How did you not manage to find any laptop-like touch pads? Did it occur to you to go to this awesome new site, type in "touch pads", and click "I'm feeling lucky"? You would have gotten here.
You mentioned scope... what exactly doesn't it do that you'd like? Other than the time to build to source database (minutes for large projects, amortized heavily if you're only reading), it seems perfect to me.
losing $HOME is far more serious than losing system files
It really isn't. Any user who cares about their stuff both should and could back up $HOME every night; it's small, and the delta set is even smaller, so backing up is fast and cheap. Any user who cares about their stuff should, but often cannot, back up / every night, purely do to practical issues.
Moreover, when $HOME gets wiped, you just have to lay your data back down -- call it ten minutes if you do a complete backup nightly to a DVD, or half an hour if your cheap and do incrementals to CD most of the time. When / gets so much as looked at by someone else, you get to look forward to a full re-install to get the system trustworthy again -- half an hour again on top of restoring $HOME, plus re-installing any software you might have that doesn't come with your distro.
It's not that getting / screwed with is that much more dangerous, it's admittedly no big deal if you have reasonable backups. But it's a total PITA.
You say "I am unable to prove this correct" and, if such a proof is required for acceptance of the feature, re-write in such a way that you can deliver it along with a proof, or demonstrate that doing so is unreasonable.
Do you really think it's unreasonable to assume that those who are interested in ACM content will have ACM access? I mean, this isn't Bubba Joe's Intarweb Journal, it's the friggin' ACM.
G5 has four PCI-X slots, all of them a 16x physical form factor (although only one 16x electrically). In theory, it could support eight 30" displays, with the appropriate drivers.
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The Civ IV engine is more than powerful enough, and more than customizable enough, to easily support a colonization mod. It would be relatively easy to do it as a community mod, given enough support; and I suspect that it wouldn't even get shut down.
There's no way a million lines of code would take 350MB. The average line of code is about 40 characters (closer to twenty, but hey, let's be generous); at one byte per character (trivial to zip to 0.5, but again, conservative measures) we're talking 40MB for a million lines of code. No, in this mythical class project the average group actually wrote 9 million lines of code. If there were three people in a group (typical for senior projects), that's 3 million LOC/person, or 120 million character/person. If it was a ten month project (most senior projects are 4 months, no?), working 12 hours a day, that's an average of about 550 wpm for the whole ten months.
Anonymous Coward, since you kid us not, I am deeply impressed... can I get a copy of your resume? I'm sure I can find a position for someone of that caliber.
Having gotten an internship at my dream job, and stayed there ever since, I'd say you have more or less what it takes.
1) Enough technical knowledge to actually do the job. 2) Enough technical knowledge to know when to say "I don't know". 3) One or two projects (either for school or independent, or both) that show the ability to do something interesting, complete it, and talk about what you did. 4) A resume that focuses more on your projects (what you've done) then your class (what's been done to you).
If you haven't done a project for school that you're proud of yet, set aside a weekend to hack the heck out of something that interests you, and be prepared to spend a few hours a night finishing it, even after it starts to get a bit boring. What kind of project? Write a Linux device driver to scratch your own itch; put together a small demo search engine with wikipedia as a data set; write a small networked game; whatever. It's kinda nice, but not essential, if it's somewhat relevant to the internship you want.
If you've done the project, and you have the interest, it's a simple three-step process.
1) Figure out what company you want to be at. Limit yourself to one or two applications at first. 2) Write an objective that actually reflects what you want to do. Don't use MBA words, just be honest. "Objective: To find an internship in the computer industry where I can write code for a product that will ship to customers, learn about the software industry, and get a better sense of where my interests lie." 3) Find postings at jobs.company.com or the equivalent, not some aggregator. Skip any that require you to use their online filing system. Look for e-mail addresses. E-mail the person given, with a short (no more than four sentence!) cover letter and your resume attached as a pdf.
The maglev linear induction motors are much more similar to a coil gun than a rail gun. In particular, there's no current running through the elevator car itself; it's not part of an electrical circuit, but rather exposed to externally-generated magnetic fields.
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Consider "Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand" for a slightly more mature discussion of this topic.
Of course, things like those presented are not regular expressions, no matter how loose perl might be with the term.
How did you not manage to find any laptop-like touch pads? Did it occur to you to go to this awesome new site, type in "touch pads", and click "I'm feeling lucky"? You would have gotten here.
Word 5.1 for Macintosh FTW!
Dance, keep in mind that there's no "+1 trying to be funny" mod; the moderators have to choose from "+1 funny" or, in your case, "-1 asshat".
Population growth is shrinking (in the west). Population is still increasing (in the west).
Yes, but smalltalk uses [] and (), not {}.
You mentioned scope... what exactly doesn't it do that you'd like? Other than the time to build to source database (minutes for large projects, amortized heavily if you're only reading), it seems perfect to me.
losing $HOME is far more serious than losing system files
It really isn't. Any user who cares about their stuff both should and could back up $HOME every night; it's small, and the delta set is even smaller, so backing up is fast and cheap. Any user who cares about their stuff should, but often cannot, back up / every night, purely do to practical issues.
Moreover, when $HOME gets wiped, you just have to lay your data back down -- call it ten minutes if you do a complete backup nightly to a DVD, or half an hour if your cheap and do incrementals to CD most of the time. When / gets so much as looked at by someone else, you get to look forward to a full re-install to get the system trustworthy again -- half an hour again on top of restoring $HOME, plus re-installing any software you might have that doesn't come with your distro.
It's not that getting / screwed with is that much more dangerous, it's admittedly no big deal if you have reasonable backups. But it's a total PITA.
You say "I am unable to prove this correct" and, if such a proof is required for acceptance of the feature, re-write in such a way that you can deliver it along with a proof, or demonstrate that doing so is unreasonable.
Use -frandom-seed.
Do you really think it's unreasonable to assume that those who are interested in ACM content will have ACM access? I mean, this isn't Bubba Joe's Intarweb Journal, it's the friggin' ACM.
unnecessary use of cat?
/dev/mem | grep -i llama
strings
Fuck the imperial system, too. 3.8E-8 smoots!
G5 has four PCI-X slots, all of them a 16x physical form factor (although only one 16x electrically). In theory, it could support eight 30" displays, with the appropriate drivers.
The Civ IV engine is more than powerful enough, and more than customizable enough, to easily support a colonization mod. It would be relatively easy to do it as a community mod, given enough support; and I suspect that it wouldn't even get shut down.
Just try to deny global warming now, Republicans! We have proof!
There's no way a million lines of code would take 350MB. The average line of code is about 40 characters (closer to twenty, but hey, let's be generous); at one byte per character (trivial to zip to 0.5, but again, conservative measures) we're talking 40MB for a million lines of code. No, in this mythical class project the average group actually wrote 9 million lines of code. If there were three people in a group (typical for senior projects), that's 3 million LOC/person, or 120 million character/person. If it was a ten month project (most senior projects are 4 months, no?), working 12 hours a day, that's an average of about 550 wpm for the whole ten months.
Anonymous Coward, since you kid us not, I am deeply impressed... can I get a copy of your resume? I'm sure I can find a position for someone of that caliber.
Having gotten an internship at my dream job, and stayed there ever since, I'd say you have more or less what it takes.
1) Enough technical knowledge to actually do the job.
2) Enough technical knowledge to know when to say "I don't know".
3) One or two projects (either for school or independent, or both) that show the ability to do something interesting, complete it, and talk about what you did.
4) A resume that focuses more on your projects (what you've done) then your class (what's been done to you).
If you haven't done a project for school that you're proud of yet, set aside a weekend to hack the heck out of something that interests you, and be prepared to spend a few hours a night finishing it, even after it starts to get a bit boring. What kind of project? Write a Linux device driver to scratch your own itch; put together a small demo search engine with wikipedia as a data set; write a small networked game; whatever. It's kinda nice, but not essential, if it's somewhat relevant to the internship you want.
If you've done the project, and you have the interest, it's a simple three-step process.
1) Figure out what company you want to be at. Limit yourself to one or two applications at first.
2) Write an objective that actually reflects what you want to do. Don't use MBA words, just be honest. "Objective: To find an internship in the computer industry where I can write code for a product that will ship to customers, learn about the software industry, and get a better sense of where my interests lie."
3) Find postings at jobs.company.com or the equivalent, not some aggregator. Skip any that require you to use their online filing system. Look for e-mail addresses. E-mail the person given, with a short (no more than four sentence!) cover letter and your resume attached as a pdf.
Richard Kulisz? Is that you?
The history in the Bible is more authentic than that written by most respected 'historians'.
How could you try to demonstrate this using respected historians as the sole references?
Take a class on information retrieval from your local university.
No. Most flash these days has on-board charge pumps to generate the 12V or so needed for programming from the 3V or so supply voltage.
Nope, it's a charged-base device like eprom or flash; the charge is on a floating gate, not a trench capacitor. Grandparent got it right.
The maglev linear induction motors are much more similar to a coil gun than a rail gun. In particular, there's no current running through the elevator car itself; it's not part of an electrical circuit, but rather exposed to externally-generated magnetic fields.