... It's like how nobody is allowed to drive drunk, even those who can do it perfectly fine....
Uh, bad analogy there. Numerous studies have repeatedly shown the effects of blood alcohol level on reaction time and sensory perception. Even "those who can do it perfectly fine" are impaired relative to when they are sober.
By contrast, an ethical employee tendering a resignation offers no threat to their employer. But I do agree with you that the employer may not be able to afford that risk.
My company has a show-you-the-door policy upon receiving someone's resignation notice, but they have made exceptions, especially when the departing employee can offer significant value in knowledge transfer.
So the answer, if you really want to work those final two weeks, is not to document anything you've written.
In my home there are four laptops and two standard PCs:
work-issued laptop for a VPN connection to our office network
new laptop as my primary machine
older laptop as a shared family machine
oldest laptop serving as a dedicated web server (low power consumption!)
The PCs:
2.4 GHz dual-boot Windows/Slackware
e-Mac running OS X
Sure, we're not a typical household. But I find the laptops are "good enough" for what I do, even when compiling code. The fact that I can do development on a train even without a net connection is a huge plus for me. While compiles are much faster on the desktop, I rarely have the uninterrupted time to do development from there, and even at home I find I usually use the laptop for coding.
Personally I just want one that has a ring tone that sounds like a damn phone ringing instead playing really annoying songs....
My phone, an LG 5350, has exactly that - a ring tone that sounds like an old fashioned bell phone. It's wonderful, and I've received several compliments on the tone.
We got a DirecTV dish when we bought our house seven years ago, after having cable for 15 months in a rental apartment. We're quite happy with that decision:
1. NFL Sunday Ticket is wonderful for transplanted football fans, and is currently only available from DirecTV.
2. The DVR combined unit is excellent - it encodes the direct MPEG satellite feed, so you can time shift with no loss of quality.
3. The picture quality of satellite is far better than basic cable.
4. The cost is likely lower now. We actually paid for our equipment (they weren't subsidising multi-room systems when we bought), but we still feel we got a better deal than with cable.
We do sometimes have weather issues. A very heavy thunderstorm or a lot of wet snow piling on the dish can cause you to lose signal. It's kind of amusing seeing the pixelation just before the signal goes - it's an odd collage of superimposed frames. The rain outages are usually very short - sometimes as little as a few seconds, and rarely more than five minutes or so. The snow problems can last a bit longer if you can't get the snow off the dish, but a few hours is the longest outage I've seen. With our last cable service, however, we had three outages that lasted a total of three days, so I can still say we had more downtime in 15 months of cable than in 7 years of satellite. What do you prefer, more frequent brief outages, or fewer very long ones ? YMMV, but I am *much* happier with satellite.
Since 802.11a works in the 5GHz frequency range, a 2.4 GHZ cordless phone wouldn't affect it. But there are now 5.8 GHz cordless phones that should do that trick nicely.
I'm posting this using some unknown person's cable modem. I'm visiting my mother, and someone in her building has a linksys wireless router with the default password and no WEP enabled. I appreciate not having to tie up her phone line to surf slashdot. Oh yeah, and the speed is nice, too.
The Apple one with Vern Troyer and the tall bball player, for example.
Funny, I think of that ad as the one with Yao Ming and that short guy from the Austin Powers films.
Windows doesn't supply a compiler out of the box. So if I want to write my own little application in windows, I have to buy Windows developer tools or download and install open source tools that can run on Windows.
Almost all GNU/Linux distributions come with gcc, glibc, and KDE/Gnome development tools by default. I would assume BSDs also make these tools available. I had thought Mac OS X came with gcc and other developer tools preinstalled, but my recently-purchased e-Mac did not have them. I can download them for free from Apple's web site, however.
Granted, most home users don't write their own code, but those who want to cannot do so on Windows out of the box.
So if I'm relying on my UPS to provide uninterruptible power, I can't very well send it to be replaced until I get another one. And if I'm unfortunate enough to have a lot of equipment running off many of these things, then I have a logistical nightmare. I wonder if Rent-a-Center does UPSs...
Actually, it depends on whether you are using 4 or 8 byte floating point values, and further what type of floating point value you are using.
The 4-byte IEEE float representation of 82.845 is 82.8450012, but the 8-byte IEEE representation is 82.844999999999999. Approximately, of course....
IEEE format actually stores the fractional part as a binary fraction with a fixed number of bits.
See http://www.psc.edu/general/software/packages/ieee/ ieee.html for more details.
So, VB was correctly rounding assuming it was using 8-byte IEEE format under the covers.
I frequently watch "old" (or at least late) sports with my TiVo: I often start watching the game an hour or so after the start, and as long as I've not checked some other media source to find out the score, it's just as good as watching it live to me. Of course, my friends have often commented that I'm not exactly "normal", so you may be right that not many people will do this.
On the one hand, the review trumpets a "100% optimised" system. On the other hand, it says you can have this with the ease of a single command to download, compile, and install your applications.
Omitted is the fact that to truly be "100% optimised" you must make important choices about your configuration. If you only accept all default options, you'll not be 100% optimised unless your hardware matches their defaults.
We already draw artifical lines between what is acceptable and what is not in athletics training. The common thread in banned supplements is that they are deemed hazardous to the athlete's health. Would gene therapy have significant harmful side effects ? If not, there is no reason to ban it.
Creatine is legal, anabolic steroids are illegal, and androstenedione was illegal in some sports but legal in others (although baseball later banned it).
Science will continue to come up with performance enhancing methods faster than tests can be produced to detect their use. If this does give people an edge, it will be used whether it is legal or not.
The Web IS a global medium, so how would you charge non-U.S. residents ? Adding on the need for currency conversion would ensure the accounting costs are not worth it.
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... It's like how nobody is allowed to drive drunk, even those who can do it perfectly fine. ...
Uh, bad analogy there. Numerous studies have repeatedly shown the effects of blood alcohol level on reaction time and sensory perception. Even "those who can do it perfectly fine" are impaired relative to when they are sober.
By contrast, an ethical employee tendering a resignation offers no threat to their employer. But I do agree with you that the employer may not be able to afford that risk.
My company has a show-you-the-door policy upon receiving someone's resignation notice, but they have made exceptions, especially when the departing employee can offer significant value in knowledge transfer.
So the answer, if you really want to work those final two weeks, is not to document anything you've written.
Telephone call for Skye16... ;-)
In my home there are four laptops and two standard PCs:
work-issued laptop for a VPN connection to our office network
new laptop as my primary machine
older laptop as a shared family machine
oldest laptop serving as a dedicated web server (low power consumption!)
The PCs:
2.4 GHz dual-boot Windows/Slackware
e-Mac running OS X
Sure, we're not a typical household. But I find the laptops are "good enough" for what I do, even when compiling code. The fact that I can do development on a train even without a net connection is a huge plus for me. While compiles are much faster on the desktop, I rarely have the uninterrupted time to do development from there, and even at home I find I usually use the laptop for coding.
Personally I just want one that has a ring tone that sounds like a damn phone ringing instead playing really annoying songs....
My phone, an LG 5350, has exactly that - a ring tone that sounds like an old fashioned bell phone. It's wonderful, and I've received several compliments on the tone.
We got a DirecTV dish when we bought our house seven years ago, after having cable for 15 months in a rental apartment. We're quite happy with that decision:
1. NFL Sunday Ticket is wonderful for transplanted football fans, and is currently only available from DirecTV.
2. The DVR combined unit is excellent - it encodes the direct MPEG satellite feed, so you can time shift with no loss of quality.
3. The picture quality of satellite is far better than basic cable.
4. The cost is likely lower now. We actually paid for our equipment (they weren't subsidising multi-room systems when we bought), but we still feel we got a better deal than with cable.
We do sometimes have weather issues. A very heavy thunderstorm or a lot of wet snow piling on the dish can cause you to lose signal. It's kind of amusing seeing the pixelation just before the signal goes - it's an odd collage of superimposed frames. The rain outages are usually very short - sometimes as little as a few seconds, and rarely more than five minutes or so. The snow problems can last a bit longer if you can't get the snow off the dish, but a few hours is the longest outage I've seen. With our last cable service, however, we had three outages that lasted a total of three days, so I can still say we had more downtime in 15 months of cable than in 7 years of satellite. What do you prefer, more frequent brief outages, or fewer very long ones ? YMMV, but I am *much* happier with satellite.
Thank GNU very much, RMS !
Since 802.11a works in the 5GHz frequency range, a 2.4 GHZ cordless phone wouldn't affect it. But there are now 5.8 GHz cordless phones that should do that trick nicely.
AA++ is still a lower grade than AAA--, AAA-, AAA, AAA+, and AAA++. So the reviewer was holding back his praise.
-- Standard & Poors
I'm posting this using some unknown person's cable modem. I'm visiting my mother, and someone in her building has a linksys wireless router with the default password and no WEP enabled. I appreciate not having to tie up her phone line to surf slashdot. Oh yeah, and the speed is nice, too.
The Apple one with Vern Troyer and the tall bball player, for example.
Funny, I think of that ad as the one with Yao Ming and that short guy from the Austin Powers films.
Windows doesn't supply a compiler out of the box. So if I want to write my own little application in windows, I have to buy Windows developer tools or download and install open source tools that can run on Windows.
Almost all GNU/Linux distributions come with gcc, glibc, and KDE/Gnome development tools by default. I would assume BSDs also make these tools available. I had thought Mac OS X came with gcc and other developer tools preinstalled, but my recently-purchased e-Mac did not have them. I can download them for free from Apple's web site, however.
Granted, most home users don't write their own code, but those who want to cannot do so on Windows out of the box.
So if I'm relying on my UPS to provide uninterruptible power, I can't very well send it to be replaced until I get another one. And if I'm unfortunate enough to have a lot of equipment running off many of these things, then I have a logistical nightmare. I wonder if Rent-a-Center does UPSs...
I'd mod this post up if I could. This is the funniest thing I've ever seen on Slashdot!
- http://www.ofset.org/gcompris/index.html
There are probably other projects well worth investigating.Actually, it depends on whether you are using 4 or 8 byte floating point values, and further what type of floating point value you are using./ ieee.html for more details.
The 4-byte IEEE float representation of 82.845 is 82.8450012, but the 8-byte IEEE representation is 82.844999999999999. Approximately, of course....
IEEE format actually stores the fractional part as a binary fraction with a fixed number of bits. See http://www.psc.edu/general/software/packages/ieee
So, VB was correctly rounding assuming it was using 8-byte IEEE format under the covers.
I frequently watch "old" (or at least late) sports with my TiVo: I often start watching the game an hour or so after the start, and as long as I've not checked some other media source to find out the score, it's just as good as watching it live to me. Of course, my friends have often commented that I'm not exactly "normal", so you may be right that not many people will do this.
On the one hand, the review trumpets a "100% optimised" system. On the other hand, it says you can have this with the ease of a single command to download, compile, and install your applications. Omitted is the fact that to truly be "100% optimised" you must make important choices about your configuration. If you only accept all default options, you'll not be 100% optimised unless your hardware matches their defaults.
We already draw artifical lines between what is acceptable and what is not in athletics training. The common thread in banned supplements is that they are deemed hazardous to the athlete's health. Would gene therapy have significant harmful side effects ? If not, there is no reason to ban it.
Creatine is legal, anabolic steroids are illegal, and androstenedione was illegal in some sports but legal in others (although baseball later banned it).
Science will continue to come up with performance enhancing methods faster than tests can be produced to detect their use. If this does give people an edge, it will be used whether it is legal or not.
The Web IS a global medium, so how would you charge non-U.S. residents ? Adding on the need for currency conversion would ensure the accounting costs are not worth it.
This interview originally aired back in May. Cisco has posted an edited transcript of the original interview.