So what's the big deal? We either reach a shortage of resources at 6-7-8 billion people, or we hit a shortage at 8-9-10 billion people. Running against the wall of finite natural resources will be just as painful, either way.
Dvorak education comes faster if you play videogames online that require you to communicate with team members quickly and efficiently. That's what finally worked for me.
This lasts only as long as we are unwilling to lower our prices. The damage to our income is totally countered by the gain we get with lower foreign prices.
Factor in some smart middlemen lopping off some money to become billionaires, and you have a temporary situation where globalization ends up not helping some people much at all. But that's okay.
Then clearly your use of Perl was limited to $ in front of variable names, some is-it-a-string-or-is-it-a-number situations, and C-style loops and if statements.
No, they are like completely different. About the only thing they have in common is $ in front of scalar variable names, some is-it-a-string-or-is-it-a-number situations, and C-style loops and if statements.
This is a result of Snell's law. When light travels from a material with a high index of refraction to one with a low index, its angle with the plane gets smaller. See http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/SnellsLaw. html where they show the light going in the opposite direction.
If you go at a low enough angle, you get reflection. Inside a fiber optic cable, all the light rays are going at a low enough angle to have reflection (and they reflect at the same angle). But if you bend the cable a bit, some rays will have a high enough angle that they escape. Note that my 'high' and 'low' are with respect to the plane, while usually when doing calculations the angle is measured against the normal.
MISSION: At [name of company] it is our conviction that [to do the stuff we want to do] and to increase shareholder value are not merely complementary activities--they are inextricably linked.
PURPOSE: To increase shareholder value by [doing stuff]
EXTREMELY SERIOUS WARNING (printed on a separate page, in red letters on a yellow background): Unless you are as smart as Johann Karl Friedrich Gauss, savvy as a half-blind Calcutta bootblack, tough as General William Tecumseh Sherman, rich as the Queen of England, emotionally resilient as a Red Sox fan, and as generally able to take care of yourself as the average nuclear missile submarine commander, you should never have been allowed near this document. Please dispose of it as you would any piece of high-level radioactive waste and then arrange with a qualified surgeon to amputate your arms at the elbows and gouge your eyes from their sockets. This warning is necessary because once, a hundred years ago, a little old lady in Kentucky put a hundred dollars into a dry goods company which went belly-up and only returned her ninety-nine dollars. Ever since then the government has been on our asses. If you ignore this warning, read on at your peril-- you are dead certain to lose everything you've got and live out your final decades beating back waves of termites in a Mississippi Delta leper colony. Still reading? Great. Now that we've scared off the lightweights, let's get down to business.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: We will raise [some money], then [do some stuff] and increase shareholder value. Want details? Read on.
INTRODUCTION: [This trend], which everyone knows about, and [that trend], which is so incredibly arcane that you probably didn't know about it until just now, and [this other trend over here] which might seem, at first blush, to be completely unrelated, when all taken together, lead us to the (proprietary, secret, heavily patented, trademarked, and NDAed) insight that we could increase shareholder value by [doing stuff]. We will need $ [a large number] and after [not too long] we will be able to realize an increase in value to $ [an even larger number], unless [hell freezes over in midsummer].
DETAILS: Phase 1: After taking vows of celibacy and abstinence and forgoing all of our material possessions for homespun robes, we (viz, appended resumes) will move into a modest complex of scavenged refrigerator boxes in the central Gobi Desert, where real estate is so cheap that we are actually being paid to occupy it, thereby enhancing shareholder value even before we have actually done anything. On a daily ration consisting of a handful of uncooked rice and a ladleful of water, we will [begin to do stuff]. Phase 2, 3, 4, . . . , n-1: We will [do more stuff, steadily enhancing shareholder value in the process] unless [the earth is struck by an asteroid a thousand miles in diameter, in which case certain assumptions will have to be readjusted; refer to Spreadsheets 397-413]. Phase n: before the ink on our Nobel Prize certificates is dry, we will confiscate the property of our competitors, including anyone foolish enough to have invested in their pathetic companies. We will sell all of these people into slavery. All proceeds will be redistributed among our shareholders, who will hardly notice, since Spreadsheet 265 demonstrates that, by this time, the company will be larger than the British Empire at its zenith.
SPREADSHEETS: [Pages and pages of numbers in tiny print, conveniently summarized by graphs that all seem to be exponential curves screaming heavenward, albeit with enough pseudo-random noise in them to lend plausibility].
RESUMES: Just recall the opening reel of The Magnificent Seven and you won't have to bother with this part; you should crawl to us on hands and knees and beg us for the privilege of paying our salaries.
Baloney! Taste in music has everything to do with one's favorite text editor.
emacs -> Electronic/Synth: Can do everything and anything, but only through some crazy interface. jEdit -> Tuba solos: Large and in charge, but presumably slower than others. nano -> New Age/Spiritual Crap: Used because it "matches my iPod nicely." edwin -> Heavy Metal: Powerful music for a powerful programming language. notepad -> Britney Spears: For people who get confused by syntax highlighting. Nedit -> Ragtime: Gets the job done, has some fun, doesn't make a fuss. NoteTab Light -> Jazz: Delusional elitists who consider it a source of pride that they're more sophisticated than the Britney-lovers. vi -> Rachmaninov: Fast and difficult; only accessible to those whose fingers know the keyboard well.
Any statement of fact can be written in positive or negative form, so your statement simply says you can't prove anything at all. Positive: "I am going to the park today." Negative: "I am not going to remain outside the boundaries of the park today." Or more simply, "It is not true that it is not true that I am going to the park today."
And in case you really believe the statement, "You can't prove a negative.": I'd like to see you try to prove it. Oh, I'm sorry, did I ask you to prove a negative?
Slashdot Mirror
I for one am tired about people whining about oohing and ahhing. Stop complaining about human nature; you'll be miserable otherwise.
So what's the big deal? We either reach a shortage of resources at 6-7-8 billion people, or we hit a shortage at 8-9-10 billion people. Running against the wall of finite natural resources will be just as painful, either way.
and how many governments he's lied to
As if lying to governments were a bad thing.
Dvorak education comes faster if you play videogames online that require you to communicate with team members quickly and efficiently. That's what finally worked for me.
Illegal war? What the heck is an 'illegal war'?
At least a -3? +5 is greater than -3, right?
As more and more nations catch up economically, preventing independent nuclear development is impossible anyway.
How come the US unemployment rate is at 6% ?
You mean 4.7%.
EVERYTHING can be made cheaper someplace else.
This lasts only as long as we are unwilling to lower our prices. The damage to our income is totally countered by the gain we get with lower foreign prices.
Factor in some smart middlemen lopping off some money to become billionaires, and you have a temporary situation where globalization ends up not helping some people much at all. But that's okay.
Then clearly your use of Perl was limited to $ in front of variable names, some is-it-a-string-or-is-it-a-number situations, and C-style loops and if statements.
Please transform the following disputed sentence into a sentence that ends other than with a preposition: "The public domain should be cared about."
"About the public domain it should be cared."
See how much more naturally that rolls off the tongue?
Back to figuring out the label to which to go I go!
No, they are like completely different. About the only thing they have in common is $ in front of scalar variable names, some is-it-a-string-or-is-it-a-number situations, and C-style loops and if statements.
This is a result of Snell's law. When light travels from a material with a high index of refraction to one with a low index, its angle with the plane gets smaller. See http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/SnellsLaw. html where they show the light going in the opposite direction.
If you go at a low enough angle, you get reflection. Inside a fiber optic cable, all the light rays are going at a low enough angle to have reflection (and they reflect at the same angle). But if you bend the cable a bit, some rays will have a high enough angle that they escape. Note that my 'high' and 'low' are with respect to the plane, while usually when doing calculations the angle is measured against the normal.
How dare he steal karma by providing an informative post! Oh the humanity!
Um, ethics and morals are exactly the same thing.
Oh, grow up. You were karma-whoring at the top of a story and got called on it.
I can't see perl being fast enough--
Obviously.
I do think--
Obviously.
Thanks for your contribution.
MISSION: At [name of company] it is our conviction that [to do the stuff we want to do] and to increase shareholder value are not merely complementary activities--they are inextricably linked.
PURPOSE: To increase shareholder value by [doing stuff]
EXTREMELY SERIOUS WARNING (printed on a separate page, in red letters on a yellow background): Unless you are as smart as Johann Karl Friedrich Gauss, savvy as a half-blind Calcutta bootblack, tough as General William Tecumseh Sherman, rich as the Queen of England, emotionally resilient as a Red Sox fan, and as generally able to take care of yourself as the average nuclear missile submarine commander, you should never have been allowed near this document. Please dispose of it as you would any piece of high-level radioactive waste and then arrange with a qualified surgeon to amputate your arms at the elbows and gouge your eyes from their sockets. This warning is necessary because once, a hundred years ago, a little old lady in Kentucky put a hundred dollars into a dry goods company which went belly-up and only returned her ninety-nine dollars. Ever since then the government has been on our asses. If you ignore this warning, read on at your peril-- you are dead certain to lose everything you've got and live out your final decades beating back waves of termites in a Mississippi Delta leper colony. Still reading? Great. Now that we've scared off the lightweights, let's get down to business.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: We will raise [some money], then [do some stuff] and increase shareholder value. Want details? Read on.
INTRODUCTION: [This trend], which everyone knows about, and [that trend], which is so incredibly arcane that you probably didn't know about it until just now, and [this other trend over here] which might seem, at first blush, to be completely unrelated, when all taken together, lead us to the (proprietary, secret, heavily patented, trademarked, and NDAed) insight that we could increase shareholder value by [doing stuff]. We will need $ [a large number] and after [not too long] we will be able to realize an increase in value to $ [an even larger number], unless [hell freezes over in midsummer].
DETAILS: Phase 1: After taking vows of celibacy and abstinence and forgoing all
of our material possessions for homespun robes, we (viz, appended resumes) will move into a modest complex of scavenged refrigerator boxes in the central Gobi Desert, where real estate is so cheap that we are actually being paid to occupy it, thereby enhancing shareholder value even before we have actually done anything. On a daily ration consisting of a handful of uncooked rice and a ladleful of water, we will [begin to do stuff]. Phase 2, 3, 4, . . . , n-1: We will [do more stuff, steadily enhancing shareholder value in the process] unless [the earth is struck by an asteroid a thousand miles in diameter, in which case certain assumptions will have to be readjusted; refer to Spreadsheets 397-413]. Phase n: before the ink on our Nobel Prize certificates is dry, we will confiscate the property of our competitors, including anyone foolish enough to have invested in their pathetic companies. We will sell all of these people into slavery. All proceeds will be redistributed among our shareholders, who will hardly notice, since Spreadsheet 265 demonstrates that, by this time, the company will be larger than the British Empire at its zenith.
SPREADSHEETS: [Pages and pages of numbers in tiny print, conveniently summarized by graphs that all seem to be exponential curves screaming heavenward, albeit with enough pseudo-random noise in them to lend plausibility].
RESUMES: Just recall the opening reel of The Magnificent Seven and you won't have to bother with this part; you should crawl to us on hands and knees and beg us for the privilege of paying our salaries.
Huh? What's wrong with running up 2-3 flights of stairs?
*cough*
If you actually have to reread sentences because they have grammar errors, then stop worrying about Slashdot. You have your own issues to worry about.
Funny how people who are horrible at grammar and spelling amazingly also believe that it doesn't matter.
When writing your post, did you actually have to reread this so-called sentence?
Um, mod spam down.
Baloney! Taste in music has everything to do with one's favorite text editor.
emacs -> Electronic/Synth: Can do everything and anything, but only through some crazy interface.
jEdit -> Tuba solos: Large and in charge, but presumably slower than others.
nano -> New Age/Spiritual Crap: Used because it "matches my iPod nicely."
edwin -> Heavy Metal: Powerful music for a powerful programming language.
notepad -> Britney Spears: For people who get confused by syntax highlighting.
Nedit -> Ragtime: Gets the job done, has some fun, doesn't make a fuss.
NoteTab Light -> Jazz: Delusional elitists who consider it a source of pride that they're more sophisticated than the Britney-lovers.
vi -> Rachmaninov: Fast and difficult; only accessible to those whose fingers know the keyboard well.
It would be nice if this advertisement included a price. And why no coupon?
How do you prove a negative?
MEEP! BEEP! The bullshit-o-meter just burst!
Any statement of fact can be written in positive or negative form, so your statement simply says you can't prove anything at all. Positive: "I am going to the park today." Negative: "I am not going to remain outside the boundaries of the park today." Or more simply, "It is not true that it is not true that I am going to the park today."
And in case you really believe the statement, "You can't prove a negative.": I'd like to see you try to prove it. Oh, I'm sorry, did I ask you to prove a negative?