Hunh ? Sorry, getting sidelined into making up a curse about the "one foreskin of Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the donkey!" That's a fertile field of oaths and epithets that your typo has opened up.
anyone who has been writing any degree of code for more than a few weeks has implemented a range check function,
FTFY
Seriously, anyone who is getting some sort of formal training in programming, should be being taught to validate his input pretty much as soon as they've learned enough of the syntax of their language of choice to be able to handle user input. That would be weeks at most. Maybe a couple of months for someone teaching themselves out of a book.
In the same exercises they should also be being told "You as a programmer, MUST write descriptive, helpful prompts for the user. The user will never READ or OBEY the instructions, but if you don't Write The Friendly M-prompt, that is your fault ; if they don't Read The Friendly M-prompt, that is their fault."
The depressing fact that users don't read manuals in no way obviates the programmers (development team more widely) from the duty to write the fucking things.
(Sorry ; wrote a Work Instruction last night ; handed it over ; discussed it ; answered questions. Back on shift, it's not been followed. SIGH.)
Mine are actually flat little magnets that are used in magnetic stirrers in chemistry labs.
Hmmm, the last of those that I used (I don't do wet chemistry very often ; corollary is that I'll recognies when it's needed and know how to do it) was about 6mm in diameter and 15mm long. It's designed so that you can pick it up off the floor when-not-if you drop it.
That seems a little on the large size for a "fingertip" implant. Without having a ruler to hand (it's 3 stories down, in the locker with my hard hat and coveralls), the areas I'd classify as "fingertip" are about 10mm in diameter by 8mm thick.
The idea of supergluing small, high-strength magnets to my fingertips does sound intriguing though. Non-invasive and reversible. I've had finger-tip-sliced-open accidents in the past, and while I wouldn't like a repeat, it's not a daunting level of maximum risk. And I've got several strong circa 3mm x 2mm magnets in the computer bag.
Hmmm ; cyano-acrylate releasing compound... shouldn't be too hard to get. I'll see if the site medic is in the smoking recroom.
Now I'm wondering if something like this can be used to detect EM like radar or millimeter waves, or if not, what could?
1 : Go to your local geek junk store and get several of those "WiFi detector" tee-shirts that were popular a half-millennium or so ago.
2 : take one apart and experiment to see how it works (I recall mention of RF-sensitive dyes, but I find that a bit implausible ; thermo-sensitive dyes and embedded wires are less implausible ; but I've never hacked one, so I don't know ; multiple designs and technologies, including "fake" are possible)
3 : using materials from your stock of WiFi tee shirts and your understanding of their technologies, make a sleeve panel for your jacket that reacts to GHz-ish radiation. tou may need to tune antennae to achieve your detailed plans.
4 :...
5 : profit. (Actually, most of the likely profit accrued to you at stages 2 and 3, but you could conceivably at least cover your costs at this point.)
Yeah I suppose your right, I mean after all the other industrial pollution they imposed on the local community what's a little plutonium between friends.
Did you even read the fucking article you retard? The device used HEU (Highly Enriched Uranium), not plutonium. They are different fucking materials. They have different nucelar properties and different chemical properties. They are not, except in the minds of ignorant idiots, the same fucking thing.
Ask yourself if this is a example of good corporate citizenship when Kodak were not even prepared to respect the community by educating them and giving them a choice. Seems to say a lot to me about the relationship Kodak had with Rochester.
It speaks volumes for the common sense of the management of Kodak that they didn't advertise it's presence, and thereby cripple themselves by having to deal with idiots like you every second breath of their working day. I say "Well done Kodak!"
Unfortunately, since I don't do wet photography any more, and Kodak are not on my shopping list for dry photography equipment, there's little likelihood of them benefiting from the contents of my wallet. But if I'd known about this three years ago when I decided to jump the Nikon way for good-quality digital cameras, it is a factor I'd have weighed favourably. It's unlikely to have been sufficient, but it would have weighed significantly.
I will mention it to my buddy who, apart from having done chemistry at university, is setting himself up with a wet darkroom. Though I'm not sure that Kodak are in the wet photography business at all these days.
People like you would make me despair for the future of the human race, if I considered cretins like you to actually inhabit the human race's gene pool. Do the rest of your species a favour and go get yourself a Darwin Award.
And as far as this Eduardo Saverin asshole is concerned, he ought to be lynched as a traitor. He takes advantage of the benefits of the US when it is convent to do so, but when he makes lavish amounts of money, hes ready to pick up an move in order to avoid paying it.
As far as this Eduardo Saverin person is concerned, he's a fine example of capitalistic logic taken to it's logical conclusions. As such, he should be elevated to the level of apostle, and generations of American schoolcholdren be made to swear alleigence to the best of American values which he represents.
Same data ; different interpretation. Admit it - you're just pissed because he's shown more success, and more balls about keeping his success, than you've got. Which makes him a better man than you are. Or woman, or Wookiee ; whatever you are.
I hope the stinking ratfuck is slowly raped to death by Somali pirates. Burn in hell, Saverin.
Ah, that would suggest that you're an American Christian who has really taken on board the "love thy enemy" message of your third-of-a-god. Your behaviour is typical of the species. The next time I'm working in the Somali pirate belt, shall I give them your phone number?
obviously it happens at the precise moment the earth and sun are directly aligned with the black hole at the center of the milky way.
That would be a big fat never then, yes?
The plane of the solar system, and therfore the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun, is inclined at a substantial angle to the plane of the Milky Way. That's why the ecliptic isn't even approximately close to the plane of the Milky Way. Well, it's just two ways of saying the same thing.
So, the only time that the Earth, Sun and SgrA* (the large, dark concentration of matter you refer to) are possibly going to be colinear is when the solar system is at a point in it's galactic orbit where the plane of the ecliptic and the plane of the Milky Way cross in Sagittarius. I don't have a planetarium program to hand (client's computer), but it looks to be several degrees off. So, at around 200 million years per orbit, it's not going to be something to worry about for several million years (if it wasn't a problem for late Miocene apes).
The actual odds of ever achieving true colinearity... I'll stick by my "never", to a decent handful of significant figures.
That's almost as stupid and ineffectual as using the radio to broadcast music and then slapping people round the face with adverts while they're looking for the tuner to find something interesting to listen to. Or phoning someone at home to have them realise you're trying to sell something, so they can tell you : "You're advertising. Therefore you're a thieving liar. Now fuck off. [CLICK]"
He's on the outside, protected from us inside the cage.
By the way, I'm one of his (relatively close) relatives. and so are you. (Just getting an obligatory dig in, just in case you're a creationist or god-squaddie of some demented sort ; such retards seem to be worryingly common on Slashdot. Apologies if you're actually a sensible person.)
If you're electrically incompetent enough to get that sort of thing wrong, then you need a few doses of ECT to try to get the brain cells moving again.
Have you covered the windows in indium-tin oxide or some other transparent conductor (graphene, perhaps)? If not, no problem ; your phone will work while you stand by the window, giving the snipers in the black helicopters something to aim at. But, of course, your Wifi is hackable through the window.
Or, just brick over the windows anyway. Who needs daylight?
Yes, there are standards. Allegedly. But they seem to change. I don't know how frequently they change, but it's often enough that you have to measure every bloody door, find ones of the right sizes, in a consistent style, and that's before fitting the hinges, catches and other bits and pieces.
When installing CCTV inside a server housing rack, also arrange a nice, helpful internal light (probably wired to a simple door switch) so that the people opening the rack can see the wiring loom, power connectors, etc. And so the camera can see their faces. So that the CCTV's viewers/ payers can actually get some value for their investments.
Why not go for 30 inches outside. That is the standard size that doorways widths are
I thought it was 39.3696in. At least, it is here. Unless you're building from new in which case a significant number of the doors are going to have to be wheelchair-friendly width (I think 59.0544in, but I'm not familiar with that measurement system).
And you forgot to allow at least 3cm for the thickenss of the knuckles that are going to carry the rack through that doorway. Unless you like watching your minions gouge lumps out of their knuckles manhandling stuff through doorways.
(Last time I did decorating, I had to fit 2*29in doors, 1*27in and 1*31in. What is this thing called standardisation again?)
Oh, hang on, from the construction of your subject line, you're in a separate class to "the British", so you wouldn't know.
Not all Brits are "proud" of the pound. Not all Brits give a shit. Many Brits have to work in 3, 4 or 5 different currencies a year, and wish there were fewer of them - which could be achieved by merging the two most frequently-used currencies.
I prepared to watch the 2004 event, spending precisely nothing on it. I constructed a shadow mask for a small telescope that I already owned (because I'm interested in these things) and the remains of a box, mounted it on a tripod that I already own (because I'm moderately keen on photography in general), projected a solar disc onto another board mounted on a tripod borrowed from a friend, marked the positions of the feet on the garden path with some chalk and packed everything up ready for the transit the next day.
Which was cloudy.
Such. Is. Life.
What was I expecting to see? A "little black spot on the sun today...".
Or, one of the fundamental measures of the size of the universe.
But then again, while I'm hill walking, I pick up rocks and read the stories they contain. You get out of it what you put into it.
Then I moved to the city for university and suddenly I saw all these people driving huge shiny trucks for merely commuting! These aren't rednecks, they're wannabe rednecks!
Didn't Peter Griffin/ Seth Wotsisname shoot that trope stone dead with a single bullet to the back of the head in one episode of "Family Guy"? Or are Americans immune to sarcasm?
Claiming one country should forgo their culture because you said yours is better is not a very good argument.
Hollywood and American entertainment culture, as well as the people who buy cheap American crap for the rest of the world, please take note.
These days something has got to have several years of spectacularly good reviews before I'll even consider watching it, if it comes out of America. And I consistently tell the "what do you watch" polling agencies that too.
trip to Walmart will convince you that the situation today seems less clear, and obtaining children seems entirely disassociated with the ability to attract a mate.
"Haz cunt ; can find semen." is a bit of a blunt truism. It's no less reprehensible even so.
It was the 1980s, and in my mid-late 20s, I was learning to drive. I used 3 different cars in my learning time, and I don't know if any had power steering or not. How far to turn the wheel? That is what your motion is for.
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You'll be getting a visit soon from the House Un-American Activities Commission.
Hunh ? Sorry, getting sidelined into making up a curse about the "one foreskin of Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the donkey!" That's a fertile field of oaths and epithets that your typo has opened up.
FTFY
Seriously, anyone who is getting some sort of formal training in programming, should be being taught to validate his input pretty much as soon as they've learned enough of the syntax of their language of choice to be able to handle user input. That would be weeks at most. Maybe a couple of months for someone teaching themselves out of a book.
In the same exercises they should also be being told "You as a programmer, MUST write descriptive, helpful prompts for the user. The user will never READ or OBEY the instructions, but if you don't Write The Friendly M-prompt, that is your fault ; if they don't Read The Friendly M-prompt, that is their fault."
The depressing fact that users don't read manuals in no way obviates the programmers (development team more widely) from the duty to write the fucking things.
(Sorry ; wrote a Work Instruction last night ; handed it over ; discussed it ; answered questions. Back on shift, it's not been followed. SIGH.)
Hmmm, the last of those that I used (I don't do wet chemistry very often ; corollary is that I'll recognies when it's needed and know how to do it) was about 6mm in diameter and 15mm long. It's designed so that you can pick it up off the floor when-not-if you drop it.
That seems a little on the large size for a "fingertip" implant. Without having a ruler to hand (it's 3 stories down, in the locker with my hard hat and coveralls), the areas I'd classify as "fingertip" are about 10mm in diameter by 8mm thick.
The idea of supergluing small, high-strength magnets to my fingertips does sound intriguing though. Non-invasive and reversible. I've had finger-tip-sliced-open accidents in the past, and while I wouldn't like a repeat, it's not a daunting level of maximum risk. And I've got several strong circa 3mm x 2mm magnets in the computer bag.
Hmmm ; cyano-acrylate releasing compound ... shouldn't be too hard to get. I'll see if the site medic is in the smoking recroom.
1 : Go to your local geek junk store and get several of those "WiFi detector" tee-shirts that were popular a half-millennium or so ago. ...
2 : take one apart and experiment to see how it works (I recall mention of RF-sensitive dyes, but I find that a bit implausible ; thermo-sensitive dyes and embedded wires are less implausible ; but I've never hacked one, so I don't know ; multiple designs and technologies, including "fake" are possible)
3 : using materials from your stock of WiFi tee shirts and your understanding of their technologies, make a sleeve panel for your jacket that reacts to GHz-ish radiation. tou may need to tune antennae to achieve your detailed plans.
4 :
5 : profit. (Actually, most of the likely profit accrued to you at stages 2 and 3, but you could conceivably at least cover your costs at this point.)
Did you even read the fucking article you retard? The device used HEU (Highly Enriched Uranium), not plutonium. They are different fucking materials. They have different nucelar properties and different chemical properties. They are not, except in the minds of ignorant idiots, the same fucking thing.
It speaks volumes for the common sense of the management of Kodak that they didn't advertise it's presence, and thereby cripple themselves by having to deal with idiots like you every second breath of their working day. I say "Well done Kodak!"
Unfortunately, since I don't do wet photography any more, and Kodak are not on my shopping list for dry photography equipment, there's little likelihood of them benefiting from the contents of my wallet. But if I'd known about this three years ago when I decided to jump the Nikon way for good-quality digital cameras, it is a factor I'd have weighed favourably. It's unlikely to have been sufficient, but it would have weighed significantly.
I will mention it to my buddy who, apart from having done chemistry at university, is setting himself up with a wet darkroom. Though I'm not sure that Kodak are in the wet photography business at all these days.
People like you would make me despair for the future of the human race, if I considered cretins like you to actually inhabit the human race's gene pool. Do the rest of your species a favour and go get yourself a Darwin Award.
That would be right next to Pastor Niemoller? (spelling ? ... checks .... correct to within an umlaut, which Slashdot would barf over anyway.)
As far as this Eduardo Saverin person is concerned, he's a fine example of capitalistic logic taken to it's logical conclusions. As such, he should be elevated to the level of apostle, and generations of American schoolcholdren be made to swear alleigence to the best of American values which he represents.
Same data ; different interpretation. Admit it - you're just pissed because he's shown more success, and more balls about keeping his success, than you've got. Which makes him a better man than you are. Or woman, or Wookiee ; whatever you are.
Ah, that would suggest that you're an American Christian who has really taken on board the "love thy enemy" message of your third-of-a-god. Your behaviour is typical of the species. The next time I'm working in the Somali pirate belt, shall I give them your phone number?
That would be a big fat never then, yes?
The plane of the solar system, and therfore the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun, is inclined at a substantial angle to the plane of the Milky Way. That's why the ecliptic isn't even approximately close to the plane of the Milky Way. Well, it's just two ways of saying the same thing.
So, the only time that the Earth, Sun and SgrA* (the large, dark concentration of matter you refer to) are possibly going to be colinear is when the solar system is at a point in it's galactic orbit where the plane of the ecliptic and the plane of the Milky Way cross in Sagittarius. I don't have a planetarium program to hand (client's computer), but it looks to be several degrees off. So, at around 200 million years per orbit, it's not going to be something to worry about for several million years (if it wasn't a problem for late Miocene apes).
The actual odds of ever achieving true colinearity ... I'll stick by my "never", to a decent handful of significant figures.
And, does anyone watch them? Or listen to them?
That's almost as stupid and ineffectual as using the radio to broadcast music and then slapping people round the face with adverts while they're looking for the tuner to find something interesting to listen to. Or phoning someone at home to have them realise you're trying to sell something, so they can tell you : "You're advertising. Therefore you're a thieving liar. Now fuck off. [CLICK]"
Total WOMBAT : Waste Of Money Brains And Time.
By the way, I'm one of his (relatively close) relatives. and so are you. (Just getting an obligatory dig in, just in case you're a creationist or god-squaddie of some demented sort ; such retards seem to be worryingly common on Slashdot. Apologies if you're actually a sensible person.)
If you're electrically incompetent enough to get that sort of thing wrong, then you need a few doses of ECT to try to get the brain cells moving again.
Or, just brick over the windows anyway. Who needs daylight?
But which volcano, that's the question! Katla seems a good one to me, but it may not to you.
Oh, and everyone knows that the sacrifices should be on new moons, not full moons.
And sideways.
Simultaneously.
Yes, there are standards. Allegedly. But they seem to change. I don't know how frequently they change, but it's often enough that you have to measure every bloody door, find ones of the right sizes, in a consistent style, and that's before fitting the hinges, catches and other bits and pieces.
Learning the syntax and basics of that will perhaps take you a bit longer than a weekend.
When installing CCTV inside a server housing rack, also arrange a nice, helpful internal light (probably wired to a simple door switch) so that the people opening the rack can see the wiring loom, power connectors, etc. And so the camera can see their faces. So that the CCTV's viewers/ payers can actually get some value for their investments.
I thought it was 39.3696in. At least, it is here. Unless you're building from new in which case a significant number of the doors are going to have to be wheelchair-friendly width (I think 59.0544in, but I'm not familiar with that measurement system).
And you forgot to allow at least 3cm for the thickenss of the knuckles that are going to carry the rack through that doorway. Unless you like watching your minions gouge lumps out of their knuckles manhandling stuff through doorways.
(Last time I did decorating, I had to fit 2*29in doors, 1*27in and 1*31in. What is this thing called standardisation again?)
Oh, hang on, from the construction of your subject line, you're in a separate class to "the British", so you wouldn't know.
Not all Brits are "proud" of the pound. Not all Brits give a shit. Many Brits have to work in 3, 4 or 5 different currencies a year, and wish there were fewer of them - which could be achieved by merging the two most frequently-used currencies.
Which was cloudy.
Such. Is. Life.
What was I expecting to see? A "little black spot on the sun today ...".
Or, one of the fundamental measures of the size of the universe.
But then again, while I'm hill walking, I pick up rocks and read the stories they contain. You get out of it what you put into it.
Didn't Peter Griffin/ Seth Wotsisname shoot that trope stone dead with a single bullet to the back of the head in one episode of "Family Guy"? Or are Americans immune to sarcasm?
Oh well, next one that arrives, I'll unsub.
"Haz cunt ; can find semen." is a bit of a blunt truism. It's no less reprehensible even so.
It was the 1980s, and in my mid-late 20s, I was learning to drive. I used 3 different cars in my learning time, and I don't know if any had power steering or not. How far to turn the wheel? That is what your motion is for.