You are right on as long as you are talking about at home. But Rob was largely discussing businesses. Machines in an office (or dirtier, rougher work environments) take a lot more abuse than the machines we baby at home. They run constantly, get plugged into overloaded circuits, get treated like cheap furniture by facilities staff, sit on the bottom of stacks of reports, splashed with liquids, used by multiple users, and treated generally with an "it's not mine" mentality. I've seen two-year-old computers in offices catch fire, and given the layers of dust inside and surrounding piles of paper this was not a surprise. Look at an 800Mhz PIII machine in a warehouse and it probably looks awful compared to your 486/33.
How about mounting guns on the cameras? If surveillance officers see a crime in progress, they waist the offender. Then the innocent would-be victims smile and wave to the camera and say "thanks mr. camera" before continuing merrily on their way.
Construction of that building was cancelled... couldn't get funding (gosh, we need money to construct the world's tallest building). Like Chicago needs more space, I live downtown and it's full of construction cranes. I wonder if any of these developers are considering the space that will free up when all these financial exchanges go the way of the buggy whip and blacksmith?
Take a look at this historical progression on one of the BUNCH, NCR. You can see how general purpose computing arrives on the scene in a context of transaction-specific machines (eg., cash registers).
Along these lines, how about The Difference Engine by Gibson and Sterling? Even though this book is not the greatest read, the hypothetical situation of the story could be interesting to a computer history class.
Yes, I was hoping the vacuum still worked, then you could turn it on and sweep up spills around the work area.
Has anyone dropped the contents of a Mac (or an overclocked PC) into a refrigerator yet? That would be a great hack if the cooling function was left intact. You could cool the components and have a place to keep drinks in the work area cool. Also, just by opening the door, you'd get easy access to do upgrades.
I think your problem is not the "maximum" but the minimum clique problem. I believe the answer is three; the jocks, the stuck-ups, and the geeks. Definitely an NP problem, but I don't see that it is NP-hard.
Check out this article at CNN. The attempt to ban evolution in "schools" goes on. My favorite quote - "If we teach kids that they were descended from monkeys, don't you think they'll act like monkeys?"
Command lines are here to stay. Remember Star Trek IV? Scotty didn't know crap about the mouse that McCoy handed him, but he went to town on the keyboard (I know, it was a Mac, whatever). He knew the keyboard because Scotty uses bash shell, baby! Learn it, love it, live it.
What the FUCK is wrong with talk about shotguns? Blimey. Some people are just too sensitive.
Exactly, when was the last time (if ever) a shotgun was used in one of these school shootings? Unless it was the "tennis socks" part of the quote... maybe those are banned at the private school because they are not a part of the official school uniform.
Good example, that guy Tyler in the article decides to take two weeks to learn Java then hit the job market again(presumably claiming to be a Java programmer). Is that all it takes? I've been coding in Java for over a year, maybe I should get my resume out there.
When I was an undergraduate at Rose-Hulman (many years ago) a fellow student received a postcard that was rather embarrassing. The campus post office tacked the postcard up on a wall for all to see. The question to ask yourself is "would a non-college post office do such a thing to a member of the community?" The answer is "of course not." However, as those of us who have been university students know, there is an attitude prevalent at institutions of higher learning along the lines of "we'll take your money, and why we're at it we'll control everything about you at the same time." This is one big reason I am excited about the potentials for non-traditional or distance learning to free young adults from a system designed to prepare them to be willing and abused servants to corporate employers during their working years.
...and may also talk to the company I currently work for.
If your reasons for leaving truly happened and are with merit, your current employer should have no problems with what the jerks say, better yet they may tell them to piss off, get a life, and leave their employees alone. On the other hand if you current employer starts bothering you over this problem, you may have found out that you ended up working in a bad situation again.
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Imagine only being able to use Rambus memory... so much for cheap.
So at what point will they rename the PIII as Celeron, or will they?
You are right on as long as you are talking about at home. But Rob was largely discussing businesses. Machines in an office (or dirtier, rougher work environments) take a lot more abuse than the machines we baby at home. They run constantly, get plugged into overloaded circuits, get treated like cheap furniture by facilities staff, sit on the bottom of stacks of reports, splashed with liquids, used by multiple users, and treated generally with an "it's not mine" mentality. I've seen two-year-old computers in offices catch fire, and given the layers of dust inside and surrounding piles of paper this was not a surprise. Look at an 800Mhz PIII machine in a warehouse and it probably looks awful compared to your 486/33.
Remember also that in the case of felons, you can run the country but can't decide who runs the country!
How about mounting guns on the cameras? If surveillance officers see a crime in progress, they waist the offender. Then the innocent would-be victims smile and wave to the camera and say "thanks mr. camera" before continuing merrily on their way.
Mark Abene (Phiber Optik) Sentence: one year in jail
Kevin Poulsen (Dark Dante) -Sentence: four years in prison, three-year ban from computer use, fine
See this CNN article and discussion on K5 earlier.
Construction of that building was cancelled... couldn't get funding (gosh, we need money to construct the world's tallest building). Like Chicago needs more space, I live downtown and it's full of construction cranes. I wonder if any of these developers are considering the space that will free up when all these financial exchanges go the way of the buggy whip and blacksmith?
Take a look at this historical progression on one of the BUNCH, NCR. You can see how general purpose computing arrives on the scene in a context of transaction-specific machines (eg., cash registers).
Along these lines, how about The Difference Engine by Gibson and Sterling? Even though this book is not the greatest read, the hypothetical situation of the story could be interesting to a computer history class.
Has anyone dropped the contents of a Mac (or an overclocked PC) into a refrigerator yet? That would be a great hack if the cooling function was left intact. You could cool the components and have a place to keep drinks in the work area cool. Also, just by opening the door, you'd get easy access to do upgrades.
... slashdot must remove this AC post. The E-meter is based on this NAS paper.
I think your problem is not the "maximum" but the minimum clique problem. I believe the answer is three; the jocks, the stuck-ups, and the geeks. Definitely an NP problem, but I don't see that it is NP-hard.
Don't forget that as an option you can get Office bundled with it... Windows NP-complete.
Check out this article at CNN. The attempt to ban evolution in "schools" goes on. My favorite quote - "If we teach kids that they were descended from monkeys, don't you think they'll act like monkeys?"
CAPTAIN: It's you!!
CATS: How are you gentlemen!!
CATS: All your bash are belong to us.
CATS: You are on the way to enlightenment.
Command lines are here to stay. Remember Star Trek IV? Scotty didn't know crap about the mouse that McCoy handed him, but he went to town on the keyboard (I know, it was a Mac, whatever). He knew the keyboard because Scotty uses bash shell, baby! Learn it, love it, live it.
Exactly, when was the last time (if ever) a shotgun was used in one of these school shootings? Unless it was the "tennis socks" part of the quote... maybe those are banned at the private school because they are not a part of the official school uniform.
If so, they'll get into a lot of trouble if Pacino's line about taking a flame thrower to the school comes up.
Good example, that guy Tyler in the article decides to take two weeks to learn Java then hit the job market again(presumably claiming to be a Java programmer). Is that all it takes? I've been coding in Java for over a year, maybe I should get my resume out there.
Oh, that's real nice, further evidence regarding my post above.
When I was an undergraduate at Rose-Hulman (many years ago) a fellow student received a postcard that was rather embarrassing. The campus post office tacked the postcard up on a wall for all to see. The question to ask yourself is "would a non-college post office do such a thing to a member of the community?" The answer is "of course not." However, as those of us who have been university students know, there is an attitude prevalent at institutions of higher learning along the lines of "we'll take your money, and why we're at it we'll control everything about you at the same time." This is one big reason I am excited about the potentials for non-traditional or distance learning to free young adults from a system designed to prepare them to be willing and abused servants to corporate employers during their working years.
If your reasons for leaving truly happened and are with merit, your current employer should have no problems with what the jerks say, better yet they may tell them to piss off, get a life, and leave their employees alone. On the other hand if you current employer starts bothering you over this problem, you may have found out that you ended up working in a bad situation again.
Very funny article on Ginger at SatireWire.
The review is pretty unfavorable, still won't keep me away though.