How about exercise being good for your feet. That's why I wear simple Chuck Taylors and not fancy shoes anymore. They force your feet to move more and so exercise your feet.
So, what is the solution? Go barefoot! Take off your shoes when inside and wear simple shoes that force your feet to flex like millions of years of evolution designed your feet to do.
I don't understand the mentality that leads people to believe that we need to replace several millions of years of evolution (the tanning mechanism) with a manmade product tested for a few decades. Sure, sunburns are bad for you, but if you are always in the sun, you will get tanned and not have to worry about the sun much. I work outside during the summer and get a lot of sun. My skin is pale but even the meager tan I get after a week is enough to protect me all summer.
I'm working on this too. I am going to a tech school and have never been good at making friends, so I joined a frat. I've gotten decent at talking to people now.
Firstly, it's alright to practice a few standard, interesting, or mildly amusing phrases in your mind. You know, general stuff that is applicable to most people. If have a feeling that most people learn these from the time they are kids, but geeks may have to practice a lot really fast.
Secondly, conversation entails a lot of improv. You may have a few sandard phrases you can say, but it is important to tailor those to the situation and people.
Thirdly, people say stupid things to continue a conversation. Sure, you could rationalize it in your head, but putting it out in the open by saying it allows other people to critique it. You need to understand that convsersation is partly about wasting time. People have boring lives in general, so don't worry too much about wasting time with minimally interesting stuff.
Fourth, people like to hear an interesting story. Indeed, computers is rarely an interesting subject for most people, but current news and your views on said news is pretty good. If you can respond in a story to the news that is good.
Fifth, drugs help a bit. Sure, you don't want to rely on alcohol to be social, but the fact that you are a little happier and a little loser encourages you to tell stuff you wouldn't usually say. Stoners (weed smokers) are very "chill" -- they are tolerant of wierd people and strange things. Besides, they play a lot of video games which you may be good at. I'm not advocating the use of drugs but merely telling the facts.
Sixth, be willing to try things out. Be impulsive. Be the first one to start a conversation and make friends. Invite others into your circle too and introduce them to each other. Remember that when you put random people in the room, they know nothing about each other either. So, you use some standard phrases and conversation starters to talk to people. Notice things about what they are doing and remember who you are talking to. I have trouble remembering faces, but you need to remember that stuff. If you can't, you can always make the excuse that you can't remember faces.
Lastly, remember that you are learning a game. Life is all just a big game with the goal of maximizing happiness in our puny insignificant lives;-)
The specifics of how Ford managed people are not important in this case since all we are debating are ludicrous work hours. As the auther stated, thousands of studies determined that industrial workers actually produce more when they work a 40 hour week (8 hr/day x 5 days) than when they work a 48 hour week (9 hr/day) or more. Why should the gaming industry be any different?
Now, as was repeatedly stated, EA games and other companies are in a/constant/ state of crunch, meaning that every worker is effectively being hired to work a 60+ hr work week. The author stated that such a plan for management is crazy since it is ineffective -- working people for 40 hr/week would be just as effective as long as previous studies in work where progress is more easily measured apply to jobs requiring intense thought. This seems likely, considering that working 80 hr/week means that half of your life is devoted to the company, about a third to sleep, and 1/6 of your life is devoted to yourself. This means that you can spend 3 hours per day for yourself, less travel to and from work and eating dinner, breakfast, and basic hygene. This results in no time even for reading Slashdot. At this point, life is pointless and the worker can't be happy.
Exactly. When people make coffee, it starts out as boiling water being shot through or dripped onto coffee grounds. Most people are smart enough to realize that this means the coffee beverage could be anywhere from room temperature to almost boiling.
Well, New Jersey Transit, which runs the commuter trains in NJ, heavily uses dollar coins of all kinds. While the ticket machines accept dollar bills as well, they don't make change in bills.
Don't bash the A-10. It can take serious damage before being downed. Once, an A-10 took a missile hit to the inner chord of a wing and flew home on wire control after the THREE HYDROLIC SYSTEMS failed. It can easily fly home after losing an engine and the pilot is protected by an armored "bathtub". While an A-10 may not be able to lose 35%, it can sure lose a lot.
Or you could just do what many digital cameras do -- use a speaker to make the noise! You could customize it to sound like any bike you wanted and pay only $5 per sound download.
It is illegal in the US for a phone line not to accept 911 calls, even if it has no service. However, I guess the alarm system still needs a to call out locally when there is an emergency.
Using an executable bit for memory pages, you have no executable problem. If you use a strict Harvard arch, then you lose the huge flexability that comes with using one memory. What if you run out of data memory but have huge amounts of code memory left? Someone will inevitably create a swapping module move memory from one type of memory to another, nullifying any benefit from a Harvard architecture. Modern processors do split their L1 cache into code and data anyway, already taking advantage of the extra speed that comes with the Harvard architecture.
If you were able to press your own CDs, I would think that they would last quite a long time if you didn't do something to them. After all, they are simply aluminum on a piece of plastic. However, writeable CDs have chemicals that react to a strong laser beam and most degrade over time.
This sounds funny, but it is absolutely true. It is like a giant distributed RAID and as long as two or more people want to keep the video, it will be there for a long time. If nobody wants the file, it is obviously not that important and probably shouldn't be saved anyway.
This would probably break the convention, but we should have covered foreign works under the rules of the convention and kept the old system in place for works created here. That way foreign works are protected and so are ours.
From TFA: "For us, the speed limit makes strange sense: Go faster than light, and you could return before you've left, become your own grandpa, or other perform other leaps of cosmic logic."
But its too easy to simply write programs that don't use the keys and don't care. What authors can do is encrypt their files by PGP or GPG and keep the private keys. But the public key is still transferable -- you just tar the file with the key. Even if it worked, it still has to be decrypted and can theoretically be intercepted.
Moreover, forcing every copyrighted work to be encrypted is like putting locks on every book. Very few books need it but any system of book distribution either becomes very complex or often worked around, making it ineffective anyway.
The problem is the antenna. I haven't take E&M yet (I will this semester) but I believe that electromagnetic waves follow the inverse square law, so an antenna 1 inch (or 2.54 cm) from your brain is going to be about 324 times more affective upon your noggin than one that is 1 1/2 (~.5 m) from you. Bluetooth doesn't go that far so it's probably not nearly as dangerous.
This is just foolishness. I'm 19 and while I don't talk that much on any phone, I do need a cell phone. I go to college and there isn't any one place that I will be at any point in time. If someone is trying to reach me, it would be very hard. Also, if I have an emergency or am trying to coordinate several people in different places, there is no other way to do it. You get many of the benefits of walkie-talkies and of a regular telephone.
Landlines are just as important in my opinion since if I want to call a place, business, or home, a landline is your sure bet to reach that particular organization. However, if you want to reach a person, it is much easier to call them by the cell phone that they carry most of the time than to estimate their schedual and predict which of three or four numbers you can reach them at.
Many people don't really need cell phones, and that's fine. But they really are useful devices.
It does make predictions, such as sparticles, or super-symmetric particles, but are currently out of our experimental reach. The energies required are very very high and we may not be able to prove them for much time. Other properties only are detectable if we approach the energy to probe to the Planck length, which we probably won't be able to do for centuries. However, nobody has yet proved it wrong in more normal situations.
Just look at the diseases that have become resistant to antibiotics. It is evolution in its most primal and basic state. We intoduce something into the bacteria's environment and most die. However, the ones that survive are the ones whose genetic mutations allow it to survive. This is why people are being encouraged to reduce antibiotic use. Unless you believe that God is creating new bacteria with similar properties to old ones but happen to be resistant to antibiotics, this is good evidence for evolution.
It's entirely possible that science is entirely incorrect, even though it describes how things work correctly. Newton described gravity as having a mysterious "gravitational force" towards objects. We know that it is totally wrong since it was accurate only most of the time. Einstein said it was because space was curved, which we have found is more accurate. But it may not be correct on galactic scales. Both of them are models of gravitation and are probably both wrong. But they are both useful.
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How about exercise being good for your feet. That's why I wear simple Chuck Taylors and not fancy shoes anymore. They force your feet to move more and so exercise your feet.
So, what is the solution? Go barefoot! Take off your shoes when inside and wear simple shoes that force your feet to flex like millions of years of evolution designed your feet to do.
I don't understand the mentality that leads people to believe that we need to replace several millions of years of evolution (the tanning mechanism) with a manmade product tested for a few decades. Sure, sunburns are bad for you, but if you are always in the sun, you will get tanned and not have to worry about the sun much. I work outside during the summer and get a lot of sun. My skin is pale but even the meager tan I get after a week is enough to protect me all summer.
I'm working on this too. I am going to a tech school and have never been good at making friends, so I joined a frat. I've gotten decent at talking to people now.
;-)
Firstly, it's alright to practice a few standard, interesting, or mildly amusing phrases in your mind. You know, general stuff that is applicable to most people. If have a feeling that most people learn these from the time they are kids, but geeks may have to practice a lot really fast.
Secondly, conversation entails a lot of improv. You may have a few sandard phrases you can say, but it is important to tailor those to the situation and people.
Thirdly, people say stupid things to continue a conversation. Sure, you could rationalize it in your head, but putting it out in the open by saying it allows other people to critique it. You need to understand that convsersation is partly about wasting time. People have boring lives in general, so don't worry too much about wasting time with minimally interesting stuff.
Fourth, people like to hear an interesting story. Indeed, computers is rarely an interesting subject for most people, but current news and your views on said news is pretty good. If you can respond in a story to the news that is good.
Fifth, drugs help a bit. Sure, you don't want to rely on alcohol to be social, but the fact that you are a little happier and a little loser encourages you to tell stuff you wouldn't usually say. Stoners (weed smokers) are very "chill" -- they are tolerant of wierd people and strange things. Besides, they play a lot of video games which you may be good at. I'm not advocating the use of drugs but merely telling the facts.
Sixth, be willing to try things out. Be impulsive. Be the first one to start a conversation and make friends. Invite others into your circle too and introduce them to each other. Remember that when you put random people in the room, they know nothing about each other either. So, you use some standard phrases and conversation starters to talk to people. Notice things about what they are doing and remember who you are talking to. I have trouble remembering faces, but you need to remember that stuff. If you can't, you can always make the excuse that you can't remember faces.
Lastly, remember that you are learning a game. Life is all just a big game with the goal of maximizing happiness in our puny insignificant lives
The specifics of how Ford managed people are not important in this case since all we are debating are ludicrous work hours. As the auther stated, thousands of studies determined that industrial workers actually produce more when they work a 40 hour week (8 hr/day x 5 days) than when they work a 48 hour week (9 hr/day) or more. Why should the gaming industry be any different?
/constant/ state of crunch, meaning that every worker is effectively being hired to work a 60+ hr work week. The author stated that such a plan for management is crazy since it is ineffective -- working people for 40 hr/week would be just as effective as long as previous studies in work where progress is more easily measured apply to jobs requiring intense thought. This seems likely, considering that working 80 hr/week means that half of your life is devoted to the company, about a third to sleep, and 1/6 of your life is devoted to yourself. This means that you can spend 3 hours per day for yourself, less travel to and from work and eating dinner, breakfast, and basic hygene. This results in no time even for reading Slashdot. At this point, life is pointless and the worker can't be happy.
Now, as was repeatedly stated, EA games and other companies are in a
Exactly. When people make coffee, it starts out as boiling water being shot through or dripped onto coffee grounds. Most people are smart enough to realize that this means the coffee beverage could be anywhere from room temperature to almost boiling.
Well, New Jersey Transit, which runs the commuter trains in NJ, heavily uses dollar coins of all kinds. While the ticket machines accept dollar bills as well, they don't make change in bills.
Don't bash the A-10. It can take serious damage before being downed. Once, an A-10 took a missile hit to the inner chord of a wing and flew home on wire control after the THREE HYDROLIC SYSTEMS failed. It can easily fly home after losing an engine and the pilot is protected by an armored "bathtub". While an A-10 may not be able to lose 35%, it can sure lose a lot.
Or you could just do what many digital cameras do -- use a speaker to make the noise! You could customize it to sound like any bike you wanted and pay only $5 per sound download.
It is illegal in the US for a phone line not to accept 911 calls, even if it has no service. However, I guess the alarm system still needs a to call out locally when there is an emergency.
Using an executable bit for memory pages, you have no executable problem. If you use a strict Harvard arch, then you lose the huge flexability that comes with using one memory. What if you run out of data memory but have huge amounts of code memory left? Someone will inevitably create a swapping module move memory from one type of memory to another, nullifying any benefit from a Harvard architecture. Modern processors do split their L1 cache into code and data anyway, already taking advantage of the extra speed that comes with the Harvard architecture.
If you were able to press your own CDs, I would think that they would last quite a long time if you didn't do something to them. After all, they are simply aluminum on a piece of plastic. However, writeable CDs have chemicals that react to a strong laser beam and most degrade over time.
This sounds funny, but it is absolutely true. It is like a giant distributed RAID and as long as two or more people want to keep the video, it will be there for a long time. If nobody wants the file, it is obviously not that important and probably shouldn't be saved anyway.
I actually have a few cans of Three Diamonds tuna.
"Manufactured for:
Mitsubishi International Corporation
P.O. Box 80037
San Diego, CA 92138-0037"
This would probably break the convention, but we should have covered foreign works under the rules of the convention and kept the old system in place for works created here. That way foreign works are protected and so are ours.
The most common word I've heard is condom in New Jersey, USA. I always thought that rubber was more a UK term. Good point, anyway.
From TFA: "For us, the speed limit makes strange sense: Go faster than light, and you could return before you've left, become your own grandpa, or other perform other leaps of cosmic logic."
Someone's been watching too much Futurama.
No. However, if some of your kids die due to low oxygen levels, it is.
Apparently class data can be accessed as if it was an SQL database. I think.
That's a joke, right? I'm sure you don't want to put Linus Torvalds in jail.
But its too easy to simply write programs that don't use the keys and don't care. What authors can do is encrypt their files by PGP or GPG and keep the private keys. But the public key is still transferable -- you just tar the file with the key. Even if it worked, it still has to be decrypted and can theoretically be intercepted.
Moreover, forcing every copyrighted work to be encrypted is like putting locks on every book. Very few books need it but any system of book distribution either becomes very complex or often worked around, making it ineffective anyway.
The problem is the antenna. I haven't take E&M yet (I will this semester) but I believe that electromagnetic waves follow the inverse square law, so an antenna 1 inch (or 2.54 cm) from your brain is going to be about 324 times more affective upon your noggin than one that is 1 1/2 (~ .5 m) from you. Bluetooth doesn't go that far so it's probably not nearly as dangerous.
This is just foolishness. I'm 19 and while I don't talk that much on any phone, I do need a cell phone. I go to college and there isn't any one place that I will be at any point in time. If someone is trying to reach me, it would be very hard. Also, if I have an emergency or am trying to coordinate several people in different places, there is no other way to do it. You get many of the benefits of walkie-talkies and of a regular telephone.
Landlines are just as important in my opinion since if I want to call a place, business, or home, a landline is your sure bet to reach that particular organization. However, if you want to reach a person, it is much easier to call them by the cell phone that they carry most of the time than to estimate their schedual and predict which of three or four numbers you can reach them at.
Many people don't really need cell phones, and that's fine. But they really are useful devices.
It does make predictions, such as sparticles, or super-symmetric particles, but are currently out of our experimental reach. The energies required are very very high and we may not be able to prove them for much time. Other properties only are detectable if we approach the energy to probe to the Planck length, which we probably won't be able to do for centuries. However, nobody has yet proved it wrong in more normal situations.
Just look at the diseases that have become resistant to antibiotics. It is evolution in its most primal and basic state. We intoduce something into the bacteria's environment and most die. However, the ones that survive are the ones whose genetic mutations allow it to survive. This is why people are being encouraged to reduce antibiotic use. Unless you believe that God is creating new bacteria with similar properties to old ones but happen to be resistant to antibiotics, this is good evidence for evolution.
It's entirely possible that science is entirely incorrect, even though it describes how things work correctly. Newton described gravity as having a mysterious "gravitational force" towards objects. We know that it is totally wrong since it was accurate only most of the time. Einstein said it was because space was curved, which we have found is more accurate. But it may not be correct on galactic scales. Both of them are models of gravitation and are probably both wrong. But they are both useful.