Seriously... I remember watching a made for TV movie, an adaptation of Jack and the Beanstalk, and the giant's vest/armor was made of CDs. They had been painted brown, so it wasn't obvious, and it wasn't possible to recognise any text printed on the CDs, but it wasn't a flat brown, so it probably was actual printed CDs (as opposed to plain white blanks)
Get a stack of about 25 or so, and fling them rapid fire at your enemy (or the guy in the next cube... same thing...). I ususally miss with about half of them, but the ones that hit can hurt (I tend to throw them so hard that they occasionally break if they hit the wall).
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No offense to you or your mom, but wouldn't getting glasses be easier and significantly cheaper?
... put padding on the trees. The local place uses one inch thick foam, rolled into a cylinder about one foot around and 6-8 feet high, four of those attached together on the front of all the chairlift poles.
And oh yeah, why do they drive on the left hand side of the road?
At some point, the King (don't remember which one, sorry) decreed "Traffic entering London will travel on the upstream side of the bridge", or something to that effect. On the brisge over the Thames, that is the left side.
Are engines or other critical parts placed in the junkyard beforehand?
Obviously, some stuff has to be. Two examples spring to mind:
A) Air bombers. Build a flying machine that will navigate over a target and drop a color-filled bomb. Each team managed to scavenge several working remote control vehicles, and one managed to find a brand-new roll of thin aluminum-type stuff to make a blimp out of (one of the experts was a model blimp expert).
B) Monster trucks. The "plant" was four of the same type of tire that the real monster trucks use (it's a farming tire of some sort, IIRC)(The other team used regular farm tractor tires, BTW). I put the word "plant" in quotes because they didn't try to hide the fact: they said "These tires cost $20,000 each and are on loan from such-and-such".
At one meter, how loud in dB would something have to be for a deaf person with their back turned to realize a tone was being generated?
It depends on the person, of course, but in general, given no distractions, a piercing shriek at the top of your lungs would do it. At RIT, students in the dorm for the National Technical Institute for the Deaf would get each other's attention with backs turned from across the room by doing just that. But that was in a quiet dorm room with few distractions, I would imagine that doing something while outside would be a bit of a distraction, and make the same shriek less noticable.
I've always considered myself part of the "Generation X" generation, but... according to this I'm not. So.. what comes after Generation X?
IIRC, the term "Generation X" didn't come from any special meaning or significance to the letter "X", but rather, the roman numeral X, ten. According to anthropologists, the theory is that generations move in cycles of ten. Therefore, "Generation X" is the last in the cycle, and "Generation I" is next. (IANA anthropologist.)
Want to look good to the idiots in HR? LIE. And I mean LIE. ... ...just put on your resume that you graduated with a BS in CS from RIT
That may get you the job, but it'll get you fired when they find out... About two years ago (I would link to RIT's Reporter Magazine, but their archives don't go back very far), one of the professors here was discovered to have lied on his resume. He had been here for the better part of a decade, and was definitely one of the better professors. He was let go, for that simple reason that he lied. As a result, he now has either a big gaping hole in his resume, or an almost-worthless reference.
-- David Yaw: Proud graduate of RIT with a Batchelor's in Computer Science
I'm guessing that your sales teams do not contain an engineer (I'm including IT guys in my definition of "Software Engineer). This may or may not be possible, depending on the size of your company, developments teams, and projects, but here's my suggestion: Always have an engineer at every meeting between your company and the client. Ideally, a project manager or head coder (Even better if those are the same person).
At my company, (granted, we're smaller than you appear to be...), our engineers deal with their engineers. No salespeople to get in the way, and it works very well.
And the last paragraph: "electrons usually travel at two thirds the speed of light". Wow, who needs particle accelerators?
You are correct rsidd. An electrical signal travels at very high speed (I've always used 1/2c instead of 2/3c as the average, but whatever...), but the individual electrons travel rather slow (a couple hundred meters per second is typical, IIRC).
Did anyone else notice this: In order to search for anything, the user needs to actually type the words in the opposite order. What should be done by having the cursor move to the left after each character is typed, needs to be done in the user's head. (Try searching for "slashdot". Then try typing it backwards. Can't use the arrow keys to move the cursor to the left after each character, you've got to type "todhsals".)
Personally, for tools, A screwdriver is ususally enough. (Get one of the four-in-ones.) The only other tool I'd add is a mirror. (Get an old makeup mirror, the kind that's in a compact that had makeup on one side and the mirror on the other. It keeps the mirror protected. I got one from my mom when I was in high school, works great.)
The most important thing is parts. Gonna throw away that old 386? Take out all the screws, IDE & floppy cables, power supply cables. (And sort the screws by size.) Add a couple network cables, maybe a USB cable, and a power cable.
A couple boot floppies for various OSs (make sure they've got CD drive support), and that'll do it.
well when you create a section called ``goatse'' it places a number beside it-say for example 1.0. then the figures are named 1-1, 1-2, etc. say you want to insert a section called ``midget'' infront of ``goatse''. then figure 1-1 becomes 2-1, and 1-2 becomes 2-2, etc. latex renumbers these for you.
if you previously referenced equation 1-1 in the text, latex will also change this to 2-1 automatically.
latex will also change the table of contents, table numbering, references to these sections/tables in the text, etc.
Umm... This isn't anything special... WordPerfect did this in the very first version I used (5.0 for DOS (I still have the function key template around somewhere (For those who never used WP, it's a piece of plastic that sits on the keyboard around the function keys, and has all the shortcuts listed on it))), as did MS Word in the first version I used (2.0 for Win). Really, this is one of the more basic and essential word processing functions.
(Can you tell I like embedded parentheses (a lot)?)
They were both products created with the primary purpose of circumventing copyright protection systems.
DeCSS was written for watching DVDs on Linux. AEBEX was written for reading books on PDAs, etc. Both scenarios fall well within the bounds of fair use.
However, it cannot compete with the Matrox Parhelia here. The Parhelia, though it has slower framerates, has better color saturation and 16x FSAA w/o a massive performance hit.
Huh? Slower framerates isn't a performance hit? Sounds like you're a little biased.
The building now uses 500,000 kilowatts of energy per year.
...customers must purchase a minimum of... 200 kilowatts of power...
Am I the only one that got really annoyed by their interchanging of kilowatt and kilowatt-hour? (For the non-electrical types: kilowatt is a measure of flow, not of total energy. Saying that a building uses 500,000 kilowatts per year is like saying that your car gets 20 miles per gallon per day. )
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I don't know if radar can detect the parachutes, but it can detect the parachutist. Some of the guys I work with used to work on military radar, and one time they told me a story about going to the testing grounds in Arizona, and there were a couple of people sky diving that day, and the sky divers thought it was really cool that they could see this nice smooth arc of their fall on the radar screen. (The story was told from the perspective of "stupid sky divers were thrilled to have a couple thousand watts of radio energy pointed at them", but the point remains...)
So regardless of whether radar can pick up the parachute or a weird snake-shaped parachute, it can still pick up the parachutist.
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Seriously... I remember watching a made for TV movie, an adaptation of Jack and the Beanstalk, and the giant's vest/armor was made of CDs. They had been painted brown, so it wasn't obvious, and it wasn't possible to recognise any text printed on the CDs, but it wasn't a flat brown, so it probably was actual printed CDs (as opposed to plain white blanks)
Get a stack of about 25 or so, and fling them rapid fire at your enemy (or the guy in the next cube... same thing...). I ususally miss with about half of them, but the ones that hit can hurt (I tend to throw them so hard that they occasionally break if they hit the wall).
No offense to you or your mom, but wouldn't getting glasses be easier and significantly cheaper?
... put padding on the trees. The local place uses one inch thick foam, rolled into a cylinder about one foot around and 6-8 feet high, four of those attached together on the front of all the chairlift poles.
And oh yeah, why do they drive on the left hand side of the road?
At some point, the King (don't remember which one, sorry) decreed "Traffic entering London will travel on the upstream side of the bridge", or something to that effect. On the brisge over the Thames, that is the left side.
Are engines or other critical parts placed in the junkyard beforehand?
Obviously, some stuff has to be. Two examples spring to mind:
A) Air bombers. Build a flying machine that will navigate over a target and drop a color-filled bomb. Each team managed to scavenge several working remote control vehicles, and one managed to find a brand-new roll of thin aluminum-type stuff to make a blimp out of (one of the experts was a model blimp expert).
B) Monster trucks. The "plant" was four of the same type of tire that the real monster trucks use (it's a farming tire of some sort, IIRC)(The other team used regular farm tractor tires, BTW). I put the word "plant" in quotes because they didn't try to hide the fact: they said "These tires cost $20,000 each and are on loan from such-and-such".
At one meter, how loud in dB would something have to be for a deaf person with their back turned to realize a tone was being generated?
It depends on the person, of course, but in general, given no distractions, a piercing shriek at the top of your lungs would do it. At RIT, students in the dorm for the National Technical Institute for the Deaf would get each other's attention with backs turned from across the room by doing just that. But that was in a quiet dorm room with few distractions, I would imagine that doing something while outside would be a bit of a distraction, and make the same shriek less noticable.
I've always considered myself part of the "Generation X" generation, but... according to this I'm not. So.. what comes after Generation X?
IIRC, the term "Generation X" didn't come from any special meaning or significance to the letter "X", but rather, the roman numeral X, ten. According to anthropologists, the theory is that generations move in cycles of ten. Therefore, "Generation X" is the last in the cycle, and "Generation I" is next. (IANA anthropologist.)
Did anyone else get this for the bottom-of-page ad?
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Placing an ad for TiVo on an article about TiVo is good advertising. Placing an ad for TiVo on an article about TiVo's downfall, not so much.
Want to look good to the idiots in HR? LIE. And I mean LIE.
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...just put on your resume that you graduated with a BS in CS from RIT
That may get you the job, but it'll get you fired when they find out... About two years ago (I would link to RIT's Reporter Magazine, but their archives don't go back very far), one of the professors here was discovered to have lied on his resume. He had been here for the better part of a decade, and was definitely one of the better professors. He was let go, for that simple reason that he lied. As a result, he now has either a big gaping hole in his resume, or an almost-worthless reference.
-- David Yaw: Proud graduate of RIT with a Batchelor's in Computer Science
Courts should be, and are, swayed by logical opinions and arguments. That's why our legal system is a combative one.
Remind me never to face you in court, I don't want to get beat up... Most lawyers work within the adversarial system, and don't resort to combat.
I'm guessing that your sales teams do not contain an engineer (I'm including IT guys in my definition of "Software Engineer). This may or may not be possible, depending on the size of your company, developments teams, and projects, but here's my suggestion: Always have an engineer at every meeting between your company and the client. Ideally, a project manager or head coder (Even better if those are the same person).
At my company, (granted, we're smaller than you appear to be...), our engineers deal with their engineers. No salespeople to get in the way, and it works very well.
the biggest thing I miss most is tradewars
Well, you're in luck. TradeWars has been ported to a Win32 app, and there's still lots of games around. Just telnet to any of the games listed here.
And the last paragraph: "electrons usually travel at two thirds the speed of light". Wow, who needs particle accelerators?
You are correct rsidd. An electrical signal travels at very high speed (I've always used 1/2c instead of 2/3c as the average, but whatever...), but the individual electrons travel rather slow (a couple hundred meters per second is typical, IIRC).
Did anyone else notice this: In order to search for anything, the user needs to actually type the words in the opposite order. What should be done by having the cursor move to the left after each character is typed, needs to be done in the user's head. (Try searching for "slashdot". Then try typing it backwards. Can't use the arrow keys to move the cursor to the left after each character, you've got to type "todhsals".)
Personally, for tools, A screwdriver is ususally enough. (Get one of the four-in-ones.) The only other tool I'd add is a mirror. (Get an old makeup mirror, the kind that's in a compact that had makeup on one side and the mirror on the other. It keeps the mirror protected. I got one from my mom when I was in high school, works great.)
The most important thing is parts. Gonna throw away that old 386? Take out all the screws, IDE & floppy cables, power supply cables. (And sort the screws by size.) Add a couple network cables, maybe a USB cable, and a power cable.
A couple boot floppies for various OSs (make sure they've got CD drive support), and that'll do it.
well when you create a section called ``goatse'' it places a number beside it-say for example 1.0. then the figures are named 1-1, 1-2, etc. say you want to insert a section called ``midget'' infront of ``goatse''. then figure 1-1 becomes 2-1, and 1-2 becomes 2-2, etc. latex renumbers these for you.
if you previously referenced equation 1-1 in the text, latex will also change this to 2-1 automatically.
latex will also change the table of contents, table numbering, references to these sections/tables in the text, etc.
Umm... This isn't anything special... WordPerfect did this in the very first version I used (5.0 for DOS (I still have the function key template around somewhere (For those who never used WP, it's a piece of plastic that sits on the keyboard around the function keys, and has all the shortcuts listed on it))), as did MS Word in the first version I used (2.0 for Win). Really, this is one of the more basic and essential word processing functions.
(Can you tell I like embedded parentheses (a lot)?)
...'a device does not infringe because it can be made to infringe'.
Somebody please tell me this can be used for some case against the DMCA (DeCSS? AEBEX?)
As far as I can tell, the only change from this is that they have a construction permit, and very few technical details.
They were both products created with the primary purpose of circumventing copyright protection systems.
DeCSS was written for watching DVDs on Linux. AEBEX was written for reading books on PDAs, etc. Both scenarios fall well within the bounds of fair use.
However, it cannot compete with the Matrox Parhelia here. The Parhelia, though it has slower framerates, has better color saturation and 16x FSAA w/o a massive performance hit.
Huh? Slower framerates isn't a performance hit? Sounds like you're a little biased.
Am I the only one that got really annoyed by their interchanging of kilowatt and kilowatt-hour? (For the non-electrical types: kilowatt is a measure of flow, not of total energy. Saying that a building uses 500,000 kilowatts per year is like saying that your car gets 20 miles per gallon per day. )
This is indeed a dupe
I don't know if radar can detect the parachutes, but it can detect the parachutist. Some of the guys I work with used to work on military radar, and one time they told me a story about going to the testing grounds in Arizona, and there were a couple of people sky diving that day, and the sky divers thought it was really cool that they could see this nice smooth arc of their fall on the radar screen. (The story was told from the perspective of "stupid sky divers were thrilled to have a couple thousand watts of radio energy pointed at them", but the point remains...)
So regardless of whether radar can pick up the parachute or a weird snake-shaped parachute, it can still pick up the parachutist.
ever received spam from IBM?
Not IBM, but I do get a RadioShack one about once every couple weeks. And RadioShack is definately a well-established company.