Thanks for the information - interesting. I'm thinking of converting an MFC app to Qt for largely the same reason - people being happier to use it with less hassle.
Your reply also ranks as one of the first I've got for a question like this on slashdot, so thanks for that, too.
I misread the title, and thought we were talking about nano-tech.
I'd come up with a couple of interesting ways to combat cheating with it before I realised my mistake:
1) Have nano-robots floating around in your blood stream (and eyes) taking account of everything you see and write. If they witness you cheating, turn you into grey-goo.
2) As above, but instead of mushing your entire body, just take control of your hands to write "I AM A CHEAT!" all over the paper.
3) Since the above isn't actually possible yet, just *tell* the students that it is, and they've been injected with the "truth or die" serum.
I know that the law always trumps. But laws change from country to country, I'm in the UK, you might be in Australia from the URL, maybe not. And laws change from state to state in the USA.
I'm absolutely certain that if my employer wanted me to be in at exactly 7:30 each day, and having agreed to do that, I fail to turn up on time, my employer is entitled to sack me. Morally as well as legally. I'm also certain that I would leave the job, because I left my last job for a similar reason (always being expected to work too many (>90p/w) hours, when it was clear that the timescales agreed were unworkable), after having raised the issue and tried to resolve it.
On the other hand, *this very morning* I had a meeting with my manager to say that the work I'm doing wasn't what I wanted to do. He was fine with that, and I'll be doing something else soon. I didn't quit my job, but I would have had to if it started to make my life worse.
You're exactly like the braindead fucks who pretend that the way to fix a country is to get rid of all the dissenters
I have true flexitime, and no-one bats an eyelid if I turn up at 10am, or leave at 3:30pm. It says that we operate a flexitime policy in my contract, so that's fine.
Your contract tells you your conditions of work. If you don't like having to be there at 7:30, read your contract. If they're the rules, and you still don't like it, you're free to get another job. Obviously, most people don't work in places where being a minute late a half dozen times can get them sacked, but perhaps you do. If it troubles you, stop whinging and do something about it.
Anyone read "Infinite Jest"? In the future, North America allows sponsorship of the name of the year, leading to the subj. title, and "Year of the Trial Size Dove Bar".
A good read for people interested in ideas like the parent poster's (and with a lot of time to spare).
Well, I respectfully say that I don't think your reading of the article is correct. If I understand you correctly, you're saying that they've found the single cause of dyslexia. They haven't. If you'd said "[this research has found a] specific gene that is *a* putative cause of the disorder", we'd have been much closer to agreement on this. I think the point was well made above:
It has been known for over a century that dyslexia runs in families. It is common practise today to keep a particular eye on siblings of those with dyslexia in order to diagnose them quicker if they turn out also to have it.
All this means that it is obvious that there are genes that cause dyslexia. Also, this research has been done on a single family, which will likely only find a single cause of a problem that has many causes.
Don't get me wrong, it's great that this research is ongoing, it's just that it's of no real use, or news value.
MOT stands for Ministry of Transport test, and is an annual once-over given to every car older than three years to ensure that it is road-worthy. They are paid for by the car owner.
What incentive would the lot or private citizen have to ensure that the registration information on the chip is changed?
It is already a legal obligation when selling/buying a car to ensure that the registration details are changed. There's a 1000 GBP fine if you don't do it.
As others have pointed out, this report is from the Sun, which means it's almost certainly untrue.
The safety monitoring computer for a power system should be accessible only by floppy disk through a terminal in a locked room with pressure sensitive floors, a sound monitor, body heat detectors *AND* laser trip wires on all the ventilation grates. (The floppy disk should be run through a demagnitizer before and after each use.)
I used to write computer control systems for power stations. Just for information, we used PLCs for the actual control, Alphaservers and dummy terminals for the user interface. There is practically never any real (physical) security around the systems, but practically nothing is connected to the internet. The only way to get things from the outside world onto them was on one machine via floppy.
And since we're talking about being in close proximity to a magnet spinning to generate >500MW, yes, the disk was demagnetized before and after every use!
From the article: One new venture for example, known as w-HA, is working on a scheme that will allow online payments to be made within two mouse clicks
Phew! For a second there, I thought they were in trouble.
"Preachy". Yes, that's the word I was looking for. They're all a bit preachy, and Venus is the worst, but the man could write and they're well worth a look.
My other main criticism of the books is a little unfair, given they were written about 60 years ago, but he tends to ram the strange things on the other worlds down your throat - low gravity = stuff grows high. Repeat 300 times.
They're not out of print, but also not widely read/known about. CS Lewis's trilogy "Out of the silent planet", "Perelandra" and "That Hideous Strength". I only came across them because I'm a fan of his non-fiction writing, which I strongly recommend.
Like all of Lewis's writing, they're fairly Christian in outlook - that is, not endlessly talking of Jesus, but rather always relating things to a greater power. But they're easy to read and interesting. They get better as the books go on.
Quick description (you'll find others online of course) bloke is taken to another planet my mad scientist (quite hackneyed, but honestly doesn't matter) and discovers a lot about mankind. Then goes to another planet, before spending a book on Earth arguing against dehumanising modernity. Yep, that about sums it up.
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital [phone] watches are a pretty neat idea
On that page is a specific section on formatting graphs with METAPOST. It is a bit more complicated than throwing them out of MATLAB (which is what I'd choose for looking at the results day to day), but I guarantee that it will look more "professional", and well just plain better than any other method. And it is free. It also has the advantage of being based on Donald Knuth's work with METAFONT (itself work for TeX, which is essential for all maths/scientific publications) and it is what he uses for TAOCP. That should be enough.
Find a project you're interested in. Download the source code. Compile. Look for bugs / possibilities for extending code (there is very often a TODO file or similar with the code, this is a good place to start. Also worth looking through archives of the mailing list). Write some code, and submit it to the main developer (most projects are single person, send it direct to them and they'll be grateful. If it is a larger project, their submission process will be well documented).
And that's it! If you're proving useful, you'll be allowed to apply your code changes direct to the project.
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Thanks for the information - interesting. I'm thinking of converting an MFC app to Qt for largely the same reason - people being happier to use it with less hassle.
Your reply also ranks as one of the first I've got for a question like this on slashdot, so thanks for that, too.
>>I've seen quite a few companies do native ports even when their programs worked just fine in Wine
I'd be interested in hearing about that, and specifically *why* they did it. Care to name names?
malsanulejo. It's actuall a "constructed" word, with the following breakdown:
...
Sheer beauty.
Sounds doubleplusungood to me.
More text than code - twisted and evil.
I misread the title, and thought we were talking about nano-tech.
I'd come up with a couple of interesting ways to combat cheating with it before I realised my mistake:
1) Have nano-robots floating around in your blood stream (and eyes) taking account of everything you see and write. If they witness you cheating, turn you into grey-goo.
2) As above, but instead of mushing your entire body, just take control of your hands to write "I AM A CHEAT!" all over the paper.
3) Since the above isn't actually possible yet, just *tell* the students that it is, and they've been injected with the "truth or die" serum.
foo++;
OMG! That's just disgusting; imagine using a post-increment operator when there's no need for a temporary.
I'm off to cleanse my mind with another read of Sutter's GOTW.
I know that the law always trumps. But laws change from country to country, I'm in the UK, you might be in Australia from the URL, maybe not. And laws change from state to state in the USA.
I'm absolutely certain that if my employer wanted me to be in at exactly 7:30 each day, and having agreed to do that, I fail to turn up on time, my employer is entitled to sack me. Morally as well as legally. I'm also certain that I would leave the job, because I left my last job for a similar reason (always being expected to work too many (>90p/w) hours, when it was clear that the timescales agreed were unworkable), after having raised the issue and tried to resolve it.
On the other hand, *this very morning* I had a meeting with my manager to say that the work I'm doing wasn't what I wanted to do. He was fine with that, and I'll be doing something else soon. I didn't quit my job, but I would have had to if it started to make my life worse.
You're exactly like the braindead fucks who pretend that the way to fix a country is to get rid of all the dissenters
That's just like, your opinion, man.
I have true flexitime, and no-one bats an eyelid if I turn up at 10am, or leave at 3:30pm. It says that we operate a flexitime policy in my contract, so that's fine.
Your contract tells you your conditions of work. If you don't like having to be there at 7:30, read your contract. If they're the rules, and you still don't like it, you're free to get another job. Obviously, most people don't work in places where being a minute late a half dozen times can get them sacked, but perhaps you do. If it troubles you, stop whinging and do something about it.
Anyone read "Infinite Jest"? In the future, North America allows sponsorship of the name of the year, leading to the subj. title, and "Year of the Trial Size Dove Bar".
A good read for people interested in ideas like the parent poster's (and with a lot of time to spare).
Well, I respectfully say that I don't think your reading of the article is correct. If I understand you correctly, you're saying that they've found the single cause of dyslexia. They haven't. If you'd said "[this research has found a] specific gene that is *a* putative cause of the disorder", we'd have been much closer to agreement on this. I think the point was well made above:
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=76258&cid=6
Incidentally, I'm not dyslexic, but some of my best friends are
It has been known for over a century that dyslexia runs in families. It is common practise today to keep a particular eye on siblings of those with dyslexia in order to diagnose them quicker if they turn out also to have it.
All this means that it is obvious that there are genes that cause dyslexia. Also, this research has been done on a single family, which will likely only find a single cause of a problem that has many causes.
Don't get me wrong, it's great that this research is ongoing, it's just that it's of no real use, or news value.
MOT stands for Ministry of Transport test, and is an annual once-over given to every car older than three years to ensure that it is road-worthy. They are paid for by the car owner.
What incentive would the lot or private citizen have to ensure that the registration information on the chip is changed?
It is already a legal obligation when selling/buying a car to ensure that the registration details are changed. There's a 1000 GBP fine if you don't do it.
As others have pointed out, this report is from the Sun, which means it's almost certainly untrue.
The safety monitoring computer for a power system should be accessible only by floppy disk through a terminal in a locked room with pressure sensitive floors, a sound monitor, body heat detectors *AND* laser trip wires on all the ventilation grates. (The floppy disk should be run through a demagnitizer before and after each use.)
I used to write computer control systems for power stations. Just for information, we used PLCs for the actual control, Alphaservers and dummy terminals for the user interface. There is practically never any real (physical) security around the systems, but practically nothing is connected to the internet. The only way to get things from the outside world onto them was on one machine via floppy.
And since we're talking about being in close proximity to a magnet spinning to generate >500MW, yes, the disk was demagnetized before and after every use!
Microsoft's RMS
It's not true! Our bearded leader can't have turned to the Dark Side!
From the article:
One new venture for example, known as w-HA, is working on a scheme that will allow online payments to be made within two mouse clicks
Phew! For a second there, I thought they were in trouble.
"Preachy". Yes, that's the word I was looking for. They're all a bit preachy, and Venus is the worst, but the man could write and they're well worth a look.
My other main criticism of the books is a little unfair, given they were written about 60 years ago, but he tends to ram the strange things on the other worlds down your throat - low gravity = stuff grows high. Repeat 300 times.
They're not out of print, but also not widely read/known about. CS Lewis's trilogy "Out of the silent planet", "Perelandra" and "That Hideous Strength". I only came across them because I'm a fan of his non-fiction writing, which I strongly recommend.
Like all of Lewis's writing, they're fairly Christian in outlook - that is, not endlessly talking of Jesus, but rather always relating things to a greater power. But they're easy to read and interesting. They get better as the books go on.
Quick description (you'll find others online of course) bloke is taken to another planet my mad scientist (quite hackneyed, but honestly doesn't matter) and discovers a lot about mankind. Then goes to another planet, before spending a book on Earth arguing against dehumanising modernity. Yep, that about sums it up.
Googling for booklight LED gives us, at #2:
A booklight using an LED! Who'd have thought it?
Define Irony:
Using "sleep 360" to fake a virus check while using the sig "Complacency is a far more dangerous attitude than outrage."
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital [phone] watches are a pretty neat idea
Dude, you're using that "someone called" joke quite a lot.
Killer Virus 'From Paramyxoviridae Family'
I always said that family caused nothin' but trouble.
Oops. Just re-read TFQ, and noticed that "My uses will include plotting, presentation, curve fit, trendline analysis, and more"
Well, regardless of what you use for initial viewing/analysis of results, use METAPOST for presentation.
You don't state exactly what you're going to do with the graphs, but I assume at some stage they're for inclusion in reports.
If so, use METAPOST.
On that page is a specific section on formatting graphs with METAPOST. It is a bit more complicated than throwing them out of MATLAB (which is what I'd choose for looking at the results day to day), but I guarantee that it will look more "professional", and well just plain better than any other method. And it is free. It also has the advantage of being based on Donald Knuth's work with METAFONT (itself work for TeX, which is essential for all maths/scientific publications) and it is what he uses for TAOCP. That should be enough.
Find a project you're interested in.
Download the source code.
Compile.
Look for bugs / possibilities for extending code (there is very often a TODO file or similar with the code, this is a good place to start. Also worth looking through archives of the mailing list).
Write some code, and submit it to the main developer (most projects are single person, send it direct to them and they'll be grateful. If it is a larger project, their submission process will be well documented).
And that's it! If you're proving useful, you'll be allowed to apply your code changes direct to the project.
Any more questions, post them below.