one of the women in my running group did the Canadian Death Race (google it and be sure you're sitting down while you do) and routinely runs sub 1:30 half marathons (I think she recently went sub 3:00 for a marathon) when you run with people like that you start figuring out that being male is not necessarily the advantage it's all cracked up to be (unless you're elite or you're one of the guys in my running group who go sub 2:45 in the marathon;).
Also don't forget that there are MANY really fast over-60 folks out there (I'm talking 40 minutes 10k fast), looks can be extremely deceiving when it comes to most athletic pursuits.
Remember: there's always somebody faster/smarter/hotter than you out there.
thanks for the trip down memory lane, I couldn't remember the name of Devpac 3 (my fave assembler) and yes, IIRC the 68020 and later did have a barrel shifter but obviously you couldn't program for that and expect it to work on the 'standard' ataris... still the b&w monitor was the best, I could spend hours in front of that thing and never get headaches or anything and it was totally pin sharp!
Sometimes I wish I ended up doing embedded software development, while high level languages have their allure I'd love to do 'smaller' stuff in assembly where I have control on most of everything instead of yet again working on a bit-part in a monster-sized project...
amen! as somebody who in the days of yore coded a Mandelbrot viewer on an Atari ST (68000) using only integer arithmetics (also shifts instead of muls whenever possible as the 68000's MUL was so slow, at the time I would've killed for the 68000 to have a barrel shifter though) and registers I can certainly sympathize with that: x86 CPUs always seemed to have way too few registers for my taste.
While I am sure there was lots of strategy involved in competitive TA play, this statement belies that fact. Mass and attack has very little strategy to it.
I used to play TA tournaments: a LOT of strategy was involved (especially before Cavedog started monkeying around with the balance with the units they released weekly, after Chris Taylor left IMHO things went downhill pretty fast).
Yes, when you see newbies play it's going to be pretty boring, but expert play is a completely different kettle of fish. It =can= happen even among experts that you'll have a pretty sizeable battle where you throw everything at your opponent, but obviously before you do that you have to be pretty sure you're going to win (recon, selective bombing, multiple fronts,...). In my experience low level harassment from the start, multiple bases and territory control were much surer paths to victory.
TA's greatest strenght is its UI in my opinion, being able to queue things so easily, creating groups, pathing, guarding and so on gives a lot of flexibility to the experienced player.
Install TA, grab TA:M (TA mutation) and some of the latest AIs (that are MUCH better than the one shipped with the game) and you'll have a lot of fun, believe me.
nowadays it seems most writers embark on these loooooong series (that usually start blowing by the 3rd book), I know it's easier to just continue regurgitating the same stuff, but come on, show some originality!
Notable example was the Erikson fantasy series (Malazan book of the fallen) which had a great 1st, good 2nd, ok 3rd and IMHO bad 4th (House of Chains IIRC) book. Notable exception to the rule is Martin's series that's still going strong (dying to read A Feast for Crows)
For people looking for some good standalone sci-fi books look no further than John Varley, one of my favorite authors.
for some reason I have trained myself to use Ctrl with my left hand only, but I use both the left and the right alt all the time, I'd need an extra 'useless' key to map as meta;)
caps lock = F15 left windows key = F13 right alt = Super right windows key = Alt right 'tasklist' key = F14 right controk key = Hyper prtscrn = Help scroll lock = Menu pause/break = Redo
been using these bindings for years and years, having two additional modifiers available (Hyper and Super) makes it possible to have TONS of extra functionality (Hyper for emacs and Super for the window manager).
Now, if there was a good freeware keyboard remapper for Windows 2000 (that works with the MS natural keyboard drivers) I'd be a happy camper.
Now if only a galeon 1.2.x worked with it....
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I've been trying to find a galeon 1.2.x (NOT 1.3.xx, which sucks) that works with Mozilla > 1.3 but no dice, I've never been able to get something working out of the tar.gz source files (I'm on RH9) and have to keep using the old galeon 1.2.10 with mozilla 1.3 (the latest that had rpms).
any kind soul willing to try and get a working set of RH9 rpms for a recent 1.2.x (say, 1.2.13) release? pleeease?
hmmmm, a consistent GTK app with a useless fileselector or an 'inconsistent' one with the KDE one? hard choice, isn't it?;)
Still, I wish there would be drop-in fileselector replacements available for Gnome/KDE: both of their fileselectors could be so much more useful, heck, even my old Atari ST had replaceable ones (and some of them were awesome, they were basically mini-filemanagers).
If the gimp had a nice fileselector (with one-button-shortcuts to my pic directories, for example) how much nicer it would be!
there is one right under a 10x flake if memory serves correctly, with two rails that cause you to go through it on your way to the finish. Can't remember the track name off the top of my head but I think it's on Peak 1.
most (paranoid) pjs use multiple smallish cards (256-512) and switch them frequently b/c if you have a 4 gig card which fails and blows a complete day of shooting you're very much SOL in terms of landing a new assignment...
Actually nowadays the latest is to slap on a wifi-enabled 'bottom' (it attaches to the bottom of the camera) on your Nikon D2H and remote-upload to your ftp server from the field.
you can always buy a 'normal' one, open it up and switch the cables from the 4 stick microswitches up/down, left/right and voila', here you have a left handed version;)
since you have it and I'm considering it: how does it deal with high-bitrate VBR mp3s? do they work? I encode my CDs with the 'extreme' lame preset which outputs files that average about 220kbps but with frames up to 320 and as low as 192.
I see that as an advantage if they quit before the company crashes'n'burns as it enables you to answer the 'why are you considering leaving your company' ( = 'why aren't you loyal?') question with a bombproof 'I don't agree with the ethical stance my company is taking'.
Now, if instead you wait till the company has gone bust, well, it gets much harder to defend yourself, you can always go the 'bills to pay, couldn't leave' route but it's not as convincing.
Companies like Enron where the rank'n'file probably had no idea about what mess the company as a whole was are not that big of a deal, OTOH nobody at SCO can plead ignorance about what their company is currently doing.
I just wish there was an area at the bottom of the screen where the beats you have to perform are written in standard music notation: it would definitely help with having kinds being able to sight read etc. etc.
in those 10 years I've been through most distros, currently running RH9 and I =still= wouldn't give it to somebody not extremely computer literate.
The word document is valid if you want to work with your coworkers, the web argument is valid if your bank happens to target only IE (my bank did that for a while then FINALLY they tested their site with NS7 so it works fine in Galeon). The management/config is valid, as despite having RH9 I still have problems with KDE 'forgetting' that I want certain windows to be sticky etc. etc. not to mention that in order to force it to work with my custom.Xmodmap I had to edit the XSession startup script.
and if you do...
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be prepared for annoyances like:
- not being able to open that complex word attachment that your coworker mailed you
- not being able to browse every site online (some are definitely IE specific, others require plugins not available on linux)
- figure out how users, accounts, software installations etc. work (click on a link and the program installs automatically? yeah, right), not to mention the joys of the command line
- become confused by some desktop environments where settings are spread around 3 different menus and where sometimes they inexplicably don't stick etc. etc. in general using software developed by developers with sometimes not much thought given to user friendliness and good UI guidelines.
- not being able to play commercial games (unless you shell out for winex and even then some things don't work)
I could go on and on, I've been using linux on my desktop primarily for more than 10 years now and there's no way that I'd give it to somebody not extremely computer literate...
check out http://www.hauptwerk.co.uk/ some of the larger organs (sampled pipe-by-pipe) require up to 1.5GB of ram to work and sound really good (check the site for samples esp. the ones of the commercial organ vendors).
= your laptop is configured with an IDE that -you- like (my Emacs, VisualStudio+VisualAssist and IntelliJ are heavily customized, I doubt that if you have vstudio you have vassist installed for example) not in a way that the candidate is familiar with.
= the programming problems you have on your laptop are related to your domain and thus require extremely specific domain knowledge (which the candidate might know but not use during their current day job, hence the need for documentation which you probably won't have).
= your laptop has a laptop keyboard: it's next to impossible for some people to program on one of those with any speed, for example I've been using a 'natural keyboard' for many years now.
= 15 minutes is a very short time when you're under stress b/c you're in an interview, you have the interviewee staring at you, in unfamiliar surroundings with absolutely no time to get 'in the zone'.
If in the current economy you haven't been able to find a good developer in SIX MONTHS (especially if you're in a technological area) it's likely more related to your interviewing style and/or compensation/requirement balance.
OTOH if your job requirement is to find somebody that can go at a client's site, using the client's hardware and whiz-bang code a product for them on the spot you might be right in using what you do...
yeah I did mean Cipo (or Petacchi), sorry, I had a bad mixup with the names. To punish myself I just got off doing 2 hours on the trainer:D (ok, I didn't do it exactly because of this, but hey, 2 hours on a trainer =is= punishment as you probably know...)
100W? are you kidding me? I am not a fast cyclist by any stretch of the imagination (I just do triathlons, any cat4 cyclist can kill me easily) and I can do 200W sustained over fairly long (1h+) periods of time, Armstrong IIRC can do 400-500W sustained, and sprinters (Pantani) can generate up to 2000W for short periods of time.
Also the most efficient cadence (in terms of power generation) is more like between 90 and 110rpm (of course you have to train to have a 'round' pedal stroke, 'mashers' tend to pedal around 70rpm) and the range of maximal power generation is not that wide (in terms of rpm), that's why the latest geartrains have 10 cogs at the back (and 2 or sometimes 3 at the front). If human legs were =incredibly= efficient we'd all be riding single speed bikes:)
Agreed about the rest, internal drivetrains are a fad that doesn't seem to want to go away: the only application where IMHO they make some sense is pure downhill, where hitting your derailleur on a rock can put you out of the race and where pedaling power doesn't really matter that much...
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one of the women in my running group did the Canadian Death Race (google it and be sure you're sitting down while you do) and routinely runs sub 1:30 half marathons (I think she recently went sub 3:00 for a marathon) when you run with people like that you start figuring out that being male is not necessarily the advantage it's all cracked up to be (unless you're elite or you're one of the guys in my running group who go sub 2:45 in the marathon ;).
Also don't forget that there are MANY really fast over-60 folks out there (I'm talking 40 minutes 10k fast), looks can be extremely deceiving when it comes to most athletic pursuits.
Remember: there's always somebody faster/smarter/hotter than you out there.
thanks for the trip down memory lane, I couldn't remember the name of Devpac 3 (my fave assembler) and yes, IIRC the 68020 and later did have a barrel shifter but obviously you couldn't program for that and expect it to work on the 'standard' ataris... still the b&w monitor was the best, I could spend hours in front of that thing and never get headaches or anything and it was totally pin sharp!
Sometimes I wish I ended up doing embedded software development, while high level languages have their allure I'd love to do 'smaller' stuff in assembly where I have control on most of everything instead of yet again working on a bit-part in a monster-sized project...
I still think the 680x0 series are the best.
amen! as somebody who in the days of yore coded a Mandelbrot viewer on an Atari ST (68000) using only integer arithmetics (also shifts instead of muls whenever possible as the 68000's MUL was so slow, at the time I would've killed for the 68000 to have a barrel shifter though) and registers I can certainly sympathize with that: x86 CPUs always seemed to have way too few registers for my taste.
While I am sure there was lots of strategy involved in competitive TA play, this statement belies that fact. Mass and attack has very little strategy to it.
...). In my experience low level harassment from the start, multiple bases and territory control were much surer paths to victory.
I used to play TA tournaments: a LOT of strategy was involved (especially before Cavedog started monkeying around with the balance with the units they released weekly, after Chris Taylor left IMHO things went downhill pretty fast).
Yes, when you see newbies play it's going to be pretty boring, but expert play is a completely different kettle of fish. It =can= happen even among experts that you'll have a pretty sizeable battle where you throw everything at your opponent, but obviously before you do that you have to be pretty sure you're going to win (recon, selective bombing, multiple fronts,
TA's greatest strenght is its UI in my opinion, being able to queue things so easily, creating groups, pathing, guarding and so on gives a lot of flexibility to the experienced player.
Install TA, grab TA:M (TA mutation) and some of the latest AIs (that are MUCH better than the one shipped with the game) and you'll have a lot of fun, believe me.
nowadays it seems most writers embark on these loooooong series (that usually start blowing by the 3rd book), I know it's easier to just continue regurgitating the same stuff, but come on, show some originality!
Notable example was the Erikson fantasy series (Malazan book of the fallen) which had a great 1st, good 2nd, ok 3rd and IMHO bad 4th (House of Chains IIRC) book. Notable exception to the rule is Martin's series that's still going strong (dying to read A Feast for Crows)
For people looking for some good standalone sci-fi books look no further than John Varley, one of my favorite authors.
for some reason I have trained myself to use Ctrl with my left hand only, but I use both the left and the right alt all the time, I'd need an extra 'useless' key to map as meta ;)
Ms natural keyboard
caps lock = F15
left windows key = F13
right alt = Super
right windows key = Alt
right 'tasklist' key = F14
right controk key = Hyper
prtscrn = Help
scroll lock = Menu
pause/break = Redo
been using these bindings for years and years, having two additional modifiers available (Hyper and Super) makes it possible to have TONS of extra functionality (Hyper for emacs and Super for the window manager).
Now, if there was a good freeware keyboard remapper for Windows 2000 (that works with the MS natural keyboard drivers) I'd be a happy camper.
I've been trying to find a galeon 1.2.x (NOT 1.3.xx, which sucks) that works with Mozilla > 1.3 but no dice, I've never been able to get something working out of the tar.gz source files (I'm on RH9) and have to keep using the old galeon 1.2.10 with mozilla 1.3 (the latest that had rpms).
any kind soul willing to try and get a working set of RH9 rpms for a recent 1.2.x (say, 1.2.13) release? pleeease?
I can't find it online... or do you mean the $299 star destroyer?
hmmmm, a consistent GTK app with a useless fileselector or an 'inconsistent' one with the KDE one? hard choice, isn't it? ;)
Still, I wish there would be drop-in fileselector replacements available for Gnome/KDE: both of their fileselectors could be so much more useful, heck, even my old Atari ST had replaceable ones (and some of them were awesome, they were basically mini-filemanagers).
If the gimp had a nice fileselector (with one-button-shortcuts to my pic directories, for example) how much nicer it would be!
there is one right under a 10x flake if memory serves correctly, with two rails that cause you to go through it on your way to the finish. Can't remember the track name off the top of my head but I think it's on Peak 1.
most (paranoid) pjs use multiple smallish cards (256-512) and switch them frequently b/c if you have a 4 gig card which fails and blows a complete day of shooting you're very much SOL in terms of landing a new assignment...
Actually nowadays the latest is to slap on a wifi-enabled 'bottom' (it attaches to the bottom of the camera) on your Nikon D2H and remote-upload to your ftp server from the field.
you can always buy a 'normal' one, open it up and switch the cables from the 4 stick microswitches up/down, left/right and voila', here you have a left handed version ;)
since you have it and I'm considering it: how does it deal with high-bitrate VBR mp3s? do they work? I encode my CDs with the 'extreme' lame preset which outputs files that average about 220kbps but with frames up to 320 and as low as 192.
article, but have they finally put in adjustment layers?
I see that as an advantage if they quit before the company crashes'n'burns as it enables you to answer the 'why are you considering leaving your company' ( = 'why aren't you loyal?') question with a bombproof 'I don't agree with the ethical stance my company is taking'.
Now, if instead you wait till the company has gone bust, well, it gets much harder to defend yourself, you can always go the 'bills to pay, couldn't leave' route but it's not as convincing.
Companies like Enron where the rank'n'file probably had no idea about what mess the company as a whole was are not that big of a deal, OTOH nobody at SCO can plead ignorance about what their company is currently doing.
I just wish there was an area at the bottom of the screen where the beats you have to perform are written in standard music notation: it would definitely help with having kinds being able to sight read etc. etc.
in those 10 years I've been through most distros, currently running RH9 and I =still= wouldn't give it to somebody not extremely computer literate.
.Xmodmap I had to edit the XSession startup script.
The word document is valid if you want to work with your coworkers, the web argument is valid if your bank happens to target only IE (my bank did that for a while then FINALLY they tested their site with NS7 so it works fine in Galeon). The management/config is valid, as despite having RH9 I still have problems with KDE 'forgetting' that I want certain windows to be sticky etc. etc. not to mention that in order to force it to work with my custom
be prepared for annoyances like:
- not being able to open that complex word attachment that your coworker mailed you
- not being able to browse every site online (some are definitely IE specific, others require plugins not available on linux)
- figure out how users, accounts, software installations etc. work (click on a link and the program installs automatically? yeah, right), not to mention the joys of the command line
- become confused by some desktop environments where settings are spread around 3 different menus and where sometimes they inexplicably don't stick etc. etc. in general using software developed by developers with sometimes not much thought given to user friendliness and good UI guidelines.
- not being able to play commercial games (unless you shell out for winex and even then some things don't work)
I could go on and on, I've been using linux on my desktop primarily for more than 10 years now and there's no way that I'd give it to somebody not extremely computer literate...
check out http://www.hauptwerk.co.uk/ some of the larger organs (sampled pipe-by-pipe) require up to 1.5GB of ram to work and sound really good (check the site for samples esp. the ones of the commercial organ vendors).
= your laptop is configured with an IDE that -you- like (my Emacs, VisualStudio+VisualAssist and IntelliJ are heavily customized, I doubt that if you have vstudio you have vassist installed for example) not in a way that the candidate is familiar with.
= the programming problems you have on your laptop are related to your domain and thus require extremely specific domain knowledge (which the candidate might know but not use during their current day job, hence the need for documentation which you probably won't have).
= your laptop has a laptop keyboard: it's next to impossible for some people to program on one of those with any speed, for example I've been using a 'natural keyboard' for many years now.
= 15 minutes is a very short time when you're under stress b/c you're in an interview, you have the interviewee staring at you, in unfamiliar surroundings with absolutely no time to get 'in the zone'.
If in the current economy you haven't been able to find a good developer in SIX MONTHS (especially if you're in a technological area) it's likely more related to your interviewing style and/or compensation/requirement balance.
OTOH if your job requirement is to find somebody that can go at a client's site, using the client's hardware and whiz-bang code a product for them on the spot you might be right in using what you do...
Just my 2c
set the preference option on /. so you get the host of the link in square brackets after the link itself to avoid that kind of surprise...
yeah I did mean Cipo (or Petacchi), sorry, I had a bad mixup with the names. To punish myself I just got off doing 2 hours on the trainer :D (ok, I didn't do it exactly because of this, but hey, 2 hours on a trainer =is= punishment as you probably know...)
my bad, I was indeed thinking about Cipollini and Petacchi, doh!
100W? are you kidding me? I am not a fast cyclist by any stretch of the imagination (I just do triathlons, any cat4 cyclist can kill me easily) and I can do 200W sustained over fairly long (1h+) periods of time, Armstrong IIRC can do 400-500W sustained, and sprinters (Pantani) can generate up to 2000W for short periods of time.
:)
Also the most efficient cadence (in terms of power generation) is more like between 90 and 110rpm (of course you have to train to have a 'round' pedal stroke, 'mashers' tend to pedal around 70rpm) and the range of maximal power generation is not that wide (in terms of rpm), that's why the latest geartrains have 10 cogs at the back (and 2 or sometimes 3 at the front). If human legs were =incredibly= efficient we'd all be riding single speed bikes
Agreed about the rest, internal drivetrains are a fad that doesn't seem to want to go away: the only application where IMHO they make some sense is pure downhill, where hitting your derailleur on a rock can put you out of the race and where pedaling power doesn't really matter that much...