Agreed. One of the few things I remember from my Physics class in High School was determining the height of a hill needed to safely navigate a loop.
Assuming a circular loop and no wind resistance, the hill height should be 2.5 * r, where r = the radius of the loop. If you cut it close, you'll have a zero-G moment when you're inverted, so a taller hill is encouraged for safety. The hill looks a bit short to make it around in the first place.
I wouldn't mind being this guy's chiropractor though. You could earn a nice steady income from the tight turns he put in.
to prevent someone from detecting your computer using a faraday cage, you'd need to put THEM inside a cage...
...or you can install this on a computer built to Tempest specs (http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/xtempestsource.html) . Not only are these systems shielded with various metals in places (lead's a good choice), but some circuitry is reconfigured to make emissions less likely to be decoded remotely.
The main use for such hardware is for spyproofing your data. The business was booming around Desert Storm, but pretty much dried up after that. Apparently the Government figured they'd never need machines faster than 386's.
Encourage feedback and suggestions, but make sure everyone realizes that ultimately your decision is final (at least as far as anything is in this line of work).
It is NOT your job to tell your subordinates of upcoming layoffs, or any other "need to know" information. This will only inspire panic, and the smartest (read most valuable) employees will be the most likely to send out resumes. It is, however, in your best interest to keep your group as functional as possible. This means you try to protect the good workers from layoffs, but also swing the axe yourself at the dead wood.
I've heard that called Googlebashing, among other terms.
One change, though: more words you're searching for, the fewer responses you'll find with all the words. That's why you search for two words; the odds are much harder for you to find no matches.
Two words for you: pipefitter tollbooth. No matches! I win!
Back in WWII, the Italians had a few very small tank designs, on the order of five tons and about the size of your typical Japanese econobox of today. From the footage I've seen, they were armored, small, fast, and very maneuverable.
What's to stop somebody from buying two of these surplus and stuffing both in a shipping container (one for running, one for parts), and arming them with live ammunition? I foresee lots of pretty explosions, followed by arrest warrants posted on TheSmokingGun.com...
More to the point, why do we need the table at all?
Here's my idea: take your favorite swivel chair, and mount your computer underneath the seat, preferably behind the post so that you still have legroom. Add an LCD monitor, a keyboard and a trackball and you're good to go. The power cable might be a problem, but it's still pretty mobile.
The Icewind Dale games were also VERY linear, and not enough gameplay to make them worthwhile in my book.
The conclusion I draw from this is that if the desire to create a good game is there (BG), good results are likely, but if a quick knockoff game is the goal (IWD), the results are less than satisfactory.
Ah, but has the rate of lunar recession been constant for that billion years?
Admittedly, my knowledge of Newtonian physics is rusty at best. Constant orbits are easy to calculate, but spiral paths and the factors involved would just make me dizzy.
Don't you guys really mean elliptical? I know, I know, it's not the way to make friends.
Here's a thought, though: two elliptical gears can be meshed to act like a pair of round gears, as long as the major axis of each gear is perpendicular to the other's. The only downsides I can see (aside from being needlessly complex) is that there is probably added friction, and the gears would need extra space around them to avoid collisions with other objects. Might there be a use for such a thing on this small a scale?
If you live in snow country like I do, you at least want front-wheel drive, or preferably 4-wheel drive. And forget about electric vehicles around here - it's hard enough starting a gasoline-powered car when the cold has drained your battery.
I'm trying to get by with rear-wheel, but having to weigh down the trunk with hundreds of pounds of sand puts me at a bit of a disadvantage. at least the sand can be used for traction when I skid off the road:).
Absolutely false. This is the worst thing you can do for morale. The programmers will know they are working to bullshit targets. And then when they miss the fake deadlines, they'll be stressed and grumpy for the last 20% of the work, meaning you'll get that last part slower and with poorer quality then you otherwise would have.
Well said. When I tend to relay time estimates to my minions (which are determined outside of my control), I tend to give two estimates. One is the drop dead date when it must ship, and the other is the date we should aim for, usually about two weeks before the other deadline (assuming two months for a project). That way, if we hit the first deadline, the last two weeks are useful for the annoying testing/debugging phase. And if we miss the first deadline, it's not a big issue for anyone, because it wasn't a deadline etched in stone by people outside our group.
Particularly for larger projects (like this one), not only do you have to add new features, but rewriting old code is necessary. The larger the program, the more has to be recoded in order to add new features.
In short, these guys may write 24 lines of fresh code per hour, but the probably have to rewrite significant blocks in order to shoehorn in this new code.
If gravitational bending of light is the principle being used, and we're using the Sun simply because of its greater gravity, you're right about the distance being impractical.
How about this? Why not use the earth's gravity as our lens instead? The light curvature is proportional to the mass, and the Sun is 333,400 times more massive than the Earth, then shouldn't the distance needed be 550 x 93,000,000 x 333,400 = 153,000 miles? That would put it within the Moon's orbit, easily within the neighborhood for maintenance, and I think all we'd need to improve is the precision of the measuring instruments to compensate for less gravitational bending.
Mind you, I haven't taken any optics courses, so I could just be completely wrong...
...we are allowed repeated characters, right? Doesn't that mean we should have 25^5 = 9,765,625 combinations? I like the security odds if this is coupled with the "3 tries" rule.
Here's a potential problem, though: if this type of system is honestly supposed to be used at ATMs, there's a huge conversion cost for every ATM. We can't tie it down to just a regional change, because people move/go on vacation/etc. I can just picture the bank fees increasing again...
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Nah, I'm sure Intel or AMD would like another nice clean room...
All I picture from dot coms is "Pretty Vacant" by the Sex Pistols.
You won't need the mouse. I'm pretty sure you can find a suitable joystick.
Agreed. One of the few things I remember from my Physics class in High School was determining the height of a hill needed to safely navigate a loop.
Assuming a circular loop and no wind resistance, the hill height should be 2.5 * r, where r = the radius of the loop. If you cut it close, you'll have a zero-G moment when you're inverted, so a taller hill is encouraged for safety. The hill looks a bit short to make it around in the first place.
I wouldn't mind being this guy's chiropractor though. You could earn a nice steady income from the tight turns he put in.
Two possible reasons they use the name Jenny:
It worked wonders for Forrest Gump.
Everyone already knows her phone number by heart (867-5309).
But if we send such an mass email, that would be spam, right?
However, it's not an unwanted email, since it tells people how to profit from other spam, so is it still spam?
Another thought: would we then have to give out corn with the emails since it's spam, or keep the corn because it isn't spam?
The circular logic's making me dizzy. I think I'll lie down here for a while...
...or you can install this on a computer built to Tempest specs (http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/xtempestsource.html) . Not only are these systems shielded with various metals in places (lead's a good choice), but some circuitry is reconfigured to make emissions less likely to be decoded remotely.
The main use for such hardware is for spyproofing your data. The business was booming around Desert Storm, but pretty much dried up after that. Apparently the Government figured they'd never need machines faster than 386's.
Encourage feedback and suggestions, but make sure everyone realizes that ultimately your decision is final (at least as far as anything is in this line of work).
It is NOT your job to tell your subordinates of upcoming layoffs, or any other "need to know" information. This will only inspire panic, and the smartest (read most valuable) employees will be the most likely to send out resumes. It is, however, in your best interest to keep your group as functional as possible. This means you try to protect the good workers from layoffs, but also swing the axe yourself at the dead wood.
I've heard that called Googlebashing, among other terms.
One change, though: more words you're searching for, the fewer responses you'll find with all the words. That's why you search for two words; the odds are much harder for you to find no matches.
Two words for you: pipefitter tollbooth. No matches! I win!
Back in WWII, the Italians had a few very small tank designs, on the order of five tons and about the size of your typical Japanese econobox of today. From the footage I've seen, they were armored, small, fast, and very maneuverable.
What's to stop somebody from buying two of these surplus and stuffing both in a shipping container (one for running, one for parts), and arming them with live ammunition? I foresee lots of pretty explosions, followed by arrest warrants posted on TheSmokingGun.com...
More to the point, why do we need the table at all?
Here's my idea: take your favorite swivel chair, and mount your computer underneath the seat, preferably behind the post so that you still have legroom. Add an LCD monitor, a keyboard and a trackball and you're good to go. The power cable might be a problem, but it's still pretty mobile.
The Icewind Dale games were also VERY linear, and not enough gameplay to make them worthwhile in my book.
The conclusion I draw from this is that if the desire to create a good game is there (BG), good results are likely, but if a quick knockoff game is the goal (IWD), the results are less than satisfactory.
"Make way, villainy! Hero coming through!" - Minsc
Ah, but has the rate of lunar recession been constant for that billion years? Admittedly, my knowledge of Newtonian physics is rusty at best. Constant orbits are easy to calculate, but spiral paths and the factors involved would just make me dizzy.
Don't you guys really mean elliptical? I know, I know, it's not the way to make friends. Here's a thought, though: two elliptical gears can be meshed to act like a pair of round gears, as long as the major axis of each gear is perpendicular to the other's. The only downsides I can see (aside from being needlessly complex) is that there is probably added friction, and the gears would need extra space around them to avoid collisions with other objects. Might there be a use for such a thing on this small a scale?
And Wiggum was so confused, he was *also* one of the ones to say "No", before his "Yes...I mean, no."
If you live in snow country like I do, you at least want front-wheel drive, or preferably 4-wheel drive. And forget about electric vehicles around here - it's hard enough starting a gasoline-powered car when the cold has drained your battery. I'm trying to get by with rear-wheel, but having to weigh down the trunk with hundreds of pounds of sand puts me at a bit of a disadvantage. at least the sand can be used for traction when I skid off the road :).
Particularly for larger projects (like this one), not only do you have to add new features, but rewriting old code is necessary. The larger the program, the more has to be recoded in order to add new features. In short, these guys may write 24 lines of fresh code per hour, but the probably have to rewrite significant blocks in order to shoehorn in this new code.
If gravitational bending of light is the principle being used, and we're using the Sun simply because of its greater gravity, you're right about the distance being impractical. How about this? Why not use the earth's gravity as our lens instead? The light curvature is proportional to the mass, and the Sun is 333,400 times more massive than the Earth, then shouldn't the distance needed be 550 x 93,000,000 x 333,400 = 153,000 miles? That would put it within the Moon's orbit, easily within the neighborhood for maintenance, and I think all we'd need to improve is the precision of the measuring instruments to compensate for less gravitational bending. Mind you, I haven't taken any optics courses, so I could just be completely wrong...
...we are allowed repeated characters, right? Doesn't that mean we should have 25^5 = 9,765,625 combinations? I like the security odds if this is coupled with the "3 tries" rule. Here's a potential problem, though: if this type of system is honestly supposed to be used at ATMs, there's a huge conversion cost for every ATM. We can't tie it down to just a regional change, because people move/go on vacation/etc. I can just picture the bank fees increasing again...