That was his point, dude. He didn't say he wanted a calculator to do PDE for him, he said that they couldn't. His point was that there are some things that calculators can't do. One of them being manhandling symbolic formulas.
And yet you acted like he was complaining about not being able to use a calculator. Please read the whole comment before firing off a kneejerk reaction.
I have zero attachment to my computers. I don't talk to them, I don't feel anything more for them than I would a hammer or a drill. They're equipment to maintain. If it breaks, I will either fix it or throw it out.
Where do you get that? The article says "To make liquid armor, STF is soaked into all layers of the Kevlar vest. The Kevlar fabric holds the STF in place, and also helps to stop the bullet. The saturated fabric can be soaked, draped, and sewn just like any other fabric."
So...is this armor pretty much out of the question for amphibious units, or soldiers in the rain?
Does it freeze and shatter in cold weather, or bake out in hot weather? Does it absorb sweat during a march and then your armor runs down your leg?
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Exactly, it's not like a voting system is going to contain any previously unknown revolutionary concepts in the code. Get input, store input. It should be pretty straightforward, and the only reason people want it open is so that they can make sure there aren't mistakes.
I take that back! Mind me! Mind me! I went back a few refreshes in my browser cache, and it definitely wasn't linked before. Stupid timothy, trying to convince me I'm going senile at 25!
That would be the job to have, if only for the right to list "Planetary Protection Office" on your resume.
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EXACTLY...allow the site to host AS MANY HITS AS IT COULD ANYWAY. Then how can anyone complain if they don't get ad revenue for every Slashdot cache access? They could never have served that many impressions on their own, anyway.
Rob Malda's excuse is looking pretty lame now.
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Quote from that: "So the quick answer is: 'Sure, caching would be neat.' It would make things a lot easier when servers go down, but it's a complicated issue that would need to be thought through in great detail before being implemented."
We all know that thinking something through in great detail definitely puts it off-limits to Slashdot!
Seriously, small sites like this are NOT going to get mad if you cache them temporarily. Probably most smaller commercial sites, too. And if they change the site during the slashdotting and get uptight about the cache not being updated, then they can send an updated version, or else Slashdot could check periodically.
But yeah, the "having to think about it" part is probably the biggest obstacle.
Yup, Bill*, the network guy, is sure going to be surprised when he comes in this morning and finds that he's been thoroughly slashdotted! Post-It notes, balloons, HTTP GET....
Seriously...anything you can get is enough. It's an employer's market right now, and they know it. What you need to look for is the experience. A year or two down the road when a better job comes along, who's going to get hired? The kid who coded for peanuts but got two years of experience, or the kid who waited tables and got zero relevant professional experience?
Only take the table-waiting job if you can accomplish more worthwhile projects on your own time, and have excellent documentation skills to prove what you did.
It's really not that tough. You set up a comments database, an articles database, and a users database. Make a user registration page, an article posting page, an article+comment+post-comments page. Set a cookie with a randomized string that's updated in the database whenever a user logs in, and checked when someone tries to access a protected function. Each comment database entry will include the index of the article it was posted from; to build the article view page you just fetch the article, then select the associated comments from the pool.
The hardest part is the layout, and if you already have a web page, you have a format pretty much decided already.
I don't have a blog anymore, it's just something you never update, and then everyone falls into the trap of making it an online diary. It's not supposed to be a diary, it's supposed to be more like your own little Slashdot.
I've had my domain name for only two years, and it's the same for me. No, I don't mask my email address with images, or anything...but now it's too late.
I have SpamAssassin running on the server, which tags most spam...on my computer, a filter dumps all tagged spam in a special folder if the X-Spam-Level is high enough. This gets rid of all the blatant spam, and lets me see the possible false positives.
But if I don't check that folder, it balloons way up...whoa, just checked it now and there's about 1500 spams! Thought I just emptied that a couple days ago!
This is flawed. The same type of thinking results in some nerds, knowing full well that they haven't showered in days and positively REEK, venturing out into the public nose. If something is offensive, forcing other people to partake in it does not make you some kind of gutsy hero. It does not cultivate respect, it merely expands the amount of disgust you generate.
Interesting point about the in-class homework. That simple tactic has unbelievable results. I had a teacher who did that; the class was very granular as he would discuss a concept and then assign homework, then allow ten or fifteen minutes to do some of the homework.
So, hey, you were getting done stuff you'd have to do anyway...and you knew that you understood how to do the problems when you got home. It makes a huge difference.
Most DVD players these days will play just about anything, including MP3 CDs and audio CDs. They are also very inexpensive, and tend to have more or less readable large displays, given the fact that they work on a TV.
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That was his point, dude. He didn't say he wanted a calculator to do PDE for him, he said that they couldn't. His point was that there are some things that calculators can't do. One of them being manhandling symbolic formulas.
And yet you acted like he was complaining about not being able to use a calculator. Please read the whole comment before firing off a kneejerk reaction.
I have zero attachment to my computers. I don't talk to them, I don't feel anything more for them than I would a hammer or a drill. They're equipment to maintain. If it breaks, I will either fix it or throw it out.
Where do you get that? The article says "To make liquid armor, STF is soaked into all layers of the Kevlar vest. The Kevlar fabric holds the STF in place, and also helps to stop the bullet. The saturated fabric can be soaked, draped, and sewn just like any other fabric."
Doesn't say anything about little packets.
Water-soluble, eh?
So...is this armor pretty much out of the question for amphibious units, or soldiers in the rain?
Does it freeze and shatter in cold weather, or bake out in hot weather? Does it absorb sweat during a march and then your armor runs down your leg?
Exactly, it's not like a voting system is going to contain any previously unknown revolutionary concepts in the code. Get input, store input. It should be pretty straightforward, and the only reason people want it open is so that they can make sure there aren't mistakes.
Oh, do I get a cookie then?
*looks in Firefox's Cookie Manager*
Oh yes I do!
Yeah, that's true: I guess the less glamorous version of the title would be "Spacecraft Maid" or something.
I take that back! Mind me! Mind me! I went back a few refreshes in my browser cache, and it definitely wasn't linked before. Stupid timothy, trying to convince me I'm going senile at 25!
Well that made a lot of sense, considering that it is indeed in the original submission. Never mind me....
BTW, something that should have been in the original submission: Planetary Protection Office website
That would be the job to have, if only for the right to list "Planetary Protection Office" on your resume.
EXACTLY...allow the site to host AS MANY HITS AS IT COULD ANYWAY. Then how can anyone complain if they don't get ad revenue for every Slashdot cache access? They could never have served that many impressions on their own, anyway.
Rob Malda's excuse is looking pretty lame now.
Quote from that: "So the quick answer is: 'Sure, caching would be neat.' It would make things a lot easier when servers go down, but it's a complicated issue that would need to be thought through in great detail before being implemented."
We all know that thinking something through in great detail definitely puts it off-limits to Slashdot!
Seriously, small sites like this are NOT going to get mad if you cache them temporarily. Probably most smaller commercial sites, too. And if they change the site during the slashdotting and get uptight about the cache not being updated, then they can send an updated version, or else Slashdot could check periodically.
But yeah, the "having to think about it" part is probably the biggest obstacle.
I take it back, after an initial hiccup, the site seems to have stepped up to the plate!
Is there a big red button in the server room, labeled "BREAK GLASS IN CASE OF SLASHDOT" or something?
Yup, Bill*, the network guy, is sure going to be surprised when he comes in this morning and finds that he's been thoroughly slashdotted! Post-It notes, balloons, HTTP GET....
*Simulated employee name
Seriously...anything you can get is enough. It's an employer's market right now, and they know it. What you need to look for is the experience. A year or two down the road when a better job comes along, who's going to get hired? The kid who coded for peanuts but got two years of experience, or the kid who waited tables and got zero relevant professional experience?
Only take the table-waiting job if you can accomplish more worthwhile projects on your own time, and have excellent documentation skills to prove what you did.
It's really not that tough. You set up a comments database, an articles database, and a users database. Make a user registration page, an article posting page, an article+comment+post-comments page. Set a cookie with a randomized string that's updated in the database whenever a user logs in, and checked when someone tries to access a protected function. Each comment database entry will include the index of the article it was posted from; to build the article view page you just fetch the article, then select the associated comments from the pool.
The hardest part is the layout, and if you already have a web page, you have a format pretty much decided already.
I don't have a blog anymore, it's just something you never update, and then everyone falls into the trap of making it an online diary. It's not supposed to be a diary, it's supposed to be more like your own little Slashdot.
I've had my domain name for only two years, and it's the same for me. No, I don't mask my email address with images, or anything...but now it's too late.
I have SpamAssassin running on the server, which tags most spam...on my computer, a filter dumps all tagged spam in a special folder if the X-Spam-Level is high enough. This gets rid of all the blatant spam, and lets me see the possible false positives.
But if I don't check that folder, it balloons way up...whoa, just checked it now and there's about 1500 spams! Thought I just emptied that a couple days ago!
He could have been Dumont, that guy in the I/O tower. Would have been perfect.
Back when TRON was originally made, programs were purposeful and tightly coded.
This updated look accurately reflects today's software. What is he, Microsoft Word?
This is flawed. The same type of thinking results in some nerds, knowing full well that they haven't showered in days and positively REEK, venturing out into the public nose. If something is offensive, forcing other people to partake in it does not make you some kind of gutsy hero. It does not cultivate respect, it merely expands the amount of disgust you generate.
I'm glad you told everyone he's a good guy, for a minute there I just assumed he was an evil, scheming villain.
Interesting point about the in-class homework. That simple tactic has unbelievable results. I had a teacher who did that; the class was very granular as he would discuss a concept and then assign homework, then allow ten or fifteen minutes to do some of the homework.
So, hey, you were getting done stuff you'd have to do anyway...and you knew that you understood how to do the problems when you got home. It makes a huge difference.
Most DVD players these days will play just about anything, including MP3 CDs and audio CDs. They are also very inexpensive, and tend to have more or less readable large displays, given the fact that they work on a TV.
Then someone will submit links to the major television networks, and finish the job. ;-)