I just finished watching season 2 of 3 of "Caught on Camera" on Netflix (UK CCTV, mostly police). Prior to that, I would have been as adamantly against such government surveillance like CCTV as anyone else here. But now, I'm not so sure this is entirely a bad thing. I welcome anyone to intelligently dispel my illusion.
With all the private security cameras and smart phones everywhere, I haven't had much expectation of physical privacy for a long time, except restrooms/etc and inside my own residence (if I elect to use curtains). Ok, on a side note, I also think flying drones (private or government) without permission over anyone's private property needs to be explicitly illegal. There is clearly some gray areas that need to worked out.
Of course, the TV show is going to focus on successful restraint of the the worst people and only occasionally show examples of mocking people acting foolish. But watching the operators track some extremely violent offender from street to street, or better yet, with that extraordinary good IR camera in the helicopter, hopping fences and ducking into bushes, is all really quite satisfying.
It's pretty obvious that they're talking about $103 per year. That comes to about $8.60 per month. For me, I'd rather pay the 16% more for Netflix instead, to avoid the endless commercials, but I can see how it's a tradeoff that some people would be willing to accept.
Ah, yes, I took the Amiga route, probably far longer than it merited, up until about the point where I got a military-supplied SGI workstation to use in my roach-infested college apartment.
To be fair, I only used Windows for any serious purpose up through XP, for cross-platform fully-abstracted simulation software as well as large-scale PC/Console games. It's reassuring to hear that things have dramatically improved since then, although it is odd I'm just hearing about it now. I found a prospering industry that is not shackled to Windows, or even Mac, so I suppose I've just lost touch with those worlds. When all you deliver is pixels, no one cares what you used to assemble them.
So, lack of awareness, huh. Ooh, let's play a game, presumably just for my own amusement. Off the top of my head, no cheating and looking things up, let's harken back to ye olde... a decade or so ago and recall my foggy memories of the PC as it once was...
* Each DLL has its own heap, so cross-DLL malloc/dealloc causes crashes. Likewise, you can't inherit C++ implementations across DLLs, or something related to that. There is a non-obvious non-trivial fully-functional fix for this, but since every expert I asked said "deal with it", I had to come up with the answer on my own. * Symbol visibility is off by default and you can't change the default. You have to mark up your code with import and export even for small projects, where it is just a waste of time. Arguably, that made us all ready for gcc visibility, but it's no excuse. * Emaciated CLI. * File paths contain backslash, which is also a string special character and just pointlessly different than the existing standard. * Drives are a single letter and follow a forced inconvenient pattern. The colon isn't a real problem, so much, but rather a constant reminder that makes you feel stupid for even being in that situation. * 8.3 filenames were pointlessly out of date at the start and absurd for how long it lasted. Likewise, isn't it/more/ work to annoyingly ignore and/or remove case in filenames? * No symbolic links. * No NFS except with sketchy third party pay software. Samba was arguably worse, but the choice was usually more about where the files had to be than which solution was less intolerable. So, the "choice" was generally forced on you. * The symbol "color" was already defined somewhere in a common Win32 header, but not in a way that simply reported as such. If you did something as outlandish as use a local variable named "color", you would get a cryptic assembly error. * No valgrind. * Fully reinstall the OS once or twice a year, watching it slowly fall apart each time. * Something about a "registry". I don't really recall why I had to keep going back to that, but I associate the word with deep feelings of dissatisfaction. * No remote display, although VNC kinda filled in the gap late in the game. * Window decorations are apparently baked into each program, not provided by the window manager, so a slow or frozen program isn't particularly manageable. * Oh right, there's no real window manager, so you you can't replace the simplistic naive "default" with something useful. I'd say this one counts for about as much as all the rest combined.
There's going to be a dozen more that pop into my head after I press "Submit".
Thank you. I post less than once a year, but I have to speak now. Modding up would not be good enough.
I have stated almost this exact quote many, many times throughout my life, but always attributing the honor to "Bill Gates". It is truly tragic to consider where we could have been now, or even twenty years ago, if that ill-conceived cardboard substitute for an operating system hadn't been unleashed upon the world. Let us not forget.
Windows is like a hollow plastic hammer. It appeals to the timid who are afraid of breaking anything. But once you actually try to get some work done, you realize that you are only playing with a toy.
You're still using Windows? When you buy a frame, you're supposed to throw away the sample picture it comes with.
I am not sure if this is something I am obligated to respond to or if it is just some provocation towards an escalation of inane comments. But I will humor you and assume that you are just posting AC because you forgot your password today.
Paleo excludes grains, dairy, legumes, potatoes, and, well, salt. I don't see the sense in that. You might make some caveman argument against bread, I suppose, but I believe that in the few years since we started making bread (and liquor), our systems have adapted. I have had doctors tell me that full exclusion of bread is a bad idea (niacin or something). As for the rum, I'll use whatever excuse I need to.
Your comment about caffeine appears to be made in opposition, yet your conclusion just seems to parallel what I said, that some, but not all, people can have problems with caffeine. If you have, in fact, summoned words of wisdom, then, sadly, they have eluded me.
John Meacham was kind enough to point out that "organic" does not exclude pesticides. I appreciated the reminder and provided the additional follow-up fact that I was thinking about my particular produce provider, who is allegedly pesticide-free. My orchard is also pesticide-free, but maybe that's because I'm too lazy to do anything but water the trees. Most of my losses are from birds and squirrels, so it wouldn't make much difference anyhow. I apologize to anyone who may have gotten a message that general organic food is safe (or even safer).
I had no idea my comment about about "one ingredient" would be so confusing and disturbing for anyone. I did not intend that people would wildly purchase random items just because they were of singular content. I simply meant that I would want to purchase things like "Nantes carrots", "heirloom tomatoes", "prime rib", and "Carolina Reaper peppers" (mmm, sounds like a great recipe). I don't need sugar saturated into every can and jar on my shelf. You are welcome to the microwave mealbox with 47 ingredients in it. There are certainly plenty in the freezer case to choose from. But if you become impotent before you're old enough to vote, don't come whining to me.
I had to add that last line just in case you're trolling. Otherwise, you can just ignore it.
My main reason for this is that it is almost impossible to find Nantes carrots anywhere else. These guys claim to be pesticide-free, but I suppose they could simply be lying. They actually invite people to visit their farm(s). I haven't done that, but I'd like to believe that it means that their facilities are not obviously appalling.
But, yes, you are correct. Simply looking for "organic" isn't good enough either.
By the way, if you've never tried a Nantes carrot or Splash pluot, you are really missing out.
(I am not a doctor or nutritionist, but I read what I can and watch the whole spectrum of Netflix documentaries, from the obvious to the eccentric.)
That's not a bad list, but...
- Sodium isn't bad for you (unless you have a special condition).
Sodium levels in the body can be fairly independent of ingested sodium. Some people can retain high sodium (and have high BP) even if their salt intake is very minimal. A prescription can bring that sodium down to safe values. But yes, for a lot of people, sodium intakes seems to be of only minimal consequence.
- High fructose corn syrup isn't significantly different than regular sugar.
I thought there was that issue where HFCS doesn't trigger the fullness response in the same way as plain sugar, provoking people to consume more. Has that been debunked now? But nutritionally, I generally treat all the "added sugars" as the same. Try eliminating all added sugar for a year and then eat an apple. They taste awesome.
- Aspertame has no significant health effects.
I don't eat anything that tastes awful, so I haven't even looked into it. And also, I don't trust anything "unnatural" (using my definition).
- Fat isn't bad for you.
In reasonable amounts. Also, I'm still buying into the whole olive oil versus crap oil thing.
- Caffeine doesn't cause heart problems
For some people, it can cause heart palpitations. That seems like a problem to me.
- Health food isn't much better for you than regular food
If "regular food" is what most people eat, then I think there is a big difference. But if you mean brown eggs versus white eggs, than probably not. The brown shells are better, though, because they're a little easier to spot in the frying pan.
- Eggs don't give you a heart attack
The only thing that I got from that big China study was that eggs looked pretty good and that eating only 1-10 servings of vegetables PER YEAR (in two provinces) was really bad. Those same two provinces were also the only places where anyone drank a considerable amount of milk and that was used for some very sketchy claims against dairy.
Doctors tell me that ingested cholesterol only accounts for like 5% of your blood levels, so if you're doing a Cool Hand Luke on a regular basis, your probably pushing your luck.
- Organic doesn't mean healthy. Neither does natural.
If "organic" means no-pesticides, then I'm all for it, where I can afford it. "Natural" on the package doesn't mean anything useful and it probably will always be a junk marketing term. I use "natural" to mean anything that you could find while wandering around on the planet. Of course, then, arsenic is natural, so that isn't a good enough criteria by itself.
I try to stick to buying food with one ingredient. It's not a perfect rule (I like vinegar in my pickles), but I think the intent is solid and it is a good mantra in the grocery store.
I quickly looked through their site and didn't see any documentation about what sort of model they used. A lot of the trees look oddly familiar, so I'm wondering what sort of "better" they might have to offer.
I can't run it given the limited portability. Does anyone have the list of what "100 attributes" they are using? Is this an artistic attribute model, an L-system, or something else?
Kidding aside, look up ajaxterm. It gives you a terminal over http (or preferably, https). You avoid tunnels and ssh, which may be naively prohibited. It does lack mouse support, though, but color works fine.
From there, run VIM on your tex files and you're all set. Also try mutt for your webmail.
A regular $30 fire safe will not protect DVD's, CD's, or film negatives. Paper can hold up to a lot more heat before being destroyed.
The proper solution is a media safe, essentially encased in a 2" wall of water, I believe (gelatin or somesuch). The cost is about 10x as much. You can fit maybe 30 jewel cases in a $300 box (Sentry 6720).
I'm hoping it inherently works for general temperature/moisture control as well.
As for media, I'm betting on MAM-A disks. eFilm has about the same claims, so the choice was somewhat arbitrary.
Keep in mind that you're likely working in a town adjacent to LA or San Diego where the cost of living (food and rent) is literally about double compared to 90% of the country. The multiplier for houses is about 3, with a bottom cap of around 400k, no matter how shabby (a 200k house will cost you about 600k and a 90K house will cost you at least 400k).
The pay for me was about 20% less than I made before and after. Education and other experience means less than your list of published game titles, for which I had none.
Anyhow, adding a divisor of two for cost of living, 80k/(4000*2) = $10/hr, less than the $13/hr I made way back in high school, not accounting for the years of inflation. You could also work out how the increased cost of living screws you on income tax.
The surprising thing is that I never expected that I could work 80 hours a week, but you'd be surprised how they ease it in as you become accustomed. The apparent productivity boosts quickly fade as people wear down, and nearly everyone eventually does less with those 80 hours than they originally did with an easy 50.
On metacritic, it scored 77/100 by critics and 8.7/10 by users. For metacritic, that seems pretty respectable. Of 25 critic reviews, only 2 scored 60% or less. I don't know who Zonk is.
Ok, I have MythTV and a DVDR-DL. My drive is about 50% full of kid shows I want on hand and wouldn't let expire. Amazon either doesn't sell them or wants something like $20 per hour.
I would like to just select several shows and hit click 'Burn DVD'. I don't care if it creates simple B&W text-only menus, but picking a frame as a snapshot would be a cool bonus.
There is a description of how to do it by hand, but it isn't in my interest to go through the effort. Is anyone planning on scripting this up and making a plugin for it?
> 1. Apple would have to support a massively larger amount of hardware.
Ok, but how about if they just support one more piece of "hardware", VMware itself? Officially.
I have one computer [running]. I use VMware on Linux for the sole purpose of maintaining a Win32 build of my project. I would be happy to buy OSX and port to it, but I don't have the space or financial interest to justify purchasing a full dev-worthy Apple box.
Overall, my guess is that Apple will not try very hard to prevent unsupported installs. You can still buy the disk, but they don't have to answer your calls. It would be like a Linux user trying to setup DSL. They won't help you, but they'll be happy to take your money if you can figure it out.
Can someone give us an update on the state of computers in K-12? Here's my recollection.
1988 (my year) Dozen or so high school students can program, maybe half can actually do something useful. There is a beginner programming class, but the kids who care already have 5+ years hobby experience. A couple are actually employed as coders, like 3x minimum wage.
1999 (a visit home) No programmers, one student considered ordering a compiler for a project. Mandatory recipe assignments a couple times a week (word processing, etc). All I actually saw on screen was IM, etc.
As for elementary, around 2001, I saw a computer lab and asked "What?". Apparrently they do mouse exercises, but the true role is more to give an extra planning time for the primary teacher. I don't mind the teacher break, but even with Apple's academic prices and older equipment, it seemed pretty pricy vs, say, another Arts or PE class. And learning wise, I wasn't convinced of any value and I see the potential for obstruction, like giving a calculator to a 4th grader.
They asked me to interview and I'm nothing special. I get emails and calls regularly from various places asking for interviews. Of itself, that means nothing. They probably have HR people trolling publications and sending off generic requests to authors.
And if you come into an interview without allowing for several hours of serious questions, every one of my last three employers would have quickly shown you the door.
> Are you thinking of the same Arthur Sorkin I am?
I wasn't talking about Arthur at all, but about a generic candidate. I treat all candidates as a clean slate. Resumes only give me an idea what to talk about. The phone screen at my last employer was pretty trivial, but it knocked out more than half the candidates. A email exam and code sample reduced a steady stream to a slow trickle.
That said, yes, he's got a pretty slick resume. I'm guessing he would be a great resource. But to be fair, I've seen some mildly slick resumes turn out to be complete duds. I think some people lie, but mostly there is some very serious exaggeration, where asserted expertise can't seem to even be used to define the subject.
My example: the majority of self-proclaimed "3D graphics experts" have no idea how to normalize a vector, literally. This was from a sampling of dozens of game programmer applicants.
Anyhow, for this guy, I wouldn't have started with the apprentice questions. But honestly, if I ever was asked to interview an industry expert, there was probably an HR mistake. This could have very well have been the result of an HR grep on the resume that made a keyword match on some grunt opening. I'm guessing his abrupt exit was more a matter of the shocking arrogance of the employees and how the situation was presented. Or perhaps he just realized that they had him in for a position appropriate for a fresh graduate. You can usually figure this out on the phone screen, but maybe he skipped that step.
One day a while back, when I was between jobs, my wife told me that Microsoft had cold-called to set up an interview with me (unsolicited) and she had turned them down. It still makes me smile. It was probably twice the money I ended up getting, but what kind of life is that?
Anyhow, I'm all for the pop quiz, except that you should be expecting it. About 2 to 6 hours of difficult questions is entirely appropriate. And while a PhD is often correlated with an appreciable skillset, it is not always the case, and regardless, it's quite possible that the skillset does not match the job requirements. Yes, I've seen both.
Also, before they even get to the live interview, a one hour phone screen and one hour timed written test (email) are a good way to save on interview costs.
If it was so easy, he should have just taken the opportunity to show them his brilliance. If he's not willing to expend a couple hours jumping through hoops, he could easily be the arrogant or thoughtless type who writes substandard code propelled by his own ego, ignores local standards, and never gets back to you after you call three times. Well, perhaps this is what Microsoft is looking for.
Back when I lived in Aloha, Oregon, several times I saw poice cars going 60+ mph in our 25 mph zone, lights or not. I called with the time and location, but I doubt it even produced a notum on a bulletin board.
Point being, no cars are magical, even with blinking lights. I recall a huge blood pool from a dog right outside our driveway. It could have just as easily been a kindergardener.
The highway is different. Let them go 90 mph and get out of the way. But I see no reason to critically endanger the occupants of hundreds of homes to arrive 30 seconds sooner to a domestic argument.
And back on topic, as others have mentioned, I recall at least twice that punching the throttle may have saved my life. And irregardless, governing everyone to inappropriate limits would substantially increase the real risk factor on the highway, crowded traffic.
Strangely, I've never gotten a speeding ticket on the west coast over some 10+ years. Before that, I got several on the east coast over less time. If they're smart, they should forget the speeding tickets for the boundary cases (+20%). These seem to especially piss people off, and they could focus on their other revenue streams which show direct impact on the other drivers, like running red lights and parking across 2+ spots.
A "media" safe, say the Sentry 6720, with about 4x8x8 inches capacity, runs about $300. I recall the manual saying it was some kind of water buffer in a sort of gelatin like state, that slowly burns off, keeping film and CD's safe for the required time. It is noticably heavier than the much larger letter-size fire safe for paper.
Also, I wouldn't really worry much over fancy locks. I remember going into a safe shop where the owner pointed at a menacing 3 ft tall safe with the whole mechanism ripped apart. He said it was an easy 15 minute job with a crowbar. I hang the keys to my safes in plain sight. I'd rather a thief pop it open and decide it's not worth hauling 100 lbs for simple home videos or pre-school art projects.
My method: 1. Raid 1 2. Nightly auto rdiff-backup 3. Occasional manual rdiff-backup, elsewhere 4. DVD-R DL
It seems to me this could've been done a decade ago, but I guess maybe it's too niche for any providers to care.
Clamshell "phone", modest keyboard facing, say, an 80x40 screen. Give it a text-only ssh. That's it for a base model. For unlimited low bandwidth, that could be worth, I guess, $200 down and $30 a month.
Optionally, you can up the resolution and perhaps do some X11 over the ssh. The key is I don't want some poor PDA apps and annoying syncronization issues. I want to talk to my home server anywhere. I don't need frilly widgets or pointless toys.
It's gotten to the point where may street mailbox averages about 3 letters and about 30 pages of ads crammed into my little mailbox. The mailman is pretty good about keeping the letters on top, but then, how do I really know when I toss most of the stack into the adjacent trash bin?
Before I try going to the post office and getting a glazed look from a postal grunt, does anyone know of a way to block all "Resident" mail, a complete opt-out of litter mills that don't even know my name?
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Which of the other options has fully automatic commericial skip, where 70% of the time you watch a show all the way through like it never even had commericals? And when it misses, it's about three key presses to get it back in line.
On the other hand, a competant first-time install is easily several hours, but for some of us, it's quite worth it, regardless of cost. Of course, I wouldn't even try it without the Hauppauge 250 or 350.
I like the idea that the people providing my software are doing their best to improve my viewing experience, not devising new ways to force ads on me, or block/force recording of certain programs.
Also, my mail/web server, mythtv box, and dev box are all the same 1Ghz dinosaur. With a HW encoder, the recording hit is neglible. Now, on-screen SW decoding can burn 70% of said CPU, so compiling at the same time is nearly pointless.
With little exception, I believe modals are a crutch for lazy programmers who don't want to worry about addressing multiple contexts.
Ok, give me a good reason why I can't highlight text for cut&paste in Firefox while its Preferences window is open. Suppose I wanted to set my Home Page to something I am reading on a page.
Except for situations where the application is really entirely blocked, perhaps like "out of memory, should I crash?", modals have no place.
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I just finished watching season 2 of 3 of "Caught on Camera" on Netflix (UK CCTV, mostly police). Prior to that, I would have been as adamantly against such government surveillance like CCTV as anyone else here. But now, I'm not so sure this is entirely a bad thing. I welcome anyone to intelligently dispel my illusion.
With all the private security cameras and smart phones everywhere, I haven't had much expectation of physical privacy for a long time, except restrooms/etc and inside my own residence (if I elect to use curtains). Ok, on a side note, I also think flying drones (private or government) without permission over anyone's private property needs to be explicitly illegal. There is clearly some gray areas that need to worked out.
Of course, the TV show is going to focus on successful restraint of the the worst people and only occasionally show examples of mocking people acting foolish. But watching the operators track some extremely violent offender from street to street, or better yet, with that extraordinary good IR camera in the helicopter, hopping fences and ducking into bushes, is all really quite satisfying.
Oh, come on, be serious.
It's pretty obvious that they're talking about $103 per year. That comes to about $8.60 per month. For me, I'd rather pay the 16% more for Netflix instead, to avoid the endless commercials, but I can see how it's a tradeoff that some people would be willing to accept.
Huh. What was that? Are you kidding?
Ah, yes, I took the Amiga route, probably far longer than it merited, up until about the point where I got a military-supplied SGI workstation to use in my roach-infested college apartment.
To be fair, I only used Windows for any serious purpose up through XP, for cross-platform fully-abstracted simulation software as well as large-scale PC/Console games. It's reassuring to hear that things have dramatically improved since then, although it is odd I'm just hearing about it now. I found a prospering industry that is not shackled to Windows, or even Mac, so I suppose I've just lost touch with those worlds. When all you deliver is pixels, no one cares what you used to assemble them.
So, lack of awareness, huh. Ooh, let's play a game, presumably just for my own amusement. Off the top of my head, no cheating and looking things up, let's harken back to ye olde... a decade or so ago and recall my foggy memories of the PC as it once was...
* Each DLL has its own heap, so cross-DLL malloc/dealloc causes crashes. Likewise, you can't inherit C++ implementations across DLLs, or something related to that. There is a non-obvious non-trivial fully-functional fix for this, but since every expert I asked said "deal with it", I had to come up with the answer on my own. /more/ work to annoyingly ignore and/or remove case in filenames?
* Symbol visibility is off by default and you can't change the default. You have to mark up your code with import and export even for small projects, where it is just a waste of time. Arguably, that made us all ready for gcc visibility, but it's no excuse.
* Emaciated CLI.
* File paths contain backslash, which is also a string special character and just pointlessly different than the existing standard.
* Drives are a single letter and follow a forced inconvenient pattern. The colon isn't a real problem, so much, but rather a constant reminder that makes you feel stupid for even being in that situation.
* 8.3 filenames were pointlessly out of date at the start and absurd for how long it lasted. Likewise, isn't it
* No symbolic links.
* No NFS except with sketchy third party pay software. Samba was arguably worse, but the choice was usually more about where the files had to be than which solution was less intolerable. So, the "choice" was generally forced on you.
* The symbol "color" was already defined somewhere in a common Win32 header, but not in a way that simply reported as such. If you did something as outlandish as use a local variable named "color", you would get a cryptic assembly error.
* No valgrind.
* Fully reinstall the OS once or twice a year, watching it slowly fall apart each time.
* Something about a "registry". I don't really recall why I had to keep going back to that, but I associate the word with deep feelings of dissatisfaction.
* No remote display, although VNC kinda filled in the gap late in the game.
* Window decorations are apparently baked into each program, not provided by the window manager, so a slow or frozen program isn't particularly manageable.
* Oh right, there's no real window manager, so you you can't replace the simplistic naive "default" with something useful. I'd say this one counts for about as much as all the rest combined.
There's going to be a dozen more that pop into my head after I press "Submit".
Thank you. I post less than once a year, but I have to speak now. Modding up would not be good enough.
I have stated almost this exact quote many, many times throughout my life, but always attributing the honor to "Bill Gates". It is truly tragic to consider where we could have been now, or even twenty years ago, if that ill-conceived cardboard substitute for an operating system hadn't been unleashed upon the world. Let us not forget.
Windows is like a hollow plastic hammer. It appeals to the timid who are afraid of breaking anything. But once you actually try to get some work done, you realize that you are only playing with a toy.
You're still using Windows? When you buy a frame, you're supposed to throw away the sample picture it comes with.
I am not sure if this is something I am obligated to respond to or if it is just some provocation towards an escalation of inane comments. But I will humor you and assume that you are just posting AC because you forgot your password today.
Paleo excludes grains, dairy, legumes, potatoes, and, well, salt. I don't see the sense in that. You might make some caveman argument against bread, I suppose, but I believe that in the few years since we started making bread (and liquor), our systems have adapted. I have had doctors tell me that full exclusion of bread is a bad idea (niacin or something). As for the rum, I'll use whatever excuse I need to.
Your comment about caffeine appears to be made in opposition, yet your conclusion just seems to parallel what I said, that some, but not all, people can have problems with caffeine. If you have, in fact, summoned words of wisdom, then, sadly, they have eluded me.
John Meacham was kind enough to point out that "organic" does not exclude pesticides. I appreciated the reminder and provided the additional follow-up fact that I was thinking about my particular produce provider, who is allegedly pesticide-free. My orchard is also pesticide-free, but maybe that's because I'm too lazy to do anything but water the trees. Most of my losses are from birds and squirrels, so it wouldn't make much difference anyhow. I apologize to anyone who may have gotten a message that general organic food is safe (or even safer).
I had no idea my comment about about "one ingredient" would be so confusing and disturbing for anyone. I did not intend that people would wildly purchase random items just because they were of singular content. I simply meant that I would want to purchase things like "Nantes carrots", "heirloom tomatoes", "prime rib", and "Carolina Reaper peppers" (mmm, sounds like a great recipe). I don't need sugar saturated into every can and jar on my shelf. You are welcome to the microwave mealbox with 47 ingredients in it. There are certainly plenty in the freezer case to choose from. But if you become impotent before you're old enough to vote, don't come whining to me.
I had to add that last line just in case you're trolling. Otherwise, you can just ignore it.
Aside from my own little orchard, I've been getting most of my produce from these guys:
http://www.farmfreshtoyou.com/why_choose_us/
My main reason for this is that it is almost impossible to find Nantes carrots anywhere else. These guys claim to be pesticide-free, but I suppose they could simply be lying. They actually invite people to visit their farm(s). I haven't done that, but I'd like to believe that it means that their facilities are not obviously appalling.
But, yes, you are correct. Simply looking for "organic" isn't good enough either.
By the way, if you've never tried a Nantes carrot or Splash pluot, you are really missing out.
(I am not a doctor or nutritionist, but I read what I can and watch the whole spectrum of Netflix documentaries, from the obvious to the eccentric.)
That's not a bad list, but...
- Sodium isn't bad for you (unless you have a special condition).
Sodium levels in the body can be fairly independent of ingested sodium. Some people can retain high sodium (and have high BP) even if their salt intake is very minimal. A prescription can bring that sodium down to safe values. But yes, for a lot of people, sodium intakes seems to be of only minimal consequence.
- High fructose corn syrup isn't significantly different than regular sugar.
I thought there was that issue where HFCS doesn't trigger the fullness response in the same way as plain sugar, provoking people to consume more. Has that been debunked now? But nutritionally, I generally treat all the "added sugars" as the same. Try eliminating all added sugar for a year and then eat an apple. They taste awesome.
- Aspertame has no significant health effects.
I don't eat anything that tastes awful, so I haven't even looked into it. And also, I don't trust anything "unnatural" (using my definition).
- Fat isn't bad for you.
In reasonable amounts. Also, I'm still buying into the whole olive oil versus crap oil thing.
- Caffeine doesn't cause heart problems
For some people, it can cause heart palpitations. That seems like a problem to me.
- Health food isn't much better for you than regular food
If "regular food" is what most people eat, then I think there is a big difference. But if you mean brown eggs versus white eggs, than probably not. The brown shells are better, though, because they're a little easier to spot in the frying pan.
- Eggs don't give you a heart attack
The only thing that I got from that big China study was that eggs looked pretty good and
that eating only 1-10 servings of vegetables PER YEAR (in two provinces) was really bad. Those same two provinces were also the only places where anyone drank a considerable amount of milk and that was used for some very sketchy claims against dairy.
Doctors tell me that ingested cholesterol only accounts for like 5% of your blood levels, so if you're doing a Cool Hand Luke on a regular basis, your probably pushing your luck.
- Organic doesn't mean healthy. Neither does natural.
If "organic" means no-pesticides, then I'm all for it, where I can afford it. "Natural" on the package doesn't mean anything useful and it probably will always be a junk marketing term. I use "natural" to mean anything that you could find while wandering around on the planet. Of course, then, arsenic is natural, so that isn't a good enough criteria by itself.
I try to stick to buying food with one ingredient. It's not a perfect rule (I like vinegar in my pickles), but I think the intent is solid and it is a good mantra in the grocery store.
- Chemicals are not bad for you.
See arsenic.
map <leader>\ :let @/=""<bar>echo "Search pattern cleared"<cr>
Assuming your leader is still \, just double-tap a \\ to clear. I think someone on the VIM gave me this one.
I quickly looked through their site and didn't see any documentation about what sort of model they used. A lot of the trees look oddly familiar, so I'm wondering what sort of "better" they might have to offer.
I can't run it given the limited portability. Does anyone have the list of what "100 attributes" they are using? Is this an artistic attribute model, an L-system, or something else?
I see executables in zips, but no source.
Kidding aside, look up ajaxterm. It gives you a terminal over http (or preferably, https). You avoid tunnels and ssh, which may be naively prohibited. It does lack mouse support, though, but color works fine.
From there, run VIM on your tex files and you're all set. Also try mutt for your webmail.
A regular $30 fire safe will not protect DVD's, CD's, or film negatives. Paper can hold up to a lot more heat before being destroyed.
The proper solution is a media safe, essentially encased in a 2" wall of water, I believe (gelatin or somesuch). The cost is about 10x as much. You can fit maybe 30 jewel cases in a $300 box (Sentry 6720).
I'm hoping it inherently works for general temperature/moisture control as well.
As for media, I'm betting on MAM-A disks. eFilm has about the same claims, so the choice was somewhat arbitrary.
Keep in mind that you're likely working in a town adjacent to LA or San Diego where the cost of living (food and rent) is literally about double compared to 90% of the country. The multiplier for houses is about 3, with a bottom cap of around 400k, no matter how shabby (a 200k house will cost you about 600k and a 90K house will cost you at least 400k).
The pay for me was about 20% less than I made before and after. Education and other experience means less than your list of published game titles, for which I had none.
Anyhow, adding a divisor of two for cost of living,
80k/(4000*2) = $10/hr, less than the $13/hr I made way back in high school, not accounting for the years of inflation. You could also work out how the increased cost of living screws you on income tax.
The surprising thing is that I never expected that I could work 80 hours a week, but you'd be surprised how they ease it in as you become accustomed. The apparent productivity boosts quickly fade as people wear down, and nearly everyone eventually does less with those 80 hours than they originally did with an easy 50.
On metacritic, it scored 77/100 by critics and 8.7/10 by users. For metacritic, that seems pretty respectable. Of 25 critic reviews, only 2 scored 60% or less. I don't know who Zonk is.
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Also, I ask, did Zonk play PS2 or Xbox?
http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/ps2/dar
Ok, I have MythTV and a DVDR-DL. My drive is about 50% full of kid shows I want on hand and wouldn't let expire. Amazon either doesn't sell them or wants something like $20 per hour.
I would like to just select several shows and hit click 'Burn DVD'. I don't care if it creates simple B&W text-only menus, but picking a frame as a snapshot would be a cool bonus.
There is a description of how to do it by hand, but it isn't in my interest to go through the effort. Is anyone planning on scripting this up and making a plugin for it?
http://www.pfu.fujitsu.com/en/hhkeyboard/hhkbpro/n okeytop.html
And, yes, they have charcoal grey, too. Or better yet, a model with barely visible labels for the occasional search for the Print Screen key.
I can testify that the HHKB Lite is a great keyboard. I have two.
Has anyone tried a Pro model?
> 1. Apple would have to support a massively larger amount of hardware.
Ok, but how about if they just support one more piece of "hardware", VMware itself? Officially.
I have one computer [running]. I use VMware on Linux for the sole purpose of maintaining a Win32 build of my project. I would be happy to buy OSX and port to it, but I don't have the space or financial interest to justify purchasing a full dev-worthy Apple box.
Overall, my guess is that Apple will not try very hard to prevent unsupported installs. You can still buy the disk, but they don't have to answer your calls. It would be like a Linux user trying to setup DSL. They won't help you, but they'll be happy to take your money if you can figure it out.
Can someone give us an update on the state of computers in K-12? Here's my recollection.
1988 (my year)
Dozen or so high school students can program, maybe half can actually do something useful. There is a beginner programming class, but the kids who care already have 5+ years hobby experience. A couple are actually employed as coders, like 3x minimum wage.
1999 (a visit home)
No programmers, one student considered ordering a compiler for a project. Mandatory recipe assignments a couple times a week (word processing, etc). All I actually saw on screen was IM, etc.
As for elementary, around 2001, I saw a computer lab and asked "What?". Apparrently they do mouse exercises, but the true role is more to give an extra planning time for the primary teacher. I don't mind the teacher break, but even with Apple's academic prices and older equipment, it seemed pretty pricy vs, say, another Arts or PE class. And learning wise, I wasn't convinced of any value and I see the potential for obstruction, like giving a calculator to a 4th grader.
> They asked HIM to come
They asked me to interview and I'm nothing special. I get emails and calls regularly from various places asking for interviews. Of itself, that means nothing. They probably have HR people trolling publications and sending off generic requests to authors.
And if you come into an interview without allowing for several hours of serious questions, every one of my last three employers would have quickly shown you the door.
> Are you thinking of the same Arthur Sorkin I am?
I wasn't talking about Arthur at all, but about a generic candidate. I treat all candidates as a clean slate. Resumes only give me an idea what to talk about. The phone screen at my last employer was pretty trivial, but it knocked out more than half the candidates. A email exam and code sample reduced a steady stream to a slow trickle.
That said, yes, he's got a pretty slick resume. I'm guessing he would be a great resource. But to be fair, I've seen some mildly slick resumes turn out to be complete duds. I think some people lie, but mostly there is some very serious exaggeration, where asserted expertise can't seem to even be used to define the subject.
My example: the majority of self-proclaimed "3D graphics experts" have no idea how to normalize a vector, literally. This was from a sampling of dozens of game programmer applicants.
Anyhow, for this guy, I wouldn't have started with the apprentice questions. But honestly, if I ever was asked to interview an industry expert, there was probably an HR mistake. This could have very well have been the result of an HR grep on the resume that made a keyword match on some grunt opening. I'm guessing his abrupt exit was more a matter of the shocking arrogance of the employees and how the situation was presented. Or perhaps he just realized that they had him in for a position appropriate for a fresh graduate. You can usually figure this out on the phone screen, but maybe he skipped that step.
One day a while back, when I was between jobs, my wife told me that Microsoft had cold-called to set up an interview with me (unsolicited) and she had turned them down. It still makes me smile. It was probably twice the money I ended up getting, but what kind of life is that?
Anyhow, I'm all for the pop quiz, except that you should be expecting it. About 2 to 6 hours of difficult questions is entirely appropriate. And while a PhD is often correlated with an appreciable skillset, it is not always the case, and regardless, it's quite possible that the skillset does not match the job requirements. Yes, I've seen both.
Also, before they even get to the live interview, a one hour phone screen and one hour timed written test (email) are a good way to save on interview costs.
If it was so easy, he should have just taken the opportunity to show them his brilliance. If he's not willing to expend a couple hours jumping through hoops, he could easily be the arrogant or thoughtless type who writes substandard code propelled by his own ego, ignores local standards, and never gets back to you after you call three times. Well, perhaps this is what Microsoft is looking for.
Back when I lived in Aloha, Oregon, several times I saw poice cars going 60+ mph in our 25 mph zone, lights or not. I called with the time and location, but I doubt it even produced a notum on a bulletin board.
Point being, no cars are magical, even with blinking lights. I recall a huge blood pool from a dog right outside our driveway. It could have just as easily been a kindergardener.
The highway is different. Let them go 90 mph and get out of the way. But I see no reason to critically endanger the occupants of hundreds of homes to arrive 30 seconds sooner to a domestic argument.
And back on topic, as others have mentioned, I recall at least twice that punching the throttle may have saved my life. And irregardless, governing everyone to inappropriate limits would substantially increase the real risk factor on the highway, crowded traffic.
Strangely, I've never gotten a speeding ticket on the west coast over some 10+ years. Before that, I got several on the east coast over less time. If they're smart, they should forget the speeding tickets for the boundary cases (+20%). These seem to especially piss people off, and they could focus on their other revenue streams which show direct impact on the other drivers, like running red lights and parking across 2+ spots.
A "media" safe, say the Sentry 6720, with about 4x8x8 inches capacity, runs about $300. I recall the manual saying it was some kind of water buffer in a sort of gelatin like state, that slowly burns off, keeping film and CD's safe for the required time. It is noticably heavier than the much larger letter-size fire safe for paper.
Also, I wouldn't really worry much over fancy locks. I remember going into a safe shop where the owner pointed at a menacing 3 ft tall safe with the whole mechanism ripped apart. He said it was an easy 15 minute job with a crowbar. I hang the keys to my safes in plain sight. I'd rather a thief pop it open and decide it's not worth hauling 100 lbs for simple home videos or pre-school art projects.
My method:
1. Raid 1
2. Nightly auto rdiff-backup
3. Occasional manual rdiff-backup, elsewhere
4. DVD-R DL
It seems to me this could've been done a decade ago, but I guess maybe it's too niche for any providers to care.
Clamshell "phone", modest keyboard facing, say, an 80x40 screen. Give it a text-only ssh. That's it for a base model. For unlimited low bandwidth, that could be worth, I guess, $200 down and $30 a month.
Optionally, you can up the resolution and perhaps do some X11 over the ssh. The key is I don't want some poor PDA apps and annoying syncronization issues. I want to talk to my home server anywhere. I don't need frilly widgets or pointless toys.
It's gotten to the point where may street mailbox averages about 3 letters and about 30 pages of ads crammed into my little mailbox. The mailman is pretty good about keeping the letters on top, but then, how do I really know when I toss most of the stack into the adjacent trash bin?
Before I try going to the post office and getting a glazed look from a postal grunt, does anyone know of a way to block all "Resident" mail, a complete opt-out of litter mills that don't even know my name?
Which of the other options has fully automatic commericial skip, where 70% of the time you watch a show all the way through like it never even had commericals? And when it misses, it's about three key presses to get it back in line.
On the other hand, a competant first-time install is easily several hours, but for some of us, it's quite worth it, regardless of cost. Of course, I wouldn't even try it without the Hauppauge 250 or 350.
I like the idea that the people providing my software are doing their best to improve my viewing experience, not devising new ways to force ads on me, or block/force recording of certain programs.
Also, my mail/web server, mythtv box, and dev box are all the same 1Ghz dinosaur. With a HW encoder, the recording hit is neglible. Now, on-screen SW decoding can burn 70% of said CPU, so compiling at the same time is nearly pointless.
Modal dialogs and windows are an important tool.
With little exception, I believe modals are a crutch for lazy programmers who don't want to worry about addressing multiple contexts.
Ok, give me a good reason why I can't highlight text for cut&paste in Firefox while its Preferences window is open. Suppose I wanted to set my Home Page to something I am reading on a page.
Except for situations where the application is really entirely blocked, perhaps like "out of memory, should I crash?", modals have no place.