1.03 (I actually have originals of this...) 2.00 286 (at which point "2.00" was renamed "86") 386 3.00 3.1 3.11 95 (this has nothing to do with the "86" number used previously) NT3.51 (a different number series from 3.11, so why start at 3.51?) NT4 98 2000 ME XP
There was another poster that also claimed this would have been due to the air heating up near the gong.
However, this professor continued his demonstration with sooting the gong heavily (taking it from polished to near-black), and then firing the flash again. The sound was significantly softer, noticable by all attendees (around 120), and he explained this by the photon package having been absorbed instead of bouncing (the gong only got half the impulse from before).
In a scenario where heat was the cause of the sound, sooting the gong would have caused a significantly louder sound as the light was absorbed, instead of (as happened) as softer one.
Like I remember those kinds of details? It was a fairly large gong (man-high, rolled in on wheels), suspended in ordinary string I believe, and the flash was an off-the-shelf professional model (but still handheld at the demo).
It's not like it's so hard to replicate that you need exact parameters.
The book describes in detail that while some people hang out and expand the Metaverse with their own code, most teenage girls are happy to go to Wal-Mart and buy an avatar in one of three pre-packaged breast sizes; "improbable", "impossible", and "ludicruous".
I really doubt you could make a large gong sound with a common camera flash
Then I suggest you should try it yourself.
Like I said, this was a demonstration at an Engineering Physics class at my MSc/Physics program, while discussing (special) relativity. The professor also sooted the gong afterwards and fired the flash again, and the sound was noticably weaker (he explained, that as most of the photons were merely absorbed, and not bounced, the gong had received but half the impulse). This negates your air-heating theory which would have led to a much louder sound in the case of absorption.
Microsoft is able to extract more money out of their customers per employee than almost any other company in the world. Of course they can afford the luxury of treating their employees very well.
I am quite convinced you have cause and effect backwards here, actually.
Yes, I expected to see Microsoft on the list. I am a former Microsoft employee and I have _never_, _ever_, worked for another company that cared so much for its employees.
Rant about the image of the leadership all you want; in the meantime, those who care about results can continue to interview what people _working_ there think.
The point of pharmacists should be obvious. You NEED to study for four years to understand the kind of handwriting they have to read to get you the right bottle.
In other news, there are daily advertisements about Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, and Star Wars on Slashdot. There's even the occasional spot about new, larger hard drives.
You Americans need to fuck people back.
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If one of my co-workers had been fired for that reason, I'd have quit on the spot. And so would most of my colleagues. Why? Because of loss of faith in the leadership (boss not understanding morale concept, and not knowing who'd be next, leads me to prefer to dictate my own future).
The boss would be left with an empty department to explain to his VP and justify his bad decisions. Not that it would happen - I have the total faith in my boss and the morale is good, people help each other out.
You Americans need to learn to fuck people back and not take shit from nobody. The SINGLE reason managers (in IT and elsewhere) can treat people like this, is that the people being screwed react with bending over and asking for more.
Still some way to go, there
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You still have to beat JaS whose _Internet_Draft_ made Slashdot.:-)
In 1988 (or so), I bought a Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 2P. I sold it seven years later, still functioning perfectly.
In 1994 (or so), I bought a HP LaserJet 5P. It still works perfectly.
If you want to buy something that just works and just keeps working, I'd still trust Hewlett-Packard. Frankly, it's the only brand I associate with that kind of longevity. Not even IBM reaches that far on my confidence scale.
Interesting. My personal Sony Ericsson phone (T68i) is the worst piece of crap I've ever had for a cellphone (and to put that in perspective, I work in the industry and evaluate most new models). Even after the latest software upgrade, it fails the basic task of maintaining a call circuit. This is after one formal repair which didn't fix the problem, too.
So I wouldn't vouch for Sony or Ericsson, no more.
Like, when I was in high school and we were studying physics, and I wondered what would happen to a moose if it got hit by a high-speed train AND the impact would be fully elastical (which were the only impacts we knew how to work with)?
peel off the high resolution data from the ends of an audio stream packet to come up with a smaller, lower quality stream
Newsflash: removing data from a packet makes the packet smaller, and as a totally unrelated bonus, the content of lower quality! This obviously deserves space on the front page of the world's largest geek magazine.
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Windows versions, listed (roughly) in order:
1.03 (I actually have originals of this...)
2.00
286 (at which point "2.00" was renamed "86")
386
3.00
3.1
3.11
95 (this has nothing to do with the "86" number used previously)
NT3.51 (a different number series from 3.11, so why start at 3.51?)
NT4
98
2000
ME
XP
There was another poster that also claimed this would have been due to the air heating up near the gong.
However, this professor continued his demonstration with sooting the gong heavily (taking it from polished to near-black), and then firing the flash again. The sound was significantly softer, noticable by all attendees (around 120), and he explained this by the photon package having been absorbed instead of bouncing (the gong only got half the impulse from before).
In a scenario where heat was the cause of the sound, sooting the gong would have caused a significantly louder sound as the light was absorbed, instead of (as happened) as softer one.
Like I remember those kinds of details? It was a fairly large gong (man-high, rolled in on wheels), suspended in ordinary string I believe, and the flash was an off-the-shelf professional model (but still handheld at the demo).
It's not like it's so hard to replicate that you need exact parameters.
The book describes in detail that while some people hang out and expand the Metaverse with their own code, most teenage girls are happy to go to Wal-Mart and buy an avatar in one of three pre-packaged breast sizes; "improbable", "impossible", and "ludicruous".
I really doubt you could make a large gong sound with a common camera flash
Then I suggest you should try it yourself.
Like I said, this was a demonstration at an Engineering Physics class at my MSc/Physics program, while discussing (special) relativity. The professor also sooted the gong afterwards and fired the flash again, and the sound was noticably weaker (he explained, that as most of the photons were merely absorbed, and not bounced, the gong had received but half the impulse). This negates your air-heating theory which would have led to a much louder sound in the case of absorption.
Doubtful. A lot of .dot coms treated their employees very well early on, and they went broke.
What can I say? You have an excellent point. You then move on to show understanding that employee loyalty makes a tangible competitive advantage.
I am inclined to agree with you here.
Sounds to me like we are confusing mass-at-rest vs. relativistic mass here; we're using different words and then getting caught up in semantics.
AFAIAC, since they have energy in a given state, they also have mass in that state.
The mass of photons is very real. Try this experiment, which a professor did at one of my Engineering Physics classes:
Take a relatively large gong. Make sure it is reasonably well polished.
Next, take a professional-class camera flash and set the intensity to "fry".
Third, fire the flash at the gong. As the photons bounce off the (polished) gong, it will resound as if having been struck with a solid object.
This was a very awakening demonstration to me...
Microsoft is able to extract more money out of their customers per employee than almost any other company in the world. Of course they can afford the luxury of treating their employees very well.
I am quite convinced you have cause and effect backwards here, actually.
Yes, I expected to see Microsoft on the list. I am a former Microsoft employee and I have _never_, _ever_, worked for another company that cared so much for its employees.
Rant about the image of the leadership all you want; in the meantime, those who care about results can continue to interview what people _working_ there think.
There is nothing about this in the Norwegian sources... Seems to me like the Swedish Skymningspress has got the details all wrong again...
The point of pharmacists should be obvious. You NEED to study for four years to understand the kind of handwriting they have to read to get you the right bottle.
Pretty much like that alien dog-like race whose primary means of communication is gnawing on your thigh (on the parallel Earth), isn't it?
In other news, there are daily advertisements about Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, and Star Wars on Slashdot. There's even the occasional spot about new, larger hard drives.
If one of my co-workers had been fired for that reason, I'd have quit on the spot. And so would most of my colleagues. Why? Because of loss of faith in the leadership (boss not understanding morale concept, and not knowing who'd be next, leads me to prefer to dictate my own future).
The boss would be left with an empty department to explain to his VP and justify his bad decisions. Not that it would happen - I have the total faith in my boss and the morale is good, people help each other out.
You Americans need to learn to fuck people back and not take shit from nobody. The SINGLE reason managers (in IT and elsewhere) can treat people like this, is that the people being screwed react with bending over and asking for more.
You still have to beat JaS whose _Internet_Draft_ made Slashdot. :-)
(Hmm, time to write an RFC for April 1, perhaps?)
In 1988 (or so), I bought a Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 2P. I sold it seven years later, still functioning perfectly.
In 1994 (or so), I bought a HP LaserJet 5P. It still works perfectly.
If you want to buy something that just works and just keeps working, I'd still trust Hewlett-Packard. Frankly, it's the only brand I associate with that kind of longevity. Not even IBM reaches that far on my confidence scale.
Interesting. My personal Sony Ericsson phone (T68i) is the worst piece of crap I've ever had for a cellphone (and to put that in perspective, I work in the industry and evaluate most new models). Even after the latest software upgrade, it fails the basic task of maintaining a call circuit. This is after one formal repair which didn't fix the problem, too.
So I wouldn't vouch for Sony or Ericsson, no more.
Yeah, and life will be all like Weird Science, when you can alter the porno flick on the fly for breast or other sizes just by pressing a button.
:-)
When you can have all the porn you want, what's the challenge gonna be? Actually go out the front door?
Oh. Sort of like when I got a mail from stevecase@aol.com asking me if I wanted a larger penis.
Who TF smoked up this article? Is it just me who gets tons of spam at work?
mv_before = mv_after. Speed of moose after impact equals speed of train before impact multiplied by the weight ratio train-to-moose.
Amazing you remember these things...
Like, when I was in high school and we were studying physics, and I wondered what would happen to a moose if it got hit by a high-speed train AND the impact would be fully elastical (which were the only impacts we knew how to work with)?
The moose would go into orbit. I know that now.
peel off the high resolution data from the ends of an audio stream packet to come up with a smaller, lower quality stream
Newsflash: removing data from a packet makes the packet smaller, and as a totally unrelated bonus, the content of lower quality! This obviously deserves space on the front page of the world's largest geek magazine.
What is the problem with that?
This is exactly the kind of women I read about in my magazines. Or perhaps not exactly read, but at least I look at the pretty pictures.