I was the attending nurse that called it in to the IT department. The article sounds like its an over-exageration but it isn't. Evidentally it was supposed to be an in-house practical joke that went bad. As it was relayed to me, one of the british IT guys (Higgins?) got into a shouting match with one of the doctors about Science Ficition series. The doctor (also british) was all fired up about Star Gate, which upset the IT guy because he felt that it was unpatrotic to favor an American series over "Dr. Who". Long story short, the robot ended up in the wrong room. This wouldn't have been so bad except for the fact that it was playing "Exterminte! Exterminate!" over and over in an endless loop. Not sure how SF Gate missed that part...
The Martians who were watching it all unfold were running out of popcorn and getting antsy
They really started getting worried when the Rover reported back "The Alien is nibbling on your arm...". At that point it was either have the engineers put in some long hours to find a solution or hit the space bar to release the cyanide gas...
The search was acceptable to the court because it could only reveal the possession of contraband, the concealment of which "compromises no legitimate privacy interest."
We've got a long way to go before sniffing algorithms are exact enough that they "only reveal the possesion of contraband" without accidentally mixing in pictures of aunt Sallie named "1337 H4X0r.jpeg"
In rails you don't have to do any of that, it dynamically finds it!
Thats a great concept as long as everything goes as planned. But wait until it 'dynamically finds' the wrong thing. Try debugging that nightmare. (Think VB Script + Option Explicit).
I'm dubious about the claim that it's "ten times" faster than Java
I'll take it one step futher.
It's not about speed anymore. Even if it is 10 times faster, 10 times slower is fast enough for most 'Enterprise Applications'. The major bottleneck in corporate grades applications are table lookups anyway.
Its really about knowledge management these days. 'It can do it all frameworks' with 'complete stacks' are nice concepts, but if the bar is too high for me to quickly start cracking out applications, then no thank you. And even if you can use it to to crank out apps quickly, you need to know Ruby first, which puts this out of reach of most of software community at large.
The biggest problem is not programming, it is domain knowledge transfer from you to the person doing the programming and the maintenance.
You hit the nail right on the head. This is why there is such a huge trend to use standard software. Custom code just leads to headaches, even when done in house and is why so many people have headaches when they upgrade their ERP systems.
I used to work at SAP. To put this in perspective, Microsoft currently has about 2% market share in the entire ERP market and 0 customers in the fortune 500. The only place they have any traction is the small business segment which is an area that the big players have typically overlooked because the customers just can't afford the costs associated with EXTREAMLY complex, HIGHLY customized software.
You'd think that since small business are small, their requirements for ERP software wouldn't be that difficult. It actually turns out that their business processes are just as complex as the big guys - the only difference is that they can't afford the army of consultants required to get the software to fit their busniess needs. QED.
Now that you mention the three channels of vision, it reminds me on an article I read in Red Herring sometime back about a mutant gene that shows up in some women that that gives them 4 channels of vision. It allows the ones lucky enough to have it to have a much sharper perception of color tones - ironically, most that have it aren't even aware that they see the world any different than the rest of us. Do a google on tetrachromatic women.
The Red Herring article is here but you need to give up your first born to read it.
Screw Blockbuster, they're doomed anyway. Where I live you can get just about any movie blockbuster carries 'on demand' for $3.50, and no late charges. If you've got stock in Blockbuster SELL IT NOW, the genie's out of the bottle.
Taxi drivers can kick and scream all they want but the reality of the situation is that this is desperatly needed. I once waited 45 minutes at the airport just to get a cab. Factor in the 'waiting in the Las Vegas Heat' factor and this is completely justified.
but by only using 10.x.x.x IP space, a user could be connected to this network and the wide open Internet at the same time and have no address conflicts be possible.
First, check out the Myers-Briggs personality typing. I found it to be incredibly insightful into how I look at the world. If you're a 'big picture' type, this can easily account for why your grades are sub-par - you may find details such as homework and attendance tedious. These are things that don't make a difference to the final goal, yet could be key elements of how you are graded.
If you haven't picked a school yet, I'd recommend the URI International Engineering Program. It's a 5 year dual-degree program that gets you a BS Engineering and a BA in Foreign Language/Culture. You pick the Engineering Department and Language. I needed something more than just engineering and found that this scratched my itch. I matched Comp Eng and German and am now 5 years into an awesome international career.
I'm being published this month in a specialized IT technical journal. Its about a 10 page article and I'm being paid 2,000 USD for it. Who, FOR THE LOVE OF PETE, are the people that are actually PAYING to get published? With a check for 2g due any day now, this truely boggles my mind. I tried to skim an article describing the scenario on the referenced web site, but could find no rational reasoning.
how can you forget a beowolf cluster of dead horses!
The problem with dead horses is that you can't ride 'em. Natalie Portman covered in hot grits however....
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Basically, what it comes down to is that you can't bluff a weak player. Forget about it. The only way to beat a weak player is with solid play. No fancy stuff.
More then one professional player has griped (unfairly) that no good player would call some of the bluffs they made, and that too many amateurs are diluting the pool in the WSOP main event.
If your professionals don't know not to bluff a weak player, then I question you categorization.
Also counting cards isn't illegal, but the casinos will ask you to leave and maybe blacklist you if you do it
Card counting is virtually useless these days. Most casinos will use a 6-deck shoe, out of which they only deal about 3 1/2 decks. Card counting only pays when you get to see most of the cards.
However, casinos gauge their blacjack take according to the number of hands per hour, so the deeper they can deal into the deck without getting banged by counters the better. Despite that, most never dealers never deal into the 5th deck.
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I played 1 to many times where I lost my pants literally and gave up.
Don't you mean figuratively?
"I'm all in!...What!? Aces over Kings!?.... Noooooooooo, not my pants!"
Anyone know of any good books on Chaos theory? I've been thinking a lot about what it might mean for games like blackjack and poker. I've spent a lot of time playing blackjack this week, and it seems inevitable that the cards go on good and bad swings ( and I've made a lot of money this week by playing accordingly).
Don't get me wrong, I am an engineer, but I can't hep wondering if there is some broader priciple at work.
Schizophrenia is what people often think about when someone says that someone else is "crazy".
Which kind of crazy? The "bum mumbling to himself as he walk down the street" crazy or the "Dude is she nuts, doesn't that person get it, is she crazy?" crazy
The latter falls under the "apparent lack of common sense" category. I've often wondered if these types are clincally mentally ill.
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I, for one, welcome our new zombie-dog wielding overlords.
I was the attending nurse that called it in to the IT department. The article sounds like its an over-exageration but it isn't. Evidentally it was supposed to be an in-house practical joke that went bad. As it was relayed to me, one of the british IT guys (Higgins?) got into a shouting match with one of the doctors about Science Ficition series. The doctor (also british) was all fired up about Star Gate, which upset the IT guy because he felt that it was unpatrotic to favor an American series over "Dr. Who". Long story short, the robot ended up in the wrong room. This wouldn't have been so bad except for the fact that it was playing "Exterminte! Exterminate!" over and over in an endless loop. Not sure how SF Gate missed that part...
If you haven't directly seen something happen or been informed that it happened, then it may not have happened
So if a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it still make a sound?
Possibly go wrong.
The Martians who were watching it all unfold were running out of popcorn and getting antsy
They really started getting worried when the Rover reported back "The Alien is nibbling on your arm...". At that point it was either have the engineers put in some long hours to find a solution or hit the space bar to release the cyanide gas...
Welcome to the club! I've been ultra low-budget for years
mmmmmm......Top Ramen.............
The search was acceptable to the court because it could only reveal the possession of contraband, the concealment of which "compromises no legitimate privacy interest."
We've got a long way to go before sniffing algorithms are exact enough that they "only reveal the possesion of contraband" without accidentally mixing in pictures of aunt Sallie named "1337 H4X0r.jpeg"
In rails you don't have to do any of that, it dynamically finds it!
Thats a great concept as long as everything goes as planned. But wait until it 'dynamically finds' the wrong thing. Try debugging that nightmare. (Think VB Script + Option Explicit).
I'm dubious about the claim that it's "ten times" faster than Java
I'll take it one step futher.
It's not about speed anymore. Even if it is 10 times faster, 10 times slower is fast enough for most 'Enterprise Applications'. The major bottleneck in corporate grades applications are table lookups anyway.
Its really about knowledge management these days. 'It can do it all frameworks' with 'complete stacks' are nice concepts, but if the bar is too high for me to quickly start cracking out applications, then no thank you. And even if you can use it to to crank out apps quickly, you need to know Ruby first, which puts this out of reach of most of software community at large.
Flame on!
The biggest problem is not programming, it is domain knowledge transfer from you to the person doing the programming and the maintenance.
You hit the nail right on the head. This is why there is such a huge trend to use standard software. Custom code just leads to headaches, even when done in house and is why so many people have headaches when they upgrade their ERP systems.
I used to work at SAP. To put this in perspective, Microsoft currently has about 2% market share in the entire ERP market and 0 customers in the fortune 500. The only place they have any traction is the small business segment which is an area that the big players have typically overlooked because the customers just can't afford the costs associated with EXTREAMLY complex, HIGHLY customized software.
You'd think that since small business are small, their requirements for ERP software wouldn't be that difficult. It actually turns out that their business processes are just as complex as the big guys - the only difference is that they can't afford the army of consultants required to get the software to fit their busniess needs. QED.
Now that you mention the three channels of vision, it reminds me on an article I read in Red Herring sometime back about a mutant gene that shows up in some women that that gives them 4 channels of vision. It allows the ones lucky enough to have it to have a much sharper perception of color tones - ironically, most that have it aren't even aware that they see the world any different than the rest of us. Do a google on tetrachromatic women.
The Red Herring article is here but you need to give up your first born to read it.
1983 called and it wants its programming language back.....
The bad news is, this system is wide open to abuse by insurance companies and governments alike.
The good news is, I just saved a ton of money on car insurance by switching to Geico
Screw Blockbuster, they're doomed anyway. Where I live you can get just about any movie blockbuster carries 'on demand' for $3.50, and no late charges. If you've got stock in Blockbuster SELL IT NOW, the genie's out of the bottle.
Taxi drivers can kick and scream all they want but the reality of the situation is that this is desperatly needed. I once waited 45 minutes at the airport just to get a cab. Factor in the 'waiting in the Las Vegas Heat' factor and this is completely justified.
but by only using 10.x.x.x IP space, a user could be connected to this network and the wide open Internet at the same time and have no address conflicts be possible.
I use 192.168.x.x you insensitive clod!
First, check out the Myers-Briggs personality typing. I found it to be incredibly insightful into how I look at the world. If you're a 'big picture' type, this can easily account for why your grades are sub-par - you may find details such as homework and attendance tedious. These are things that don't make a difference to the final goal, yet could be key elements of how you are graded.
If you haven't picked a school yet, I'd recommend the URI International Engineering Program. It's a 5 year dual-degree program that gets you a BS Engineering and a BA in Foreign Language/Culture. You pick the Engineering Department and Language. I needed something more than just engineering and found that this scratched my itch. I matched Comp Eng and German and am now 5 years into an awesome international career.
I'm being published this month in a specialized IT technical journal. Its about a 10 page article and I'm being paid 2,000 USD for it. Who, FOR THE LOVE OF PETE, are the people that are actually PAYING to get published? With a check for 2g due any day now, this truely boggles my mind. I tried to skim an article describing the scenario on the referenced web site, but could find no rational reasoning.
how can you forget a beowolf cluster of dead horses!
The problem with dead horses is that you can't ride 'em. Natalie Portman covered in hot grits however....
Basically, what it comes down to is that you can't bluff a weak player. Forget about it. The only way to beat a weak player is with solid play. No fancy stuff.
More then one professional player has griped (unfairly) that no good player would call some of the bluffs they made, and that too many amateurs are diluting the pool in the WSOP main event.
If your professionals don't know not to bluff a weak player, then I question you categorization.
Also counting cards isn't illegal, but the casinos will ask you to leave and maybe blacklist you if you do it
Card counting is virtually useless these days. Most casinos will use a 6-deck shoe, out of which they only deal about 3 1/2 decks. Card counting only pays when you get to see most of the cards.
However, casinos gauge their blacjack take according to the number of hands per hour, so the deeper they can deal into the deck without getting banged by counters the better. Despite that, most never dealers never deal into the 5th deck.
I played 1 to many times where I lost my pants literally and gave up.
Don't you mean figuratively?
"I'm all in!...What!? Aces over Kings!?.... Noooooooooo, not my pants!"
Anyone know of any good books on Chaos theory? I've been thinking a lot about what it might mean for games like blackjack and poker. I've spent a lot of time playing blackjack this week, and it seems inevitable that the cards go on good and bad swings ( and I've made a lot of money this week by playing accordingly).
Don't get me wrong, I am an engineer, but I can't hep wondering if there is some broader priciple at work.
Schizophrenia is what people often think about when someone says that someone else is "crazy".
Which kind of crazy? The "bum mumbling to himself as he walk down the street" crazy or the "Dude is she nuts, doesn't that person get it, is she crazy?" crazy
The latter falls under the "apparent lack of common sense" category. I've often wondered if these types are clincally mentally ill.