I mean you can search the usenet archives on Google Groups. I know I have and have found stuff I wrote 20 years ago. (Man, hard to believe I've been on the net for 20 years.)
Yes I get that they're wicked smart, they're nuclear physcists and all. However since probably none of that is applicable what does having a bunch of super smart newbies get you? (I'd rather have one smart guy with relevant experience than a bunch of geniuses who are trying to learn it while they're working.)
True and it boils down to the 3 laws of politicians
1: If a politician's lips move he's lying
2: He or she is full of shit, the only question is human, bull, dog, or horse.
3: Yes, laws 1 and 2 are true of your favorite politician too.
Why yes, I am a bit jaded and cynical.
At least in my high school the principal actually looked around for excuses to give people detention. (I heard he was a frustrated ex-cop but never found out if that was true.) Come to think of it he once tried to keep a disabled kid out of school, the state wasn't too happy about that one.
Thanks for the clarification. Still I don't expect them to repave it anytime soon. (Actually looking at the article it's from a year ago and they haven't started on my end of 24. Oh I wouldn't have complained if they stuck to old proven technologies for painting. (I'd at least hope if they're going to use new techniques it's because they're cheaper or something. Actually I'm of the opinion that bleeding edge is for suckers.)
We're talking about a state that used the wrong glue on the big dig to deadly results. Hell, when they were painting the lines for RT 24 they used the wrong paint. (They managed to find a paint that eats asphalt. You should see it, all these gouges up a couple miles of highway everywhere there used to be a white line. I wonder how much that cost to fix.) Yeah, against that I figure Texas has a really good shot at having the first working offshore wind plant. (Yes, I live in Massachusetts.)
Because I remember reading some programmer complain about this on bug reporting web site like 10 years ago.(I think it was bugwatch.com) The guy said he had 20 years of experience and ran into it and thought it was a bug in Java.
Anyway to be serious this didn't really catch me because I've taken chemistry 101. Oddly enough part of that courses was significant figures. Once you're used to sig figs you kind of get why it's not a big deal that the values seem a bit "off".
I was talking to a co-worker about this a couple years ago. What I was hoping would come out is a GPS device that would display on your windshield. When you are driving down the road that path would actually "light up" while you're driving on it. When you come to an intersection and need to know which particular street you need to go down that one would light up. Of course it'd have to be smart enough to let cars and obstacles show through.
Basically last I checked profit from oil companies is around 10% which isn't anything spectacular. The reason oil companies make so much money is volume, we really do use alot of oil. (Over 100 billion gallons per year for the US alone. To put that in perspective the entire US beer industry produces under 10 billion gallons of beer.) Yeah I know, I expected to be mod-ed down for this. (You know for not joining in the "Fuck the oil companies" point of view which is heresy on slashdot.)
Salt for one simple reason. He's an anti-vax loon. Worse, he's a conspiracy believing anti-vax loon.(I know, this is basically ad-hom but give me a break. When you start spouting conspiracies I just stop taking anything you say seriously)
I mean if the side effects are really as non-existant as it sounds in the article(but it probably isn't.) that makes me wonder about something. Could pretty much every healthy adult just take this medicine daily? Seriously, if there was a pill that you could take every morning and the end result of taking it was you can't get cancer and it had minimal side effects I think alot of people would take that as a preventative. (Even if the medicine was 5-10 dollars a day. I know I would if there was something like that and it had been tested thoroughly.
Really? I had them too but it didn't give me headaches/nausea or anything like that. (I got that from Doom and Wolf 3d.) It did work better for some games than others didn't it? (I mean Missle Defense 3-d looked nice but I didn't think it added much to Space Harrier 3d)
That the Sega Master System had 3D games using those same liquid crystal shutter glasses and it had them over 20 years ago. Oh, and you didn't need a special TV to use the glasses. (Although the frame rate was 30FPS and not 60FPS like this thing.)
Because at least in my career the 2 worst coders I ever saw wouldn't listen to anybody else. (I mean I was giving them good advice but they just wouldn't listen.)
I read Old man and the Sea and all I could think was Hemmingway got contracted for a novel of at least 100 pages so he took a 20 page short story he wrote one day when he wasn't drunk and padded it out alot by repeating writing "Gee, the sea looked nice today." Either that or he wanted to get across that fishing is boring and nothing happens most of the time by writing a book that was boring and nothing happened most of the time. (Seriously though, I can't believe that thing won a Nobel prize. oh well "De gustibus non est disputandum")
It's specifically a list of accidents with nuclear weapons, not just any old nuclear accidents. (Just mentioning that since there are some of those in the military as well. For example the SL-1 which is notable since it killed 3 people, including one guy who got accidently nailed to the ceiling.)
I mean given that people often confuse ant-eaters and aardvarks for each other. At least one species of ant-eater is actually quite dangerous. More specifically the giant ant-eater can and has killed people. (Of course being more than 100 lbs and having claws several inches long that it uses to rip into ant mounts that are as hard as concrete that's not that much of a surprise.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_ant_eater
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proof? Believe it or not Einstein http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogue_Concerning_the_Two_Chief_World_Systems . Come to think of it I don't think I ever read in a history book about the pope being Galileo's college drinking buddy.
Because if anybody could get a machine infected it'd be him.
That's stupid. I use my computer all the time and it never disrup zzzzzzzzzzzz
I mean you can search the usenet archives on Google Groups. I know I have and have found stuff I wrote 20 years ago. (Man, hard to believe I've been on the net for 20 years.)
Yes I get that they're wicked smart, they're nuclear physcists and all. However since probably none of that is applicable what does having a bunch of super smart newbies get you? (I'd rather have one smart guy with relevant experience than a bunch of geniuses who are trying to learn it while they're working.)
True and it boils down to the 3 laws of politicians 1: If a politician's lips move he's lying 2: He or she is full of shit, the only question is human, bull, dog, or horse. 3: Yes, laws 1 and 2 are true of your favorite politician too. Why yes, I am a bit jaded and cynical.
At least in my high school the principal actually looked around for excuses to give people detention. (I heard he was a frustrated ex-cop but never found out if that was true.) Come to think of it he once tried to keep a disabled kid out of school, the state wasn't too happy about that one.
Thanks for the clarification. Still I don't expect them to repave it anytime soon. (Actually looking at the article it's from a year ago and they haven't started on my end of 24. Oh I wouldn't have complained if they stuck to old proven technologies for painting. (I'd at least hope if they're going to use new techniques it's because they're cheaper or something. Actually I'm of the opinion that bleeding edge is for suckers.)
We're talking about a state that used the wrong glue on the big dig to deadly results. Hell, when they were painting the lines for RT 24 they used the wrong paint. (They managed to find a paint that eats asphalt. You should see it, all these gouges up a couple miles of highway everywhere there used to be a white line. I wonder how much that cost to fix.) Yeah, against that I figure Texas has a really good shot at having the first working offshore wind plant. (Yes, I live in Massachusetts.)
Because I remember reading some programmer complain about this on bug reporting web site like 10 years ago.(I think it was bugwatch.com) The guy said he had 20 years of experience and ran into it and thought it was a bug in Java. Anyway to be serious this didn't really catch me because I've taken chemistry 101. Oddly enough part of that courses was significant figures. Once you're used to sig figs you kind of get why it's not a big deal that the values seem a bit "off".
I was talking to a co-worker about this a couple years ago. What I was hoping would come out is a GPS device that would display on your windshield. When you are driving down the road that path would actually "light up" while you're driving on it. When you come to an intersection and need to know which particular street you need to go down that one would light up. Of course it'd have to be smart enough to let cars and obstacles show through.
Basically last I checked profit from oil companies is around 10% which isn't anything spectacular. The reason oil companies make so much money is volume, we really do use alot of oil. (Over 100 billion gallons per year for the US alone. To put that in perspective the entire US beer industry produces under 10 billion gallons of beer.) Yeah I know, I expected to be mod-ed down for this. (You know for not joining in the "Fuck the oil companies" point of view which is heresy on slashdot.)
Salt for one simple reason. He's an anti-vax loon. Worse, he's a conspiracy believing anti-vax loon.(I know, this is basically ad-hom but give me a break. When you start spouting conspiracies I just stop taking anything you say seriously)
I mean if the side effects are really as non-existant as it sounds in the article(but it probably isn't.) that makes me wonder about something. Could pretty much every healthy adult just take this medicine daily? Seriously, if there was a pill that you could take every morning and the end result of taking it was you can't get cancer and it had minimal side effects I think alot of people would take that as a preventative. (Even if the medicine was 5-10 dollars a day. I know I would if there was something like that and it had been tested thoroughly.
Really? I had them too but it didn't give me headaches/nausea or anything like that. (I got that from Doom and Wolf 3d.) It did work better for some games than others didn't it? (I mean Missle Defense 3-d looked nice but I didn't think it added much to Space Harrier 3d)
That the Sega Master System had 3D games using those same liquid crystal shutter glasses and it had them over 20 years ago. Oh, and you didn't need a special TV to use the glasses. (Although the frame rate was 30FPS and not 60FPS like this thing.)
I live in a world where some people consider actually consider 4' 33" to be "art". (Go ahead, look that one up.)
You know, something like "Those that can do, those that can't teach, and those that can't even teach become school administrators"
Because at least in my career the 2 worst coders I ever saw wouldn't listen to anybody else. (I mean I was giving them good advice but they just wouldn't listen.)
I read Old man and the Sea and all I could think was Hemmingway got contracted for a novel of at least 100 pages so he took a 20 page short story he wrote one day when he wasn't drunk and padded it out alot by repeating writing "Gee, the sea looked nice today." Either that or he wanted to get across that fishing is boring and nothing happens most of the time by writing a book that was boring and nothing happened most of the time. (Seriously though, I can't believe that thing won a Nobel prize. oh well "De gustibus non est disputandum")
I mean you can always point out no matter how terrible the book is you can always rip out a few pages and use them to start a fire.
You know, the first half of the procedure as the glass goes in. You have to wait a day or 2 for the second half.
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It's specifically a list of accidents with nuclear weapons, not just any old nuclear accidents. (Just mentioning that since there are some of those in the military as well. For example the SL-1 which is notable since it killed 3 people, including one guy who got accidently nailed to the ceiling.)
I mean given that people often confuse ant-eaters and aardvarks for each other. At least one species of ant-eater is actually quite dangerous. More specifically the giant ant-eater can and has killed people. (Of course being more than 100 lbs and having claws several inches long that it uses to rip into ant mounts that are as hard as concrete that's not that much of a surprise.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_ant_eater