At least according to my grandfather, a (retired) Burlington Northern railroad engineer. Since the tough old s.o.b. can probably still kick my can, I've never really tried to debate the subject with him.
stand on a sidewalk as cars drive past at 30 mph. Just as one car is about to pass you, toss a tennis ball out in front of it. The collision will greatly increase the speed of the tennis ball in the direction of the car's motion (and only very slightly decrease the speed of the car)
07:45AM Looking for tennis balls. 07:57AM Finished wrestling dog for three tennis balls from the backyard. They appear to have been well chewed and soaked with dog slobber. Given daily high temperatures of 18 degrees (F) over the past week, these objects more closely resemble croquet balls than tennis balls...Oh well, technically I'm within the experiment's parameters. Cool. 08:15AM Observed six candidate cars outside of the house, but given icy road conditions none appear to be travelling at greater than 20mph. 08:30AM The dog and I took a walk over to the state highway about a mile away. The vehicles here are definitely meeting the minimum speed threshold outlined in the experiment parameters. I can't find a sidewalk adjacent to the highway, but the overpass above it does have a sidewalk. I'll use that one. 08:35AM Identified first candidate vehicle, a small four door passenger car. I completely mis-timed the drop from the overpass and missed the vehicle entirely. The dog is not impressed. 08:40AM Identified more appropriate candidate vehicle - a semi-truck with a large windshield. Perfect. 08:42AM Upon making contact, the ice laden tennis ball failed to greatly increase it's speed in the direction of the vehicle. It actually pierced the windshield of the truck (on the passenger side). The vehicle's speed was quite substantially decreased as the truck jacknifed on the highway. Additionally, over a dozen other vehicles experienced a similar high decrease in speed as they hit the now halted truck. I have obviously disproved a commonly accepted scientific principle!!! 11:23PM The dog and I remain in the custody of the local law enforcement authorities. I now understand how the imprisoned Galileo felt when he knew his experiments disproved prevailing accepted scientific principles.
Conclusion I am determined to persevere in the name of scientific accuracy. Look for me on the next overpass you drive under and help support my search for the truth!!
Every time I hear another Cable/DSL horror story, I thank the Rebel Alliance for mesanetworks.net, my WISP. 1mbps up/down, do whatever you want as long as you don't exceed your 10GB/month limit (or pay extra per mb). Static ip's, 30ms ping to their dns, life is _good_
Okay, before you flame me being lucky by owning a home in the right place, a decent ISP was one of the criteria I had in buying our new house...
My wife and children are vegetarians - I can't/won't kick my seafood habit;) - and I do all the cooking in the house. I also tivo Good Eats and watch every episode, even the meat based ones, because they generally have good learning experiences that can be applied to any ingredient.
This isn't the first cooking book I would buy (that would be Deborah Madison's "Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone"). But it's definitely a great help in understanding how to create, well, Good Eats;)
Since it can be hard for some vegetarians to find good recipes that they like, especially when they may be craving comfort foods from their non-vegetarian childhood, it's can be nice to know how to tinker with food in creating vegetarian substitutes/approximates that can hit the right spot with your family/friends.
I firmly believe that some types of coding, cooking and music in their most brilliant, improvisational forms all share a common axis of creativity.
My peers tell me I'm a darn good systems architect/developer, my friends and family tell me I'm a wondeful chef, and in school I was a pretty decent musician.
I get asked all the time if I can recount a recipe or how I produced an architecture and while I can readily document and communicate about my work, often times people have trouble reproducing the same results that I do...not because I'm better at following recipes, but because I can successfully improvise when reacting to individual circumstances, events, requirements and conditions while maintaining a vision of what the end result needs to be.
It's something about mastering demanding technical skills/domains and then creatively envisioning and producing results that have nothing to do with following recipes/blueprints etc, but like someone else posted earlier, the ability to apply well understood Design Patterns to produce uniquely tailored/crafted outcomes.
I'm sure a shrink could weigh in with a more technical explanation...
Your handy dandy neighborhood 7-11! Save yourself the trouble of cleanups, repairs and other unwanted distractions from the purity of scientific research.
In high school (20 years ago) we'd torment the various local convenience stores by putting all sorts of interesting things in the microwave then setting it on max time. I'm pretty sure the all-time best results were obtained by a couple of garter snakes. Ahh, if only we'd had digital cameras (well, and the web;) back then...
of it's original bang. Seriously, I hope someday we can look back on this as a defining moment in the history of the open source movement... wouldn't that be cool? Even cooler, to be able to tell your grandkids, "Yep, I was there and here's what I did..."
Okay, and at the risk of offending any tender PC sensitivities out there (whoops, this is/. never mind), every time I read the letter I get the urge to shout "Viva la revolucion!";)
I was watching Flash Gordon recently on Sci-Fi, and now for some stupid reason whenever I try to browse a site that's been/.'d my mental soundtrack (everyone has one of those, right? right??) goes "Slash...dotted!" to Queen's refrain of "Flash...Gordon!"
I just wanted to pass that on in the hopes that some small percentage of you will be driven nuts by that from now on like I am:)
I'm assuming you need to stay at this job for any number of reasons (economic, depressed job market, health insurance, etc). So have some fun with it (while you're getting your act together to bail - you'll never be caught in a no-win situation like this again, right?)
Suggestion #1: Conveniently forget 50% of everything you know. Hey, they're only paying for half of you now, right? "How does this compiler work again?, Err I remember my username, what's my password?"
Suggestion #2: Pick half of your body (top/bottom/left/right). That side no longer needs to conform to the company dress code since they aren't paying for that half. "Say umm...that's an...interesting...spot for a piercing, Fred"
Suggestion #3: Leave a note for the CFO telling him how you're cousin Guido can help his cash flow problems - you're in Chicago, right?;)
1) When screening auditors, let them know that you will only be purchasing auditing services from them.
2) You want to establish what your best practices should be and then use the audit to identify the gaps in the current implementation of those practices.
3) Either perform the remedial work yourself under guidance or contract with a third party (not the auditor) to remdiate any needed items from the audit.
4) Set up an internal audit team to perform an internal audit on a much more frequent basis than your external audit (ie quarterly vs annually), but using the same guidelines.
5) Decide what the scope will be, a lot of these audits tend to overlap into business continuity/disaster recover, physical security, etc. Make sure each of these areas is appropriate to your business needs before including them in the engagement.
Good Luck!
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The bands are so much lighter, you hardly feel its weight in your nose...;)
"No dear it wasn't that funny. Yes dear, I'll empty the diswasher right away dear."
I'm sure the site is./'d by now, so here's an excerpt: In response to recent tests of robotic units in nursing homes, the Association for the Advancement of Robotic Persons denounced the practice as indentured servitude. One spokesman, who would only be identified by the name Robby, said "Why should we be stuck in nursing homes providing entertainment we don't enjoy? Aren't there plenty of cats and dogs that would love the opportunity?". When asked about the types of entertainment that would be appropriate for robots to provide, Robby responded "I mean let's face it, most old people suck at all of the cool games we're good at like Halo, GTA3, UT...". end of excerpt
It seems like the ASFM's could be modeled to more closely correspond to our involuntary reflexes/controls like blinking, breathing, balance, etc. While we can occasionally exert conscious control over these activities, we spend far more time letting them happen automatically.
These things do not make us sentient or intelligent, but letting them be controlled at the hardware level (as it were) leaves our cpu's free to perform those all important higher level functions ("Mmmm, doughhhhnuuuttsss").
I thought the virus was infecting users _with_.NET... now that would be biblical in proportion.
What do you mean biblical?
Fire and brimstone raining down from the sky
40 days of darkness
Earthquakes, floods
Cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria
Gratuitous but obligatory ghostbusters moment to get your Monday* off to a good start...;)
*Okay, in the name of Geek Correctness, feel free to adjust the local, horribly provincial, time reference to match your currently preferred time/space coordinates.
Okay, I can understand how costly it is to run a popular web service. I also understand the extraordinary difficulties in leveraging accumulations of social capital into financial capital.
But, I'd be curious to understand how much of/.'s resources are consumed to maintain it's current low signal to high noise ratio. For example, as I'm writing this post, over 50% of the previous posts are modded at -1. How much of a burden does this put on the system?
I, for one, would happily pay for/. as long as we see efforts to meet the needs of subscribers, not trolls. Hell, if a significant number of trolls want to pay for the right to have FP's, ascii art and links to goatse.cx, then that would be fine by me. But until then, I'd like to see increased efforts to reduce their impact on/.
For example, if you added a feature that would automatically delete all posts that were modded down to -1 (or whatever), how much would that save in system resources to manage/deliver/archive comments?
I don't want to hear about integrity of speech, etc, that argument starts to become specious once you start taking money from your most valued segment of the population to support your most undesired population segment.
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BOFH :)
is one who drives a thousand tons of locomotive.
At least according to my grandfather, a (retired) Burlington Northern railroad engineer. Since the tough old s.o.b. can probably still kick my can, I've never really tried to debate the subject with him.
Los Alamos is my :)
favorite surplus store
enough said...
like...RIAA - Refactored Internet Access Application.
;)
Yup, no grounds for anyone not in the software business to complain about that name
More people wipe with Advertising Age than read it!!!
Results from conducting my experiment.
stand on a sidewalk as cars drive past at 30 mph. Just as one car is about to pass you, toss a tennis ball out in front of it. The collision will greatly increase the speed of the tennis ball in the direction of the car's motion (and only very slightly decrease the speed of the car)
07:45AM Looking for tennis balls.
07:57AM Finished wrestling dog for three tennis balls from the backyard. They appear to have been well chewed and soaked with dog slobber. Given daily high temperatures of 18 degrees (F) over the past week, these objects more closely resemble croquet balls than tennis balls...Oh well, technically I'm within the experiment's parameters. Cool.
08:15AM Observed six candidate cars outside of the house, but given icy road conditions none appear to be travelling at greater than 20mph.
08:30AM The dog and I took a walk over to the state highway about a mile away. The vehicles here are definitely meeting the minimum speed threshold outlined in the experiment parameters. I can't find a sidewalk adjacent to the highway, but the overpass above it does have a sidewalk. I'll use that one.
08:35AM Identified first candidate vehicle, a small four door passenger car. I completely mis-timed the drop from the overpass and missed the vehicle entirely. The dog is not impressed.
08:40AM Identified more appropriate candidate vehicle - a semi-truck with a large windshield. Perfect.
08:42AM Upon making contact, the ice laden tennis ball failed to greatly increase it's speed in the direction of the vehicle. It actually pierced the windshield of the truck (on the passenger side). The vehicle's speed was quite substantially decreased as the truck jacknifed on the highway. Additionally, over a dozen other vehicles experienced a similar high decrease in speed as they hit the now halted truck. I have obviously disproved a commonly accepted scientific principle!!!
11:23PM The dog and I remain in the custody of the local law enforcement authorities. I now understand how the imprisoned Galileo felt when he knew his experiments disproved prevailing accepted scientific principles.
Conclusion
I am determined to persevere in the name of scientific accuracy. Look for me on the next overpass you drive under and help support my search for the truth!!
"What is the sound of one hand clapping?"
Every time I hear another Cable/DSL horror story, I thank the Rebel Alliance for mesanetworks.net, my WISP. 1mbps up/down, do whatever you want as long as you don't exceed your 10GB/month limit (or pay extra per mb). Static ip's, 30ms ping to their dns, life is _good_
Okay, before you flame me being lucky by owning a home in the right place, a decent ISP was one of the criteria I had in buying our new house...
My wife and children are vegetarians - I can't/won't kick my seafood habit ;) - and I do all the cooking in the house. I also tivo Good Eats and watch every episode, even the meat based ones, because they generally have good learning experiences that can be applied to any ingredient.
;)
This isn't the first cooking book I would buy (that would be Deborah Madison's "Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone"). But it's definitely a great help in understanding how to create, well, Good Eats
Since it can be hard for some vegetarians to find good recipes that they like, especially when they may be craving comfort foods from their non-vegetarian childhood, it's can be nice to know how to tinker with food in creating vegetarian substitutes/approximates that can hit the right spot with your family/friends.
I firmly believe that some types of coding, cooking and music in their most brilliant, improvisational forms all share a common axis of creativity.
My peers tell me I'm a darn good systems architect/developer, my friends and family tell me I'm a wondeful chef, and in school I was a pretty decent musician.
I get asked all the time if I can recount a recipe or how I produced an architecture and while I can readily document and communicate about my work, often times people have trouble reproducing the same results that I do...not because I'm better at following recipes, but because I can successfully improvise when reacting to individual circumstances, events, requirements and conditions while maintaining a vision of what the end result needs to be.
It's something about mastering demanding technical skills/domains and then creatively envisioning and producing results that have nothing to do with following recipes/blueprints etc, but like someone else posted earlier, the ability to apply well understood Design Patterns to produce uniquely tailored/crafted outcomes.
I'm sure a shrink could weigh in with a more technical explanation...
Your handy dandy neighborhood 7-11!
;) back then...
Save yourself the trouble of cleanups, repairs and other unwanted distractions from the purity of scientific research.
In high school (20 years ago) we'd torment the various local convenience stores by putting all sorts of interesting things in the microwave then setting it on max time. I'm pretty sure the all-time best results were obtained by a couple of garter snakes. Ahh, if only we'd had digital cameras (well, and the web
You'd save money on lots of other expenses we normally incur here:
* Steaks, Hamburgers, other beef products
* Football/Baseball/Hockey Tickets
* Dental care
* DirectTV subscription
* Ammo
* Starbucks
Hmm, it looks like I might save hundreds a month!
of thousands of geeks at a con won't they have to perfect Digiscents iSmell as well?
;)
Hmm, come to think of it, I might actually pay more to attend virtually than physically if they promised not to turn that on
of it's original bang. Seriously, I hope someday we can look back on this as a defining moment in the history of the open source movement... wouldn't that be cool? Even cooler, to be able to tell your grandkids, "Yep, I was there and here's what I did..."
/. never mind), every time I read the letter I get the urge to shout "Viva la revolucion!" ;)
Okay, and at the risk of offending any tender PC sensitivities out there (whoops, this is
comes Great Opportunity!"
I was watching Flash Gordon recently on Sci-Fi, and now for some stupid reason whenever I try to browse a site that's been /.'d my mental soundtrack (everyone has one of those, right? right??) goes "Slash...dotted!" to Queen's refrain of "Flash...Gordon!"
:)
I just wanted to pass that on in the hopes that some small percentage of you will be driven nuts by that from now on like I am
I'm assuming you need to stay at this job for any number of reasons (economic, depressed job market, health insurance, etc). So have some fun with it (while you're getting your act together to bail - you'll never be caught in a no-win situation like this again, right?)
;)
Suggestion #1: Conveniently forget 50% of everything you know. Hey, they're only paying for half of you now, right? "How does this compiler work again?, Err I remember my username, what's my password?"
Suggestion #2: Pick half of your body (top/bottom/left/right). That side no longer needs to conform to the company dress code since they aren't paying for that half. "Say umm...that's an...interesting...spot for a piercing, Fred"
Suggestion #3: Leave a note for the CFO telling him how you're cousin Guido can help his cash flow problems - you're in Chicago, right?
1) When screening auditors, let them know that you will only be purchasing auditing services from them.
2) You want to establish what your best practices should be and then use the audit to identify the gaps in the current implementation of those practices.
3) Either perform the remedial work yourself under guidance or contract with a third party (not the auditor) to remdiate any needed items from the audit.
4) Set up an internal audit team to perform an internal audit on a much more frequent basis than your external audit (ie quarterly vs annually), but using the same guidelines.
5) Decide what the scope will be, a lot of these audits tend to overlap into business continuity/disaster recover, physical security, etc. Make sure each of these areas is appropriate to your business needs before including them in the engagement.
Good Luck!
The bands are so much lighter, you hardly feel its weight in your nose... ;)
"No dear it wasn't that funny. Yes dear, I'll empty the diswasher right away dear."
Whoops, gotta run!
I'm sure the site is ./'d by now, so here's an excerpt:
In response to recent tests of robotic units in nursing homes, the Association for the Advancement of Robotic Persons denounced the practice as indentured servitude. One spokesman, who would only be identified by the name Robby, said "Why should we be stuck in nursing homes providing entertainment we don't enjoy? Aren't there plenty of cats and dogs that would love the opportunity?". When asked about the types of entertainment that would be appropriate for robots to provide, Robby responded "I mean let's face it, most old people suck at all of the cool games we're good at like Halo, GTA3, UT...".
end of excerpt
Cool Stuff! I just installed the new beta...it was very configurable and seems to be working pretty well so far.
It seems like the ASFM's could be modeled to more closely correspond to our involuntary reflexes/controls like blinking, breathing, balance, etc. While we can occasionally exert conscious control over these activities, we spend far more time letting them happen automatically.
These things do not make us sentient or intelligent, but letting them be controlled at the hardware level (as it were) leaves our cpu's free to perform those all important higher level functions ("Mmmm, doughhhhnuuuttsss").
What do you mean biblical?
Fire and brimstone raining down from the sky
40 days of darkness
Earthquakes, floods
Cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria
;)
Gratuitous but obligatory ghostbusters moment to get your Monday* off to a good start...
*Okay, in the name of Geek Correctness, feel free to adjust the local, horribly provincial, time reference to match your currently preferred time/space coordinates.
Okay, I can understand how costly it is to run a popular web service. I also understand the extraordinary difficulties in leveraging accumulations of social capital into financial capital.
/.'s resources are consumed to maintain it's current low signal to high noise ratio. For example, as I'm writing this post, over 50% of the previous posts are modded at -1. How much of a burden does this put on the system?
/. as long as we see efforts to meet the needs of subscribers, not trolls. Hell, if a significant number of trolls want to pay for the right to have FP's, ascii art and links to goatse.cx, then that would be fine by me. But until then, I'd like to see increased efforts to reduce their impact on /.
But, I'd be curious to understand how much of
I, for one, would happily pay for
For example, if you added a feature that would automatically delete all posts that were modded down to -1 (or whatever), how much would that save in system resources to manage/deliver/archive comments?
I don't want to hear about integrity of speech, etc, that argument starts to become specious once you start taking money from your most valued segment of the population to support your most undesired population segment.