This is to leave aside another point: cursive/handwriting is biased towards right handed people. As a left handed person I had to learn how to write very much by myself. Teachers didn't know how to write with their left hand so they pretty much showed me the pictures of how the letters should look and expected me to figure it out on my own. Anything I need to read I print. As for meeting notes: bullet form nothing longer than one line. If it takes more than that I tell the person to send it to me in an email to make sure I got it right. Anything important enough to require multiple lines is worth while getting from the source "in writing".
Exactly. I don't/won't right large amounts of text in cursive. I can type much quicker, it uses both hands relatively evenly reducing fitigue, is less biased towards right handed people is easy to check for spelling and to copy/transfer. Why cursive? The only argument I can see is people that use it to sign contracts but even then how many bankers/others that receive the documents are actually able to analyze handwriting and have a reasonable chance of confirming you are who you say you are?
I have to agree with you there. I think people should learn how the computer goes about doing calculations before they abstract away all the details for libraries and builtin features. As a programmer turned IT guy I've had numerous situations where the fact that I know assembler/a far bit of digital electronics has helped me know at a very deep level what was going on/wrong within a system. Most people I run into that started with Java or the like in university still have the mentality of it doesn't matter. They do a whole lot of stuff and then have no idea why something is slow because they have no concept of what the VM is doing under the hood.
I just had one yesterday. It was repeatable with the same hardware. I Added another harddrive to a system. Ran gparted, put a label on it (mac label as it is eventually going to be used as an external drive for a mac system), then try to mount the drive: says bad label. Okay maybe the kernel can't mount it but gparted should see it because it made the label right? So I open gparted again and... the system hangs. I was able to repeat it and noticed that once I put the mac label on the disk gparted wouldn't let me delete it (had to format it with a different system and put it back in). I ended up putting a msdos label then mounting it and everything was happy. All I wanted to do was make the drive internal so a "dd" wipe would run faster... alas. Now I have a system and only 90 more drives to go:)
or I guess the Bordens in Canada. They also get to sell fatter pipes to the companies you download from rather than have you use a P2P solution that doesn't put a huge load on expensive dedicated corporate lines. Add to that the various media lobbys that have convinced everyone that everything that is P2P is copyright infringement, and there you go.
Also, if I'm downloading media to watch I still need to keep up with the rate at which I'm watching it. So the guy that uses a protocol that streams it to him and pulls 1GB over 2 hrs gets preferential treatment even though I need 1GB every two hours for my watching I do offline? I agree with others in the thread: ISPs should have to provide reasonably close to the quoted speed for your connection. Blaming everything on congestion when the "congestion" is 24hrs a day is bogus. It isn't traffic peaks it is lack of capacity to deliver what you sold.
Exactly. I might add too, that sales people do this thing all the time. For example in the mutual fund industry if you come in asking for a specific companies fund but another fund pays a better commission to the agent or the agent thinks its better they'll tell you about it too. Sometimes sales people can get really annoying and completely ignore attempts to bring a conversation back to the product you want "Forget the Cobalt what I really see you in is a 2009 Corvette", type of sales people. But annoying isn't illegal (unfortunately).
There is another reason why people search for brand names on the internet: the search results can be really bad if you use the generic name for a product. Anything that takes more than one word to work around using a trademark ends up yielding results for each word individually about stuff you might not even want. Chances are if you search for a brand name you'll get the company's website and a bunch of articles comparing their products with others.
but at my work we use PXE boot and cfengine on one of our centos clusters. The nodes PXE boot off of the disk array of the cluster, after the install the next stage of the PXE/kickstart script installs and runs cfengine which gives the node all its NFS mounts, etc. I don't see why you couldn't do a similar thing for nagios configuration and ganglia. In fact for clusters I think that Rocks which uses centos, PXE, and Sun Grid Engine just like our cluster has the option of having ganglia for monitoring too so you probably can steal their setup and see how they automated it.
It's also a matter of it being good enough. Sure you can have a standalone camera and carry it with you all the time. Sure you can have a standalone GPS and carry that too. But most people would rather just bring their phone and if they want to take a picture they can, if they want directions they can get them etc. As my boss says you never know when you might need a pic. He can be in the data centre and I can ask him which machine he meant, take a pic email it to me right there. Also there are much better 3G phones than the iPhone for some features. My boss' phone has a 8 megapixel camera on it and a pull out qwerty keyboard and is still smaller than an iPhone (less long and wide, probably twice as thick).
Exactly it is so light that passenger weight would make a huge difference. Oh you want to bring your groceries home? That will cost you 300mpg:-) Still 170k for development is nothing, I bet Detroit spends more than that on the foam models the bring to a wind tunnel back in the day. If it hit mass production it would probably give the nano a run for its money.
He didn't say if the two roles were with his current employer or at the same company. But if they were your own competence might be an issue, after all if you would be the best at the techy position and you take the management position you might end up having to deal with someone that is incompetent in the tech position as someone you manage not to mention someone that takes over your current role.
Just for curiosity why do you call it maths? I know in the UK and a lot of the former colonies call it that, but I'm curious as to your reasoning. A british friend of mine said it was because mathematics is plural so the short form should bïe too. But that is clearly not the cause. The root of the word is from the adjective form of the ancient greek for study (mathematikos), which would be studious, related to learning etc.
True to a point. I think there can be genetic traits that aren't desirable though too. For example as much as heart disease runs in family lines (not sure how much of that is genetic and how much is similar diet and stress), it is hard to see a situation where people with heart disease would be better able to thrive.
Similarly with people with severe neurological/socialogical diseases. If the environment changes so drastically that "normal" people aren't favored by natural selection, someone with severe downs syndrome or autism still aren't able to take care of themselves. They might survive until all the healthy people have died out but after that it is hard to see how a society composed exclusively of disabled people could survive.
At best you can argue that they benefit a population with a mixed make-up, some not "normal" and some normal. A similar argument is often made for the presence of homosexual individuals in a population: while clearly not desirable as far as the individuals ability to continue their genetic line, it is possible that those individuals help the population sufficiently that more heterosexual couples manage to mate. Personally I'd love to be in a bar full of available women where all the other guys are gay:-)
Could be, but advancement doesn't equal intelligence. You should read Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, I'm about half way through but it's a very interesting book. He argues that success, whether it be money, sport, programming whatever, that the truly great aren't just gifted but they are born at the right time for the field that they enter, they happen to have the opportunity to practice their trade for long periods of time, etc. So that could be the case here, they just don't have the opportunity to develop technology because they are too busy trying to live.
That said, I would expect though I haven't tested it or read much research on the subject, that primitive cultures tend to have a wider range of intelligence, with more relatively unintelligent people. There simply isn't as much selection going on, if all you have to do all day is feed worms and eat them it doesn't matter how smart you are. That is another thing argued in the Outliers book: you don't have to be the smartest just smart enough.
An example of this was University of Michigan. Because of affirmative action and a goal of 10% entrance of minorities the entrance requirement for African Americans into their law school was much lower than that for white students. So the group of white students were on average smarter/better students going into the program as the miniorities. What effect did that have on their ability to complete their studies and get similar quality jobs as the whites? None. No noticeable difference in job success. They were smart enough for what they wanted to do. Similar to nobel prize winning scientists, they tend to be smart but they also come from a variety of good undergraduate schools (again good enough, doesn't have to be the best), and aren't necessarily the smartest of their peers, they are just really really good at the thing they do (or lucky).
I think there is something to this. I think we are entering a phase in human society where we use that information to actively control evolution. For example people with diseases that would otherwise make them unable to survive are being taken care of by medical science and society. I think it's being harder for evolution to happen to humans because we actively preserve people with genes that otherwise wouldn't survive "natural selection". One could argue that we are as much part of nature as the lion that would have killed them instead I suppose, but it seems we often take a preserving variation role rather than a culling of the herd role.
If you want to overtake then move over as if you were overtaking a car
That doesn't work on one way or two lane roads (one lane in either direction). In that case there isn't any room to overtake without moving into oncoming traffic (assuming the whole lane belongs to the bike). If you don't define it as the whole lane then you end up with the issue of the bike swerving in and out from the curve as they try to avoid puddles, drainage grates, parked cars etc. Also it doesn't seem that the device gives the 3' from the handlebars that others claim is their local law, it looks like it's maybe more like 3' total.
What the article seems to be saying is "if there isn't a bike lane make your own", really? Does that work for cars too? Its unfortunate that the street doesn't meet the needs of cyclists but that doesn't mean that a cyclist can just force the traffic to adapt to a meter on either side of the road randomly becoming "bikeland". Especially as a lot (most?) bikers bike on the sidewalks when the traffic is bad, or want to cut across a park or something rather than wait for a light. ie they follow the rules of the road as long as the road is the most convenient place to them.
I'm not saying you shouldn't give a cyclist room, just that some cyclists are pricks that will bike where no bike belongs and this device could empower those morons.
Yeah this device says "You think this road is narrow, see how bad it would be if there was a bike lane here". Sometimes it is just that the city hasn't gotten around to it yet or isn't biker friendly, but sometimes it is the city looked at the street and said "No way should there be a bike lane here". This device seems to say that the biker is always right because the biker is always in the middle of his lane but the crappy car drivers need to be aware of it so that they can avoid crossing over into his lane. Well you can paint your lane wherever you want, it doesn't make it a real lane, and it doesn't stop you from being the one that ends up dead if you are a moron that drives a bike on busy narrow streets.
Be they as important as gravity, or as mundane as womens' buttocks.
Gravity might be important but I'm comfortable letting it do what its going to do. Women's butts on the other hand, well God made them for me to enjoy staring at and who am I to disobey God.
People still don't know if women have souls, or if heaven isn't above the clouds and probably will never confirm it with an experiment. That would be a great research project: guaranteed funding for life.
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This is to leave aside another point: cursive/handwriting is biased towards right handed people. As a left handed person I had to learn how to write very much by myself. Teachers didn't know how to write with their left hand so they pretty much showed me the pictures of how the letters should look and expected me to figure it out on my own. Anything I need to read I print. As for meeting notes: bullet form nothing longer than one line. If it takes more than that I tell the person to send it to me in an email to make sure I got it right. Anything important enough to require multiple lines is worth while getting from the source "in writing".
Exactly. I don't/won't right large amounts of text in cursive. I can type much quicker, it uses both hands relatively evenly reducing fitigue, is less biased towards right handed people is easy to check for spelling and to copy/transfer. Why cursive? The only argument I can see is people that use it to sign contracts but even then how many bankers/others that receive the documents are actually able to analyze handwriting and have a reasonable chance of confirming you are who you say you are?
I have to agree with you there. I think people should learn how the computer goes about doing calculations before they abstract away all the details for libraries and builtin features. As a programmer turned IT guy I've had numerous situations where the fact that I know assembler/a far bit of digital electronics has helped me know at a very deep level what was going on/wrong within a system. Most people I run into that started with Java or the like in university still have the mentality of it doesn't matter. They do a whole lot of stuff and then have no idea why something is slow because they have no concept of what the VM is doing under the hood.
I just had one yesterday. It was repeatable with the same hardware. I Added another harddrive to a system. Ran gparted, put a label on it (mac label as it is eventually going to be used as an external drive for a mac system), then try to mount the drive: says bad label. Okay maybe the kernel can't mount it but gparted should see it because it made the label right? So I open gparted again and ... the system hangs. I was able to repeat it and noticed that once I put the mac label on the disk gparted wouldn't let me delete it (had to format it with a different system and put it back in). I ended up putting a msdos label then mounting it and everything was happy. All I wanted to do was make the drive internal so a "dd" wipe would run faster ... alas. Now I have a system and only 90 more drives to go :)
Also, if I'm downloading media to watch I still need to keep up with the rate at which I'm watching it. So the guy that uses a protocol that streams it to him and pulls 1GB over 2 hrs gets preferential treatment even though I need 1GB every two hours for my watching I do offline? I agree with others in the thread: ISPs should have to provide reasonably close to the quoted speed for your connection. Blaming everything on congestion when the "congestion" is 24hrs a day is bogus. It isn't traffic peaks it is lack of capacity to deliver what you sold.
If they wanted it regulated they should have registered it as a medical device. They didn't, they copyrighted it and copyrights expire.
Or, we read your rant about how ruby on rails is a ghetto so you obviously don't want to work with the technology, so why did you apply?
Anyway to give this guy some negative mod points?
There is another reason why people search for brand names on the internet: the search results can be really bad if you use the generic name for a product. Anything that takes more than one word to work around using a trademark ends up yielding results for each word individually about stuff you might not even want. Chances are if you search for a brand name you'll get the company's website and a bunch of articles comparing their products with others.
but at my work we use PXE boot and cfengine on one of our centos clusters. The nodes PXE boot off of the disk array of the cluster, after the install the next stage of the PXE/kickstart script installs and runs cfengine which gives the node all its NFS mounts, etc. I don't see why you couldn't do a similar thing for nagios configuration and ganglia. In fact for clusters I think that Rocks which uses centos, PXE, and Sun Grid Engine just like our cluster has the option of having ganglia for monitoring too so you probably can steal their setup and see how they automated it.
Hey if he wants to install the servers and let me sit in my office drinking coffee and reading slashdot who am I to question him?
It's also a matter of it being good enough. Sure you can have a standalone camera and carry it with you all the time. Sure you can have a standalone GPS and carry that too. But most people would rather just bring their phone and if they want to take a picture they can, if they want directions they can get them etc. As my boss says you never know when you might need a pic. He can be in the data centre and I can ask him which machine he meant, take a pic email it to me right there. Also there are much better 3G phones than the iPhone for some features. My boss' phone has a 8 megapixel camera on it and a pull out qwerty keyboard and is still smaller than an iPhone (less long and wide, probably twice as thick).
Exactly it is so light that passenger weight would make a huge difference. Oh you want to bring your groceries home? That will cost you 300mpg :-) Still 170k for development is nothing, I bet Detroit spends more than that on the foam models the bring to a wind tunnel back in the day. If it hit mass production it would probably give the nano a run for its money.
He didn't say if the two roles were with his current employer or at the same company. But if they were your own competence might be an issue, after all if you would be the best at the techy position and you take the management position you might end up having to deal with someone that is incompetent in the tech position as someone you manage not to mention someone that takes over your current role.
Just for curiosity why do you call it maths? I know in the UK and a lot of the former colonies call it that, but I'm curious as to your reasoning. A british friend of mine said it was because mathematics is plural so the short form should bïe too. But that is clearly not the cause. The root of the word is from the adjective form of the ancient greek for study (mathematikos), which would be studious, related to learning etc.
so who's the tool and what's the device?
Similarly with people with severe neurological/socialogical diseases. If the environment changes so drastically that "normal" people aren't favored by natural selection, someone with severe downs syndrome or autism still aren't able to take care of themselves. They might survive until all the healthy people have died out but after that it is hard to see how a society composed exclusively of disabled people could survive.
At best you can argue that they benefit a population with a mixed make-up, some not "normal" and some normal. A similar argument is often made for the presence of homosexual individuals in a population: while clearly not desirable as far as the individuals ability to continue their genetic line, it is possible that those individuals help the population sufficiently that more heterosexual couples manage to mate. Personally I'd love to be in a bar full of available women where all the other guys are gay :-)
That said, I would expect though I haven't tested it or read much research on the subject, that primitive cultures tend to have a wider range of intelligence, with more relatively unintelligent people. There simply isn't as much selection going on, if all you have to do all day is feed worms and eat them it doesn't matter how smart you are. That is another thing argued in the Outliers book: you don't have to be the smartest just smart enough.
An example of this was University of Michigan. Because of affirmative action and a goal of 10% entrance of minorities the entrance requirement for African Americans into their law school was much lower than that for white students. So the group of white students were on average smarter/better students going into the program as the miniorities. What effect did that have on their ability to complete their studies and get similar quality jobs as the whites? None. No noticeable difference in job success. They were smart enough for what they wanted to do. Similar to nobel prize winning scientists, they tend to be smart but they also come from a variety of good undergraduate schools (again good enough, doesn't have to be the best), and aren't necessarily the smartest of their peers, they are just really really good at the thing they do (or lucky).
I think there is something to this. I think we are entering a phase in human society where we use that information to actively control evolution. For example people with diseases that would otherwise make them unable to survive are being taken care of by medical science and society. I think it's being harder for evolution to happen to humans because we actively preserve people with genes that otherwise wouldn't survive "natural selection". One could argue that we are as much part of nature as the lion that would have killed them instead I suppose, but it seems we often take a preserving variation role rather than a culling of the herd role.
Yes but what was the question?
If you want to overtake then move over as if you were overtaking a car
That doesn't work on one way or two lane roads (one lane in either direction). In that case there isn't any room to overtake without moving into oncoming traffic (assuming the whole lane belongs to the bike). If you don't define it as the whole lane then you end up with the issue of the bike swerving in and out from the curve as they try to avoid puddles, drainage grates, parked cars etc. Also it doesn't seem that the device gives the 3' from the handlebars that others claim is their local law, it looks like it's maybe more like 3' total.
I'm not saying you shouldn't give a cyclist room, just that some cyclists are pricks that will bike where no bike belongs and this device could empower those morons.
Yeah this device says "You think this road is narrow, see how bad it would be if there was a bike lane here". Sometimes it is just that the city hasn't gotten around to it yet or isn't biker friendly, but sometimes it is the city looked at the street and said "No way should there be a bike lane here". This device seems to say that the biker is always right because the biker is always in the middle of his lane but the crappy car drivers need to be aware of it so that they can avoid crossing over into his lane. Well you can paint your lane wherever you want, it doesn't make it a real lane, and it doesn't stop you from being the one that ends up dead if you are a moron that drives a bike on busy narrow streets.
Be they as important as gravity, or as mundane as womens' buttocks.
Gravity might be important but I'm comfortable letting it do what its going to do. Women's butts on the other hand, well God made them for me to enjoy staring at and who am I to disobey God.
People still don't know if women have souls, or if heaven isn't above the clouds and probably will never confirm it with an experiment. That would be a great research project: guaranteed funding for life.
and lesbian researchers.