Aren't most victims of these type of scams Americans? Aren't the elderly most-often cited as the poor victims that lost X% of their life-long savings to these frauds?
If the above is true, where are the AARP-sponsored TV ads and other PSAs notifying the public?
Just a question: do robots build your designs? If not, then likely all your nth degree of design tolerances are out the window and it probably all comes down to some guy making it fit via the metaphorical sledgehammer. Typically then others have to tweak things until the results approximate what was expected. Even then, it don't always work.
I've been involved with the paper level R&D process (not talking about computer "engineering" or anything complicated like that) and I also have enough field background and humility to know that things don't necessarily always work as planned. Your post smells like academic elitism. No offence intended.
Please stop using the term "engineer" when discussing software. Unless an "engineer" is actually designing the hardware bits, s/he is a software developer or software designer, programmer or coder.
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn?stag e=1&word=engineer
Sorry, I have to run and see my "Doctor" (a phrenologist).
The main problem I see with complicated A/V systems is that each device stores its own state and the remote is completely unaware of what state each device is in
That's pretty much a correct evaluation.
I can't find it now, but some design firm in Canada did a study on remote useability.
Please let me know once you've got that social engineering software [1] figured out. Could you even function effectively in the workforce without a computer? I can.
[1] "Social Engineering" in it's original meaning, not the newspeak commonly found at Slashdot.
Have you ever been driving on an interstate highway when traffic suddenly slows to a crawl? You inch along for many minutes while waiting to see the accident which must have caused the jam. At the same time you also curse the "rubberneckers" who are causing the whole problem. But then all the cars ahead of you take off at high speed. The jam is over, but no accident, no police cars, nothing. WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT! A traffic jam with no cause? In the rear-view mirror you see all the poor saps behind you still stuck in the jam. But why? If all those people could just speed up at the same time, the whole traffic jam would evaporate. Why don't they ever do that? What caused the mysterious slowdown in the first place?
What, you do Finite Element Analysis and/or complex fluid dynamics simulation by hand? Wow.
Gee, I wonder how things were done before computers.
I guess all that stuff was just pulled out of someone's ass.
One thing you have to learn, grasshopper, is that real engineers can create things without having to calculate everything to the.0005th decimal point.
Your attitude depresses me, and it is thinking like that that encourages the "we can't do anything about it, why try" phenomenon. Best luck to you, but I doubt it'll do any good with that approach.
I know Microsoft is not one for timely updates, but this wording makes it sound like Microsoft has been sitting on this particular problem a lot longer than they have.
To steal an oft-used cliche of the "Linux fanboys":
You must be new here.
Oh, and I figgered I'd not be a looser and mispell something just two make it offishul:Nataly Portman.
Doesn't this describe the entire rush to computerization and PHB's reliance on it?
I've decided to keep my knowledge of how to draw manually and design things, just in case.
It is amazing how "engineering" has been transformed over the past 20 years. The computer crowd has bastardized the term to mean something which it is not.
But never fear, we'll eventually get it right. Right?
This reminded me of the newish Craftsman circular saws that shine a laser beam along the wood surface to be cut. I haven't been able to find technical details on how exactly it works, but if the laser is mounted to the saw, isn't this similar to being guided by your car's headlights?
Slashdot Mirror
Hey, tanks for the idea.
Dork.
If you know this much about Star Trek, you're a dork, not a nerd.
There IS a difference.
Aren't most victims of these type of scams Americans? Aren't the elderly most-often cited as the poor victims that lost X% of their life-long savings to these frauds?
If the above is true, where are the AARP-sponsored TV ads and other PSAs notifying the public?
Just a question: do robots build your designs? If not, then likely all your nth degree of design tolerances are out the window and it probably all comes down to some guy making it fit via the metaphorical sledgehammer. Typically then others have to tweak things until the results approximate what was expected. Even then, it don't always work.
I've been involved with the paper level R&D process (not talking about computer "engineering" or anything complicated like that) and I also have enough field background and humility to know that things don't necessarily always work as planned. Your post smells like academic elitism. No offence intended.
Please stop using the term "engineer" when discussing software. Unless an "engineer" is actually designing the hardware bits, s/he is a software developer or software designer, programmer or coder.
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn?sta
Sorry, I have to run and see my "Doctor" (a phrenologist).
Is this the Bob Bigelow of NIDS?
You should probably visit CanadaComment.com.
The main problem I see with complicated A/V systems is that each device stores its own state and the remote is completely unaware of what state each device is in
That's pretty much a correct evaluation.
I can't find it now, but some design firm in Canada did a study on remote useability.
Ugh. Norway, like Canada, Sweden, the Netherlands, and France just do not count in this forum. NIH.
I'll bet that most Americans don't even know what Norsk Hydro is or what it does.
Ignorance is bliss.
I voted last week and it was of those lame-o paper things where we had to mark an "X".
It seems to me that this format is pretty old and should be coolified with the latest technology.
Please let me know once you've got that social engineering software [1] figured out. Could you even function effectively in the workforce without a computer? I can.
[1] "Social Engineering" in it's original meaning, not the newspeak commonly found at Slashdot.
the superiority of stick-shift drivers
Clutch much?
Most of the key in driving is keeping the car in a state of balance.
http://tisc.planet-f1.com/drivers/results_by_dr
See also this site.
Have you ever been driving on an interstate highway when traffic suddenly slows to a crawl? You inch along for many minutes while waiting to see the accident which must have caused the jam. At the same time you also curse the "rubberneckers" who are causing the whole problem. But then all the cars ahead of you take off at high speed. The jam is over, but no accident, no police cars, nothing. WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT! A traffic jam with no cause? In the rear-view mirror you see all the poor saps behind you still stuck in the jam. But why? If all those people could just speed up at the same time, the whole traffic jam would evaporate. Why don't they ever do that? What caused the mysterious slowdown in the first place?
Wow, what a great Troll, best one yet. Sorry to have wasted your time. Pipe up and remember to not inhale!
Being a "smoker" is not a state of being, its a habit, an action
You are missing the point of my arguement. The point was that group A easily dismisses the rights of group B.
Apparently this type of discrimination is now authorized. But, hey, it's all done in the name of overall good, right?
Here's a clue: You stink!
Well, I guess that says it all, doesn't it?
If there ever was prejudice, this is the officially sponsored one.
You can smoke all you want... do it in a space suit so you don't stink up the place for the rest of us, mm kay?
How about you non-smokers stop trying to deny my rights with your pollyanish, restrictive worldview?
You are stepping on my toes, legislatively.
I don't like it.
As a smoker, I am probably one of the most discriminated-against individuals in the western world.
What, you do Finite Element Analysis and/or complex fluid dynamics simulation by hand? Wow.
Gee, I wonder how things were done before computers.
I guess all that stuff was just pulled out of someone's ass.
One thing you have to learn, grasshopper, is that real engineers can create things without having to calculate everything to the
Your attitude depresses me, and it is thinking like that that encourages the "we can't do anything about it, why try" phenomenon. Best luck to you, but I doubt it'll do any good with that approach.
I know Microsoft is not one for timely updates, but this wording makes it sound like Microsoft has been sitting on this particular problem a lot longer than they have.
To steal an oft-used cliche of the "Linux fanboys":
You must be new here.
Oh, and I figgered I'd not be a looser and mispell something just two make it offishul:Nataly Portman.
Bunch of bumbling fubars
Doesn't this describe the entire rush to computerization and PHB's reliance on it?
I've decided to keep my knowledge of how to draw manually and design things, just in case.
It is amazing how "engineering" has been transformed over the past 20 years. The computer crowd has bastardized the term to mean something which it is not.
But never fear, we'll eventually get it right. Right?
My guess would be incorrect use of a static/global variable.
Bill will be dropping by soon to buy you out
Hint: when there's a knock at the door and you ask, "Who is it?", if the reply is, "Hired Goons", don't open the door.
My site only shows up 5 times in the first 15 results and not at #1, so I'm pretty disappointed.
[Montreal subway]...can be fairly bouncy.
But there are advantages to that...[/salaciousness]
This reminded me of the newish Craftsman circular saws that shine a laser beam along the wood surface to be cut. I haven't been able to find technical details on how exactly it works, but if the laser is mounted to the saw, isn't this similar to being guided by your car's headlights?