My brother used to work in an office that was (badly) converted from an old bakery about 10 years previously. There was the usual large store/junk room around the back where stuff was just piled up until they ran out of room. Eventually they had to clear it out. Right at the back of the room buried under a huge pile of stuff was quite a large chest freezer. It wasn't turned on but it was locked shut.
They tried to shift it but it was too heavy and obviously full. This should have rung a few alarm bells but no. They busted the lock open with a crow bar and opened it up. Projectile vomiting all round the moment the lid was opened. 3 people taken to hospital. It required a very specialised hazmat / cleaning team to sort it out in the long term as it turned out the freezer had been used to store raw meat for pies and pasties and that meat had been in there for about 11 years or so. Did I mention the room got very hot in the summer...
I was looking for a job a while ago and had a first interview with one company that went well. They asked me to do a second interview that would last a whole day and "replicate a real days work here".
Basically they had a project that would take a day to complete and I had to do it for them for free.
I had already been to another interview that had gone really well by the time my second interview came around and I was less keen on the job.
The PHB told me another guy had been in the day before and done a "similar project" and even showed me his work. That clinched it... I wrote something that worked fine. I just hope they dont read the html comments in it.
Though Stephenson is not as bad a Douglas Coupland putting about 10 pages of digits of pi in Jpod.
It seems a lot of modern writers do this sort of thing. IMHO it doesn't move the story along its literally filler. Ask them to write a tight, fast paced short story or novella and their minds would explode.
I think I might sponsor a new literary competition....
Hawkeye cannot 'hear' a snick to give a 'caught behind'.
the tv companies have a "snickometer" which puts up an analysis of the sounds picked up by a microphone in the stumps. Its only used for commentary. The umpire makes the decision himself
Hawkeye cannot (as far as I can tell) decide if a ball is caught or if the fielder let it slip through his fingers as he scoops it up the ground.
A good tv replay can show this but as cricket is a gentleman's game it is up to the fielder making the catch to say if he thinks he made a clean catch. There have been instances in test cricket where fielders have called back batsmen after the umpire initially gave them out.
Hawkeye cannot tell if a Leg Bye or simple bye was scored.
No but the umpire can, hawkeye finds it very hard to spot a ball that deviates from its theoretical trajectory at the best of times
I don't believe it can decide a 'wide' as there is no fixed length rule.
you answered your own question there
Hawkeye cannot tell if a ball was caught inside or outside the boundary.
Thats because its looking at where the ball is being bowled in the middle of the playing area, it doesn't cover the whole of the field
Hawkeye cannot decide a run out.
That is because it is used to approximate the trajectory of the ball as its being bowled. Not when its being throw to the stumps and the relative position of the batsmans feet and bat. TV slo mo replays decide run outs (if the umpire is unsure) and are ideal for the purpose
Hakweye cannot tell if the ball hits the helmet often left behind the wicket keeper (5 runs)
the normally loud noise the ball makes when it hits the helmet and the ball shooting off in a different direction often suffices.
Hakweye cannot even decide a no ball yet.
As previously stated hawkeye doesnt watch peoples feet it watches the ball
The only thing Hawkeye was/is used for is to decide an LBW decision which is a small percentage of 'outs' in a given game, and also to show where balls have been pitched for a given bowler.
Its only used for this purpose for the tv commentators to have something to talk about. The margin of error and the problems with picking up balls that swing in the air or move off line from the pitch make it impossible to give an accurate ruling on an LBW.
Umpires in Cricket are going nowhere.
Its because 90% of decisions made in cricket are made by the umpires without needing back up that makes cricket a fascinating sport.
Yes, some people also want to use Hawkeye for some decisions in cricket, the sport that first used it. However the margin of error is far greater (approximately +- 2 inches) in cricket as the cameras have to be a lot further away due to the size of the pitch.
Also Hawkeye finds it hard to pick up swinging, seaming and spinning balls. Basically anything that deviates off its theoretical trajectory either in the air or off the playing surface. Both of which are vital in the LBW decisions where the TV companies and doubtless the Hawkeye people would want to see it used.
Obviously cricket is a far more useful game than tennis so does this answer your question?
Many companies who sell lists of addresses either postal or email add in seed addresses. In theory you only "rent" the list not own it. So if they see mail coming to their dummy addresses x years in the future they will know who kept the data after the rental limit.
There are even dummy addresses in the white and yellow pages to prevent unscrupulous businesses sending the phone books to somewhere cheap to get them copy typed into a database. If you ring the number no one answers but your caller ID is recorded. If you send them mail thats checked too. How do I know this. A company I used to work for got caught doing just this.
When they were just starting out. They sort of ripped off my cousins company by getting a load of stuff out of them and not paying. Years later they sent him the cheque with interest after meeting up on Facebook
They are hosted on ingentaconnect.com (who I happen to work for) A particularly fine article that is available for free there is this one on chickens. You can also see it being presented on youtube
That I got real cheap that was covered in scratches within about a year and then the strap looked like it was corroding... I took it to a jewelers to get a new strap and they said "its not worth it".
This time last year my wife and I were eating in our favourite restaurant and got chatting to the couple on the table next to ours. Sooner or later the subject of work came up. I said I was a web developer. "we are web developers too" they said. It turns out they work from home just down the road from us. He does the backend asp coding and she does the front end and photography. They still churn their way through local SME businesses that want a 4 page brochure website. The thing is they make a good living out of it. Just as much as I can make in a large but specialised web development company.
Yes "webmasters" are rare but they are not extinct.
The headmasters wife of the school where my wife works gave me her laptop to look at whilst we were at a party at their place once. The schools IT guy wouldnt touch it. It was windows XP but it took something like 10 minutes to boot and she said it was "reeeally reeeally slew" (she is French).
Found out the disk had 5k of space left on it. Checked and there was no antivirus, firewall or antimalware installed and it had been directly connected to a broadband line with a adsl modem for the last 3 months. And the cursors were animated dinosaurs.
Once I had cleared off some space I installed AVG and Ad-Aware. They both went through the roof. One of the many many viruses was inflating every file on the drive that was around 150k to around 300k which partially explained the lack of disk space. Eventually I couldnt do any more and it was still crap. I suggested wiping it. "Oh you cant do that... I dont keep any backups and the Outlook Express has all the details of our side business in it"
I ended up passing the mess onto my brother who has a nice sideline. He actually said it was the second worse pc he has ever sorted out. The worst was a guy who downloaded from Kazaa constantly as well. After 3 days he fixed it though. He ended up using 3 different virus scanners to get everything.
When I gave it back to her I explained that someone was probably using her laptop to send out loads of spam and host kiddie porn on. She went out and bought Norton that very day. Lets hope she keeps it up to date.
so you think it would be more secure to have tags that anyone could see with view->source describing the content of your database?
Remind me to look at your sites credit card information database if you ever implement it.
JSTL has a series of sql tags which even the offical documentation recommends you dont use them apart for the most simple throw it together wireframe type thing.
There is a reason for separating all this sort of stuff out you know.
I actually live just down the road from Yeovil. (or YeoVile). An aquiantance actually runs the main firm of bouncers in the town. He says that the fingerprint scanners started off in one of the clubs in town more or less as the owner is a gadget freak and just got a MS keyboard with fingerprint scanner. The club owner used it to get some free publicity in the local press. The regional press and tv picked it up and finally the story was on the main bbc news a few months ago. Governement has seen it and thought "Hang on a minute..."
Actually having your right index finger print taken in the clubs closed, non-government affilitated system is optional even in the bar that started it. YeoVile is a small town and the bouncers know all the main troublemakers personally by now. If someone comes in from out of town looking for trouble of course no system is going to stop them.
So all of this started out as a cheap publicity stunt by the owner of a small club in a small town and has got people the British government involved and now people all round the world are commenting on it... the guy must be laughing his head off.
I used to work with a guy who was obsessed by Amigas. He kept prediciting they would take over the world. I hope he hasnt been holding his breath all this time like I told him too
whole article should be modded...
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thanks for this site. I just added all the crap it produces to my Adblocker list. As I had FF with pop ups blocked I only managed to get 2 pop-unders... still its more moronic ads being nixed
In the bad old days virii did all that and more... apart from maybe uploading your stuff to public sites.
I remeber a long way back getting a virus that deleted every.exe file outside of C:\windows. It meant that windows was still fine but there were no applications to do anything. Then again I still had Freecell and Minesweeper so it wasn't all bad
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When you have a hammer all problems look like nails... or something
oh how I wish I had mod points right now... well done sir
My brother used to work in an office that was (badly) converted from an old bakery about 10 years previously. There was the usual large store/junk room around the back where stuff was just piled up until they ran out of room. Eventually they had to clear it out. Right at the back of the room buried under a huge pile of stuff was quite a large chest freezer. It wasn't turned on but it was locked shut.
They tried to shift it but it was too heavy and obviously full. This should have rung a few alarm bells but no. They busted the lock open with a crow bar and opened it up. Projectile vomiting all round the moment the lid was opened. 3 people taken to hospital. It required a very specialised hazmat / cleaning team to sort it out in the long term as it turned out the freezer had been used to store raw meat for pies and pasties and that meat had been in there for about 11 years or so. Did I mention the room got very hot in the summer...
I was looking for a job a while ago and had a first interview with one company that went well. They asked me to do a second interview that would last a whole day and "replicate a real days work here".
Basically they had a project that would take a day to complete and I had to do it for them for free.
I had already been to another interview that had gone really well by the time my second interview came around and I was less keen on the job.
The PHB told me another guy had been in the day before and done a "similar project" and even showed me his work. That clinched it... I wrote something that worked fine. I just hope they dont read the html comments in it.
Amen to that brother.
Though Stephenson is not as bad a Douglas Coupland putting about 10 pages of digits of pi in Jpod.
It seems a lot of modern writers do this sort of thing. IMHO it doesn't move the story along its literally filler. Ask them to write a tight, fast paced short story or novella and their minds would explode.
I think I might sponsor a new literary competition....
Hawkeye cannot 'hear' a snick to give a 'caught behind'.
the tv companies have a "snickometer" which puts up an analysis of the sounds picked up by a microphone in the stumps. Its only used for commentary. The umpire makes the decision himself
Hawkeye cannot (as far as I can tell) decide if a ball is caught or if the fielder let it slip through his fingers as he scoops it up the ground.
A good tv replay can show this but as cricket is a gentleman's game it is up to the fielder making the catch to say if he thinks he made a clean catch. There have been instances in test cricket where fielders have called back batsmen after the umpire initially gave them out.
Hawkeye cannot tell if a Leg Bye or simple bye was scored.
No but the umpire can, hawkeye finds it very hard to spot a ball that deviates from its theoretical trajectory at the best of times
I don't believe it can decide a 'wide' as there is no fixed length rule.
you answered your own question there
Hawkeye cannot tell if a ball was caught inside or outside the boundary.
Thats because its looking at where the ball is being bowled in the middle of the playing area, it doesn't cover the whole of the field
Hawkeye cannot decide a run out.
That is because it is used to approximate the trajectory of the ball as its being bowled. Not when its being throw to the stumps and the relative position of the batsmans feet and bat. TV slo mo replays decide run outs (if the umpire is unsure) and are ideal for the purpose
Hakweye cannot tell if the ball hits the helmet often left behind the wicket keeper (5 runs)
the normally loud noise the ball makes when it hits the helmet and the ball shooting off in a different direction often suffices.
Hakweye cannot even decide a no ball yet.
As previously stated hawkeye doesnt watch peoples feet it watches the ball
The only thing Hawkeye was/is used for is to decide an LBW decision which is a small percentage of 'outs' in a given game, and also to show where balls have been pitched for a given bowler.
Its only used for this purpose for the tv commentators to have something to talk about. The margin of error and the problems with picking up balls that swing in the air or move off line from the pitch make it impossible to give an accurate ruling on an LBW.
Umpires in Cricket are going nowhere.
Its because 90% of decisions made in cricket are made by the umpires without needing back up that makes cricket a fascinating sport.
Yes, some people also want to use Hawkeye for some decisions in cricket, the sport that first used it. However the margin of error is far greater (approximately +- 2 inches) in cricket as the cameras have to be a lot further away due to the size of the pitch.
Also Hawkeye finds it hard to pick up swinging, seaming and spinning balls. Basically anything that deviates off its theoretical trajectory either in the air or off the playing surface. Both of which are vital in the LBW decisions where the TV companies and doubtless the Hawkeye people would want to see it used.
Obviously cricket is a far more useful game than tennis so does this answer your question?
Many companies who sell lists of addresses either postal or email add in seed addresses. In theory you only "rent" the list not own it. So if they see mail coming to their dummy addresses x years in the future they will know who kept the data after the rental limit.
There are even dummy addresses in the white and yellow pages to prevent unscrupulous businesses sending the phone books to somewhere cheap to get them copy typed into a database. If you ring the number no one answers but your caller ID is recorded. If you send them mail thats checked too. How do I know this. A company I used to work for got caught doing just this.
When they were just starting out. They sort of ripped off my cousins company by getting a load of stuff out of them and not paying. Years later they sent him the cheque with interest after meeting up on Facebook
They are hosted on ingentaconnect.com (who I happen to work for) A particularly fine article that is available for free there is this one on chickens. You can also see it being presented on youtube
That I got real cheap that was covered in scratches within about a year and then the strap looked like it was corroding... I took it to a jewelers to get a new strap and they said "its not worth it".
This time last year my wife and I were eating in our favourite restaurant and got chatting to the couple on the table next to ours. Sooner or later the subject of work came up. I said I was a web developer. "we are web developers too" they said. It turns out they work from home just down the road from us. He does the backend asp coding and she does the front end and photography. They still churn their way through local SME businesses that want a 4 page brochure website. The thing is they make a good living out of it. Just as much as I can make in a large but specialised web development company.
Yes "webmasters" are rare but they are not extinct.
well done sir, if only I had mod points
All the on line casinos moved out of the usa and uk into places like Gibraltar and Costa Rica... surely companies like Linden Labs would do the same
did you expect anything different... be honest.
The headmasters wife of the school where my wife works gave me her laptop to look at whilst we were at a party at their place once. The schools IT guy wouldnt touch it. It was windows XP but it took something like 10 minutes to boot and she said it was "reeeally reeeally slew" (she is French).
Found out the disk had 5k of space left on it. Checked and there was no antivirus, firewall or antimalware installed and it had been directly connected to a broadband line with a adsl modem for the last 3 months. And the cursors were animated dinosaurs.
Once I had cleared off some space I installed AVG and Ad-Aware. They both went through the roof. One of the many many viruses was inflating every file on the drive that was around 150k to around 300k which partially explained the lack of disk space. Eventually I couldnt do any more and it was still crap. I suggested wiping it. "Oh you cant do that... I dont keep any backups and the Outlook Express has all the details of our side business in it"
I ended up passing the mess onto my brother who has a nice sideline. He actually said it was the second worse pc he has ever sorted out. The worst was a guy who downloaded from Kazaa constantly as well. After 3 days he fixed it though. He ended up using 3 different virus scanners to get everything.
When I gave it back to her I explained that someone was probably using her laptop to send out loads of spam and host kiddie porn on. She went out and bought Norton that very day. Lets hope she keeps it up to date.
so you think it would be more secure to have tags that anyone could see with view->source describing the content of your database?
Remind me to look at your sites credit card information database if you ever implement it.
JSTL has a series of sql tags which even the offical documentation recommends you dont use them apart for the most simple throw it together wireframe type thing.
There is a reason for separating all this sort of stuff out you know.
I actually live just down the road from Yeovil. (or YeoVile). An aquiantance actually runs the main firm of bouncers in the town. He says that the fingerprint scanners started off in one of the clubs in town more or less as the owner is a gadget freak and just got a MS keyboard with fingerprint scanner. The club owner used it to get some free publicity in the local press. The regional press and tv picked it up and finally the story was on the main bbc news a few months ago. Governement has seen it and thought "Hang on a minute..."
Actually having your right index finger print taken in the clubs closed, non-government affilitated system is optional even in the bar that started it. YeoVile is a small town and the bouncers know all the main troublemakers personally by now. If someone comes in from out of town looking for trouble of course no system is going to stop them.
So all of this started out as a cheap publicity stunt by the owner of a small club in a small town and has got people the British government involved and now people all round the world are commenting on it... the guy must be laughing his head off.
I used to work with a guy who was obsessed by Amigas. He kept prediciting they would take over the world. I hope he hasnt been holding his breath all this time like I told him too
flamebait!
thanks for this site. I just added all the crap it produces to my Adblocker list. As I had FF with pop ups blocked I only managed to get 2 pop-unders... still its more moronic ads being nixed
try to do just about that with a little hacking and greasemonkeying.
In the bad old days virii did all that and more... apart from maybe uploading your stuff to public sites.
I remeber a long way back getting a virus that deleted every .exe file outside of C:\windows. It meant that windows was still fine but there were no applications to do anything. Then again I still had Freecell and Minesweeper so it wasn't all bad
you could trace the email address to somewhere in either the former Eastern Bloc or Nigeria
It was pretty funny to. Lots of squaddies waving captured Iraqi AK47s in time to Tony Christie is always funny IMHO.
No one fell over though. (joke that americans wont get)