no...technically he is correct...the dark side of the moon is always facing away from the sun...just like the dark side of the earth is always facing away from the sun...
it just so happens that the dark side of the moon!=the far side of the moon
more importantly is that the far side of the moon is facing away from the earth, which produces more radio signals than the sun, thus interfering with radio astronomy.
but i do own it. certain steel giders were made by me, and the people that built the bridge stole them, meaning i own the bridge. So, everyone should pay the $699 toll before they use the bridge otherwise they are stealing from me and i am going to have to sue them.
oh, you want to see proof i own the bridge? well just sign this handy non-disclosure agreement...which specifically says you cannot comment on the validity of my claim, and i will show you all the proof you want!
sound familar?
right now Novel is telling SCO that they have overstepped their own license of Sys V and that IBM can do anything they want. right now no one knows if SCO actually has any IP in linux.
i don't know about the loss within the device, as you said it is too early to tell. the reason you would need to refresh this for sure is that you can only read it once, so you would have to refresh the data every time you read it.
Are you saying that organic chemistry is essentially a solved problem? That we have proven that Earth life is the only feasible biochemical basis for life and that chemicals capable of sustaining life can only form in Earthlike conditions?
exactly! and i would think that at the time life formed on earth, the conditions on earth weren't very earthlike...at least not in the way it is now. it could very well have been more marslike or possibly even europalike at the time and place that life first appeared on earth. it probably wasn't until oxygen releasing algae formed that the earth became earthlike, which at the time probably killed off all the then non-earthlike life that couldn't adapt to the poisonous oxygen.
oxygen is a really harsh chemical! it has a tendancy to combine with almost anything. i would say that we live in very harsh conditions, and that by comparison europa is mild!
i bet some methane breathing aliens are looking at us now through their powerful telescopes and saying "look at all the oxygen on that pitiful blue planet, what a harsh environment nothing could survive there...but that beautiful icey acidic moon on the other hand..."
you see, that is the beauty of the sexy blond android, because she can try to seduce the programmer, and if that doesn't work she litterally has the advanced hardware being that she is an android...
i don't know who is larger, but if i recall...a few years ago comcast's broadband internet business was going bankrupt, so they sold it to AT&T. AT&T then made it profitable and comcast recently (i believe last year) bought it back. at least that is what happened in my area.
this might be going off topic, but i picture us humans going to some alien world and meeting these aliens, we see buildings on the planet and so think there may have been intelligent life on the planet. these aliens, like us, think that mathmatics is the language of the universe and so they give us two lengths of string which in their mind is the universal symbol for pi...we look at them, pat them on the head like they are good little puppies for bringing us the lengths of string, and then leave the planet deciding that there is no longer any intelligent life on it because the barbarians inhabitting it don't even understand mathmatics.
now if it were the other way around and these aliens visited us, what would they think about us for not even knowing what two lengths of string mean?
maybe it wouldn't be that simple if we both used tools and complex machinery. i am begining to think more that the ability to use tools and build complex machinery are a better indication of intelligence and possibly as a form of communication than mathmatics. though if the machinery is too advanced it may appear to be magic/sorcery.
yes indeed the area of mathematics will still exist, but that doesn't mean that it can be understood by the other culture/alien.
what if... you had a culture that has absolutely no concept of numbers? they do everything through making physical models. they do addition through using lever's and balances...they do multiplication through shifting the fulcrum of the balance in one direction or another. but still nowhere in here do they have any concept of a number such as 5.
now these people could probably excel at making scale models. for example, just measure what you want to scale with a piece of string and then fold the string in half. now build the feature you just measured to the size of the string. these people don't know numbers, but they just made a 1/2 scale model of an object! and you aren't even limited to powers of 2 with this scheme!
who is to say through this lever/string/model system they couldn't get into space? these people would have no notion of numbers like we do yet could be vastly superior to us in the field of geometry.
in this case prime numbers probably mean absolutely nothing to them. pi is probably very important to them, but they wouldn't be able to express it as 3.1415... they would express it as a string this __ long as the diameter of a circle with a string about this ___ long as the circumference...
how do you propose to explain a prime number or even just an integer to a culture that has never even conceived of a number? their style of mathematics could be so different from ours that we can't find a common ground upon which to even start trading information...yet we all live in the same universe, so it would be based on the same laws.
0 is the additive identity in addition...meaning zero added to any number is the original number.
zero can behave differently in different number systems(i don't just mean different bases) for different operations
not to mention there have been many cultures that have had no concept of zero...certainly they knew the concept of something not being there, but there was no such thing as 1+0=1
so one culture...or alien's concept of math may be very different than yours...for example what if they sort of have eyes like a bug? now they see the whole world differently...to them everything is sort of a matrix...and so their counting and mathematics are based almost entirely on matrices. now this doesn't make them any less/more intelligent than us, and their world works much the same as our world, but they see thing vastly differently than we do, and quite possibly have insight in certain areas which we have not yet grasped, such as maybe in their mathmatics they found an easy way to factor very large numbers. or to them prime numbers aren't important at all...heck by using matrices they might not even have a concept of prime numbers like we do.
please forgive my ignorance, but as long as they are using these legally sanctioned CD-R's then the artist supposedly isn't losing any more money whether i copy it and give it away or you copy it from the original i gave to you.
i could copy it a million times and give it to my friends and they wouldn't lose or gain any more money than if i gave it to a million friends who each copied it themself.
if you are already paying extra for every CD-R to pay for this copying...then why does it matter if it is you or your friend that copies it? because the artist supposedly will get their royalties either way
yes, but a car is used for one function, that is moving from one place to another...and maybe this thing called "making out" i have heard about
what is the computers function? email, surf the web, word processing, play games, watch porn, listen to music, p2p, do taxes, balance checkbook...and post on slashdot?
wow..no wonder it is so complicated! the real reason a computer is hard to use is that no one really knows what a comptuer i supposed to do! everyone knows that a car drives and picks up girls.
this is why a car is easy to use and a computer isn't! because a car does just a few things and does them well...isn't that sort of the unix philosophy? if that is the case i think they sure failed misserably with computers!
technically it is always about the user, in nearly every topic of science/technology.
it is just that in some areas the average knowledge base, in the topic, of its users are higher than others.
and in computers you will find that this average knowledge base is pretty low. this is why computers users don't know to use their computers. but a nuclear physicist (a sort of nuclear user...) does know how to use "nuclear" because of the precise reason that he/she has a large knowledge base in that subject.
if no one used, then no one would bother doing it...so it is always "all about the user" the only difference is in the skill of the user you are targeting.
i find some of these questions tell us more about the person than asking purely technical questions.
the point of the questions are that you aren't prepared for them. even IT positions require talking to users. by asking some of these questions it can give an indication of how well you can communicate with other people and in general they can help give insight into your personality, so we know if we can work with you. we do limit how many bs questions we ask each person, so the entire interview would not be full of them.
i am usually at the interview more to answer questions from the interviewee if they have any than to ask them. we usually have a couple developers at each interview so the interviewee can ask us about our job to find out more about what we do if they want. and asking us questions does not go unnoticed, it is encouraged.
i agree with you though in one respect...if i were on the other side of the interview table i would hate the bs questions and would probably be nervous. but seeing as how i was able to correctly describe how each of last couple batches of new hires would work i think we are asking the right questions
we usually ask a number of unexpected stupid or BS questions. we don't really care what the answer to the question is, what is important is that they answer the question at all and don't just blow it off.
it is used mostly to show that the person can think on their feet.
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no...technically he is correct...the dark side of the moon is always facing away from the sun...just like the dark side of the earth is always facing away from the sun...
it just so happens that the dark side of the moon!=the far side of the moon
more importantly is that the far side of the moon is facing away from the earth, which produces more radio signals than the sun, thus interfering with radio astronomy.
but i do own it. certain steel giders were made by me, and the people that built the bridge stole them, meaning i own the bridge. So, everyone should pay the $699 toll before they use the bridge otherwise they are stealing from me and i am going to have to sue them.
oh, you want to see proof i own the bridge? well just sign this handy non-disclosure agreement...which specifically says you cannot comment on the validity of my claim, and i will show you all the proof you want!
sound familar?
right now Novel is telling SCO that they have overstepped their own license of Sys V and that IBM can do anything they want. right now no one knows if SCO actually has any IP in linux.
i don't know about the loss within the device, as you said it is too early to tell. the reason you would need to refresh this for sure is that you can only read it once, so you would have to refresh the data every time you read it.
so it just needs to keep being refreshed similar to the capaciters in our current ram?
no you have it all wrong...
Step 1: use super secret backdoor(R) that microsoft has hides in every version of windows
Step 2: search harddrive for files named windows_source.zip
Step 3: search persons computer for personal information such as name and address and then send them a letter.
step 4: ???
step 5: lawsuit!
i have found that some of my non-computer-geeky friends/family send me most of the spam i see in my inbox.
my solution i use whitelists and mark those members of my family as spam
I'll stick to paying higher insurance rather than blowing in a fucking tube every time I want to drive some place, thankyouverymuch.
this is why they make aircompressors
a normal person would probably get sick of it quickly, but a business would probably like it because everyone would remember it.
the guy that had the number for his car dealership said he has even sold some cars to jenny callers.
but the russian one bought from the mob is probably still armed...
$200k for a fighter jet is quite reasonable!
Are you saying that organic chemistry is essentially a solved problem? That we have proven that Earth life is the only feasible biochemical basis for life and that chemicals capable of sustaining life can only form in Earthlike conditions?
exactly! and i would think that at the time life formed on earth, the conditions on earth weren't very earthlike...at least not in the way it is now. it could very well have been more marslike or possibly even europalike at the time and place that life first appeared on earth. it probably wasn't until oxygen releasing algae formed that the earth became earthlike, which at the time probably killed off all the then non-earthlike life that couldn't adapt to the poisonous oxygen.
oxygen is a really harsh chemical! it has a tendancy to combine with almost anything. i would say that we live in very harsh conditions, and that by comparison europa is mild!
i bet some methane breathing aliens are looking at us now through their powerful telescopes and saying "look at all the oxygen on that pitiful blue planet, what a harsh environment nothing could survive there...but that beautiful icey acidic moon on the other hand..."
you see, that is the beauty of the sexy blond android, because she can try to seduce the programmer, and if that doesn't work she litterally has the advanced hardware being that she is an android...
didn't AT&T originally aquire the broadband business by purchasing it from comcast? AT&T then made it profitable and comcast bought it back.
i don't know who is larger, but if i recall...a few years ago comcast's broadband internet business was going bankrupt, so they sold it to AT&T. AT&T then made it profitable and comcast recently (i believe last year) bought it back. at least that is what happened in my area.
this might be going off topic, but i picture us humans going to some alien world and meeting these aliens, we see buildings on the planet and so think there may have been intelligent life on the planet. these aliens, like us, think that mathmatics is the language of the universe and so they give us two lengths of string which in their mind is the universal symbol for pi...we look at them, pat them on the head like they are good little puppies for bringing us the lengths of string, and then leave the planet deciding that there is no longer any intelligent life on it because the barbarians inhabitting it don't even understand mathmatics.
now if it were the other way around and these aliens visited us, what would they think about us for not even knowing what two lengths of string mean?
maybe it wouldn't be that simple if we both used tools and complex machinery. i am begining to think more that the ability to use tools and build complex machinery are a better indication of intelligence and possibly as a form of communication than mathmatics. though if the machinery is too advanced it may appear to be magic/sorcery.
yes indeed the area of mathematics will still exist, but that doesn't mean that it can be understood by the other culture/alien.
what if...
you had a culture that has absolutely no concept of numbers? they do everything through making physical models. they do addition through using lever's and balances...they do multiplication through shifting the fulcrum of the balance in one direction or another. but still nowhere in here do they have any concept of a number such as 5.
now these people could probably excel at making scale models. for example, just measure what you want to scale with a piece of string and then fold the string in half. now build the feature you just measured to the size of the string. these people don't know numbers, but they just made a 1/2 scale model of an object! and you aren't even limited to powers of 2 with this scheme!
who is to say through this lever/string/model system they couldn't get into space? these people would have no notion of numbers like we do yet could be vastly superior to us in the field of geometry.
in this case prime numbers probably mean absolutely nothing to them. pi is probably very important to them, but they wouldn't be able to express it as 3.1415... they would express it as a string this __ long as the diameter of a circle with a string about this ___ long as the circumference...
how do you propose to explain a prime number or even just an integer to a culture that has never even conceived of a number? their style of mathematics could be so different from ours that we can't find a common ground upon which to even start trading information...yet we all live in the same universe, so it would be based on the same laws.
please define 0 and %
these are quite advanced mathmatical concepts...
0 is the additive identity in addition...meaning zero added to any number is the original number.
zero can behave differently in different number systems(i don't just mean different bases) for different operations
not to mention there have been many cultures that have had no concept of zero...certainly they knew the concept of something not being there, but there was no such thing as 1+0=1
so one culture...or alien's concept of math may be very different than yours...for example what if they sort of have eyes like a bug? now they see the whole world differently...to them everything is sort of a matrix...and so their counting and mathematics are based almost entirely on matrices. now this doesn't make them any less/more intelligent than us, and their world works much the same as our world, but they see thing vastly differently than we do, and quite possibly have insight in certain areas which we have not yet grasped, such as maybe in their mathmatics they found an easy way to factor very large numbers. or to them prime numbers aren't important at all...heck by using matrices they might not even have a concept of prime numbers like we do.
please forgive my ignorance, but as long as they are using these legally sanctioned CD-R's then the artist supposedly isn't losing any more money whether i copy it and give it away or you copy it from the original i gave to you.
i could copy it a million times and give it to my friends and they wouldn't lose or gain any more money than if i gave it to a million friends who each copied it themself.
if you are already paying extra for every CD-R to pay for this copying...then why does it matter if it is you or your friend that copies it? because the artist supposedly will get their royalties either way
yes, but a car is used for one function, that is moving from one place to another...and maybe this thing called "making out" i have heard about
what is the computers function? email, surf the web, word processing, play games, watch porn, listen to music, p2p, do taxes, balance checkbook...and post on slashdot?
wow..no wonder it is so complicated! the real reason a computer is hard to use is that no one really knows what a comptuer i supposed to do! everyone knows that a car drives and picks up girls.
this is why a car is easy to use and a computer isn't! because a car does just a few things and does them well...isn't that sort of the unix philosophy? if that is the case i think they sure failed misserably with computers!
technically it is always about the user, in nearly every topic of science/technology.
it is just that in some areas the average knowledge base, in the topic, of its users are higher than others.
and in computers you will find that this average knowledge base is pretty low. this is why computers users don't know to use their computers. but a nuclear physicist (a sort of nuclear user...) does know how to use "nuclear" because of the precise reason that he/she has a large knowledge base in that subject.
if no one used, then no one would bother doing it...so it is always "all about the user" the only difference is in the skill of the user you are targeting.
so then i guess my binary watch will make them run away screaming?
i find some of these questions tell us more about the person than asking purely technical questions.
the point of the questions are that you aren't prepared for them. even IT positions require talking to users. by asking some of these questions it can give an indication of how well you can communicate with other people and in general they can help give insight into your personality, so we know if we can work with you. we do limit how many bs questions we ask each person, so the entire interview would not be full of them.
i am usually at the interview more to answer questions from the interviewee if they have any than to ask them. we usually have a couple developers at each interview so the interviewee can ask us about our job to find out more about what we do if they want. and asking us questions does not go unnoticed, it is encouraged.
i agree with you though in one respect...if i were on the other side of the interview table i would hate the bs questions and would probably be nervous. but seeing as how i was able to correctly describe how each of last couple batches of new hires would work i think we are asking the right questions
No way I am turning someone loose on a system that size who doesn't know the language backwards, forwards, and sideways.
:-)
does experience in befunge count?
you should make a habbit of printing more than one on nice paper. at least in many places i have interviewed there has been more than one interviewer.
we usually ask a number of unexpected stupid or BS questions. we don't really care what the answer to the question is, what is important is that they answer the question at all and don't just blow it off.
it is used mostly to show that the person can think on their feet.