If I can sit in my car and work at my laptop, or read, or phone the first client of the day I'll care a lot less about how fast I get there. Much like people today who take the bus or train to work.
Often people speed because they are driving and that' all they are doing. Most of the time they aren't even late, they just like going a bit faster and it's fun. You don't usually tell your taxi driver to put his foot down unless you really are late for that very important meeting.
GP's point is still valid though. Given similar materials and tools it's not unreasonable to theorise that two geographically separate cultures simply came up with the same general solution to the same problem.
Actually it's the Crown Law Office in NZ that is first in line to be sued. It is the entity that took action against him. And that would be a criminal case (unlawful arrest and seizure of property) although parties in the US might be liable for civil damages.
You don't see what's actually there, even with no artificial augmentation whatsoever. Your brain does a vast amount of subconscious processing of the light that comes to your eyes so that you can see all those three dimensional things.
die () {
# If we mounted the disk, unmount it again
if [ ${UMOUNT} ] ; then
pumount ${DEVICE}
fi
exit $1 }
# Is the backup disk plugged in if [ ! -e ${DEVICE} ]; then
exit 1 fi
# Is the backup disk mounted if ! grep -q ${MOUNT}/proc/mounts ; then
pmount ${DEVICE} ${LABEL}
UMOUNT=1
# Give the disk time to sort itself out
sleep 3 fi
if ! grep -q ${MOUNT}/proc/mounts ; then
# Still not mounted, give up.
die 1 fi
# Make sure the backup directory is there mkdir -p ${BKPDIR}
if [ ! -d ${BKPDIR} ] ; then
# mkdir failed, give up
die 1 fi
# Set extra options if [ -f ${EXCLUDES} ] ; then
OPTS="${OPTS} --exclude-from=${EXCLUDES}" fi
if [ -h ${CURRENT} ] ; then
OPTS="${OPTS} --link-dest=${CURRENT}" fi
if [ ${LOG} ] ; then
OPTS="${OPTS} --log-file=${LOG}" fi
# Perform the backup rsync ${OPTS} ${SOURCES} ${NEWDIR}
# Did we create a new backup if [ ! -d ${NEWDIR} ] ; then
die 1 fi
# Now update the current soft link if [ -h ${CURRENT} ] ; then
rm -f ${CURRENT} fi ln -s ${NEWDIR} ${CURRENT}
As funny as this mysticism clearly sounds to some, there are theories that some human memories are stored, "in the cloud" - when they are stored socially.
I have read ( but can't now find the reference:-( ) studies where groups of people have been asked to remember details from long stories, complex scenes, collections of objects etc.
One person will be the subject of the studies, the others will be actors. The actors 'remember' details that were definitely false - a red ball being blue for example, and reports it as such in front of the subject. The subject will then report remembering the same false memory - and honestly believe it. He can probably visualise the blue ball in his mind.
When you consider how many conversations you have with other people during the day, how much of that is creating, reinforcing and editing memories for you?
So they have the nucleic DNA - what about DNS from other intra-cellular bodies such as mitochondria? What about the epi-genetic effects of bringing a mammoth fetus to term inside another species? (Presumably an elephant.)
I think what they will end up with is an approximation of a mammoth, not an true instance of the species that became extinct 10,000 years ago.
The other thing you can do is boycott all Apple products and encourage everyone you know to do the same. And do the same for any other company that tries to control the market - and where your dollar goes - using the same broken patent system.
Ultimately all large companies make their decision based on the balance sheet, and Apple's products are discretionary purchasing. If people can be made to care about the company's behaviour it will affect whether or not they buy their product or a competitors.
KDE seems to suffer terribly from re-writer's disease. They'll write a good piece of software, possibly lacking a few features and a bit buggy in places. Rather than polish it and fill in the gaps, they nearly always decider to write something Newer and Better.
Almost invariably the new application won't be the latter, because immature software tends to lack a few features and be a bit buggy in places.
I still prefer KDE to Gnome, and Kubuntu is my main desktop, but I really wish the developers would settle down and get a bit less skittish.
I recently bought a Dell Zino HD from Dell NZ. I did it over the phone, so I could ask for the Windows licence to be refunded - there is now way to do it on the website of course.
The first operator didn't really know how to handle my request and asked if they could call back. When I did get called back I was offered a discount to the value of the Windows licence. So presumably Dell ended up paying Microsoft for a licence on my purchase anyway.
I'm guessing that Microsoft have insured themselves in the agreements with the system builders and distributors in this way. I don't know how you would go about finding out what the content of those agreements really is though.
>... This is the case with actors. They are in demand.
Umm, the source this information please?
I make short movies and music videos as a sideline/hobby, and the vast majority of actors are poor and scratching around for whatever work they can get. A small percentage get to be "in demand" through the usual combination of talent, a lot of hard work and little bit of luck. Actors can also be asked to do just about anything in the name of Art.
I regularly ask actors to work for me for free, and my only excuse is that I'm usually not making any money either.
Note that I am not asserting that unions are either good or evil, just that some of your "facts" are currently assertions without base or reference.
NTFS is actually not a bad option. Ubuntu 10.04 supports it out of the box (sic), OS X supports read by default but not write. Several companies supply cheap RW drivers for NTFS on OS X.
You should get out there and start looking for a new job. Brush up your CV and start shopping it around.
You've just spent 3 or more years in the same job, so you're reliable. You've developed a system that the the whole department adopted so you come up with useful creative solutions. You used existing resources off the web - you work smart and don't reinvent the wheel.
Put that stuff on your CV. You can explain the issues you have with the work in the interview if you like, and blame it on time and resource pressure (don't blame it on management stupidity in a job interview.)
The best time to look for a job is when you've already got one, even if the market isn't that great right now. You're looking for a new job because you want to advance your career and your current job isn't giving you that opportunity.
And it definitely sounds like you're not enjoying the current one that much. Take action.
Correct. Flies are already light-seeking diurnal creatures. If you want a fly to fly out of the house at night, turn on the porch light and turn off the inside lights.
I hope they corrected for this in their experiment - and I also wonder how they did it.
If you grow up in a place where the food is tough and there is no modern dental care, bad teeth will shorten your lifespan drastically and really downgrade your chances of getting laid.
Poor dental work gets dealt with in the traditional darwinian fashion in primitive cultures. I recall reading somwhere that when archaeologists dig up the graves of ancient Roman communities they typically mostly had perfect teeth. But I'm too lazy to go and find the reference now..
Google is developing a real, 'Not Invented Here' complex. Rather than get behind Firefox, they produce their own browser. Rather than integrate tightly with OpenOffice, they produce Google Apps. Now they've written their own programming language. Go figure. And of course there's always those rumours of the Google OS...
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If I can sit in my car and work at my laptop, or read, or phone the first client of the day I'll care a lot less about how fast I get there. Much like people today who take the bus or train to work.
Often people speed because they are driving and that' all they are doing. Most of the time they aren't even late, they just like going a bit faster and it's fun. You don't usually tell your taxi driver to put his foot down unless you really are late for that very important meeting.
He said long houses not log houses.
GP's point is still valid though. Given similar materials and tools it's not unreasonable to theorise that two geographically separate cultures simply came up with the same general solution to the same problem.
Actually it's the Crown Law Office in NZ that is first in line to be sued. It is the entity that took action against him. And that would be a criminal case (unlawful arrest and seizure of property) although parties in the US might be liable for civil damages.
Of course IANAL.
The pirates are the products of a shit-hole failed State.
Actually the pirates are the products of the destruction of the Somali fishing industry from illegal over-fishing by foreign vessels.
Reference.
Reference.
Although I grant you that the lack of a functional government in Somalia was a contributing factor.
You don't see what's actually there, even with no artificial augmentation whatsoever. Your brain does a vast amount of subconscious processing of the light that comes to your eyes so that you can see all those three dimensional things.
Check out some funky optical illusions.
And use anacron or cron to run it
!/bin/sh
# Time Machine equivalent for Linux. This backs up the local root filesystem.
# Set variables
LABEL=HardDriveLabel
MOUNT=/media/${LABEL}
BKPDIR=${MOUNT}/backup/laptop
CURRENT=${BKPDIR}/current
DEVICE=/dev/disk/by-label/${LABEL}
EXCLUDES=${BKPDIR}/excludes.txt
LOG=${BKPDIR}/rsync.log
NEWDIR=${BKPDIR}/$(date "+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S")
OPTS="-aqx"
UMOUNT=
SOURCES=/
die () {
# If we mounted the disk, unmount it again
if [ ${UMOUNT} ] ; then
pumount ${DEVICE}
fi
exit $1
}
# Is the backup disk plugged in
if [ ! -e ${DEVICE} ]; then
exit 1
fi
# Is the backup disk mounted /proc/mounts ; then
if ! grep -q ${MOUNT}
pmount ${DEVICE} ${LABEL}
UMOUNT=1
# Give the disk time to sort itself out
sleep 3
fi
if ! grep -q ${MOUNT} /proc/mounts ; then
# Still not mounted, give up.
die 1
fi
# Make sure the backup directory is there
mkdir -p ${BKPDIR}
if [ ! -d ${BKPDIR} ] ; then
# mkdir failed, give up
die 1
fi
# Set extra options
if [ -f ${EXCLUDES} ] ; then
OPTS="${OPTS} --exclude-from=${EXCLUDES}"
fi
if [ -h ${CURRENT} ] ; then
OPTS="${OPTS} --link-dest=${CURRENT}"
fi
if [ ${LOG} ] ; then
OPTS="${OPTS} --log-file=${LOG}"
fi
# Perform the backup
rsync ${OPTS} ${SOURCES} ${NEWDIR}
# Did we create a new backup
if [ ! -d ${NEWDIR} ] ; then
die 1
fi
# Now update the current soft link
if [ -h ${CURRENT} ] ; then
rm -f ${CURRENT}
fi
ln -s ${NEWDIR} ${CURRENT}
die $?
As funny as this mysticism clearly sounds to some, there are theories that some human memories are stored, "in the cloud" - when they are stored socially.
I have read ( but can't now find the reference :-( ) studies where groups of people have been asked to remember details from long stories, complex scenes, collections of objects etc.
One person will be the subject of the studies, the others will be actors. The actors 'remember' details that were definitely false - a red ball being blue for example, and reports it as such in front of the subject. The subject will then report remembering the same false memory - and honestly believe it. He can probably visualise the blue ball in his mind.
When you consider how many conversations you have with other people during the day, how much of that is creating, reinforcing and editing memories for you?
Good points
So they have the nucleic DNA - what about DNS from other intra-cellular bodies such as mitochondria? What about the epi-genetic effects of bringing a mammoth fetus to term inside another species? (Presumably an elephant.)
I think what they will end up with is an approximation of a mammoth, not an true instance of the species that became extinct 10,000 years ago.
The other thing you can do is boycott all Apple products and encourage everyone you know to do the same. And do the same for any other company that tries to control the market - and where your dollar goes - using the same broken patent system.
Ultimately all large companies make their decision based on the balance sheet, and Apple's products are discretionary purchasing. If people can be made to care about the company's behaviour it will affect whether or not they buy their product or a competitors.
Fring [ http://www.fring.com/ ] looks interesting, although it only works on mobile platforms right now.
KDE seems to suffer terribly from re-writer's disease. They'll write a good piece of software, possibly lacking a few features and a bit buggy in places. Rather than polish it and fill in the gaps, they nearly always decider to write something Newer and Better.
Almost invariably the new application won't be the latter, because immature software tends to lack a few features and be a bit buggy in places.
I still prefer KDE to Gnome, and Kubuntu is my main desktop, but I really wish the developers would settle down and get a bit less skittish.
...prostitution has been competing against free for thousands of years, and it show no signs of a slowdown.
Parent poster doesn't have a girlfriend or he would know there is no such thing as free sex.
I recently bought a Dell Zino HD from Dell NZ. I did it over the phone, so I could ask for the Windows licence to be refunded - there is now way to do it on the website of course.
The first operator didn't really know how to handle my request and asked if they could call back. When I did get called back I was offered a discount to the value of the Windows licence. So presumably Dell ended up paying Microsoft for a licence on my purchase anyway.
I'm guessing that Microsoft have insured themselves in the agreements with the system builders and distributors in this way. I don't know how you would go about finding out what the content of those agreements really is though.
Anecdotal evidence is not proof of a rule. If you kick a dog it might run or it might turn and bite you.
If you can't convince your boss to spend the time and money to write tests for old working code, just start writing tests for any new code you write.
When you fix a bug, write a test for it.
When you add a feature write a test suite for it.
Your tests will also incidentally test old code near the new code, and your coverage will increase surprisingly quickly.
I had a team of 6 developers doing this over ~400,000 LOC over the course of about 18 months and got 60% code coverage over the product.
As an amateur filmmaker who can't afford professional prices, this is EXACTLY what I want to send video to the director's monitor.
> ... This is the case with actors. They are in demand.
Umm, the source this information please?
I make short movies and music videos as a sideline/hobby, and the vast majority of actors are poor and scratching around for whatever work they can get. A small percentage get to be "in demand" through the usual combination of talent, a lot of hard work and little bit of luck. Actors can also be asked to do just about anything in the name of Art.
I regularly ask actors to work for me for free, and my only excuse is that I'm usually not making any money either.
Note that I am not asserting that unions are either good or evil, just that some of your "facts" are currently assertions without base or reference.
NTFS is actually not a bad option. Ubuntu 10.04 supports it out of the box (sic), OS X supports read by default but not write. Several companies supply cheap RW drivers for NTFS on OS X.
You should get out there and start looking for a new job. Brush up your CV and start shopping it around.
You've just spent 3 or more years in the same job, so you're reliable. You've developed a system that the the whole department adopted so you come up with useful creative solutions. You used existing resources off the web - you work smart and don't reinvent the wheel.
Put that stuff on your CV. You can explain the issues you have with the work in the interview if you like, and blame it on time and resource pressure (don't blame it on management stupidity in a job interview.)
The best time to look for a job is when you've already got one, even if the market isn't that great right now. You're looking for a new job because you want to advance your career and your current job isn't giving you that opportunity.
And it definitely sounds like you're not enjoying the current one that much. Take action.
Correct. Flies are already light-seeking diurnal creatures. If you want a fly to fly out of the house at night, turn on the porch light and turn off the inside lights.
I hope they corrected for this in their experiment - and I also wonder how they did it.
Your attitude would have stopped every human technological advance from fire through to space travel.
The risk of any experiment is failure. The reward is knowledge either way. I mean come on, he was risking a SIM card, not life and limb here.
If you grow up in a place where the food is tough and there is no modern dental care, bad teeth will shorten your lifespan drastically and really downgrade your chances of getting laid.
Poor dental work gets dealt with in the traditional darwinian fashion in primitive cultures. I recall reading somwhere that when archaeologists dig up the graves of ancient Roman communities they typically mostly had perfect teeth. But I'm too lazy to go and find the reference now..
Google is developing a real, 'Not Invented Here' complex. Rather than get behind Firefox, they produce their own browser. Rather than integrate tightly with OpenOffice, they produce Google Apps. Now they've written their own programming language. Go figure. And of course there's always those rumours of the Google OS...