It depends on what you mean by "down" actually, because the POTS has a nice little feature included in it. If you cross the two wires for a phone line (directly. short them.) a police officer will come to your house and tell you that a 911 call has been placed from your address.
At least, they came to my house. Twice. While I was working on the phone line...
Those are not the episodes of which I speak. I realise that Mr. Herbert is an aged man and has done many stints under a Mr-Wizard or similar moniker, but the science I'm after is in color and not black and white.;)
Global warming isn't just nature running its course; global warming is a condition caused by human ignorance and apathy. It's something we can change if we CHOOSE to do so, though we're currently CHOOSING to just let it get warmer so we can enjoy our SUVs and WalMarts. (Which both have air conditioning, so why would we care?)
I've been doing regular expressions for half as long and I completely agree. (your suggestion is actually the pattern I use when looking for tagging...)
He did answer the question. It was in his first two words, "I dunno."
He illustrated then why it is that he doesn't know. He lacks confidence when performing it and he doesn't feel that it's his best work, so he doesn't know if it warrants releasing to the world. Seems pretty simple to me and it also seems like a succinct answer.
If somebody asked you to release something that you weren't necessarily proud of or happy with, would you say "oh sure hell yes!" or "I dunno" just like the venerable MC Chris?
If I'm a tool, then you're but a simple nail, and I'm attempting to pound some sense into you...
Just because there are words on a piece of paper you sign doesn't make it legally binding. What makes it legally binding is if the language of it is within the letter of the law. One time I discovered that a company I was working for was not paying its employees overtime pay, even though it was required by law to do so. I brought it up on my date of termination and they tried to get me to sign a document saying I wouldn't bring this breach of the law to the attention of any legal agent or agency. The stipulation is that I wouldn't get the owed overtime pay unless I signed the document and since they were firing me at the time I just shut up and signed it. I did the research later and found out that such clauses are totally illegal. So, just because it's printed, doesn't make it legal. Just because you sign it, doesn't make it binding. Food for thought.
The IRS has rules for what determines employee versus contractor status, and there's an article about it here: http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id= 99921,00.html
The general idea is that a company hires a contractor to produce a deliverable. A company hires an employee to produce a deliverable according to a certain method or specified system. In other words, the blanket distinction between a contractor and an employee is the degree of control the company hiring the individual has over the individual's daily efforts. More control = employee, less control = contractor. It's that simple.
Yeah, it's the worst interview ever because he gave you an honest answer and not a prepared speech from a PR rep? It's the worst interview ever because the man is up front and honest about the fact that, honestly, he can't remember the words to a song that got recorded once and everybody has played back a million times and therefore believe him to know by heart? You asked a question and got an honest answer and you fault him for it? What the fuck?
Why? It's included in all up-to-date versions of the OS being sold right now and it's pretty simple to merge it into an existing CD image you have and burn a new disc. I don't know why you got modded insightful.
It's like you operate under the belief that the only way to get SP2 is by downloading it or something, and that's just not the case.
As I just mentioned in another comment, bureaucracy and its derived words are difficult to spell because their root (Bureau) is derived from French. Another example is hors d'oeuvres, which is often spelled by the layperson as "orderves" because, again, it's French. English, being a mishmash of other languages, invites and welcomes this sort of unpredictable spelling.
There's a fairly high truancy rate at the high school level because kids don't see the point of education when it is in competition with personal enjoyment.
Scenario: Would I rather go to the park and fly a kite with Bobby, Mary, and Jake--or would I rather sit through Math and English and hear about Euclidean Geometry and then learn how to cite a magazine in a bibliography? Will they ever tell me where I'm going to use these skills I learn in school? No, they won't, they'll just demand that I remember them so they can test me on them later. You've got a schedule, a routine which you follow every day. You go here at this exact time and no later, and some other place, and some other place, consistently, every 50 minutes. Like a deck of cards being shuffled, they filter through the halls to their next destination, dealt to each classroom like a hand dealt by the croupier.
And then 50 minutes later, on to the next.
Want to get up and go to the bathroom? You have to fucking ask. You have to ask for permission to meet your own biological needs. That's pretty messed up, isn't it? Given that I swore at the beginning of the paragrph I'm sure you know how I feel about the matter. At no other place than K-12 school have I ever been required to ask to go to the bathroom. At work, I get up and go. When I was in college, I stood up and walked out quietly, came back quietly, etc. Nowhere else do you have to ask.
What is the point of making kids ask for permission to do the most basic things like fulfill their biological need to dispose of their waste? They aren't asking necessarily for permission to travel in a physical sense to the bathroom as much as they are asking for permission to remove their internal waste from their bowels before it causes them further discomfort, anxiety, stress, or pain. They're requesting relief from discomfort and the teachers are given the godlike power to wield this relief or withhold it, whichever they do so desire. Look at it again: how fucked is that? Not to mention that if they withhold the privelege of bathroom usage and tell you to go during the 5 minutes you have between classes, and your next class is on the other end of the campus.
If school seemed any more like prison, I bet we'd see more frequent riots. We've seen guns in school, we've seen knives in school, when will we have a political movement in school? That's what you need to start a riot, you know: simple social unrest and a desire for political change. (ever notice the similarity between the words "policy" and "political" ? It's an important similarity.)
You should read the book "The Underground History of American Education" by John Taylor Gatto. In the prologue he writes: "The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the careers devoted to tending to them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my proposition: Mass dumbness first had to be imagined; it isn't real." and other magnificent gems. Mr. Gatto used to be a schoolteacher in New York, and the same year he won New York Teacher of the Year (1991), he resigned in an OP ED piece in the Wall Street Journal saying that he was no longer willing to hurt children.
Because Mr. Gatto is a genius, the book is available on his website: http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/ index.htm
You don't hear about too many shootings in Japanese schools because citizens of Japan aren't allowed by right to possess Firearms. They can get one by license only, and even then the process is pretty restrictive. You don't hear about too many school shootings in Japanese schools because only a dozen or so people in Japan have guns. (an exaggeration--it's probably a couple dozen)
In Japan, things happen with Swords, Knives, and Baseball bats. Do your research. You'll find reports of young teenagers beheading one another, stabbing one another to death, having an argument with their parents and bursting into a shopping center wielding a baseball bat, attacking the middle-aged. Sure, no gun crimes, but Japan has their fair share of fucked up shit going on, too.
I only caught two errors there. One was "countrie's" which is obviously a simple typo of countries', which is the correct possessive and plural form of "country." Having the right word in mind and fudging its entry is leaps and bounds ahead of the regular slashdot curve, which would probably utilize "countrys" without an apostrophe.
And for bureaucracy, well, it's a hard word. I bet you five dollars that the President of the United States can't spell bureaucracy without a teleprompter. Bureaucracy is probably a hard word because it contains the word Bureau, which is derived from French.
How much memory are you working with? What's your architecture? I don't want to get you into any trouble with your company or anything for improper disclosure, but I'm curious what sort of project you're working on, specifically.
Pretty much. We use TCP, which has extremly high protection against packet corruption. The only XML error we have seen in deployment is truncation when somebody pulls out a CAT5 cable, or when a program crashes in the middle of a socket write.
How about when the power goes out? When a hard drive has a bad sector and transfers a malformed file? When your parser misses a closing tag, how does it know which XML element parents the next XML element? Does it guess? How would you recover from such an error?
I've written my share of XML parsers and routines, including a de-bloating script which does the single-character tag naming. I actually used 2 characters because we had more than 26 elements and I wanted to remain strictly alphabetic; but 2 characters is suitable for a document possessing 676 elements or fewer. 3 characters for 17576 elements. Anyhow, I've never done anything on an embedded platform. I've always had the space available to me to fix broken XML. I actually had this parser once which would try to recover data from a bad XSL transform and make it standards compliant. It did so by adding and removing tags as it saw fit (based on a config file I created) in order to ensure that every element was parented validly and only possessed valid child elements.
Yeah that'd work great if you knew 100% of the time that you'd never get bad data. If you've got a multi-nested element hierarchy however and you lose one or two of your , how do you know where to put them back in? It's very easy to look for an opening tag followed by a closing tag of the same name, especially when building a parser that error-checks.
You know what would cut down the datagram size more? Smaller tag names. Tag names don't have to be readable so much as uniquely identifiable; you can use an interface layer in the editor to make the tag names user friendly and then de-friendify them for transit. Then you've got:
According to wc, switching to single-character element names instead of the multicharacter ones would give a 41% reduction in bulk, for the example above.
Honestly, I think that Mitsubishi could've done better. Luxeon is not the brightest source out there--there are other options available. There's a company called Lamina Ceramics which really knows how to package LEDs. They put 240 LED chips on a 27mm x 32mm ceramic substrate (Product page here); their "red" (I say "red" because 618nm is, I'm sorry, orange and not red) module produces more than 2,000 lumens alone. They need some better chips for their green/blue product lines, but it's a pretty cool technology. Heatsink required though--I envision heatpipes. Another company called Lightstream Photonics (which has a crappy website not worth linking) has paired heatpipes with LEDs directly to enable them to be run at high drive currents. I think a marriage of the two in some fashion will allow us to really get this pocket projection thing going. Time will tell.
In July, Mitsubishi's PocketProjector will hit the market with an MSRP of $699. It sits in the palm of your hand and is driven by one each of Red, Green and Blue super-bright Luxeon LEDs manufactured by Lumileds. There was a bit on slashdot about it last month, I believe. I mention the light source only because replacing lamps in a projector is usually the most frequent maintenance cost. LEDs don't burn out as quickly as conventional lamps do; they're rating these at 20,000 hours and I'd be willing to bet that they'd work for even longer. (At an average 5 hours per day it should last for 10 years, they say)
I meant black and white movies. I'm not saying we should colorize them and then burn the originals though, which is how you appear to be interpreting it. I'm saying that providing the option of watching an old movie in color may revitalize many old movies and television shows, allowing them to be rehashed and rerun for more corporate profit.
You don't think hollywood would want to re-release older movies or television shows to a younger generation to milk the franchise one more time? The content has already been made, it just needs to be brought up to speed to be appealing to the youth of today.
Their site is going to get slashdotted real quick. Lots of content on there. It's beautiful. It's... it's amazing what they've done with so little effort.
I am so curious what this could do for so many old movies...
I've got this mobo in the family computer and it won't take the ram up to full speed. It's got pc2100 ram in there but I have to run it at pc1600 which of course means that the processor is running at less than maximum speed as well. I have tried multiple different sticks of ram in this board and it's a piece of shit. A friend of mine had one too and he has tons of problems getting his on-board audio to work. I eventually took pity on him and gave him an extra Soundblaster Live PCI512 (or somesuch) I had laying around. He also had problems with memory, I believe.
I avoid ECS like I avoid network television. Elitegroup computer systems my ass; more like Extremely Crappy Systems. So many times people have said they are getting an ECS board and so many times I have to tell them "no, get an MSI/Abit/Asus/Tyan/Supermicro/Gigabyte board."
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It depends on what you mean by "down" actually, because the POTS has a nice little feature included in it. If you cross the two wires for a phone line (directly. short them.) a police officer will come to your house and tell you that a 911 call has been placed from your address.
At least, they came to my house. Twice. While I was working on the phone line...
Those are not the episodes of which I speak. I realise that Mr. Herbert is an aged man and has done many stints under a Mr-Wizard or similar moniker, but the science I'm after is in color and not black and white. ;)
If I recall correctly, he used whole milk and not horses.
Global warming isn't just nature running its course; global warming is a condition caused by human ignorance and apathy. It's something we can change if we CHOOSE to do so, though we're currently CHOOSING to just let it get warmer so we can enjoy our SUVs and WalMarts. (Which both have air conditioning, so why would we care?)
I second this. The first time I found out about LOGO was sitting in front of the television watching Mr. Wizard.
Not to mention the time I learned how to make glue... man. Those were the days. I wonder if old eps of Mr. Wizard are available via bittorent. hmmm.
I've been doing regular expressions for half as long and I completely agree. (your suggestion is actually the pattern I use when looking for tagging...)
He did answer the question. It was in his first two words, "I dunno."
He illustrated then why it is that he doesn't know. He lacks confidence when performing it and he doesn't feel that it's his best work, so he doesn't know if it warrants releasing to the world. Seems pretty simple to me and it also seems like a succinct answer.
If somebody asked you to release something that you weren't necessarily proud of or happy with, would you say "oh sure hell yes!" or "I dunno" just like the venerable MC Chris?
If I'm a tool, then you're but a simple nail, and I'm attempting to pound some sense into you...
Just because there are words on a piece of paper you sign doesn't make it legally binding. What makes it legally binding is if the language of it is within the letter of the law. One time I discovered that a company I was working for was not paying its employees overtime pay, even though it was required by law to do so. I brought it up on my date of termination and they tried to get me to sign a document saying I wouldn't bring this breach of the law to the attention of any legal agent or agency. The stipulation is that I wouldn't get the owed overtime pay unless I signed the document and since they were firing me at the time I just shut up and signed it. I did the research later and found out that such clauses are totally illegal. So, just because it's printed, doesn't make it legal. Just because you sign it, doesn't make it binding. Food for thought.
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The IRS has rules for what determines employee versus contractor status, and there's an article about it here: http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id
The general idea is that a company hires a contractor to produce a deliverable. A company hires an employee to produce a deliverable according to a certain method or specified system. In other words, the blanket distinction between a contractor and an employee is the degree of control the company hiring the individual has over the individual's daily efforts. More control = employee, less control = contractor. It's that simple.
Yeah, it's the worst interview ever because he gave you an honest answer and not a prepared speech from a PR rep? It's the worst interview ever because the man is up front and honest about the fact that, honestly, he can't remember the words to a song that got recorded once and everybody has played back a million times and therefore believe him to know by heart? You asked a question and got an honest answer and you fault him for it? What the fuck?
Why? It's included in all up-to-date versions of the OS being sold right now and it's pretty simple to merge it into an existing CD image you have and burn a new disc. I don't know why you got modded insightful.
It's like you operate under the belief that the only way to get SP2 is by downloading it or something, and that's just not the case.
As another respondant pointed out, Wil Wheaton has an account on slashdot. How nerdy is that? The boy from ST:TNG is on Slashdot. heh.
As I just mentioned in another comment, bureaucracy and its derived words are difficult to spell because their root (Bureau) is derived from French. Another example is hors d'oeuvres, which is often spelled by the layperson as "orderves" because, again, it's French. English, being a mishmash of other languages, invites and welcomes this sort of unpredictable spelling.
There's a fairly high truancy rate at the high school level because kids don't see the point of education when it is in competition with personal enjoyment.
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Scenario: Would I rather go to the park and fly a kite with Bobby, Mary, and Jake--or would I rather sit through Math and English and hear about Euclidean Geometry and then learn how to cite a magazine in a bibliography? Will they ever tell me where I'm going to use these skills I learn in school? No, they won't, they'll just demand that I remember them so they can test me on them later. You've got a schedule, a routine which you follow every day. You go here at this exact time and no later, and some other place, and some other place, consistently, every 50 minutes. Like a deck of cards being shuffled, they filter through the halls to their next destination, dealt to each classroom like a hand dealt by the croupier.
And then 50 minutes later, on to the next.
Want to get up and go to the bathroom? You have to fucking ask. You have to ask for permission to meet your own biological needs. That's pretty messed up, isn't it? Given that I swore at the beginning of the paragrph I'm sure you know how I feel about the matter. At no other place than K-12 school have I ever been required to ask to go to the bathroom. At work, I get up and go. When I was in college, I stood up and walked out quietly, came back quietly, etc. Nowhere else do you have to ask.
What is the point of making kids ask for permission to do the most basic things like fulfill their biological need to dispose of their waste? They aren't asking necessarily for permission to travel in a physical sense to the bathroom as much as they are asking for permission to remove their internal waste from their bowels before it causes them further discomfort, anxiety, stress, or pain. They're requesting relief from discomfort and the teachers are given the godlike power to wield this relief or withhold it, whichever they do so desire. Look at it again: how fucked is that? Not to mention that if they withhold the privelege of bathroom usage and tell you to go during the 5 minutes you have between classes, and your next class is on the other end of the campus.
If school seemed any more like prison, I bet we'd see more frequent riots. We've seen guns in school, we've seen knives in school, when will we have a political movement in school? That's what you need to start a riot, you know: simple social unrest and a desire for political change. (ever notice the similarity between the words "policy" and "political" ? It's an important similarity.)
You should read the book "The Underground History of American Education" by John Taylor Gatto. In the prologue he writes: "The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the careers devoted to tending to them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my proposition: Mass dumbness first had to be imagined; it isn't real." and other magnificent gems. Mr. Gatto used to be a schoolteacher in New York, and the same year he won New York Teacher of the Year (1991), he resigned in an OP ED piece in the Wall Street Journal saying that he was no longer willing to hurt children.
Because Mr. Gatto is a genius, the book is available on his website:
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters
You don't hear about too many shootings in Japanese schools because citizens of Japan aren't allowed by right to possess Firearms. They can get one by license only, and even then the process is pretty restrictive. You don't hear about too many school shootings in Japanese schools because only a dozen or so people in Japan have guns. (an exaggeration--it's probably a couple dozen)
In Japan, things happen with Swords, Knives, and Baseball bats. Do your research. You'll find reports of young teenagers beheading one another, stabbing one another to death, having an argument with their parents and bursting into a shopping center wielding a baseball bat, attacking the middle-aged. Sure, no gun crimes, but Japan has their fair share of fucked up shit going on, too.
I only caught two errors there. One was "countrie's" which is obviously a simple typo of countries', which is the correct possessive and plural form of "country." Having the right word in mind and fudging its entry is leaps and bounds ahead of the regular slashdot curve, which would probably utilize "countrys" without an apostrophe.
And for bureaucracy, well, it's a hard word. I bet you five dollars that the President of the United States can't spell bureaucracy without a teleprompter. Bureaucracy is probably a hard word because it contains the word Bureau, which is derived from French.
How much memory are you working with? What's your architecture? I don't want to get you into any trouble with your company or anything for improper disclosure, but I'm curious what sort of project you're working on, specifically.
Pretty much. We use TCP, which has extremly high protection against packet corruption. The only XML error we have seen in deployment is truncation when somebody pulls out a CAT5 cable, or when a program crashes in the middle of a socket write.
How about when the power goes out? When a hard drive has a bad sector and transfers a malformed file? When your parser misses a closing tag, how does it know which XML element parents the next XML element? Does it guess? How would you recover from such an error?
I've written my share of XML parsers and routines, including a de-bloating script which does the single-character tag naming. I actually used 2 characters because we had more than 26 elements and I wanted to remain strictly alphabetic; but 2 characters is suitable for a document possessing 676 elements or fewer. 3 characters for 17576 elements. Anyhow, I've never done anything on an embedded platform. I've always had the space available to me to fix broken XML. I actually had this parser once which would try to recover data from a bad XSL transform and make it standards compliant. It did so by adding and removing tags as it saw fit (based on a config file I created) in order to ensure that every element was parented validly and only possessed valid child elements.
Yeah that'd work great if you knew 100% of the time that you'd never get bad data. If you've got a multi-nested element hierarchy however and you lose one or two of your , how do you know where to put them back in? It's very easy to look for an opening tag followed by a closing tag of the same name, especially when building a parser that error-checks.
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You know what would cut down the datagram size more? Smaller tag names. Tag names don't have to be readable so much as uniquely identifiable; you can use an interface layer in the editor to make the tag names user friendly and then de-friendify them for transit. Then you've got:
<a>
<b>woo</b>
</a>
insted of:
<element>
<subelement>woo</subelement>
</el
According to wc, switching to single-character element names instead of the multicharacter ones would give a 41% reduction in bulk, for the example above.
Yeah, all we need to do is whack a couple of suns together.
Yeah, a couple of suns....
Well, here's one...
Honestly, I think that Mitsubishi could've done better. Luxeon is not the brightest source out there--there are other options available. There's a company called Lamina Ceramics which really knows how to package LEDs. They put 240 LED chips on a 27mm x 32mm ceramic substrate (Product page here); their "red" (I say "red" because 618nm is, I'm sorry, orange and not red) module produces more than 2,000 lumens alone. They need some better chips for their green/blue product lines, but it's a pretty cool technology. Heatsink required though--I envision heatpipes. Another company called Lightstream Photonics (which has a crappy website not worth linking) has paired heatpipes with LEDs directly to enable them to be run at high drive currents. I think a marriage of the two in some fashion will allow us to really get this pocket projection thing going. Time will tell.
In July, Mitsubishi's PocketProjector will hit the market with an MSRP of $699. It sits in the palm of your hand and is driven by one each of Red, Green and Blue super-bright Luxeon LEDs manufactured by Lumileds. There was a bit on slashdot about it last month, I believe. I mention the light source only because replacing lamps in a projector is usually the most frequent maintenance cost. LEDs don't burn out as quickly as conventional lamps do; they're rating these at 20,000 hours and I'd be willing to bet that they'd work for even longer. (At an average 5 hours per day it should last for 10 years, they say)
...and you should be modded down as ignorant.
I meant black and white movies. I'm not saying we should colorize them and then burn the originals though, which is how you appear to be interpreting it. I'm saying that providing the option of watching an old movie in color may revitalize many old movies and television shows, allowing them to be rehashed and rerun for more corporate profit.
You don't think hollywood would want to re-release older movies or television shows to a younger generation to milk the franchise one more time? The content has already been made, it just needs to be brought up to speed to be appealing to the youth of today.
Their site is going to get slashdotted real quick. Lots of content on there. It's beautiful. It's ... it's amazing what they've done with so little effort.
I am so curious what this could do for so many old movies...
I've got this mobo in the family computer and it won't take the ram up to full speed. It's got pc2100 ram in there but I have to run it at pc1600 which of course means that the processor is running at less than maximum speed as well. I have tried multiple different sticks of ram in this board and it's a piece of shit. A friend of mine had one too and he has tons of problems getting his on-board audio to work. I eventually took pity on him and gave him an extra Soundblaster Live PCI512 (or somesuch) I had laying around. He also had problems with memory, I believe.
I avoid ECS like I avoid network television. Elitegroup computer systems my ass; more like Extremely Crappy Systems. So many times people have said they are getting an ECS board and so many times I have to tell them "no, get an MSI/Abit/Asus/Tyan/Supermicro/Gigabyte board."