If it is a two wire socket, the screw probably won't be grounded either since the box itself probably doesn't have a ground wire coming to it. At least that's the case in my old house. I had two wire sockets virtually everywhere and worse the outlets were old enough that they weren't holding a plug properly. Short of tearing open the walls and running new wires, the only option was to replace them with GFI plugs.
I wouldn't say that only the Japanese understood what carriers were good for. The first all aircraft attack in naval history was actually launched by the British against the Italian navy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Taranto.
I remember seeing milk in bags in Saskatchewan years ago, but not for a very long time. I seem to recall it being kind of a nuisance as the bags had a tendency to leak and weren't particularly convenient for storage in the fridge.
In general, computers have some form of external removable storage be it floppy, tape drive, or USB key. So, with just a little human intervention, you can have unbounded storage on an existing computer. I'll admit that it isn't particularly practical and you still have the problem that there are only a finite number of floppies in the universe, but the notion that the P=NP question is uninteresting to existing computers is also ridiculous.
I suppose threshold braking could be described as pumping the brakes, but that certainly isn't the way I'd describe it. To me, pumping the brakes implies putting them on and taking them off rapidly. That's never a good idea whether it is normal brakes or anti-lock ones. Threshold braking involves applying just enough pressure to the brakes to keep the wheels from locking up. In practice, this often takes the form of over braking to the point of locking the tires and then easing off the brakes to let the wheels turn again and then repeating the process which is vaguely like pumping.
There's no problem using threshold braking on a car with anti-lock brakes. It's just not necessary as the anti-lock system will do that work for you. I suspect that the main reason they tell you that braking with an ABS is different is because the brake pedal pulses when the ABS system kicks in and that could easily freak people out if they didn't know about it.
It is possible that your calculator uses decimal numbers internally and so isn't subject to the same rounding problems. (There are still rounding problems, just different ones.) My old HP calculator did this. If I recall correctly it stored 14 decimal digits internally (plus a 2 digit exponent) but only displayed 12 digits. I had a lot of fun playing around with it to figure out what it was doing internally.
2,000 is a RIDICULOUSLY small sample size to extrapolate the views of 60+ million people from.
A random sample of 2,000 people is accurate to within 2.2% of the actual values 19 times out of 20. It is accurate to 3% 99 times out of 100. So, 2,000 people is not a ridiculously small sample size. You might want to try out the sample size calculator: http://www.surveysystem.com/sscalc.htm
Of course, this only applies if the sample is truly random and even then the results may be skewed by the choice of questions.
I got my current job with a text resume. Well, actually, I sent both text and HTML, so I'm not sure which they looked at.
I've also been on hiring committees a couple of times and the format of the resume didn't come up. Experience and education seem far more important than formatting skills. (Unless you are hiring a graphic designer.) Unfortunately, knowing the right people helps seems to be important as well.
Besides, why memorize some stupid rhyme when you can just figure it out using your knuckles. Just make a fist and count the months going across your knuckles and the valleys between them. If the month is on a knuckle, it has 31 days and if it is in a valley it is shorter. When you reach the other side of your hand, just continue the months back where you started. This works provided you have the standard number of knuckles.
It has the added benefit that you are ready to hit the person if they start laughing at you for not knowing how many days November has.
The idea is that the union will insist on having all similar employees make similar salaries no matter how productive the employee is. That is, you will be paid the same as the lazy guy in the next cubicle even though you do three times as much as he does.
This isn't necessarily required. A union is really just a group of employees who bargain collectively with their employer. The contents of the contract they agree to are up to both parties and could certainly include performance based incentives.
Traditional union contracts like those with the government or manufacturers may not be well suited to IT workers, but collective bargaining is a powerful tool to improve work conditions. (It certainly sounds like quite a lot of people could use improved work conditions. Working more than 40 hours a week on a regular basis seems quite insane to me.)
Someone has. The print version of that issue of National Geographic includes a chart comparing the match between models that only consider human causes, those that only consider natural causes, and those that consider both. The best match with observations is the model that uses both.
The library I used to work at used Citrix thin clients for a while and they caused us more grief than they were worth. To be fair, the server hardware we had was not great and our vendor was not the best and thin client solutions for Windows were still fairly new, so things are likely to be much better now.
The biggest advantage of thin client systems is in reduced administrative burden. You really don't need to touch the desktops ever. The biggest disadvantage is that if your server ever dies, none of your machines will work. (Some sort of fail over system is probably an option but is going to increase your costs.)
The hardware costs of thin clients and desktops are likely to be fairly similar. In theory, you won't need to replace the clients, so replacement costs may be lower. Software costs are unlikely to be affected. In general, you need a license for each client even though you end up only installing a single copy of the software.
I'd recommend actually going somewhere and trying it out. Make sure that they use the system for the same sort of things that you expect your system to do. How well thin clients handle extensive web surfing is going to be different from people using it for office applications.
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There's a longer article on CNET about this that says that the new system will be backwards compatible with existing NXT robots.
If it is a two wire socket, the screw probably won't be grounded either since the box itself probably doesn't have a ground wire coming to it. At least that's the case in my old house. I had two wire sockets virtually everywhere and worse the outlets were old enough that they weren't holding a plug properly. Short of tearing open the walls and running new wires, the only option was to replace them with GFI plugs.
I wouldn't say that only the Japanese understood what carriers were good for. The first all aircraft attack in naval history was actually launched by the British against the Italian navy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Taranto.
I remember seeing milk in bags in Saskatchewan years ago, but not for a very long time. I seem to recall it being kind of a nuisance as the bags had a tendency to leak and weren't particularly convenient for storage in the fridge.
In general, computers have some form of external removable storage be it floppy, tape drive, or USB key. So, with just a little human intervention, you can have unbounded storage on an existing computer. I'll admit that it isn't particularly practical and you still have the problem that there are only a finite number of floppies in the universe, but the notion that the P=NP question is uninteresting to existing computers is also ridiculous.
I suppose threshold braking could be described as pumping the brakes, but that certainly isn't the way I'd describe it. To me, pumping the brakes implies putting them on and taking them off rapidly. That's never a good idea whether it is normal brakes or anti-lock ones. Threshold braking involves applying just enough pressure to the brakes to keep the wheels from locking up. In practice, this often takes the form of over braking to the point of locking the tires and then easing off the brakes to let the wheels turn again and then repeating the process which is vaguely like pumping.
There's no problem using threshold braking on a car with anti-lock brakes. It's just not necessary as the anti-lock system will do that work for you. I suspect that the main reason they tell you that braking with an ABS is different is because the brake pedal pulses when the ABS system kicks in and that could easily freak people out if they didn't know about it.
It is possible that your calculator uses decimal numbers internally and so isn't subject to the same rounding problems. (There are still rounding problems, just different ones.) My old HP calculator did this. If I recall correctly it stored 14 decimal digits internally (plus a 2 digit exponent) but only displayed 12 digits. I had a lot of fun playing around with it to figure out what it was doing internally.
A random sample of 2,000 people is accurate to within 2.2% of the actual values 19 times out of 20. It is accurate to 3% 99 times out of 100. So, 2,000 people is not a ridiculously small sample size. You might want to try out the sample size calculator: http://www.surveysystem.com/sscalc.htm
Of course, this only applies if the sample is truly random and even then the results may be skewed by the choice of questions.
The four corners are not part of the bitmap. So, for A.B.C.D, the image is
AAAA
AAAABB
BBBBBB
CCCCCC
CCDDDD
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I still haven't managed to create anything that it recognizes...
If you are sick of turkey, then have goose for Christmas. Goose is at least as traditional as turkey for Christmas and is far tastier.
I got my current job with a text resume. Well, actually, I sent both text and HTML, so I'm not sure which they looked at.
I've also been on hiring committees a couple of times and the format of the resume didn't come up. Experience and education seem far more important than formatting skills. (Unless you are hiring a graphic designer.) Unfortunately, knowing the right people helps seems to be important as well.
Well, at least one studyM Os-Less -Pesticide.htm)
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correlates GM crops with increased pesticide use, so they may not be quite as helpful as originally claimed.
Besides, why memorize some stupid rhyme when you can just figure it out using your knuckles. Just make a fist and count the months going across your knuckles and the valleys between them. If the month is on a knuckle, it has 31 days and if it is in a valley it is shorter. When you reach the other side of your hand, just continue the months back where you started. This works provided you have the standard number of knuckles.
It has the added benefit that you are ready to hit the person if they start laughing at you for not knowing how many days November has.
Why do people lose out if there is a union?
The idea is that the union will insist on having all similar employees make similar salaries no matter how productive the employee is. That is, you will be paid the same as the lazy guy in the next cubicle even though you do three times as much as he does.
This isn't necessarily required. A union is really just a group of employees who bargain collectively with their employer. The contents of the contract they agree to are up to both parties and could certainly include performance based incentives.
Traditional union contracts like those with the government or manufacturers may not be well suited to IT workers, but collective bargaining is a powerful tool to improve work conditions. (It certainly sounds like quite a lot of people could use improved work conditions. Working more than 40 hours a week on a regular basis seems quite insane to me.)
Someone has. The print version of that issue of National Geographic includes a chart comparing the match between models that only consider human causes, those that only consider natural causes, and those that consider both. The best match with observations is the model that uses both.
Even if you look at US foreign policy in the worst possible light, we've done pretty good with not nuking people.
Here's a list of all the countries that have nuked other countries: USA.
So, looking at US foreign policy in the worst possible light would seem to indicate that the US has done the worst job of not nuking people.
The library I used to work at used Citrix thin clients for a while and they caused us more grief than they were worth. To be fair, the server hardware we had was not great and our vendor was not the best and thin client solutions for Windows were still fairly new, so things are likely to be much better now.
The biggest advantage of thin client systems is in reduced administrative burden. You really don't need to touch the desktops ever. The biggest disadvantage is that if your server ever dies, none of your machines will work. (Some sort of fail over system is probably an option but is going to increase your costs.)
The hardware costs of thin clients and desktops are likely to be fairly similar. In theory, you won't need to replace the clients, so replacement costs may be lower. Software costs are unlikely to be affected. In general, you need a license for each client even though you end up only installing a single copy of the software.
I'd recommend actually going somewhere and trying it out. Make sure that they use the system for the same sort of things that you expect your system to do. How well thin clients handle extensive web surfing is going to be different from people using it for office applications.