Perhaps stores could do a deal with amazon to provide showrooms for products. Commissions on sales etc. this is not a particularly different business model for them.
Seriously, this is a cool project and anyone who has a problem with this kind of thing should have their slashdot account suspended pending a review of their nerd status. I myself made a simple 31 bit processor with FORTH as the OS. It taught me a lot. This is what hobbies are all about. A safe place to experiment with ideas and try something out. I've used that experience to do other things that I wouldn't have even otherwise tried. Supposed "silly" projects can make "serious" projects possible - even if only to broaden your perspective. Might even get you a different job.
Emulation of 32 bit on 8 bit: its guaranteed to be slow in the first few releases due to various bottlenecks... but hey, optimise the data i/o and you could actually make something of this. People used to bitch about how slow serial ports were.
That job isn't much different from so many others. technical side + administrative + travel. Good job for someone starting out or wanting a change. An undergrad eng student with a well rounded mind should breeze this. (And be highly employable afterwards!)
On a different note, I get the sense that most of the people commenting now aren't actually techs or even remotely capable of tech unless it's handed to them on a silver platter... oooh there's no documentation.... waaaa! babies. Seriously, if you need everything 100% documented before you can work on it, go and get a job outside IT/engineering. Maybe in a gov bureaucracy or a big corp filling out TPS reports or similar. (Then you'll just complain there's no creative element etc).
Slashdot is full of MBAs. Bitter ones at that. Idiots who would expect 100K for this job. Shit its just basic grad work.
The US needs to learn that you are meant to holiday^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hvacation, for at least 4 weeks of every year. Anything less is just slavery (and quite frankly - bad for business).
More likely Europe simply tolerates imperial because its useful for some things or its just plain down to interoperability. In Australia I have no trouble communicating in both. It just comes down to context. eg a discussion about someone's height in cm or feet as well as cm or metres. Building measurements in metres or millimetres.
Anything important is done in metric. I've never heard anyone actually talk in furlongs or chains etc. If you're seriously into imperial you wouldn't talk of distances in hundreds of miles for example
As for bolts - its only because you're so caught up in fractions of inches that there is even an issue. My lathe certainly can't tell the difference...
Crazy talk. These "backups" will never take off. Why, you'd need twice or many more copies of everything! Storage isn't cheap you know! There would need to be custom hardware, special software to allow simultaneous writes. It would be a maintenance nightmare!
You deal with fire using a bucket of water. Flooding? Get another bucket. Theft? Cut off their hands.
The device gets snuck onto some unwitting person's luggage.
Now, you see somebody is struggling with a heavy suitcase through a transport facility. (Say Liberty International Airport, or O'Hare, or Grand Central Station at 4:30 on a Friday.)
Do you help him/her, or do you run like hell?
No. I don't help others with luggage. I figure if they packed it they should live with the consequences of overloading.
As for your experiment, that's just bad experimental design from start to finish. The exploratory questions don't make sense.
This is an anomaly. The medical community(doctors in particular) doesn't cotton to these sorts of antics from outsiders. Just wait to this becomes more widely known amongst the Doctor fraternity. It will become like mid-wifery - a fringe practice prone to potentially costing your baby its life.
[...]. Its like they actually want to punish us to use their software. It may be better now. But a couple of years ago it was pretty pitiful.
Still is.
iPhone isn't just a shiny platform, it's actually usable. The tools actually work...the draconian and random appstore rules OTOH are a total let down. I've been given extended evaluation of winmobiles and hate every one of them. Used 4 different phones and happily gave them back at the end if the 2 month eval. Useless dev tools.
Android is getting better. iphone is already there but has zero freedom associated with it.
For a given definition of "compiled" most high level languages are technically running compiled code: Java/Python certainly are. (Except HTTP which is a protocol...)
From the perspective of a CPU, everything is interpreted. If your problem requires a solution that is best expressed in Python or Ruby etc then go for it. If you need extra speed right now then dig further - and remember that in at least a year's time your optimised code might not be so valuable. Just about all high level languages can make use of a module written in assembly via some kind of call interface.
High level languages provide abstraction layers to simplify producing a system that addresses some need. It's easier to justify writing a web application in PHP than assembly. OTOH there are certainly niches where C or even assembly could be a better solution, eg serving seldom changing files via http.
You haven't helped raise children, have you? Oh, dear, if you want to see complex and buggy, try working with a 12 year old who usually lives with their mother.
The so called Y2Kaboom... the reason it was a non-event was that many people had worked to resolve as much of the problem as they could. We had started in around March 1998 so for us this was old news. By the time our management had started freaking out we had already completed a preliminary audit.
I had some people predict all sorts of gloom and doom... they bought extra food and waited for the apocalypse. A lot of magazines were filled with doomsday predictions etc.
For what its worth... if we hadn't fixed these: security system - doors wouldn't have been able to be opened/closed using swipe cards lighting/airconditioning wouldn't have turned on - (Summer in Australia with no AC) some Microsoft access databases wouldn't have tracked contracts correctly some Microsoft Excel spreadsheets used in reporting system gave faulty results some clunky old accounting systems that would have truncated data on input (retired these instead of fixing) a few telemetry systems wouldn't have turned two sites' pumps on/off
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Perhaps stores could do a deal with amazon to provide showrooms for products. Commissions on sales etc. this is not a particularly different business model for them.
The quality of slashdot readers is slightly lower but the quantity is much greater.
Seriously, this is a cool project and anyone who has a problem with this kind of thing should have their slashdot account suspended pending a review of their nerd status. I myself made a simple 31 bit processor with FORTH as the OS. It taught me a lot. This is what hobbies are all about. A safe place to experiment with ideas and try something out. I've used that experience to do other things that I wouldn't have even otherwise tried. Supposed "silly" projects can make "serious" projects possible - even if only to broaden your perspective. Might even get you a different job.
Emulation of 32 bit on 8 bit: its guaranteed to be slow in the first few releases due to various bottlenecks... but hey, optimise the data i/o and you could actually make something of this. People used to bitch about how slow serial ports were.
Never really ran on anything until it got onto 386. Everything before that was pure pain.
It's the difference between being told to learn something for yourself *now* versus being told that you have *learn* it to *teach* someone else later.
Those are two very different mindsets. The teacher has to pay more attention so learns more.
That job isn't much different from so many others. technical side + administrative + travel. Good job for someone starting out or wanting a change. An undergrad eng student with a well rounded mind should breeze this. (And be highly employable afterwards!)
On a different note, I get the sense that most of the people commenting now aren't actually techs or even remotely capable of tech unless it's handed to them on a silver platter... oooh there's no documentation.... waaaa! babies. Seriously, if you need everything 100% documented before you can work on it, go and get a job outside IT/engineering. Maybe in a gov bureaucracy or a big corp filling out TPS reports or similar. (Then you'll just complain there's no creative element etc).
Slashdot is full of MBAs. Bitter ones at that. Idiots who would expect 100K for this job. Shit its just basic grad work.
Sounds like a good thing to me. Last time was definitely fun.
The US needs to learn that you are meant to holiday^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hvacation, for at least 4 weeks of every year. Anything less is just slavery (and quite frankly - bad for business).
More likely Europe simply tolerates imperial because its useful for some things or its just plain down to interoperability. In Australia I have no trouble communicating in both. It just comes down to context. eg a discussion about someone's height in cm or feet as well as cm or metres. Building measurements in metres or millimetres.
Anything important is done in metric. I've never heard anyone actually talk in furlongs or chains etc. If you're seriously into imperial you wouldn't talk of distances in hundreds of miles for example
As for bolts - its only because you're so caught up in fractions of inches that there is even an issue. My lathe certainly can't tell the difference...
YMMV :)
Crazy talk. These "backups" will never take off. Why, you'd need twice or many more copies of everything! Storage isn't cheap you know! There would need to be custom hardware, special software to allow simultaneous writes. It would be a maintenance nightmare!
You deal with fire using a bucket of water. Flooding? Get another bucket. Theft? Cut off their hands.
The device gets snuck onto some unwitting person's luggage.
Now, you see somebody is struggling with a heavy suitcase through a transport facility. (Say Liberty International Airport, or O'Hare, or Grand Central Station at 4:30 on a Friday.)
Do you help him/her, or do you run like hell?
No. I don't help others with luggage. I figure if they packed it they should live with the consequences of overloading.
As for your experiment, that's just bad experimental design from start to finish. The exploratory questions don't make sense.
They are unconcerned about the loss of human life, only the fear it creates.
Mobile phones on the other hand actually cost money.
This is an anomaly. The medical community(doctors in particular) doesn't cotton to these sorts of antics from outsiders. Just wait to this becomes more widely known amongst the Doctor fraternity. It will become like mid-wifery - a fringe practice prone to potentially costing your baby its life.
Seriously, on everything in your post, WTF?!
"...We'd better throw another 13 lawyers into the pit then."
--- henchman # 6
STILL waiting for decent dev tools for WinMobile. yechh.
I'd rather code for iphone at the moment. elgooG's toolkit is looking better all the time.
[...]. Its like they actually want to punish us to use their software. It may be better now. But a couple of years ago it was pretty pitiful.
Still is.
iPhone isn't just a shiny platform, it's actually usable. The tools actually work...the draconian and random appstore rules OTOH are a total let down.
I've been given extended evaluation of winmobiles and hate every one of them. Used 4 different phones and happily gave them back at the end if the 2 month eval. Useless dev tools.
Android is getting better. iphone is already there but has zero freedom associated with it.
...you take one sparrow, pluck it. Then you add another... after about 1000 THEN you have a meal. End of story.
My hp48gx has been my calculator of choice ever since I first got it. Still works fine.
The benefit of this:
quicker to use, 1 second startup
portable, its a physical device
easily upload results to the PC when needed
I also use python/SAGE...
For a given definition of "compiled" most high level languages are technically running compiled code: Java/Python certainly are. (Except HTTP which is a protocol...)
From the perspective of a CPU, everything is interpreted. If your problem requires a solution that is best expressed in Python or Ruby etc then go for it. If you need extra speed right now then dig further - and remember that in at least a year's time your optimised code might not be so valuable. Just about all high level languages can make use of a module written in assembly via some kind of call interface.
High level languages provide abstraction layers to simplify producing a system that addresses some need. It's easier to justify writing a web application in PHP than assembly. OTOH there are certainly niches where C or even assembly could be a better solution, eg serving seldom changing files via http.
Your mileage may vary.
... Isn't threatening to kill someone a crime in itself?
You haven't helped raise children, have you? Oh, dear, if you want to see complex and buggy, try working with a 12 year old who usually lives with their mother.
sounds like my previous manager...
The so called Y2Kaboom... the reason it was a non-event was that many people had worked to resolve as much of the problem as they could. We had started in around March 1998 so for us this was old news. By the time our management had started freaking out we had already completed a preliminary audit.
I had some people predict all sorts of gloom and doom... they bought extra food and waited for the apocalypse. A lot of magazines were filled with doomsday predictions etc.
For what its worth... if we hadn't fixed these:
security system - doors wouldn't have been able to be opened/closed using swipe cards
lighting/airconditioning wouldn't have turned on - (Summer in Australia with no AC)
some Microsoft access databases wouldn't have tracked contracts correctly
some Microsoft Excel spreadsheets used in reporting system gave faulty results
some clunky old accounting systems that would have truncated data on input (retired these instead of fixing)
a few telemetry systems wouldn't have turned two sites' pumps on/off
we would have had an "interesting" January 2000.
considering guantanamo bay, the Bush US gov seems to like putting things outside their jurisdiction.
why should this be any different?