I'm a programmer for a large, (US) national newspaper chain and screwing up the publication cycle is somewhat more common that you might think.
Most daily newspapers produce various editions, between 2 and four, and I've seen a couple of times, where only one edition is printed due to "codeing errors" (like the 1 billion seconds from the epoc thing - my personal favorite).
Of course the vendor had to be called at the $500/hour emergency rate to fix their own error.
Once I saw a print pre-processor go off line because/dev/null was deleted and the backup systme had been down for 6 mos. and take out $50,000 - $100,000 in advertising.
The call daily newspapers "the daily miracle" and when you look at some of the computer band-aids they have producing them, you can see why.
Yes, but years of working with standard, all-gasoline powered cars has provided lessons for emergency personel, and probably at the expense of people's lives, to not make the whole damn thing detonate when you're trying to get people out.
The point of the original story is those emergency folks are sure how to do that with hybrids.
Why not find a pro-outsourcing advocacy group and some anti-outsourcing CEOs. That might be interesting (in the fact that one would assume it impossible).
What if I do a screenplay about Linus and the birth of Linux and I cast Linus as a classic nerd, perhaps played by the guy in Jurassic Part (you know, "Newman"). Then I incude choice quotes like "We must ship Linux by tomorrow."
Maybe I throw in some Darl and how Linux never liked him, since, oh I don't know they went to college together and liked the same computer geek girl (Sandra Bullock) so Linux plans all along to get him good with this Open Source stuff.
Don't like the fluff and crap on resumes? Stop posting job descriptions written in the same hyperbole.
Must be fluent in C, C++, Perl, ASP, Java, Objective C, Ada, Lisp, csh, ksh, bash, Python Fortran, Cobol and HTML. Must have a working knowledge of the entire Microsoft sortware library as well as familiarity with process systems no one but us uses. MCSE, CISSP, A+, CCIE, CUSA, Red Hat, Solaris and security clearance required.
I drive over the Altamont pass occasionally and in the last 20 years I think I've only seen a fraction of those things actually running.
In recent years the place looks dead (no pun intended).
So how could those 3 birds per day be getting killed? All I can think of is the local mice population sat around one day and said, "Hey, let's all crowd around the big spinny thing the Gods built. Maybe it'll protect us...."
Are the Chinese reinventing the wheel here or are they actively using US and Russian experience.
I mean sending a guy up to do an orbit sounds to me (as a total layman in space programs) as a "we doing all this ourselves from the ground up" method.
I mean do they have to incinerate 3 astronauts in a oxygen rich capsule too?
If this is the case, it's kind of sad that they can't build on the experience already in-place. I mean this is science after all.
Yeah yeah, I know I being naive... we can't let them slanty-eyed commies near our military-industrial space-based jobs program, but damn - seems a shame.
How 'bout we fix sick people first
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My neighbor's kid has some syndrome where because of some genetic hiccup the kid has no upper body strength. No, I not saying the kid's a wimp, I'm saying he can't swallow or breathe on his own.
Apparently, the current thinking is that through gene therapy there's at least a possibilty the kid could be cured, ('cept there's a moratorium on gene therapy).
So, being super people is I guess all well and good, for me I'd just like to see this kid not have to eat through a tube.
Look, LOTR:TT diverged from the book (a lot), a Beautiful Mind diverged from history (a lot)... why shouldn't movies about engineers (or cops or porn stars or garbage men) diverge from reality too?
Look, I hate it (a lot) but it's a losing battle. Reality is actually quite dull and those who make movies don't think you'll want to watch it.
In 1983 I was in Berlin and a reponsible adult (?) took us out on the S-Bahn and for whatever reason on that night the train took a spin through (under) East Berlin and through 3 stations that had been closed for 40 years.
It was wierd as hell, the stations looked... well... bombed out and there was debris everywhere. At each station there was a lone bare bulb and a lone polizei with an AK-47. The air was extremly stale too. The train wasn't allowed to stop, it just slowed.
Like a litle tram trip through the Twilight Zone.
I can only assume that all that is a memory and those stations have been re-built now and are operational, no? Any Berliners care to comment?
I'm sorry, but how can any Autism study say there's a 273% increase in Autsim and not take into account that the DIAGNOSTIC RULES CHANGED IN 1994?
The DSM-IV came out in 1994 and significantly broadened the diagnostic criteria for Autism. In my not so humble opinion, this has to have contributed directly to the 273% number the UCD study spouts.
My 3-year-old son was diagnosed with Autism last year. There are a huge number of "autistic traits" scattered through out my family. I have no doubt that if born today, I would have been diagnosed on the "autism spectrum", my father certainly would have been, as well as two of my nephews and quite likely my sister.
As it is, we were simply called "different" or "challenging" or "problematic". "Autism" was reserved for the likes of "Rainman".
The study (at least as it's being reported) is invalid. There has not been a 273% increase in Autism, there has been a 273% percent increase in the Autism cases being diagnosed.
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I'm a programmer for a large, (US) national newspaper chain and screwing up the publication cycle is somewhat more common that you might think.
/dev/null was deleted and the backup systme had been down for 6 mos. and take out $50,000 - $100,000 in advertising.
Most daily newspapers produce various editions, between 2 and four, and I've seen a couple of times, where only one edition is printed due to "codeing errors" (like the 1 billion seconds from the epoc thing - my personal favorite).
Of course the vendor had to be called at the $500/hour emergency rate to fix their own error.
Once I saw a print pre-processor go off line because
The call daily newspapers "the daily miracle" and when you look at some of the computer band-aids they have producing them, you can see why.
Anyone else read "run unix or linux code via STFU."
Now THAT would be interesting. Like your own Denis Leary in your computer.
Good God man, wouldn't finding a freaking Linux CD be easier?
Yes, but years of working with standard, all-gasoline powered cars has provided lessons for emergency personel, and probably at the expense of people's lives, to not make the whole damn thing detonate when you're trying to get people out.
The point of the original story is those emergency folks are sure how to do that with hybrids.
> anti-outsourcing advocacy groups, pro-outsourcing CEOs
Why not find a pro-outsourcing advocacy group and some anti-outsourcing CEOs. That might be interesting (in the fact that one would assume it impossible).
What if I do a screenplay about Linus and the birth of Linux and I cast Linus as a classic nerd, perhaps played by the guy in Jurassic Part (you know, "Newman"). Then I incude choice quotes like "We must ship Linux by tomorrow."
/. crowd would howl!
Maybe I throw in some Darl and how Linux never liked him, since, oh I don't know they went to college together and liked the same computer geek girl (Sandra Bullock) so Linux plans all along to get him good with this Open Source stuff.
Oh man, the
But, it's just a movie... sheesh, get a life.
Don't like the fluff and crap on resumes? Stop posting job descriptions written in the same hyperbole.
Must be fluent in C, C++, Perl, ASP, Java, Objective C, Ada, Lisp, csh, ksh, bash, Python Fortran, Cobol and HTML. Must have a working knowledge of the entire Microsoft sortware library as well as familiarity with process systems no one but us uses. MCSE, CISSP, A+, CCIE, CUSA, Red Hat, Solaris and security clearance required.
Seriously!
I drive over the Altamont pass occasionally and in the last 20 years I think I've only seen a fraction of those things actually running.
In recent years the place looks dead (no pun intended).
So how could those 3 birds per day be getting killed? All I can think of is the local mice population sat around one day and said, "Hey, let's all crowd around the big spinny thing the Gods built. Maybe it'll protect us...."
that means he's a car theif, blast 'im.
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Kliebold and Harris delt with, so did Kinkle. Perhaps we should keep that in perspective.
Can /.er speak to this:
Are the Chinese reinventing the wheel here or are they actively using US and Russian experience.
I mean sending a guy up to do an orbit sounds to me (as a total layman in space programs) as a "we doing all this ourselves from the ground up" method.
I mean do they have to incinerate 3 astronauts in a oxygen rich capsule too?
If this is the case, it's kind of sad that they can't build on the experience already in-place. I mean this is science after all.
Yeah yeah, I know I being naive... we can't let them slanty-eyed commies near our military-industrial space-based jobs program, but damn - seems a shame.
My God, have you people seen her picture? I think I speak for most /.ers when I ask:
Um, are you seeing anyone?
No, the problem is Windows doesn't integrate with Linux.
This isn't Linux's problem, since Open Source projects often adher to open standards while Windows doesn't.
The solution is to fix Windows... oh wait, we can't.
Has anyone thought about "What if they win?"
I mean, no, I don't think they will, but in the States you hear about all sorts of weirdness in the judicial system.
So what if they win?
Now we have Windows, which typically comes with no built-in programming language. What can be done to improve the situation?"
Then chuck Windows and move along, duh.
Probably the same thing as one of those old-fashioned gas-expansion lead accelerators would do.
Mod: 6 Really damn funny!
My neighbor's kid has some syndrome where because of some genetic hiccup the kid has no upper body strength. No, I not saying the kid's a wimp, I'm saying he can't swallow or breathe on his own.
Apparently, the current thinking is that through gene therapy there's at least a possibilty the kid could be cured, ('cept there's a moratorium on gene therapy).
So, being super people is I guess all well and good, for me I'd just like to see this kid not have to eat through a tube.
Look, LOTR:TT diverged from the book (a lot), a Beautiful Mind diverged from history (a lot)... why shouldn't movies about engineers (or cops or porn stars or garbage men) diverge from reality too?
Look, I hate it (a lot) but it's a losing battle. Reality is actually quite dull and those who make movies don't think you'll want to watch it.
In 1983 I was in Berlin and a reponsible adult (?) took us out on the S-Bahn and for whatever reason on that night the train took a spin through (under) East Berlin and through 3 stations that had been closed for 40 years.
It was wierd as hell, the stations looked... well... bombed out and there was debris everywhere. At each station there was a lone bare bulb and a lone polizei with an AK-47. The air was extremly stale too. The train wasn't allowed to stop, it just slowed.
Like a litle tram trip through the Twilight Zone.
I can only assume that all that is a memory and those stations have been re-built now and are operational, no? Any Berliners care to comment?
I'm sorry, but how can any Autism study say there's a 273% increase in Autsim and not take into account that the DIAGNOSTIC RULES CHANGED IN 1994?
The DSM-IV came out in 1994 and significantly broadened the diagnostic criteria for Autism. In my not so humble opinion, this has to have contributed directly to the 273% number the UCD study spouts.
My 3-year-old son was diagnosed with Autism last year. There are a huge number of "autistic traits" scattered through out my family. I have no doubt that if born today, I would have been diagnosed on the "autism spectrum", my father certainly would have been, as well as two of my nephews and quite likely my sister.
As it is, we were simply called "different" or "challenging" or "problematic". "Autism" was reserved for the likes of "Rainman".
The study (at least as it's being reported) is invalid. There has not been a 273% increase in Autism, there has been a 273% percent increase in the Autism cases being diagnosed.
Don't bullshit.
Don't spout vapor.
Don't lie.
Don't make shit up.
Just present your product, not the crap.
Does this mean I can attack spammers?
No? Oh darn.
Marc
The Bee also ran a story that despite a state-wide hiring freeze, as many as 9,000 people have been hired at the state.
Interestingly, several highly qualified information security candidates I know haven't even been able to get even contract work at the state.
And don't even get me started on the governors "cyberterrorism task force".