It is a journalistic standard in America to use commas in place of the conjunction "and" when writing headlines. This started because, back in the old days of printed newspapers, you tried to do whatever you could to save space in your headlines for the words that formed the meat of the idea you were trying to convey.
I'm not sure if you've noticed, but they go up--way beyond inflation--every year. The new healthcare law just gave the insurance companies a scapegoat.
And their Visa card, too? (Visa has also stopped processing donations.) You won't get far only carrying a Discover and Amex around. Your advice is impractical for the vast majority of people. The free market doesn't work when all the competitors bow down to the same government pressure.
I'll definitely check it out. Spybot has helped me get spyware off of various machines (owned by relatives) more than once, and I've never had a bad experience with it. Thanks for the tip.
I don't bother with having an Antivirus on the machine that I actively use. I use a systems settings manager. Anytime a registry value changes, added, or removed? I get a popup.
Well, you definitely made me curious. What software package do you use to monitor the registry? I googled registry monitors and got a ton of hits, with no idea which solutions were good.
The two books you mentioned are great. People should also check out 'Preacher'. It had a limited run and was allowed to die, but WOW, one of the greatest runs ever.
You've come the closest so far. Yes, you go up in steps, but the trick is that you decrease the size of the step each time you go up so that the worst case for each step remains constant. The worst case would be 14 drops. I'm disclaiming here that I didn't think this answer up myself; I'd heard the question and numerous answers myself sometime back because I was researching precisely these kind of (stupid) brain teasers in my quest to get a job.
Drop the first orb from floors 14, 27, 39, 50, 60, 69, 77, 84, 90, 95, 99, 100... (ie, move up 14 then 13 floors, then 12, etc) until it breaks (or doesn't at 100). Call the first floor at which it breaks n and the previous tested floor n'. Then try the intervening floors (n'+1.. n'-1) with the other orb.
Worst case is if correct floor is 13,14,26,27, etc which require m drops with the first orb and 14-m drops with the second.
If you map it all out, you'll see that it holds together. I have yet to see a better answer, but would love for someone on/. to find one:)
Your company sounds like a good fit--I'm looking to get into a mid-level development position after having spent five years in the QA trenches, writing test harnesses and the like when I was lucky, running manual test scripts when I wasn't. I do hold my BS in CS, so I have that in my favor, along with whatever experience I got writing/maintaining test harnesses.
Am getting laid off in a few months from Symantec (whole site in southern Virginia is being closed so that our projects can be moved to the new office in India), and so I'm currently on the lookout for work. Where are you based? If it's somewhere I'd like relocate to (and you're accepting resumes) I could fire you an email.
Identity theft is common enough without people having to make sure that their music files are every bit as safe and locked down as their credit card statements.
This is a ridiculous idea, and I'd boycott any company stupid enough to implement it.
I thought to myself, "Self, those were some damn good games":)
My favorite way to play through was as a thief with magic skills. I liked how flexible they were in offering you multiple ways to solve certain puzzles depending on what class you were.
They really need to rerelease these. And, hey, knowing Quest for Glory doesn't make you old! I'm 26:)
The iPod does try to prevent you from getting music from the device to a PC as well, but instead of transcoding the music, they try and obfuscate the music under some weird folder and file-naming structure. Plenty of folks have deciphered this structure, though. I use a program called sharepod that will copy the mp3s from my ipod to a Windows PC grouped by album with all the files named properly. It's a great little program.
I don't really have a huge problem with Toshiba's method to prevent one from getting to the music, but it seems to me that it would be a pain in the ass to rip all of my CDs and THEN have to go through a transencoding to get everything onto my mp3 player. One, it wastes a lot of time--transencoding is pretty CPU-intensive. Two, you always degrade the quality a little bit with a lossey (sp?) encoding. I prefer the iPod's method to "protect" the music on the device, if only because it's easily-circumventable and it doesn't waste my time.
I'm not following. How can you say that you need to have "propitary [sic] encoding" and then say that all of the files are still mp3s? And what's with the inference that the ipod can't play mp3s? I have 3 gigs of music on my mini and they're all mp3s!
Hey, man, I've been reading all of your comments on this story, and I think you're 100% correct in your assesment that they just go after the kid that's different. I won't pretend I had it as bad as you, but I got picked on for being an Indian kid in an all-white southern town. That's how it started. I also had a stutter, later on I got ugly glasses and got fat b/c I stayed indoors all day, afraid of people. I was a bully's wet dream.
I didn't join the marines or anything, but I did start running and lifting weights when I was old enough and mature enough to take control of my own life. These people on here who said you deserved it, that ANY kid deserves that kind of treatment, these people are either trolls or callous fucking assholes.
I want to let you know I understand your reluctance to associate too closely with people. I deal with the same problem. People in meatspace think I'm friendly and fun to be around, but they don't know how hard it is for me to interact with other people.
Bullying that goes on for years, it leaves scars in you that other people just don't understand. It's a crippling thing to wake up every morning and go to a place where you know every one of your peers hates you or, at best, is indifferent to you. If my adult life were like that, too, I'd probably go crazy and live on a mountain somewhere.
I read your journal entry saying that you were giving up on slashdot. Hope it wasn't because of the wankers who replied to you on this story. They're the same assholes who made life hell for us growing up, and it seems wrong that they'd drive you from this place.
So, you're saying for full acceptance, I need to hate the kid I was? Yeah, that sounds healthy. I just have a little compassion for the little nerdy bastard I used to be. He didn't deserve it. No little kid deserves to live in fear. And I don't WANT you to feel sorry for me. I'd think, though, that if there's some little kid out there now faking that he's sick so he doesn't have to go to school to be bullied, that you'd feel a little sympathy for him. If you don't, you're just a narcisstic dick who thinks that because he wasn't bullied he's somehow better than anyone who was.
And you're right, I'm not all better. I carry scars to this day, but they're all on the inside. That being said, I'm not the "perpetual victim" that you claim I am. Fuck you. You don't know me. Nobody bullies me now. Nobody takes advantage of me, and I am NO ONE's victim. If anything, I have a huge chip on my shoulder about it, and if anyone tried to pull the kind of shit they did to me then, they'd know they were in a fight (like I said, I'm a fairly big guy now). I'm not bullied by anyone in my current life. I do, however, have a successful career, I'm fit, and I'm "popular". To all outward appearances, I'm successful.
I'm in control of my life. I've handled things so that no one fucks with me now. Tell me HOW I'm a perpetual victim. Because I'm angry? Well, if it happened to you, you'd be angry, too. Not that you could ever imagine yourself in someone else's shoes.
Great, so you didn't get beat up. What do you want, a medal? So, those of us who did, it was all our fault? We were fucking KIDS--we only had so much control of our lives.
If you're not white, and you're growing up in a cracker small town, you can't just move. If you're fat, you don't have full control of your diet. If you're nearsighted and your parents are cheap as hell, you can't pick the glasses that look nice, you get these big, ugly plastic things. If you've got a stutter, you can't just fork over cash on your own for a good speech pathologist.
I had all of these problems. As an adult they were easy to fix. I don't hang out with racists, I buy my own food, run and lift weights (I now have a fairly muscular 6ft, 200 lbs frame), I got lasik surgery, and I've sought out the best speech therapy I could get.
So I should've changed all those things, oh, and overcome my crippling shyness, all on my own? When I was twelve?! Like my parents would've sprung for some hippie therapy anyway. The AC was right--you are an asshole. How anybody couldn't have a little compassion for a kid having a hard time is just beyond my understanding.
Assuming you're not trolling, then I'm truly thrown. I didn't know people this stupid read/.
As the other responder clearly pointed out, by "us", he obviously meant everybody. He wasn't dividing the populace into retarded little factions like you are.
Am aware of both sites. I didn't link to them because I, personally, don't think they're on the up-and-up. I wouldn't suggest anything that I wouldn't use myself.
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It is a journalistic standard in America to use commas in place of the conjunction "and" when writing headlines. This started because, back in the old days of printed newspapers, you tried to do whatever you could to save space in your headlines for the words that formed the meat of the idea you were trying to convey.
I'm not sure if you've noticed, but they go up--way beyond inflation--every year. The new healthcare law just gave the insurance companies a scapegoat.
Quite right. I should've read your post more carefully.
Why else would individuals willingly pay out millions of their own money to run a campaign that may not work?
Why else? A thirst for power. That's more than worth the money to a lot of people.
And their Visa card, too? (Visa has also stopped processing donations.) You won't get far only carrying a Discover and Amex around. Your advice is impractical for the vast majority of people. The free market doesn't work when all the competitors bow down to the same government pressure.
I'll definitely check it out. Spybot has helped me get spyware off of various machines (owned by relatives) more than once, and I've never had a bad experience with it. Thanks for the tip.
I don't bother with having an Antivirus on the machine that I actively use. I use a systems settings manager. Anytime a registry value changes, added, or removed? I get a popup.
Well, you definitely made me curious. What software package do you use to monitor the registry? I googled registry monitors and got a ton of hits, with no idea which solutions were good.
Haven't you forgotten T-mobile? They use GSM, just like AT&T.
The two books you mentioned are great. People should also check out 'Preacher'. It had a limited run and was allowed to die, but WOW, one of the greatest runs ever.
What he said was true--it wasn't in his plan. He didn't introduce this bill.
It's funny to see how pathetic the Obama-haters get in their criticism.
You've come the closest so far. Yes, you go up in steps, but the trick is that you decrease the size of the step each time you go up so that the worst case for each step remains constant. The worst case would be 14 drops. I'm disclaiming here that I didn't think this answer up myself; I'd heard the question and numerous answers myself sometime back because I was researching precisely these kind of (stupid) brain teasers in my quest to get a job.
.. n'-1) with the other orb.
/. to find one :)
Drop the first orb from floors 14, 27, 39, 50, 60, 69, 77, 84, 90, 95, 99, 100... (ie, move up 14 then 13 floors, then 12, etc) until it breaks (or doesn't at 100). Call the first floor at which it breaks n and the previous tested floor n'. Then try the intervening floors (n'+1
Worst case is if correct floor is 13,14,26,27, etc which require m drops with the first orb and 14-m drops with the second.
If you map it all out, you'll see that it holds together. I have yet to see a better answer, but would love for someone on
Your company sounds like a good fit--I'm looking to get into a mid-level development position after having spent five years in the QA trenches, writing test harnesses and the like when I was lucky, running manual test scripts when I wasn't. I do hold my BS in CS, so I have that in my favor, along with whatever experience I got writing/maintaining test harnesses.
Am getting laid off in a few months from Symantec (whole site in southern Virginia is being closed so that our projects can be moved to the new office in India), and so I'm currently on the lookout for work. Where are you based? If it's somewhere I'd like relocate to (and you're accepting resumes) I could fire you an email.
Identity theft is common enough without people having to make sure that their music files are every bit as safe and locked down as their credit card statements.
This is a ridiculous idea, and I'd boycott any company stupid enough to implement it.
QG II was my favorite of the whole series!!!! You have royally made my day.
I thought to myself, "Self, those were some damn good games" :)
:)
My favorite way to play through was as a thief with magic skills. I liked how flexible they were in offering you multiple ways to solve certain puzzles depending on what class you were.
They really need to rerelease these. And, hey, knowing Quest for Glory doesn't make you old! I'm 26
Ah, ok. Thanks for the clarification.
The iPod does try to prevent you from getting music from the device to a PC as well, but instead of transcoding the music, they try and obfuscate the music under some weird folder and file-naming structure. Plenty of folks have deciphered this structure, though. I use a program called sharepod that will copy the mp3s from my ipod to a Windows PC grouped by album with all the files named properly. It's a great little program.
I don't really have a huge problem with Toshiba's method to prevent one from getting to the music, but it seems to me that it would be a pain in the ass to rip all of my CDs and THEN have to go through a transencoding to get everything onto my mp3 player. One, it wastes a lot of time--transencoding is pretty CPU-intensive. Two, you always degrade the quality a little bit with a lossey (sp?) encoding. I prefer the iPod's method to "protect" the music on the device, if only because it's easily-circumventable and it doesn't waste my time.
I'm not following. How can you say that you need to have "propitary [sic] encoding" and then say that all of the files are still mp3s? And what's with the inference that the ipod can't play mp3s? I have 3 gigs of music on my mini and they're all mp3s!
Hey, man, I've been reading all of your comments on this story, and I think you're 100% correct in your assesment that they just go after the kid that's different. I won't pretend I had it as bad as you, but I got picked on for being an Indian kid in an all-white southern town. That's how it started. I also had a stutter, later on I got ugly glasses and got fat b/c I stayed indoors all day, afraid of people. I was a bully's wet dream.
I didn't join the marines or anything, but I did start running and lifting weights when I was old enough and mature enough to take control of my own life. These people on here who said you deserved it, that ANY kid deserves that kind of treatment, these people are either trolls or callous fucking assholes.
I want to let you know I understand your reluctance to associate too closely with people. I deal with the same problem. People in meatspace think I'm friendly and fun to be around, but they don't know how hard it is for me to interact with other people.
Bullying that goes on for years, it leaves scars in you that other people just don't understand. It's a crippling thing to wake up every morning and go to a place where you know every one of your peers hates you or, at best, is indifferent to you. If my adult life were like that, too, I'd probably go crazy and live on a mountain somewhere.
I read your journal entry saying that you were giving up on slashdot. Hope it wasn't because of the wankers who replied to you on this story. They're the same assholes who made life hell for us growing up, and it seems wrong that they'd drive you from this place.
So, you're saying for full acceptance, I need to hate the kid I was? Yeah, that sounds healthy. I just have a little compassion for the little nerdy bastard I used to be. He didn't deserve it. No little kid deserves to live in fear. And I don't WANT you to feel sorry for me. I'd think, though, that if there's some little kid out there now faking that he's sick so he doesn't have to go to school to be bullied, that you'd feel a little sympathy for him. If you don't, you're just a narcisstic dick who thinks that because he wasn't bullied he's somehow better than anyone who was.
And you're right, I'm not all better. I carry scars to this day, but they're all on the inside. That being said, I'm not the "perpetual victim" that you claim I am. Fuck you. You don't know me. Nobody bullies me now. Nobody takes advantage of me, and I am NO ONE's victim. If anything, I have a huge chip on my shoulder about it, and if anyone tried to pull the kind of shit they did to me then, they'd know they were in a fight (like I said, I'm a fairly big guy now). I'm not bullied by anyone in my current life. I do, however, have a successful career, I'm fit, and I'm "popular". To all outward appearances, I'm successful.
I'm in control of my life. I've handled things so that no one fucks with me now. Tell me HOW I'm a perpetual victim. Because I'm angry? Well, if it happened to you, you'd be angry, too. Not that you could ever imagine yourself in someone else's shoes.
Great, so you didn't get beat up. What do you want, a medal? So, those of us who did, it was all our fault? We were fucking KIDS--we only had so much control of our lives.
If you're not white, and you're growing up in a cracker small town, you can't just move. If you're fat, you don't have full control of your diet. If you're nearsighted and your parents are cheap as hell, you can't pick the glasses that look nice, you get these big, ugly plastic things. If you've got a stutter, you can't just fork over cash on your own for a good speech pathologist.
I had all of these problems. As an adult they were easy to fix. I don't hang out with racists, I buy my own food, run and lift weights (I now have a fairly muscular 6ft, 200 lbs frame), I got lasik surgery, and I've sought out the best speech therapy I could get.
So I should've changed all those things, oh, and overcome my crippling shyness, all on my own? When I was twelve?! Like my parents would've sprung for some hippie therapy anyway. The AC was right--you are an asshole. How anybody couldn't have a little compassion for a kid having a hard time is just beyond my understanding.
Look into empathy. You're lacking.
Goddamn, you suck. And yeah, I'm willing to login to say that.
Assuming you're not trolling, then I'm truly thrown. I didn't know people this stupid read /.
As the other responder clearly pointed out, by "us", he obviously meant everybody. He wasn't dividing the populace into retarded little factions like you are.
Friended you. Fellow stutterer :)
Am aware of both sites. I didn't link to them because I, personally, don't think they're on the up-and-up. I wouldn't suggest anything that I wouldn't use myself.