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What they are really looking for then is "people who think like we do" not "very intelligent people".
In the 3rd grade my brother took a standardized test with a section where you have to decide what is the logical thing to do next. Every (or almost every) question had the throw away answer "have a snack" when an adult would never deductivly reason that. My brother, after having gotten very good scores on all other questions, got 0 right on that section. When the teacher had my parents come in, they pointed out that he was right from his point of view - he always thought it would be apropriate for him to have a snack next! After looking at the test again, the teacher agreed that that section was quite stupid.
Now, I'm going to go have a snack.
(And my brother reads slashot, so I hope he reads this )
The treaty in question in the article you linked too had an escape clause (as anyone who reads the 2nd paragraph:
"'As provided in Article 15 of that Treaty, the effective date of withdrawal will be six months from today [December 13],' White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said in a formal statement."
The Bush Administration followed the form and letter of the treaty exactly. They made a decision to pull out of it, and the treaty allowed for that. Was it a good decision? That's another question. Does the Berne Treaty have a similar provision, I don't know - anyone?
On all DVD players I have seen you can just press the Stop button (twice), and then press play and the movie will start.
While I haven't tried this yet on my DVD player, I know it isn't in the manual. If it's not there, then even if it's true on most/all DVD players, most people don't know about it.
Incidentally, when was the last time you saw a movie where a sex scene or a shot of some poor guy graphically getting his head blown off or something was ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL to the plot or meaning of the movie?
If the director meant for that part of the movie to, say, show the brutality of war, then having someone being killed violently is necessary.
It'd be great if the movie companies themselves sold DVDs that you could set to 'pg-13' level or something (or more DVDs, I think some can do this).
The caveats:... the keys are so small, that they look like chiclet keys.
The thumb-buttons are WAY too small. The pictures I have seen shows someone with small-normal sized hands, and I think the buttons look to small. With my larger-than-normal hands, I'll be hitting two buttons at once.
IMNSHO: Make a small, simple phone with bluetooth. Make a PDA that also has bluetooth, make them work together so you can dial the phone with the pda if you want. That way, you'd have a working system. The phone would do it's job, the PDA would do it's job.
So you're still left with a couple of thousand people part time versus many thousands of people working on it full time.
Do you really think every programer at Microsoft / Sun / etc. work on OS kernels? We have reliable estimates that the NT kernel team was under a hundred. It's all the other stuff that takes up most of the programers (like making things pretty)
I found that something in front of the keyboard the props your wrists up helped me a lot.
A lot of people highly recommend against resting on your wrists while typing. That puts pressure on your tendons and nerves. Don't do it.
Type with your hands above the keyboard as I do.
Yes, but I'm lazy, so I rest my hands on something so that my wrists are then up above the keyboard. It's all the benefits of having my hands above the keyboard, but with none of the work!
Who Gets CTS? This disabling syndrome occurs more often in women than men, by a ratio of 3 to 1, usually between the ages of 30 and 50 years. Also, CTS is seen more frequently in people who tend to do forceful repetitive types of work, such as grocery store checkers, assembly line workers, meat packers, typist, accountants, writers, etc. Most patients generally visit their doctor with these complaints, and the diagnosis is confirmed after physical examination and appropriate nerve testing.
Many people get all sorts of RSIs, including CTS. The Industrial Revolution started forcing people (men first) to work the same job, doing the same thing, over and over again. Yes, people doing lots of jobs other than sitting at a computer get RTSs at a much higher rate than computer users - but that doesn't make the RTSs of computer users any less real.
All CTS is is pinching of the median nerve inside the wrist, by the transverse carpal ligament. By whatever means that happens, it's CTS - not some excuse for lazy white men to whine.
Odd, when I went into the doctor and physical therapist (with a specialty in hands) for my CTS (and Ulnar nerve issues too). They were more conserned with the veritcal angle of my wrists, instead of the horizontal. They told me that the 'natural' keyboards were horible because it didn't help the fact that your wrists were too far away from the natural angle. I found that something in front of the keyboard the props your wrists up helped me a lot.
I tried typing with your 'home row,' but my elbows were in a bad position, causing me more of a horizontal angle than I have with a normal 'asdf' home row. I guess the fact that not every body is the same means we all have to find our own ways of being comfortable.
So instead of spending $7+/person +snacks for an overall lowsy movie experience, I just wait, and rent/buy the movie (but not until it's down to $10/movie or less)...
I actually like going to the movies. It's a night away from home with the wife, it's a lot better than my TV set as far as sound, etc. Besides, it's not $7/person everywhere. And we bring our own snacks. (The theater people really don't care - and if they throw a stink tell them that you have a special diet and that you can't eat what they sell).
The article is errant. It is GPUs CPUs BCUs (Bus Controller Units) - The article had its facts wrong, maybe on purpose. Intel might have released the information very ambiguously.
Try going to Google News and searching for 'mercury research billion intel' and see what you come up with. A whole lot of articles that say the same thing. Mostly because it's the 25th anniversary of the x86 family - they actually shipped a billion back in April.
In short -- only rich businessmen (and technophiles who always buy the latest gadgets).
In short, people who find them usefull.
I've had my PDA for about 1.5years now, and I love it - it helps me keep track of work stuff, appointments for my internship, homework, etc. It's an older model (and was when I got it) but it does what I need it to do and is more likely to be on my than my old dayrunner. (after all, it's smaller and fits in a cargo pocket)
My friend who works in a doctor's office says that PDAs are virtually ubiquitous there. People who have a need for them. That's called having a market. When there is a market, you sell to that market, not to people who have no need of them, or don't want them. If I was selling something, I would love to have 1.5-3% of the population wanting it!
As somebody who teaches many college freshmen each year, I can tell you that you'll be out on your ear quickly if you're clicking on laptop keys in my classroom. I and most of my colleagues only make exceptions in cases where physical disability prevents you from using a pen and a notebook.
Would you be so kind as to tell me where you teach, so I can make sure I try to stop people from going there? I have never run into a professor who had a problem with computer use in the classroom. More often, they encourage it!
About recording a class on tape: make sure you always get permission. I always allow this, but I like to be told. I've seen a professor pull a tape out of a student's cassette before, because the student was recording without obtaining consent.
Well, depending on state laws, it could be perfectly legal to record your lecture - on the other side, the professor who pulled the tape out may have damaged the tape - destruction of a student's property isn't good.
the best notes I've ever seen were written into a notebook by people who first listened to the material, and only wrote things once down once they understood them
I find it better to write down an outline of everything, and then to look over it again. If there is still something I don't understand, I go into office hours.
This is great, because making an OSX boot disk can be a pain in the arse. I could use this to run a program like Radmind to image a mac from a CD. With Unix(tm) tools able to run cross-platform, I can use Linux as a repair cd.
If they told us what lines were in question, we could all write memiors about how those lines came to be, with CVS snapshots and mailinglist discussions to back it up.
But they already told us how the lines came to be, and who submitted them.
No, they told us how they think the lines of code came to be. If the documentation can show that those lines came to be in a different way.
Developers need to learn when to use static linking (The code requires a very specific version of the library, the library in question is unlikely to be used by any other application, or the library is as small or the same size as the application itself and plugins)
I would like to see a packaging system that is smart enough that if it sees that the libraries it needs aren't there... it goes out and downloads just the proper libraries - not telling you 'you need to install Gnome/KDE to get the one library included there'...
Like you said, shared libraries are a great idea in that they save bloat and keep things centralized - but we need a better way for non-geeks to maintain them. They need to be invisible unless you want to see them.
ignoring the fact that Rumsfeld sold him the weapons
Do you happen to have any evidence to back this up. Russia, France, and China have been Iraq's leading providers of weapons, and a much more likely source of WMD.
He does have a doctorate after all. I've learned from my time in college is just because someone has a doctorate doesen't mean he knows what he's talking about all the time.:-) After all, I can walk over the the Religious Studies department at the (state) college I work for and find at least 2 of my old professors who would disagree (2 doctorates against 1!)
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What they are really looking for then is "people who think like we do" not "very intelligent people".
In the 3rd grade my brother took a standardized test with a section where you have to decide what is the logical thing to do next. Every (or almost every) question had the throw away answer "have a snack" when an adult would never deductivly reason that. My brother, after having gotten very good scores on all other questions, got 0 right on that section. When the teacher had my parents come in, they pointed out that he was right from his point of view - he always thought it would be apropriate for him to have a snack next! After looking at the test again, the teacher agreed that that section was quite stupid.
Now, I'm going to go have a snack.
(And my brother reads slashot, so I hope he reads this )
The treaty in question in the
article you linked too had an escape clause (as anyone who reads the 2nd paragraph:
"'As provided in Article 15 of that Treaty, the effective date of withdrawal will be six months from today [December 13],' White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said in a formal statement."
The Bush Administration followed the form and letter of the treaty exactly. They made a decision to pull out of it, and the treaty allowed for that. Was it a good decision? That's another question. Does the Berne Treaty have a similar provision, I don't know - anyone?
Surely you should be shown the price you're charged?
This is why I hate sales tax over here, and I'm glad I live in a state that doesn't have it.
Every time I go to a neighboring state and buy a $.99 item, and pull out my dollar bill, only to be charged $1.03 or something, I fume.
Indeed, this despite the increasingly obvious fact that the French were right
The French were right about the Iraqi WMD? Well, good, because the French knew they had them.
The argument between the Americans and the French/Germans wasn't IF Saddam had WMD, but how to handle it / how much time to give him / etc.
On all DVD players I have seen you can just press the Stop button (twice), and then press play and the movie will start.
While I haven't tried this yet on my DVD player, I know it isn't in the manual. If it's not there, then even if it's true on most/all DVD players, most people don't know about it.
Incidentally, when was the last time you saw a movie where a sex scene or a shot of some poor guy graphically getting his head blown off or something was ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL to the plot or meaning of the movie?
If the director meant for that part of the movie to, say, show the brutality of war, then having someone being killed violently is necessary.
It'd be great if the movie companies themselves sold DVDs that you could set to 'pg-13' level or something (or more DVDs, I think some can do this).
It doesn't exactly sound like what a professional would write in a specs list.
No, but it sounds like what a marketing person would put on the Apple Store website.
"Look, lots of numbers with Ghz and GB, and the word 'fast' with a bunch of letters after it, this must be cool!"
You're right....so far....only it's layout impresses me.
The caveats:... the keys are so small, that they look like chiclet keys.
The thumb-buttons are WAY too small. The pictures I have seen shows someone with small-normal sized hands, and I think the buttons look to small. With my larger-than-normal hands, I'll be hitting two buttons at once.
IMNSHO:
Make a small, simple phone with bluetooth. Make a PDA that also has bluetooth, make them work together so you can dial the phone with the pda if you want. That way, you'd have a working system. The phone would do it's job, the PDA would do it's job.
I can't tale gate anymore? Really 300 ft is a long distance.
The radar can see 300ft, it doesn't necessarily brake at 300 ft.
So you're still left with a couple of thousand people part time versus many thousands of people working on it full time.
Do you really think every programer at Microsoft / Sun / etc. work on OS kernels? We have reliable estimates that the NT kernel team was under a hundred. It's all the other stuff that takes up most of the programers (like making things pretty)
A lot of people highly recommend against resting on your wrists while typing. That puts pressure on your tendons and nerves. Don't do it.
Type with your hands above the keyboard as I do.
Yes, but I'm lazy, so I rest my hands on something so that my wrists are then up above the keyboard. It's all the benefits of having my hands above the keyboard, but with none of the work!
From http://www.scoi.com/cts.htm:
Many people get all sorts of RSIs, including CTS. The Industrial Revolution started forcing people (men first) to work the same job, doing the same thing, over and over again. Yes, people doing lots of jobs other than sitting at a computer get RTSs at a much higher rate than computer users - but that doesn't make the RTSs of computer users any less real.
All CTS is is pinching of the median nerve inside the wrist, by the transverse carpal ligament. By whatever means that happens, it's CTS - not some excuse for lazy white men to whine.
Odd, when I went into the doctor and physical therapist (with a specialty in hands) for my CTS (and Ulnar nerve issues too). They were more conserned with the veritcal angle of my wrists, instead of the horizontal. They told me that the 'natural' keyboards were horible because it didn't help the fact that your wrists were too far away from the natural angle. I found that something in front of the keyboard the props your wrists up helped me a lot.
I tried typing with your 'home row,' but my elbows were in a bad position, causing me more of a horizontal angle than I have with a normal 'asdf' home row. I guess the fact that not every body is the same means we all have to find our own ways of being comfortable.
Tolkien geeks have girlfriends? How is that possible?
It gets worse, this Tolkien geek has a wife.
Of course, the fact that she's a Tolkien geek too helped. FotR was the first movie we saw in the theater after we got engaged.
So instead of spending $7+/person +snacks for an overall lowsy movie experience, I just wait, and rent/buy the movie (but not until it's down to $10/movie or less)...
I actually like going to the movies. It's a night away from home with the wife, it's a lot better than my TV set as far as sound, etc. Besides, it's not $7/person everywhere. And we bring our own snacks. (The theater people really don't care - and if they throw a stink tell them that you have a special diet and that you can't eat what they sell).
The article is errant. It is GPUs CPUs BCUs (Bus Controller Units) - The article had its facts wrong, maybe on purpose. Intel might have released the information very ambiguously.
Try going to Google News and searching for 'mercury research billion intel' and see what you come up with. A whole lot of articles that say the same thing. Mostly because it's the 25th anniversary of the x86 family - they actually shipped a billion back in April.
In short -- only rich businessmen (and technophiles who always buy the latest gadgets).
In short, people who find them usefull.
I've had my PDA for about 1.5years now, and I love it - it helps me keep track of work stuff, appointments for my internship, homework, etc. It's an older model (and was when I got it) but it does what I need it to do and is more likely to be on my than my old dayrunner. (after all, it's smaller and fits in a cargo pocket)
My friend who works in a doctor's office says that PDAs are virtually ubiquitous there. People who have a need for them. That's called having a market. When there is a market, you sell to that market, not to people who have no need of them, or don't want them. If I was selling something, I would love to have 1.5-3% of the population wanting it!
As somebody who teaches many college freshmen each year, I can tell you that you'll be out on your ear quickly if you're clicking on laptop keys in my classroom. I and most of my colleagues only make exceptions in cases where physical disability prevents you from using a pen and a notebook.
Would you be so kind as to tell me where you teach, so I can make sure I try to stop people from going there? I have never run into a professor who had a problem with computer use in the classroom. More often, they encourage it!
About recording a class on tape: make sure you always get permission. I always allow this, but I like to be told. I've seen a professor pull a tape out of a student's cassette before, because the student was recording without obtaining consent.
Well, depending on state laws, it could be perfectly legal to record your lecture - on the other side, the professor who pulled the tape out may have damaged the tape - destruction of a student's property isn't good.
the best notes I've ever seen were written into a notebook by people who first listened to the material, and only wrote things once down once they understood them
I find it better to write down an outline of everything, and then to look over it again. If there is still something I don't understand, I go into office hours.
This is great, because making an OSX boot disk can be a pain in the arse. I could use this to run a program like Radmind to image a mac from a CD. With Unix(tm) tools able to run cross-platform, I can use Linux as a repair cd.
Very happy.
But they already told us how the lines came to be, and who submitted them.
No, they told us how they think the lines of code came to be. If the documentation can show that those lines came to be in a different way.
Developers need to learn when to use static linking (The code requires a very specific version of the library, the library in question is unlikely to be used by any other application, or the library is as small or the same size as the application itself and plugins)
I would like to see a packaging system that is smart enough that if it sees that the libraries it needs aren't there... it goes out and downloads just the proper libraries - not telling you 'you need to install Gnome/KDE to get the one library included there'...
Like you said, shared libraries are a great idea in that they save bloat and keep things centralized - but we need a better way for non-geeks to maintain them. They need to be invisible unless you want to see them.
seeing Bowling for Columbine
Why? It's a great example of Hollywood Entertainment. It's just another example of the genre of the mockumentary (but not as good as This is Spinal Tap IMHO)
ignoring the fact that Rumsfeld sold him the weapons
Do you happen to have any evidence to back this up. Russia, France, and China have been Iraq's leading providers of weapons, and a much more likely source of WMD.
He does have a doctorate after all. :-) After all, I can walk over the the Religious Studies department at the (state) college I work for and find at least 2 of my old professors who would disagree (2 doctorates against 1!)
I've learned from my time in college is just because someone has a doctorate doesen't mean he knows what he's talking about all the time.
Ummm... maybe you should read up on history a bit. Jesus was executed for being a rebel-rouser, the taxes were not collected for the 'state gods.'