The Canadians I know say "aboot" but they don't know it.
Well, not exactly. I'm Canadian, but have been working in Michigan long enough to hear the difference now. Americans kind of pronounce the word abot, or abaut, but Canadians still pronounce it more like the British, which starts out flat (ahhh), then goes to an Ooo, then the T. Since Americans pronounce the Ahhh, and the T, all they really hear is the Oooo part, which is why they think it sounds odd.
It's really just another case of Americans slurring their speech.
It would be great if there were free Internet access for everyone walking down the street. However, it would be better if you knew that the connection you were riding was authorized by the owner for public use.
Whether they're an idiot or not, if someone puts a wireless AP on their internet connection, broadcasts the SSID, and doesn't turn on MAC filtering, and WEP security, then they're saying, "go ahead and use it."
However, if you have to circumvent any kind of security (clone a MAC address or crack a WEP key), then I'm pretty sure you're doing something that they definitely tried to keep you from doing.
After all, if I leave my front door open, then you're welcome to come in, and take one of the cookies off the table that says, "please feel free to help yourself". But, if the door is shut, you had better well knock, and if the door is locked, it's not because I want you to climb through my window to raid my fridge.
A story is a meaning applied to events after they have occured. A game is a game, like sports or a board game. You can only make a story out of it after events have been completed.
Perhaps, but I can still see the technology applied to porn, pretty soon, actually.
Actually, I think that certain products, like software, are helper technologies that increase overall productivity. To make a distinction, if you could get, say, a coffee table for free, then maybe you're hurting the coffee table industry, but if you can get software for free, and people use the software to be more productive, then having a wider spread use of the software because it's free is a good thing.
Coffee tables, on the other hand, tend not to increase anybody's productivity.
Does the president/CEO of your company need to know everything thats going on at your company? If you answered yes to that question, then the inverse of that is; do you have any decisionmaking ability whatsoever in your job?
Speaking as a project manager, the answers to those questions are YES/YES. As a manager, I have the power to delegate my decision making authority to those who report to me, and those people become responsible for their actions only to me. I'm still responsible to the person who gave me the job in the first place.
You can delegate your authority, but not your responsibility (though many managers seem to get away with it).
In fact, quantum physics tells us there even if you wanted, you could not create a perfect vacuum as virtual particles would pop up.
Actually, I have a vaccuum in my closet, and it works perfectly. It only seems to deal with the real particles though, not the virtual ones. I'm not much interested in removing the virtual ones anyway.
Plop it down in the middle of any third world nation and it would at worst fit right in, in most cases it would be hailed as an economic miracle.
I'm not sure of that. Many Americans consider Mexico to be a 3rd world nation, but these people we're talking about would probably be better off in Saltillo or Monterrey.
Although living standards have dramatically improved for all Indians, it is still widely considered to be a third world country. -Approximately 25% of the Indian population are below the poverty line -The water supply is so polluted that people must buy or boil their water. -The poor are discriminated against in education. -Health care in India? What health care?
So, when reading this, did anyone else think that with the exception of the water supply issue, these are all applicable to the U.S. as well? Obviously not to the same degree, but still.
I am nuts, but unsplitting is not implicit in MWI. How do you unsplit a living and dead cat. In that case there are two different universes that cannot be unsplit.
I don't know anything about quantum mechanics, but I've been following this thread. Isn't the idea that in the cat scenario, the universes are already split, and we just don't know which one we're in until we take the measurement? If we open the box and find a dead cat, there is another universe that already existed where we open the box and the cat is alive.
In this case, the splitting probably happened when the particle that's decaying was formed in the first place. Given that, the universes will never join again.
But why couldn't it be that the decay time is deterministic, but it's determined by something that's far too small for us to measure? Why cling to these multiple worlds to explain Schroedinger's cat?
Now for the interference thing, entangled particles, etc., then I can see a use for it. But I still think we should not throw away any single world explanation, because such a theory would at least have Occam's Razor on its side.
Ok, if life was fair, Linux would have taken off on the desktop a long time ago. The reason would be money. If people could save hundreds of dollars by not buying Windows, and buying Linux instead, Windows would be dead.
The thing is, most home users pay a negligible amount for their windows operating system because it comes bundled at an extremely low price on the computer they buy. If they want to upgrade, and don't want to pay for a licensed copy, they just "borrow" a copy from work, or a friend. Even MS products with supposed copy protection are pathetic, and there are enough cracks out there for anyone to get any MS software for free.
I think that MS deliberately makes their software easy to obtain for free because otherwise, Linux would absolutely dominate the home market, and that would mean businesses could then switch to Linux and save money because everyone is already familiar with it.
The only way for Linux to take off is to give Microsoft some foolproof copy protection scheme, and get them to use it. They'd be signing their own death certificate.
Without getting into the whole 'Canadians are / are not Americans' debate, a whole 32 foreigners helped with the NASA team that put men on the moon? Well golly, that's gotta be more than half, couldn't have taken more than 64 people total to do the entire couple of dozen space shots from Mercury I to the last Apollo mission.
I'm not sure you deserve a reply, since you didn't take the time to read the entire thread so far, but you're getting your tenses mixed up. Nobody claimed more than half of NASA were non-American born at the height of the space race. I was only giving evidence that not ALL were American. The comment about half was made with reference to the current NASA establishment, and I'm tired of doing the work for everyone else - google it yourself.
Just out of curiosity, where exactly were the Germans living when they were the best rocket scientists during the space race? Rhetorical question of course, they were in AMERICA.
So, you're saying there's just something in the water? Is there something in the air that makes them more industrious? They weren't smart until they came to the U.S.? Or is it that there's a super-abundance of resources, plus, at the time, the correct economic environment to support enough industry to support such a huge social undertaking as a space race?
I respect your optimism, but enough countries will have caught up to the U.S. economically in the next couple decades that these firmly held beliefs you have about your absolute superiority in all things is soon to be shattered. The fact that your school system keeps teaching you that you're all perfect and that you're better than everyone else, without actually comparing the U.S. to any other front-running country in any meaningful way is going to bite you in the ass. You can't win a race if you keep you eye on last place.
I've heard several Americans say, "there's nowhere else I'd rather live", but the fact is, even though that may be true, it's meaningless if you haven't actually looked at the real alternatives. When you say that, you're thinking entirely of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Mexico (parts of which are actually nicer than you think). How many Americans have been to Scandinavia, Iceland, England, Canada, or Australia? The reason Americans think that Canada is "just the U.S. and doesn't count" is because they can't fathom the idea that another sovereign nation is just as great a place to live as the U.S.. Even better in many ways. Then they say that Canada wouldn't be as great a place without the U.S. The fact is that the U.S. wouldn't be as great a place without the rest of the world, now would it? You are a trading nation, just like the rest of the nations in the world, and you would have a much lower standard of living if you did not trade.
In 1963 - 1968? If I had to guess, I would say that a most if not ALL of the tech nerds at NASA were Americans.
"All", you say? After 48 seconds of googling, I found that at a minimum, 32 of the aerospace engineers were Canadian. From this site:
Many of the engineers who lost their jobs with the Arrow's cancellation went to other aerospace firms, and 32 joined the U.S. space agency NASA, where they helped put American astronauts on the Moon.
What else did your superior U.S. education teach you?:-P
BTW, I thought it was common knowledge that the best rocket scientists in the U.S. during the space race were Germans brought over after WWII.
Nobody can work more than 8 hours a day for any extended period and be really efficient at it. Anything else is a myth in my experience. You are betraying yourself (perhaps by/.ing to compensate) if you think you're better than that (and if you're not the 1 in a million exception).
I've been working 10 hour days for the last 4 years, and I consistently come in under-budget, on time, and to specification. I also get overtime for those 2 hours a day (straight time).
It's all about what you get used to, and whether or not you like your work. I enjoy my work at least half the time I spend doing it, and that's the key.
They have to have some memory of what happened because the state laws regulate the amount of winnings that has to be paid in relation to the money coming in. It doesn't mean the machine will spit out a $20 every $2341 dollars, but there is a tracking mechanism.
As I understand it, the machines are networked together casino-wide, and the payouts are tracked. If it determines that they need to payout more, then it adjusts the probabilities. However, I always figured they did it across the board, on all machines, not just on the ones that haven't paid out in a while.
Amen. The key to this is to learn to accept the things that you have no control over. Hardware will fail, and there will be bugs. Users will do dumb things. You have to accept these things.
When you get that unappreciative call at 3 in the morning, lesson #1 is DON'T BLAME YOURSELF, even if it's your bug. Everyone has bugs in their code. Think like this: there's a problem, and I can be a hero by fixing it. When you fix the problem, make sure you celebrate. Don't put yourself down for not being perfect... congratulate yourself for your dedication and resourcefulness. Nobody else will.
Oh, and another cool trick... go somewhere that your cell phone doesn't work for a couple days. When you get back to the office, or check your voicemail, you'll realize that the world somehow functioned without you. That tends to put things back in perspective.
It's not invalidated until he publishes his findings and explains exactly how he did it, and other people in other places around the world can duplicate his findings.
What's the point in knowing what they're talking about. Dubya doesn't.
In Texas we... um... well, you see in Texas we have a saying... maybe you have a saying here too, but we have this saying, if you shoot a sidewider missile at a mosque, and two guys come running out on fire, then you just killed two arabs with... that is... two bad guys, you know, because they're bad... anyway, you get two guys with one sidewinder missile. That's what we say in Texas. Do you say that here too?:-)
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my router/firewall alone is a 333PII, which, for the average luser is WAY more than enough.
Well, a 333 P2 would choke on just half of the spyware that's installed on Joe 6 Pack's computer, so I doubt he'd be happy with the performance.
The Canadians I know say "aboot" but they don't know it.
Well, not exactly. I'm Canadian, but have been working in Michigan long enough to hear the difference now. Americans kind of pronounce the word abot, or abaut, but Canadians still pronounce it more like the British, which starts out flat (ahhh), then goes to an Ooo, then the T. Since Americans pronounce the Ahhh, and the T, all they really hear is the Oooo part, which is why they think it sounds odd.
It's really just another case of Americans slurring their speech.
It would be great if there were free Internet access for everyone walking down the street. However, it would be better if you knew that the connection you were riding was authorized by the owner for public use.
Whether they're an idiot or not, if someone puts a wireless AP on their internet connection, broadcasts the SSID, and doesn't turn on MAC filtering, and WEP security, then they're saying, "go ahead and use it."
However, if you have to circumvent any kind of security (clone a MAC address or crack a WEP key), then I'm pretty sure you're doing something that they definitely tried to keep you from doing.
After all, if I leave my front door open, then you're welcome to come in, and take one of the cookies off the table that says, "please feel free to help yourself". But, if the door is shut, you had better well knock, and if the door is locked, it's not because I want you to climb through my window to raid my fridge.
Because we all know what a great storytelling vehicle a good porno is.
True... usually less story is better.
Maybe women's porn then.
A story is a meaning applied to events after they have occured. A game is a game, like sports or a board game. You can only make a story out of it after events have been completed.
Perhaps, but I can still see the technology applied to porn, pretty soon, actually.
Actually, I think that certain products, like software, are helper technologies that increase overall productivity. To make a distinction, if you could get, say, a coffee table for free, then maybe you're hurting the coffee table industry, but if you can get software for free, and people use the software to be more productive, then having a wider spread use of the software because it's free is a good thing.
Coffee tables, on the other hand, tend not to increase anybody's productivity.
On my commute through Detroit, this baby wouldn't make it over the first pot hole!
Does the president/CEO of your company need to know everything thats going on at your company? If you answered yes to that question, then the inverse of that is; do you have any decisionmaking ability whatsoever in your job?
Speaking as a project manager, the answers to those questions are YES/YES. As a manager, I have the power to delegate my decision making authority to those who report to me, and those people become responsible for their actions only to me. I'm still responsible to the person who gave me the job in the first place.
You can delegate your authority, but not your responsibility (though many managers seem to get away with it).
In fact, quantum physics tells us there even if you wanted, you could not create a perfect vacuum as virtual particles would pop up.
Actually, I have a vaccuum in my closet, and it works perfectly. It only seems to deal with the real particles though, not the virtual ones. I'm not much interested in removing the virtual ones anyway.
Plop it down in the middle of any third world nation and it would at worst fit right in, in most cases it would be hailed as an economic miracle.
I'm not sure of that. Many Americans consider Mexico to be a 3rd world nation, but these people we're talking about would probably be better off in Saltillo or Monterrey.
There is no real comparison between what we call "poverty" and what the rest of the world calls "poverty"
Go to rural parts of Mississippi some time.
Although living standards have dramatically improved for all Indians, it is still widely considered to be a third world country.
-Approximately 25% of the Indian population are below the poverty line
-The water supply is so polluted that people must buy or boil their water.
-The poor are discriminated against in education.
-Health care in India? What health care?
So, when reading this, did anyone else think that with the exception of the water supply issue, these are all applicable to the U.S. as well? Obviously not to the same degree, but still.
I am nuts, but unsplitting is not implicit in MWI. How do you unsplit a living and dead cat. In that case there are two different universes that cannot be unsplit.
I don't know anything about quantum mechanics, but I've been following this thread. Isn't the idea that in the cat scenario, the universes are already split, and we just don't know which one we're in until we take the measurement? If we open the box and find a dead cat, there is another universe that already existed where we open the box and the cat is alive.
In this case, the splitting probably happened when the particle that's decaying was formed in the first place. Given that, the universes will never join again.
But why couldn't it be that the decay time is deterministic, but it's determined by something that's far too small for us to measure? Why cling to these multiple worlds to explain Schroedinger's cat?
Now for the interference thing, entangled particles, etc., then I can see a use for it. But I still think we should not throw away any single world explanation, because such a theory would at least have Occam's Razor on its side.
Ok, if life was fair, Linux would have taken off on the desktop a long time ago. The reason would be money. If people could save hundreds of dollars by not buying Windows, and buying Linux instead, Windows would be dead.
The thing is, most home users pay a negligible amount for their windows operating system because it comes bundled at an extremely low price on the computer they buy. If they want to upgrade, and don't want to pay for a licensed copy, they just "borrow" a copy from work, or a friend. Even MS products with supposed copy protection are pathetic, and there are enough cracks out there for anyone to get any MS software for free.
I think that MS deliberately makes their software easy to obtain for free because otherwise, Linux would absolutely dominate the home market, and that would mean businesses could then switch to Linux and save money because everyone is already familiar with it.
The only way for Linux to take off is to give Microsoft some foolproof copy protection scheme, and get them to use it. They'd be signing their own death certificate.
Without getting into the whole 'Canadians are / are not Americans' debate, a whole 32 foreigners helped with the NASA team that put men on the moon? Well golly, that's gotta be more than half, couldn't have taken more than 64 people total to do the entire couple of dozen space shots from Mercury I to the last Apollo mission.
I'm not sure you deserve a reply, since you didn't take the time to read the entire thread so far, but you're getting your tenses mixed up. Nobody claimed more than half of NASA were non-American born at the height of the space race. I was only giving evidence that not ALL were American. The comment about half was made with reference to the current NASA establishment, and I'm tired of doing the work for everyone else - google it yourself.
Just out of curiosity, where exactly were the Germans living when they were the best rocket scientists during the space race? Rhetorical question of course, they were in AMERICA.
So, you're saying there's just something in the water? Is there something in the air that makes them more industrious? They weren't smart until they came to the U.S.? Or is it that there's a super-abundance of resources, plus, at the time, the correct economic environment to support enough industry to support such a huge social undertaking as a space race?
I respect your optimism, but enough countries will have caught up to the U.S. economically in the next couple decades that these firmly held beliefs you have about your absolute superiority in all things is soon to be shattered. The fact that your school system keeps teaching you that you're all perfect and that you're better than everyone else, without actually comparing the U.S. to any other front-running country in any meaningful way is going to bite you in the ass. You can't win a race if you keep you eye on last place.
I've heard several Americans say, "there's nowhere else I'd rather live", but the fact is, even though that may be true, it's meaningless if you haven't actually looked at the real alternatives. When you say that, you're thinking entirely of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Mexico (parts of which are actually nicer than you think). How many Americans have been to Scandinavia, Iceland, England, Canada, or Australia? The reason Americans think that Canada is "just the U.S. and doesn't count" is because they can't fathom the idea that another sovereign nation is just as great a place to live as the U.S.. Even better in many ways. Then they say that Canada wouldn't be as great a place without the U.S. The fact is that the U.S. wouldn't be as great a place without the rest of the world, now would it? You are a trading nation, just like the rest of the nations in the world, and you would have a much lower standard of living if you did not trade.
Where does it say those people are Canadian?
You're right, they weren't all Canadian; a few were British.
Really, do I have to do the googling for you?
In 1963 - 1968? If I had to guess, I would say that a most if not ALL of the tech nerds at NASA were Americans.
:-P
"All", you say? After 48 seconds of googling, I found that at a minimum, 32 of the aerospace engineers were Canadian. From this site:
Many of the engineers who lost their jobs with the Arrow's cancellation went to other aerospace firms, and 32 joined the U.S. space agency NASA, where they helped put American astronauts on the Moon.
What else did your superior U.S. education teach you?
BTW, I thought it was common knowledge that the best rocket scientists in the U.S. during the space race were Germans brought over after WWII.
The NASA engineers that put a man on the moon were not a random cross section of the general US populace.
More than half the technical people working at NASA were not born in the United States. So, you are entirely correct.
Nobody can work more than 8 hours a day for any extended period and be really efficient at it. Anything else is a myth in my experience. You are betraying yourself (perhaps by /.ing to compensate) if you think you're better than that (and if you're not the 1 in a million exception).
I've been working 10 hour days for the last 4 years, and I consistently come in under-budget, on time, and to specification. I also get overtime for those 2 hours a day (straight time).
It's all about what you get used to, and whether or not you like your work. I enjoy my work at least half the time I spend doing it, and that's the key.
They have to have some memory of what happened because the state laws regulate the amount of winnings that has to be paid in relation to the money coming in. It doesn't mean the machine will spit out a $20 every $2341 dollars, but there is a tracking mechanism.
As I understand it, the machines are networked together casino-wide, and the payouts are tracked. If it determines that they need to payout more, then it adjusts the probabilities. However, I always figured they did it across the board, on all machines, not just on the ones that haven't paid out in a while.
Do not take it home.
Amen. The key to this is to learn to accept the things that you have no control over. Hardware will fail, and there will be bugs. Users will do dumb things. You have to accept these things.
When you get that unappreciative call at 3 in the morning, lesson #1 is DON'T BLAME YOURSELF, even if it's your bug. Everyone has bugs in their code. Think like this: there's a problem, and I can be a hero by fixing it. When you fix the problem, make sure you celebrate. Don't put yourself down for not being perfect... congratulate yourself for your dedication and resourcefulness. Nobody else will.
Oh, and another cool trick... go somewhere that your cell phone doesn't work for a couple days. When you get back to the office, or check your voicemail, you'll realize that the world somehow functioned without you. That tends to put things back in perspective.
Or maybe it has just been invalidated?
It's not invalidated until he publishes his findings and explains exactly how he did it, and other people in other places around the world can duplicate his findings.
That's how science works.
Um, his already mediocre ratings did drop by 28% after that episode. There was a huge backlash.
Reference please?
What's the point in knowing what they're talking about. Dubya doesn't.
:-)
In Texas we... um... well, you see in Texas we have a saying... maybe you have a saying here too, but we have this saying, if you shoot a sidewider missile at a mosque, and two guys come running out on fire, then you just killed two arabs with... that is... two bad guys, you know, because they're bad... anyway, you get two guys with one sidewinder missile. That's what we say in Texas. Do you say that here too?
There were many other factors; here are just a few:
Yeah, and don't forget the biggest cause: Canada! We all knew immediately that it was their fault. They probably wrote this software too.