Define minority please. Heck, for that matter these days, define women!
This is baloney. I don't give a rat's ass about a programmer's sex, color, background, etc. I care that they like what they do and that they do a good job of it, without being offensive to the team. Frankly, I care more if they smoke or wear too much cologne and come in stinking up the office several times a day.
Redbox tried the $2 rental a while ago, what 1 or 2 years back? They lost so much business they put it back to $1. Added Blu-ray for $1.50, I have no idea how that's going for them.
I like renting for a buck from them. I haven't used them much since signing up for Netflix streaming only, unless I really want to see an almost new release, since they have to wait a month to rent them (lame!).
Will I spend $1.20 to preview a movie before buying it? Probably. Will I spend it as often? No.
It's known that gravity affects light. Perhaps gravity's impact on neutrinos is less than that on light, and thus the mass of the star going supernova kept the light back slightly from the neutrinos.
I wonder if the scientists in this test adjusted for the relative effect of the target moving. If two beams of light traveling in opposite directions could observe each other's speed, they'd think the opposing beam was going double the speed of light. Likewise, the rotation of the Earth during the measurement could conceivably impact the measurement if they judge the physical distance at an instant vs. distance actually covered during the transmission. It's all very minute calculations, but hey, that's what they are dealing with!
As a long time user of KDE (12 years or so) I finally got sick of the bugs - especially from 4.
I decided to try out Gnome a year and a half ago on one of my desktops. I've taken my time adjusting to it, and have come to appreciate it. It. Just. Works.
Myriad networking issues? No more. Enabling Compiz? No sweat. I just finished converting my last machine to Gnome two nights ago. My computer is like new, seems much less bloated.
I've always thought KDE was a good switch for Windows users, and Gnome for Mac. My kids, lol, get to start with Gnome.
Folks who say KDE is stable and proven? Crazy. True, it doesn't bail out like Windows, and it does work...mostly. Admittedly, perhaps it is my distro's implementation of it. Who knows. However, I'm much happier with stable, functional, usable, and friendly Gnome than 'pretty' with KDE.
Someday, in a few years, maybe I'll consider KDE again. If they've actually prioritized bug fixes over eye candy - especially networking. It'd be nice if they threw in audio preview too, like Nautilus - I find that handy.
If only there were a unified, simple way to install it.
I spent hours yesterday trying to get flash on a 32 bit FF5 in a 64 bit system. Read every friggin' article and how-to I could find, just in case I was being retarded.
Finally gave up. Screw it. Can live without it.
Obviously I'm not the only one utterly convinced that the optional part is a complete sham.
What a thin cover story for an attempt to embed bomb sniffing devices in something everyone carries, in the name of greater security.
Folks at a rocketry convention would see men in black in no time flat if they 'forgot' to register their event with the monitors.
1986.
I don't know...how old the earth is, or how that question relates to my statement. Sounds like bait.
/me bites
I don't appreciate someone telling me it's a fact that the earth is 7 thousand years old, or 7 billion years old, as if it's a fact when no one can prove beyond doubt either way. There are theories of evolution, of creation. Once you write one way or the other as fact, you are telling others how to think, and they tend to cease thinking for themselves. It's a kind of lie, to tell someone that *this* is how something *is*, when it isn't demonstrable fact.
I'll add that personally, I choose to believe in the theory of Creation, the Bible, the Flood, and that the earth is approximately 7-10 thousand years old. But I don't _know_ that, and can't prove it. After extensive reading of both sides of the arguments, it is simply the theory I choose to believe. I like the USA because here I am free to believe that if I want to. I hope this country maintains it's religious freedoms. But if I'm writing a professional publication, I ought to be careful to express it as a theory, as I certainly can't prove it.
So, I'm not complaining that they believe the theory of mass-extinction via asteroid - that's their prerogative. I'm complaining that they are pushing their theory as fact, when it isn't fact, but is still theory.
I find it interesting that this article is written as if the theory of an asteroid strike causing a mass extinction had been proven as a fact.
Theory != fact! C'mon people.
These requirements are absolutely insane! I saw them and immediately reversed my decision to apply to party.
Effectively they will own you and your family. There is nothing to stop them from using your personal information to get credit in your name.
Interestingly, you are also granting them, their associates, and anyone they want to transfer the right to, irrevocable permission to use anything recorded about you or your family by anyone else at anytime for any reason. I wonder how that passes copyright muster. How does one grant permission for them to use someone else's work?
Running a data center in a low humidity location for 10 months doesn't reflect real-world data center life, making this study basically worthless.
Heat reduces the life of electronics. Run the experiment in somewhere of ~average~ humidity, for the typical lifespan of a data center and then compare the results. We keep our servers between five and ten years depending on the application. The cost savings will be dramatically impacted if we have to buy new servers twice as often. If people are to adopt this, they need to know how well it will work well in varying conditions.
FWIW, I used to work for a major chipset company. We'd test all our hardware from 0C to 60C ambient temperature. Too cold can cause problems just as too hot can. Humidity can also contribute to corrosion, regardless of condensation, which also causes problems. What hardware is used also makes a difference - PSU's and drives often have a harder time taking the higher temps.
Also, inconsistent temperatures (warmer in the day, cooler at night) can contribute to broken contacts due to the tiny amounts of expansion/contraction that would occur every day.
Monster.com - They even have those annoying requests for information that have asked for SSN before! Of course, nothing (not even login) is https. They've recently forced stricter passwords to increase security, but they didn't seem interested when I pointed out they should use ssl to improve login security. The rep I spoke with says, of course it's secure! When you type in your password it shows stars instead of the password.
Yeppers - definitely a problem in my organization. They don't want to risk liability that might be associated with our organization giving away or selling a computer. Tied to the terrible of things with frivolous lawsuits.
So we sell or give away a laptop. Turns out it has one of the 'exploding/fireball' batteries, but never acted up while we used it. It blows up/burns down the house of the person who got it. They sue us because we sold/gave it to them and they want to blame us. Ugh.
I work for a city entity in California, and my coworkers and I frequently lament the terrible way disposal of equipment is done.
Sometimes good equipment that is retired sits around until it is so old it's ready for the museum (I just tossed a few 386 PC's with 20MB drives!). Other times, we have equipment retired that has basically never been used.
There are so many good things to do with this stuff, but the problem boils down to the taxpayers. They come after the City every once in a while and want to know exactly what we've done with stuff. Some taxpayers want it donated, some want it sold. But if we give it away, the ones who want it sold will have a fit, because maybe we could have made a little money and taxed them less. If we sell it, the ones who want it donated gripe that it wouldn't have cost us anything to give it to someone who needs it. As a City, we are accountable to the taxpayers, and it is impossible to satisfy them all. So the process is largely undocumented, undecided, and mired in politics.
Since I was a kid I've proposed Einstein was wrong about mass increasing as you approach the speed of light.
Consider this:
People used to think it was impossible to break the sound barrier. We discovered that as someone approached the speed of sound there was a force acting back on them -- a collection of sound energy in front of them that impeded greater speed, until finally we put enough force in to break through the 'barrier' and go faster than sound.
I think light, while a more complex form of energy than sound, would have a similar but probably much stronger effect. As an object approaches the speed of light, it would require a significant amount of force to break through the energy wall in front of it before exceeding that velocity. That would give the effect described by Einstein -- because of the energy force in front of the object, it would seems as if you were dumping more and more energy into the object and having a harder and harder time making it go faster - it would feel like the mass was increasing with the speed of the object. But really, it is the force back upon the object from the wall of energy that is making it harder to accelerate, not an increased mass.
Given the nature of light, it would be very interesting to see what would happen when something exceeds the speed of light. I think a black hole is just a location where an object of enough density/mass can accelerate stuff around it faster than the speed of light.
I enjoy fixing laptops like that...fix 'em, install a nice linux distro on them that runs quickly on an older machine, and give them away to kids. I fixed up a P3 for my 4 yr old, she's playing with Mandriva and loving it.
Heck, it'd do the job for some college kids too who don't have one and could use one for actual work (not much of a gaming rig).
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Define minority please. Heck, for that matter these days, define women! This is baloney. I don't give a rat's ass about a programmer's sex, color, background, etc. I care that they like what they do and that they do a good job of it, without being offensive to the team. Frankly, I care more if they smoke or wear too much cologne and come in stinking up the office several times a day.
...like the time I was asked to code a PHP JSON to XML interpreter while the interviewer watched? Without using existing libraries...
I had no idea the theory of an asteroid impact had been proven as fact. Glad I read slashdot so I can stay educated.
C'mon, if the guy can't figure out how to hunt for a job, I wouldn't hire him...he doesn't deserve it.
Redbox tried the $2 rental a while ago, what 1 or 2 years back? They lost so much business they put it back to $1. Added Blu-ray for $1.50, I have no idea how that's going for them. I like renting for a buck from them. I haven't used them much since signing up for Netflix streaming only, unless I really want to see an almost new release, since they have to wait a month to rent them (lame!). Will I spend $1.20 to preview a movie before buying it? Probably. Will I spend it as often? No.
It's known that gravity affects light. Perhaps gravity's impact on neutrinos is less than that on light, and thus the mass of the star going supernova kept the light back slightly from the neutrinos. I wonder if the scientists in this test adjusted for the relative effect of the target moving. If two beams of light traveling in opposite directions could observe each other's speed, they'd think the opposing beam was going double the speed of light. Likewise, the rotation of the Earth during the measurement could conceivably impact the measurement if they judge the physical distance at an instant vs. distance actually covered during the transmission. It's all very minute calculations, but hey, that's what they are dealing with!
As a long time user of KDE (12 years or so) I finally got sick of the bugs - especially from 4. I decided to try out Gnome a year and a half ago on one of my desktops. I've taken my time adjusting to it, and have come to appreciate it. It. Just. Works. Myriad networking issues? No more. Enabling Compiz? No sweat. I just finished converting my last machine to Gnome two nights ago. My computer is like new, seems much less bloated. I've always thought KDE was a good switch for Windows users, and Gnome for Mac. My kids, lol, get to start with Gnome. Folks who say KDE is stable and proven? Crazy. True, it doesn't bail out like Windows, and it does work...mostly. Admittedly, perhaps it is my distro's implementation of it. Who knows. However, I'm much happier with stable, functional, usable, and friendly Gnome than 'pretty' with KDE. Someday, in a few years, maybe I'll consider KDE again. If they've actually prioritized bug fixes over eye candy - especially networking. It'd be nice if they threw in audio preview too, like Nautilus - I find that handy.
If only there were a unified, simple way to install it. I spent hours yesterday trying to get flash on a 32 bit FF5 in a 64 bit system. Read every friggin' article and how-to I could find, just in case I was being retarded. Finally gave up. Screw it. Can live without it.
Obviously I'm not the only one utterly convinced that the optional part is a complete sham. What a thin cover story for an attempt to embed bomb sniffing devices in something everyone carries, in the name of greater security. Folks at a rocketry convention would see men in black in no time flat if they 'forgot' to register their event with the monitors. 1986.
Only bad, evil deer hide from the hunters. The ones that aren't doing anything wrong have nothing to worry about!
Wow...I guess it's up to the citizens of Monticello to poke the telco in the eye again, and boycott their service for being dweebs.
I don't know...how old the earth is, or how that question relates to my statement. Sounds like bait.
/me bites
I don't appreciate someone telling me it's a fact that the earth is 7 thousand years old, or 7 billion years old, as if it's a fact when no one can prove beyond doubt either way. There are theories of evolution, of creation. Once you write one way or the other as fact, you are telling others how to think, and they tend to cease thinking for themselves. It's a kind of lie, to tell someone that *this* is how something *is*, when it isn't demonstrable fact.
I'll add that personally, I choose to believe in the theory of Creation, the Bible, the Flood, and that the earth is approximately 7-10 thousand years old. But I don't _know_ that, and can't prove it. After extensive reading of both sides of the arguments, it is simply the theory I choose to believe. I like the USA because here I am free to believe that if I want to. I hope this country maintains it's religious freedoms. But if I'm writing a professional publication, I ought to be careful to express it as a theory, as I certainly can't prove it.
So, I'm not complaining that they believe the theory of mass-extinction via asteroid - that's their prerogative. I'm complaining that they are pushing their theory as fact, when it isn't fact, but is still theory.
I find it interesting that this article is written as if the theory of an asteroid strike causing a mass extinction had been proven as a fact. Theory != fact! C'mon people.
These requirements are absolutely insane! I saw them and immediately reversed my decision to apply to party. Effectively they will own you and your family. There is nothing to stop them from using your personal information to get credit in your name. Interestingly, you are also granting them, their associates, and anyone they want to transfer the right to, irrevocable permission to use anything recorded about you or your family by anyone else at anytime for any reason. I wonder how that passes copyright muster. How does one grant permission for them to use someone else's work?
Running a data center in a low humidity location for 10 months doesn't reflect real-world data center life, making this study basically worthless. Heat reduces the life of electronics. Run the experiment in somewhere of ~average~ humidity, for the typical lifespan of a data center and then compare the results. We keep our servers between five and ten years depending on the application. The cost savings will be dramatically impacted if we have to buy new servers twice as often. If people are to adopt this, they need to know how well it will work well in varying conditions. FWIW, I used to work for a major chipset company. We'd test all our hardware from 0C to 60C ambient temperature. Too cold can cause problems just as too hot can. Humidity can also contribute to corrosion, regardless of condensation, which also causes problems. What hardware is used also makes a difference - PSU's and drives often have a harder time taking the higher temps. Also, inconsistent temperatures (warmer in the day, cooler at night) can contribute to broken contacts due to the tiny amounts of expansion/contraction that would occur every day.
Monster.com - They even have those annoying requests for information that have asked for SSN before! Of course, nothing (not even login) is https. They've recently forced stricter passwords to increase security, but they didn't seem interested when I pointed out they should use ssl to improve login security. The rep I spoke with says, of course it's secure! When you type in your password it shows stars instead of the password.
Yeppers - definitely a problem in my organization. They don't want to risk liability that might be associated with our organization giving away or selling a computer. Tied to the terrible of things with frivolous lawsuits. So we sell or give away a laptop. Turns out it has one of the 'exploding/fireball' batteries, but never acted up while we used it. It blows up/burns down the house of the person who got it. They sue us because we sold/gave it to them and they want to blame us. Ugh.
I work for a city entity in California, and my coworkers and I frequently lament the terrible way disposal of equipment is done. Sometimes good equipment that is retired sits around until it is so old it's ready for the museum (I just tossed a few 386 PC's with 20MB drives!). Other times, we have equipment retired that has basically never been used. There are so many good things to do with this stuff, but the problem boils down to the taxpayers. They come after the City every once in a while and want to know exactly what we've done with stuff. Some taxpayers want it donated, some want it sold. But if we give it away, the ones who want it sold will have a fit, because maybe we could have made a little money and taxed them less. If we sell it, the ones who want it donated gripe that it wouldn't have cost us anything to give it to someone who needs it. As a City, we are accountable to the taxpayers, and it is impossible to satisfy them all. So the process is largely undocumented, undecided, and mired in politics.
Since I was a kid I've proposed Einstein was wrong about mass increasing as you approach the speed of light. Consider this: People used to think it was impossible to break the sound barrier. We discovered that as someone approached the speed of sound there was a force acting back on them -- a collection of sound energy in front of them that impeded greater speed, until finally we put enough force in to break through the 'barrier' and go faster than sound. I think light, while a more complex form of energy than sound, would have a similar but probably much stronger effect. As an object approaches the speed of light, it would require a significant amount of force to break through the energy wall in front of it before exceeding that velocity. That would give the effect described by Einstein -- because of the energy force in front of the object, it would seems as if you were dumping more and more energy into the object and having a harder and harder time making it go faster - it would feel like the mass was increasing with the speed of the object. But really, it is the force back upon the object from the wall of energy that is making it harder to accelerate, not an increased mass. Given the nature of light, it would be very interesting to see what would happen when something exceeds the speed of light. I think a black hole is just a location where an object of enough density/mass can accelerate stuff around it faster than the speed of light.
I enjoy fixing laptops like that...fix 'em, install a nice linux distro on them that runs quickly on an older machine, and give them away to kids. I fixed up a P3 for my 4 yr old, she's playing with Mandriva and loving it. Heck, it'd do the job for some college kids too who don't have one and could use one for actual work (not much of a gaming rig).