At high oxygen concentrations, People will burn. Sorry to be so morbid, but there it is. Reminds me of firefighting training when I was in the Navy. Class "A" (pronounced Alpha) fires are any fire that leaves an ash. People on fire were referred to as "screaming alphas". How's that for morbid?
Re:You need to work it out...
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IT and Divorce?
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These days, people divorce because they argue too much. Or because "the spice" is gone. Or because they don't like arguing about money. Or because the in-laws hate each other. Or because wife gained some weight and doesn't look good enough anymore. Get over it. Man up and deal with it and treat the marriage with the importance it deserves.
Okay, but what if you're the only one working on it? I'm going through some tough times right now with my wife, and I seriously doubt the marriage will survive. We've tried counseling, and I've learned some shit that makes me want to go out and piss on her dad's grave, and I didn't much care for him before I knew what I now know. But here's the deal: *now*, she can continue forever wallowing in her repressed anger (and taking it out on me and our daughter) and never take responsiblity for her actions when angry, because she has a perfect excuse for being angry. And if I stand up for myself/my daughter/my beliefs/etc, I'm just an insensitive prick.
I can't even begin to tell you the times I've swallowed my pride so as to "man up" and keep the marriage going. I always figured, in time, she'd get over some of it. Nope. I'm still taking the heat for shit that happened *years* before I met her. We've been married for 23 years, and it's just getting worse.
The sad thing is, she's great when she's not mad, but there's no telling what will make her mad. She doesn't have a state such as "upset", or "miffed", or "put out". Nope, if she's mad at all, it's instantaneous and unequivocal rage, and it lasts a long, long time. It can be something I say, or don't say, or a commercial on TV, or something she reads. Doesn't matter, I'll have to pay the piper for it.
No kidding. I'm sure it looks very straight to you, sitting wherever you are. Try looking through a nice 10x scope at a moving target. I'd be amazed if you could keep the weapon still enough to actually see the plane, much less target some nice vital spot. Here's a hint for you: when you see the crosshairs tracking the target in the movies.....that's not real. In the real world, it's very difficult, and more so if the target is :
A. Moving
B. Far away
People have been tossing around figures like 1,000M as though it were trivial. I'd feel pretty safe sitting in a lawn chair at 1,000M and letting you run through those 10 rounds shooting at me, particularly in around 20 seconds. Because long-range shooting is a lot harder than it looks.
Inactivity killed him, eh? WTF do *you* know about it? Congestive heart failure isn't necessarily, or even typically, caused by lack of physical activity. It's a disease process, not a moral failing.
Would you say this same crap to someone with Duchenne's? "Go outside and play!" It was almost certainly not his desire to be limited by congestive heart problems, and your comments reveal only ignorance and insensitivity. Piss off.
If your goal is "getting it right the first time", you've missed with this post.
No, my car doesn't have little notes, but it doesn't need them, because I am a *user*. But I'd be willing to bet that the manufacturer has beaucoup documentation about each part. How it was designed, who built it, where it goes, etc.
If you don't document the code, where are the references that others will need to understand the code? Frankly, you sound like someone who doesn't really believe that they'll ever miss a spec, mis-code an algorithm, or make a mistake. Perhaps you don't understand that the purpose of a program is to accomplish some goal. To achieve the goal, it must be written by someone. In order for someone to write it correctly, they have to be able to effectively parse the logic.
I'm not sure that Literate Programming is the answer, but your argument makes little sense. "Read it a story"? Hell, why use a language at all? Just get a hex editor and start punching bits in pure machine code. Surely you're that good, but some of us lesser mortals might have trouble.
Your points regarding the Transmeta chips are well taken. However, a couple of points:
1. Power efficiency is a lot, but it isn't everything. I think the big win here is lower power draw than Intel, while offering x86 compatability that StrongARM doesn't have.
2. Clock speeds are becoming less and less of an issue. Let's face it, there's damn little software of interest to the average consumer that's actually going to need 800+ MHz. Yeah, yeah, I know, wait until next year, today's screamer is tomorrow's piece of junk. But Transmeta is also free to increase clock speeds and improve their chips.
Most of the market they seem to be aiming for is concerned with web access and email, not video editing. I think these chips will have the power for that.
3. As for mobile access to the net, check out www.metricom.com. They make the Ricochet wireless modem, which is currently in the process of rolling out a 128kbps network to about 46 cities. Metricom had a successful beta of the network last year and secured about $600 million in financing from Paul Allen and MCI/Worldcom for the rollout. I've used the older Ricochet modems (28.8kbps), and they worked like a charm. And they use flat-rate pricing, which is critical for mobile users, IMO.
4. Why do they have to combine with AMD or someone else? They're not a chip fab, they're a design shop. I expect that they'll partner with whoever wants to make the chips, which will depend on consumer demand. We'll see.
I think the real issue is that tech-type people (generally) like to deal with reality as we see it. We tend to look at the law as though it ought to make some sort of objective sense. It doesn't, and it's not going to.
Remember, it takes almost no intelligence to be a lawyer. It takes a great deal of scholarship, it takes the ability to absorb mind-numbing amounts of information in the form of cases and laws and procedures, it takes the willingness to do whatever is desired by the people who pay you. It doesn't take a serious amount of brainpower.
This being the case, why should we expect lawyers to have a deep understanding of technical issues? Most have neither the time nor the inclination to under these issues, and I suspect a considerable minority of them simply aren't smart enough to grasp the implications of new technologies.
On the flip side, most techs aren't interested enough to study the law deeply. We more or less expect it to follow our version of "common sense", and dismiss it as irrelevant when it differs. I think that the mindset/personality type/whatever that leads one to become a tech is very different from that which leads one to being a lawyer.
When I was in college in Washington, I took a calculus class where the instructor had actually had a part in the special. She'd been a math tutor for some child actors, and somehow got a part as an extra Wookie for this mess.
Hey, I'm only two degrees from Harrison Ford!
Reading the review reminded me of how bad 70's holiday specials were in general, and this one in particular.
Better still, save your time. Read www.quackwatch.com for good information about "fixing" your eyes via exercise, chiropractic, chelation and other idiocies.
Now, wait a minute. I consider myself a nerd, and I'm a big Mariner's fan. You can make the case that the Mariner's don't count as a professional sports team...
Seriously, I don't think there's a correlation that shows that being a nerd/geek/techno-weenie automatically bars you from being interested in following sports.
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Okay, but what if you're the only one working on it? I'm going through some tough times right now with my wife, and I seriously doubt the marriage will survive. We've tried counseling, and I've learned some shit that makes me want to go out and piss on her dad's grave, and I didn't much care for him before I knew what I now know. But here's the deal: *now*, she can continue forever wallowing in her repressed anger (and taking it out on me and our daughter) and never take responsiblity for her actions when angry, because she has a perfect excuse for being angry. And if I stand up for myself/my daughter/my beliefs/etc, I'm just an insensitive prick.
I can't even begin to tell you the times I've swallowed my pride so as to "man up" and keep the marriage going. I always figured, in time, she'd get over some of it. Nope. I'm still taking the heat for shit that happened *years* before I met her. We've been married for 23 years, and it's just getting worse.
The sad thing is, she's great when she's not mad, but there's no telling what will make her mad. She doesn't have a state such as "upset", or "miffed", or "put out". Nope, if she's mad at all, it's instantaneous and unequivocal rage, and it lasts a long, long time. It can be something I say, or don't say, or a commercial on TV, or something she reads. Doesn't matter, I'll have to pay the piper for it.
Now, after this many years, am I a quitter?
No kidding. I'm sure it looks very straight to you, sitting wherever you are. Try looking through a nice 10x scope at a moving target. I'd be amazed if you could keep the weapon still enough to actually see the plane, much less target some nice vital spot. Here's a hint for you: when you see the crosshairs tracking the target in the movies.....that's not real. In the real world, it's very difficult, and more so if the target is :
A. Moving
B. Far away
People have been tossing around figures like 1,000M as though it were trivial. I'd feel pretty safe sitting in a lawn chair at 1,000M and letting you run through those 10 rounds shooting at me, particularly in around 20 seconds. Because long-range shooting is a lot harder than it looks.
You, sir, are a fuckwit.
Inactivity killed him, eh? WTF do *you* know about it? Congestive heart failure isn't necessarily, or even typically, caused by lack of physical activity. It's a disease process, not a moral failing.
Would you say this same crap to someone with Duchenne's? "Go outside and play!" It was almost certainly not his desire to be limited by congestive heart problems, and your comments reveal only ignorance and insensitivity. Piss off.
If your goal is "getting it right the first time", you've missed with this post.
No, my car doesn't have little notes, but it doesn't need them, because I am a *user*. But I'd be willing to bet that the manufacturer has beaucoup documentation about each part. How it was designed, who built it, where it goes, etc.
If you don't document the code, where are the references that others will need to understand the code? Frankly, you sound like someone who doesn't really believe that they'll ever miss a spec, mis-code an algorithm, or make a mistake. Perhaps you don't understand that the purpose of a program is to accomplish some goal. To achieve the goal, it must be written by someone. In order for someone to write it correctly, they have to be able to effectively parse the logic.
I'm not sure that Literate Programming is the answer, but your argument makes little sense. "Read it a story"? Hell, why use a language at all? Just get a hex editor and start punching bits in pure machine code. Surely you're that good, but some of us lesser mortals might have trouble.
1. Power efficiency is a lot, but it isn't everything. I think the big win here is lower power draw than Intel, while offering x86 compatability that StrongARM doesn't have.
2. Clock speeds are becoming less and less of an issue. Let's face it, there's damn little software of interest to the average consumer that's actually going to need 800+ MHz. Yeah, yeah, I know, wait until next year, today's screamer is tomorrow's piece of junk. But Transmeta is also free to increase clock speeds and improve their chips.
Most of the market they seem to be aiming for is concerned with web access and email, not video editing. I think these chips will have the power for that.
3. As for mobile access to the net, check out www.metricom.com. They make the Ricochet wireless modem, which is currently in the process of rolling out a 128kbps network to about 46 cities. Metricom had a successful beta of the network last year and secured about $600 million in financing from Paul Allen and MCI/Worldcom for the rollout. I've used the older Ricochet modems (28.8kbps), and they worked like a charm. And they use flat-rate pricing, which is critical for mobile users, IMO.
4. Why do they have to combine with AMD or someone else? They're not a chip fab, they're a design shop. I expect that they'll partner with whoever wants to make the chips, which will depend on consumer demand. We'll see.
I think the real issue is that tech-type people (generally) like to deal with reality as we see it. We tend to look at the law as though it ought to make some sort of objective sense. It doesn't, and it's not going to.
Remember, it takes almost no intelligence to be a lawyer. It takes a great deal of scholarship, it takes the ability to absorb mind-numbing amounts of information in the form of cases and laws and procedures, it takes the willingness to do whatever is desired by the people who pay you. It doesn't take a serious amount of brainpower.
This being the case, why should we expect lawyers to have a deep understanding of technical issues? Most have neither the time nor the inclination to under these issues, and I suspect a considerable minority of them simply aren't smart enough to grasp the implications of new technologies.
On the flip side, most techs aren't interested enough to study the law deeply. We more or less expect it to follow our version of "common sense", and dismiss it as irrelevant when it differs. I think that the mindset/personality type/whatever that leads one to become a tech is very different from that which leads one to being a lawyer.
When I was in college in Washington, I took a calculus class where the instructor had actually had a part in the special. She'd been a math tutor for some child actors, and somehow got a part as an extra Wookie for this mess.
Hey, I'm only two degrees from Harrison Ford!
Reading the review reminded me of how bad 70's holiday specials were in general, and this one in particular.
Better still, save your time. Read www.quackwatch.com for good information about "fixing" your eyes via exercise, chiropractic, chelation and other idiocies.
Now, wait a minute. I consider myself a nerd, and I'm a big Mariner's fan. You can make the case that the Mariner's don't count as a professional sports team...
Seriously, I don't think there's a correlation that shows that being a nerd/geek/techno-weenie automatically bars you from being interested in following sports.