Just wait until he has to install a patch to his house because his air conditioner has a security hole or his theater shows a "blue screen of death" (tm Microsoft).
Now I'm going to hack into his wine cellar and spoil his chablis...
Being a supposed genius maybe he could apply some of that briliance to reducing his impact on the land with a more reasonably sized home. Naaah, easier to just send a check to the Sierra Club and f the world!
Put it somewhere where it can't be seen or you'll get endless wisecracks about "Gee Bob, you're a little cranky. Looks like your blood sugar is a bit low, eh?"
One thing I noticed was that they weren't working with gloves. From my experience working with LN in the lab is that getting even tiny drops on your hands is like getting splattered with hot cooking oil and to get a good splash from it I'd expect would create a flash frostbite burn.
As for the condensation issue I wonder if it would be worthwhile to make a dewer vessel chassis for the motherboard with the ports/power supply connector the only (sealed) connections to the outside. Put the board in, connect the ports, bolt it shut (with a low temp gasket seal), then fill it with LN. Problem here would be having to constantly vent the gas boiled off by the heat of the board and having to always add more. Sudden thermal contraction might also crack circuit board traces or even ICs.
Well, making semiconductors and integrated circuits is far more than just the temperature properties of the material. High Tcrit ceramics may not be suitable for ICs and photolithography.
"The public needs to get used to these kinds of stores, but I think it's inevitable that they will."
I thought the rule was the market responded to the consumer, that was supposed to be what was so great about a market econonmy. Obviously that is not always the case. Here is an example of the market dictating to the consumer.
By the way, who are these people who have to buy a DVD at 2am?
The person who says "It is harmless!" or "It doesn't affect me!". Then there are the folks who wave their hand without doing any research and say "It isn't toxic"
Wait a minute, you say you have a "tolerance like with alcohol" for caffeine yet you drink 4 red bulls (+ other crud) a day? If you have a tolerance then why do you still drink all that caffeine? What benefit do you get from it anymore other than as a placebo?
Another benefit to quitting is no more low caffeine headaches. I have a friend who used to get terrible ones until he quit. Plus you don't have to urinate as much!
I fell asleep at the wheel once, it was not fun. I was within a mile of my apt (those statistics are right!) late one winter night. I nodded off just as I was slowing down at a red light. Fortunately I was going slow (~10mph) and there was no one else around because the next thing I saw was snow blasting up over the hood from hitting a snow bank. After checking to make sure the steam coming up from the grill was from snow on the engine and not a punctured radiator I started off for home, ONLY TO START NODDING OFF AGAIN! I couldn't believe that even a potentially dangerous accident wasn't enough to wake me up.
Now when I'm driving, say, the 3 hours back from the Whites in NH and I start to feel sleepy I pull over at rest stops and take a nap. About 15 minutes does the trick.
"an SMP Alpha or Sparc machine with gigabytes of memory, 64-bit SCSI RAID-5, DVD-RAM for removable storage and a fast pipe to the outside world is much more interesting to me than a single P4 with 512MB memory, IDE hard drive, 56k winmodem"
These are home machines they are talking about, not university workstations. Try not to be so elitist.
Please, cram ads in ever goddamn place where there is space until there are so many ads cluttering my view (which happens pretty frequently already) that I ignore them all like so much background noise. I know when someone is trying to do a product placement, especially when they say the name of the product for no reason or the logo is strangely up front and center in the image, they are not being clever. If you actually buy a car because you saw a character in a movie using it then a sucker truly is born every minute.
Advertisers are basically just wasting their money fighting with each other.
A better idea is to remove the tax deduction for advertising as a business expense. Maybe set a cutoff point to protect small businesses but force mass advertising to be tamed. Right now large businesses waste huge amounts of $ on some pretty pointless and invasive advertising campaigns with the consumer being forced to pay for them through higher costs. Let the companies pay the true cost of advertising and eventually they'd have to limit it to keep their products affordable.
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So they slap capacitive plates on the outside? So the other guy just puts a penetrating cap on the round to punch through the plates and detonate the shaped charge against the now exposed armor.
The best tactic is still to blow the tracks off. Invest in anti-tank mines or improve methods of hitting them. Tanks are pretty useless when they aren't mobile so they have to show those tracks eventually.
"The bigger question is whether they'll actually work hard on their jobs, or just play on SlashDot all day. And I don't know how to interview for that (and obviously neither do my employers)."
Easy, say at the interview that you like Slashdot then ask the interviewee if they use it and if they say yes what their handle is. Then search the site for their comments and check their times.;)
After working on computers for 8hrs+ a day I don't feel the desire to go home and code some more. I'd say you should be doing something else at home to keep your interests varied unless you want to hire single minded fanatics.
Since you are looking for one value in an otherwise complete sequence just take the list of 1..n and sum it then take the list (1..x, x+2..n) and sum that then subtract one from the other and there is your number!
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Just think how much data you can lose in a single drive failure now! Good luck backing it up without going broke.
My S750 is great. Guess you can't make blanket statements about an entire manufacturer based on one person's experieces.
Do you think Duke listed the donor as "Anonymous Coward"?
The catch is when someone asks you what any piece of the kernel actually does. Seeing it and understanding it are two different things.
I can pop open the hood of my car anytime I want, doesn't mean I can fix it.
Just wait until he has to install a patch to his house because his air conditioner has a security hole or his theater shows a "blue screen of death" (tm Microsoft).
Now I'm going to hack into his wine cellar and spoil his chablis...
Being a supposed genius maybe he could apply some of that briliance to reducing his impact on the land with a more reasonably sized home. Naaah, easier to just send a check to the Sierra Club and f the world!
They should install a little flag that pops out of the top of your head like a turkey thermometer. *POP* "Low blood sugar, time to get a snack!"
Put it somewhere where it can't be seen or you'll get endless wisecracks about "Gee Bob, you're a little cranky. Looks like your blood sugar is a bit low, eh?"
One thing I noticed was that they weren't working with gloves. From my experience working with LN in the lab is that getting even tiny drops on your hands is like getting splattered with hot cooking oil and to get a good splash from it I'd expect would create a flash frostbite burn.
As for the condensation issue I wonder if it would be worthwhile to make a dewer vessel chassis for the motherboard with the ports/power supply connector the only (sealed) connections to the outside. Put the board in, connect the ports, bolt it shut (with a low temp gasket seal), then fill it with LN. Problem here would be having to constantly vent the gas boiled off by the heat of the board and having to always add more. Sudden thermal contraction might also crack circuit board traces or even ICs.
Well, making semiconductors and integrated circuits is far more than just the temperature properties of the material. High Tcrit ceramics may not be suitable for ICs and photolithography.
"The public needs to get used to these kinds of stores, but I think it's inevitable that they will."
I thought the rule was the market responded to the consumer, that was supposed to be what was so great about a market econonmy. Obviously that is not always the case. Here is an example of the market dictating to the consumer.
By the way, who are these people who have to buy a DVD at 2am?
Isn't the sugar though a major part of the boost? If you rely solely on caffinated diet drinks you must be constantly going to the bathroom.
The person who says "It is harmless!" or "It doesn't affect me!". Then there are the folks who wave their hand without doing any research and say "It isn't toxic"
Wait a minute, you say you have a "tolerance like with alcohol" for caffeine yet you drink 4 red bulls (+ other crud) a day? If you have a tolerance then why do you still drink all that caffeine? What benefit do you get from it anymore other than as a placebo?
Another benefit to quitting is no more low caffeine headaches. I have a friend who used to get terrible ones until he quit. Plus you don't have to urinate as much!
I fell asleep at the wheel once, it was not fun. I was within a mile of my apt (those statistics are right!) late one winter night. I nodded off just as I was slowing down at a red light. Fortunately I was going slow (~10mph) and there was no one else around because the next thing I saw was snow blasting up over the hood from hitting a snow bank. After checking to make sure the steam coming up from the grill was from snow on the engine and not a punctured radiator I started off for home, ONLY TO START NODDING OFF AGAIN! I couldn't believe that even a potentially dangerous accident wasn't enough to wake me up.
Now when I'm driving, say, the 3 hours back from the Whites in NH and I start to feel sleepy I pull over at rest stops and take a nap. About 15 minutes does the trick.
"an SMP Alpha or Sparc machine with gigabytes of memory, 64-bit SCSI RAID-5, DVD-RAM for removable storage and a fast pipe to the outside world is much more interesting to me than a single P4 with 512MB memory, IDE hard drive, 56k winmodem"
These are home machines they are talking about, not university workstations. Try not to be so elitist.
Please, cram ads in ever goddamn place where there is space until there are so many ads cluttering my view (which happens pretty frequently already) that I ignore them all like so much background noise. I know when someone is trying to do a product placement, especially when they say the name of the product for no reason or the logo is strangely up front and center in the image, they are not being clever. If you actually buy a car because you saw a character in a movie using it then a sucker truly is born every minute.
Advertisers are basically just wasting their money fighting with each other.
A better idea is to remove the tax deduction for advertising as a business expense. Maybe set a cutoff point to protect small businesses but force mass advertising to be tamed. Right now large businesses waste huge amounts of $ on some pretty pointless and invasive advertising campaigns with the consumer being forced to pay for them through higher costs. Let the companies pay the true cost of advertising and eventually they'd have to limit it to keep their products affordable.
So they slap capacitive plates on the outside? So the other guy just puts a penetrating cap on the round to punch through the plates and detonate the shaped charge against the now exposed armor.
The best tactic is still to blow the tracks off. Invest in anti-tank mines or improve methods of hitting them. Tanks are pretty useless when they aren't mobile so they have to show those tracks eventually.
You say "2.2 billion" instead of trillion in the message body. There is no substitute for proofreading.
"The bigger question is whether they'll actually work hard on their jobs, or just play on SlashDot all day. And I don't know how to interview for that (and obviously neither do my employers)."
;)
Easy, say at the interview that you like Slashdot then ask the interviewee if they use it and if they say yes what their handle is. Then search the site for their comments and check their times.
After working on computers for 8hrs+ a day I don't feel the desire to go home and code some more. I'd say you should be doing something else at home to keep your interests varied unless you want to hire single minded fanatics.
Since you are looking for one value in an otherwise complete sequence just take the list of 1..n and sum it then take the list (1..x, x+2..n) and sum that then subtract one from the other and there is your number!
But you wouldn't get a salad at the same time.