Actually, it is biology that creates the impulse that the child must be one's own. The motivations for our choices are as much biology as our ability to carry them out.
Ever notice that humidity makes a hot day feel even hotter? The more humid the atmosphere, the less heat your body can dissipate via sweating. In a closed stillsuit that traps all water, relative humidity will rapidly max out and evaporation will halt altogether. Your body will still sweat, but it will not evaporate. All the stillsuit does is collect this water so you don't lose it. It is a tradeoff of sacrificing cooling for retaining water.
Now, perhaps if the suit had some type of heat-pump system it could remove enough heat to condense water vapor, however if it could do this it would be more effective to use this heat pump to transfer the heat from direct contact with your skin rather than attempting to conduct the heat through an insulating layer of humid air. That said, another principle of the Dune stillsuit is that it is powered by the wearers body motion. Physical activity burns calories which generates yet more heat that such a heat-pump system would also have to remove.
It lends itself to advertising slightly better than:
"Hey kids! It's time for your favorite daytime television program on America's lowest rated TV network, the YUV Colorbar Show!!! Starring your pals Luma and the Chroma twins!"
Open source software may be an example of something that is open to the masses, but many well known open source projects wouldn't be what they are today without enormous support from corporate interests. These corporations aren't contributing to these development efforts purely out of the goodness of their hearts. Neither would most of these corporations survive if they made all of their goods and services freely available to the public.
By the way...
Page 1: "For the first time ever, Microsoft appeared in the list of the top-20 contributors for a kernel release."
The difference between reality and Kerbal Space Program is that in KSP you test your hugely expensive designs by just launching them and seeing if they crash whereas in reality... what point was I trying to make again?
(Anyway, they should have just let Jeb pilot that thing. It might have still fireballed, but he's pulled off far stranger feats!)
Perhaps, but what about the slightly less hypothetical "he realized I was carrying a gun and reached for it but I grabbed it first and shot him"? I suppose we'll be finding out shortly.
Perhaps, but on the other hand it's problematic for the space telescopes when someone tries to clean the optics with a spray bottle and a fistful of newspaper.
To this day I don't get why DNF gets so much hate. The dialog and plot were exactly as over-the-top cheesy and absurd as one should have expected of a Duke Nukem game. The only thing I can seem to pin it on is the difference in reaction between Chewbacca and Jar Jar Binks. Both characters are painfully obnoxious but that isn't as much of a turn-off when you are younger. Perhaps Duke suffered more from changing perceptions i.e. the crowd that was expecting to still enjoy his antics grew up./shrug I guess I'm just one of the few people who didn't leave Neverland and still finds poop jokes funny.
It isn't that we are "designed" to eat meat but that we are adapted such that our bodies are capable of gaining nutrition from meat sources. Nature puts no labels or restrictions on what we should / shouldn't eat beyond what our bodies are capable of processing and what spectrum of nutrients our bodies require to operate. We are the ones making declarations of what we and others should and shouldn't be eating.
Write clean, well organized and thoroughly commented code and you'd be surprised how quickly it comes back to you. If the interviewers are sharp (as they would likely be for a company worth working for) they'll be able to tell the difference between someone who pauses a moment to remember how or why they did something and someone who is trying to pull the wool over their eyes. Even if none of it seems familiar you should still have the proficiency to understand the operation of the code which is what the interviewer cares about anyway.
The key is to remain calm and project an air of confidence at all times. Explain why your name is likely missing and offer some references for them to check if you can. Demonstrate your understanding of the code or your ability to discern the behavior of the code as best you can. At no point should you come off as sounding vindictive towards your former employer, speak negatively of them, or air their dirty laundry.
It's no guarantee you will convince them but you maximize your chances if you present yourself as calm, professional, and competent.
In the context of an interview the fact that the source was presented could be a perfect opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge of the code by offering to explain its operation and the design decisions that came about during development. Your skills are better proven in how you articulate your knowledge and ideas rather than just pointing to a name on a comment banner. A major lesson learned would be to expect this and to keep cool and not look flustered when someone tries to call you out on it. If you had an amicable relationship with this former employer you might even touch base with them ahead of time to ask if you can list them as a reference so they can corroborate your authorship.
Beer isn't typically made with distilled water. Mineral content plays an important factor in beer brewing both in terms of the brewing process as well as the resulting character of the beer. Some breweries take pride and even advertise the fact that the water in their beers comes from wells sunk at the brewery itself. I don't know of a German example but the Samuel Smith Brewery in England uses the same wells sunk in 1758 as stated on the labels on the bottles. If groundwater at a brewery were to be contaminated there is no doubt there would be a real economic impact to that brewery. Even if distillation and re-adding minerals were an option it would be a very costly and would never match the original composition of the groundwater.
I never said BitCoin will drop in value. I have no expectation / confidence that it will rise, fall, nor stay the same value relative to other currencies.
As soon as you sell someone something for bitcoin you have some amount of information about that persons identity if only where you shipped the product to. If you also happen to know the wallet ID of a popular sex-toy shop from either shopping there or from a list someone published of wallet IDs you can then note if there is a transaction between this vendor and the person you just did business with. Heck, if someone mentions buying a particular item from a particular vendor at a particular time, since the database is public I can narrow down the wallet ID for that person and start working out what other vendors they may have purchased from. Once you have a handful of known wallet IDs you can build all sorts of correlations to help determine who's who. If someone tries to hide by creating a new wallet, you can also see that money from a known account got transferred to a wallet for which no previous transactions exist. Perhaps this is a different person, but when you see the same transaction patterns in the new account you can start narrowing your assumptions.
I went to a homebrew teaching event one time that was held behind a small brewery. A homebrewer was showing off his incredibly advanced brewing system he had built from scavenged parts. It was a thing of beauty; had its own electric and plumbing system, small outrigger-like feet to stabilize it on un-level ground, etc. It even had a timer and thermostat based system where you could start warming up the hot liquor tank before you even woke up so it would be ready by morning. As I was wishing that I'd charged the battery for my camera someone mentioned to someone who worked at the brewery "You guys must have some type of control system like this as well!". The reply was a bit surprising to me. "No, we just have the last guy who leaves the night before turn on the burners. It takes a long time to heat up that much water."
If batch scripts are what you know, then that's a fine solution. I'm not familiar with Arduino but it is actually quite easy to create a system with a pretty web interface with the Microchip microcontroller eval boards and libraries. For me personally I'd probably select a microcontroller for other things as well like watchdog timers so that if my control logic goes off in the weeds I can detect the issue and potentially invoke a safe shutdown routine to turn off pumps, heaters, etc. The other thing I like about microcontrollers is that it becomes very easy to add any sensor or actuator to your project that has a simple serial interface like I2C, SPI, etc.
For more advanced control systems an added advantage of microcontroller based designs is that you can get very tight control over the responsiveness of the system. Obviously for a home-beer making system you probably don't need sub-millisecond control but if you start with a microcontroller and decide to play with more demanding control systems in the future you already have a head start.
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Actually, it is biology that creates the impulse that the child must be one's own. The motivations for our choices are as much biology as our ability to carry them out.
Ever notice that humidity makes a hot day feel even hotter? The more humid the atmosphere, the less heat your body can dissipate via sweating. In a closed stillsuit that traps all water, relative humidity will rapidly max out and evaporation will halt altogether. Your body will still sweat, but it will not evaporate. All the stillsuit does is collect this water so you don't lose it. It is a tradeoff of sacrificing cooling for retaining water.
Now, perhaps if the suit had some type of heat-pump system it could remove enough heat to condense water vapor, however if it could do this it would be more effective to use this heat pump to transfer the heat from direct contact with your skin rather than attempting to conduct the heat through an insulating layer of humid air. That said, another principle of the Dune stillsuit is that it is powered by the wearers body motion. Physical activity burns calories which generates yet more heat that such a heat-pump system would also have to remove.
It lends itself to advertising slightly better than:
"Hey kids! It's time for your favorite daytime television program on America's lowest rated TV network, the YUV Colorbar Show!!! Starring your pals Luma and the Chroma twins!"
Being made of meat is natures way of telling predators that you are ready to be eaten.
Open source software both benefits from as well as helps further for-profit endeavors.
From: http://go.linuxfoundation.org/who-writes-linux-2012
Page 9: "over 75% of all [Linux] kernel development is demonstrably done by developers who are being paid for their work."
Open source software may be an example of something that is open to the masses, but many well known open source projects wouldn't be what they are today without enormous support from corporate interests. These corporations aren't contributing to these development efforts purely out of the goodness of their hearts. Neither would most of these corporations survive if they made all of their goods and services freely available to the public.
By the way...
Page 1: "For the first time ever, Microsoft appeared in the list of the top-20 contributors for a kernel release."
The difference between reality and Kerbal Space Program is that in KSP you test your hugely expensive designs by just launching them and seeing if they crash whereas in reality... what point was I trying to make again?
(Anyway, they should have just let Jeb pilot that thing. It might have still fireballed, but he's pulled off far stranger feats!)
Perhaps, but what about the slightly less hypothetical "he realized I was carrying a gun and reached for it but I grabbed it first and shot him"? I suppose we'll be finding out shortly.
Wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube man!
Perhaps, but on the other hand it's problematic for the space telescopes when someone tries to clean the optics with a spray bottle and a fistful of newspaper.
To this day I don't get why DNF gets so much hate. The dialog and plot were exactly as over-the-top cheesy and absurd as one should have expected of a Duke Nukem game. The only thing I can seem to pin it on is the difference in reaction between Chewbacca and Jar Jar Binks. Both characters are painfully obnoxious but that isn't as much of a turn-off when you are younger. Perhaps Duke suffered more from changing perceptions i.e. the crowd that was expecting to still enjoy his antics grew up. /shrug I guess I'm just one of the few people who didn't leave Neverland and still finds poop jokes funny.
You left you left out the quotation marks on "better".
Well, if we are having a test on American history topics, lets start with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_tests
It isn't that we are "designed" to eat meat but that we are adapted such that our bodies are capable of gaining nutrition from meat sources. Nature puts no labels or restrictions on what we should / shouldn't eat beyond what our bodies are capable of processing and what spectrum of nutrients our bodies require to operate. We are the ones making declarations of what we and others should and shouldn't be eating.
What's wrong with soy, tempeh and other alternatives?
The taste.
Don't tell me people need to eat meat to live, look at places like India.
I don't need meat to live. Eating meat is among reasons I _enjoy_ living.
Write clean, well organized and thoroughly commented code and you'd be surprised how quickly it comes back to you. If the interviewers are sharp (as they would likely be for a company worth working for) they'll be able to tell the difference between someone who pauses a moment to remember how or why they did something and someone who is trying to pull the wool over their eyes. Even if none of it seems familiar you should still have the proficiency to understand the operation of the code which is what the interviewer cares about anyway.
The key is to remain calm and project an air of confidence at all times. Explain why your name is likely missing and offer some references for them to check if you can. Demonstrate your understanding of the code or your ability to discern the behavior of the code as best you can. At no point should you come off as sounding vindictive towards your former employer, speak negatively of them, or air their dirty laundry.
It's no guarantee you will convince them but you maximize your chances if you present yourself as calm, professional, and competent.
In the context of an interview the fact that the source was presented could be a perfect opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge of the code by offering to explain its operation and the design decisions that came about during development. Your skills are better proven in how you articulate your knowledge and ideas rather than just pointing to a name on a comment banner. A major lesson learned would be to expect this and to keep cool and not look flustered when someone tries to call you out on it. If you had an amicable relationship with this former employer you might even touch base with them ahead of time to ask if you can list them as a reference so they can corroborate your authorship.
What statement(s) that you claim I've made are you referring to. I'd be happy to continue this discussion if we can be civil about it.
Beer isn't typically made with distilled water. Mineral content plays an important factor in beer brewing both in terms of the brewing process as well as the resulting character of the beer. Some breweries take pride and even advertise the fact that the water in their beers comes from wells sunk at the brewery itself. I don't know of a German example but the Samuel Smith Brewery in England uses the same wells sunk in 1758 as stated on the labels on the bottles. If groundwater at a brewery were to be contaminated there is no doubt there would be a real economic impact to that brewery. Even if distillation and re-adding minerals were an option it would be a very costly and would never match the original composition of the groundwater.
The clues are always there, albeit obscure. It's just a cat and mouse game bounded only by the interest / resources of the respective party.
I never said BitCoin will drop in value. I have no expectation / confidence that it will rise, fall, nor stay the same value relative to other currencies.
I'm going to start a new currency called KidneyCoin! The currency is kidney stones! The proof of work is passing the kidney stone!
As soon as you sell someone something for bitcoin you have some amount of information about that persons identity if only where you shipped the product to. If you also happen to know the wallet ID of a popular sex-toy shop from either shopping there or from a list someone published of wallet IDs you can then note if there is a transaction between this vendor and the person you just did business with. Heck, if someone mentions buying a particular item from a particular vendor at a particular time, since the database is public I can narrow down the wallet ID for that person and start working out what other vendors they may have purchased from. Once you have a handful of known wallet IDs you can build all sorts of correlations to help determine who's who. If someone tries to hide by creating a new wallet, you can also see that money from a known account got transferred to a wallet for which no previous transactions exist. Perhaps this is a different person, but when you see the same transaction patterns in the new account you can start narrowing your assumptions.
I went to a homebrew teaching event one time that was held behind a small brewery. A homebrewer was showing off his incredibly advanced brewing system he had built from scavenged parts. It was a thing of beauty; had its own electric and plumbing system, small outrigger-like feet to stabilize it on un-level ground, etc. It even had a timer and thermostat based system where you could start warming up the hot liquor tank before you even woke up so it would be ready by morning. As I was wishing that I'd charged the battery for my camera someone mentioned to someone who worked at the brewery "You guys must have some type of control system like this as well!". The reply was a bit surprising to me. "No, we just have the last guy who leaves the night before turn on the burners. It takes a long time to heat up that much water."
If batch scripts are what you know, then that's a fine solution. I'm not familiar with Arduino but it is actually quite easy to create a system with a pretty web interface with the Microchip microcontroller eval boards and libraries. For me personally I'd probably select a microcontroller for other things as well like watchdog timers so that if my control logic goes off in the weeds I can detect the issue and potentially invoke a safe shutdown routine to turn off pumps, heaters, etc. The other thing I like about microcontrollers is that it becomes very easy to add any sensor or actuator to your project that has a simple serial interface like I2C, SPI, etc.
For more advanced control systems an added advantage of microcontroller based designs is that you can get very tight control over the responsiveness of the system. Obviously for a home-beer making system you probably don't need sub-millisecond control but if you start with a microcontroller and decide to play with more demanding control systems in the future you already have a head start.
Or one of many microcontroller eval boards from Microchip. They have some great library support for doing simple web interfaces too.