kids. I asked around my extended family, and on my mother's side heard of a few more people who had had three sets, so apparently there is some genetic basis for it.
While you are correct, the Communism being referred to is the history-free Communism-lite popular on college campuses which really amounts to nothing more than a kindergarten-level notion that 'sharing is good'.
...So I went down to the tool crib the other day and asked for a pair of 45degree non-magnetic smooth-grip needle nose pliers and George hands me a straight, magnetic, textured tip needle nosed pliers and tells me it's the new corporate standard.
Now, I like George, and I'm a fan of having a tool crib; I don't know what it is, but there's something about me coming up and 'asking' for things periodically with him on his ass all day reading slashdot that makes him think he's my boss. He's confused, the poor bugger, thinks his tool-crib IS the company. Thinks I'm actually 'asking', not just being polite.
Nothing you can do with your tool crib guy once he develops that particular neurosis. Fire him and hire a new one out of school, I guess. I mean, I suppose you could pervert your whole company for the convenience of the tool room, but that would be a laughable farce.
We should build a shell around the earth covered in solar cells on the outside and florescent bulbs on the inside. This way we could make it the same time for everyone all the time on earth, and we'd all be equal all the time and live in perfect harmony until the dim green flickering light, the neverending ballast hum, and the sweet smell of air-conditioner mold drives us all stark-raving mad.
I wrote some Labview (8.0) VIs that simplify the use of R with Labview. Uses the same R(D)Com Server that RExcel uses. They aren't polished and perfect, but they generally work.
http://www.lightlink.com/jackson/R with Labview.zip
I've gradually been working on changing my data/work flow FROM Instrument->Labview->Database->Scheduled Batched R Scripts->Control Charts->Adjust Instrument TO Instrument->Labview with R Control Charts and Instrument Feedback reading from and writing to a Database. Closing the SPC loop.
I worked on a 40' test track of an EMS (permanent magnet based) Maglev system for MagneMotion and the FTA. http://www.magnemotion.com/products/maglev/main.shtml IIRC the system only required a couple hundred watts to remain suspended- there is a neutrally stable point balancing gravity and magnetic attraction, and it doesn't take much power to keep it there with a coil wrapped around the shared suspension/propulsion magnets. Dominating costs are the inverters, steel/concrete superstructure, and right-of way, not the vehicle or coils in the track.
E.F. Northrup wrote a science fiction book about a private venture going to the moon- complete with a serious technical appendix- back in 1936, entitled "Zero to Eighty" under the amusing pseudonym "Akkad Pseudoman". It is a bizarre fake autobiographical novel, and well worth reading, if you can find it.
Maybe it is offtopic and irrelevant, but in a thread about his company looking to get into the private space industry, responding to a user with the name "pseudonym"; well I couldn't resist.
getting a winrate better than 1.25/hour is trivial. you could do it playing 2 tables of.50/1 limit or 1 table.25NL, and there's lots of room for advancement.
Then some guys in black suits came around and hushed the whole thing up, and a little later a weakly godlike intelligence woke up down in the depths of the puzzle palace.
Infocalypse or Singularity? Fire or Ice?
Either way, what is certain is that the end is near, and it is definitly time to panic.
1. Teacher spends one class explaining concepts 2. Students apply concept in homework 3. Teacher reviews homework to see if students understand, if not goto 1 4. Test
You teach two minimally related concepts offset by one step to make the most efficient use of class time.
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What! No free toaster?????! Those dudes TOTALLY lied to me.
Complaining, no matter how much you dislike it, is an essential feedback mechanism for the market because it provides context for the easily overlooked non-action of not spending money. Been part of the market since the beginning, and it isn't going to change.
We have a more recent precedent for engineer-as-leader:
Hu JinTao http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Jintao
I had three full sets of teeth too. I got hit in the face by my little sister when I was ~16 (don't ask), and the front teeth came right out. I could feel and see the nubs of the new teeth coming in right beneath them, and the teeth that came out were clearly not adult teeth though they weren't exactly like baby teeth either. Ultimately I lost all my teeth that year. Oddly, when I was ~24 my canines got loose and came out, with a new set below them, so 4 sets of canines. X-Rays confirm I'm on my adult teeth now, which sucks. I liked having spares.
A few of my brothers and sisters had 3 sets of canines, but I was the only one with three complete sets out of 9 kids. I asked around my extended family, and on my mother's side heard of a few more people who had had three sets, so apparently there is some genetic basis for it.
While you are correct, the Communism being referred to is the history-free Communism-lite popular on college campuses which really amounts to nothing more than a kindergarten-level notion that 'sharing is good'.
that he agrees with you completely?
...So I went down to the tool crib the other day and asked for a pair of 45degree non-magnetic smooth-grip needle nose pliers and George hands me a straight, magnetic, textured tip needle nosed pliers and tells me it's the new corporate standard.
Now, I like George, and I'm a fan of having a tool crib; I don't know what it is, but there's something about me coming up and 'asking' for things periodically with him on his ass all day reading slashdot that makes him think he's my boss. He's confused, the poor bugger, thinks his tool-crib IS the company. Thinks I'm actually 'asking', not just being polite.
Nothing you can do with your tool crib guy once he develops that particular neurosis. Fire him and hire a new one out of school, I guess. I mean, I suppose you could pervert your whole company for the convenience of the tool room, but that would be a laughable farce.
There's more than one gravity well involved.
hint: moon:earth::mars:x
We should build a shell around the earth covered in solar cells on the outside and florescent bulbs on the inside. This way we could make it the same time for everyone all the time on earth, and we'd all be equal all the time and live in perfect harmony until the dim green flickering light, the neverending ballast hum, and the sweet smell of air-conditioner mold drives us all stark-raving mad.
That stardate makes no sense.
Test instrumentation is often used with Labview.
I wrote some Labview (8.0) VIs that simplify the use of R with Labview. Uses the same R(D)Com Server that RExcel uses. They aren't polished and perfect, but they generally work.
http://www.lightlink.com/jackson/R with Labview.zip
I've gradually been working on changing my data/work flow FROM Instrument->Labview->Database->Scheduled Batched R Scripts->Control Charts->Adjust Instrument
TO Instrument->Labview with R Control Charts and Instrument Feedback reading from and writing to a Database. Closing the SPC loop.
Computers are magic to most users.
They just believe the results they spit out uncritically.
I've seen this behavior in groups you wouldn't believe could possibly be that dumb.
Rosebud is a sled.
The UIGEA didn't make it impossible for Americans to gamble online by any stretch of the imagination.
It is just a little harder, and we have to do business with sketchy third parties.
Yeah, the spammers and scammers hate that. Please, don't throw me in that briar patch, sir.
The UIGIA eliminates spam and scams the way Prohibition destroyed the Mafia.
I worked on a 40' test track of an EMS (permanent magnet based) Maglev system for MagneMotion and the FTA. http://www.magnemotion.com/products/maglev/main.shtml IIRC the system only required a couple hundred watts to remain suspended- there is a neutrally stable point balancing gravity and magnetic attraction, and it doesn't take much power to keep it there with a coil wrapped around the shared suspension/propulsion magnets. Dominating costs are the inverters, steel/concrete superstructure, and right-of way, not the vehicle or coils in the track.
EDS systems use a lot more power.
Imagine how painful it would sound to hear a bunch of poker players discuss programming.
E.F. Northrup wrote a science fiction book about a private venture going to the moon- complete with a serious technical appendix- back in 1936, entitled "Zero to Eighty" under the amusing pseudonym "Akkad Pseudoman". It is a bizarre fake autobiographical novel, and well worth reading, if you can find it.
Maybe it is offtopic and irrelevant, but in a thread about his company looking to get into the private space industry, responding to a user with the name "pseudonym"; well I couldn't resist.
not to be pedantic, but the crime rate for illegal immigrants is 100%.
And if you infer anything about my views on the subject based on that observation you are probably wrong.
It is just an observation of fact.
With their fingerprints, we would be able to detect sarcasm remotely, over the internets.
why don't they play online poker?
.50/1 limit or 1 table .25NL, and there's lots of room for advancement.
getting a winrate better than 1.25/hour is trivial. you could do it playing 2 tables of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_9
infrared ceramic broilers are what high end steakhouses have been using for decades-
Nothing else can produce that toasty crust while leaving the meat inside warm, bloody, quivering and delicious.
Maybe it worked really, really well.
Then some guys in black suits came around and hushed the whole thing up, and a little later a weakly godlike intelligence woke up down in the depths of the puzzle palace.
Infocalypse or Singularity? Fire or Ice?
Either way, what is certain is that the end is near, and it is definitly time to panic.
Useful classes look like this IMO:
1. Teacher spends one class explaining concepts
2. Students apply concept in homework
3. Teacher reviews homework to see if students understand, if not goto 1
4. Test
You teach two minimally related concepts offset by one step to make the most efficient use of class time.
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