Tailgating is a problem too. It really pisses me off, that even in non-rushhour traffic, some idiot is always less than a car-length off my back end. Leaving a buffer zone allows you to avoid using your breaks when traffic slows.
I wonder how much aggressive driving (someone speeding up to 90, and then cutting in front of you for seemingly no reason), contributes to breaking shock waves. I've seen it happen often enough where someone will make an unnecessary maneuver to get 30 feet ahead of traffic.
Regardless of causes, I don't think some people realize how to fix insomnia without pills/drugs. I've had insomnia issues before (actually for about ten years), and luckily my physician is a believer in non-pharmaceutical treatments. Here are some of the mistakes that people make when they are unable to sleep.
1.) Laying in bed unable to fall asleep for longer than 20 minutes.
2.) Eating / drinking sugary things less than an hour before bedtime.
3.) Watching television / being on the computer when you are unable to sleep.
Here are things that you should do when you cannot sleep.
Short term (trying to fall asleep):
1.) Read something not particularly riveting, computer books usually put me to sleep in an hour or so.
2.) Laying in bed, counting deep breathes (1, 2, 3, repeat), inhaling through nose, exhaling through mouth. Be persistent, because this technique has never failed me. Think about nothing except breathing and counting.
3.) White noise or cold air.
Long term:
1.) Exercise
2.) Stress reduction (same as #1 for me)
I'd just go with a ppc, or a palmtop + external keyboard (many have USB). They are cheap, use solid-state storage (a real issue if you are going to be in high altitudes), they are light, and run much longer on battery than many laptops, and actually fairly tolerable to squint at and write for about an hour.
1.) Why and how can he be responsible? His job was to make risk-free investments (from TFA), which isn't particularly risky. He lost 7 billion dollars making risky investments without authorization. BTW, it is quite possible to eliminate unsystematic risk, and profit from undervalued securities. 2.) See answer #1. 3.) See answer #1. 4.) Of course the bank is going to bite the bullet.
Explain to me how a trader making unauthorized trades with unauthorized sums of money is not responsible.
His 'definition of justice is a mutually agreed upon set of compromises selected to ensure the maximum possible percentage of the population considers the handling of each particular situation as "fair".'
You agree with this, but consider yourself an Anarchist, who believes in the absence of a ruling government. Here are the problems with your argument.
1.) How do you poll ANY "percentage of the population" without some central authority. 2.) Who executes the will of the "maximum possible percentage of the population"? Surely if someone commits a crime/tort, they will resist punishment. 3.) You are an Anarchist, who believes in a set of principles(rules) made by a group of people, which is by definition a "politic", which an Anarchist BY DEFINITION cannot believe in.
Justice (not of the superhero vengeance sort) requires a means of execution, which doesn't gel w/ the Anarchist political philosophy.
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The thing that bugs me a lot about this so-called semantic web is its reliance on humans to be accurate. Our minds do not operate on the same clear-cut logic as a machine, in other words we are able to make inferences from semantics.
To use your current example, what if your person was classified as a "programmer", or "software engineer" rather than a computer scientist? I understand that there are varying meanings for that word, my computer-science teach used to call first year students "computer-scientists" although they were inexperienced n00bs w/o a good understanding of the subject.
this has already been happening for years. I guess their mentality is, if you aren't doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide, reminds me of this surveillance society. Secret police and indiscriminant surveillance practices are always conceived to protect against enemies of the state, real or perceived, however they always seem to become a tool to squash political-dissent when things turn bleak. It scares me to think about what our government will do in the name of protecting our "freedom".
Umm... buy an s-video cable and a mini-jack to rca converter, grand total $15. Watch it on a television. And most of the on-demand movies are so-so anyway.
Netflix probably picked Microsoft DRM because it was ready off-the-shelf, and suits the needs of 90% of its users. They don't have the luxury Apple does, that is to say controlling the source of a widely popular media player. And software development, especially a cross-platform DRM system, isn't cheap or easy. Can you suggest any viable alternatives to Microsoft DRM?
Netflix has a great business model, returning movies in 3-days is a pain in the ass. The on-demand is just a nicity that a minority of customers use.
One disgusting word.... Management Degree. There are legitimate business degrees, just not management, or its evil smartphone wielding cousin, Managment Information Systems. I go to a school with a number of douchbags (look at the def to see the school). During finals week, I can't help but cringe when I see them smiling, walking to class in business suits w/ poster boards, while I am studying my ass off.
And these people will make more than me out of college, even if I get a Masters in Csci. Especially seeing comments here in the last few days saying that the low-quality of CSCI grads is turning it into a non-degree?
I am 21 years old, and I want to be a humble employee, but having worked in the IT industry since I was 16 , I understand the general distaste for the way young employees are treated. This isn't the fucking steel-mills, where you are paid based on loyalty and seniority, most IT workers have a wide-set of skills that are mission critical, deal with phenomenal levels of stress (ex: its your fault it broke, fix it NOW), and are constantly forced to spend time away from work learning new things. That and, at least in my experiences, have PHB supervisors who make way more than they do.
If Linux/C floats your boat, then absolutely do the things the parent suggested. Although looking through the classifieds, you rarely see "Wanted, Linux C developer with kernel experience".
But, if you want to be a good, employable, developer, learn LOTS of things, not necessarily inside-and-out, you should do that when you actually get a job. Learn about Java, SAX, SOAP, C#, ASP.net, MFC, PHP, JavaScript, XML (and everything that goes with it).
Learning to work within a large source-base, like GPL projects, would also be hugely useful.
is experience. Look for a job doing something in the field, do your job well, and get a letter of recommendation.
The article yesterday I think was more aimed at people who don't understand that basics of whats going on behind the scenes. For example, its expensive to convert between formats of numbers (int->double etc), or how to use bitmasks/shift bits.
Nah... GM has too much redundancy within its lineup.
Look at Toyota's lineup, Honda's lineup, and then look at the bloated GM lineup. Pontiac, Chrysler, Chevrolet, Saab... they offer 91 vehicles total. What Toyota does well, is offer something for everyone within its small lineup. You could spend ~$18,000 on a 160hp basic camry, or $30,000 on a 270hp camry that rivals a lexus in luxury.
GM DOES make some good cars, the new Malibu has been very well-recieved, so has the Impala, and G6, to name a few. The CTS blows away any similarly priced Mercedes. But then they have shitty, unprofitable brands like Jeep.
GM is a mess. They just have too many damn cars to be successful.
Editor flaming eh? For my line of work, I prefer eclipse (only because of viEclipse). All the keyboard-goodness of vim, within a decent modern IDE. Hows that for an editor. And it runs on anything. GCC is also a part of the Apple Developer Tools dude. Also runs on anything. Your argument is based on a web-based 3d games engine? HUGE development market for that.
SOME programmers like Macs, some like Linux, and some *GASP* like windows. I personally, don't really care that much, I've programmed professionally on all three, and had all three as home systems. I found no advantage to using a Mac over a Windows system. Similar tools for development exist on all three platforms. I spend 90% of my day in an editor anywho.
But when you get down t its all a matter of personal preference, not improved productivity. MAYBE you could argu that Mac has a far-superior window-manager (it does), but an additional monitor on my work machine solves this problem.
Stewart is funny, but for the love of God, I wish he'd please move away from heavy politics. I'm in my early 20s, I can understand that people care a lot about politics, especially in college, but the factual substance is shameful on that show. It's fine to watch, just check-out bbc, cnn, or even al-jezera too.
What I dislike about virtually all journalism, is that it's horribly sensationalized. What's interesting isn't usually whats significant. Also, people see/hear/read things (think about all the mis-covered tech stories we've seen here) and never seem to question them. For example, I'd urge anyone to look at exactly how much oil the United States imports from Iraq. Touchy subject, I know, but this something that Americans should look up for themselves, as the sources are numerous and varied.
In the era of unlimited information, people still look to the slanted media as the basis of their knowledge. The media is selling something everyday. Whether or not its high-quality journalism is questionable.
For a good synopsis of the last 150 years of journalism, i'd recommend that anyone read ~80 page book by Susan Sontag called "Regaurding the Pain of Others", it will really make you question what your read.
orbiting earth, it's unfortunate that so many countries want their own positioning satellite systems. Its almost certain that global nuclear war would destroy all countries involved in creating their own private GPS-ish networks, so its really too bad that we all can't just share. Brings back memories of the cold-war =(
According to our friends at the U.S. govt, 70% of electricity comes from burning stuff. Coal, petroleum , natural gas, etc. You are going to lose over 50% of the energy in the conversion process, and produce just as many hydrocarbons. In short, switching cars to electricity-engines does nothing for the environment.
I'd also imagine it'd be fairly difficult to get enough horsepower (torque * rpms) for comparable performance to a gasoline engine.
This is one of the oldest philosophical arguments in European society.
Paley's(???) Watchmaker argument (paraphrased and condensed):
If you find a watch on the beach, you can infer that it has both purpose and design, because it exhibits order that isn't a random cobbling of elements. Someone must of designed it. Therefore, since humans exhibit both purpose and design, someone must have designed us.
This logical argument for the existence of God was refuted by Hume.
What I don't think you, or philosophers, realize about most Christians is that we base our beliefs on FAITH. Who are these "alot of people"?
Most don't say "we believe in God because the universe behaves in an orderly fashion... therefore we are like watches... blah blah". Faith is not a word for "blind acceptance", it has a very intimate theological meaning, similar to philosophical jargon-words. Faith is finding proof of God within one's own life/soul/consciousness, not the outside world. You can argue whether or not this is rational until your face turns blue, because it is beside the point.
"invented the computer" is ambiguous. Many people, Babbage, Turing, etc. worked on the analytical model, and dozens if not hundreds of engineers worked out the details.
I have absolutely no reasonable basis to believe this, but I share a similar opinion.
Areas like the Bermuda and Dragon's triangles sit on top of very deep sections of the ocean, and the same lines of longitude. What if all the strange incidents have to do with something extra-terrestrial sitting on the ocean floor? And the disappearances occur when you see something that you shouldn't. In other words, wouldn't the deepest parts of the ocean be a good place to hide?
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I think emacs and vi are both painful at first, if you are used to a fully graphical IDE. I tried desperately to get comfortable w/ emacs, to no avail. For the hell of it, I tried out vim, and the flexibility of keyboard commands has really helped w/ my sore wrists.
I've been using vi extensively for more than 3 months, and I am still a newbie. It seems like the kind of editor you literally have to use for years to become competent with, but if you learn the basics its pretty intuitive for editing.
Specialized robots work better than general-purpose ones (DUH!). Creating a robot that is as capable at general tasks as a human is pointless, at least from the economic standpoint (unless you need a Terminator). Humans are cheaper than robots. Imagine the R&D and production cost involved in creating a robot as agile as the human body. Then, imagine fixing such a robot.
Robots perform special tasks better than humans. Surgery is an obvious application, as the summary pointed out. What could be more steady than a hand with hydraulic (or whatever they use) joints. If something is able to play the Violin, it very well may be able to cut you open along a very precise line, remove a cancer/organ/ while the surgeon is sitting on his butt, operating a computer. Surgery is very tiresome from what I understand (I worked in the dept. of orthopaedics in college), and I'd imagine if this is coupled with the proper software and human interface, it would work splendidly for medical purposes.
I'd think the Medical field would be the most interested in this tech. Surgeons could maybe even perform an extra surgery a day ($$$$$$$), and Hospitals usually have big moolah to spend on fancy-schmancy tech.
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Tailgating is a problem too. It really pisses me off, that even in non-rushhour traffic, some idiot is always less than a car-length off my back end. Leaving a buffer zone allows you to avoid using your breaks when traffic slows.
I wonder how much aggressive driving (someone speeding up to 90, and then cutting in front of you for seemingly no reason), contributes to breaking shock waves. I've seen it happen often enough where someone will make an unnecessary maneuver to get 30 feet ahead of traffic.
Regardless of causes, I don't think some people realize how to fix insomnia without pills/drugs. I've had insomnia issues before (actually for about ten years), and luckily my physician is a believer in non-pharmaceutical treatments. Here are some of the mistakes that people make when they are unable to sleep.
1.) Laying in bed unable to fall asleep for longer than 20 minutes.
2.) Eating / drinking sugary things less than an hour before bedtime.
3.) Watching television / being on the computer when you are unable to sleep.
Here are things that you should do when you cannot sleep.
Short term (trying to fall asleep):
1.) Read something not particularly riveting, computer books usually put me to sleep in an hour or so.
2.) Laying in bed, counting deep breathes (1, 2, 3, repeat), inhaling through nose, exhaling through mouth. Be persistent, because this technique has never failed me. Think about nothing except breathing and counting.
3.) White noise or cold air.
Long term:
1.) Exercise
2.) Stress reduction (same as #1 for me)
I'd just go with a ppc, or a palmtop + external keyboard (many have USB). They are cheap, use solid-state storage (a real issue if you are going to be in high altitudes), they are light, and run much longer on battery than many laptops, and actually fairly tolerable to squint at and write for about an hour.
1.) Why and how can he be responsible?
His job was to make risk-free investments (from TFA), which isn't particularly risky. He lost 7 billion dollars making risky investments without authorization. BTW, it is quite possible to eliminate unsystematic risk, and profit from undervalued securities.
2.) See answer #1.
3.) See answer #1.
4.) Of course the bank is going to bite the bullet.
Explain to me how a trader making unauthorized trades with unauthorized sums of money is not responsible.
His 'definition of justice is a mutually agreed upon set of compromises selected to ensure the maximum possible percentage of the population considers the handling of each particular situation as "fair".'
You agree with this, but consider yourself an Anarchist, who believes in the absence of a ruling government. Here are the problems with your argument.
1.) How do you poll ANY "percentage of the population" without some central authority.
2.) Who executes the will of the "maximum possible percentage of the population"? Surely if someone commits a crime/tort, they will resist punishment.
3.) You are an Anarchist, who believes in a set of principles(rules) made by a group of people, which is by definition a "politic", which an Anarchist BY DEFINITION cannot believe in.
Justice (not of the superhero vengeance sort) requires a means of execution, which doesn't gel w/ the Anarchist political philosophy.
maybe its you who doesn't understand the meaning slavery in the context. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery
The thing that bugs me a lot about this so-called semantic web is its reliance on humans to be accurate. Our minds do not operate on the same clear-cut logic as a machine, in other words we are able to make inferences from semantics.
To use your current example, what if your person was classified as a "programmer", or "software engineer" rather than a computer scientist? I understand that there are varying meanings for that word, my computer-science teach used to call first year students "computer-scientists" although they were inexperienced n00bs w/o a good understanding of the subject.
this has already been happening for years. I guess their mentality is, if you aren't doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide, reminds me of this surveillance society. Secret police and indiscriminant surveillance practices are always conceived to protect against enemies of the state, real or perceived, however they always seem to become a tool to squash political-dissent when things turn bleak. It scares me to think about what our government will do in the name of protecting our "freedom".
Umm... buy an s-video cable and a mini-jack to rca converter, grand total $15. Watch it on a television. And most of the on-demand movies are so-so anyway.
Netflix probably picked Microsoft DRM because it was ready off-the-shelf, and suits the needs of 90% of its users. They don't have the luxury Apple does, that is to say controlling the source of a widely popular media player. And software development, especially a cross-platform DRM system, isn't cheap or easy. Can you suggest any viable alternatives to Microsoft DRM?
Netflix has a great business model, returning movies in 3-days is a pain in the ass. The on-demand is just a nicity that a minority of customers use.
opps, second paragraph
Its maddening, especially seeing comments here in the last few days saying that the low-quality of CSCI grads is turning it into a non-degree.
One disgusting word.... Management Degree. There are legitimate business degrees, just not management, or its evil smartphone wielding cousin, Managment Information Systems. I go to a school with a number of douchbags (look at the def to see the school). During finals week, I can't help but cringe when I see them smiling, walking to class in business suits w/ poster boards, while I am studying my ass off.
And these people will make more than me out of college, even if I get a Masters in Csci. Especially seeing comments here in the last few days saying that the low-quality of CSCI grads is turning it into a non-degree?
I am 21 years old, and I want to be a humble employee, but having worked in the IT industry since I was 16 , I understand the general distaste for the way young employees are treated. This isn't the fucking steel-mills, where you are paid based on loyalty and seniority, most IT workers have a wide-set of skills that are mission critical, deal with phenomenal levels of stress (ex: its your fault it broke, fix it NOW), and are constantly forced to spend time away from work learning new things. That and, at least in my experiences, have PHB supervisors who make way more than they do.
If Linux/C floats your boat, then absolutely do the things the parent suggested. Although looking through the classifieds, you rarely see "Wanted, Linux C developer with kernel experience".
But, if you want to be a good, employable, developer, learn LOTS of things, not necessarily inside-and-out, you should do that when you actually get a job. Learn about Java, SAX, SOAP, C#, ASP.net, MFC, PHP, JavaScript, XML (and everything that goes with it).
Learning to work within a large source-base, like GPL projects, would also be hugely useful.
is experience. Look for a job doing something in the field, do your job well, and get a letter of recommendation.
The article yesterday I think was more aimed at people who don't understand that basics of whats going on behind the scenes. For example, its expensive to convert between formats of numbers (int->double etc), or how to use bitmasks/shift bits.
Nah... GM has too much redundancy within its lineup.
Look at Toyota's lineup, Honda's lineup, and then look at the bloated GM lineup.
Pontiac, Chrysler, Chevrolet, Saab... they offer 91 vehicles total. What Toyota does
well, is offer something for everyone within its small lineup. You could spend ~$18,000
on a 160hp basic camry, or $30,000 on a 270hp camry that rivals a lexus in luxury.
GM DOES make some good cars, the new Malibu has been very well-recieved, so
has the Impala, and G6, to name a few. The CTS blows away any similarly priced
Mercedes. But then they have shitty, unprofitable brands like Jeep.
GM is a mess. They just have too many damn cars to be successful.
Editor flaming eh? For my line of work, I prefer eclipse (only because of viEclipse). All the keyboard-goodness of vim, within a decent modern IDE. Hows that for an editor. And it runs on anything. GCC is also a part of the Apple Developer Tools dude. Also runs on anything. Your argument is based on a web-based 3d games engine? HUGE development market for that.
SOME programmers like Macs, some like Linux, and some *GASP* like windows. I personally, don't really care that much, I've programmed professionally on all three, and had all three as home systems. I found no advantage to using a Mac over a Windows system. Similar tools for development exist on all three platforms. I spend 90% of my day in an editor anywho.
But when you get down t its all a matter of personal preference, not improved productivity. MAYBE you could argu that Mac has a far-superior window-manager (it does), but an additional monitor on my work machine solves this problem.
Stewart is funny, but for the love of God, I wish he'd please move away from heavy politics. I'm in my early 20s, I can understand that people care a lot about politics, especially in college, but the factual substance is shameful on that show. It's fine to watch, just check-out bbc, cnn, or even al-jezera too.
What I dislike about virtually all journalism, is that it's horribly sensationalized. What's interesting isn't usually whats significant. Also, people see/hear/read things (think about all the mis-covered tech stories we've seen here) and never seem to question them. For example, I'd urge anyone to look at exactly how much oil the United States imports from Iraq. Touchy subject, I know, but this something that Americans should look up for themselves, as the sources are numerous and varied.
In the era of unlimited information, people still look to the slanted media as the basis of their knowledge. The media is selling something everyday. Whether or not its high-quality journalism is questionable.
For a good synopsis of the last 150 years of journalism, i'd recommend that anyone read ~80 page book by Susan Sontag called "Regaurding the Pain of Others", it will really make you question what your read.
orbiting earth, it's unfortunate that so many countries want their own positioning satellite systems. Its almost certain that global nuclear war would destroy all countries involved in creating their own private GPS-ish networks, so its really too bad that we all can't just share. Brings back memories of the cold-war =(
According to our friends at the U.S. govt, 70% of electricity comes from burning stuff. Coal, petroleum , natural gas, etc.
You are going to lose over 50% of the energy in the conversion process, and produce just as many hydrocarbons. In short, switching cars to electricity-engines does nothing for the environment.
I'd also imagine it'd be fairly difficult to get enough horsepower (torque * rpms) for comparable performance to a gasoline engine.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/sources/electricity.html
This is one of the oldest philosophical arguments in European society.
Paley's(???) Watchmaker argument (paraphrased and condensed):
If you find a watch on the beach,
you can infer that it has both purpose and design,
because it exhibits order that isn't a random cobbling of elements.
Someone must of designed it.
Therefore, since humans exhibit both purpose and design,
someone must have designed us.
This logical argument for the existence of God was refuted by Hume.
What I don't think you, or philosophers, realize about most Christians is that we base our beliefs on FAITH. Who are these "alot of people"?
Most don't say "we believe in God because the universe behaves in an orderly fashion... therefore we are like watches... blah blah". Faith is not a word for "blind acceptance", it has a very intimate theological meaning, similar to philosophical jargon-words. Faith is finding proof of God within one's own life/soul/consciousness, not the outside world. You can argue whether or not this is rational until your face turns blue, because it is beside the point.
"invented the computer" is ambiguous. Many people, Babbage, Turing, etc. worked on the analytical model, and dozens if not hundreds of engineers worked out the details.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture#History
An American did however invent the concept of the modern computer.
mathematics
Doing the "mathematics" or doing the "mathematic" ?
I have absolutely no reasonable basis to believe this, but I share a similar opinion.
Areas like the Bermuda and Dragon's triangles sit on top of very deep sections of the ocean, and the same lines of longitude. What if all the strange incidents have to do with something extra-terrestrial sitting on the ocean floor? And the disappearances occur when you see something that you shouldn't. In other words, wouldn't the deepest parts of the ocean be a good place to hide?
I think emacs and vi are both painful at first, if you are used to a fully graphical IDE. I tried desperately to get comfortable w/ emacs, to no avail. For the hell of it, I tried out vim, and the flexibility of keyboard commands has really helped w/ my sore wrists.
I've been using vi extensively for more than 3 months, and I am still a newbie. It seems like the kind of editor you literally have to use for years to become competent with, but if you learn the basics its pretty intuitive for editing.
Specialized robots work better than general-purpose ones (DUH!). Creating a robot that is as capable at general tasks as a human is pointless, at least from the economic standpoint (unless you need a Terminator). Humans are cheaper than robots. Imagine the R&D and production cost involved in creating a robot as agile as the human body. Then, imagine fixing such a robot.
Robots perform special tasks better than humans. Surgery is an obvious application, as the summary pointed out. What could be more steady than a hand with hydraulic (or whatever they use) joints. If something is able to play the Violin, it very well may be able to cut you open along a very precise line, remove a cancer/organ/ while the surgeon is sitting on his butt, operating a computer. Surgery is very tiresome from what I understand (I worked in the dept. of orthopaedics in college), and I'd imagine if this is coupled with the proper software and human interface, it would work splendidly for medical purposes.
I'd think the Medical field would be the most interested in this tech. Surgeons could maybe even perform an extra surgery a day ($$$$$$$), and Hospitals usually have big moolah to spend on fancy-schmancy tech.