What studies? I'd love to show those to my boss. I was up 'till 6:30am Monday morning coding... he's been pulling all kinds of tricks at work to try to get me to be more productive at the office, and to have to work less from home. I appreciate the tings he's done to try to make my life more comfortable but I've suggested to him that maybe programmers just work better at night. It'd be nice to be able to cite a study.
Ground locations that might be "taken over" and have classified data/equipment have at least: 1 55 gal drum, some liquid that burns well, and a lighter. The above can be replaced with an easy to access incinerator (sometimes both are present). There is a very specific burn procedure that people that work there tend to have to memorize. They start with the most sensitive and keep burning until the lunch order is gone or they're disabled and can't.
All of a sudden all those exploding barrels in all those videogames make sense!!
one could argue that, in fact, 0.1111111...1111[something].111...111[something] * 9 never has eqauled 1..111... * 9 does, though, and always has, and always will. And you got modded insightful?
They're very different numbers. I'm not even completely sure what.111...111[something] is supposed to represent. A non-terminating decimal that terminates? You need to go back to school.
What's so hard to understand that (unless you're a Microsoft apologist)? -- Obviously, no one is forcing you to work at a company that has piss-poor technology standards.
So I still don't get it. How are you forced to use Windows? The dairy farmer analogy the guy made is apt. If your job is to work with cows all day,y ou can't exactly claim you're forced to do it. You decided to become a dairy farmer. And Mc Donald's is always hiring.
The only thing such a bomb is useful for is to create fear, terror in your enemies' hearts. -- I will have to say that you are wrong. --
So basically, you're saying the Japanese surrendered because they suddenly saw how our point of view was correct... and not because they were scared shitless of our nuclear weaponry and our willingness to use it?
*I* will have to say that *you* are wrong. It's all about creating terror. Which makes us the terrorists in this scenario. If there's an out, it's the fact that it occured during a declared war. But you can't claim they bombs were used for anything other than to create terror.
Most everything Douglas Adams says below applies to me as well -- I even used to volunteer much of my time to the local church.
AMERICAN ATHEISTS: Mr. Adams, you have been described as a "radical Atheist." Is this accurate?
DNA: Yes. I think I use the term radical rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as "Atheist," some people will say, "Don't you mean 'Agnostic'?" I have to reply that I really do mean Atheist. I really do not believe that there is a god - in fact I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one. It's easier to say that I am a radical Atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it's an opinion I hold seriously. It's funny how many people are genuinely surprised to hear a view expressed so strongly. In England we seem to have drifted from vague wishy-washy Anglicanism to vague wishy-washy Agnosticism - both of which I think betoken a desire not to have to think about things too much.
People will then often say "But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?" This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness and muddle that I usually edge out of the conversation rather than get sucked into it. (If it turns out that I've been wrong all along, and there is in fact a god, and if it further turned out that this kind of legalistic, cross-your-fingers-behind-your-back, Clintonian hair-splitting impressed him, then I think I would chose not to worship him anyway.)
Other people will ask how I can possibly claim to know? Isn't belief-that-there-is-not-a-god as irrational, arrogant, etc., as belief-that-there-is-a-god? To which I say no for several reasons. First of all I do not believe-that-there-is-not-a-god. I don't see what belief has got to do with it. I believe or don't believe my four-year old daughter when she tells me that she didn't make that mess on the floor. I believe in justice and fair play (though I don't know exactly how we achieve them, other than by continually trying against all possible odds of success). I also believe that England should enter the European Monetary Union. I am not remotely enough of an economist to argue the issue vigorously with someone who is, but what little I do know, reinforced with a hefty dollop of gut feeling, strongly suggests to me that it's the right course. I could very easily turn out to be wrong, and I know that. These seem to me to be legitimate uses for the word believe. As a carapace for the protection of irrational notions from legitimate questions, however, I think that the word has a lot of mischief to answer for. So, I do not believe-that-there-is-no-god. I am, however, convinced that there is no god, which is a totally different stance and takes me on to my second reason.
Doublas Adams(left) with David Silverman
I don't accept the currently fashionable assertion that any view is automatically as worthy of respect as any equal and opposite view. My view is that the moon is made of rock. If someone says to me "Well, you haven't been there, have you? You haven't seen it for yourself, so my view that it is made of Norwegian Beaver Cheese is equally valid" - then I can't even be bothered to argue. There is such a thing as the burden of proof, and in the case of god, as in the case of the composition of the moon, this has shifted radically. God used to be the best explanation we'd got, and we've now got vastly better ones. God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining. So I don't think that being convinced that there is no god is as irrational or arrogant a point of view as belief that there is. I don't think the matter calls for even-handedness at all.
It makes me sad that people still allow such ridiculous superstitions to have such an effect in their lives.
I ocassionally get fed up with it. I sneeze quite often, and there's *always* someone around who says, "Blesh you."
Someday I'm just going to snap.
"WHAT THE FUCK DOES BLESH MEAN? DO YOU MEAN *BLESS*? WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU BLESS ME? ARE YOU SOME KIND OF A PRIEST? YOU DO REALIZE I'M AN ATHIEST, RIGHT? YOUR BLESSING JUST MAKES ME LAUGH AT YOU AS A FOLLOWER OF A PARTICULARLY POPULAR AND SILLY CULT."
For crying out loud. Why would you "blesh" someone when they sneeze? Are these the same people who are afraid of shadows, rap music, and walking under ladders?
I'll go right ahead then. I was consulting for State Farm installing machines that were supposed to help with the Y2K problem. Hell if I know, I just got the box, went to the site, installed it and made sure it was working. Easy. I had five to do a week, and would be done by Tuesday morning and helping out other contractors on similar projects.
I'll never forget my visit to the State Farm DSO in Detroit, MI. I'd just physically installed the new machine, at the bottom of a rack, and stood up.
Stood up putting my shoulder right into the unprotected "History Eraser Button" on the wall. The screams of the employees working int he datacenter could be heard all the way back home in Chicago, I've no doubt.
Then it turns out the fuses which will reset the systems in the datacenter are in a locked cabinet.
Then it turns out no one on site has a key.
Fortunately, I found that the cabinet will pop open if you kick it hard enough. Hey, I was panicking, okay?
And get this. After it was all over and I realized I probably wouldn't get killed by anyone... they told me "It's okay, this happens all the time. The guy installing the A/C unit last week did it too."
Maybe they should have put a cover over the damn button then. Morons.
Marco is Assistant Professor at Cattolica University, Milan (Italy), of "Theories and techniques of online communication", faculty of Arts and Philosophy. ----
I don't know the guy, this is on the webpage mentioned int he article. He certainly doesn't seem intelligent enough to be a professor of anything. Even if I let him slide a bit for being a non-native english speaker, the paper is still *awful.*
MD67 is a Message Digest; it's not used to encrypt anything.
Oops, you aren't supposed to know about that. Please remain where you are and we'll dispatch some gentlemen from the ministry of truth to your home.
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Can you give an example of the sorts of small particles you're talking about? As far as I'm aware, the best nanotechnology is still on a molecular level, and we come in contact with some damn small molecules every single day. Breathable oxygen molecules are only two medium-sized atoms large. As far as I'm aware, nanotech isn't even being considered on that small a scale.
Okay, first off, no one cooks toads. All toads are poisonous to some extent or another. It's their natural defense system (along with peeing on you when you pick them up.)
Some people do, however, cook *FROGS*. And when they do, they'll typically kill them and cook just the legs.
Now I've never tried tossing a live frog into a pot of cold or hot water, but I'd assume they'd jump out either way. The frogs I've tossed into puddles and ponds hop off immediately.
Oh, sorry... you were making some other point, weren't you? Nevermind then.
1) I've been a professional programmer for most of my adult life (10 years or so by my count) and I love it. I go home and code more. My only wish remains that I had more time for more coding.
2) While I wish it were true that precise english skills are required in today's workplace, my experience is the exact opposite. I can write three pages of perfectly formed english and the response I invariably get from the recipients is, "You expect me to read ALL THAT?" -- As though a few hundred words were an insurmountable barrier. If I instead format my emails as a series of bulleted sentence fragments, removing any vestiges of proper english and taking out all of the depth of knowledge I'd pesented over three pages, it's typically no problem for the people to read.
And don't even get me started on the abuses of language I see every day from management. My boss sent an email the other day -- TO A CUSTOMER -- that had the phrase "It's a mute point" in it.
No, mastery of english doesn't seem to be encouraged -- at least not where I've been.
why do we need to send astronauts ------------ Because humans have all their eggs in one basket. All it takes is one minor disaster to wipe out the entire human race on Earth.
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What studies? I'd love to show those to my boss. I was up 'till 6:30am Monday morning coding... he's been pulling all kinds of tricks at work to try to get me to be more productive at the office, and to have to work less from home. I appreciate the tings he's done to try to make my life more comfortable but I've suggested to him that maybe programmers just work better at night. It'd be nice to be able to cite a study.
Ground locations that might be "taken over" and have classified data/equipment have at least: 1 55 gal drum, some liquid that burns well, and a lighter. The above can be replaced with an easy to access incinerator (sometimes both are present). There is a very specific burn procedure that people that work there tend to have to memorize. They start with the most sensitive and keep burning until the lunch order is gone or they're disabled and can't.
All of a sudden all those exploding barrels in all those videogames make sense!!
How does it handle shared libraries?
Went over like a lead zeppelin.
Shut up and calculate.
RTFA
The "native OS interface" is not available in Windows. Sorry.
Otherwise, your question would hhave made some kind of sense.
one could argue that, in fact, 0.1111111...1111[something] .111...111[something] * 9 never has eqauled 1. .111... * 9 does, though, and always has, and always will. And you got modded insightful?
.111...111[something] is supposed to represent. A non-terminating decimal that terminates? You need to go back to school.
They're very different numbers. I'm not even completely sure what
What's so hard to understand that (unless you're a Microsoft apologist)?
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Obviously, no one is forcing you to work at a company that has piss-poor technology standards.
So I still don't get it. How are you forced to use Windows? The dairy farmer analogy the guy made is apt. If your job is to work with cows all day,y ou can't exactly claim you're forced to do it. You decided to become a dairy farmer. And Mc Donald's is always hiring.
The only thing such a bomb is useful for is to create fear, terror in your enemies' hearts.
--
I will have to say that you are wrong.
--
So basically, you're saying the Japanese surrendered because they suddenly saw how our point of view was correct... and not because they were scared shitless of our nuclear weaponry and our willingness to use it?
*I* will have to say that *you* are wrong. It's all about creating terror. Which makes us the terrorists in this scenario. If there's an out, it's the fact that it occured during a declared war. But you can't claim they bombs were used for anything other than to create terror.
The article at Physorg has the title:
Scientists find flaw in quantum dot construction
Just below this I see a google ad:
Discount Quantum Dots
New & used Quantum Dots. aff Check out the huge selection now!
www.eBay.com
Heh!
I can't possibly respond to this better than other people who are better with words have done.
So I direct you to:
http://www.americanatheist.org/win98-99/T2/silve rm an.html
Most everything Douglas Adams says below applies to me as well -- I even used to volunteer much of my time to the local church.
AMERICAN ATHEISTS: Mr. Adams, you have been described as a "radical Atheist." Is this accurate?
DNA: Yes. I think I use the term radical rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as "Atheist," some people will say, "Don't you mean 'Agnostic'?" I have to reply that I really do mean Atheist. I really do not believe that there is a god - in fact I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one. It's easier to say that I am a radical Atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it's an opinion I hold seriously. It's funny how many people are genuinely surprised to hear a view expressed so strongly. In England we seem to have drifted from vague wishy-washy Anglicanism to vague wishy-washy Agnosticism - both of which I think betoken a desire not to have to think about things too much.
People will then often say "But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?" This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness and muddle that I usually edge out of the conversation rather than get sucked into it. (If it turns out that I've been wrong all along, and there is in fact a god, and if it further turned out that this kind of legalistic, cross-your-fingers-behind-your-back, Clintonian hair-splitting impressed him, then I think I would chose not to worship him anyway.)
Other people will ask how I can possibly claim to know? Isn't belief-that-there-is-not-a-god as irrational, arrogant, etc., as belief-that-there-is-a-god? To which I say no for several reasons. First of all I do not believe-that-there-is-not-a-god. I don't see what belief has got to do with it. I believe or don't believe my four-year old daughter when she tells me that she didn't make that mess on the floor. I believe in justice and fair play (though I don't know exactly how we achieve them, other than by continually trying against all possible odds of success). I also believe that England should enter the European Monetary Union. I am not remotely enough of an economist to argue the issue vigorously with someone who is, but what little I do know, reinforced with a hefty dollop of gut feeling, strongly suggests to me that it's the right course. I could very easily turn out to be wrong, and I know that. These seem to me to be legitimate uses for the word believe. As a carapace for the protection of irrational notions from legitimate questions, however, I think that the word has a lot of mischief to answer for. So, I do not believe-that-there-is-no-god. I am, however, convinced that there is no god, which is a totally different stance and takes me on to my second reason.
Doublas Adams(left) with David Silverman
I don't accept the currently fashionable assertion that any view is automatically as worthy of respect as any equal and opposite view. My view is that the moon is made of rock. If someone says to me "Well, you haven't been there, have you? You haven't seen it for yourself, so my view that it is made of Norwegian Beaver Cheese is equally valid" - then I can't even be bothered to argue. There is such a thing as the burden of proof, and in the case of god, as in the case of the composition of the moon, this has shifted radically. God used to be the best explanation we'd got, and we've now got vastly better ones. God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining. So I don't think that being convinced that there is no god is as irrational or arrogant a point of view as belief that there is. I don't think the matter calls for even-handedness at all.
It makes me sad that people still allow such ridiculous superstitions to have such an effect in their lives.
I ocassionally get fed up with it. I sneeze quite often, and there's *always* someone around who says, "Blesh you."
Someday I'm just going to snap.
"WHAT THE FUCK DOES BLESH MEAN? DO YOU MEAN *BLESS*? WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU BLESS ME? ARE YOU SOME KIND OF A PRIEST? YOU DO REALIZE I'M AN ATHIEST, RIGHT? YOUR BLESSING JUST MAKES ME LAUGH AT YOU AS A FOLLOWER OF A PARTICULARLY POPULAR AND SILLY CULT."
For crying out loud. Why would you "blesh" someone when they sneeze? Are these the same people who are afraid of shadows, rap music, and walking under ladders?
Life with superstition has got to suck.
Here in the states, my wife only commits adultery *after* she gets stoned.
My ex-girlfriend also has ataxia.
She is told not to drive.
I think if your friend has dizy spells and can't walk, operating heavy machinery is a BAD idea. I wouldnt' want to be driving around her.
I'll go right ahead then. I was consulting for State Farm installing machines that were supposed to help with the Y2K problem. Hell if I know, I just got the box, went to the site, installed it and made sure it was working. Easy. I had five to do a week, and would be done by Tuesday morning and helping out other contractors on similar projects.
I'll never forget my visit to the State Farm DSO in Detroit, MI. I'd just physically installed the new machine, at the bottom of a rack, and stood up.
Stood up putting my shoulder right into the unprotected "History Eraser Button" on the wall. The screams of the employees working int he datacenter could be heard all the way back home in Chicago, I've no doubt.
Then it turns out the fuses which will reset the systems in the datacenter are in a locked cabinet.
Then it turns out no one on site has a key.
Fortunately, I found that the cabinet will pop open if you kick it hard enough. Hey, I was panicking, okay?
And get this. After it was all over and I realized I probably wouldn't get killed by anyone... they told me "It's okay, this happens all the time. The guy installing the A/C unit last week did it too."
Maybe they should have put a cover over the damn button then. Morons.
Marco is Assistant Professor at Cattolica University, Milan (Italy), of "Theories and techniques of online communication", faculty of Arts and Philosophy.
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I don't know the guy, this is on the webpage mentioned int he article. He certainly doesn't seem intelligent enough to be a professor of anything. Even if I let him slide a bit for being a non-native english speaker, the paper is still *awful.*
some super 733t MD67 algorithm
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MD67 is a Message Digest; it's not used to encrypt anything.
Oops, you aren't supposed to know about that. Please remain where you are and we'll dispatch some gentlemen from the ministry of truth to your home.
Can you give an example of the sorts of small particles you're talking about? As far as I'm aware, the best nanotechnology is still on a molecular level, and we come in contact with some damn small molecules every single day. Breathable oxygen molecules are only two medium-sized atoms large. As far as I'm aware, nanotech isn't even being considered on that small a scale.
Okay, first off, no one cooks toads. All toads are poisonous to some extent or another. It's their natural defense system (along with peeing on you when you pick them up.)
Some people do, however, cook *FROGS*. And when they do, they'll typically kill them and cook just the legs.
Now I've never tried tossing a live frog into a pot of cold or hot water, but I'd assume they'd jump out either way. The frogs I've tossed into puddles and ponds hop off immediately.
Oh, sorry... you were making some other point, weren't you? Nevermind then.
I'd just like to state, as someone who's older than three years of age, that we hated the French long before September 11th, 2001.
That is all, frog-lover!
Uh... Rupert Murdoch owns The Sun.
So WTF does Fox News have to do with it? Not much, directly. But Rupert Murdoch sure does.
And you got modded informative? Hell.
There are two comments I can't resist:
1) I've been a professional programmer for most of my adult life (10 years or so by my count) and I love it. I go home and code more. My only wish remains that I had more time for more coding.
2) While I wish it were true that precise english skills are required in today's workplace, my experience is the exact opposite. I can write three pages of perfectly formed english and the response I invariably get from the recipients is, "You expect me to read ALL THAT?" -- As though a few hundred words were an insurmountable barrier. If I instead format my emails as a series of bulleted sentence fragments, removing any vestiges of proper english and taking out all of the depth of knowledge I'd pesented over three pages, it's typically no problem for the people to read.
And don't even get me started on the abuses of language I see every day from management. My boss sent an email the other day -- TO A CUSTOMER -- that had the phrase "It's a mute point" in it.
No, mastery of english doesn't seem to be encouraged -- at least not where I've been.
Let's get real. If this worked, my girlfriend would be speaking fluent simlish. As it is, she only knows enough to say "My crayon is large and red."
Oh sure, that's a great argument. By that logic, you might as well go kill yourself today. Don't worry, once you're done, you won't miss being alive.
why do we need to send astronauts
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Because humans have all their eggs in one basket. All it takes is one minor disaster to wipe out the entire human race on Earth.
Then what? We've got no backup.