I'll second the Cedar Point suggestion, but I will also reccomend PA's Kennywood Park Link here. A few really good coasters, a neat atmosphere. Worth a stop.
Once you are done there, it's only part of a day to Cedar Point... enjoy!
Although I like salmon steak, I shudder at the thought of anything that includes asparagus... and I still think that there needs to be a different name for "new potatoes" since they aren't really new anymore...
I'll take anything with fudge or ice cream over anything with asparagus any day.
Type: Grammar/Syntax Severity: 2 Area: Subject Line Detailed Description: "Let the User's Do It" contains the following error: "User's" should be "Users". This bug seems to be a case of apostrophe misuse, one of the more common comment bugs.
Suggested solution: Comment writer re-education along with a moratorium on all unreviewed use of said apostrophes.
Yes, they play in the summer months, to give people who enjoy watching basketball a gap filler between the end of the NCAA/NBA playoffs (last night) and the beginning of the NBA season (next week, I believe)...
I guess they figure they can compete against baseball (too slow and mentally challenging for many bball fans), but not stronger, tougher, more athletic players of the same sport (or even hockey, for that matter).
Those numbers came from our management - they relate to our second line area (several departments, 100-125 people). They certainly don't speak for any other area, divison, or the company as a whole... Microelectronics has different numbers from Server Group has different numbers than Global Services, etc...
For our area this year (the April/May cycle) we were told the numbers were very high (somewhere in the 30-50% range). When they are low, we seem to get more specific info.
I own the Gershwin Plays Gershwin CD (Rhapsody in Blue, etc)... same thing - they took the old rolls, updated the dynamics in a similar fashion and had them played on the Disklavier. The effect when you listen to it is phenomenal. A great sound from the piano, listening to the master play his work.
I will have to go get a copy of the Jelly Roll Morton disc... I have a number of older, 'very old sounding' recordings of his that were transferred to CD - this one would be a blast.
Sounds like the current threat of a strike by the WNBA players union... the teams/league are not profitable yet (funded from the expansive coffers of the NBA), attendance hasn't been stellar, and merchandise marketing hasn't seen the levels the league liked. If the players strike, the fans won't care too much, and the league will die... there's no reason to be better paid in a non-profitable industry (i.e. Women's Pro Basketball).
Some of the raises are in the 10-15% range, but I highly doubt that there are many higher than that. The large companies try to keep salaries balanced internally and between each other, as to reduce turnover to the other large companies...
It varies by year - one year recently it was ~5% no raises in a certain area, another recent year it was closer to 30%... all according to the buisness climate.
IBM (dev employees, at least) has a yearly cycle, where everyone gets performance rated and compared to others on the same level in the company along with some external data. Each spring the raises (or lack thereof) are communicated to all of the employees individually... not a bad system - you never have to ask for a raise (saves engineers from having to learn the more stressful of social graces), and you know when it will or won't happen each year. Saves on a lot of the anxiety for everyone.
>guaranteed to make your treble sound more detailed, your bass to be tighter, and for the sound tohave a more natural warmth.
Great, but does it give the bass more depth, and can it fold up and fit under a bed? Or at least make julienne fries?
If so, and it is available for a few easy payments, you might just have yourself a deal.
My favorite audio tweak (read about it in Sterophile - yes, I'm obsessed, but somewhat rational, due to my budget) is as follows:
"$1.20 Coin Tweak Place four quarters and two dimes, on each speaker. Place a quarter on each of the front corners of your speakers and a dime at the middle of the front edge of the speakers. (Stereophile March 1998)
Sonic Benefits: The coins pick up vibrations from the speaker cabinet and radiate sound upward. It varies according to the liveliness or deadness of the speaker cabinet. Dead cabinets will not be affected; whereas live cabinets will vibrate the coins. "
A lot cheaper than $600/m speaker cables, and some people think it is effective... I'll just stick with my system (total cost ~$1500 cd/dvd/tuner/tape/integrated amp/speakers). It more than does the job, and my lights don't dim when I turn it on.
Gotcha - didn't realize the bus was that bad there (silly Rochester view on things). Heck, I could catch the bus in Albany, and end up in NYC, then catch another bus home (NJ) and it usually was less than 1.5 hours greater than the 3 hr drive (~160 miles and a $3.50 toll)... and considerably cheaper (~$20 Albany -> NYC, $5 NYC to a block from my house in NJ).
If the bus takes that long - I agree - screw it or drive yourself. I personally enjoy car trips - it is my time, my space.
Fargo and Minneapolis are close enough that a bus trip wouldn't be much longer (considering checkin times, etc.) and would also be considerably cheaper. Heck, Fargo is practically in MN...
This is a real timesaver - especially when you find it useful to bounce between a couple of different levels of the same code, or a code dir and a doc dir, or testcase and functional code dirs (all without having too many shells open).
I agree - function first (with nice form), then speed up as necessary is not a bad way to go... I have personally been involved in situations where an extra function call and a few (5-10) extra load instructions has had a rather detrimental effect on system performance in specific cases. Obviously this is somewhat specific to embedded systems (though a reasonably fast PowerPC chip), but creating extra latency and reducing throughput for certain paths can really get some people angry, even if it is only a few percent:)
And, as with the previous example, your enviornment may make a difference in how you do that... in an embedded env, you may have code space concerns, or if you are in the performance path, you may need to clutter the if, and completely avoid any function calls (or inline and be good with registers as appropriate)...
Coding style in those cases can be somewhat dictated by the requirements - if you are writing part of a GUI dialog box, and you expect to run on a GHz+ system, a few extra function calls won't hurt... on the other hand, a DMA function driver for a gigabit ethernet card or SCSI/160 adapter might want to avoid all path length possible.
True, it can all be fun. I think the register set of the PPC lends itself to some more creative solutions to some problems, and when you look at low level programming in assembly, much of the work is in the embedded space, where there are a *ton* of PowerPCs (and Motorola chips). I wasn't thinking as much about the PC/Mac situation.
I sincerely hope that your assembly class won't be using x86 (or any derivative thereof)... a nice 6811/68332/PowerPC would be far more useful as a learning tool without the cruft... PowerPC assembly is actually fun...
>have your pick of more lucsious young firm jiggly females than I can even remember,
Obviously, you went to a lib-arts, not an engineering school... where the young jiggly females are few and not firm... (apologies to the few that are).
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I'll second the Cedar Point suggestion, but I will also reccomend PA's Kennywood Park Link here. A few really good coasters, a neat atmosphere. Worth a stop.
Once you are done there, it's only part of a day to Cedar Point... enjoy!
Although I like salmon steak, I shudder at the thought of anything that includes asparagus... and I still think that there needs to be a different name for "new potatoes" since they aren't really new anymore...
;-)
I'll take anything with fudge or ice cream over anything with asparagus any day.
Aside from that, a good analogy
Type: Grammar/Syntax
Severity: 2
Area: Subject Line
Detailed Description: "Let the User's Do It" contains the following error: "User's" should be "Users". This bug seems to be a case of apostrophe misuse, one of the more common comment bugs.
Suggested solution: Comment writer re-education along with a moratorium on all unreviewed use of said apostrophes.
[Score: -1, Not even funny]
Ah - enough balefire and we can take care of that, too...
Yes, they play in the summer months, to give people who enjoy watching basketball a gap filler between the end of the NCAA/NBA playoffs (last night) and the beginning of the NBA season (next week, I believe)...
I guess they figure they can compete against baseball (too slow and mentally challenging for many bball fans), but not stronger, tougher, more athletic players of the same sport (or even hockey, for that matter).
Those numbers came from our management - they relate to our second line area (several departments, 100-125 people). They certainly don't speak for any other area, divison, or the company as a whole... Microelectronics has different numbers from Server Group has different numbers than Global Services, etc...
For our area this year (the April/May cycle) we were told the numbers were very high (somewhere in the 30-50% range). When they are low, we seem to get more specific info.
I own the Gershwin Plays Gershwin CD (Rhapsody in Blue, etc)... same thing - they took the old rolls, updated the dynamics in a similar fashion and had them played on the Disklavier. The effect when you listen to it is phenomenal. A great sound from the piano, listening to the master play his work.
I will have to go get a copy of the Jelly Roll Morton disc... I have a number of older, 'very old sounding' recordings of his that were transferred to CD - this one would be a blast.
Sounds like the current threat of a strike by the WNBA players union... the teams/league are not profitable yet (funded from the expansive coffers of the NBA), attendance hasn't been stellar, and merchandise marketing hasn't seen the levels the league liked. If the players strike, the fans won't care too much, and the league will die... there's no reason to be better paid in a non-profitable industry (i.e. Women's Pro Basketball).
Some of the raises are in the 10-15% range, but I highly doubt that there are many higher than that. The large companies try to keep salaries balanced internally and between each other, as to reduce turnover to the other large companies...
It varies by year - one year recently it was ~5% no raises in a certain area, another recent year it was closer to 30%... all according to the buisness climate.
IBM (dev employees, at least) has a yearly cycle, where everyone gets performance rated and compared to others on the same level in the company along with some external data. Each spring the raises (or lack thereof) are communicated to all of the employees individually... not a bad system - you never have to ask for a raise (saves engineers from having to learn the more stressful of social graces), and you know when it will or won't happen each year. Saves on a lot of the anxiety for everyone.
That'll be $0.37 at the end of the month...
>guaranteed to make your treble sound more detailed, your bass to be tighter, and for the sound tohave a more natural warmth.
Great, but does it give the bass more depth, and can it fold up and fit under a bed? Or at least make julienne fries?
If so, and it is available for a few easy payments, you might just have yourself a deal.
My favorite audio tweak (read about it in Sterophile - yes, I'm obsessed, but somewhat rational, due to my budget) is as follows:
"$1.20 Coin Tweak
Place four quarters and two dimes, on each speaker. Place a quarter on each of the
front corners of your speakers and a dime at the middle of the front edge of the
speakers. (Stereophile March 1998)
Sonic Benefits:
The coins pick up vibrations from the speaker cabinet and radiate sound upward. It varies according to the liveliness or deadness of the speaker cabinet. Dead cabinets will not be affected; whereas live cabinets will vibrate the coins. "
A lot cheaper than $600/m speaker cables, and some people think it is effective... I'll just stick with my system (total cost ~$1500 cd/dvd/tuner/tape/integrated amp/speakers). It more than does the job, and my lights don't dim when I turn it on.
Gotcha - didn't realize the bus was that bad there (silly Rochester view on things). Heck, I could catch the bus in Albany, and end up in NYC, then catch another bus home (NJ) and it usually was less than 1.5 hours greater than the 3 hr drive (~160 miles and a $3.50 toll)... and considerably cheaper (~$20 Albany -> NYC, $5 NYC to a block from my house in NJ).
If the bus takes that long - I agree - screw it or drive yourself. I personally enjoy car trips - it is my time, my space.
>instead of wearing name tags, we could all wear tags with our login name (or AC), and our slashdot id..
;-)
It is important that the cards have the ID# on them, otherwise we might never be able to figure out who is the real Bruce Perens
Yeah, count me in for Minneapolis, too - there's plenty of us down in Rochester (what with IBM and the Mayo Clinic)...
Fargo and Minneapolis are close enough that a bus trip wouldn't be much longer (considering checkin times, etc.) and would also be considerably cheaper. Heck, Fargo is practically in MN...
This is a real timesaver - especially when you find it useful to bounce between a couple of different levels of the same code, or a code dir and a doc dir, or testcase and functional code dirs (all without having too many shells open).
His points must be in binary... 2^0, 2^1, 2^2...
I agree - function first (with nice form), then speed up as necessary is not a bad way to go... I have personally been involved in situations where an extra function call and a few (5-10) extra load instructions has had a rather detrimental effect on system performance in specific cases. Obviously this is somewhat specific to embedded systems (though a reasonably fast PowerPC chip), but creating extra latency and reducing throughput for certain paths can really get some people angry, even if it is only a few percent :)
And, as with the previous example, your enviornment may make a difference in how you do that... in an embedded env, you may have code space concerns, or if you are in the performance path, you may need to clutter the if, and completely avoid any function calls (or inline and be good with registers as appropriate)...
Coding style in those cases can be somewhat dictated by the requirements - if you are writing part of a GUI dialog box, and you expect to run on a GHz+ system, a few extra function calls won't hurt... on the other hand, a DMA function driver for a gigabit ethernet card or SCSI/160 adapter might want to avoid all path length possible.
they look like a pip on Netscrape 4.7 for AIX... probably some funny Unicode you have set up...
True, it can all be fun. I think the register set of the PPC lends itself to some more creative solutions to some problems, and when you look at low level programming in assembly, much of the work is in the embedded space, where there are a *ton* of PowerPCs (and Motorola chips). I wasn't thinking as much about the PC/Mac situation.
I sincerely hope that your assembly class won't be using x86 (or any derivative thereof)... a nice 6811/68332/PowerPC would be far more useful as a learning tool without the cruft... PowerPC assembly is actually fun...
>have your pick of more lucsious young firm jiggly females than I can even remember,
Obviously, you went to a lib-arts, not an engineering school... where the young jiggly females are few and not firm... (apologies to the few that are).