If that was the case, India being the richest country in the world - how did punk ass England come in and pwn it so heavily? As I recall, back in the late 1700's America was a dirt-poor country with no electricity, no running water and no infrastructure - yet they managed to kick England's ass and send them home. You would think that the richest country in the world, a country that has more wealth than all of Western Europe combined, would have been able to simply destroy the English invaders so forcefully that they would have never been able to walk in and take over the place.
Hmmm. Or maybe, just maybe, that claim is complete bullshit.
Generally, when the phrase 'American Revolution' is bantered about - it is in reference to the Declaration of Independence - when young America became its own country with its own government at a cost in many lives when breaking away from England. It was a completely new approach to how a country was run, designed by a group of men that put the people of the country first and designed to keep the people free.
It has nothing to do with India, Iraq, or anything happeneding today.
The day India writes a new government declaring all people born equal (not this silly caste shit) and every person is allowed or even encouraged to own guns, and all 400M of the ones living on a dollar a day have the opportunity to pull themselves up and make something of themselves - then THAT will be the beginning of the 'Century of India.' 1.4M gooks making $20k a year, blowing it on a Blackberry and some cocaine instead of investing it in the future of the country... not so much.
Go find a Dave & Busters. Not only do they have a monster arcade, there are light switches on the machines that indicate to the wait staff 'hey, I need another drink'. Fully stocked bar and a zillion kinds of beer, brought to you so you don't miss a beat (or a shot, or a race, or whatever.)
It is an adult environment (hence the ethanol) so expect to pay adult prices (like a dollar per game, but they are the high end games.)
There is nothing on this earth more pathetic than a Geek...
That's the most pathetic thing you're seen? You must be new here.
That said, I'm still way pissed about the rootkit thing (even though I wasn't affected - Sony can still eat a bag of dicks over that one) but I was affected by how the totally fucked up both EQ and SWG. So no, I'm not buying any more Sony gear either. On the upside, I recently unlocked a new 'zone' called 'going outside' and honestly along with much higher frame rate and resolution, most of the mobs are even more interesting to interact with.
Actually 'then double it' is only for experienced developers.
Newbie : 8x as long as estimated. Seasoned Developer : 3x as long. Elite Veteran : 2x as long.
Here's the rule I use when dealing with developer estimates (copied from a post almost a year ago) :
Time estimage guidelines:
New programmer fresh out of college: Take his estimate and multiply by 8x. Yes he could get it done in 1 day, assuming he got so cranked up on caffeine his eyes stopped blinking and he worked on that (and nothing else) for 24 hours straight. In the real world a newbie can dedicate about 2 real hours doing a particular task each day, the rest is spent coming up to speed on corporate coding standards and libraries, email, breaks, and not 'in the groove'. Also, you are expecting him to document it but he didn't account for that in his estimate - his estimate was only for time to code the actual lines of code.
Veteran programmer of average skill, single person project : multiply his estimate by 3x. A third of his day is spent hand-holding the newbie, and another third is spent hand-holding management. The other third is spent programming, but luckily he knows to pad the schedule some (not enough, but some.)
Veteran programmer of uber skill, single person project : multiply his estimate by 2x. This is as good as it gets. A uber veteran programmer knows to leave his email client closed and his door closed so he can stay in the zone. He knows to pad the schedule more than he really thinks he should. And it still takes him twice as long as he expected.
Multiple people working on the same project : increase the timeline by a factor of 1.2 per additional person. If two people ought to be able to do it in 10 days it will take 12. If 11 people (10 additional) ought to be able to do it in 10 days it will take... 1.2^10 = about 6, so 10 x (1.2^10) = roughly 60 days = 12 weeks = 3 months.
If I can get Sybase 12.5.x or Sybase 15 (the free ones for Linux) running on SLES 10 I will be all over this for a server. Oh yea, and if anybody is wondering what the hell I am talking about - Sybase ASE 15 is free on Linux if you run a single CPU machine with other limitations (no more than 2G of physical memory allocated to the Sybase engine, and I think it limits the database size to 5G - but other than that no limits; you are even allowed to use it commercially last I checked.)
Ok SuperBanana - I have taken your wish seriously and I just wrote and passed a law that exempts the first $2,000,000 of an estate from any federal taxes. The first $2M left behind to the family of a dead person will be tax free, and the federal government won't take a dime of it. That ought to cover the total estate of any non-super-rich people you have ever known, giving their heirs 100% of every penny they ever earned - surely enough to cover Joe Q Public Sr's estate transfer to Jr (life savings too.)
Quite a few of the responses here are focusing on a particular symptom (the panic attack during the exam) and overlooking the context of the issue (the entire semester.) Perhaps it isn't that he is being too hard on himself, but that he isn't being hard enough on himself (but doing it constructively.)
In the military there is a saying : "Train hard, fight easy."
What this means is - if you can condition yourself via repeated very difficult exercises to be able to operate and function in those difficult situations, you will be able to function under pressure. If your training (studying) is even more difficult than the situation you will encounter when it counts (battle, or the exam) then your exam will be easier (less stress, less pressure, easier questions) than you have been experiencing during training (studying) and you will breeze through it.
When I was a competitive swimmer (years ago) the longest race I ever swam was 200 meters - on competition day I might even swim less than that for the entire day : a 100m and a 50m. But every day during practice I would swim upwards of 3200m over the course of an hour. The coach would yell at us, push us harder, have us swim laps with only our legs (arms behind our backs), have us hold folding chairs over our heads in the deep end while we used only our legs to keep our head, arms, shoulders (and the chairs) out of the water for ten minutes at a time. After a month or two of high intensity training, race day was something we looked forward to - not only to compete, but because it was the easiest day of the swim season.
Same thing with military guys. The guys that are calm and can function reliably when someone is shooting at them - they are calm because the ONLY thing they have to deal with is someone shooting at them. During training someone was shooting at them, a gunny was screaming in their face, they were doing push-ups / sit-ups until they puked, they were carrying around telephone poles as a team through pounding surf in the ocean, they were living on three hours or less of sleep per night for weeks at a time, and they were doing it all while eating grubs and worms and whatever crap the can find or kill or catch with no way to prepare it (under nourished.) Compared to how they trained, fighting on the battlefield is a cake-walk.
Effective studying in college isn't reading a book by yourself in the quiet library until your eyes glaze over. Effective studying is creating an environment where you are mentally challenged by forcing yourself to demonstrate an understanding - a MASTERY of the material. Sit round robin with a few other students from class and go through the chapter, subject by subject, and have each person be the 'target' - the others ask him a question on the topic and he has to answer it, demonstrate his knowledge on the subject. Do not allow anyone to pass (skip a question,) force him to read the material until he understands it and can explain it to the satisfaction to the others. Let the questions get harder and harder, and pile on the peer pressure. Let the only response to 'I don't know' be 'well motherfucker you better figure it out now with the book in your hands and people here to help you learn it, because it is going to be on the exam.' The harder you are on each other during those study sessions, the easier the exam will be - for two reasons : during the exam it is quiet time without your peers putting the pressure on you (just you and the pencil and the paper), and also because you will have already worked through the thought processes in order to come up with the correct answers, not only for the questions you had to answer but for all the questions all the others had to answer - in watching them get it right or wrong, you will have seen several different perspectives and approaches on the problem, learning not only the correct answer, but the correct approach to get the answer. In doing so, you will have developed a mastery of the material and it will be obvious when you exhibit that mastery
Actually they were selling the concept that education doesn't have to suck - that conceptually the government isn't incomprehensible, fundamentally math is both important and easy to learn, and that the English language has some fairly straightforward rules of grammar that, once understood and applied, elevate the speaker (writer) to the next level of communication.
It worked, too - you have to admit that the people that grew up watching those vid's have much better grammar than the young kids and their AOL IM / 1337 h4x0r speak.
All I have to say to that is... Conjunction Junction, what's your function? (Hookin' up words and phrases and clauses...)
I have no idea what the hell they were selling, but whatever it was I probably bought a ton of it over my lifetime because I still love those commercials. Heck, I went out and bought a DVD with nothing more than those commercials on it. No actual content - just commercials.
Maybe some company needs to buy up the rights to those, go in by hand and do some product placement magic - I'd stop channel surfing if I hit one of those whether it had little twelve toes drinking a Pepsi or not.
Unless the Air Force doesn't have access to unbreakable encryption...
I hate to be the one to rain on your parade, it being all full of sunshine and rainbows and the belief that the Air Force has this mind bending array of high tech ultra-elite solutions (and the knowledge necessary to implement them)... but they were running Windows 98.
The intersection of the two sets of people, set A being the people that have even the vaguest clue about security, and set B being the people that run Windows 98 - is pretty much null (aka 'the empty set'.)
Didn't Clinton also up the H1-B cap to like a quarter million a year, effectively destroying tech as a viable employment avenue for a million and a half Americans? (Look it up - the answer is YES.)
D'oh. The unspoken but assumed point of that post was, of course, that SuSE 10.1 is build on the 2.6.16.xx kernel and I haven't had a single problem. Honestly I am beginning to wonder if the latest KDE, Gnome, and kernel have had vmware drivers added to the base install in SuSE 10.1
I'm running SuSE 10.1 in a VMware 5.0 Workstation VM on WinXP Pro as the host. It works flawlessly. Installed the first time without a hitch, and even without installing the VMware driver support it is working nicely with all my toys (xwindows at 1600x1200 on my lcd display, sound, networking, etc.) I don't know about ESX, but on workstation it works awesome (better than I expected.)
I was going to explain it but I haven't had enough caffeine - so I will simply Google / cut & paste.
One technical point about Hydrogen. It doesn't explode. It burns, certainly. Very hot, and with a dangerous, invisible flame. However, when hydrogen burns, it combines with oxygen to form water. You would combine 2 moles of H2 and 1 mole of O2 (6 moles of individual atoms) to get 2 moles of H2O - water vapor. Going from 3 moles to 1 mole of volume means that burning hydrogen IMplodes, not explodes.
It wasn't about the water vapor condensing into water (liquid) lowering the overall pressure - it was about going from three moles (volume) of gas (hydrogen and oxygen) to one mole of gas (water vapor).
That said - perhaps the heat generated by this reaction could somehow be harnessed to superheat a separate container of liquid water into steam, and that steam could be routed out the back of the rocket (as it expanded) as the propellent. Not sure that would be the best material to use, but it would be available.
It is times like this we have to ask ourselves - WWAD? (What would Asimov do?)
Funny - I ran the Java applet version one on my SuSE Linux machine in Firefox. Unless the normal SuSE 10.1 distro comes with the.NET framework pre-installed, I'm going to have to say 'no, it runs just fine with zero Microsoft software necessary.'
Everybody keeps going back to using water, cracking it via solar electricity into oxygen (gas, or cooled/compressed into a liquid) and hydrogen (again, as a gas, or (unlikely) as a liquid.)
Where's the actual rocket fuel here? Last I recall, oxygen makes a great fire enabler, but pure oxygen itself doesn't really burn - it makes fire possible, makes fires better - but there needs to be some sort of fuel to burn in the first place. And as for H2 - if memory serves me correctly hydrogen + oxygen + spark doesn't explode, it implodes. It is a neat trick for high-school chemistry students, but implosions aren't particularly useful for creating thrust.
Or store the fuel in a flexible bladder and as the fuel gets sucked out, the bladder shrinks - like those baby bottles that have a liner that collapses as the baby sucks out the milk. Just look at the bladder, see how full it is (use some sort of metrics and measurements, of course.)
Big Dig cost an estimated ~$15B, if you want to get closer to reality. For a three and a half mile tunnel. That is over $800,000 per FOOT of tunnel. Holy crap.
Talk about corruption and blatant theft... Boston - the best government money can buy.
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If that was the case, India being the richest country in the world - how did punk ass England come in and pwn it so heavily?
As I recall, back in the late 1700's America was a dirt-poor country with no electricity, no running water and no infrastructure - yet they managed to kick England's ass and send them home. You would think that the richest country in the world, a country that has more wealth than all of Western Europe combined, would have been able to simply destroy the English invaders so forcefully that they would have never been able to walk in and take over the place.
Hmmm. Or maybe, just maybe, that claim is complete bullshit.
What the fuck are you talking about?
... not so much.
Generally, when the phrase 'American Revolution' is bantered about - it is in reference to the Declaration of Independence - when young America became its own country with its own government at a cost in many lives when breaking away from England. It was a completely new approach to how a country was run, designed by a group of men that put the people of the country first and designed to keep the people free.
It has nothing to do with India, Iraq, or anything happeneding today.
The day India writes a new government declaring all people born equal (not this silly caste shit) and every person is allowed or even encouraged to own guns, and all 400M of the ones living on a dollar a day have the opportunity to pull themselves up and make something of themselves - then THAT will be the beginning of the 'Century of India.' 1.4M gooks making $20k a year, blowing it on a Blackberry and some cocaine instead of investing it in the future of the country
Go find a Dave & Busters.
Not only do they have a monster arcade, there are light switches on the machines that indicate to the wait staff 'hey, I need another drink'. Fully stocked bar and a zillion kinds of beer, brought to you so you don't miss a beat (or a shot, or a race, or whatever.)
It is an adult environment (hence the ethanol) so expect to pay adult prices (like a dollar per game, but they are the high end games.)
There is nothing on this earth more pathetic than a Geek ...
That's the most pathetic thing you're seen? You must be new here.
That said, I'm still way pissed about the rootkit thing (even though I wasn't affected - Sony can still eat a bag of dicks over that one) but I was affected by how the totally fucked up both EQ and SWG. So no, I'm not buying any more Sony gear either. On the upside, I recently unlocked a new 'zone' called 'going outside' and honestly along with much higher frame rate and resolution, most of the mobs are even more interesting to interact with.
Of that, I assure you - in all cases, you are correct.
You're right - this is downright lunacy. This is tantamount to letting one of us make rules about 'going outside' or 'kissing girls'.
Actually 'then double it' is only for experienced developers.
... 1.2^10 = about 6, so 10 x (1.2^10) = roughly 60 days = 12 weeks = 3 months.
Newbie : 8x as long as estimated.
Seasoned Developer : 3x as long.
Elite Veteran : 2x as long.
Here's the rule I use when dealing with developer estimates (copied from a post almost a year ago) :
Time estimage guidelines:
New programmer fresh out of college: Take his estimate and multiply by 8x. Yes he could get it done in 1 day, assuming he got so cranked up on caffeine his eyes stopped blinking and he worked on that (and nothing else) for 24 hours straight. In the real world a newbie can dedicate about 2 real hours doing a particular task each day, the rest is spent coming up to speed on corporate coding standards and libraries, email, breaks, and not 'in the groove'. Also, you are expecting him to document it but he didn't account for that in his estimate - his estimate was only for time to code the actual lines of code.
Veteran programmer of average skill, single person project : multiply his estimate by 3x. A third of his day is spent hand-holding the newbie, and another third is spent hand-holding management. The other third is spent programming, but luckily he knows to pad the schedule some (not enough, but some.)
Veteran programmer of uber skill, single person project : multiply his estimate by 2x. This is as good as it gets. A uber veteran programmer knows to leave his email client closed and his door closed so he can stay in the zone. He knows to pad the schedule more than he really thinks he should. And it still takes him twice as long as he expected.
Multiple people working on the same project : increase the timeline by a factor of 1.2 per additional person. If two people ought to be able to do it in 10 days it will take 12. If 11 people (10 additional) ought to be able to do it in 10 days it will take
If I can get Sybase 12.5.x or Sybase 15 (the free ones for Linux) running on SLES 10 I will be all over this for a server.
Oh yea, and if anybody is wondering what the hell I am talking about - Sybase ASE 15 is free on Linux if you run a single CPU machine with other limitations (no more than 2G of physical memory allocated to the Sybase engine, and I think it limits the database size to 5G - but other than that no limits; you are even allowed to use it commercially last I checked.)
Ok SuperBanana - I have taken your wish seriously and I just wrote and passed a law that exempts the first $2,000,000 of an estate from any federal taxes.
The first $2M left behind to the family of a dead person will be tax free, and the federal government won't take a dime of it.
That ought to cover the total estate of any non-super-rich people you have ever known, giving their heirs 100% of every penny they ever earned - surely enough to cover Joe Q Public Sr's estate transfer to Jr (life savings too.)
Happy now?
Sincerely,
GWBush
(See also, Glonoinha's new Inheritance Tax Rules)
Quite a few of the responses here are focusing on a particular symptom (the panic attack during the exam) and overlooking the context of the issue (the entire semester.)
Perhaps it isn't that he is being too hard on himself, but that he isn't being hard enough on himself (but doing it constructively.)
In the military there is a saying : "Train hard, fight easy."
What this means is - if you can condition yourself via repeated very difficult exercises to be able to operate and function in those difficult situations, you will be able to function under pressure. If your training (studying) is even more difficult than the situation you will encounter when it counts (battle, or the exam) then your exam will be easier (less stress, less pressure, easier questions) than you have been experiencing during training (studying) and you will breeze through it.
When I was a competitive swimmer (years ago) the longest race I ever swam was 200 meters - on competition day I might even swim less than that for the entire day : a 100m and a 50m.
But every day during practice I would swim upwards of 3200m over the course of an hour. The coach would yell at us, push us harder, have us swim laps with only our legs (arms behind our backs), have us hold folding chairs over our heads in the deep end while we used only our legs to keep our head, arms, shoulders (and the chairs) out of the water for ten minutes at a time. After a month or two of high intensity training, race day was something we looked forward to - not only to compete, but because it was the easiest day of the swim season.
Same thing with military guys. The guys that are calm and can function reliably when someone is shooting at them - they are calm because the ONLY thing they have to deal with is someone shooting at them. During training someone was shooting at them, a gunny was screaming in their face, they were doing push-ups / sit-ups until they puked, they were carrying around telephone poles as a team through pounding surf in the ocean, they were living on three hours or less of sleep per night for weeks at a time, and they were doing it all while eating grubs and worms and whatever crap the can find or kill or catch with no way to prepare it (under nourished.) Compared to how they trained, fighting on the battlefield is a cake-walk.
Effective studying in college isn't reading a book by yourself in the quiet library until your eyes glaze over.
Effective studying is creating an environment where you are mentally challenged by forcing yourself to demonstrate an understanding - a MASTERY of the material. Sit round robin with a few other students from class and go through the chapter, subject by subject, and have each person be the 'target' - the others ask him a question on the topic and he has to answer it, demonstrate his knowledge on the subject. Do not allow anyone to pass (skip a question,) force him to read the material until he understands it and can explain it to the satisfaction to the others. Let the questions get harder and harder, and pile on the peer pressure. Let the only response to 'I don't know' be 'well motherfucker you better figure it out now with the book in your hands and people here to help you learn it, because it is going to be on the exam.' The harder you are on each other during those study sessions, the easier the exam will be - for two reasons : during the exam it is quiet time without your peers putting the pressure on you (just you and the pencil and the paper), and also because you will have already worked through the thought processes in order to come up with the correct answers, not only for the questions you had to answer but for all the questions all the others had to answer - in watching them get it right or wrong, you will have seen several different perspectives and approaches on the problem, learning not only the correct answer, but the correct approach to get the answer. In doing so, you will have developed a mastery of the material and it will be obvious when you exhibit that mastery
Actually they were selling the concept that education doesn't have to suck - that conceptually the government isn't incomprehensible, fundamentally math is both important and easy to learn, and that the English language has some fairly straightforward rules of grammar that, once understood and applied, elevate the speaker (writer) to the next level of communication.
It worked, too - you have to admit that the people that grew up watching those vid's have much better grammar than the young kids and their AOL IM / 1337 h4x0r speak.
All I have to say to that is ... Conjunction Junction, what's your function? (Hookin' up words and phrases and clauses...)
I have no idea what the hell they were selling, but whatever it was I probably bought a ton of it over my lifetime because I still love those commercials. Heck, I went out and bought a DVD with nothing more than those commercials on it. No actual content - just commercials.
Maybe some company needs to buy up the rights to those, go in by hand and do some product placement magic - I'd stop channel surfing if I hit one of those whether it had little twelve toes drinking a Pepsi or not.
Unless the Air Force doesn't have access to unbreakable encryption...
... but they were running Windows 98.
I hate to be the one to rain on your parade, it being all full of sunshine and rainbows and the belief that the Air Force has this mind bending array of high tech ultra-elite solutions (and the knowledge necessary to implement them)
The intersection of the two sets of people, set A being the people that have even the vaguest clue about security, and set B being the people that run Windows 98 - is pretty much null (aka 'the empty set'.)
Didn't Clinton also up the H1-B cap to like a quarter million a year, effectively destroying tech as a viable employment avenue for a million and a half Americans?
(Look it up - the answer is YES.)
D'oh. The unspoken but assumed point of that post was, of course, that SuSE 10.1 is build on the 2.6.16.xx kernel and I haven't had a single problem.
Honestly I am beginning to wonder if the latest KDE, Gnome, and kernel have had vmware drivers added to the base install in SuSE 10.1
I'm running SuSE 10.1 in a VMware 5.0 Workstation VM on WinXP Pro as the host.
It works flawlessly. Installed the first time without a hitch, and even without installing the VMware driver support it is working nicely with all my toys (xwindows at 1600x1200 on my lcd display, sound, networking, etc.) I don't know about ESX, but on workstation it works awesome (better than I expected.)
In essense, it's a great way to reduce your org to only dead wood.
Maybe this new guy was brought in to finish what Carly started.
Maybe the reason Lenovo is shunning Linux is that all the spyware they are bundling in the firmware only works if Windows is the operating system.
I was going to explain it but I haven't had enough caffeine - so I will simply Google / cut & paste.
One technical point about Hydrogen. It doesn't explode. It burns, certainly. Very hot, and with a dangerous, invisible flame. However, when hydrogen burns, it combines with oxygen to form water. You would combine 2 moles of H2 and 1 mole of O2 (6 moles of individual atoms) to get 2 moles of H2O - water vapor. Going from 3 moles to 1 mole of volume means that burning hydrogen IMplodes, not explodes.
It wasn't about the water vapor condensing into water (liquid) lowering the overall pressure - it was about going from three moles (volume) of gas (hydrogen and oxygen) to one mole of gas (water vapor).
That said - perhaps the heat generated by this reaction could somehow be harnessed to superheat a separate container of liquid water into steam, and that steam could be routed out the back of the rocket (as it expanded) as the propellent. Not sure that would be the best material to use, but it would be available.
It is times like this we have to ask ourselves - WWAD? (What would Asimov do?)
Whoops - shit. My bad.
I ran the 4D one on my Linux box as a Java applet.
I was wrong, mark your calendars.
Funny - I ran the Java applet version one on my SuSE Linux machine in Firefox. .NET framework pre-installed, I'm going to have to say 'no, it runs just fine with zero Microsoft software necessary.'
Unless the normal SuSE 10.1 distro comes with the
Holy fuck - that does it ... I'm going downtown and buying an Apple tomorrow.
I don't know which, maybe an Intel Mini, maybe an iPod - but something.
Good job Apple.
Everybody keeps going back to using water, cracking it via solar electricity into oxygen (gas, or cooled/compressed into a liquid) and hydrogen (again, as a gas, or (unlikely) as a liquid.)
Where's the actual rocket fuel here? Last I recall, oxygen makes a great fire enabler, but pure oxygen itself doesn't really burn - it makes fire possible, makes fires better - but there needs to be some sort of fuel to burn in the first place. And as for H2 - if memory serves me correctly hydrogen + oxygen + spark doesn't explode, it implodes. It is a neat trick for high-school chemistry students, but implosions aren't particularly useful for creating thrust.
Or store the fuel in a flexible bladder and as the fuel gets sucked out, the bladder shrinks - like those baby bottles that have a liner that collapses as the baby sucks out the milk. Just look at the bladder, see how full it is (use some sort of metrics and measurements, of course.)
Big Dig cost an estimated ~$15B, if you want to get closer to reality.
... Boston - the best government money can buy.
For a three and a half mile tunnel.
That is over $800,000 per FOOT of tunnel. Holy crap.
Talk about corruption and blatant theft