I am personally surprised by seeing this full maintenance window, because the previous motd certainly implied that they would, from then on, be able to do their weekly maintenance without server downtime (except for a restart if needed). I don't expect them to not have to take the servers down for content patches, but that's not _maintenance_ per se anyway. *shrug* oh well, no biggie.
But what if you step onto a different time-line, then use that time-line to hop into your original timeline, but at an earlier point (and thusly travel back in your own time)? I think I'm placing my money on the "ain't working" card, but it'd of course be interesting to be proven wrong...
Statistically speaking, it's likely that a sizable percentage of these students download copyrighted material from the Internet. Do you think any of them are concerned about IP rights then?"
Even if that is so, two wrongs do not make a right.
I'm probably posting way too late for anyone to read this, but for the record: Ortho-Keratology has turned out to be one of the best choices I've ever made.
It's hard contact lenses which you wear only overnight. During that time they reshape your cornea, so that your vision is corrected for the entire day and then some without wearing contact lenses during the day. It has none of the risks you get with LASIK, and it's "future proof" - when I get older and longsightedness starts setting in, I won't be screwed because of having had LASIK (or similar).
The only downside is that it isn't for everyone - if you have a high prescription then chances are you might not be able to use Ortho-K.
The other issue is that it's not as well-known or practised as say, LASIK, so you might have difficulty finding an optometrist who does. I was lucky and had an excellent optometrist (Grant Mason, Australia) who said "if you don't get completely satisfied, I won't charge you a cent for having tried it". Haven't been happier at not taking up a full money-back offer!:)
frequently the immigrants (or H1-B visa holders) are willing to accept a salary significantly lower than a native worker
Funny you should say that. When I migrated to Australia, I actually achieved a significant pay-increase compared to my IT job in Sweden. That's both in raw currency, and after taking living costs into consideration. In fact, the new job which I'll be starting in a couple of weeks will have me up to a level about four times as high as what I had in Sweden five years ago.
So, I guess that brings out the real point here: Sure, aussie citizens might be losing out on jobs, but it's not because overseas people are willing to work for less - it's simply that for a number of IT jobs, the skill just isn't available within the country. Probably not for all jobs, but I know from first hand experience (I've been involved in hiring new people to our team) that it's damn hard to find people with the right qualifications, and we've had to look overseas on several occasions.
Well the C++ example can be somewhat understood by someone not familiar with the language (much thanks to 'compareStrings'). The second one I have no idea of what the hell it's supposed to do. It appears to be line noise (hmm, guess that means it's acceptable perl). And the last one appears to possibly be doing a comparison, though it looks like mangled K&R C.
Verbosity is not necessarily a bad thing. I can't remember who said it, but a good quote is "write computer programs foremost for humans to read, and for computers to execute only as an afterthought". If you've ever had to maintain massive amounts of code written by others, you'll quickly come to appreciate verbosity and despise "clever"/"cute" shortcuts that might mean the original author had to type six characters less, but in return has turned maintenance into a severe headache.
Oh, and that '0' before the ; in the C++ snippet - that won't make any compilers happy me thinks =)
What it does not do for me is make me think of BSD Lnix when I see it.
Assuming you weren't saying that FreeBSD (or any other BSD for that matter) is another Linux distro, the reason it doesn't make you think of FreeBSD would be because the logo is new. A logo is about building brand recognition. It's early. Come back in a year, and see if you can make the same statement then.
If my company had computers in New York and Tokyo, I could ssh between them in much less than 60 minutes. ..
The point is, most people wouldn't do that, and those who do wouldn't be significant to skew the metrics too badly.
However, having said that, it is quite possible to have a network configured for high availability such as that if you lose your local internet link traffic gets routed via your internal network out another internet link in another office. Frequently this office is in another country...
Would that be enough to stuff up the metrics? I have no idea, but it'd be worth considering before going all "oooooh" about this "paradigm shift" (was I the only one who missed what it was supposed to be? What's the news here really? Oh, wait, this is Slashdot...)
Holodeck doesn't work. Not for anything except sitting on your ass and watching the action.
Well, I beg to differ.
Quite a few years ago I had the chance to visit the VR-cube at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. And there's no sitting on your ass watching the action when you're in there. You're free to move around and observe from any angle you like. Sure, it's not solid projections like you get in a StarTrek holodeck, and it's quite a bit smaller than a holodeck, but other than that, the similarities are right there! But I must say that playing Cave Quake in there can be quite disorienting! =)
(I always wondered how the crew managed to walk around as much as they did on the holodeck without hitting a wall all the time...)
Okay, so that's a fair bunch of beams from movies, but what about from computer games?
I think I'll have to say that my personal favourite would have to be the beam weapons from FreeSpace II.
It was something grand with piloting your little fighter craft in a dense nebula and all of a sudden have a massive beam cut through just beside you, and then seeing a cruiser come out of the mist just as it's preparing to fire again... The knowing that if you'd been just slightly further in that direction you wouldn't even have had time to blink before you were reduced to space dust... That game had really nice atmosphere (pardon the pun)!
I like how he irrigates the farms. The sweating of the pipes below ground is a great idea. It seems much more efficient than spraying water everywhere, and having a lot of it evaporate.
Maybe I've forgotten too much of my highschool physics, but how does this really work? I was under the impression that the "sweat" on cold pipes is the result of the chilling of the surrounding air/material, which lowers its capacity for carrying water, thus in essence extracting it into solid form.
So if the pipes sweat below ground, aren't they simply solidifying water that already is in the ground? If so, that's not what I'd call irrigation...
Since I and some of my friends have tickets to a gold class 12:01 screening, I did the sensible thing and applied for annual leave for the 19th and 20th.
Got it approved too, despite having the reason field saying "Recovering from Star Wars midnight session":)
And if you're wondering "why gold class?", it's simply because we don't trust the movie to be any good. With gold class we'll at least have very comfy seats, snacks brought in to us, and no screaming kids in the cinema (we booked out the entire gold class cinema). So, even if the movie sucks (I hope it doesn't!), it won't be a terrible night.
speak for yourself. I know my 4-space indents will be the same regardless of whatever editor and/or settings are used.
Amen. Though I'm a 2-space person myself - I hate wasting perfectly good line space at the start of the line. The more usable space on each line, the longer and more descriptive variable names I can use.
OpenBSD: Even though the driver has been loaded and the config files updated, no shocks are delivered since doing so would be insecure.
NetBSD: Once the driver is loaded, the config files updated, and the right incantations are spoken, it has never been easier to deliver high voltage electric shocks over the network.
FreeBSD: After loading the driver and updating the config files you are left with the options of running with or without the Giant lock. With it, all shocks are Giant and hurt accordingly; Without it the system occassionaly dead-locks...
If they kept the same application ID between the versions, the Add/Remove Programs list should sort itself out automatically. That is, if I remember enough about Windoze programming - it's been quite a while since I did any! =)
Being in the military is, by necessity, to be part of a team and the team has to come first,
D&D, and most other role-playing games are exactly the embodiment of this.
You've obviously never sat in on one of our games. Backstabbing, plotting, scheming, and counter-scheming are all an integral part of the game. And it's all done in character! I still laugh my head off at the time when the cleric was knocked unconscious in a really bad situation involving lots of undeads, woke up just in time to have a chance to save himself only to discover that the thief had appropriated his holy mace under the pretext that the cleric obviously wasn't going to make it anyway, and the thief had more use of it!
Not to mention when the druid jumped into a trap pit we'd dug to heal a monster we'd almost managed to kill, leaving the rest of the party to fend for themselves in that battle. Of course, she ended up nearly getting torn to shreds by said monster after she'd healed it, and she sobbed lots when we killed the monster to save her (well, save her and more importantly, us).
Best one though was when the paladin started cutting down a tree to use as part of an ambush. The druid went wild and clocked the paladin with a stone from her sling, knocking him unconscious. She really was more in tune with nature than people, she really was =)
Still, D&D is nothing compared to when we're playing Vampire. The only reason the coterie stays together is because of careful manipulations by the GM. I'd tell you about some of the more interesting plots I have in motion at the moment, but I know at least two of the group read/., so I won't:-P
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I am personally surprised by seeing this full maintenance window, because the previous motd certainly implied that they would, from then on, be able to do their weekly maintenance without server downtime (except for a restart if needed). I don't expect them to not have to take the servers down for content patches, but that's not _maintenance_ per se anyway. *shrug* oh well, no biggie.
Nah, they exist, but they were only released in a very limited number. And no, you can't have mine ;-P
But what if you step onto a different time-line, then use that time-line to hop into your original timeline, but at an earlier point (and thusly travel back in your own time)?
I think I'm placing my money on the "ain't working" card, but it'd of course be interesting to be proven wrong...
What do you mean "cold-shock"? I thought it was called "frost-shock"...?
How about good old LysKOM? But maybe it's unheard of outside of Sweden/Finland?
Even if that is so, two wrongs do not make a right.
Ortho-Keratology has turned out to be one of the best choices I've ever made.
It's hard contact lenses which you wear only overnight. During that time they reshape your cornea, so that your vision is corrected for the entire day and then some without wearing contact lenses during the day. It has none of the risks you get with LASIK, and it's "future proof" - when I get older and longsightedness starts setting in, I won't be screwed because of having had LASIK (or similar).
The only downside is that it isn't for everyone - if you have a high prescription then chances are you might not be able to use Ortho-K.
The other issue is that it's not as well-known or practised as say, LASIK, so you might have difficulty finding an optometrist who does. I was lucky and had an excellent optometrist (Grant Mason, Australia) who said "if you don't get completely satisfied, I won't charge you a cent for having tried it". Haven't been happier at not taking up a full money-back offer! :)
Funny you should say that. When I migrated to Australia, I actually achieved a significant pay-increase compared to my IT job in Sweden. That's both in raw currency, and after taking living costs into consideration. In fact, the new job which I'll be starting in a couple of weeks will have me up to a level about four times as high as what I had in Sweden five years ago.
So, I guess that brings out the real point here: Sure, aussie citizens might be losing out on jobs, but it's not because overseas people are willing to work for less - it's simply that for a number of IT jobs, the skill just isn't available within the country. Probably not for all jobs, but I know from first hand experience (I've been involved in hiring new people to our team) that it's damn hard to find people with the right qualifications, and we've had to look overseas on several occasions.
Well the C++ example can be somewhat understood by someone not familiar with the language (much thanks to 'compareStrings'). The second one I have no idea of what the hell it's supposed to do. It appears to be line noise (hmm, guess that means it's acceptable perl). And the last one appears to possibly be doing a comparison, though it looks like mangled K&R C.
Verbosity is not necessarily a bad thing. I can't remember who said it, but a good quote is "write computer programs foremost for humans to read, and for computers to execute only as an afterthought". If you've ever had to maintain massive amounts of code written by others, you'll quickly come to appreciate verbosity and despise "clever"/"cute" shortcuts that might mean the original author had to type six characters less, but in return has turned maintenance into a severe headache.
Oh, and that '0' before the ; in the C++ snippet - that won't make any compilers happy me thinks =)
Assuming you weren't saying that FreeBSD (or any other BSD for that matter) is another Linux distro, the reason it doesn't make you think of FreeBSD would be because the logo is new. A logo is about building brand recognition. It's early. Come back in a year, and see if you can make the same statement then.
The point is, most people wouldn't do that, and those who do wouldn't be significant to skew the metrics too badly.
However, having said that, it is quite possible to have a network configured for high availability such as that if you lose your local internet link traffic gets routed via your internal network out another internet link in another office. Frequently this office is in another country...
Would that be enough to stuff up the metrics? I have no idea, but it'd be worth considering before going all "oooooh" about this "paradigm shift" (was I the only one who missed what it was supposed to be? What's the news here really? Oh, wait, this is Slashdot...)
Well, I beg to differ.
Quite a few years ago I had the chance to visit the VR-cube at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. And there's no sitting on your ass watching the action when you're in there. You're free to move around and observe from any angle you like. Sure, it's not solid projections like you get in a StarTrek holodeck, and it's quite a bit smaller than a holodeck, but other than that, the similarities are right there! But I must say that playing Cave Quake in there can be quite disorienting! =)
(I always wondered how the crew managed to walk around as much as they did on the holodeck without hitting a wall all the time...)
Dammit, I was gonna whore karma with that joke! :-P
Okay, so that's a fair bunch of beams from movies, but what about from computer games?
I think I'll have to say that my personal favourite would have to be the beam weapons from FreeSpace II.
It was something grand with piloting your little fighter craft in a dense nebula and all of a sudden have a massive beam cut through just beside you, and then seeing a cruiser come out of the mist just as it's preparing to fire again... The knowing that if you'd been just slightly further in that direction you wouldn't even have had time to blink before you were reduced to space dust... That game had really nice atmosphere (pardon the pun)!
Maybe I've forgotten too much of my highschool physics, but how does this really work? I was under the impression that the "sweat" on cold pipes is the result of the chilling of the surrounding air/material, which lowers its capacity for carrying water, thus in essence extracting it into solid form.
So if the pipes sweat below ground, aren't they simply solidifying water that already is in the ground? If so, that's not what I'd call irrigation...
Since I and some of my friends have tickets to a gold class 12:01 screening, I did the sensible thing and applied for annual leave for the 19th and 20th.
:)
Got it approved too, despite having the reason field saying "Recovering from Star Wars midnight session"
And if you're wondering "why gold class?", it's simply because we don't trust the movie to be any good. With gold class we'll at least have very comfy seats, snacks brought in to us, and no screaming kids in the cinema (we booked out the entire gold class cinema). So, even if the movie sucks (I hope it doesn't!), it won't be a terrible night.
As someone reading slashdot, you're probably already in that role ;-P
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Amen. Though I'm a 2-space person myself - I hate wasting perfectly good line space at the start of the line. The more usable space on each line, the longer and more descriptive variable names I can use.
Stop acting like a baby! ;-)
Well, you see, it depends on the material of the bits and the quality of the glue...
NetBSD: Once the driver is loaded, the config files updated, and the right incantations are spoken, it has never been easier to deliver high voltage electric shocks over the network.
FreeBSD: After loading the driver and updating the config files you are left with the options of running with or without the Giant lock. With it, all shocks are Giant and hurt accordingly; Without it the system occassionaly dead-locks...
I'm sure you mean a spelling checker. It's WoW that needs the spell check... combat resurrection for priests, anyone?!
If they kept the same application ID between the versions, the Add/Remove Programs list should sort itself out automatically. That is, if I remember enough about Windoze programming - it's been quite a while since I did any! =)
You've obviously never sat in on one of our games. Backstabbing, plotting, scheming, and counter-scheming are all an integral part of the game. And it's all done in character! I still laugh my head off at the time when the cleric was knocked unconscious in a really bad situation involving lots of undeads, woke up just in time to have a chance to save himself only to discover that the thief had appropriated his holy mace under the pretext that the cleric obviously wasn't going to make it anyway, and the thief had more use of it!
Not to mention when the druid jumped into a trap pit we'd dug to heal a monster we'd almost managed to kill, leaving the rest of the party to fend for themselves in that battle. Of course, she ended up nearly getting torn to shreds by said monster after she'd healed it, and she sobbed lots when we killed the monster to save her (well, save her and more importantly, us).
Best one though was when the paladin started cutting down a tree to use as part of an ambush. The druid went wild and clocked the paladin with a stone from her sling, knocking him unconscious. She really was more in tune with nature than people, she really was =)
Still, D&D is nothing compared to when we're playing Vampire. The only reason the coterie stays together is because of careful manipulations by the GM. I'd tell you about some of the more interesting plots I have in motion at the moment, but I know at least two of the group read /., so I won't :-P