There already exists devices for dropping loads when the supply frequency droops - a sign that the generation is not meeting the load. These are designed specifically for areas where generation will occasionally be insufficient, like developing countries. Now that North America is in the same boat (and the rest of the 'western' world is probably going to follow the same course), why not start using these things.
It wouldn't be hard to develop a small micro-controller driven box that would watch the mains supply frequency and apply small adjustments to a thermostat setting as required.
... with this technology, this could be really truly amazing to use - just imagine flicking a photograph across the virtual table top (underneath the coffee cups), and someone catching it on the other side and rotating it around so that they can see it the right way round. Just imagine if that isn't a photograph, but a document that several people have to collaborate on. This could help make computing environments that are so much more natural to use.
Bad form, I know, to reply to my own post, but I just realised something else.
I wasn't really preaching in my original post, although looking at it, it does look like I was - I was actually just explaining the "religious person's perspective", which I thought was dismissed by the GGGP poster.
We are all atheists, some of us just go one god further
:-)
Nay, I tell you. We're all children of the one God, some of us have just forgotten.
Since I've heard that the lack of body language can make for poor communication online, let me tell you that I'm saying this with good humour, smiling as I do so, and I'm not intending this as a provocation.:-)
Well, this is waaay OT (though perhaps it is news to a lot of nerds:-) ), but it deserves an honest answer.
But one question I have is, do you suppose you feel this way because of what your parents have suggested to you from a young age, not because of your own opinions when you were of age to form them yourself?
Neither. It's because of direct experience, like seeing a colour.
I mean, was this belief so engrained in you from your parents that you've never stopped to question it?
Personally, no. I drifted a lot and at one time thought exactly the same as the GP poster - parents should let their children find their own path. Ultimately I came to the faith of my parents through many direct interactions with God - not other people! - but I needed the guidance of many others to reach this point. I do think that rigorous interogation of a belief is important, but ultimately faith has to rest on experience, not dogma. Dogmatising children (indeed anyone) is a terrible mistake, but leading them to know God personally absolutely is not. Letting them find their own path is perhaps not as bad as dogmatising them, but it's certainly not as good as leading them to a direct experience after which they can make their own decisions.
Isn't that really what the parent post was getting at?
Yeah, I agree, that is what the GP post was getting at, however I think it's based on three assumptions that I disagree with: 1. There are no absolutes, therefore no one is "right" on a matter of faith.
I believe there are absolutes, and although I will not claim to know anything absolutely myself, I would be falsifying that belief if I did not seek to set my child on their road towards them.
2. All religion is dogma, and all teaching of religion is brainwashing.
If I haven't answered this point already I'm not going won't manage it by just using more words.
3. (I/me/number one/etc) am in control of my own destiny and am the only person capable of seeing the right path for me - indeed, there is no right path - I know or can find out for myself everything I need to know to choose my path.
I believe that one person by themself is not capable of seeing their own life clearly and needs to take advice to find the "right path for them" - by which I mean the path that God is drawing them along. Secondly, I don't believe people can find out everything for themselves - people are not self sufficient, and some things must come from outside of them - like I said earlier.
To sum up, yes, I understand the point the GP poster was trying to make and, as such, agree with you, but the point that I was trying to make is that the original point was resting on a false foundation.
God taught a bunch of people (the Jews) to know Him. Judaism is the rituals, writing and general structure that mediate that relationship.
He kept telling them He was going to send a close relative to visit them, but humans being a bit thick-headed kept on misunderstanding the message - perhaps deliberately because it suited them. Eventually He did send a guy (His Son apparently, but the exact relationship is a bit difficult to define given that God is so different from Humans and all that), and not only did they not recognise Him, but they really didn't like Him (not surprising really considering how they'd reacted to all the previous messages / messengers), and ultimately killed Him. But that's actually what God expected, and it's not so bad because He arranged things so that Humans could follow Him (literally) and thus be lead back into the life with God that they were made for. Christianity is all the rituals, writings and general structure that mediate that relationship. I've simplified and possibly slightly fudged things here, but the thrust is accurate.
I can't really say much about Islam as I don't really know much about it.
Clearly, I belong to the Christian branch of the tree. I would tag a disclaimer on here, but what would be the point in that? Obviously I understand that many (most?) people here would disagree with what I've just said, but the point I'm trying to get at (which a lot of people don't seem to 'get') is that a genuine believer really believes what they're saying - they don't secretly disbelieve it - it's not like it's really all a secret joke with nods, winks, handshakes, the lot - we actually believe what we say. Just hope there was once a time when we didn't believe - it makes us a whole lot more understanding of those who (still?) don't.
No problem. The thrust of the comment was meant to be humourous - poking fun at that style of music. The grammar correction was not meant to be an attack. That particular rule can be very confusing, even to those for whom English is their native language.
To all the employers / managers out there complaining about receiving CVs that don't have the required skills, I'll say this: It's because supply and demand aren't matching up.
A few years ago I was unemployed and desperately searching for a job. All I saw was advert after advert for jobs that required more skills than someone in my position (newly graduated) could possibly have. What was I meant to do? Naturally, I looked for the jobs that were the closest match and applied for them, whether or not I had all the 'required' skills.
If you employers are going to complain about the lack of suitably skilled people, you had better be taking on a few 'youngsters' for training. If you're so miserly that you won't train people, don't bloody expect them to train themselves! It's a matter of civic duty - if you don't "do you bit", the entire country's skill pool is going to decline.
Fortunately, I eventually got a job through a family contact and have since been developing code for an embedded control system.
"A delicate bar of cartilage connecting the dorsal and ventral extremities of the first pair of bronchial cartilages in the syrinx of birds." From The Free Dictionary
But following the logic of most menu names, the meaning of having preferences under the edit menu is not "editing your preferences", but rather "preferencing your edits" - usually the menu name is a noun and the menu item is a verb.
Hell, I'd pay 20 billion pounds if it was going to be ready in 2005! I have a suspicion I'd make a killing on the dogs sometime in the near future to pay for it too.
Sorry, guilty of not fully R'ing TFA before posting. To quote:
One final note: Security Fix did not attempt to determine whether there was a correlation between the speed with which Microsoft issues patches and the quality or effectiveness of those updates.
They thought that would require too much work to compile.
While releasing non-critical patches on a monthly cycle seems sensible, three months is a very long time. I wish I could believe it was all being spent on testing.
A danger is that the time difference between patches for undisclosed vs. fully-disclosed vulnerabilities will encourage people to fully disclose without waiting. I hope Microsoft are working to bring down their cycle time for characterising the vulnerability, and developing and testing the patch.
Does anyone have statistics for the number of bugs found in patched code vs. the time taken before releasing the patch?
I recently destroyed an old Seagate ST157N Hard Drive that we used to have connected to an Atari ST. Back in the day when we bought that thing (about mid-late 80s), 50Mb was mind-bogglingly huge. Just before taking my mini-drill to it (bad idea - the metals used in hard-drives are *hard*), I hung it off a spare SCSI adapter I had lying around. I was still able to read the contents and I think there was only one questionable sector on the drive.
Similarly, my brother is still using a 486 with a 250Mb hard drive that was bought in about 1992. That machine is one of the most reliable machines I've ever known.
If you ask me, hardware has got flakier, and that includes hard drives.
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Down south they also call it supper...
(You probably have to be English to get that)
Hell, I've got to try to stop being disappointed with only 25 days.
There already exists devices for dropping loads when the supply frequency droops - a sign that the generation is not meeting the load. These are designed specifically for areas where generation will occasionally be insufficient, like developing countries. Now that North America is in the same boat (and the rest of the 'western' world is probably going to follow the same course), why not start using these things.
It wouldn't be hard to develop a small micro-controller driven box that would watch the mains supply frequency and apply small adjustments to a thermostat setting as required.
... with this technology, this could be really truly amazing to use - just imagine flicking a photograph across the virtual table top (underneath the coffee cups), and someone catching it on the other side and rotating it around so that they can see it the right way round.
Just imagine if that isn't a photograph, but a document that several people have to collaborate on. This could help make computing environments that are so much more natural to use.
Bad form, I know, to reply to my own post, but I just realised something else.
I wasn't really preaching in my original post, although looking at it, it does look like I was - I was actually just explaining the "religious person's perspective", which I thought was dismissed by the GGGP poster.
We are all atheists, some of us just go one god further
Nay, I tell you. We're all children of the one God, some of us have just forgotten.
Since I've heard that the lack of body language can make for poor communication online, let me tell you that I'm saying this with good humour, smiling as I do so, and I'm not intending this as a provocation. :-)
I'm sorry we've tired you.
Well, this is waaay OT (though perhaps it is news to a lot of nerds :-) ), but it deserves an honest answer.
But one question I have is, do you suppose you feel this way because of what your parents have suggested to you from a young age, not because of your own opinions when you were of age to form them yourself?
Neither. It's because of direct experience, like seeing a colour.
I mean, was this belief so engrained in you from your parents that you've never stopped to question it?
Personally, no. I drifted a lot and at one time thought exactly the same as the GP poster - parents should let their children find their own path. Ultimately I came to the faith of my parents through many direct interactions with God - not other people! - but I needed the guidance of many others to reach this point. I do think that rigorous interogation of a belief is important, but ultimately faith has to rest on experience, not dogma. Dogmatising children (indeed anyone) is a terrible mistake, but leading them to know God personally absolutely is not.
Letting them find their own path is perhaps not as bad as dogmatising them, but it's certainly not as good as leading them to a direct experience after which they can make their own decisions.
Isn't that really what the parent post was getting at?
Yeah, I agree, that is what the GP post was getting at, however I think it's based on three assumptions that I disagree with:
1. There are no absolutes, therefore no one is "right" on a matter of faith.
I believe there are absolutes, and although I will not claim to know anything absolutely myself, I would be falsifying that belief if I did not seek to set my child on their road towards them.
2. All religion is dogma, and all teaching of religion is brainwashing.
If I haven't answered this point already I'm not going won't manage it by just using more words.
3. (I/me/number one/etc) am in control of my own destiny and am the only person capable of seeing the right path for me - indeed, there is no right path - I know or can find out for myself everything I need to know to choose my path.
I believe that one person by themself is not capable of seeing their own life clearly and needs to take advice to find the "right path for them" - by which I mean the path that God is drawing them along. Secondly, I don't believe people can find out everything for themselves - people are not self sufficient, and some things must come from outside of them - like I said earlier.
To sum up, yes, I understand the point the GP poster was trying to make and, as such, agree with you, but the point that I was trying to make is that the original point was resting on a false foundation.
Religion is a BIG NO. [...] Let your child find their OWN path without forcing it to them.
If I believe that my religion represents the only sure path to God, then letting them "find their own path" is an act of unmitigated cruelty.
Disclaimer: I am not a parent. Hell, I'm still half a kid myself (23).
These two are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
If you want them to be techies I suggest you absolutely forbid them to use computers.
Course, if you want them to speak to you in twenty years time, I suggest you completely ignore any advice I might have to give.
I presume you mean computers / electronics?
Get one of these. Should be able to get the knight-rider LED thing going in a couple of days, and after that it's all plain sailing.
What? Why are you all looking at me like that?
Well .. yeah .. but I would have put it like this:
God taught a bunch of people (the Jews) to know Him. Judaism is the rituals, writing and general structure that mediate that relationship.
He kept telling them He was going to send a close relative to visit them, but humans being a bit thick-headed kept on misunderstanding the message - perhaps deliberately because it suited them.
Eventually He did send a guy (His Son apparently, but the exact relationship is a bit difficult to define given that God is so different from Humans and all that), and not only did they not recognise Him, but they really didn't like Him (not surprising really considering how they'd reacted to all the previous messages / messengers), and ultimately killed Him. But that's actually what God expected, and it's not so bad because He arranged things so that Humans could follow Him (literally) and thus be lead back into the life with God that they were made for. Christianity is all the rituals, writings and general structure that mediate that relationship.
I've simplified and possibly slightly fudged things here, but the thrust is accurate.
I can't really say much about Islam as I don't really know much about it.
Clearly, I belong to the Christian branch of the tree. I would tag a disclaimer on here, but what would be the point in that? Obviously I understand that many (most?) people here would disagree with what I've just said, but the point I'm trying to get at (which a lot of people don't seem to 'get') is that a genuine believer really believes what they're saying - they don't secretly disbelieve it - it's not like it's really all a secret joke with nods, winks, handshakes, the lot - we actually believe what we say. Just hope there was once a time when we didn't believe - it makes us a whole lot more understanding of those who (still?) don't.
No problem. The thrust of the comment was meant to be humourous - poking fun at that style of music.
The grammar correction was not meant to be an attack. That particular rule can be very confusing, even to those for whom English is their native language.
MP3 files I encode for listening on my car stereo are undistinguishable from the ones on the original CDs.
And if you're listening to 'nu-metal' and other children's music, it's indistinguishable - full-stop!
To all the employers / managers out there complaining about receiving CVs that don't have the required skills, I'll say this: It's because supply and demand aren't matching up.
A few years ago I was unemployed and desperately searching for a job. All I saw was advert after advert for jobs that required more skills than someone in my position (newly graduated) could possibly have. What was I meant to do? Naturally, I looked for the jobs that were the closest match and applied for them, whether or not I had all the 'required' skills.
If you employers are going to complain about the lack of suitably skilled people, you had better be taking on a few 'youngsters' for training. If you're so miserly that you won't train people, don't bloody expect them to train themselves! It's a matter of civic duty - if you don't "do you bit", the entire country's skill pool is going to decline.
Fortunately, I eventually got a job through a family contact and have since been developing code for an embedded control system.
I using on of these you insensitive clod!
Tssk. What, do you know nothing?
"A delicate bar of cartilage connecting the dorsal and ventral extremities of the first pair of bronchial cartilages in the syrinx of birds."
From The Free Dictionary
Surely everyone knows that!
But following the logic of most menu names, the meaning of having preferences under the edit menu is not "editing your preferences", but rather "preferencing your edits" - usually the menu name is a noun and the menu item is a verb.
Back in my day, the best I could get was 2.84 bytes/sec.
Fortunately it was very scalable - it all depended on how much pocket money I had left that month.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=720kB+%2F+3days
Hell, I'd pay 20 billion pounds if it was going to be ready in 2005! I have a suspicion I'd make a killing on the dogs sometime in the near future to pay for it too.
While releasing non-critical patches on a monthly cycle seems sensible, three months is a very long time. I wish I could believe it was all being spent on testing.
A danger is that the time difference between patches for undisclosed vs. fully-disclosed vulnerabilities will encourage people to fully disclose without waiting. I hope Microsoft are working to bring down their cycle time for characterising the vulnerability, and developing and testing the patch.
Does anyone have statistics for the number of bugs found in patched code vs. the time taken before releasing the patch?
I recently destroyed an old Seagate ST157N Hard Drive that we used to have connected to an Atari ST. Back in the day when we bought that thing (about mid-late 80s), 50Mb was mind-bogglingly huge. Just before taking my mini-drill to it (bad idea - the metals used in hard-drives are *hard*), I hung it off a spare SCSI adapter I had lying around. I was still able to read the contents and I think there was only one questionable sector on the drive.
Similarly, my brother is still using a 486 with a 250Mb hard drive that was bought in about 1992. That machine is one of the most reliable machines I've ever known.
If you ask me, hardware has got flakier, and that includes hard drives.
If you think I'm going to follow a link to a google image search for "stud finder" ... !
Original advert
In 10 years time, as part of the marketing package for Windows Vista:
In 20 years time, when everyone's tired of constant change:
In 30 years time, just after the 'Death of the Internet'(TM) and everyone realises it was all a big mistake:
In 40 years time, as everyone is just starting to move forward again: