a tavern and an elephant fart? . . . A tavern is a bar room while an elephant fart is more of a barroom. . . . careful with that joke...like yours, it's an antique.
You also planning to use this excuse in elevators?
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The PD is indeed different than the zero-sum game but they are related. When I said the PD *or* the zero-sum game I wasn't referring to them as synonyms, I was mearly acknowledging thier relationship. I seem to recall that there is a "collective farming" analogy to the zero-sum game.
There are a lot of post about the Southamton programs "cheating" and I agree. However, the interesting part of the prisoner's dilemma, or the zero-sum game is that this is one of those areas where math and philosophy overlap. This math problem yields a facinating insight into society. I would see the "cheating" Southamton method as analogous to a "charismatic leader or organization" who has amassed an array of followers willing to sacrifice themselves for his (or thier) benefit.
Think of people or organizations that have fanatical followers. I think these guys might be on to something quite fascinating.
This might even be in the article, can't read it because it's already slashdotted. However, it sure seems like this would be a great idea for a wheelchair. This would give people confined to such a chair the ability to stand. The Segway was a silly little expensive scooter, but this could be a real boon to such people.
could you imagine a Beowulf cluster of thinkers like this in Soviet Russia - where the industry changes you?
Yea, I know, I should have just shut up and modded the parent post as funny. It will be interesting to watch though, the parent smacks of a funny post that is in danger of being modded insightful.
It had no keyhole, just a bunch of magnectic "reeds" that would line up when a special magnetic key was put along side of it. My dad had just purchased it that day and was explaining to me how it worked. I asked, "couldn't you just shake it until the reeds lined up?". He tosses the lock to me and says, "here...try it then". I shook the lock for a couple of seconds and, sure enough, it popped right open.
my dad was pretty grumpy for the rest of the day...
They could "typeset" and had special characters like the little "th" superscript. This memory was the first thing to cross my mind when I was reading about this.
I would say the fact that it's coming to light now is more suspicious than the quality of the printing.
No....the typesetting does not establish this as a forgery in my mind.
If instead of coming at them with "give me what I want or I'm out of here", you instead make the case that you are actually worth more on the open market, you won't necessarily be putting your employer in a box. He can, in fact, look at it one of three ways:
1) He could disagree, in which case you can turn that into an amicable parting of the ways. I.e. I've found an offer more suitable to my career growth and I've decided to take it. I left a job like this once. I was turned down for a promotion, but a former partner of thiers offered me a position in thier company similar to what I was trying to get promoted to.
2) He could agree, but decide that he doesn't require an employee of your skill level. In this case, it becomes clear to both of you that it's time for you to leave in order to grow in your career. When you do move on, both sides understand and agree as to why.
3) He could agree, at which point it is up to him to decide if he can pay you an appropriate "market value" or tell you that he can't afford it. If it's the former, you've made your case and there is no loss of respect, if it's the latter, both sides understand why it's time for you to move on.
Before I start, it's worth noting that it's probably better advice to "take the high road" and not let their actions effect your professionalism.
That being said, here is one time when I tried to break my own advice. Among the many problems that one company I worked for had was a "diversity program" that was nothing more than giving certain contracts or benifits to specific cultural/ethinic/social groups to the exclusion of anyone else. I decided that, when I left, I would have a little fun with that policy. I did the appropriate research and, when we had the meeting where I would announce my resignation to the team, I would instead announce that I had been accepted as a candidate for sexual reassignment surgery. Furthermore, in about two weeks, I would begin my 18 month "real life test" and would start coming to work in my female persona.
Sadly however, my supervisor stole my thunder by just blurting out that I was resigning. Coulda had a lot of fun with that.
On the plus side though, I did learn something new about "gender dysphoria" in the process of trying to learn enough to sound authentic at the meeting.
A couple months later, they came over to my apartment for a visit. The first thing his wife did when they came is was pull the CD out of her purse, hand it to me and say, "don't ever give him this again!".
I recently tried Gnome and KDE together and came out of it liking KDE better. That's not to say that I didn't like Gnome. In fact, I think Nautilus is a great design. It just boiled down to KDE having features that better suited my needs. Specifically, thier in-file-manager FTP was easier to use and just worked better. Also where Epiphany and Galeon are based on the Mozilla enginer, Koqueror is a good compliment to Mozilla. If a web page has trouble rendering on one, it'll almost certainly render on the other. A lot of it I just chalked up to KDE being more mature.
Then again, if maturity matters, Evolution will probably be a better program than Kontact. I'd be real curious to see how they've cleaned up thier FTP. This is important to me because I regularly connect to the server where I work.
I guess what I'm saying is that I'm neither a KDE or Gnome zealot. KDE just happens to suit my needs better right now, but I'd be more than willing to take another look at Gnome.
Apparantly, we also need a "bitch slap" mod... . Here, I'll start things off for everybody: . In Soviet Russia....bitch slaps YOU! . Thank you, and have a pleasant evening.... .
The storyline is kinda left wide open. I mean if Anakin was supposed to bring balance to the force, wouldn't that imply the between Luke and Lea, one becomes Jedi and the other Sith?
I'm wondering if not having all your original parts ultimately makes you more vulnerable to the dark side as well? - which would imply that Luke would ultimately turn to the dark side (presumably after training Lea).
Might explain why Dooku did not kill Anakin outright but instead severed his arm and could imply that Vader cut off Luke's hand by design as well.....oh well, just musing.....
I think I would go this route since I would most likely only need wi-fi on the road to check e-mail or web info more conveniently than pulling out the laptop.
Other than that, all I really need is a calculator/organizer most of the time.
...at least very similar to the vesion I "cut my teeth" on. While Python is very useful for numerical applications, it isn't ready to replace Octave just yet.
My current Python project is a program that evaluates repairs and/or holes in aircraft skin (say, you need to cut a hole for an antenna cable). It includes a rudimentary CAD engine for drawing up the repair. Apparantly Tcl was originally intended for drafting programs (or so I've been told). In any event, can't really do that in Octave. So, in this case, Python is well suited to the task.
The real cool thing is that I can mail the source to my home e-mail account and fire it up on my Linux box. The only thing I needed to do was specify font sized based upon which OS it runs on. When, I get to the printer calls, I'll need to do something similar, but writing code that works on both systems is pretty darned easy by-and-large.
I'm not a programmer, I'm just an engineer who can do impressions when he has to. This language is relatively simple and organized and, with the growing number of math and scientific libraries available, it's becoming more and more a regular tool in my arsenal.
I guess the point I'm making is that this language has a strong appeal to people like myself who are just looking to use it to solve problems and/or make problem solving tools. I don't know anything about Java, but maybe the reason that the author feels that Python has the better hackers is because Python, by virtue of it's simplicity and no-nonsense syntax, tends to attract your more "problem solver" type person.
I was in a [not to be named] corporate environment that had this kind "preferred" diversity program that seems to have you so frustrated. Oddly enough, I am part native American. However, I've never attempted to claim that status since I've seen a reservation and, as far as I'm concerned, they should get whatever resources are available.
But that's another story - back to the subject at hand. The point is that I also found this implementation of "Affirmative Action" to be quite vexing. I came up with a great "parting shot" for when I resigned though. I did some research into "gender dysphoria" with the intent of putting together a very convincing rap that I had recently been accepted as a candidate for sexual reassignment surgery and in about 2 weeks would be starting to take on a female persona as part of my RLT (real life test - I made it a point to get the jargon down to sound convincing). Of course, what I had really done was give my 2 weeks notice. I just wanted to watch the other people in my office spend my last couple of weeks trying to determine exactly how a transexual fits into thier "affirmative action" protocols.
Sadly, my supervisor stole my thunder by just blurting out that I was leaving. Oh well, it might have been pretty funny had it have worked.
A device that that records on, say, a 30 second loop (i.e. it always has the last 30 seconds of your driving in memory). This would include your speed, weather conditions, relative motion of cars/objects around you, etc. Then, in the event of an accident, this 30 second block of memory is stored for use by accident investigators.
In other words, it only stores data in the event of an accident event, and then only a small block of time surrounding the accident.
Technical hurdles to be sure, but this might be a way to do it without invading privacy.
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a tavern and an elephant fart?
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A tavern is a bar room while an elephant fart is more of a barroom.
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careful with that joke...like yours, it's an antique.
Beats blaming it on the dog I guess... :)
The PD is indeed different than the zero-sum game but they are related. When I said the PD *or* the zero-sum game I wasn't referring to them as synonyms, I was mearly acknowledging thier relationship. I seem to recall that there is a "collective farming" analogy to the zero-sum game.
There are a lot of post about the Southamton programs "cheating" and I agree. However, the interesting part of the prisoner's dilemma, or the zero-sum game is that this is one of those areas where math and philosophy overlap. This math problem yields a facinating insight into society. I would see the "cheating" Southamton method as analogous to a "charismatic leader or organization" who has amassed an array of followers willing to sacrifice themselves for his (or thier) benefit.
Think of people or organizations that have fanatical followers. I think these guys might be on to something quite fascinating.
This might even be in the article, can't read it because it's already slashdotted. However, it sure seems like this would be a great idea for a wheelchair. This would give people confined to such a chair the ability to stand. The Segway was a silly little expensive scooter, but this could be a real boon to such people.
change it to GNooSE. Then change the logo from a lizard to a hangman's ....you get the idea...
not everybody got it ;)
Is it value-added?
could you imagine a Beowulf cluster of thinkers like this in Soviet Russia - where the industry changes you?
Yea, I know, I should have just shut up and modded the parent post as funny. It will be interesting to watch though, the parent smacks of a funny post that is in danger of being modded insightful.
dad once bought.
It had no keyhole, just a bunch of magnectic "reeds" that would line up when a special magnetic key was put along side of it. My dad had just purchased it that day and was explaining to me how it worked. I asked, "couldn't you just shake it until the reeds lined up?". He tosses the lock to me and says, "here...try it then". I shook the lock for a couple of seconds and, sure enough, it popped right open.
my dad was pretty grumpy for the rest of the day...
They could "typeset" and had special characters like the little "th" superscript. This memory was the first thing to cross my mind when I was reading about this.
I would say the fact that it's coming to light now is more suspicious than the quality of the printing.
No....the typesetting does not establish this as a forgery in my mind.
If instead of coming at them with "give me what I want or I'm out of here", you instead make the case that you are actually worth more on the open market, you won't necessarily be putting your employer in a box. He can, in fact, look at it one of three ways:
1) He could disagree, in which case you can turn that into an amicable parting of the ways. I.e. I've found an offer more suitable to my career growth and I've decided to take it. I left a job like this once. I was turned down for a promotion, but a former partner of thiers offered me a position in thier company similar to what I was trying to get promoted to.
2) He could agree, but decide that he doesn't require an employee of your skill level. In this case, it becomes clear to both of you that it's time for you to leave in order to grow in your career. When you do move on, both sides understand and agree as to why.
3) He could agree, at which point it is up to him to decide if he can pay you an appropriate "market value" or tell you that he can't afford it. If it's the former, you've made your case and there is no loss of respect, if it's the latter, both sides understand why it's time for you to move on.
Before I start, it's worth noting that it's probably better advice to "take the high road" and not let their actions effect your professionalism.
That being said, here is one time when I tried to break my own advice. Among the many problems that one company I worked for had was a "diversity program" that was nothing more than giving certain contracts or benifits to specific cultural/ethinic/social groups to the exclusion of anyone else. I decided that, when I left, I would have a little fun with that policy. I did the appropriate research and, when we had the meeting where I would announce my resignation to the team, I would instead announce that I had been accepted as a candidate for sexual reassignment surgery. Furthermore, in about two weeks, I would begin my 18 month "real life test" and would start coming to work in my female persona.
Sadly however, my supervisor stole my thunder by just blurting out that I was resigning. Coulda had a lot of fun with that.
On the plus side though, I did learn something new about "gender dysphoria" in the process of trying to learn enough to sound authentic at the meeting.
A couple months later, they came over to my apartment for a visit. The first thing his wife did when they came is was pull the CD out of her purse, hand it to me and say, "don't ever give him this again!".
Now *there* is an endorsement for a video game.
I recently tried Gnome and KDE together and came out of it liking KDE better. That's not to say that I didn't like Gnome. In fact, I think Nautilus is a great design. It just boiled down to KDE having features that better suited my needs. Specifically, thier in-file-manager FTP was easier to use and just worked better. Also where Epiphany and Galeon are based on the Mozilla enginer, Koqueror is a good compliment to Mozilla. If a web page has trouble rendering on one, it'll almost certainly render on the other. A lot of it I just chalked up to KDE being more mature.
Then again, if maturity matters, Evolution will probably be a better program than Kontact. I'd be real curious to see how they've cleaned up thier FTP. This is important to me because I regularly connect to the server where I work.
I guess what I'm saying is that I'm neither a KDE or Gnome zealot. KDE just happens to suit my needs better right now, but I'd be more than willing to take another look at Gnome.
By itself it's going to look seriously off-topic.
I thought I had attached this to one of the many "imagine a Beowulf cluster" comments.
strange....
Apparantly, we also need a "bitch slap" mod...
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Here, I'll start things off for everybody:
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In Soviet Russia....bitch slaps YOU!
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Thank you, and have a pleasant evening....
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and it need not be limited to five.
The storyline is kinda left wide open. I mean if Anakin was supposed to bring balance to the force, wouldn't that imply the between Luke and Lea, one becomes Jedi and the other Sith?
....oh well, just musing.....
I'm wondering if not having all your original parts ultimately makes you more vulnerable to the dark side as well? - which would imply that Luke would ultimately turn to the dark side (presumably after training Lea).
Might explain why Dooku did not kill Anakin outright but instead severed his arm and could imply that Vader cut off Luke's hand by design as well.
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I think I would go this route since I would most likely only need wi-fi on the road to check e-mail or web info more conveniently than pulling out the laptop.
Other than that, all I really need is a calculator/organizer most of the time.
...at least very similar to the vesion I "cut my teeth" on. While Python is very useful for numerical applications, it isn't ready to replace Octave just yet.
My current Python project is a program that evaluates repairs and/or holes in aircraft skin (say, you need to cut a hole for an antenna cable). It includes a rudimentary CAD engine for drawing up the repair. Apparantly Tcl was originally intended for drafting programs (or so I've been told). In any event, can't really do that in Octave. So, in this case, Python is well suited to the task.
The real cool thing is that I can mail the source to my home e-mail account and fire it up on my Linux box. The only thing I needed to do was specify font sized based upon which OS it runs on. When, I get to the printer calls, I'll need to do something similar, but writing code that works on both systems is pretty darned easy by-and-large.
I'm not a programmer, I'm just an engineer who can do impressions when he has to. This language is relatively simple and organized and, with the growing number of math and scientific libraries available, it's becoming more and more a regular tool in my arsenal.
I guess the point I'm making is that this language has a strong appeal to people like myself who are just looking to use it to solve problems and/or make problem solving tools. I don't know anything about Java, but maybe the reason that the author feels that Python has the better hackers is because Python, by virtue of it's simplicity and no-nonsense syntax, tends to attract your more "problem solver" type person.
Just a thought.
I was in a [not to be named] corporate environment that had this kind "preferred" diversity program that seems to have you so frustrated. Oddly enough, I am part native American. However, I've never attempted to claim that status since I've seen a reservation and, as far as I'm concerned, they should get whatever resources are available.
But that's another story - back to the subject at hand. The point is that I also found this implementation of "Affirmative Action" to be quite vexing. I came up with a great "parting shot" for when I resigned though. I did some research into "gender dysphoria" with the intent of putting together a very convincing rap that I had recently been accepted as a candidate for sexual reassignment surgery and in about 2 weeks would be starting to take on a female persona as part of my RLT (real life test - I made it a point to get the jargon down to sound convincing). Of course, what I had really done was give my 2 weeks notice. I just wanted to watch the other people in my office spend my last couple of weeks trying to determine exactly how a transexual fits into thier "affirmative action" protocols.
Sadly, my supervisor stole my thunder by just blurting out that I was leaving. Oh well, it might have been pretty funny had it have worked.
...trackball that is, I find it an excellent way to use AutoCAD. ...oh...you didn't think that......
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you people are sick....
A device that that records on, say, a 30 second loop (i.e. it always has the last 30 seconds of your driving in memory). This would include your speed, weather conditions, relative motion of cars/objects around you, etc. Then, in the event of an accident, this 30 second block of memory is stored for use by accident investigators.
In other words, it only stores data in the event of an accident event, and then only a small block of time surrounding the accident.
Technical hurdles to be sure, but this might be a way to do it without invading privacy.