I worked at Kennedy Space Center in the early nineties. You might think that they'd be at the cutting edge of technology, but you'd be wrong. For safety reasons, it's exceedingly difficult to upgrade hardware from an old-but-known variety to a new-but-untested kind. Which is understandable, but... you'd think that wouldn't apply to printers. However, the printing in the firing room actually printed out wet copies. Like, dripping wet, and smelling like toner.
This is probably just coincidence, but... We used to give that exact programming test, and hired an girl whose solution called out to the OS's "sort" program. This wasn't by any chance in Atlanta, was it?
I hope they remembered to program in the Laws of Service Robotics:
1. A robot may not damage a beer or, through inaction, allow a beer to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey beer orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
I disagree. Axioms are "discovered" by mathematicians who start with some math that we already know and gradually boil it down to its fundamental elements -- those pieces that we can't derive from other parts. And mathematicians from different cultures working independently tend to arrive at the same set of axioms, which indicates to me that they are "out there" waiting to be discovered.
If anything, the axioms are the discoveries, and the rest is what we create with them.
And as a result, I choose to live in a place where I don't have to drive to go everywhere: a small town where walking actually gets me places instead of an endless sea of other residences.
I too choose to live in a place where I don't have to drive to go everywhere: a large town where walking actually gets me places instead of an endless sea of other residences.
I think this is probably pretty close to the truth. While there definitely may be an aspect of sociopathology involved in corporate advancement, I think it's also likely that someone who's making $200,000+ a year and brokering million or billion-dollar deals every day, just doesn't value the bagel very much. It's such a trivial amount of money to them, it doesn't seem worth the bother to find change (if they even carry cash) and pay for it.
It's a nice theory, but it doesn't wash. If it were true, these execs would do the same thing down at the local convenience store. It's just because they can get away with it at work, and because they think they're entitled, that they do it. But it's stealing just the same.
Your rant sounds like an angry ex post facto rationalization for losing.
I've spent many years involved in ACM programming contests, as a competitor, coach, and judge. And let me tell you, every team that considers it a hacking contest, and treats it like a hacking contest, LOSES. The teams that write well organized code, with simple straightforward solutions, win the day every time.
I'm not surprised you did poorly.
BTW, of course they compare output files. Would you really expect the judges to give an aesthetic judgment of each program in a five hour contest? "9.8 from the Russian judge..."
Come ON, people. When a newspaper has an article titled "Something Fishy About Springdale's New Winter Festival" is there ANY part of you that's fooled for even a millisecond by the pun?
It seems to have become the law that every paper must do this for every headline possible. It makes me want to rip the paper into shreds and piss on them.
Bless your little hearts, Google, if you are indeed having this effect. Give me a straightforward headline over an insipid one any day of the week.
I think that getting a step closer to finding a cure for (pick one: arthritis, AIDS, cancer, blindness, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, cystic fibrosis, etc etc etc etc) in people is worth dedicated scientific experimentation on any number of animals.
Yes, but the rumor is that scientists are ordering the blind mice not to try to cure blindness, but merely to see how they run. These frivolous experiments must stop.
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The last time I jumped through a new hoop, I broke my hip.
I worked at Kennedy Space Center in the early nineties. You might think that they'd be at the cutting edge of technology, but you'd be wrong. For safety reasons, it's exceedingly difficult to upgrade hardware from an old-but-known variety to a new-but-untested kind. Which is understandable, but... you'd think that wouldn't apply to printers. However, the printing in the firing room actually printed out wet copies. Like, dripping wet, and smelling like toner.
This is probably just coincidence, but... We used to give that exact programming test, and hired an girl whose solution called out to the OS's "sort" program. This wasn't by any chance in Atlanta, was it?
>And if such life is possible beneath Earth's oceans, why not elsewhere, like Europa?
Because saying life can survive somewhere is different than saying it can evolve somewhere.
I hope they remembered to program in the Laws of Service Robotics:
1. A robot may not damage a beer or, through inaction, allow a beer to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey beer orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Got this error message recently in a Websphere log file:
"Syndiation error occured during reponse."
Three misspellings in the space of five words. That has to be a record.
"My computer beat me at chess. But then I beat it at kickboxing." --Dmitri Martin
The "six degrees of separation" idea was originally formulated as a way to ponder the *maximum* distance between any two people.
So I wonder -- what is the maximum distance between any two articles?
Here's an idea I posted to halfbakery.com a while back that I think will fit in nicely with your plans:
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Binary_20birthday_20candles#1031936400
I disagree. Axioms are "discovered" by mathematicians who start with some math that we already know and gradually boil it down to its fundamental elements -- those pieces that we can't derive from other parts. And mathematicians from different cultures working independently tend to arrive at the same set of axioms, which indicates to me that they are "out there" waiting to be discovered.
If anything, the axioms are the discoveries, and the rest is what we create with them.
I read this posting title as "Strict Water Boarding Would Get Planes in the Sky Faster".
And as a result, I choose to live in a place where I don't have to drive to go everywhere: a small town where walking actually gets me places instead of an endless sea of other residences.
I too choose to live in a place where I don't have to drive to go everywhere: a large town where walking actually gets me places instead of an endless sea of other residences.
Maybe this is the year... ...that paranormal investigators will come up with a single repeatable result, in ANY field of paranormal investigation.
Big deal. The sybian has been around for years, and gives you the same effect.
Samuel L. Jackson can star in the next Terminator movie.
Because we all know it's absolutely impossible to change a country unless you live there.
Jalapenos? That would only make it tastier.
Here's the proper answer.
I think this is probably pretty close to the truth. While there definitely may be an aspect of sociopathology involved in corporate advancement, I think it's also likely that someone who's making $200,000+ a year and brokering million or billion-dollar deals every day, just doesn't value the bagel very much. It's such a trivial amount of money to them, it doesn't seem worth the bother to find change (if they even carry cash) and pay for it. It's a nice theory, but it doesn't wash. If it were true, these execs would do the same thing down at the local convenience store. It's just because they can get away with it at work, and because they think they're entitled, that they do it. But it's stealing just the same.
So you prefer "security through obscurity", then? Let's not fix holes in software then -- just don't report them.
Is there anything that we really need good old fashioned Real Life for any more?
Fresh air.
Oh, wait, the air's probably fresher indoors these days.
Your rant sounds like an angry ex post facto rationalization for losing.
I've spent many years involved in ACM programming contests, as a competitor, coach, and judge. And let me tell you, every team that considers it a hacking contest, and treats it like a hacking contest, LOSES. The teams that write well organized code, with simple straightforward solutions, win the day every time.
I'm not surprised you did poorly.
BTW, of course they compare output files. Would you really expect the judges to give an aesthetic judgment of each program in a five hour contest? "9.8 from the Russian judge..."
Come ON, people. When a newspaper has an article titled "Something Fishy About Springdale's New Winter Festival" is there ANY part of you that's fooled for even a millisecond by the pun?
It seems to have become the law that every paper must do this for every headline possible. It makes me want to rip the paper into shreds and piss on them.
Bless your little hearts, Google, if you are indeed having this effect. Give me a straightforward headline over an insipid one any day of the week.
When you light a campfire with a match, you get more energy out than you put in.
Sorry, this is not a recipe for perpetual motion. For a new energy source, maybe, but not perpetual motion.
I think that getting a step closer to finding a cure for (pick one: arthritis, AIDS, cancer, blindness, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, cystic fibrosis, etc etc etc etc) in people is worth dedicated scientific experimentation on any number of animals.
Yes, but the rumor is that scientists are ordering the blind mice not to try to cure blindness, but merely to see how they run. These frivolous experiments must stop.
I have a Flying Spaghetti Monster eating a Jesus fish eating a Darwin fish.