The jaw-dropping part was towards the end of the article:
"we would have directly observed the quantum of time," says Hogan. 'It's the smallest possible interval of time - the Planck length divided by the speed of light.'"
It's going to take me a few days to fully realize what that means, and I studied quantum physics.
What I've heard is that the fee, while high, is much less expensive than doing the interview process yourself.
What you're getting with the temp agency is a month-long performance interview with someone you may want to hire. If they don't work out, then "well, it was nice to have you here, but it was just a temp job. Good luck with your next gig." If they're a good fit, then you pay Kelly the $1500 and consider it a good deal.
I had a stint with Kelly when I was going to University. It worked out reasonably well, although I went back to school instead of staying at work at the company. They were mad.
I remember years ago I was looking for work so I took a personality test at Kelly temps. There were questions like, "it's okay to take a pen home from work." and "everyone takes a break during the day". I think one was "sometimes there's a reason for being late."
It was obvious what kind of answers they were looking for, so I answered the way that they would hope the perfect employee would answer.
I took the test and went home. I was called later that day to come in. They were ecstatic with my results and wanted to know when I could start. It turned out later that the company used temps to screen employees. They wanted me to stay permanently and were extraordinarily upset when I told them that I was returning to school. (The job was filing, but I did that in about 2 days. I ended up writing a handful of little applications in VBA that they probably still use.)
I'd like to point out that yes, I am at work right now. Everyone takes a break during the day. I buy my own pens.
The job's not easy, it's easy for someone with the right training and mindset. You have to remember that most of the people you talk to are engineers. Your friends are likely to be very smart people.
Most of what we do is thinking and planning; i.e. "holding up the sky". It looks for all the world like a huge amount of slacking, but it's thinking about what to do next.
Apart from my pacemaker, no, I didn't have any crashes.
This whole thing is weird - I've got firmware out in the wild that wouldn't encounter a bug like this. Dates for leap years are counted as the actual date, with math doing the calculations for leap years up until the end of 2100. (I figured that was enough time and if not, "I'll be dead anyway. See you in hell", as I put in the comments.)
As for space, it's on a 16LF88 with 7k of Flash. That chip was running at 32kHz most of the time, with occasional ramps up to 4MHz. The batteries were good for years at a time.
I'd know. The clients would call. I don't even work there anymore, and the clients would call.
What good is it to track the number of days in the year so far, and what barrier is being passed here? 365 isn't 2^anything, so you shouldn't have a rollover.
I've got a feeling that there's more to this than we're being told so far.
I'm just piggybacking on the troll so my post will get read.
From the link: If true, it was a simple but brilliantly effective method. Someone infected thumb drives with the WORM then dropped them around the Pentagon parking lot. The employees, picked them up, took them into their offices and plugged them into their office computers to determine the owner of the drive.
Computers are predictably deterministic -- the problem is that the number of variables used is neither known nor accounted for.
Most code is crap, because most code isn't important. The stuff that is important is written to specific acceptable levels of error. The problem is when you get alphabet-soup diploma holders getting a little experience at a random startup then going off to write vital code. Then you get problems because you continue bad practices. The venerable K&R C bible has a code snippet that's held up as a good example but is responsible for millions of unpatchable bugs. Ask your average coder how to compensate for setting a value that takes a few milliseconds to settle - most of the time, they'll say "delay". Now add multithreading into the mix, and most programmers are out of their element.
Hardware is mostly crap because making stuff that's perfect is hard work, nearing impossible. When a manufacturer makes a batch of electronics, they do their best to make them all to the highest quality level -- Military Grade. The batches that fail those quality test get thrown into the Industrial bin. The failures there get thrown into Automotive. The final rejects, the stuff that's still perfectly good for who it's for but has failed at least three quality tests, is put into the Consumer grade bin. That's true for everything from the ubiquitous 5% resistor to a PLC to a quad-core Xeon.
So what you have is generally badly written software running on rejected hardware by untrained users who are unfamiliar with the system. Once you take all those factors into account, then you get a perfectly predictable system.
I only buy hardware that will run Linux, these days. Everything I own runs Linux great. If you want to just run Ubuntu on what you have, and complain about it not working right, well, whatever makes you happy.
This is why Linux will never get market share:
"Buy a new computer LOL"
That's the extent of the support I tend to get. Nicely done. Take a look at what MS did for SimCity. It wasn't their problem, but they knew that people would think it was anyway. So they fixed the problem at great expense to themselves.
I guess I'm a moron for expecting my machine to work under Linux, when it works perfectly under 2k or XP. "Hmm, it was working fine until I installed Ubuntu. Clearly, the problem is with a proprietary driver. I should buy a new computer that supports open source."
When the Linux community's response to any problem is "buy a different computer" or "it's a proprietary driver's fault", then you get people using whatever comes with their new computer.
I know I'm feeding a troll, but seriously, this is the least offensive troll post I've ever seen on/..
This recipe looks legit; very comparable to the recipe I make.
I strongly suggest adding 1 tsp of vanilla to the batter.
If you want to make them vegan, use vegan margarine and remove the eggs. Add in either an equivalent amount of soft tofu or 2tbsp flax seed mixed with 4tbsp of water. With either sub, add one extra tbsp of baking powder.
Also, rotate the cookies halfway through the baking cycle and do not overcook. The cookies should appear undercooked when removed from the oven.
Bill C-61 explicitly outlawed the transferring of legally purchased mp3s from your computer to your iPod, despite what the press releases stated.
It also banned transfer to your car stereo, any type of DVD ripping, and recording TV to watch later.
The existing parody and educational exemptions were removed. That would put the Right Hounourable Paul Martin on the hot seat for making fun of those Canadian Tire ads where the guy talks to the camera. (Americans: just chuckle a little at the thought of a former Prime Minister appearing on national TV and discussing shrinking window film for winterizing the equivalent of the White House, all while doing it in a style satirizing a store's ad style.)
Anyway, the crapola with mp3s has nothing on the horrifying consequences on industry. I've had to reverse engineer (as part of my job as an Electrical Engineer) protocols that various companies wanted to keep secret. That was legal then; it would be illegal to do so under C-61. I can't imagine that I'm the only one, and I've done it 3 times that I can think of off the top of my head. The products - which provide various upgrades that are not available from the manufacturers - are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Moreover, those upgrades are being used right now in life-critical situations.
Badly written bills like C-61 would cost Canada's industry millions of dollars and endanger lives. The only industries that Prentice could have possibly consulted with are the recording industries.
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The jaw-dropping part was towards the end of the article:
"we would have directly observed the quantum of time," says Hogan. 'It's the smallest possible interval of time - the Planck length divided by the speed of light.'"
It's going to take me a few days to fully realize what that means, and I studied quantum physics.
What I've heard is that the fee, while high, is much less expensive than doing the interview process yourself.
What you're getting with the temp agency is a month-long performance interview with someone you may want to hire. If they don't work out, then "well, it was nice to have you here, but it was just a temp job. Good luck with your next gig." If they're a good fit, then you pay Kelly the $1500 and consider it a good deal.
I had a stint with Kelly when I was going to University. It worked out reasonably well, although I went back to school instead of staying at work at the company. They were mad.
You are doing it wrong.
I remember years ago I was looking for work so I took a personality test at Kelly temps. There were questions like, "it's okay to take a pen home from work." and "everyone takes a break during the day". I think one was "sometimes there's a reason for being late."
It was obvious what kind of answers they were looking for, so I answered the way that they would hope the perfect employee would answer.
I took the test and went home. I was called later that day to come in. They were ecstatic with my results and wanted to know when I could start. It turned out later that the company used temps to screen employees. They wanted me to stay permanently and were extraordinarily upset when I told them that I was returning to school. (The job was filing, but I did that in about 2 days. I ended up writing a handful of little applications in VBA that they probably still use.)
I'd like to point out that yes, I am at work right now. Everyone takes a break during the day. I buy my own pens.
The job's not easy, it's easy for someone with the right training and mindset. You have to remember that most of the people you talk to are engineers. Your friends are likely to be very smart people.
Most of what we do is thinking and planning; i.e. "holding up the sky". It looks for all the world like a huge amount of slacking, but it's thinking about what to do next.
Let's also remember that this is a car, not a video game.
A car has a steering wheel, two or three pedals, and a gear shift.
GTA has an analog stick and two buttons.
That's like saying I learned to drive by playing Test Drive III. The controls don't map.
Touché.
Don't you fucking remember 9/11, when terrorists flew pirated mp3s and child pornography into the twin towers?
Never forget.
I've already seen these episodes.
Given the challenges he faced, I thought that Matt did a good job.
Apart from my pacemaker, no, I didn't have any crashes.
This whole thing is weird - I've got firmware out in the wild that wouldn't encounter a bug like this. Dates for leap years are counted as the actual date, with math doing the calculations for leap years up until the end of 2100. (I figured that was enough time and if not, "I'll be dead anyway. See you in hell", as I put in the comments.)
As for space, it's on a 16LF88 with 7k of Flash. That chip was running at 32kHz most of the time, with occasional ramps up to 4MHz. The batteries were good for years at a time.
I'd know. The clients would call. I don't even work there anymore, and the clients would call.
What good is it to track the number of days in the year so far, and what barrier is being passed here? 365 isn't 2^anything, so you shouldn't have a rollover.
I've got a feeling that there's more to this than we're being told so far.
I'm just piggybacking on the troll so my post will get read.
Um, I have a screw-in standard socket LED light bulb.
Admittedly, it was $10, (ten dollars) but still, it exists.
Funnily enough, there's a rumour going around that USB sticks were used to hack into the Pentagon:
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/25.47.html#subj5
From the link:
If true, it was a simple but brilliantly effective method. Someone infected thumb drives with the WORM then dropped them around the Pentagon parking lot. The employees, picked them up, took them into their offices and plugged them into their office computers to determine the owner of the drive.
Since these light laptops aren't using NNTP or FTP, why not just call them "web-books"?
Ah, so his math is wrong, and because the point of a peer-reviewed journal is being missed, the bad papers continue with being consider correct.
That's pretty crapulous.
That's entirely incorrect.
Computers are predictably deterministic -- the problem is that the number of variables used is neither known nor accounted for.
Most code is crap, because most code isn't important. The stuff that is important is written to specific acceptable levels of error. The problem is when you get alphabet-soup diploma holders getting a little experience at a random startup then going off to write vital code. Then you get problems because you continue bad practices. The venerable K&R C bible has a code snippet that's held up as a good example but is responsible for millions of unpatchable bugs. Ask your average coder how to compensate for setting a value that takes a few milliseconds to settle - most of the time, they'll say "delay". Now add multithreading into the mix, and most programmers are out of their element.
Hardware is mostly crap because making stuff that's perfect is hard work, nearing impossible. When a manufacturer makes a batch of electronics, they do their best to make them all to the highest quality level -- Military Grade. The batches that fail those quality test get thrown into the Industrial bin. The failures there get thrown into Automotive. The final rejects, the stuff that's still perfectly good for who it's for but has failed at least three quality tests, is put into the Consumer grade bin. That's true for everything from the ubiquitous 5% resistor to a PLC to a quad-core Xeon.
So what you have is generally badly written software running on rejected hardware by untrained users who are unfamiliar with the system. Once you take all those factors into account, then you get a perfectly predictable system.
I only buy hardware that will run Linux, these days. Everything I own runs Linux great. If you want to just run Ubuntu on what you have, and complain about it not working right, well, whatever makes you happy.
This is why Linux will never get market share:
"Buy a new computer LOL"
That's the extent of the support I tend to get. Nicely done. Take a look at what MS did for SimCity. It wasn't their problem, but they knew that people would think it was anyway. So they fixed the problem at great expense to themselves.
I guess I'm a moron for expecting my machine to work under Linux, when it works perfectly under 2k or XP. "Hmm, it was working fine until I installed Ubuntu. Clearly, the problem is with a proprietary driver. I should buy a new computer that supports open source."
When the Linux community's response to any problem is "buy a different computer" or "it's a proprietary driver's fault", then you get people using whatever comes with their new computer.
You fail. The End.
Flash.
Until Linux can run Flash as quickly as Windows, it's dead. The End.
Yeah, yeah. It's adobe's fault. Just like it's ATI's fault, or IEEE's fault, or some other vendor or spec body. It's never Linux's fault, is it?
As the saying goes, the only constant in all your failed relationships is you.
This computer is running Ubuntu on a 1.8GHz 512Mb machine. It would barely run until 8.08; Radeon support was shit.
Hey, I'm from Victoria, BC too.
Raji's right - our beaches don't change much at all, above or below the surface.
If it's a problem, they could put a net down to resist erosion and build some breakwaters to cut down on the tides.
c0ck is a brand name of sledgehammer.
So the spam was technically true.
Facilities would certainly have a problem if you brought one to work and started smashing the walls.
Come on, bring back the cookie recipes.
Well, he's just copypasted the recipe from here:
http://www.popularcookierecipes.com/Chocolatechip.html
There's a good chance that it was a custom job made for Hipparchus, either for his lab or to impress the king.
"Hi, this is Hipparchus. I placed a custom order for an Antikythera about 8 months ago."
"Oh, we shipped that out. It looks like there was a problem with the delivery... Ah, here we go. The boat sank."
"What? I've got to present that next week!"
"I'm sorry, did you buy shipping insurance? It doesn't show here on the invoice that you paid for insurance."
No, we're trying to increase the quality of the trolling.
I'd rather see cookie recipes than the shit-eating porn or the guide to caring for your new nigger or hidden links to goatse guy.
Cookie recipes? Fucking A delicious... even if the recipe is a little wrong.
I know I'm feeding a troll, but seriously, this is the least offensive troll post I've ever seen on /..
This recipe looks legit; very comparable to the recipe I make.
I strongly suggest adding 1 tsp of vanilla to the batter.
If you want to make them vegan, use vegan margarine and remove the eggs. Add in either an equivalent amount of soft tofu or 2tbsp flax seed mixed with 4tbsp of water. With either sub, add one extra tbsp of baking powder.
Also, rotate the cookies halfway through the baking cycle and do not overcook. The cookies should appear undercooked when removed from the oven.
Bill C-61 explicitly outlawed the transferring of legally purchased mp3s from your computer to your iPod, despite what the press releases stated.
It also banned transfer to your car stereo, any type of DVD ripping, and recording TV to watch later.
The existing parody and educational exemptions were removed. That would put the Right Hounourable Paul Martin on the hot seat for making fun of those Canadian Tire ads where the guy talks to the camera. (Americans: just chuckle a little at the thought of a former Prime Minister appearing on national TV and discussing shrinking window film for winterizing the equivalent of the White House, all while doing it in a style satirizing a store's ad style.)
Anyway, the crapola with mp3s has nothing on the horrifying consequences on industry. I've had to reverse engineer (as part of my job as an Electrical Engineer) protocols that various companies wanted to keep secret. That was legal then; it would be illegal to do so under C-61. I can't imagine that I'm the only one, and I've done it 3 times that I can think of off the top of my head. The products - which provide various upgrades that are not available from the manufacturers - are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Moreover, those upgrades are being used right now in life-critical situations.
Badly written bills like C-61 would cost Canada's industry millions of dollars and endanger lives. The only industries that Prentice could have possibly consulted with are the recording industries.
Some MUDs, like New Moon, have quests.
They give more XP than beating other players up. You have to find something funny in the game and fix it.
The problem is that many of them require exacting syntax. For example, "search box" will work while "search boxes" will not.
It reminds me of those old Sierra *'s Quest games.