Apparently, it's not so self-evident as you make it seem.
After all, can your "assembly of humans" known as a corporation vote for an elected official?
And with the right of individual humans comes the responsibilities and obligations of individual humans. So should a corporation pay an income tax? It doesn't. It pays a profit tax.
Individuals and assemblies of humans only have equal rights, responsibilities, and obligations in a court of law.
Nice summation on the subject of termination, by the way. If I were a mod today, I'd up you insightful.::Colz Grigor
So now we'll use P2P to shield ourselves from repercussions from false statements about lawmakers, thereby alienating lawmakers. What will they do then? The only thing they'll be able to do: create laws against P2P.
So now we've had two space shuttle catastrophes and, though each catastrophe can be blamed on different individual problems, there is a common theme that they're obviously ignoring.
Winter is a bad time to launch rockets. O-rings freeze and crack overnight. Foam freezes and causes significantly more damage than expected when little bits fall off.
Mid-December is too close to Winter for my tastes. Given the shuttle's notable weather sensitivity, I think launches from Florida should be made only between March and November. Build a Hawaii launchpad and perhaps year-round launches are reasonable, but Florida in mid-December?! These rocket scientist-turned-administrator folks haven't learned a damn thing!
Being unemployed and arriving at a state of unemployment does not necessarily mean that one is collecting unemployment insurance. One could simply be unemployed for six months.
Well done. You were modded down, I see, probably for sounding argumentative, but the fact is, you're probably right. I'm not a chemist, so I'm susceptible to making mistakes like this one:
Kr (Krypton) has a valence of 0. It's a noble gas.
Cr (Cromium) has a valence of 3.
So the rhyme I taught should probably be: HAgLiNaK, HAgLiNaK CuBaCaFePbZnMg AlFeBiNiCr, AlFeBiNiCr SiC SiC SiC
Interesting. Yes, I think Nietzsche can easily be applied to terrorism. The unfortunate aspect of this application to terrorists is that you never know who the monsters will be so you wind up treating everyone remotely like a monster as a monster. This makes it very easy for you to become a monster yourself.
Rather than looking into the abyss, perhaps we're becoming the abyss.
For reference, the original context of my application of Nietzsche was anti-death penalty, something else I feel very strongly about. Now I would be fascinated to learn what Nietzsche's original cotnext was...
My father, a chemical engineer, was forced to learn this chant in his days at RPI. He taught it to me during junior year chemistry in high school. It helped a lot in remembering valences. Heck, without it, I doubt I'd even remember what a valence was...
HAgLiNaK HAgLiNaK CuBaCaFePbZnMg AlFeBiNiKr AlFeBiNiKr SiC SiC SiC
Yeah, so this isn't quite a haiku, but it got me by. Only other thing he taught me from his RPI days, the RPI Cheer: e to the x, dy/dx e to the x, dy cosine, secant, tangent, sine three point one four one five nine square root, cubed root, log of pi disintegrate 'em RPI!
I guess what I really learned was that a bunch of nerds went to RPI.
515.5. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), an employee in the computer software field shall be exempt from the requirement that an overtime rate of compensation be paid pursuant to Section 510 if all of the following apply:
(1) The employee is primarily engaged in work that is intellectual or creative and that requires the exercise of discretion and independent judgment, and the employee is primarily engaged in duties that consist of one or more of the following:
(A) The application of systems analysis techniques and procedures, including consulting with users, to determine hardware, software, or system functional specifications.
(B) The design, development, documentation, analysis, creation, testing, or modification of computer systems or programs, including prototypes, based on and related to, user or system design specifications.
(C) The documentation, testing, creation, or modification of computer programs related to the design of software or hardware for computer operating systems.
(2) The employee is highly skilled and is proficient in the theoretical and practical application of highly specialized information to computer systems analysis, programming, and software engineering. A job title shall not be determinative of the applicability of this exemption.
(3) The employee's hourly rate of pay is not less than forty-one dollars ($41.00). The Division of Labor Statistics and Research shall adjust this pay rate on October 1 of each year to be effective on January 1 of the following year by an amount equal to the percentage increase in the California Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers.
(b) The exemption provided in subdivision (a) does not apply to an employee if any of the following apply:
(1) The employee is a trainee or employee in an entry-level position who is learning to become proficient in the theoretical and practical application of highly specialized information to computer systems analysis, programming, and software engineering.
(2) The employee is in a computer-related occupation but has not attained the level of skill and expertise necessary to work independently and without close supervision.
(3) The employee is engaged in the operation of computers or in the manufacture, repair, or maintenance of computer hardware and related equipment.
(4) The employee is an engineer, drafter, machinist, or other professional whose work is highly dependent upon or facilitated by the use of computers and computer software programs and who is skilled in computer-aided design software, including CAD/CAM, but who is not in a computer systems analysis or programming occupation.
(5) The employee is a writer engaged in writing material, including box labels, product descriptions, documentation, promotional material, setup and installation instructions, and other similar written information, either for print or for onscreen media or who writes or provides content material intended to be read by customers, subscribers, or visitors to computer-related media such as the World Wide Web or CD-Roms.
(6) The employee is engaged in any of the activities set forth in subdivision (a) for the purpose of creating imagery for effects used in the motion picture, television, or theatrical industry.
The law, itself, states that if you earn more than $85,000 a year you are exempted. That's about $40.87 dollars per hour, we're rounding up to $41/hour here.
In order to be compliant, the California organization I work for takes my salary, divides it by 2080 (52 weeks a year and 40 hours a week) and pays me 1.5 * the result for each hour over 40 I work in a week.
I'd still rather be making $85,000 and exempted. Maybe I should offer them to get rid of the hassle by making me exempt?
::Colz Grigor
Shell != ability to run one command at a time
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This CGI program that runs a command via back-ticks (i.e. `ls`) is not a shell by my standards.
A shell is more than the ability to run simple commands; it provides an environment to run commands, maintain a command-line history, spawn processes, store variables, etc.
And any good CGI Shell should also take output from the system command and format it into HTML that will display in a browser the same as it would in the shell.
Am I missing something here, or is this "cgi shell" thing really not newsworthy?
Absolutist statements like this bother me, especially when they are patently untrue or based on conjecture without first stating the assumptions relied on to come to such conclusions.
Because brains do not develop identically, it may be safe to say that the median (i.e. normal) age at which humans are capable of long-term memory is two years, however there are standard deviations and a distribution associated with this, so it is, indeed, possible (althought unlikely) that a memory occurred after nine months of life, and increasingly more likely up to two years of age. And since it's a two-tailed distribution, it's likely some people don't even have long-term memories until they are three or beyond.
I have first-person memories of an event that happened when I was eighteen months old (that's a year-and-a-half for those of you who use the metric system).
It'd be interesting to see if there is any correlation between first memories and the age at which someone learned to read, because both have to do with brain development. I, myself, was reading basic prose at three years of age, which is also earlier than average.
And please, don't mistake my saying that I started remembering or reading earlier than normal to mean that I think myself superior to those who didn't.
If the defense thought Skylarov's comments would have helped their case, they could have called him as a witness. The prosecution doesn't monopolize the calling of witnesses. Evidently, Skylarov's testimony wasn't deemed worthwhile by the defenese attorneys. Considering that they successfully defended the case, should we really be second-guessing them?
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Would that it were so...
Remember that the 14-year-old Kazaa users tend to still be significantly more intelligent than the average population.
Anyone below average scares the crap out of me and, by definition, that's 50% of everyone.
With Microsoft and Dell making computers that any idiot could buy and use (Jeez... just take a look at Dell's spokesperson!), we'll actually have at least half the population buying these copy-protected CDs without thinking twice about Fair Use.
So much for voting with out wallets. We're going to actually have to vote with our votes during every upcoming election. Our best course of action is to educate those that are educable and motivate them to cast their votes every time they have a chance.
It's society's own apathy that's going to wind up allowing..AA to kill digital content.
Hi. I'm the idiot singing along to the radio in the car next to you. Anyone who just listens to their music needs to learn to get more fulfilment from it.
The fact that I sing to the radio when I drive doesn't nullify your point all by itself... the fact is that I probably pay better attention to driving when I'm on my cellphone (hands free) then when I'm using my steering wheel as a snare and high hat...
Sent a similar message to the author, Don Norman. Received this reply:
Thanks for writing.
My house is tainted by the essay and the discussions we have had.
So I'll let you do the experiment.
Good luck.
Thanks for writing
Okay, fine.
I went to work today, where we have dual side-by-side dispensers. I noticed that in one of the stalls, the paper was precisely as I suggested it should be for this experiment but reversed: the closer roll was over to the back while the further roll was over to the front.
Interestingly enough, the further roll was nearly empty and the closer roll was nearly full.
So there's data point #1, confirming my theory. Can anyone else add data points?
It has been addressed as humor in response to this essay, however I think it an interesting point...
Perhaps the answer has something to do with whether the paper is dispensed over the top toward the front or over the top toward the back.
This puts in question the author's premise in the first place. He states there are three possible functions for the use of toilet paper. Algorithm large Algorithm small Algorithm random
Perhaps, even before these algorithms are addressed, the directionality of the toilet paper is of ultimate concern.
This is to say that the author's algorithms might be correct if both rolls of toilet paper are equal, but the purpose of the forcing function is to make the rolls of toilet paper unequal.
So I ask: what would happen if, on a dual roll of toilet paper, the closer roll was over the top toward the user and the further roll was over the top and away. This would make the first roll more accessable and therefore might possibly resolve the whole issue.
Only to add confusion to this issue, I would like to add that no matter how you put the toilet paper on the dispenser, the toilet paper is always over the top.
It's just a question of whether it's over the top loose end toward you or over the top loose end away from you.
Perspective.
And I believe over the top loose end toward is correct.
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Apparently, it's not so self-evident as you make it seem.
::Colz Grigor
After all, can your "assembly of humans" known as a corporation vote for an elected official?
And with the right of individual humans comes the responsibilities and obligations of individual humans. So should a corporation pay an income tax? It doesn't. It pays a profit tax.
Individuals and assemblies of humans only have equal rights, responsibilities, and obligations in a court of law.
Nice summation on the subject of termination, by the way. If I were a mod today, I'd up you insightful.
Brilliant, people. Just brilliant.
F_____y, I'm r____r b___n a__y by t_e f__t t__t I h_d no p_____m. T__s is f_________g r______h!
Editor: just for your reference: Apostrophe Grammar Guide.
Winter is a bad time to launch rockets. O-rings freeze and crack overnight. Foam freezes and causes significantly more damage than expected when little bits fall off.
Mid-December is too close to Winter for my tastes. Given the shuttle's notable weather sensitivity, I think launches from Florida should be made only between March and November. Build a Hawaii launchpad and perhaps year-round launches are reasonable, but Florida in mid-December?! These rocket scientist-turned-administrator folks haven't learned a damn thing!
As I recall, first generation Pentium 60s couldn't even do that on their own.
Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde, if memory serves me right.
No flames, just edification.
Kr (Krypton) has a valence of 0. It's a noble gas.
Cr (Cromium) has a valence of 3.
So the rhyme I taught should probably be:
HAgLiNaK, HAgLiNaK
CuBaCaFePbZnMg
AlFeBiNiCr, AlFeBiNiCr
SiC SiC SiC
Pronounced the same way, of course.
I appreciate your catching my error. Thanks.
Rather than looking into the abyss, perhaps we're becoming the abyss.
For reference, the original context of my application of Nietzsche was anti-death penalty, something else I feel very strongly about. Now I would be fascinated to learn what Nietzsche's original cotnext was...
HAgLiNaK HAgLiNaK
CuBaCaFePbZnMg
AlFeBiNiKr AlFeBiNiKr
SiC SiC SiC
Phoenetically:
Haglinak, haglinak
koobakafapibzinmig
alfabiniker alfabiniker
sick sick sick
Yeah, so this isn't quite a haiku, but it got me by. Only other thing he taught me from his RPI days, the RPI Cheer:
e to the x, dy/dx
e to the x, dy
cosine, secant, tangent, sine
three point one four one five nine
square root, cubed root, log of pi
disintegrate 'em RPI!
I guess what I really learned was that a bunch of nerds went to RPI.
515.5. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), an employee in
the computer software field shall be exempt from the requirement that
an overtime rate of compensation be paid pursuant to Section 510 if
all of the following apply:
(1) The employee is primarily engaged in work that is intellectual
or creative and that requires the exercise of discretion and
independent judgment, and the employee is primarily engaged in duties
that consist of one or more of the following:
(A) The application of systems analysis techniques and procedures,
including consulting with users, to determine hardware, software, or
system functional specifications.
(B) The design, development, documentation, analysis, creation,
testing, or modification of computer systems or programs, including
prototypes, based on and related to, user or system design
specifications.
(C) The documentation, testing, creation, or modification of
computer programs related to the design of software or hardware for
computer operating systems.
(2) The employee is highly skilled and is proficient in the
theoretical and practical application of highly specialized
information to computer systems analysis, programming, and software
engineering. A job title shall not be determinative of the
applicability of this exemption.
(3) The employee's hourly rate of pay is not less than forty-one
dollars ($41.00). The Division of Labor Statistics and Research
shall adjust this pay rate on October 1 of each year to be effective
on January 1 of the following year by an amount equal to the
percentage increase in the California Consumer Price Index for Urban
Wage Earners and Clerical Workers.
(b) The exemption provided in subdivision (a) does not apply to an
employee if any of the following apply:
(1) The employee is a trainee or employee in an entry-level
position who is learning to become proficient in the theoretical and
practical application of highly specialized information to computer
systems analysis, programming, and software engineering.
(2) The employee is in a computer-related occupation but has not
attained the level of skill and expertise necessary to work
independently and without close supervision.
(3) The employee is engaged in the operation of computers or in
the manufacture, repair, or maintenance of computer hardware and
related equipment.
(4) The employee is an engineer, drafter, machinist, or other
professional whose work is highly dependent upon or facilitated by
the use of computers and computer software programs and who is
skilled in computer-aided design software, including CAD/CAM, but who
is not in a computer systems analysis or programming occupation.
(5) The employee is a writer engaged in writing material,
including box labels, product descriptions, documentation,
promotional material, setup and installation instructions, and other
similar written information, either for print or for onscreen media
or who writes or provides content material intended to be read by
customers, subscribers, or visitors to computer-related media such as
the World Wide Web or CD-Roms.
(6) The employee is engaged in any of the activities set forth in
subdivision (a) for the purpose of creating imagery for effects used
in the motion picture, television, or theatrical industry.
It is, indeed, $41.00 per hour, not $85,000 per year.
When I first heard of this law, months ago, I did the math and twisted it around in my mind.
The rest of my statement remains factual to the best of my knowledge.
The law, itself, states that if you earn more than $85,000 a year you are exempted. That's about $40.87 dollars per hour, we're rounding up to $41/hour here.
In order to be compliant, the California organization I work for takes my salary, divides it by 2080 (52 weeks a year and 40 hours a week) and pays me 1.5 * the result for each hour over 40 I work in a week.
I'd still rather be making $85,000 and exempted. Maybe I should offer them to get rid of the hassle by making me exempt?
A shell is more than the ability to run simple commands; it provides an environment to run commands, maintain a command-line history, spawn processes, store variables, etc.
And any good CGI Shell should also take output from the system command and format it into HTML that will display in a browser the same as it would in the shell.
Am I missing something here, or is this "cgi shell" thing really not newsworthy?
The whole thing is over a guy who found out how to watch some DVDs that he bought and wanted to let others know that they could, too.
Even so, yes, the whole thing is insane.
Because brains do not develop identically, it may be safe to say that the median (i.e. normal) age at which humans are capable of long-term memory is two years, however there are standard deviations and a distribution associated with this, so it is, indeed, possible (althought unlikely) that a memory occurred after nine months of life, and increasingly more likely up to two years of age. And since it's a two-tailed distribution, it's likely some people don't even have long-term memories until they are three or beyond.
I have first-person memories of an event that happened when I was eighteen months old (that's a year-and-a-half for those of you who use the metric system).
It'd be interesting to see if there is any correlation between first memories and the age at which someone learned to read, because both have to do with brain development. I, myself, was reading basic prose at three years of age, which is also earlier than average.
And please, don't mistake my saying that I started remembering or reading earlier than normal to mean that I think myself superior to those who didn't.
Remember that the 14-year-old Kazaa users tend to still be significantly more intelligent than the average population.
Anyone below average scares the crap out of me and, by definition, that's 50% of everyone.
With Microsoft and Dell making computers that any idiot could buy and use (Jeez... just take a look at Dell's spokesperson!), we'll actually have at least half the population buying these copy-protected CDs without thinking twice about Fair Use.
So much for voting with out wallets. We're going to actually have to vote with our votes during every upcoming election. Our best course of action is to educate those that are educable and motivate them to cast their votes every time they have a chance.
It's society's own apathy that's going to wind up allowing
Hi. I'm the idiot singing along to the radio in the car next to you. Anyone who just listens to their music needs to learn to get more fulfilment from it.
The fact that I sing to the radio when I drive doesn't nullify your point all by itself... the fact is that I probably pay better attention to driving when I'm on my cellphone (hands free) then when I'm using my steering wheel as a snare and high hat...
Thanks for writing.
My house is tainted by the essay and the discussions we have had.
So I'll let you do the experiment.
Good luck.
Thanks for writing
Okay, fine.
I went to work today, where we have dual side-by-side dispensers. I noticed that in one of the stalls, the paper was precisely as I suggested it should be for this experiment but reversed: the closer roll was over to the back while the further roll was over to the front.
Interestingly enough, the further roll was nearly empty and the closer roll was nearly full.
So there's data point #1, confirming my theory. Can anyone else add data points?
Perhaps the answer has something to do with whether the paper is dispensed over the top toward the front or over the top toward the back.
This puts in question the author's premise in the first place. He states there are three possible functions for the use of toilet paper.
Algorithm large
Algorithm small
Algorithm random
Perhaps, even before these algorithms are addressed, the directionality of the toilet paper is of ultimate concern.
This is to say that the author's algorithms might be correct if both rolls of toilet paper are equal, but the purpose of the forcing function is to make the rolls of toilet paper unequal.
So I ask: what would happen if, on a dual roll of toilet paper, the closer roll was over the top toward the user and the further roll was over the top and away. This would make the first roll more accessable and therefore might possibly resolve the whole issue.
And I'm not even a computer scientist!
It's just a question of whether it's over the top loose end toward you or over the top loose end away from you.
Perspective.
And I believe over the top loose end toward is correct.