And the nuclear waste problem wouldn't be a problem if it got sent into a gas
planet or out of the solar system.
Fcuking great, let's pollute some other planets now that ours is totally messed up ours... the nuclear waste would still be a problem, just a problem in space.
Why not just send it to the Sun, that big bright nuclear exploding thing in the sky...? Pretty much the only safe place to put it, then we should stop using nuclear power and use only renewable energy... blah blah blah,
How did it all start:
The modern legend of the Bermuda Triangle began soon after five Navy
planes [Flight 19] vanished on a training mission during a severe storm in
1945. The most logical theory as to why they vanished is that lead pilot Lt.
Charles Taylor's compass failed.
Interesting link. I was out sailing two weeks a go with a retired navy pilot. Who happened to be on the base flying that same planes a week before the planes vanished. He had reported a problem with the compass in his plane on his last flight before shipping out (at the end of his training).
The trainees' planes were not equipped
with working navigational instruments.
I'm not sure this is true, I think that all
the planes had atleast a compass. But it still
stands to reason that if the lead plane was the same one my friend had been flying, then they could very easily get lost and run out of fuel...
it's 1:34
minutes long, encoding in DivX 5/mp3 and it shows him setting it up and booting up. Putting the cords in and everything.
Fairly Convincing.
Considering the amount of people that have been fooled by first person demos, I certain wouldn't
believe anything that doesn't involve downloading the source code and setting up myself.
Do they buy ex-soviet 1970 tanks, paint a US flag on them, and say they are the tanks of the future?
No, of course not, the US military get there technology from the same place as the soviettes did. Stolen Nazi technology, where else. Pretty much all modern warfare technology does seem to have a nazi prototype, this applies to rocket and space technology as well as stealth. Let's face it, in the last 50 years we only invented plastic and fast computers, it looks like nanotech will be out next big brek through. I certain don't want to live in a nazi country, but I'd bet they would have put a man on Mar by now....
I guess rounding up all the mad scientist and kidnapping the sane ones helped.
I still want a car with a lot of horsepower and low end torque.
Electric cars are a little weak in the horse power
department, but you can't beat electric when it comes to low end torque, that's why trains are electric or diesel electric. An electric motor will generate it's peak torque at zero rpms (really important for trains), and you can't get your torque band peak much lower than zero...
Last year San Francisco Muni were testing some diesel buses to replace there older electric ones. I took one up haight street one day and the thing was really struggling to pull away from bus stops (on a steep hill) when it was full (no standing room). In constrast I've never noticed any real difference between the electric buses pulling away on flat vs a hill (with or without a full load).
Anyway, if you want an electric car you are best building your own, this way you get exactly what you want. The above link has an electric dragster section as well.... not sure about the reasoning behind it but whatever.
i had to get the audiocd source and add some checks for
endianness. some day i'll put the code up. i sent a patch to the audiocd guy but no response. i still don't have audio
recording working at all.
What good does that do? Somebody commits a crime, you punish them for 10 years in dark small room, you let them out, now what?
For a prison system to work in a democratic country you have to be rehabilitating over 50% of the people going through the system, if not then you end up with a flawd prison system where you can't decrease your prison population (America houses 25% of the world's prisoners, but only accounts for 5% of the world's population). Once it's clear they can't change this, prison is then used as a dumping ground for social problems, like proverty. In America, revoking the prisoners right to protection against forced labour help to reduce the financial burden to society.
Prison is grounding for adults.
They shouldn't like it.
I agree that prison isn't meant to fun (although, Q: if a fun, cheap and effective, as in no repeat criminals, prison system was developed, would you support it?). But while prison isn't fun, you don't need to removing a person protection from forced labour or any other "human rights" for that matter.
Currently, companies are making a lot more laws than the people in this country. Don't you see any room for abuse here? (extreme example)Maybe one day Microsoft will have free software programmers rounded up and thrown into a prison watch Microsoft pay for using prison bonds (may companies do this just now), since the prisoners have no protection from forced labour, they can be forced to fix Microsoft bug...(/extreme example).
My personal opinion is drugs should be
legalized
Here, here.
For example, growth is a
side effect of eating. Strength is a side effect of growth. Power is a side effect of strength. Corruption is a side effect of
power. Criminal acts are a side effect of corruption. There for, eating must cause you to become a criminal.
Our prisons are full of poor minorities, not fat white people. I can only assume that you agree with me, but didn't like the way I highlighted the trail.
Would you go looking for work when your unemployment check gives you more than any job you can
redaily get would?
That unemployment check is my money, I've been paying into for a long time. People who are able to collect unemployment should not be stop or deterred from doing so. (Unemployment money is different from welfare.)
Likewise, with prisoners, why should we have to educate them.
How will they learn if we don't want to educate them?
Let them get work experience, be
hired once they're out of prison, and work theri way to an education and a job, like everyone else.
Gaining skills and work experience is good, but this doesn't come from shrink wrapping Windows95 boxes. And it certain doesn't come from forcing people to work.
If you're so hell bent on making prisoners work, why not just put all non-violent prisoners who have a job on probation or house arrest and charge them an extra 60% tax or something...
But why market to developers ? Far better to spend the budget schmoozing the suits, who are after all, the ones who
will be signing off any purchase orders.
This is so true, the real money in the application biz lies (hehe) in selling to 2,000 developers who don't want your software rather than 2 who do.;-)
Of course, this guy is incharge of marketing to developers who want the software, this is why he's asking slashdot how to do his job (because this is not very profitable his company doesn't actually care about having somebody who knows what to do).
Last
I knew, all prisoners were good for was stamping license plates and doing road work.
That's funny, Microsoft seem to have found them useful for more than road work and stamping license plates.
Don't tell me you
think cable TV, a wieght room/exercise program, no taxes and no bills is a cheap bill on US tax dollars.
I don't think that, I think people who are in prison are there to be killed or reformed. Turning them into slave labour does not reform them, neither does making them watch TV all day.
You want my opinion on criminals, if your guilty (espesialy of high crimes like murder, arson etc) you have given up all
your rights as s US citizen.
But most of the people in prison are in prison on a non-violent drug related charge. Your attitude towards drug abuse will be pretty harsh i'd imagine, but remember that drug abuse (any drug) is a sympton of depression. This is easy to illustrate, noting the countries (and states) with the highest drug, alcohol and suiside rates all have shitty weather and the highest depression
rates (Alaska, Iceland, Russia, Scotland....).
Depression is a side effect of provity and supression, drug abuse is a side effect of depression, jail is a side effect of drug abuse, slavery is a side effect of jail. IF you are poor we will make you a slave.
Yeah, it is a crime to be poor,
And putting people in jail is going to help them stop being poor, how?
If you're poor, get
off your ass and start finding something to do.
But, but, but, but where? that sweatshop job your poor uneductated black-ass can do is not in the hand of some prisoner, where either person likes it or not. Why not eductate the person in prison and employ the person who needs a job to stay out of prison.
I don't see any reason not to use the GPL, if you retain all the copyright's then you can make $$ selling a non-GPL version of the source.
The BSD license takes out the scary bits, but probably isn't a good choice either
I don't see any reason why you shouldn't, it's probably more of a case by case basis. But, I
noted that SleepyCat have used both of these techniques, they start off using the BSD for version 1, which spired to adopt it and depend on it, then for version 2 they switched to a GPL for there more modern database.
An unrestricted license like BSD would be your best bet....
Second would be producting a GPL'd version and retaining the copyrights so it can be reused in non-open-source sales. Also selling non-GPL'd source code could be a nice side line.
I agree, we should just kill them instead of making them do productive work to offset the high costs of their
incarceration.
I think your missing the point. It's profitable to have people in jail for companies, even though we are paying the bill, we don't see the profit, we are subsidizing slavery for companies that can are enjoying a cheaper alternative to thrid world sweatshops.
The only way this will ever change if if the American public realizes that NOTHING is free, not even jailtime or basic
healthcare.
You bet it's not free, if it was then I wouldn't have pay $40K in taxes last year. The American public needs to realize that US corporations are getting what belongs to the public, FOR FREE (well OK they spent a few million paying some party's campain fund, normally paying both the lead parties evenly).
Why do companies have the same rights as people?
IS that what America is about? Can't put a corporation in jail, just the people who work there.....
The only difference between the rich and the poor is that if some poor guy fucks up he can be arrested and thrown in
jail in a second, some rich shit rapes somebody everybody else is too afraid to speak up.
That's a minor point, the big picture is that it is illegal to be poor. This starts with the vagrancy laws, and ends with the fact the constitution does not extend protection from slavery to those who are incarcerated in US prisons.
I don't want to draw conclusion here, but this
basically means slavery was never abolished, only the rules where changed to protect us from feeling guilty. These rules only work if you have poor people, ever noticed that health care and medical insurance company overcharge uninsured and minority patients for more than white people with high paying jobs. The poor must stay poor, unless they are willing to switch teams and sell out there side.
Of course America is probably one of about 4 countries that could resolve this problem without a revolution, that is if the American public wants to change this and remembers that it CAN make a difference.
you could fly (jetpack) and plant laser trip wire bombs.
Holograms, remotely detinating pipe bombs. Death match was fun, toss out a bunch of pipe bombs in front for video camera, run to the control room and watch the TV, when you see your mark running into the room and start picking up the pipe bombs, you press the detinator button...;-)
Add all the numbers. Subtract result
from 55, there is your missing number.
A more generic one would "find the missing
number 1.. n. Add all the numbers and
subtract the result from (((n+1)*n)/2),
this is your missing number.
Now, can anybody tell me what use that is?
How can you tell that somebody is going to
be doing there work on schedule with high
quality from that?
If you where to roll out the useless
questions tests on me, I'd probably terminate
the interview right there and then, "thank you,
but if this is how you select my work mates, no
thank you.".
It seem apperent that you're method is not hiring the people you need, because you need people to solve really world problems not problem to pass the time on a bus journey.
Why don't you ask questions like: "When you write code, how long do you expect the code to be in use?" "What do you do to ensure your code meets it's predicted life expectancy?"
(By the way, will you post you company's name so I can make sure it's crossed off my interview list in advance.)
Btw, I'm really good a sovling really world problems, I'm really bad solving problem that
start with and number of villages, or you have
three canibals and boat. But I'm really good
getting working code that wouldn't have to be
rewritten next year and give deadlines and time
estimates that are accurate.
Find the hardest non-NDA bug or problem that
you or find a work mate who has been working on a tricky problem for while
and let the interviewee chew on it for a while.
Sometime I'd take somebody out of an interview
and hand them over to a colleague for ten minutes
to see if he can help them with a problem.
This will give you several benifits. One: you have
some insight into how they will act when they turn up to work and have to solve real problems. Two: you will beable to get an idea if other team members can work with the interviewee. Three: hell, they may even solve a useful problem for
your team, for free, whether you hire them or not.
I can't spell for shit, but nobody has ever hired me spell.
I don't know about you, but I think a digital camera would probably taste like crap.
Well, dude, in the Western world if something tastes like crap we put tomato ketchup on it and
eat it anyway. Just look in any large restaurant chain and you'll see what I mean.
Most useful I would think would be to give firemen the time to move their highly useful emergency apparatus out of a
building that might fall down, or at least open big heavy doors that might get jammed. Several fire stations in San Fran
had their outer doors get jammed in the last sizeable quake, rendering that euipment useless just when it is most
needed.
From watching firemen in action, I would imagine
that this problem could be solved very quickly by a small amount of property distruction.
Fireman #1: The door is stuck.
Fireman #2: Oh, ok, lets go.
Then Fireman #2 drives his shiny red
fire truck through the door of the firehouse.
30 seconds is a good start for a warning system but we need to work
on a longer warning system for it to be really
useful. 30 seconds isn't really enough time to
to get ready and head down to the high street
to do a spot of post-quake looting.
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Fcuking great, let's pollute some other planets now that ours is totally messed up ours... the nuclear waste would still be a problem, just a problem in space.
Why not just send it to the Sun, that big bright nuclear exploding thing in the sky...? Pretty much the only safe place to put it, then we should stop using nuclear power and use only renewable energy... blah blah blah,
Interesting link. I was out sailing two weeks a go with a retired navy pilot. Who happened to be on the base flying that same planes a week before the planes vanished. He had reported a problem with the compass in his plane on his last flight before shipping out (at the end of his training).
The trainees' planes were not equipped with working navigational instruments.
I'm not sure this is true, I think that all the planes had atleast a compass. But it still stands to reason that if the lead plane was the same one my friend had been flying, then they could very easily get lost and run out of fuel...
maybe... ;-)
"I'm covered in chicken blood."
Considering the amount of people that have been fooled by first person demos, I certain wouldn't believe anything that doesn't involve downloading the source code and setting up myself.
But then again, I'm no offering $200K.
No, of course not, the US military get there technology from the same place as the soviettes did. Stolen Nazi technology, where else. Pretty much all modern warfare technology does seem to have a nazi prototype, this applies to rocket and space technology as well as stealth. Let's face it, in the last 50 years we only invented plastic and fast computers, it looks like nanotech will be out next big brek through. I certain don't want to live in a nazi country, but I'd bet they would have put a man on Mar by now....
I guess rounding up all the mad scientist and kidnapping the sane ones helped.
Electric cars are a little weak in the horse power department, but you can't beat electric when it comes to low end torque, that's why trains are electric or diesel electric. An electric motor will generate it's peak torque at zero rpms (really important for trains), and you can't get your torque band peak much lower than zero...
Last year San Francisco Muni were testing some diesel buses to replace there older electric ones. I took one up haight street one day and the thing was really struggling to pull away from bus stops (on a steep hill) when it was full (no standing room). In constrast I've never noticed any real difference between the electric buses pulling away on flat vs a hill (with or without a full load).
Anyway, if you want an electric car you are best building your own, this way you get exactly what you want. The above link has an electric dragster section as well.... not sure about the reasoning behind it but whatever.
He was the first to demostrate trasmitting information via wireless, right?
Gee, don't you hate it when people don't even comment on your patch. I'd also post it to PPC linux website/log board thing.
haven't tried the DVD player.
DVD player works fine, once you've found all the endian patchs... ;-)
What good does that do? Somebody commits a crime, you punish them for 10 years in dark small room, you let them out, now what?
For a prison system to work in a democratic country you have to be rehabilitating over 50% of the people going through the system, if not then you end up with a flawd prison system where you can't decrease your prison population (America houses 25% of the world's prisoners, but only accounts for 5% of the world's population). Once it's clear they can't change this, prison is then used as a dumping ground for social problems, like proverty. In America, revoking the prisoners right to protection against forced labour help to reduce the financial burden to society.
Prison is grounding for adults. They shouldn't like it.
I agree that prison isn't meant to fun (although, Q: if a fun, cheap and effective, as in no repeat criminals, prison system was developed, would you support it?). But while prison isn't fun, you don't need to removing a person protection from forced labour or any other "human rights" for that matter.
Currently, companies are making a lot more laws than the people in this country. Don't you see any room for abuse here? (extreme example)Maybe one day Microsoft will have free software programmers rounded up and thrown into a prison watch Microsoft pay for using prison bonds (may companies do this just now), since the prisoners have no protection from forced labour, they can be forced to fix Microsoft bug...(/extreme example).
My personal opinion is drugs should be legalized
Here, here.
For example, growth is a side effect of eating. Strength is a side effect of growth. Power is a side effect of strength. Corruption is a side effect of power. Criminal acts are a side effect of corruption. There for, eating must cause you to become a criminal.
Our prisons are full of poor minorities, not fat white people. I can only assume that you agree with me, but didn't like the way I highlighted the trail.
Would you go looking for work when your unemployment check gives you more than any job you can redaily get would?
That unemployment check is my money, I've been paying into for a long time. People who are able to collect unemployment should not be stop or deterred from doing so. (Unemployment money is different from welfare.)
Likewise, with prisoners, why should we have to educate them.
How will they learn if we don't want to educate them?
Let them get work experience, be hired once they're out of prison, and work theri way to an education and a job, like everyone else.
Gaining skills and work experience is good, but this doesn't come from shrink wrapping Windows95 boxes. And it certain doesn't come from forcing people to work.
If you're so hell bent on making prisoners work, why not just put all non-violent prisoners who have a job on probation or house arrest and charge them an extra 60% tax or something...
This is so true, the real money in the application biz lies (hehe) in selling to 2,000 developers who don't want your software rather than 2 who do. ;-)
Of course, this guy is incharge of marketing to developers who want the software, this is why he's asking slashdot how to do his job (because this is not very profitable his company doesn't actually care about having somebody who knows what to do).
That's funny, Microsoft seem to have found them useful for more than road work and stamping license plates.
Don't tell me you think cable TV, a wieght room/exercise program, no taxes and no bills is a cheap bill on US tax dollars.
I don't think that, I think people who are in prison are there to be killed or reformed. Turning them into slave labour does not reform them, neither does making them watch TV all day.
You want my opinion on criminals, if your guilty (espesialy of high crimes like murder, arson etc) you have given up all your rights as s US citizen.
But most of the people in prison are in prison on a non-violent drug related charge. Your attitude towards drug abuse will be pretty harsh i'd imagine, but remember that drug abuse (any drug) is a sympton of depression. This is easy to illustrate, noting the countries (and states) with the highest drug, alcohol and suiside rates all have shitty weather and the highest depression rates (Alaska, Iceland, Russia, Scotland....).
Depression is a side effect of provity and supression, drug abuse is a side effect of depression, jail is a side effect of drug abuse, slavery is a side effect of jail. IF you are poor we will make you a slave.
Yeah, it is a crime to be poor,
And putting people in jail is going to help them stop being poor, how?
If you're poor, get off your ass and start finding something to do.
But, but, but, but where? that sweatshop job your poor uneductated black-ass can do is not in the hand of some prisoner, where either person likes it or not. Why not eductate the person in prison and employ the person who needs a job to stay out of prison.
I don't see any reason not to use the GPL, if you retain all the copyright's then you can make $$ selling a non-GPL version of the source.
The BSD license takes out the scary bits, but probably isn't a good choice either
I don't see any reason why you shouldn't, it's probably more of a case by case basis. But, I noted that SleepyCat have used both of these techniques, they start off using the BSD for version 1, which spired to adopt it and depend on it, then for version 2 they switched to a GPL for there more modern database.
Second would be producting a GPL'd version and retaining the copyrights so it can be reused in non-open-source sales. Also selling non-GPL'd source code could be a nice side line.
I think your missing the point. It's profitable to have people in jail for companies, even though we are paying the bill, we don't see the profit, we are subsidizing slavery for companies that can are enjoying a cheaper alternative to thrid world sweatshops.
The only way this will ever change if if the American public realizes that NOTHING is free, not even jailtime or basic healthcare.
You bet it's not free, if it was then I wouldn't have pay $40K in taxes last year. The American public needs to realize that US corporations are getting what belongs to the public, FOR FREE (well OK they spent a few million paying some party's campain fund, normally paying both the lead parties evenly).
Why do companies have the same rights as people? IS that what America is about? Can't put a corporation in jail, just the people who work there.....
I'm not sure about that, but I certainly didn't want to work for Caldera. But will "the SCO group" be any different from Caldera.
That's a minor point, the big picture is that it is illegal to be poor. This starts with the vagrancy laws, and ends with the fact the constitution does not extend protection from slavery to those who are incarcerated in US prisons.
I don't want to draw conclusion here, but this basically means slavery was never abolished, only the rules where changed to protect us from feeling guilty. These rules only work if you have poor people, ever noticed that health care and medical insurance company overcharge uninsured and minority patients for more than white people with high paying jobs. The poor must stay poor, unless they are willing to switch teams and sell out there side.
Of course America is probably one of about 4 countries that could resolve this problem without a revolution, that is if the American public wants to change this and remembers that it CAN make a difference.
Holograms, remotely detinating pipe bombs. Death match was fun, toss out a bunch of pipe bombs in front for video camera, run to the control room and watch the TV, when you see your mark running into the room and start picking up the pipe bombs, you press the detinator button... ;-)
Cute.
void swap(int& A, int& B)
{
A ^= B;
B ^= A;
A &= B;
}
Need to stick a "if (A == B) return;" at
the start of the function.
A more generic one would "find the missing number 1 .. n. Add all the numbers and
subtract the result from (((n+1)*n)/2),
this is your missing number.
Now, can anybody tell me what use that is? How can you tell that somebody is going to be doing there work on schedule with high quality from that?
If you where to roll out the useless questions tests on me, I'd probably terminate the interview right there and then, "thank you, but if this is how you select my work mates, no thank you.".
It seem apperent that you're method is not hiring the people you need, because you need people to solve really world problems not problem to pass the time on a bus journey.
Why don't you ask questions like: "When you write code, how long do you expect the code to be in use?" "What do you do to ensure your code meets it's predicted life expectancy?"
(By the way, will you post you company's name so I can make sure it's crossed off my interview list in advance.)
Btw, I'm really good a sovling really world problems, I'm really bad solving problem that start with and number of villages, or you have three canibals and boat. But I'm really good getting working code that wouldn't have to be rewritten next year and give deadlines and time estimates that are accurate.
Find the hardest non-NDA bug or problem that you or find a work mate who has been working on a tricky problem for while and let the interviewee chew on it for a while. Sometime I'd take somebody out of an interview and hand them over to a colleague for ten minutes to see if he can help them with a problem.
This will give you several benifits. One: you have some insight into how they will act when they turn up to work and have to solve real problems. Two: you will beable to get an idea if other team members can work with the interviewee. Three: hell, they may even solve a useful problem for your team, for free, whether you hire them or not.
I can't spell for shit, but nobody has ever hired me spell.
Well, dude, in the Western world if something tastes like crap we put tomato ketchup on it and eat it anyway. Just look in any large restaurant chain and you'll see what I mean.
From watching firemen in action, I would imagine that this problem could be solved very quickly by a small amount of property distruction.
Fireman #1: The door is stuck.
Fireman #2: Oh, ok, lets go.
Then Fireman #2 drives his shiny red fire truck through the door of the firehouse.
30 seconds is a good start for a warning system but we need to work on a longer warning system for it to be really useful. 30 seconds isn't really enough time to to get ready and head down to the high street to do a spot of post-quake looting.
Hmmmmm, plasma screen......
If you can stand the popups, go here to avoid registering.
I'm not convinced testicles are very aerodynamic, heh
Hmmm, yes, it would be a lot better if you had flaps there instead.....