The only time I have problems is when I'm using a chair that has arm-rests (i always take them off...) and a mouse that's at the wrong height. My keyboard also has to almost be in my lap, and I can't have to have my head turned.
Seriously, I think a lot of problems would be solved if people gave up armrests.
Don't forget, the bigger they are the harder they fall. The Keynsian invisible hand got distracted for a while, and it's started to come back and bitchslap companies.
Examples:
The Dot-Bombs: They bombed. Why? They weren't capitalistic.
Amtrak: It's been on government subsidy for so long that it can't support itself anymore, and it'll die off soon enough.
Microsoft Examples:
The Peru letter - If the bill gets passed, they ARE going to switch to *nix, because it's free. The first time I read the good Dr. Edgar David Villanueva Nuñez's letter, I laughed so hard that I cried... and then I cheered.
The peasants are restless - My mother, who knows just enough about a computer to check her email and communicate with her kids, was cursing Microsoft the other night and speaking about how their
The rebel states - Hell, you think that they're going to let go now that they've got their teeth in MS in a way that's raising eyebrows? What about that fscked interview with the MIT prof?
Intelligent post... but just wait a year and see what happens. The moral to Microsoft's (and HPaq's) stories might actually be not to get too big.
Offtopic, but...
Tai Chi is not a fighting style of martial arts... it's a meditation style, which focuses on moving the chi(energy in your body) through different parts of your body. It's a collection of sequences of moves that should be precisely executed with perfect balance and concentration. Kind of hard to fight with...
What you're thinking of is a fighting style more like Judo or Akido, both of which use your opponent's strength and movement against them.
BTW, I realize that this would probably cost more than the $50/mo for cable access split between a couple of roommates. But if you make sell the rebroadcast relays as a student business, it turns into a capital investment rather than the expense on the part of the students, because as long as the network is running, you can re-sell the relays to other students and retain at least a part of your investment.
Investment GOOOOOD. Throwing money at AT&T or whomever BAAAAAAD.
There's a guy who lives on the big island of Hawaii and has managed to set up antennas to run 802.11b to selected areas of the island. I'm trying to find the article, but I can't... it was linked here on/. a number of weeks ago.
Also, the city of Yakima, WA is mostly wired with 802.11b, according to the sysadmin at my company, who set the system up.
Quite possibly, using a network of directional antennas, a few tall buildings, and inexpensive local access points, you can set up relatively good public 802.11b network that would serve the needs of most students.
The best way to do the local access points would be to set up an omnidirectional rebroadcast relay. From previous reading and no practical experience, it seems that this could simply be a cheap box running linux (even a low-end pentium will work...) with a cheap (can be home-made, I think) directional receiver and a omnidirectional antenna (just a regular 802.11b card will work) and some software to glue the two together.
Can someone else provide accurate technical details? I'll admit that networking is really my weak area.
I'll add a "ditto". I was expecting 4/1 on slashdot to be snarky, devious, and a riot. Instead, it was like a late night TV show... slapstick, and with a fake laugh track.
The only thing that could've made it worse would've been a blinking DHTML "LAUGH" flying across the page when you load a 4/1/. story.
Seriously... if you wanted to be funny, you should've done something snarky and "HUH!?" like DaveZilla (Not gonna link because it'll be gone, but he turned his website into a mirror of FuckedWeblog, with it's top blog being his, and the quote, "I quit!") or the Met4filter/Kuro5hin "merger".
I'm dissapointed. Don't try as hard next year.
This bill will be protested when Mr. and Mrs. Joe Sixpack see the pimply-faced teenager from next door get hauled out of his bedroom and thrown in Juvie with all of the drug addicts. That's when you'll animate the masses; not before.
I'm fairly sure this bill will get passed; I'm just not sure how they can ever enforce it.
For those of you not hiring certain classes of individuals... avoid graduates of Oregon State University.
First of all, they're phasing C++ out of the cirriculum in favor of Java. Major sin. You have to take C++ as an elective or at the local community college.
Second of all, the intro Java classes don't teach that well -- they're taught by high-level professors who forget to modprobe their english-speaking libraries before they head to class in huge 500 student classrooms -- and the smaller sections are all taught by grad students who never have spoken english.
Third, their main labs are all Win2k Dells... and even worse, all of the intro classes use CodeWarrior as their standard IDE and compiler.
Bleh. I left.
...And if you go to asia, pirated copies of the movie are available on every street corner, complete with closed-captioning and dolby surround sound...
One of the strategies we use at my company (We also use plain ol' CVS, but we don't have many branches on our development tree) is to team-code and to write tests for every script, so that you can tell if/where a problem has been created by someone else editing a header file.
A test should simulate a user using the file/program/script/etc and should double-check the values entered against any values that are stored. By running the testing suite after a file changes, you might still have a merge conflict, but after it's resolved you won't have a bad piece of code.
Slashdot Mirror
The only time I have problems is when I'm using a chair that has arm-rests (i always take them off...) and a mouse that's at the wrong height. My keyboard also has to almost be in my lap, and I can't have to have my head turned.
Seriously, I think a lot of problems would be solved if people gave up armrests.
Nah, Nanotube Forest has a better ring to it.
Don't forget, the bigger they are the harder they fall. The Keynsian invisible hand got distracted for a while, and it's started to come back and bitchslap companies.
Examples: The Dot-Bombs: They bombed. Why? They weren't capitalistic. Amtrak: It's been on government subsidy for so long that it can't support itself anymore, and it'll die off soon enough.
Microsoft Examples: The Peru letter - If the bill gets passed, they ARE going to switch to *nix, because it's free. The first time I read the good Dr. Edgar David Villanueva Nuñez's letter, I laughed so hard that I cried... and then I cheered. The peasants are restless - My mother, who knows just enough about a computer to check her email and communicate with her kids, was cursing Microsoft the other night and speaking about how their The rebel states - Hell, you think that they're going to let go now that they've got their teeth in MS in a way that's raising eyebrows? What about that fscked interview with the MIT prof?
Intelligent post... but just wait a year and see what happens. The moral to Microsoft's (and HPaq's) stories might actually be not to get too big.
Offtopic, but... Tai Chi is not a fighting style of martial arts... it's a meditation style, which focuses on moving the chi(energy in your body) through different parts of your body. It's a collection of sequences of moves that should be precisely executed with perfect balance and concentration. Kind of hard to fight with... What you're thinking of is a fighting style more like Judo or Akido, both of which use your opponent's strength and movement against them.
We've got readahead cache, can I get a redhead cache? First I'll load Kirsten Dunst in Spiderman into it...
Investment GOOOOOD. Throwing money at AT&T or whomever BAAAAAAD.
There's a guy who lives on the big island of Hawaii and has managed to set up antennas to run 802.11b to selected areas of the island. I'm trying to find the article, but I can't... it was linked here on /. a number of weeks ago.
Also, the city of Yakima, WA is mostly wired with 802.11b, according to the sysadmin at my company, who set the system up.
Quite possibly, using a network of directional antennas, a few tall buildings, and inexpensive local access points, you can set up relatively good public 802.11b network that would serve the needs of most students.
The best way to do the local access points would be to set up an omnidirectional rebroadcast relay. From previous reading and no practical experience, it seems that this could simply be a cheap box running linux (even a low-end pentium will work...) with a cheap (can be home-made, I think) directional receiver and a omnidirectional antenna (just a regular 802.11b card will work) and some software to glue the two together.
Can someone else provide accurate technical details? I'll admit that networking is really my weak area.
bash$ grep "interesting" bash$ sleep
I'll add a "ditto". I was expecting 4/1 on slashdot to be snarky, devious, and a riot. Instead, it was like a late night TV show... slapstick, and with a fake laugh track. The only thing that could've made it worse would've been a blinking DHTML "LAUGH" flying across the page when you load a 4/1 /. story.
Seriously... if you wanted to be funny, you should've done something snarky and "HUH!?" like DaveZilla (Not gonna link because it'll be gone, but he turned his website into a mirror of FuckedWeblog, with it's top blog being his, and the quote, "I quit!") or the Met4filter/Kuro5hin "merger".
I'm dissapointed. Don't try as hard next year.
This bill will be protested when Mr. and Mrs. Joe Sixpack see the pimply-faced teenager from next door get hauled out of his bedroom and thrown in Juvie with all of the drug addicts. That's when you'll animate the masses; not before.
I'm fairly sure this bill will get passed; I'm just not sure how they can ever enforce it.
For those of you not hiring certain classes of individuals... avoid graduates of Oregon State University. First of all, they're phasing C++ out of the cirriculum in favor of Java. Major sin. You have to take C++ as an elective or at the local community college. Second of all, the intro Java classes don't teach that well -- they're taught by high-level professors who forget to modprobe their english-speaking libraries before they head to class in huge 500 student classrooms -- and the smaller sections are all taught by grad students who never have spoken english. Third, their main labs are all Win2k Dells... and even worse, all of the intro classes use CodeWarrior as their standard IDE and compiler. Bleh. I left.
...And if you go to asia, pirated copies of the movie are available on every street corner, complete with closed-captioning and dolby surround sound...
Except that if we let the gov't program it, it'll run on windows...
Be careful, your robot might interpret you literally and try to 'repair' the inconsistencies in the morning commute...
Ok, Here's the link to the new Honda Asimo -- THe page is in Japanese, but the photos are good.
Honda released its new robot today, too... also bipedal, but not as entertainment-y as Sony's. I can't find a photo/link at the moment.
It would be cool if they still made trackballs with 16-lbs bowling balls... a couple of my cow-workers are perfectly lined up right now...
One of the strategies we use at my company (We also use plain ol' CVS, but we don't have many branches on our development tree) is to team-code and to write tests for every script, so that you can tell if/where a problem has been created by someone else editing a header file. A test should simulate a user using the file/program/script/etc and should double-check the values entered against any values that are stored. By running the testing suite after a file changes, you might still have a merge conflict, but after it's resolved you won't have a bad piece of code.