Sometimes I think that the best way to lose karma around here is to compile a well-thought-out, on topic, insightful post. The way moderation goes, you'll probably be hit with "troll", "flamebait", and "overrated". Example: my original post somehow got an "underrated." Of course, the simple explanation is that that moderator was a/. denizen, modding up an obvious crap post. The other funny explanation is that the moderator was a sadist, and seeing my wish to lose karma, purposely modded my up just to watch me squirm.
That's not entirely true. For example, if my brain were miraculously removed at this exact moment in time, due to the configuration of my office chair I would slump forwards and my head would doubtless impact on the keyboard, resulting in something like:
bhnhruty
Notice that this is not only an incorrect spelling of "arriba," but it is also an incorrect spelling of much simpler words, such as "a", "I", "it", and complex words like "triskadecaphobia". So, I'm afraid that your post isn't entirely correct:)
I'm humbly trying to lose karma. What is your suggestion for the best way to accomplish this. I found that flaming Linux worked very well in another story, however, I could not think up a good enough Perl flame in time to get a decent #(st|nd|rd|th) post, and thus attract moderator attention.
Thank you mister "Troll" moderator. However, I believe that mister "Underrated" moderator must be either a crack-smoking moron or a sadist. Of course, he could be both.
How dare you insult my Jewish roots! You are nothing but an anti-semite nazi, who should have been killed for his war crimes long ago. It's people like you that cause all of the hatred, pain, and suffering in this world.
Both the main case and the monitor of a computer can be protected from a hazardous environment. Let's say you're working in a cabinet maker's shop, and there's tons of sawdust. Put the case and the monitor inside of a filtered cabinet, with a window to see the monitor. You still need to have input devices exposed to the harsh environment.
If someone constructs keyboards and mice for harsh environments, and the rest of the computer is removed from those environments, you can still have a very durable system.
Other places I can see this being used:
On the back of a Hummer in the middle of nowhere
A machine shop
Okay, I'm out of ideas now, but you get the picture.
isn't this more of a crappy joystick than a mouse? Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the defining characteristic of a mouse that you move the device to move the cursor?
This chunk of metal had a button on top that you push to control the cursor speed and direction, similar to those awful joysticks you find on laptops. Plus, it comes with all the holes necessary to bolt the damn thing to the desktop. I'm pretty sure you couldn't move it around then. Geez, I was expecting some rugged optical-mousing technology. Colour me disappointed.
The most powerful mouse in the world was susceptible only to Limberger cheese... That's right, here he comes to save the day, MIGHTY MOUSE is here to stay.
Personally, I always thought Speedy Gonzalez was *way* cooler than Might Mouse. Yeeha! Yeeha! Andele! Andele! Ariba! Ariba!
Damn! If you get that starchart, can you scan it and put it up on a site somewhere? I got a copy of the game with no starchart, so most of the time I spend flying around looking for the correct planet. Then the five years are up, and everyone is dead. What a disappointment. Add to that the game randomly freezes when I'm trying to plot a course, and it gets really annoying...
...probably wouldn't know a quanta if it jumped up and bit him in the ass.
First of all, Planck did not discover quantum mechanics. He postulated quantized energy levels. That's all. Of course, perhaps he did discover quantum mechanics. I can see him now, in a dusty library, in some dark corner that no-one has been in for centuries. He trips on a tome that someone has carelessly left in the middle of the aisle, and crashes into a bookcase. After the ensuing chaos, what lands on his lap but the volume "Quantum Physics, a Beginner's Guide." Perhaps then you could say he "discovered" quantum physics.
Secondly, anyone who has ever looked at a physics text book knows that quantized energy levels explain the ultraviolet catastrophe, not why a light bulb is yellow, for chrissake! Classical calculations show that a radiating blackbody would have exponentially more radiation as the wavelength got shorter. Not only is this not what is observed, but it would lead to infinite energy being radiated by the blackbody. It was Planck's postulation that energy levels were quantized that resolved this.
Now, I wonder if the author of this article can tell me how the wave-nature of electrons is used to make lasers and LED's? LED's work as they do because Gallium Arsenide is a direct bandgap material, meaning that in order to transition from the valence band to the conduction band (take a course on the electrical properties of materials) the electron only needs energy, as opposed to in silicon where it needs both energy and momentum. That means that it is easier for an electron to drop back down from conducting band to valence band in GaAs, emitting only energy - read this as light. Nowhere does the wave nature of the electron come into this. Laser diodes are based on the same principle. Go read a book.
As for the description of how a transistor works, that is a hell of a lot of bullshit. He's correct in the fact that a transistor consists of electron rich and electron poor (commonly called n-type and p-type doped semiconductors) regions, but there is no way to prevent there from being a gradient in between these regions. His Schrodinger equation explanation is also crap. Apart from the infinite potential well problem, there is a solution to the Schrodinger equation for every point in space. It is just required to be continuous and smooth (ie, first and second derivatives must exist). Right now, transistors work because of potential. When you apply the necessary voltage to the gate of a transistor, it attracts enough electrons or holes (opposite of electrons when studying materials) to allow a conductive pathway between the source and the drain. This is true for BJT's and most FET's. The other option is that the gate voltage will drive away the electrons or holes, and "pinch off" the current. This is how a JFET works.
Dammit, I really wish that these "journalists" would pick up a text book before they write crap like this.
If you spend a lot of time typing rather than mousing, consider moving your keyboard to the edge of your desk. When you do this, you can't rest your wrists on the desk, and will avoid the worst CTS cause. CTS is caused when pressure on the wrists put pressure on the carpal tunnel, and squeeze the nerve inside.
I used to have problems with my wrists, even when using those gel rests. Then I remembered how my teachers in grade 10 typing were trying to get us to type without resting our wrists. I tried it, and it worked wonders. Of course, I have large hands, so sometimes I will rest the heels of my hands on the edge of the desk, and still be able to type, but never my wrists.
I have not yet found a comfortable position for mousing which keeps my wrist off the desk. Any suggestions?
Why would a french horn be made out of cigarettes? Is that a joke about how out of breath you get when you play the horn, and how your lung capacity decreases when you smoke? Perhaps you can explain this to me a little bit better. I'm sorry if I'm a little bit in the dark here:)
... serving a company, rather than a call centre. It was my first real job, and overall was no problem whatsoever. I sat in help desk in a manufacturing plant in my hometown, helping users with whatever problems they had. I also did some low-skills IT work (setting up workstations, replacing toner, etc).
There were about four of us serving over 400 employees, but we got to know the employees and knew what level of experience each had. There was no push to get them off the phone and answer the next call. Instead, the push was to fix the problem and get them productive again. Plus, it felt really great to get a thanks from them in person when you ran into them in the lunch room.
Over time, as I was exposed to more of the network, servers, etc, my duties expanded to use these new skills as well. I was also greatful for the wide range of questions asked, keeping me learning and interested. It was everything from "I can't close this window" to "I need something which will scan these two columns for numbers which are in one, but not the other". If you ask me, this is a much better way to build skills, and apparently a much better work environment.
Caveat - there will be many fewer positions, of course. However, with some call centre experience, I'd say that this type of position would be the next logical step up.
Have you ever played the game where you try to flick playing cards into a hat acrosss the room? We played that with AOL CD's and an inverted lampshade. It's exactly that hook that makes the game challenging.
Everyone knows that REAL hackers only use hex. 1010011010 = 29A. He's just very upset that he has long, skinny feet, and is wondering if anyone can supply him with shoes. As a 15C (=101011100), I feel his pain, and wish him luck.
I would be really impressed if you could actually do this, unless your tap water is much more contaminated than mine. Water is just hydrogen and oxygen, whereas the creation of alcohol requires the presence of some carbon atoms. Now, a bacteria that could internally do some nuclear reactions (necessary to construct C from O or H) would be very impressive indeed!
Please excuse my original post. I may have been under the alkafluence of inkohol, or smoking $3 crack. I'm practicing to be a moderator:)
that consume the sulfur and zinc an produce something useful, like alcohol. Where can I get me some of those? Or maybe, we can get them to produce really cheap crack, and offer it to the/. moderators!
Mod me down. Please. I hit karma cap and I don't care.
One is the really handy 1337-speak translator. Impress your friends with how 'l337 you are! Type your regular text, run the translator and copy-paste your 1337-speak into ICQ, the Slashdot-submission boxes, a chat room, or any other web forum! See the example below!
1 4m 50 31337! 1 0wn j00! 1 g07 r007!
Similar "h4x0r" sentiments can be expressed with the same ease! Just think, no more annoying keyboard remapping! And, it's portable too! Anywhere you can install Perl, you can use your '1337-speak translator!
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Sometimes I think that the best way to lose karma around here is to compile a well-thought-out, on topic, insightful post. The way moderation goes, you'll probably be hit with "troll", "flamebait", and "overrated". Example: my original post somehow got an "underrated." Of course, the simple explanation is that that moderator was a /. denizen, modding up an obvious crap post. The other funny explanation is that the moderator was a sadist, and seeing my wish to lose karma, purposely modded my up just to watch me squirm.
Hah! I'm laughing out loud about the response an accelerometer would give when dropped off of a five storey building, or run over by a Mack truck!
That's not entirely true. For example, if my brain were miraculously removed at this exact moment in time, due to the configuration of my office chair I would slump forwards and my head would doubtless impact on the keyboard, resulting in something like:
:)
bhnhruty
Notice that this is not only an incorrect spelling of "arriba," but it is also an incorrect spelling of much simpler words, such as "a", "I", "it", and complex words like "triskadecaphobia". So, I'm afraid that your post isn't entirely correct
Sorry.
I'm humbly trying to lose karma. What is your suggestion for the best way to accomplish this. I found that flaming Linux worked very well in another story, however, I could not think up a good enough Perl flame in time to get a decent #(st|nd|rd|th) post, and thus attract moderator attention.
Thank you mister "Troll" moderator. However, I believe that mister "Underrated" moderator must be either a crack-smoking moron or a sadist. Of course, he could be both.
How dare you insult my Jewish roots! You are nothing but an anti-semite nazi, who should have been killed for his war crimes long ago. It's people like you that cause all of the hatred, pain, and suffering in this world.
Both the main case and the monitor of a computer can be protected from a hazardous environment. Let's say you're working in a cabinet maker's shop, and there's tons of sawdust. Put the case and the monitor inside of a filtered cabinet, with a window to see the monitor. You still need to have input devices exposed to the harsh environment.
If someone constructs keyboards and mice for harsh environments, and the rest of the computer is removed from those environments, you can still have a very durable system.
Other places I can see this being used:
On the back of a Hummer in the middle of nowhere
A machine shop
Okay, I'm out of ideas now, but you get the picture.
isn't this more of a crappy joystick than a mouse? Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the defining characteristic of a mouse that you move the device to move the cursor?
This chunk of metal had a button on top that you push to control the cursor speed and direction, similar to those awful joysticks you find on laptops. Plus, it comes with all the holes necessary to bolt the damn thing to the desktop. I'm pretty sure you couldn't move it around then. Geez, I was expecting some rugged optical-mousing technology. Colour me disappointed.
The most powerful mouse in the world was susceptible only to Limberger cheese... That's right, here he comes to save the day, MIGHTY MOUSE is here to stay.
Personally, I always thought Speedy Gonzalez was *way* cooler than Might Mouse. Yeeha! Yeeha! Andele! Andele! Ariba! Ariba!
Not a particularly hard claim by Avis. Given the amount of hot grits that get poured down her pants, there is bound to be some residue on the sheets.
Damn! If you get that starchart, can you scan it and put it up on a site somewhere? I got a copy of the game with no starchart, so most of the time I spend flying around looking for the correct planet. Then the five years are up, and everyone is dead. What a disappointment. Add to that the game randomly freezes when I'm trying to plot a course, and it gets really annoying...
...probably wouldn't know a quanta if it jumped up and bit him in the ass.
First of all, Planck did not discover quantum mechanics. He postulated quantized energy levels. That's all. Of course, perhaps he did discover quantum mechanics. I can see him now, in a dusty library, in some dark corner that no-one has been in for centuries. He trips on a tome that someone has carelessly left in the middle of the aisle, and crashes into a bookcase. After the ensuing chaos, what lands on his lap but the volume "Quantum Physics, a Beginner's Guide." Perhaps then you could say he "discovered" quantum physics.
Secondly, anyone who has ever looked at a physics text book knows that quantized energy levels explain the ultraviolet catastrophe, not why a light bulb is yellow, for chrissake! Classical calculations show that a radiating blackbody would have exponentially more radiation as the wavelength got shorter. Not only is this not what is observed, but it would lead to infinite energy being radiated by the blackbody. It was Planck's postulation that energy levels were quantized that resolved this.
Now, I wonder if the author of this article can tell me how the wave-nature of electrons is used to make lasers and LED's? LED's work as they do because Gallium Arsenide is a direct bandgap material, meaning that in order to transition from the valence band to the conduction band (take a course on the electrical properties of materials) the electron only needs energy, as opposed to in silicon where it needs both energy and momentum. That means that it is easier for an electron to drop back down from conducting band to valence band in GaAs, emitting only energy - read this as light. Nowhere does the wave nature of the electron come into this. Laser diodes are based on the same principle. Go read a book.
As for the description of how a transistor works, that is a hell of a lot of bullshit. He's correct in the fact that a transistor consists of electron rich and electron poor (commonly called n-type and p-type doped semiconductors) regions, but there is no way to prevent there from being a gradient in between these regions. His Schrodinger equation explanation is also crap. Apart from the infinite potential well problem, there is a solution to the Schrodinger equation for every point in space. It is just required to be continuous and smooth (ie, first and second derivatives must exist). Right now, transistors work because of potential. When you apply the necessary voltage to the gate of a transistor, it attracts enough electrons or holes (opposite of electrons when studying materials) to allow a conductive pathway between the source and the drain. This is true for BJT's and most FET's. The other option is that the gate voltage will drive away the electrons or holes, and "pinch off" the current. This is how a JFET works.
Dammit, I really wish that these "journalists" would pick up a text book before they write crap like this.
Bwahahaha!
Must burn karma to make the whoring game fun again. Damn karma cap.
We all know it's 0, 1, 10, 11, 100, 101...
If you spend a lot of time typing rather than mousing, consider moving your keyboard to the edge of your desk. When you do this, you can't rest your wrists on the desk, and will avoid the worst CTS cause. CTS is caused when pressure on the wrists put pressure on the carpal tunnel, and squeeze the nerve inside.
I used to have problems with my wrists, even when using those gel rests. Then I remembered how my teachers in grade 10 typing were trying to get us to type without resting our wrists. I tried it, and it worked wonders. Of course, I have large hands, so sometimes I will rest the heels of my hands on the edge of the desk, and still be able to type, but never my wrists.
I have not yet found a comfortable position for mousing which keeps my wrist off the desk. Any suggestions?
Why would a french horn be made out of cigarettes? Is that a joke about how out of breath you get when you play the horn, and how your lung capacity decreases when you smoke? Perhaps you can explain this to me a little bit better. I'm sorry if I'm a little bit in the dark here :)
If tin whistles are made of tin, what are fog horns made of?
Or for that matter, what about french horns?
He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.
Orwell wasn't wrong, he was just a little bit off on the dates.
In this case, in shakey Cali:
Your house has moved, windows must be opened due to failed AC.
... serving a company, rather than a call centre. It was my first real job, and overall was no problem whatsoever. I sat in help desk in a manufacturing plant in my hometown, helping users with whatever problems they had. I also did some low-skills IT work (setting up workstations, replacing toner, etc).
There were about four of us serving over 400 employees, but we got to know the employees and knew what level of experience each had. There was no push to get them off the phone and answer the next call. Instead, the push was to fix the problem and get them productive again. Plus, it felt really great to get a thanks from them in person when you ran into them in the lunch room.
Over time, as I was exposed to more of the network, servers, etc, my duties expanded to use these new skills as well. I was also greatful for the wide range of questions asked, keeping me learning and interested. It was everything from "I can't close this window" to "I need something which will scan these two columns for numbers which are in one, but not the other". If you ask me, this is a much better way to build skills, and apparently a much better work environment.
Caveat - there will be many fewer positions, of course. However, with some call centre experience, I'd say that this type of position would be the next logical step up.
Have you ever played the game where you try to flick playing cards into a hat acrosss the room? We played that with AOL CD's and an inverted lampshade. It's exactly that hook that makes the game challenging.
Everyone knows that REAL hackers only use hex. 1010011010 = 29A. He's just very upset that he has long, skinny feet, and is wondering if anyone can supply him with shoes. As a 15C (=101011100), I feel his pain, and wish him luck.
vodka from tap water...
:)
I would be really impressed if you could actually do this, unless your tap water is much more contaminated than mine. Water is just hydrogen and oxygen, whereas the creation of alcohol requires the presence of some carbon atoms. Now, a bacteria that could internally do some nuclear reactions (necessary to construct C from O or H) would be very impressive indeed!
Please excuse my original post. I may have been under the alkafluence of inkohol, or smoking $3 crack. I'm practicing to be a moderator
that consume the sulfur and zinc an produce something useful, like alcohol. Where can I get me some of those? Or maybe, we can get them to produce really cheap crack, and offer it to the /. moderators!
Mod me down. Please. I hit karma cap and I don't care.
One is the really handy 1337-speak translator. Impress your friends with how 'l337 you are! Type your regular text, run the translator and copy-paste your 1337-speak into ICQ, the Slashdot-submission boxes, a chat room, or any other web forum! See the example below!
1 4m 50 31337! 1 0wn j00! 1 g07 r007!
Similar "h4x0r" sentiments can be expressed with the same ease! Just think, no more annoying keyboard remapping! And, it's portable too! Anywhere you can install Perl, you can use your '1337-speak translator!
To order now, please have your Mastercard or Visa ready, and dial the number at the bottom of your screen. Only $19.95 plus shipping and handling.