Maybe Austria just realized it was one big "Will it blend?"-ripoff?
Seriously though, it's a shame people can be so shortsighted. It really saddens me when they fail to see how fundamental science is what brings us new knowledge and technologies. It's not because the benefits are far out in the future, that they aren't real..
Just imagine, flying over the ocean at nearly the speed of sound, with a computer sitting on your lap performing billions of calculations each seconds, a battery-powered machine whose workings have been grafted with atomic precision into ultra-pure silicon. It communicates with a satellite orbiting the earth that bounces the data back, and it finds it way though a worldwide maze of wires that spans the earth like mycelium. Technology has come a long way.
Just a day ago, I read another article claiming that the impact predates the extinction event by 300000 years. The last thing hasn't been said about the dinosaurs, that's for sure. I really like the way David Polly puts it in the article (the one linked to by/.): "Finding conclusive evidence, however, is a difficult matter when the crime scene is 65 million years old".
but is it really necessary to tear people down for their beliefs.
IMO, in case of the catholic church, it is. They are a bunch of people that have been fooling others for millenia, and now that the scientific method begins to show us the real story, they have invested so much of their egos in their lies that they cannot turn back without losing face. It's often not a question of "believing", if you say that condoms don't work against HIV, for example, that's a testable claim. Oh, after that, they say that condoms are allowed in marriages with one of the partners having HIV. So within marriage, condoms *do* work? And that's just one of the examples to show how retarded and logic-defying these people really are.
People have the right to ridicule the "Holy" Church. They deserve it, frankly.
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I apologize for the ambiguous pointer:-). Currently things are going pretty well, considering the stakes. A recall of an embedded product is quite costly, but there are other people our customers can yell at when things go wrong:-).
If they want a war with the pacific ocean they can get one!
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And paradoxically, it seems to be difficult to get a job when you're unemployed. When I didn't have a job I felt like I was begging for a chance, so I got a job at an cable company/ISP helpdesk. Five months later I got a job as an embedded software engineer (what I was looking for).
It was a pretty lousy job, when I came home I felt completely empty. You get verbal abuse, everything from people who don't know the first thing about computers, all the way to undisguisable idiots. Still, I can advise everyone to do it for a while. You get a lot of people skills, and you get a lot of direct feedback from people struggling with technology. This is invaluable when you start developing these things yourself, as your mental image of the end-user is is less self-centered. It has helped me staying very alert about intuitivity and consistent mental models.
PS: the verbal abuse was sporadic. People call for help, and most of them seem to be aware that yelling first and then asking "can you help me?" isn't very productive. If you really want to thicken your skin, get a job at the payments helpdesk, not the technical one. If you can help them, you also receive a lot of gratitude.
The problem with CO2 originating from fossil fuels is that it has been inert somewhere deep down the earth for quite some time. The carbon used to make beer comes from plants, who photosynthesise CO2 and water in to sugars. So the carbon released at the fermentation is not "extra CO2", but was captured from the air just a few months earlier. (Otherwise bio-fuels would be just as bad as ordinary fuels).
The only greenhouse effect of beer is the fuel needed to brew and transport it.
But the cost of living is much lower: no bills for electricity, gas, car, food... You won't be spending any money, so when you get out you'll have a nice sum of money.
Indeed there is a difference between designing a software solution and writing some code that compiles and even seems to work. Unfortunately, the difference might not be visible to the average user.
Our ac should read this website to test his skills. They provide real problems and you get shown how not to solve it. Why is it wrong? What would be a better solution? And when you understand the humor, you're on the right track.
Interesting idea. I wouldn't pick Ada if you're a conscientious objector, though;-). (I should really take a look at it one day, it might be an interesting language despite its popularity in the military).
When I read the story my first thought was "he has just enough experience to write unmaintainable, buggy code". I could be wrong, but I'm worried I'm not.
Now, it's a start, but it's reasonably naive to assume that having "some C++ knowledge" means you can start writing code on a professional level. There is still a learning curve ahead.
Fortunately, these days there is youtube, and there you can find some really good video lectures online.
Also searching for "Stanford university programming" gives a lot of online courses. There is one course I can't find back that at the end implements a metacircular interpreter in scheme. Now that's really interesting, I had the same course at my alma mater and it really opened my eyes. If I find it back I'll post it here.
Also a good novice book might be "algorithms in C++", since that's the language you're already familiar with.
Hope that helps.
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When is this Fahrenheit unit going to die? Last time I checked, only a couple of developing countries were using it (Birma, USA).
Have they also improved the documentation? I've looked at using ffmpeg in my own image processing application, but after reading for a while I gave up and now I just use png (you can dump png images of a video stream using mplayer).
In my opinion, a package with such a central role in the open source multimedia landscape should have exemplary documentation. A professor once told us that it is better to have a well-documented implementation that doesn't work than an undocumented working one, and there is some truth in it.
I think high energy physics and cosmology should always predicate the latest sexy experiment with some justification given the expense to the taxpayers as to what the applicability of all this is.
The cost of these experiments should be measured in F-16 fighters or something like that instead of dollars, it would make it seem negligable.
Just look at the budget in the USA and you'll see that most of the money goes to the industry of death, so they spend it on destruction instead of creativity.
Yet this fact seems to be brainwashed out of the publics' mind, so instead of protesting against the outrageous military spendings, people are whining about some Fermilab research budget. Pathetic!
I think I remember that Microsoft wasn't going to enforce their FAT patents? I read it more than a year ago, and my wetware memory isn't perfect, but I really think they claimed it.. IIRC I even went to their site to verify.
(I could be wrong, but I would really like to hear others with better a recollection than I have..)
Leave it off in the summer. Really see it as heating that in the meantime folds molecules or searches for ET.
Granted, for the hardware the "ask slashdotter" has (those are quite servers) it's a waste, but I've been thinking about this in a crazy mood.The biggest problem is the noise of course. But if you manage to build a fanless design, I'm sure you'll be mentioned on hackaday:-).
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe Austria just realized it was one big "Will it blend?"-ripoff?
Seriously though, it's a shame people can be so shortsighted. It really saddens me when they fail to see how fundamental science is what brings us new knowledge and technologies. It's not because the benefits are far out in the future, that they aren't real..
Just imagine, flying over the ocean at nearly the speed of sound, with a computer sitting on your lap performing billions of calculations each seconds, a battery-powered machine whose workings have been grafted with atomic precision into ultra-pure silicon. It communicates with a satellite orbiting the earth that bounces the data back, and it finds it way though a worldwide maze of wires that spans the earth like mycelium. Technology has come a long way.
All that to play online tetris.
Everyone who reads Dilbert already knows this. They're hiding behind the couch.
Just a day ago, I read another article claiming that the impact predates the extinction event by 300000 years. The last thing hasn't been said about the dinosaurs, that's for sure. I really like the way David Polly puts it in the article (the one linked to by /.): "Finding conclusive evidence, however, is a difficult matter when the crime scene is 65 million years old".
but is it really necessary to tear people down for their beliefs.
IMO, in case of the catholic church, it is. They are a bunch of people that have been fooling others for millenia, and now that the scientific method begins to show us the real story, they have invested so much of their egos in their lies that they cannot turn back without losing face. It's often not a question of "believing", if you say that condoms don't work against HIV, for example, that's a testable claim. Oh, after that, they say that condoms are allowed in marriages with one of the partners having HIV. So within marriage, condoms *do* work? And that's just one of the examples to show how retarded and logic-defying these people really are.
People have the right to ridicule the "Holy" Church. They deserve it, frankly.
1) Buy shares in prosthetic teeth companies.
2) Send out the "knock my teeth out" tattoo virus.
3) Profit!
What a wonderful live you have...
I apologize for the ambiguous pointer :-). Currently things are going pretty well, considering the stakes. A recall of an embedded product is quite costly, but there are other people our customers can yell at when things go wrong :-).
If they want a war with the pacific ocean they can get one!
And paradoxically, it seems to be difficult to get a job when you're unemployed. When I didn't have a job I felt like I was begging for a chance, so I got a job at an cable company/ISP helpdesk. Five months later I got a job as an embedded software engineer (what I was looking for).
It was a pretty lousy job, when I came home I felt completely empty. You get verbal abuse, everything from people who don't know the first thing about computers, all the way to undisguisable idiots. Still, I can advise everyone to do it for a while. You get a lot of people skills, and you get a lot of direct feedback from people struggling with technology. This is invaluable when you start developing these things yourself, as your mental image of the end-user is is less self-centered. It has helped me staying very alert about intuitivity and consistent mental models.
PS: the verbal abuse was sporadic. People call for help, and most of them seem to be aware that yelling first and then asking "can you help me?" isn't very productive. If you really want to thicken your skin, get a job at the payments helpdesk, not the technical one. If you can help them, you also receive a lot of gratitude.
Your taste of food is problematic..
I'm beginning to think the world is one big Milgram experiment...
The problem with CO2 originating from fossil fuels is that it has been inert somewhere deep down the earth for quite some time. The carbon used to make beer comes from plants, who photosynthesise CO2 and water in to sugars. So the carbon released at the fermentation is not "extra CO2", but was captured from the air just a few months earlier. (Otherwise bio-fuels would be just as bad as ordinary fuels).
The only greenhouse effect of beer is the fuel needed to brew and transport it.
But the cost of living is much lower: no bills for electricity, gas, car, food... You won't be spending any money, so when you get out you'll have a nice sum of money.
Maybe we should check the prison population, what if 90% of the inmates were working at a cotton swab factory just before their arrest?
Indeed there is a difference between designing a software solution and writing some code that compiles and even seems to work. Unfortunately, the difference might not be visible to the average user.
Our ac should read this website to test his skills. They provide real problems and you get shown how not to solve it. Why is it wrong? What would be a better solution? And when you understand the humor, you're on the right track.
Interesting idea. I wouldn't pick Ada if you're a conscientious objector, though ;-). (I should really take a look at it one day, it might be an interesting language despite its popularity in the military).
When I read the story my first thought was "he has just enough experience to write unmaintainable, buggy code". I could be wrong, but I'm worried I'm not.
Now, it's a start, but it's reasonably naive to assume that having "some C++ knowledge" means you can start writing code on a professional level. There is still a learning curve ahead.
Fortunately, these days there is youtube, and there you can find some really good video lectures online.
How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters
Clean code talks
Also searching for "Stanford university programming" gives a lot of online courses. There is one course I can't find back that at the end implements a metacircular interpreter in scheme. Now that's really interesting, I had the same course at my alma mater and it really opened my eyes. If I find it back I'll post it here.
Also a good novice book might be "algorithms in C++", since that's the language you're already familiar with.
Hope that helps.
When is this Fahrenheit unit going to die? Last time I checked, only a couple of developing countries were using it (Birma, USA).
I know at least one reporter that's going to be thrilled...
That must have been in Soviet Russia.
Have they also improved the documentation? I've looked at using ffmpeg in my own image processing application, but after reading for a while I gave up and now I just use png (you can dump png images of a video stream using mplayer).
In my opinion, a package with such a central role in the open source multimedia landscape should have exemplary documentation. A professor once told us that it is better to have a well-documented implementation that doesn't work than an undocumented working one, and there is some truth in it.
I think high energy physics and cosmology should always predicate the latest sexy experiment with some justification given the expense to the taxpayers as to what the applicability of all this is.
The cost of these experiments should be measured in F-16 fighters or something like that instead of dollars, it would make it seem negligable.
Just look at the budget in the USA and you'll see that most of the money goes to the industry of death, so they spend it on destruction instead of creativity.
Yet this fact seems to be brainwashed out of the publics' mind, so instead of protesting against the outrageous military spendings, people are whining about some Fermilab research budget. Pathetic!
I think I remember that Microsoft wasn't going to enforce their FAT patents? I read it more than a year ago, and my wetware memory isn't perfect, but I really think they claimed it.. IIRC I even went to their site to verify.
(I could be wrong, but I would really like to hear others with better a recollection than I have..)
Leave it off in the summer. Really see it as heating that in the meantime folds molecules or searches for ET.
Granted, for the hardware the "ask slashdotter" has (those are quite servers) it's a waste, but I've been thinking about this in a crazy mood.The biggest problem is the noise of course. But if you manage to build a fanless design, I'm sure you'll be mentioned on hackaday :-).