1. The surf kiddie's solution: Go to your Kinko's (or whatever's the right store for the stuff - it's been a few years since I've been on the left side of the Atlantic), buy some iron-on paper for your printer, download (or draw) the graphic(s) of your choice, print, iron on plain shirt and wear.
2. The Real Hacker(TM)'s solution: pick up that old sewing machine your mom threw out, modify to do some computer-aided embroidery, hack a Linux driver for it, download/draw, embroider on plain shirt, wear.
Both would seem to me to make much more of an individualistic statement than those ThinkGeek-wannabe stuff.
Now let's please keep Ask/. open for the really important stuff, like moving or dieting...
Doctors who know little put chemicals about which they know less into our bodies about which they know nothing at all.
Oh, BTW, he's a vet.... I have much respect for someone who can succesfully treat patients who have all sorts of different physiologies, can't talk to tell what's bothering them, but instead aren't shy to use their teeth, beaks, horns and claws.
I think they were the first ones to make these types of mowers; saw a battery as well as a solar cell model on their page a year or two ago (http://www.husqvarna.com/). I guess many makers of lawnmowers/power tools are on this band wagon or are trying to get on, so surf a few web sites and don't get yer panties all in a knot over one maker that is going down.
As others pointed out, you could also investigate alternative ground cover. I'm unfortunately not into gardening myself, so this is all out of that store of useless info you hear somewhere and only listen to with half an ear, but I once heard of plant species which would do nicely as lawn and which don't grow more than a few millimeters in height, so you don't need mowing at all.
I suppose one has to note that the "mutations" and "cloning" mentioned in the article is not human-induced. The Cape bee subspecies lived happily and successfully down in the southern part of South Africa (Cape provice). It had the Karoo, a semi-desert, as a physical barrier separating it from the African bee colonies further north.
The problems started when some bee keepers thought that the docile Cape bee might be easier to handle and moved some hives across the Karoo.
A bee hive is like a complex organism, where the queen bee is the reproductive center of attention and her pheromones are what makes the whole hive function.
Because the Cape worker bee gives off pheromones very similar to the African queen bee, they are (literally) treated like queens. Thus the Africa worker bees work themselves to death in sustaining multiple "queens" in their hive, while the Cape workers are spoilt rotten and never contribute anything to the hive - until the hive dies.
Harsh measures where taken since the 1990's to save the SA honey industry, inter alia destroying whole hives found to be infected. I'm surprised that this gets this sort of attention only now.
The conclusion in the article is probably right: high concentrations of hives (as in commercial beekeeping) are very susceptible to infection, while single wild hives could probably ward off infection more easily. This problem will probably only peter out once most hives are destroyed and the parasites with them. This doesn't bode well for the honey industry in SA.
There's probably a good reason why coffy makers and computers are not habitually combined: water and electronics, like firearms and alcohol, don't mix too well.
I don't think he's even using the heat from the chips to boil his water (supply and demand differ) so what's the point?
I'd rather just put the one machine next to the other on the desk.
Then again, as health consiousness is geeky these days, just leave the darn thing in the kitchen and get up every now and then! (Not that you'll improve your health much by drinking the stuff....)
QWERTY was originally designed by Christopher Sholes to slow typing down. [...] If a typist typed two letters one after the other too quickly, the "hammers" would hit each other; the typist then had to dislodge the hammers and that could get a bit messy. So, Sholes came up with a keyboard layout that would place letters which would be most likely struck closely in succession on opposite sides of the layout.
I believe he chose the layout to SPEED UP typing. I mean, do you know how slow you type when you have to untangle hammers all the time???
You're so right - but this boils down to techies doing a little bit of project mangement, albeit on a task-by-task basis (well, a good project manager should know how to delegate after all.:-)
The problem is, techies are not usually equipped to do even this. Especially when fresh, your time estimation can be far out. So the company should make allowance for this (the whole CMM thing about "learning organisations"):
PM's and techies need to communicate about tasks and requirements.
Allowance should be made for unknowns and slips - once a project plan is drawn up, it isn't cast in concrete and replanning/contingency planning/risk management should be part and parcel of project management.
At a previous company, we had seperate Test Engineers that never (or very seldom) did any Software Engineering (although they had same qualifications). Oh, the whole company was very into Best Practices, ISO9000, TQM, procedures and all that sort of thing. So that wasn't just a fancy-sounding job title, these people actually made it their jobs to design thoroug tests, keep up to date with latest developments in their field, etc. It was a pain, but it delivered the goods.
There is a lot of research available on the Web (and trade literature) on best practices in testing. Just entering some random but legal data and saying "Ok, this works!" is NOT testing. A combination of techniques like boundary testing (input data is close to the dividing line between legal and illegal input - from both sides of the line), error injection (modify code to intentionally generate an error then analyse how this is handled), branch analysis, unit + system tests, peer reviews etc. etc. would probably be best.
One rule of thumb you would want to keep in mind, is that the earlier in your development lifecycle the bug is caught, the cheaper it is to fix (substantially). So it pays off to have testers involved with appropriate consistency checks, peer reviews, and what not, right from the requirements gathering phase. (Yes, "lifecycle" is a bit bigger than code-compile-test:-) So it doesn't help much to have a good test team bnut the development team don't know their stuff.)
Also, it is assumed that Zero Defect is very hard to achieve, therefor when addressing bugs, first go for the 20% that cause 80% of the trouble (ye olde 20/80 rule-o'-thumb).
With the high crime rate and all that in our beloved country, there are a couple of security companies that install a tracking device in your vehicle to enable them to recover it when it gets stolen/hijacked. This device presumably uses GPS and sends the "breadcrumb" data to a control center over the GSM network or via radio.
Each morning while sitting in that jam they call rush hour, I think to myself why on earth don't these companies make use of this data (possibly having their clients opt-in, since the tracking is normally only activated in an emergency).
This would probably be much more accurate than using the mobile signals - on the other hand, I think the FCC made it mandatory to phase in GPS or some other locating device into mobile handsets.
I find that to understand these fanatics that cause all the problems, you need to "understand" their religious book by adhering to the interpretation of some or other tradition. You can't take those writings at face value - plain and simple fundamentals often don't bring you very far in understanding the problem...
I have to agree. I've been in Zürich now for 4 weeks (unfortunately only a temporary assignment inside the company, so not usefull with respect to job hunting), and BOY does this place give a whole new meaning to small (compared to what I'm used to in South Africa; Americans will have the same problem, probably even more so:-) ). Driving downtown (and finding parking space) is an absolute nightmare - much, much better to use the (very efficient and clean) public transport. Bicycles, in-line-skates and mini-scooters are very popular and according to some, the fastest mode of transport around town.
Judging from my English-speaking colleagues' experiences, one can get along quite well using only English. I have to add that German is my mother tongue, so it's a bit easier for me - though some of the Swyzerdüütsch dialects are a bit too much even for me:-)
Finding a job at some multinational will probably help since English is often the lowest common denominator. The first week or two where quite confusing for me with all the English, French, German (High and Swiss), Romanian, Italian, Afrikaans etc. flying around. I even dreamt in languages I can not speak for the life of me;-) Oh, and you might need a couple of days to get used to the local keyboards....
I also find that the Swiss appear at first to be somewhat... introverted, but they are actually quite friendly and helpful. My colleagues are a great resource on anything from apartments to rent to pubs to go to and everything else making it easier to adapt.
Let's hope the Palomareans are cool about this and aren't too fanatic about the continued existence of their cluster.... I would hate to see the Milky Way blown out of the sky out of "self defence".
Please remember that a communist party came to power in 1994 and stuff like this has been going on ever since. The Doctrine teaches that everything needs to be under their control and that is exactly what is going to happen.
So stop whining about it (ZA-ns and others). The time that you could have done anything about it has long passed. Instead you supported the new regime coming to power.
I find that most views attributed to the Bible ("The Bible says this or that") are actually someone's mindless regurgitations of some other ostensibly learned theologician's obviously flawed interpretation of the scriptures, usually made to fit his particular church's teaching. Quite difficult to get involved in a flame war where you agree with neither side:-)
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Now that's a very moral, ethical thing to say... Saving lives: the magic formula that justifies everything.
So if some research does not hold much promise to save lives, is it okay to put up a roadblock to that?
Good enough reason to send a mission there....
If they don't even bother to include drivers on disks "for the most common OSes", how are you going to get them to include those drivers on flash?
For this tagline:
from the old-programmers-are-never-free()'ed dept.
This was probably the funniest one I've read on /. so far. Thanks for a good laugh!
1. The surf kiddie's solution: Go to your Kinko's (or whatever's the right store for the stuff - it's been a few years since I've been on the left side of the Atlantic), buy some iron-on paper for your printer, download (or draw) the graphic(s) of your choice, print, iron on plain shirt and wear.
2. The Real Hacker(TM)'s solution: pick up that old sewing machine your mom threw out, modify to do some computer-aided embroidery, hack a Linux driver for it, download/draw, embroider on plain shirt, wear.
Both would seem to me to make much more of an individualistic statement than those ThinkGeek-wannabe stuff.
Now let's please keep Ask/. open for the really important stuff, like moving or dieting...
That's why they call it D#. See-Sharp doesn't really apply (was taken already anyway).
Doctors who know little put chemicals about which they know less into our bodies about which they know nothing at all.
Oh, BTW, he's a vet.... I have much respect for someone who can succesfully treat patients who have all sorts of different physiologies, can't talk to tell what's bothering them, but instead aren't shy to use their teeth, beaks, horns and claws.
I think they were the first ones to make these types of mowers; saw a battery as well as a solar cell model on their page a year or two ago (http://www.husqvarna.com/). I guess many makers of lawnmowers/power tools are on this band wagon or are trying to get on, so surf a few web sites and don't get yer panties all in a knot over one maker that is going down.
As others pointed out, you could also investigate alternative ground cover. I'm unfortunately not into gardening myself, so this is all out of that store of useless info you hear somewhere and only listen to with half an ear, but I once heard of plant species which would do nicely as lawn and which don't grow more than a few millimeters in height, so you don't need mowing at all.
For practical purposes, I keep it even simpler:
Don't believe anything a politician is saying when his lips are moving.
Except maybe when he calls a fellow-politician a liar.
I once kept bees as a hobby....
I suppose one has to note that the "mutations" and "cloning" mentioned in the article is not human-induced. The Cape bee subspecies lived happily and successfully down in the southern part of South Africa (Cape provice). It had the Karoo, a semi-desert, as a physical barrier separating it from the African bee colonies further north.
The problems started when some bee keepers thought that the docile Cape bee might be easier to handle and moved some hives across the Karoo.
A bee hive is like a complex organism, where the queen bee is the reproductive center of attention and her pheromones are what makes the whole hive function.
Because the Cape worker bee gives off pheromones very similar to the African queen bee, they are (literally) treated like queens. Thus the Africa worker bees work themselves to death in sustaining multiple "queens" in their hive, while the Cape workers are spoilt rotten and never contribute anything to the hive - until the hive dies.
Harsh measures where taken since the 1990's to save the SA honey industry, inter alia destroying whole hives found to be infected. I'm surprised that this gets this sort of attention only now.
The conclusion in the article is probably right: high concentrations of hives (as in commercial beekeeping) are very susceptible to infection, while single wild hives could probably ward off infection more easily. This problem will probably only peter out once most hives are destroyed and the parasites with them. This doesn't bode well for the honey industry in SA.
I can think of some political persuasions whom human pathogens might suit just fine....
Now it becomes really easy to implement some sort of light pen device. Also, how about a screen/scanner combination?
There's probably a good reason why coffy makers and computers are not habitually combined: water and electronics, like firearms and alcohol, don't mix too well.
I don't think he's even using the heat from the chips to boil his water (supply and demand differ) so what's the point? I'd rather just put the one machine next to the other on the desk.
Then again, as health consiousness is geeky these days, just leave the darn thing in the kitchen and get up every now and then! (Not that you'll improve your health much by drinking the stuff....)
I believe he chose the layout to SPEED UP typing. I mean, do you know how slow you type when you have to untangle hammers all the time???
You're so right - but this boils down to techies doing a little bit of project mangement, albeit on a task-by-task basis (well, a good project manager should know how to delegate after all. :-)
The problem is, techies are not usually equipped to do even this. Especially when fresh, your time estimation can be far out. So the company should make allowance for this (the whole CMM thing about "learning organisations"):
Wait until that newspaper gets some pay-per-view tech to protect their rights on the content...
At a previous company, we had seperate Test Engineers that never (or very seldom) did any Software Engineering (although they had same qualifications). Oh, the whole company was very into Best Practices, ISO9000, TQM, procedures and all that sort of thing. So that wasn't just a fancy-sounding job title, these people actually made it their jobs to design thoroug tests, keep up to date with latest developments in their field, etc. It was a pain, but it delivered the goods.
There is a lot of research available on the Web (and trade literature) on best practices in testing. Just entering some random but legal data and saying "Ok, this works!" is NOT testing. A combination of techniques like boundary testing (input data is close to the dividing line between legal and illegal input - from both sides of the line), error injection (modify code to intentionally generate an error then analyse how this is handled), branch analysis, unit + system tests, peer reviews etc. etc. would probably be best.
One rule of thumb you would want to keep in mind, is that the earlier in your development lifecycle the bug is caught, the cheaper it is to fix (substantially). So it pays off to have testers involved with appropriate consistency checks, peer reviews, and what not, right from the requirements gathering phase. (Yes, "lifecycle" is a bit bigger than code-compile-test :-) So it doesn't help much to have a good test team bnut the development team don't know their stuff.)
Also, it is assumed that Zero Defect is very hard to achieve, therefor when addressing bugs, first go for the 20% that cause 80% of the trouble (ye olde 20/80 rule-o'-thumb).
With the high crime rate and all that in our beloved country, there are a couple of security companies that install a tracking device in your vehicle to enable them to recover it when it gets stolen/hijacked. This device presumably uses GPS and sends the "breadcrumb" data to a control center over the GSM network or via radio.
Each morning while sitting in that jam they call rush hour, I think to myself why on earth don't these companies make use of this data (possibly having their clients opt-in, since the tracking is normally only activated in an emergency).
This would probably be much more accurate than using the mobile signals - on the other hand, I think the FCC made it mandatory to phase in GPS or some other locating device into mobile handsets.
I find that to understand these fanatics that cause all the problems, you need to "understand" their religious book by adhering to the interpretation of some or other tradition. You can't take those writings at face value - plain and simple fundamentals often don't bring you very far in understanding the problem...
I have to agree. I've been in Zürich now for 4 weeks (unfortunately only a temporary assignment inside the company, so not usefull with respect to job hunting), and BOY does this place give a whole new meaning to small (compared to what I'm used to in South Africa; Americans will have the same problem, probably even more so :-) ). Driving downtown (and finding parking space) is an absolute nightmare - much, much better to use the (very efficient and clean) public transport. Bicycles, in-line-skates and mini-scooters are very popular and according to some, the fastest mode of transport around town.
:-)
;-) Oh, and you might need a couple of days to get used to the local keyboards....
Judging from my English-speaking colleagues' experiences, one can get along quite well using only English. I have to add that German is my mother tongue, so it's a bit easier for me - though some of the Swyzerdüütsch dialects are a bit too much even for me
Finding a job at some multinational will probably help since English is often the lowest common denominator. The first week or two where quite confusing for me with all the English, French, German (High and Swiss), Romanian, Italian, Afrikaans etc. flying around. I even dreamt in languages I can not speak for the life of me
I also find that the Swiss appear at first to be somewhat... introverted, but they are actually quite friendly and helpful. My colleagues are a great resource on anything from apartments to rent to pubs to go to and everything else making it easier to adapt.
Let's hope the Palomareans are cool about this and aren't too fanatic about the continued existence of their cluster.... I would hate to see the Milky Way blown out of the sky out of "self defence".
Please remember that a communist party came to power in 1994 and stuff like this has been going on ever since. The Doctrine teaches that everything needs to be under their control and that is exactly what is going to happen.
So stop whining about it (ZA-ns and others). The time that you could have done anything about it has long passed. Instead you supported the new regime coming to power.
(Yes, South Africa in fact does grow bananas.)
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I find that most views attributed to the Bible ("The Bible says this or that") are actually someone's mindless regurgitations of some other ostensibly learned theologician's obviously flawed interpretation of the scriptures, usually made to fit his particular church's teaching. Quite difficult to get involved in a flame war where you agree with neither side :-)
... write up an RCF to implement IP over this.