In the swamps area, there are 'Swamp Hags' who will summon creatures that attack the party -- they are the most valuable creatures in the game, if done right:
Tell everyone in your party to not attack.
Save the game. (we might want to come back if we mess this up)
Set one or two of your party members to cast healing spells. (they'll do it automatically.)
Take the character that the hag is attacking (we'll call him 'bait'), and have him stand away from the rest of the group.
Set the other members to not advance, so the bait is between them and the hag. (this will be the combat group)
Have the combat group use ranged weapons (or spells, but spells require babysitting)
Make sure that the combat group can *not* hit the hag.
The bait is allowed to heal (even if he's crap at it) or use close combat weapons (but he can't move, so it's mostly useless)
Save again (just in case you want to try again should this fail)
You need to watch it for a few minutes,but once you're sure the hag is targeting the right folks, and the hags aren't getting hit by stray arrows (you may not want to have the bait directly between the hag and the party, to reduce the chance of accidental shots).
Baby sit the setup for a few minutes --mana potions for the healers, etc, but after a while, you'll feel good about leaving it... come back in a few hours (after work, next morning), and there will just be items dropped in a nice little ring (the hag may be dead from a stray shot)... pick up the magic stuff, convert the crap to gold, find another hag, and repeat.
It's tricker to deal with 2+ hags at once, especially if they target different folks, so you have to subject more guys as bait, but you can get great gear this way, and a ton of levels.
(I was also criticized by my friends for making Command and Conquer unplayable within a week when finding you made money if you sold not quite full silos, and ruining the spirit of Morrowind with my overpowered potions)
Oh -- and a while back, there was someone who had a ranking system for computer games, based on 'crates'. Basically, the more crates (or sooner you ran across them in a game), the greater the lack of originality in the game. I want to say it was done about the time of C&C2
For a quick overview, there's the book from Sun, "Enterprise Data Center Design and Method", which covers concepts on dealing with airflow, rack placement, power requirements, etc. The first chapter is available from Sun Blueprints:
Sun also has some articles on disaster planning and such in the Data Center section of Sun Blueprints.
Oh... and $250 is not a lot of money, when you're dealing with a buildout of millions of dollars, just for the data center (ie, not the actual systems to go into the data center)
I wasn't asked for a transcript until 7 years after I graduated.
And yes, the US federal government does ask for transcripts, as do educational institutions when you're applying for a job that includes teaching.
And it had nothing to do with money -- I'm near Washignton, DC, and was trying to get a job that was only a 10 minute commute (which can be much more valuable than money in this area).
It took me 4 months to get my alma mater to update their computer system to reflect that I had graduated 7 years previously. Of course, the fact they had sent me a diploma didn't seem to be a factor, but lots of employers want a transcript, and it didn't show up there. Of course, they didn't keep paper records that long, so all they had t go on was one field in a computer system.
In the end, after threatening to bring in lawyers, and having to get the curriculum committee to meet and decide I had passed, the dean finally apologized -- for having 'incorrectly given me a diploma'.
Besides, all that certificates prove is that you're willing to waste the time and money to get a piece of paper... even if it's 4+ years and many thousands of dollars. (in the case of Brainbench, however, my company paid for me to take the tests, but I'd have to shell out for the paper to show I passed them, which can add up, if you do well at tests.)
It used to be. They've relaxed it recently. (I know, because I was trying to figure out why there was the ban, as I'm in the group banned, and freaked me out even more when the relaxed the rules, but I was still in the banned group.)
Here's the notice they've been sending out whenever we have a blood drive at work:
Effective March 1, 2005, the American Red Cross has significantly changed
the restrictions for deferral of donors who have traveled to various parts
of the world. Previously, the restrictions were 3 months total from 1980 to
1996 in the UK and 6 months total for the UK and Europe.
Now, the criteria is as follows for deferral:
Since January 1, 1980 through December 31, 1996-
Spent a total time that adds up to 3 months or more in any country in the
United Kingdom.
Were a member of the U.S. military, a civilian military employee, or a
dependent of a member of the US Military that spent a total of 6 months on
or associated with a military base in any of the following areas during the
specified time frames-
From 1980 through 1990-Belgium, the Netherlands (Holland), or Germany
From 1980 thorough 1996-Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Italy or Greece
Since January 1, 1980 to present-
Spent a total time that adds up to 5 years or more in Europe (includes time
spent n the UK from 1980 through 1996 and time associated with the military
bases in Europe as outlined above)
The rest of the deferral requirements remain the same.
From the research I did, there were suggestions that military folks were likely to visit the UK -- I couldn't find anything that suggested that have reason to believe that there was tainted meat on the bases.
If you're going to go for Red Dwarf quotes, I would have gone for:
Lister:
You know what the problem is. Every day it's the same
old slot in deep space. No variety. Take Christmas. What did
we do Christmas day?
Kryten:
Oh, ah, you remember, sir. Christmas day, we were
attacked by that pan-dimensional liquid beast from the Mogagon
Cluster.
Lister:
Maybe that wasn't such a great example. I'm trying to
say our lives are dull, repetitive. We never take time out to
smell the roses. We never celebrate anything.
Cat:
We got nothing to celebrate with, bud.
Kryten:
Oh, not true, sir. There's a whole case of that wine I
brewed out of urine recyc, just lying there, practically
untouched.
Lister:
Call me pretentious if you like, but for me, a truly
great wine should not leave you with a moustache that you can
only remove with turps.
Although I'd probably qualify them as more hippie than geek, there's Arcosanti, Arizona, not to mention most European cities that have been in existance since before automobiles were invented. I'm personally partial to Dubrovnik, Croatia.
One of the big things to remember in city living is that space is at a premium -- give up the 4 bedroom houses and 3 bathrooms. When you carry most of the things you buy, rather than just drop them in the back of your SUV, you're not likely to do as much impulse buying. And changing out your furniture every year is more difficult when you also have to consider both delivery of the new stuff, and disposal of what you currently have.
It may have other benefits, by providing extra incentives to select items that will last, as opposed to whatever's cheapest.
Starting from scratch is the easiest way to reduce the dependancy on automobiles, but some places are trying to implement disincentives (London w/ a toll for entering the city, Athens w/ restrictions on which cars can enter the town based on their license places). Unfortunately, some don't have the intended results -- in Greece, people would just get a second car, so they had one w/ and odd licenses, and one even.
One of the most feasible design for a solar car that I've seen was the TNE III, from Team New England. The folks who run Sunrayce (GM) specifically changed the rules after 1995, to make sure that the design, or anything resembling it, wasn't allowed again.
What was different about their design? They didn't keep the solar panels in a charging configuration while the vehicle was in motion. They would charge up, pack up the array, then race for the finish line. If they ran out of power, they'd have to stop, unpack the array, then sit and charge for a while.
Besides that their car was one of the only ones with trunk space (although, it was filled with the solar array), their design gave more space to the driver compartment. Provided it's used for simple commuting (office, home, charge, repeat), their design makes perfect sense.
Now... why won't solar cars ever come into real use? They're not strong enough to pass crash safety tests. They draw at most 2kW. That results in major weight stripping -- they weigh at most 700lbs with a driver in them. They also reduce the cross section... maybe 0.5 to 1 m^2... which means it has about the visibility of a motorcycle (worse, as they're so low to the ground).
Combined with a Suburban or a semi, whose driver isn't paying attention, and it's a death trap on wheels.
The only way that I see fully electric vehicles really coming into their own is in a controled environment where they're not mixing with larger vehicles. (planned cities, golf courses, etc.)
I'm personally for planned cities -- visit a town like Venice, and you'll see that it's perfectly possible to get around without owning a vehicle, so long as they're a little bit of public transit Think about how much cleaner New York could be if people couldn't bring vehicles in from outside, and there were only delivery vehicles, mass transit, and taxis.
I would actually expect alternative fuels, most likely oil, but not necessarily petroleum based, to be the most likely candidate for the next generation -- biodiesel, or byproducts from trash digestion or biomass recycling.
I'd say that the car companies realize that people are willing to pay a premium for more environmentally friendly cars (just like they used to be able to sell 'agressive' looking cars, more comfortable rides, 'luxury', or carrying capacity), but they have to weigh that against making sure it's reliable. They could go bankrupt from lemon laws if they don't make sure they're rock solid, and aren't hazardous to their passengers.
I've built electric cars. (college solar car team).
This car does not get 80 mpg. It uses 1 gallon of gas for every 80 miles it travels... but he gets power from the wall, which had to come from somewhere.
Although large power plants may be able to make electricity more efficiently, he has to deal with transmission losses, and then storage losses from the inefficiency of battery storage. And he has the extra weight of 18 more batteries.
The only advantage wall-plugs do on electric vehicles is move where they're poluting -- it moves to the power plant, instead of the point of use.
Billing any of these cars as '250mpg' unless gallons of gasoline is the only input to the system is a disservice to everyone.
It's one thing to try to gouge students on books that the teachers wrote themselves, but The Inferno's copyright has lapsed.... a damned long time ago.
Why not point them to one of the freeversions out there?
With the size of that monitor, I'm thinking a roll of VHB, and he could've just afixed it behind the monitor, and saved a whole lot of time.
Also, the cardboard box seemed like the real hack... I've found that the best way to attach a computer below a fixed surface was using two ratchet straps bolted to the bottom of a table, and a couple of strips of foam (cut up camping pad) between the table and the computer.
It was a little more complicated than that, as I was mounting them in vehicles, and had other issues to deal with. You could leave out the foam, but I'd probably still use some sort of a spacer, so there was some airflow above the system, especially with the mini.
You don't have a G5 2x2GHz sitting on your desk, then.
It's usually fairly quet, but if you get the load up, it sounds like it's getting ready to take off (it's my first sign that it's having problems). I've had plenty of other noisy Macs... the only quiet ones are those without fans (iMacs, including the mini).
The G4 tower (1x866Mhz) under my desk is typically the noisiest thing in my office, unless the G5 starts getting beaten on. (it's my QA environment). The XServes generate a fair bit of noise, as well.
I wouldn't even qualify my powerbook as particularly quiet (TiBook, 1GHz). Not just the fan, but the optical drive and the hard disk are rather noisy as well.
It's only news because it was a bunch of journalists who saw it, and so, a few of them who had nothing interesting, but had a deadline for an article, decided to write an article which should have been called 'the stupid thing that happened to me that no one else cares about'. (actually -- Romensko might care, as he posts news about journalists, but he doesn't post stuff over the weekend typically)
In other news, someone clicked 'approve article' when they should've hit 'reject'.
Most people's preferences are to stay with the things that they already know, and what they're familiar with. (except in mating, but that's a whole 'nother issue).
I like the old chart because all of the detail is right there with the element -- I don't have to go and look at the chart along the right side of the page to get all of its details. But... could this be a better form for someone who isn't already familiar with the periodic table that we've grown up with? Is it easier for children to understand?
Yes, the whole 'galaxy' thing is most likely to get children interested in science. They'd have probably worked a dinosaur in there, too, if someone hadn't pointed out that it'd then be sexist, and appeal to boys more than girls, but if it gets the kids interested, and maybe they then move to what we think of as the 'normal' periodic table (being that it's much more dense with its information), it doesn't really hurt anyone.
It just makes it so that the kids won't get jokes like the Periodic Table of Condiments quite as quickly. (of course, the folks who made it didn't understand the Periodic Table of Elements, or they'd have placed similarly behaving items in a column, with the most reactive elements towards the edges, except for the far right column for things that never go bad)
There are plenty of RBLs that exist, they just tend to list originators rather than the companies being advertised.
The problem is when the people maintaining the lists don't handle the lists in a consistent manner, and start adding companies that they don't like for whatever reason, or don't provide some means for a company to clear their name, and be delisted. (and paying the list provider doesn't qualify).
In the early days, RBLs were effective -- but then people started automating submissions (spamcop), and people were throwing legitimate opt-in lists into the mix... the egos started kicking in, and they've since grown to the point where in my opinion, they're not effective anymore. (I'd rather get 50 spam, than lose one legitimate e-mail... but your values may be different)
A few forged e-mail messages, and you could effectively DOS a site by getting them listed when they shouldn't be -- that doesn't help anyone. The real solution is to track down the asshole spammers and deal with them directly and force them to lose money -- preferably making an example of them, to keep others from thinking they can continue to ruin things for everyone else.
We have companies like New Generation Motors, which is owned by the former advisors of the George Washington University solar car team, and they used equiptment that had been bought for the project tax exempt. (and when I tried asking for the stuff back, I got bitched out and told that our faculty advisor could store the stuff whereever he wanted, even if it meant we couldn't use it on the project) -- although he was kind enough to give us stuff with 'property of NASA' tags on it, where two of them also worked.
They claimed the work of students as that of the company, and they made axial flux motors that are used in many of the solar cars today.
I reported this to the Dean of GW's engineering school in 1995 (right after the success of GW at the World Solar Rallye), and was threatened with expulsion to shut me up. (I didn't know he was bringing in a $3mil grant to the university, and they'd rather have that, than ethics).
Of course, the faculty advisor kept being greedy, and was finally charged with embezzlement for a completely unrelated grant last year.
That sounds more like a crash to me -- and not all crashes are accidental.
We can't exactly use the word collision, as not all collisions cause damage (purely elastic or purely inelastic collisions will transfer energy without permenant deformation of the bodies involved)
I'm not sure if there are times when the word 'crash' denotes a situation that isn't a 'damaging energy exchange', but it seems better than 'accident', which has more to do with something not having been done intentionally, and very little to do with damage or energy exchange. (the context of its use may suggest that, but you haven't given its context).
My company went and merged with another one, and the new company contacted Sprint, and had my personal cell phone bill redirected to them -- without my giving them permission to do so.
Needless to say, I was pissed. (It was one of many reasons that I got pissed off at the new management, and quit shortly after). And when I called up Sprint PCS to bitch, they wanted me to give them my pin, and a whole bunch of other identifying info, which to the best of my knowledge, my company didn't have... I bitched them out, and told them they changed it once without it, and they were damned well going to change it back without me giving it this time.
(I'm not sure if their willingness to change it back just from my bitching them out, without proving who I was is a good thing, or a bad thing... them changing it the first time was definately a bad thing, though).
Were the users given numbers in AOLs, or your IP space?
After all, it's also possible that the reason that AOL has such good numbers is from their users being counted against someone else.
[or, more likely, that their users don't spend as much time connected, and so by looking at the number of attacks, you actually have to compare the sum of time that the subscribers were connected, rather than the number of subscribers.]
Not half the computers. By the wording, one computer still running out of a company w/ 500 computers would still count as 'running Windows 2000'. So, it's entirely possible for that same half (and even some from the other half) to be running windows3.1, and still count as 'running Windows 2000'.
Of course, if you look at the AssetMatrix site, they say
Windows 2000 still has a greater than 50% market share in larger organizations
Unfortunately, my quick glance didn't turn up the full report from the study (I found their news release, which said to go to their website, which linked to the news release) , the data used, or the definition of 'market share' as used in the news release.
But to answer your question, from the news release:
Windows 95 and Windows 98 were reduced from a collective 28% to less than 5%;
Of course, we have no idea what those numbers mean, so it's fairly useless, other than to know that they've chosen a system that makes the numbers go down with time for Win95/98.
I admit it -- I cut my hair before my last interview. I had long hair for 14 years, and cut it short the day before the interview. I took out my one piercing (ear), and my hair was my natural color.
I was used to wearing a shirt and tie from my previous job, where they kept changing the dress code on me to make more and more strict (usually, right after I did something that was technically within the dress code, but they didn't have rules against).
Anyway, on my 5th day, the executive assistant for the department came up to me and said, 'if you wear a tie again next week, I'll string you up by it'. Now, mind you, she was my mom's age, and a half foot shorter than me, but I haven't done it since... I even wore in some shirts that I got specifically to annoy my old work, and some people commented positively on them.
I've since grown my hair back out, put back in my earring, and think it's great to work in a place where people care more about the work that you do, rather than your appearance.
But I'd say downplay these things in an interview -- yes, it might show that you're willing to think outside the box, rather than be constrained by normal boundries, but it might also peg you as someone who's trying to rebel against the rules and isn't a team player.
Of course, there's also the question -- would you want to work in the kind of place where you don't get to express who you are? If you don't think you can do it, then make sure they know what they're getting into. (maybe not in the interview -- wait for them to offer you the job, and then inform them)
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It's like someone recorded the article, and is playing it back for us to flame a second time!
- Tell everyone in your party to not attack.
- Save the game. (we might want to come back if we mess this up)
- Set one or two of your party members to cast healing spells. (they'll do it automatically.)
- Take the character that the hag is attacking (we'll call him 'bait'), and have him stand away from the rest of the group.
- Set the other members to not advance, so the bait is between them and the hag. (this will be the combat group)
- Have the combat group use ranged weapons (or spells, but spells require babysitting)
- Make sure that the combat group can *not* hit the hag.
- The bait is allowed to heal (even if he's crap at it) or use close combat weapons (but he can't move, so it's mostly useless)
- Save again (just in case you want to try again should this fail)
You need to watch it for a few minutes,but once you're sure the hag is targeting the right folks, and the hags aren't getting hit by stray arrows (you may not want to have the bait directly between the hag and the party, to reduce the chance of accidental shots).Baby sit the setup for a few minutes --mana potions for the healers, etc, but after a while, you'll feel good about leaving it
It's tricker to deal with 2+ hags at once, especially if they target different folks, so you have to subject more guys as bait, but you can get great gear this way, and a ton of levels.
(I was also criticized by my friends for making Command and Conquer unplayable within a week when finding you made money if you sold not quite full silos, and ruining the spirit of Morrowind with my overpowered potions)
Oh -- and a while back, there was someone who had a ranking system for computer games, based on 'crates'. Basically, the more crates (or sooner you ran across them in a game), the greater the lack of originality in the game. I want to say it was done about the time of C&C2
Oh
I wasn't asked for a transcript until 7 years after I graduated.
And yes, the US federal government does ask for transcripts, as do educational institutions when you're applying for a job that includes teaching.
And it had nothing to do with money -- I'm near Washignton, DC, and was trying to get a job that was only a 10 minute commute (which can be much more valuable than money in this area).
It took me 4 months to get my alma mater to update their computer system to reflect that I had graduated 7 years previously. Of course, the fact they had sent me a diploma didn't seem to be a factor, but lots of employers want a transcript, and it didn't show up there. Of course, they didn't keep paper records that long, so all they had t go on was one field in a computer system.
... even if it's 4+ years and many thousands of dollars. (in the case of Brainbench, however, my company paid for me to take the tests, but I'd have to shell out for the paper to show I passed them, which can add up, if you do well at tests.)
In the end, after threatening to bring in lawyers, and having to get the curriculum committee to meet and decide I had passed, the dean finally apologized -- for having 'incorrectly given me a diploma'.
Besides, all that certificates prove is that you're willing to waste the time and money to get a piece of paper
It used to be. They've relaxed it recently. (I know, because I was trying to figure out why there was the ban, as I'm in the group banned, and freaked me out even more when the relaxed the rules, but I was still in the banned group.)
Here's the notice they've been sending out whenever we have a blood drive at work:
If you're going to go for Red Dwarf quotes, I would have gone for: Lister: You know what the problem is. Every day it's the same old slot in deep space. No variety. Take Christmas. What did we do Christmas day? Kryten: Oh, ah, you remember, sir. Christmas day, we were attacked by that pan-dimensional liquid beast from the Mogagon Cluster. Lister: Maybe that wasn't such a great example. I'm trying to say our lives are dull, repetitive. We never take time out to smell the roses. We never celebrate anything. Cat: We got nothing to celebrate with, bud. Kryten: Oh, not true, sir. There's a whole case of that wine I brewed out of urine recyc, just lying there, practically untouched. Lister: Call me pretentious if you like, but for me, a truly great wine should not leave you with a moustache that you can only remove with turps.
Although I'd probably qualify them as more hippie than geek, there's Arcosanti, Arizona, not to mention most European cities that have been in existance since before automobiles were invented. I'm personally partial to Dubrovnik, Croatia.
One of the big things to remember in city living is that space is at a premium -- give up the 4 bedroom houses and 3 bathrooms. When you carry most of the things you buy, rather than just drop them in the back of your SUV, you're not likely to do as much impulse buying. And changing out your furniture every year is more difficult when you also have to consider both delivery of the new stuff, and disposal of what you currently have.
It may have other benefits, by providing extra incentives to select items that will last, as opposed to whatever's cheapest.
Starting from scratch is the easiest way to reduce the dependancy on automobiles, but some places are trying to implement disincentives (London w/ a toll for entering the city, Athens w/ restrictions on which cars can enter the town based on their license places). Unfortunately, some don't have the intended results -- in Greece, people would just get a second car, so they had one w/ and odd licenses, and one even.
Or at least, not any time soon.
... why won't solar cars ever come into real use? They're not strong enough to pass crash safety tests. They draw at most 2kW. That results in major weight stripping -- they weigh at most 700lbs with a driver in them. They also reduce the cross section ... maybe 0.5 to 1 m^2 ... which means it has about the visibility of a motorcycle (worse, as they're so low to the ground).
One of the most feasible design for a solar car that I've seen was the TNE III, from Team New England. The folks who run Sunrayce (GM) specifically changed the rules after 1995, to make sure that the design, or anything resembling it, wasn't allowed again.
What was different about their design? They didn't keep the solar panels in a charging configuration while the vehicle was in motion. They would charge up, pack up the array, then race for the finish line. If they ran out of power, they'd have to stop, unpack the array, then sit and charge for a while.
Besides that their car was one of the only ones with trunk space (although, it was filled with the solar array), their design gave more space to the driver compartment. Provided it's used for simple commuting (office, home, charge, repeat), their design makes perfect sense.
Now
Combined with a Suburban or a semi, whose driver isn't paying attention, and it's a death trap on wheels.
The only way that I see fully electric vehicles really coming into their own is in a controled environment where they're not mixing with larger vehicles. (planned cities, golf courses, etc.)
I'm personally for planned cities -- visit a town like Venice, and you'll see that it's perfectly possible to get around without owning a vehicle, so long as they're a little bit of public transit Think about how much cleaner New York could be if people couldn't bring vehicles in from outside, and there were only delivery vehicles, mass transit, and taxis.
I would actually expect alternative fuels, most likely oil, but not necessarily petroleum based, to be the most likely candidate for the next generation -- biodiesel, or byproducts from trash digestion or biomass recycling.
I'd say that the car companies realize that people are willing to pay a premium for more environmentally friendly cars (just like they used to be able to sell 'agressive' looking cars, more comfortable rides, 'luxury', or carrying capacity), but they have to weigh that against making sure it's reliable. They could go bankrupt from lemon laws if they don't make sure they're rock solid, and aren't hazardous to their passengers.
I've built electric cars. (college solar car team).
... but he gets power from the wall, which had to come from somewhere.
This car does not get 80 mpg. It uses 1 gallon of gas for every 80 miles it travels
Although large power plants may be able to make electricity more efficiently, he has to deal with transmission losses, and then storage losses from the inefficiency of battery storage. And he has the extra weight of 18 more batteries.
The only advantage wall-plugs do on electric vehicles is move where they're poluting -- it moves to the power plant, instead of the point of use.
Billing any of these cars as '250mpg' unless gallons of gasoline is the only input to the system is a disservice to everyone.
Kick ass! I can keep track of my key bindings in Duke Nukem Forever!
It's one thing to try to gouge students on books that the teachers wrote themselves, but The Inferno's copyright has lapsed.... a damned long time ago.
Why not point them to one of the free versions out there?
With the size of that monitor, I'm thinking a roll of VHB, and he could've just afixed it behind the monitor, and saved a whole lot of time.
Also, the cardboard box seemed like the real hack ... I've found that the best way to attach a computer below a fixed surface was using two ratchet straps bolted to the bottom of a table, and a couple of strips of foam (cut up camping pad) between the table and the computer.
It was a little more complicated than that, as I was mounting them in vehicles, and had other issues to deal with. You could leave out the foam, but I'd probably still use some sort of a spacer, so there was some airflow above the system, especially with the mini.
You don't have a G5 2x2GHz sitting on your desk, then.
It's usually fairly quet, but if you get the load up, it sounds like it's getting ready to take off (it's my first sign that it's having problems). I've had plenty of other noisy Macs... the only quiet ones are those without fans (iMacs, including the mini).
The G4 tower (1x866Mhz) under my desk is typically the noisiest thing in my office, unless the G5 starts getting beaten on. (it's my QA environment). The XServes generate a fair bit of noise, as well.
I wouldn't even qualify my powerbook as particularly quiet (TiBook, 1GHz). Not just the fan, but the optical drive and the hard disk are rather noisy as well.
It's only news because it was a bunch of journalists who saw it, and so, a few of them who had nothing interesting, but had a deadline for an article, decided to write an article which should have been called 'the stupid thing that happened to me that no one else cares about'. (actually -- Romensko might care, as he posts news about journalists, but he doesn't post stuff over the weekend typically)
In other news, someone clicked 'approve article' when they should've hit 'reject'.
Most people's preferences are to stay with the things that they already know, and what they're familiar with. (except in mating, but that's a whole 'nother issue).
... could this be a better form for someone who isn't already familiar with the periodic table that we've grown up with? Is it easier for children to understand?
I like the old chart because all of the detail is right there with the element -- I don't have to go and look at the chart along the right side of the page to get all of its details. But
Yes, the whole 'galaxy' thing is most likely to get children interested in science. They'd have probably worked a dinosaur in there, too, if someone hadn't pointed out that it'd then be sexist, and appeal to boys more than girls, but if it gets the kids interested, and maybe they then move to what we think of as the 'normal' periodic table (being that it's much more dense with its information), it doesn't really hurt anyone.
It just makes it so that the kids won't get jokes like the Periodic Table of Condiments quite as quickly. (of course, the folks who made it didn't understand the Periodic Table of Elements, or they'd have placed similarly behaving items in a column, with the most reactive elements towards the edges, except for the far right column for things that never go bad)
There are plenty of RBLs that exist, they just tend to list originators rather than the companies being advertised.
The problem is when the people maintaining the lists don't handle the lists in a consistent manner, and start adding companies that they don't like for whatever reason, or don't provide some means for a company to clear their name, and be delisted. (and paying the list provider doesn't qualify).
In the early days, RBLs were effective -- but then people started automating submissions (spamcop), and people were throwing legitimate opt-in lists into the mix... the egos started kicking in, and they've since grown to the point where in my opinion, they're not effective anymore. (I'd rather get 50 spam, than lose one legitimate e-mail... but your values may be different)
A few forged e-mail messages, and you could effectively DOS a site by getting them listed when they shouldn't be -- that doesn't help anyone. The real solution is to track down the asshole spammers and deal with them directly and force them to lose money -- preferably making an example of them, to keep others from thinking they can continue to ruin things for everyone else.
We have companies like New Generation Motors, which is owned by the former advisors of the George Washington University solar car team, and they used equiptment that had been bought for the project tax exempt. (and when I tried asking for the stuff back, I got bitched out and told that our faculty advisor could store the stuff whereever he wanted, even if it meant we couldn't use it on the project) -- although he was kind enough to give us stuff with 'property of NASA' tags on it, where two of them also worked.
They claimed the work of students as that of the company, and they made axial flux motors that are used in many of the solar cars today.
I reported this to the Dean of GW's engineering school in 1995 (right after the success of GW at the World Solar Rallye), and was threatened with expulsion to shut me up. (I didn't know he was bringing in a $3mil grant to the university, and they'd rather have that, than ethics).
Of course, the faculty advisor kept being greedy, and was finally charged with embezzlement for a completely unrelated grant last year.
That sounds more like a crash to me -- and not all crashes are accidental.
We can't exactly use the word collision, as not all collisions cause damage (purely elastic or purely inelastic collisions will transfer energy without permenant deformation of the bodies involved)
I'm not sure if there are times when the word 'crash' denotes a situation that isn't a 'damaging energy exchange', but it seems better than 'accident', which has more to do with something not having been done intentionally, and very little to do with damage or energy exchange. (the context of its use may suggest that, but you haven't given its context).
In 1999, I had an account with Sprint PCS.
... them changing it the first time was definately a bad thing, though).
My company went and merged with another one, and the new company contacted Sprint, and had my personal cell phone bill redirected to them -- without my giving them permission to do so.
Needless to say, I was pissed. (It was one of many reasons that I got pissed off at the new management, and quit shortly after). And when I called up Sprint PCS to bitch, they wanted me to give them my pin, and a whole bunch of other identifying info, which to the best of my knowledge, my company didn't have... I bitched them out, and told them they changed it once without it, and they were damned well going to change it back without me giving it this time.
(I'm not sure if their willingness to change it back just from my bitching them out, without proving who I was is a good thing, or a bad thing
I remember that one!
I think we moved on to Hooked on Phonics after that ... or maybe it was the one where Spot gets a ball. A red ball. A big red ball.
Were the users given numbers in AOLs, or your IP space?
After all, it's also possible that the reason that AOL has such good numbers is from their users being counted against someone else.
[or, more likely, that their users don't spend as much time connected, and so by looking at the number of attacks, you actually have to compare the sum of time that the subscribers were connected, rather than the number of subscribers.]
Of course, if you look at the AssetMatrix site, they say Unfortunately, my quick glance didn't turn up the full report from the study (I found their news release, which said to go to their website, which linked to the news release) , the data used, or the definition of 'market share' as used in the news release.
But to answer your question, from the news release:Of course, we have no idea what those numbers mean, so it's fairly useless, other than to know that they've chosen a system that makes the numbers go down with time for Win95/98.
I admit it -- I cut my hair before my last interview. I had long hair for 14 years, and cut it short the day before the interview. I took out my one piercing (ear), and my hair was my natural color.
I was used to wearing a shirt and tie from my previous job, where they kept changing the dress code on me to make more and more strict (usually, right after I did something that was technically within the dress code, but they didn't have rules against).
Anyway, on my 5th day, the executive assistant for the department came up to me and said, 'if you wear a tie again next week, I'll string you up by it'. Now, mind you, she was my mom's age, and a half foot shorter than me, but I haven't done it since... I even wore in some shirts that I got specifically to annoy my old work, and some people commented positively on them.
I've since grown my hair back out, put back in my earring, and think it's great to work in a place where people care more about the work that you do, rather than your appearance.
But I'd say downplay these things in an interview -- yes, it might show that you're willing to think outside the box, rather than be constrained by normal boundries, but it might also peg you as someone who's trying to rebel against the rules and isn't a team player.
Of course, there's also the question -- would you want to work in the kind of place where you don't get to express who you are? If you don't think you can do it, then make sure they know what they're getting into. (maybe not in the interview -- wait for them to offer you the job, and then inform them)