Seriously. I have a partially built arcade machine here in my living room that needs parts, and I am only about 3 hours from KoP. I would have driven there in a second had I know about it before hand.
Ahhh, but tickets do plink, and suprisingly convincingly at that.
Last time I was there, when I cashed out it simply printed a ticket, but it played the sound of coins falling into the slot, and I was convinced enough to look into the bin (which is still there) and reach for the non-existant coins.
Get Mobile Pants, they are truly excellent. I have 4 pairs, and I were either cargo pants or Mobile Pants almost every day. They have a total of 8 pockets, and are completely indistinguishable from regular dress pants. They would work for you quite well, as shown:
2 back pockets (wallet, etc) 2 front pockets (keys, change) 2 zippered pockets behind normal front pockets (Cell phone) 2 thigh pockets (GBA, PDA)
Also, I don't know how, but the pockets are designed to be invisible, so you don't have a large lump on the side of your leg like you do with regular cargo pants.
I like the idea, but how many of Oreilly's books will be useful in 28 years?
Everything you need to know about Java 1.4 isn't really relevant when they just released Java 7.4. And what good is Mac Os X secrets with a copy of Mac OS XIV?
I would think most O'Reilly books only have a lifespan of 5, maybe ten years top before they are completely outdated.
Not to bash O'Reilly, I think they but out some really great books, but they tend to focus on implementation, rather than something that will be useful in 28 years, like say The Art of Computer Programming, by Knuth.
I was thinking about this back when I first saw the article.
After all, according to the SEC insider trading is defined as
Illegal insider trading refers generally to buying or selling a security, in breach of a fiduciary duty or other relationship of trust and confidence, while in possession of material, nonpublic information about the security.
Clearly the information he had was nonpublic and material, so he is guilty. (Or would be, if he actually existed) Just because it is public in the future wouldn't be a defense, as most illegal insider trades are based on information that will be public at some future time.
Excellent! I am going to have to try that, I have, as of yet, been unsuccessful getting MOO to run. I have MOO2 running on my P4 Win2K Vaio laptop, its a great game to play on a plane or in the airport.
However, I have run into a couple of bugs lately. After my ground troops take over a planet, the game almost always crashes. There is also an annoying display bug that will stop drawing random parts of the screen, and I have to save and reload the game. I think it is something to to do with DirectX (Anyone know a way I can emulate older versions of DirectX for older games)
The ground troops thing isn't as annoying, though, I just changed my strategy to not involve ground troops. (Plus, then I can pick ground combat -10 in the race creation and get more cool race benefits!)
At 4 seconds per message and 20,000 messages, you are using about 93% of your time every day scanning the mail. I hope you can scan multiple messages in parallel, or are planning to get some faster hardware, or you will be soon be buried under a mountain of undelivered, unscanned emails.
Well, the search was only for articles that contained his last name, so my guess is there are a lot more the search cannot come up with.
For example, suppose there was an article which read: "The [insert news source] website has an article on DRM. Good read. Check it out." Since it doesn't say who wrote it, it wouldn't appear in the search, but it is still a link to one of his articles.
I'm not sure if this question is on the page or not, as I can't access it. (Slashdot effect anyone)
Anyway, during my Microsoft interview when I was an undergrad, they asked me the following question, which I got "wrong"
You have a 7kg bar of gold (assumed rectangular). Your employee gets paid 1kg of gold a day for seven days (because apparently Microsoft people don't get the weekend off). What is the minimal number of cuts to make such that you can pay him 1kg every day?
I came up with some creative solutions, such as:
Cutting in 3/4 section, stacking the sections, and recutting, so one cut breaks two pieces.
Cutting a cosine wave into the bar which just brushed the edges with period 7.
A whole bunch of other ideas, all of which were "wrong".
Anyway, after much back and forth, he basically hinted away that the answer he wanted was to cut the bar into sections of 1kg, 2kg, and 4kg. Then you give him 1kg the first day, then on the second day, give him the 2kg and ask for the 1kg back, etc etc. (ie binary arithmetic basically)
Personally, this seemed like the stupidest answer ever to me, in that you were making the assumption that your employee would a) not spend any of the gold you gave him and b) bring it back to work with him the next day.
Long story short, I didn't get the job, but I think that it shows that people are too fixated on what they think is the "right" answer to something like this, when in reality, there are other solutions.
I could also add some good natured Microsoft bashing about how they make stupid assumption like this in code, but then you wouldn't have anything to reply with:)
Not exactly perfect yet (but its not at 1.0 either), but definitely one of the best instant messaging clients I have used. For those of you using Windows, check it out. (Sorry, no Linux support AFAIK)
I went looking for a utility to convert a PDF into a more friendly format sometime back. I found a few utilities that could extract the text of the document, but most were lacking in some form or another.
Specifically, I wanted to extract the text to index it for a search engine. Maybe someone could create an open source utility to convert a PDF into a more viewer friendly format?
1) Boo! Adobe is threatening Killustrator. What a bunch of arses.
2) Yay! Adobe isn't gonna sue Killustrator, they just want a name change. What a great bunch of guys.
3) Hiss! Adobe had some guy arrested. What a bunch of arses.
Yes, I have version 5.0 and its shareware. It runs for 2 hours before you have to shut it down and start it up again. I actually think of this more as a feature.
It helps me keep track of how long I have been working and gives me an excuse to take a short break every two hours.
Slashdot Mirror
You do know that you can set your Tivo season pass to start a few minutes early? Its in the season pass options.
Thats how I deal with broadcasters with slightly off timeschedules.
Its Oracle something (at least for account management)
Their account creation website was down yesterday, and responding with an ORA-##### error and a stack trace from a Tomcat instance.
http://www.livejournal.com/stats/latest.bml
I don't see a lot of essays there, do you?
Intellij IDEA does this for Java. Not entirely sure how long it has been in, but its at least since version 3.0
Seriously. I have a partially built arcade machine here in my living room that needs parts, and I am only about 3 hours from KoP. I would have driven there in a second had I know about it before hand.
Ahhh, but tickets do plink, and suprisingly convincingly at that.
Last time I was there, when I cashed out it simply printed a ticket, but it played the sound of coins falling into the slot, and I was convinced enough to look into the bin (which is still there) and reach for the non-existant coins.
Agreed!
Get Mobile Pants, they are truly excellent. I have 4 pairs, and I were either cargo pants or Mobile Pants almost every day. They have a total of 8 pockets, and are completely indistinguishable from regular dress pants. They would work for you quite well, as shown:
2 back pockets (wallet, etc)
2 front pockets (keys, change)
2 zippered pockets behind normal front pockets (Cell phone)
2 thigh pockets (GBA, PDA)
Also, I don't know how, but the pockets are designed to be invisible, so you don't have a large lump on the side of your leg like you do with regular cargo pants.
Here is a link to them at JCPenney
Yuengling, America's oldest brewery. A great place, and great beer.
IMO it is much better than the Scissors Cluster Distribution, but I find it lacking compared to Paper Cluster Distribution.
I like the idea, but how many of Oreilly's books will be useful in 28 years?
Everything you need to know about Java 1.4 isn't really relevant when they just released Java 7.4. And what good is Mac Os X secrets with a copy of Mac OS XIV?
I would think most O'Reilly books only have a lifespan of 5, maybe ten years top before they are completely outdated.
Not to bash O'Reilly, I think they but out some really great books, but they tend to focus on implementation, rather than something that will be useful in 28 years, like say The Art of Computer Programming, by Knuth.
I was thinking about this back when I first saw the article.
After all, according to the SEC insider trading is defined as
Illegal insider trading refers generally to buying or selling a security, in breach of a fiduciary duty or other relationship of trust and confidence, while in possession of material, nonpublic information about the security.
Clearly the information he had was nonpublic and material, so he is guilty. (Or would be, if he actually existed) Just because it is public in the future wouldn't be a defense, as most illegal insider trades are based on information that will be public at some future time.
Not to burst your bubble, but Electronics Boutique just pushed the release date back to Feb 25
See?
Excellent! I am going to have to try that, I have, as of yet, been unsuccessful getting MOO to run. I have MOO2 running on my P4 Win2K Vaio laptop, its a great game to play on a plane or in the airport.
However, I have run into a couple of bugs lately. After my ground troops take over a planet, the game almost always crashes. There is also an annoying display bug that will stop drawing random parts of the screen, and I have to save and reload the game. I think it is something to to do with DirectX (Anyone know a way I can emulate older versions of DirectX for older games)
The ground troops thing isn't as annoying, though, I just changed my strategy to not involve ground troops. (Plus, then I can pick ground combat -10 in the race creation and get more cool race benefits!)
Anheuser-Busch started in 1860 while Yuengling started producing beer in 1829
Yuengling offers tours as well, as well as some truly excellent beer.
At 4 seconds per message and 20,000 messages, you are using about 93% of your time every day scanning the mail. I hope you can scan multiple messages in parallel, or are planning to get some faster hardware, or you will be soon be buried under a mountain of undelivered, unscanned emails.
The users won't be smiling then.
Regards,
John
Ahh, but only if you let your friend have a bite of the burger.
For example, suppose there was an article which read: "The [insert news source] website has an article on DRM. Good read. Check it out." Since it doesn't say who wrote it, it wouldn't appear in the search, but it is still a link to one of his articles.
Anyway, during my Microsoft interview when I was an undergrad, they asked me the following question, which I got "wrong"
You have a 7kg bar of gold (assumed rectangular). Your employee gets paid 1kg of gold a day for seven days (because apparently Microsoft people don't get the weekend off). What is the minimal number of cuts to make such that you can pay him 1kg every day?
I came up with some creative solutions, such as:
- Cutting in 3/4 section, stacking the sections, and recutting, so one cut breaks two pieces.
- Cutting a cosine wave into the bar which just brushed the edges with period 7.
- A whole bunch of other ideas, all of which were "wrong".
Anyway, after much back and forth, he basically hinted away that the answer he wanted was to cut the bar into sections of 1kg, 2kg, and 4kg. Then you give him 1kg the first day, then on the second day, give him the 2kg and ask for the 1kg back, etc etc. (ie binary arithmetic basically)Personally, this seemed like the stupidest answer ever to me, in that you were making the assumption that your employee would a) not spend any of the gold you gave him and b) bring it back to work with him the next day.
Long story short, I didn't get the job, but I think that it shows that people are too fixated on what they think is the "right" answer to something like this, when in reality, there are other solutions.
I could also add some good natured Microsoft bashing about how they make stupid assumption like this in code, but then you wouldn't have anything to reply with
I already have a unified messaging client. It's called Trillian
Not exactly perfect yet (but its not at 1.0 either), but definitely one of the best instant messaging clients I have used. For those of you using Windows, check it out. (Sorry, no Linux support AFAIK)
I think this is what you are looking for...
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-- Benjamin Franklin
Just wanted to point out:
Moral: Of or concerned with the judgment of the goodness or badness of human action and character: moral scrutiny; a moral quandary.
Morale: The state of the spirits of a person or group as exhibited by confidence, cheerfulness, discipline, and willingness to perform assigned tasks.
Don't mean to nit pick, but I had a hard time reading your message, as I had to keep mentally switching between the two.
I went looking for a utility to convert a PDF into a more friendly format sometime back. I found a few utilities that could extract the text of the document, but most were lacking in some form or another.
Specifically, I wanted to extract the text to index it for a search engine. Maybe someone could create an open source utility to convert a PDF into a more viewer friendly format?
1) Boo! Adobe is threatening Killustrator. What a bunch of arses.
2) Yay! Adobe isn't gonna sue Killustrator, they just want a name change. What a great bunch of guys.
3) Hiss! Adobe had some guy arrested. What a bunch of arses.
All this in the span of ~1 week.
Yes, I have version 5.0 and its shareware. It runs for 2 hours before you have to shut it down and start it up again. I actually think of this more as a feature.
It helps me keep track of how long I have been working and gives me an excuse to take a short break every two hours.
KINK Killistrator is now KINK