I don't know why everyone here thinks this is SO COOL.
This guy buys and sells laptops...ok.
He buys ~$3000 laptop for himself, and then decides he doesn't want it. He sells it, C.O.D. for crying out loud, to someone with zero completed auctions.
Oh wait, he sold it to this guy yet this guy still has no completed auctions? Yes folks, in the article, our Mac boy states that he sold the laptop to videopro55, who contacted him with an offer for $2900. That's outside of the eBay auction, and directly in violation of eBay policy to sell outside of auction. It's not fair to the people who placed bids (he said there were bids on it already) on the laptop...one of them won it, right? Where's their laptop they rightfully won?
So in summary, we have a story of a guy doing triage work, because he went around eBay policy and essentially defrauded his own legitamate bidders. Remember, the auction is legally binding, and you agree to this when you sign up for an eBay account.
I don't feel sorry for him. And notice how the Paypal donation fund is conveniently mentioned, along with how broke he is after the mean scammer guy took his laptop.
Our frame-relay service used to be provided by MCI. One day, it all fell apart. Our region was cut off from all our East Coast facilities, and we actually NEED our WAN to do business every day.
Funny thing was, no one at MCI was returning calls. It was over a day before anyone was able to look at the problem. Why?
Because they had all gone on a cruise. As in, they ALL were somewhere in the Bahamas.
I'm now in a different department of the company, but I believe IT currently deals with AT&T.
Laugh, but it seems to be a common attitude that a manager is never right, and never will be.
Your manager is not there to code, he's there to keep all of you developers on task. Apparently, for some reason he needs to understand your code, in order to do his job to his satisfaction.
Actually, he may not NEED to understand pthreads at all. But I believe his approach is pretty smart in this case. Why should he allow you to adopt a new method, when you cannot explain it to him?
I wouldn't let you use pthreads either, if my paycheck depended on you getting your job done.
If you actually wait around looking for mods to metamod...you seriously need some friends, or projects, or goals, or a life in general.
I'm surprised anyone took it seriously. It was more of a joke than anything. Still, what other archival method is out there? One that uses relatively cheap media, and doesn't die if someone waves a magnet nearby, or degausses their monitor while you walk past with the box of tapes? I think the only other option is CD-R. Now THAT would take a while...I have personally had to transfer data from a dying MO jukebox to stacks and stacks of CD-Rs.
Send me an RFQ. Spec the desired length, spacing, colors, diffuse or water-clear, and pattern. I will reply with a quote for manufacture. LED terminals protected with heatshrink tubing. Blue LEDs will cost approximately ten times more, a bipolar set with alternate LEDs blinking from red to green will be about twice cost of steady-glow or alternate-blink.
The success of the human race depends on individuality, uniqueness, and free thinking. In today's schools, it is not possible for a teacher to allow children to develop their unique talents. If they let thirty kids run free with their imagination, the result is total chaos. The method of keeping order is to set goals for the lowest common denominator, and force all students to reach those goals at the same time and in the same sequence. They are also not there at the end of the day. It is too easy for a child to develop a habit of tuning out from 8am to 3pm. When a parent is directly responsible for a child's education, the parent is in sync with their child's emotions and talents. They can provide encouragement to explore areas the child has a natural ability in, while gently reinforcing necessary skills and developing solid and productive thinking habits.
Chain up the mind of an exceptional child, and you chain up the variety and brilliance that would propel future generations into accomplishments we can barely dream of now.
Most states have been steadily improving home education legislation, in response to the rapid increase of homeschooled students. Most colleges are currently very accepting of homeschooled students, and some actively pursue them. I happen to know two homeschooled students who started attending Vanderbilt University this year. They are twins, and received two matching full tuition and expenses paid music scholarships. They are having no troubles "fitting in" with everyone else on campus, and are in fact two of the most well-liked for their sincerity and friendliness.
Not to say that every story would turn out this way. There are certainly kids out there who need special attention because they could not function otherwise. However, I believe this is the exception, rather than the rule, for attention deficit disorders. It should be noted that free thinking and brilliant people have turned many a government inside out. Separate and marginalize those people with a "disorder" label, and the rest will follow their assigned leaders and not listen to what "those poor sick people" have to say. Perhaps the only intention of this is to pad the wallets of certain psychologists, but the end result is the same.
No serious criminal goes into houses looking for guns. The real money is in pushing over gun shops, playing documentation tricks in gun shipments, and smuggling from overseas.
Illegal gun trade is organized crime, just like illegal drug trade. Organized, in this case, meaning that it is designed to circumvent whatever laws are present. If the laws change, the business doesn't shut down; new methods are explored and new plans developed.
If someone actually comes into your house looking for a gun, then you want the gun to be in your hand rather than locked in the safe.
Well, I believe a freshman should still get a brand new laptop. It's just that after two years, that laptop won't be quite as zingy.
I would disagree with seniors getting a brand new laptop, because many may not even have a full year left. On top of that, many may get a new laptop from their place of work. Of course, that doesn't matter if you're making the laptops school property (BAD MOVE IMHO).
My college began to "give" (part of fees) laptops to all incoming students in 1995, pretty much the first school to do so.
My new laptop was a PII-233 Acer, with a 3.2GB drive and I opted for 64MB of RAM instead of 32MB. It only had a 800x600 screen, but it served me well my four years, and I still use it semi-regularly (though it has 160MB of RAM now). The laptop was ours, though any unauthorized hardware tinkering would void the nice 4-year warranty. During my stay, I had two motherboards, one hard drive, one LCD screen, the upper plastic shell, two LCD front and back bezels, a power supply board, and a power brick replaced.
While the laptop was invaluable for getting work done, it was also a distraction. With a network port at every desk, ICQ became the equivalent of note-passing. Many kids I knew freshman year had to drop out, as they spent the majority of their time playing Starcraft and Quake II, chatting on ICQ and IRC, playing in MUDs, and downloading MP3s. Still, it was pretty useful for emailing professors, getting reports done, and making CEOs jealous in airports.
The major heartache with laptop ownership happened every fall, when the freshmen would get their shiny new laptops, one full year of computing technology later. During the last year, it was getting difficult to run some of the applications needed for class, on outdated hardware. Everyone I knew ended up buying a desktop machine. With the network connection, I could RDP, VNC, or X applications from my desktop to my laptop. This was pretty much necessary when trying to crunch large mathematical problems in MATLAB; *especially* useful when modeling 3D electromagnetic fields. The laptop was also unable to make anyone jealous.
If there was one thing I would change about the laptop program, it would be to update the hardware every two years. A two-year-old laptop would still hold some value for charity or resale, and the upperclassmen would not be held down by inferior hardware during their most intensive classes.
ALL of the older/tech-unsavvy people I know have one reason to get online: kids, grandkids, and other relatives. ALL of the ones I know want to send email, of course, but they also want to get and send photos, save them, print them out, not to mention type letters and include photos in the letters. Maybe some people can't handle learning the minimal skills to operate even an iMac. Most I've come across take minimal teaching, to learn how scan photos, resize them to a reasonable resolution, edit documents, and change inkjet cartridges. They have no problem learning, once there is motivation.
That is amazing. What a powerful demonstration of the XHTML's advanced capabilities! Masterful works such as this can only push forward general acceptance.
I had no idea this level of style and impact was possible with XHTML. I'm so moved, I may just sit down and cry.
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I don't know why everyone here thinks this is SO COOL.
This guy buys and sells laptops...ok.
He buys ~$3000 laptop for himself, and then decides he doesn't want it. He sells it, C.O.D. for crying out loud, to someone with zero completed auctions.
Oh wait, he sold it to this guy yet this guy still has no completed auctions? Yes folks, in the article, our Mac boy states that he sold the laptop to videopro55, who contacted him with an offer for $2900. That's outside of the eBay auction, and directly in violation of eBay policy to sell outside of auction. It's not fair to the people who placed bids (he said there were bids on it already) on the laptop...one of them won it, right? Where's their laptop they rightfully won?
So in summary, we have a story of a guy doing triage work, because he went around eBay policy and essentially defrauded his own legitamate bidders. Remember, the auction is legally binding, and you agree to this when you sign up for an eBay account.
I don't feel sorry for him. And notice how the Paypal donation fund is conveniently mentioned, along with how broke he is after the mean scammer guy took his laptop.
Our frame-relay service used to be provided by MCI. One day, it all fell apart. Our region was cut off from all our East Coast facilities, and we actually NEED our WAN to do business every day.
Funny thing was, no one at MCI was returning calls. It was over a day before anyone was able to look at the problem. Why?
Because they had all gone on a cruise. As in, they ALL were somewhere in the Bahamas.
I'm now in a different department of the company, but I believe IT currently deals with AT&T.
Managers aren't always wrong.
Laugh, but it seems to be a common attitude that a manager is never right, and never will be.
Your manager is not there to code, he's there to keep all of you developers on task. Apparently, for some reason he needs to understand your code, in order to do his job to his satisfaction.
Actually, he may not NEED to understand pthreads at all. But I believe his approach is pretty smart in this case. Why should he allow you to adopt a new method, when you cannot explain it to him?
I wouldn't let you use pthreads either, if my paycheck depended on you getting your job done.
To put one bag - much less 400 pounds - of Oreos in one bite would require more than Windhexe pulverization.
If you want to pursue this goal any further, I suggest looking into several of the world's larger particle accelerators.
So THAT's what the Super-Conduction Supercollider was for!
Or, you can do the same thing with an actual, un-pulverized cookie.
Windhexe Haikus:
Nature's fury tamed
A mighty vortex unleashed
Grinds poop to powder.
A free CD falls
One thousand hours now becomes
One million fragments.
...recycle useable hardware,...
I fail to see where *useable* hardware comes out of this....
Next time, eat all the Oreos and store them as fat. And stop insuring dead birds, unless it really is a stuffed blue-footed booby.
Yes, some of us beat swords into plowshares, and others beat chicken poop into gold.
...rocks, diapers, tomatoes, sweet potato rejects from the farm down the road, 400 pounds of Oreo cookies, frozen pizza dough, even a dead bird./I
Sounds like a church casserole.
If you actually wait around looking for mods to metamod...you seriously need some friends, or projects, or goals, or a life in general.
I'm surprised anyone took it seriously. It was more of a joke than anything. Still, what other archival method is out there? One that uses relatively cheap media, and doesn't die if someone waves a magnet nearby, or degausses their monitor while you walk past with the box of tapes? I think the only other option is CD-R. Now THAT would take a while...I have personally had to transfer data from a dying MO jukebox to stacks and stacks of CD-Rs.
Send me an RFQ. Spec the desired length, spacing, colors, diffuse or water-clear, and pattern. I will reply with a quote for manufacture. LED terminals protected with heatshrink tubing. Blue LEDs will cost approximately ten times more, a bipolar set with alternate LEDs blinking from red to green will be about twice cost of steady-glow or alternate-blink.
Forget All Electronics, buy Jameco!
For example, DVD.
Make sense?
Good.
Better idea, go to Target and grab a few coils of their electroluminescent wire, in the car-pimping department.
I would look at the page with your debate, but WPI is requiring authentication for off-campus viewers.
I completely agree with this point.
The success of the human race depends on individuality, uniqueness, and free thinking. In today's schools, it is not possible for a teacher to allow children to develop their unique talents. If they let thirty kids run free with their imagination, the result is total chaos. The method of keeping order is to set goals for the lowest common denominator, and force all students to reach those goals at the same time and in the same sequence. They are also not there at the end of the day. It is too easy for a child to develop a habit of tuning out from 8am to 3pm. When a parent is directly responsible for a child's education, the parent is in sync with their child's emotions and talents. They can provide encouragement to explore areas the child has a natural ability in, while gently reinforcing necessary skills and developing solid and productive thinking habits.
Chain up the mind of an exceptional child, and you chain up the variety and brilliance that would propel future generations into accomplishments we can barely dream of now.
Most states have been steadily improving home education legislation, in response to the rapid increase of homeschooled students. Most colleges are currently very accepting of homeschooled students, and some actively pursue them. I happen to know two homeschooled students who started attending Vanderbilt University this year. They are twins, and received two matching full tuition and expenses paid music scholarships. They are having no troubles "fitting in" with everyone else on campus, and are in fact two of the most well-liked for their sincerity and friendliness.
Not to say that every story would turn out this way. There are certainly kids out there who need special attention because they could not function otherwise. However, I believe this is the exception, rather than the rule, for attention deficit disorders. It should be noted that free thinking and brilliant people have turned many a government inside out. Separate and marginalize those people with a "disorder" label, and the rest will follow their assigned leaders and not listen to what "those poor sick people" have to say. Perhaps the only intention of this is to pad the wallets of certain psychologists, but the end result is the same.
Extremely simplistic.
No serious criminal goes into houses looking for guns. The real money is in pushing over gun shops, playing documentation tricks in gun shipments, and smuggling from overseas.
Illegal gun trade is organized crime, just like illegal drug trade. Organized, in this case, meaning that it is designed to circumvent whatever laws are present. If the laws change, the business doesn't shut down; new methods are explored and new plans developed.
If someone actually comes into your house looking for a gun, then you want the gun to be in your hand rather than locked in the safe.
Well, I believe a freshman should still get a brand new laptop. It's just that after two years, that laptop won't be quite as zingy.
I would disagree with seniors getting a brand new laptop, because many may not even have a full year left. On top of that, many may get a new laptop from their place of work. Of course, that doesn't matter if you're making the laptops school property (BAD MOVE IMHO).
And here we have one of the huge paradoxes in our country's laws.
Apparently, the baby is considered a human life only if the mother wants it.
The key word that you missed was STOLEN.
Criminals STEAL their guns, and then put them on the black market.
My college began to "give" (part of fees) laptops to all incoming students in 1995, pretty much the first school to do so.
My new laptop was a PII-233 Acer, with a 3.2GB drive and I opted for 64MB of RAM instead of 32MB. It only had a 800x600 screen, but it served me well my four years, and I still use it semi-regularly (though it has 160MB of RAM now). The laptop was ours, though any unauthorized hardware tinkering would void the nice 4-year warranty. During my stay, I had two motherboards, one hard drive, one LCD screen, the upper plastic shell, two LCD front and back bezels, a power supply board, and a power brick replaced.
While the laptop was invaluable for getting work done, it was also a distraction. With a network port at every desk, ICQ became the equivalent of note-passing. Many kids I knew freshman year had to drop out, as they spent the majority of their time playing Starcraft and Quake II, chatting on ICQ and IRC, playing in MUDs, and downloading MP3s. Still, it was pretty useful for emailing professors, getting reports done, and making CEOs jealous in airports.
The major heartache with laptop ownership happened every fall, when the freshmen would get their shiny new laptops, one full year of computing technology later. During the last year, it was getting difficult to run some of the applications needed for class, on outdated hardware. Everyone I knew ended up buying a desktop machine. With the network connection, I could RDP, VNC, or X applications from my desktop to my laptop. This was pretty much necessary when trying to crunch large mathematical problems in MATLAB; *especially* useful when modeling 3D electromagnetic fields. The laptop was also unable to make anyone jealous.
If there was one thing I would change about the laptop program, it would be to update the hardware every two years. A two-year-old laptop would still hold some value for charity or resale, and the upperclassmen would not be held down by inferior hardware during their most intensive classes.
That was pretty bad. Now we'll have "joeclark.org/book/" trolls. Where is the mercy in this world?
ALL of the older/tech-unsavvy people I know have one reason to get online: kids, grandkids, and other relatives. ALL of the ones I know want to send email, of course, but they also want to get and send photos, save them, print them out, not to mention type letters and include photos in the letters. Maybe some people can't handle learning the minimal skills to operate even an iMac. Most I've come across take minimal teaching, to learn how scan photos, resize them to a reasonable resolution, edit documents, and change inkjet cartridges. They have no problem learning, once there is motivation.
That is amazing. What a powerful demonstration of the XHTML's advanced capabilities! Masterful works such as this can only push forward general acceptance.
I had no idea this level of style and impact was possible with XHTML. I'm so moved, I may just sit down and cry.