Wow, I'm going to have to Godwin this thread now. While the moderators might possibly one day agree on what belongs in a give thread, the probability of a troll or grammar nazi or other completely irrelevant post being chosen are ridiculously high. It would be like trying to pick which people killed in the death camps are actually Jewish. The error rate would create a signal to noise ratio beyond what the average human can figure out, while some statistical sampling could probably tell which thread this belongs too much better.
Avenue Q, an adult Sesame Street like puppet show, is something I would never have even heard of were it not for a user-made World of Warcraft video on youtube. I saw the WoW machinma and had to find out where the song behind it originated, thus found the Avenue Q video (also on the tube). From there, a quick Google to their site and I am now planning to go see the show live.
Just because some of it gets out does not always mean that we won't support what we like.
Actually, while I am not sure about Flight Simulator, I do know that X-Plane is certified for use in flight training by the FAA. Pretty much every pilot who is getting their license now is training on some kind of simulator. The US military has also used flight, tank, and other simulator programs since at least the mid 90s as part of their standard training.
Just pipe the output of the GCC to a random Barry White song selector. You know what the compile is doing and you can put the output to a good multitask use.
I have run into a similar problem, where I had a great idea for a beginning and ending but couldn't figure out how to link them. A friend of mine who writes frequently (fiction and non fiction) suggested something that helped me, so maybe you will find it useful.
Get a close friend (or friends) who is good with listening, or one who does good role playing. Find a campfire story type setting that you both enjoy, and either tell him the story or role play it with him. (Substitute her for him as appropriate) Don't think about it as your book waiting to be written, but just take it like any campfire story or simple role playing game, and have fun with it. Immediately afterwards, write down anything good, high points of the story, character lines that made you laugh, anything from it that caught your attention. Oh, and if he is a she, don't waste an opportunity just to write things down, priorities are priorities.
The basic idea is to put the concept into a different framework where it is disconnected from the writing and step back from the seriousness of it all. After all, elves, dwarves, scrolls of whatchamacallit, rings that rule, and much of the rest of fantasy and science fiction originally sounded like the drunk ramblings of someone at first.
Oh, and moderate consumption is fine, as long as the ability to read, write, and converse in some common language is retained.
You could even give the show a cool name, like "Andromeda", and have an unbeatable battleship instead of deflector solution of the week... but some time would have passed, so they now know the Federation as the Commonwealth, due to lost records or the like.
Also, the assumption that if 1 cigarette will cause health effect X to a child under 18, then N cigarettes will cause the same health effect to an adult is false correlation. There are many processes occurring in a growing child, from the initial growth of nervous tissue, to the rapid replication of cells from the stem cell forms, that are significantly reduced or even eliminated when the person reaches adulthood. Damage can be caused by a growing person smoking that is impossible to replicate in an adult.Likewise, cigarettes have a different effect on the systems of a grown adult that are not necessarily present in a child.
If you are going to use an equivalence class in your argument, you must make sure that for all cases related to the argument that the equivalence holds true.
You forgot to yell GO! at the end, no super powers trigger without the GO!
Vista Forever Everywhere Ultimate Platinum Edition, GO!
And we already have vendor lock in of the BIOS, although that situation is starting to change, I can't just pop an open source BIOS in my PC and expect it to work yet.
Seconded. I use the Wiki right now to look up references from other countries that I might not know about, read more on interesting subjects, and in general I enjoy following the trivial (according to Wiki standards anyway) links from the articles.
If Wikipedia wants to constantly delete, then shuffle the smaller articles to a Triviapedia. You might find some interesting statistics about what the people of the world (and not necessarily the Wiki) actually want to see.
My apologies, then, I misinterpreted your message. Perhaps in the context of your work, LaTeX is the right tool for the job.
My point, however, is still valid in the context of having the hammer and recommending it for every job. That attitude is very prevalent, and not limited to the Open Source world. I am a believer in the "right tool for the job, and sometimes there is more than one right tool" approach.
I think that an extension of your analogy would clarify my point:
I am a carpenter, a domain expert in my work, and I already know that I need a specific hammer to do a job right. When I go to the hardware store, and ask for that type of hammer, the salespeople suggest every manner of screwdriver, ratchet, and other tool, but no one can answer the question "where are the hammers". One of them does show me where I can get raw steel blocks, blocks of wood, and hand tools to make my own hammer. Being a carpenter, I could easily make the handle, and I could probably find a metalsmith who could forge the head. None of that, however, solves my immediate problem: I have a job with deadlines to meet, and I need a hammer. I do not have the time nor inclination to make my own, I do not want to attempt to drive a nail with a screwdriver.
From the standpoint of the schools, Linux is starting to become the tool for the job. Distributions like Edubuntu are fitting the role nicely, even though they might be a ball-peen when a claw hammer would do a bit better, they are at least a hammer. The claw hammer, in this case, comes with a clause that you can only use it to drive certain nails, and that limitation makes it unsuitable for the job. No one else makes the claw hammer necessary at the price they are willing to pay (one company makes a gold plated claw hammer with a pearl inlaid handle, but the cost is prohibitive at this time).
Ubuntu has the right idea. Build what the customers (that word has fallen out of vogue, I know) want. It is time to take a step back, look at who your customers are, and bring back the adage that rampant corporatism has driven from our minds: the customer is number one. If your customer is yourself, then by all means, do whatever you like with your hardware and software. If, however, you want others to use and find useful your tool, then you have to know who you are building it for and what they want. It does no good whatsoever to tell them what they want, you must listen.
This concludes my "What am I doing awake so early in the day" rant.
You're fired. I'll hire a technician who listens to the needs and desires of his users, and not to his own ego about "the ONE TRUE WAY".
This is an attitude that I personally find very annoying within the Open Source movement. While I realize that these are volunteers (and I am one of them) contributing to projects, there are some people out there who just cannot seem to grasp that I have neither the time nor the inclination to learn yet another language, for yet another software package, just to get my day to day work done.
For sake of comparison, approximately 50% of my work is in documenting system designs and technical annotations. Now, I have to read and understand C, C++, C#, VB, VBA, JavaScript, (X)HTML, CSS, programmer scribbles, and XML, among other sources, just to work up the docs. As it is, I keep a pocket reference handy for each of those languages. If I have to stop my work to look up how to do something like a complex table layout in a source language system just to get my work done, then I will stick with the tools that allow me to get my work done without lookups and references not related directly to that work.
The menus, options, dialogs, prompts, and other graphical goodies of a WYSIWYG editor are there so that I do not have to learn to program just to do my job.
Just because you prefer to use LaTeX to do your layouts does not make it the right tool for me, or from what I have seen, for most people in general business.
Well, this is pretty much how ray tracing works, by taking the photons and sucking them into the "light source", basically sucking the dark away from the scene to produce pretty pictures.
I would punch those holes, but were I to do that I would deprive my quantum alternate of that pleasure. I'm not quite sure, but I don't think I'm the evil twin, so for now I'll just settle for a good maniacal laugh while I tug my goatee.
I'll take the mod hit, I had to reply to your sig:
"A real geek doesn't treat any piece of technology like it's a religion. That disqualifies a whole slew of slashdoters."
I treat every piece of technology just like I treat a religion. I pick up a couple, tear them apart to see what makes them tick, keep the bits I like for my 'Master Plan', and toss out the junk. If it doesn't have anything useful, I just toss the whole thing.
In reference to #20, all of the answers are incorrect...
A) the speed at which sound travels This is a function of density of the medium conducting the sound, and not of the encoding or storage method used.
B) the quality of sound you can hear C) the range of frequencies you can hear While the quality of the sound that the mechanism can encode and reproduce may be higher, the physical and psychological capabilities of my ears are not affected by the encoding and storage techniques.
D) the loudness of sound which can be produced As loudness is a measure of the changes in pressure caused by the passing of the sound wave, this is a function of the speaker or other device producing the sound wave. While the dynamic range (the difference between the loudest and softest sound captured) can be encoded better in some formats, the actual peak loudness (as measured for example in dB) represents the speaker's ability to induce vibrations in the medium.
The function of management (in the win-win scenario) is to create a functional synergy between the customer and the goal driven team. By shooting ahead of the duck based on big picture methodology, the effective management candidate produces a value added environment with a high trust factor for both the team and the customer. Connectile dysfunction within the process lead to less than optimal progress, and can cause voodoo statistics to obfuscate the perfromance metrics.
Just a thought experiment, but what about the following for instant transmission:
1) Create and capture an entangled electron pair 2) Transport the two halves of the pair arbitrarily far apart 3) At a predetermined time, fire both electrons simultaneously in the classic double slit experiment (conducting the double slit at both ends of the transmission) 4) At one end, measure (a 1) or do not measure (a 0) the electron and thus collapse, or do not collapse the wave function of both (due to entanglement) 5) At the other end, read the pattern on the final detector, where an interference patters means that the electron was not measured, thus a 0, or the lack of an interference pattern is a 1 indicating that the remote electron was measured 6) Rinse, repeat 7) ??? 8) Profit
While the state (spin, position, etc) of the electron would not be controlled, the state of the wave function as collapsed or uncollapsed is controllable, by the act of measurment.
Heck, I have five computers here that all have two network cards each. The top cards (5) all share one IP address based on load balancing information communicated on the private network using the bottom cards.
So from the perspective of the world, I have one and only one outside facing IP address. And these are not behind a NAT, just routed through a firewall.
I'm sure there are plenty of other similar setups out there.
So many comments all saying pretty much the same thing: let that which does not matter truly go.
My wife and I take turns picking movies. So some weeks she has two and I get one, other weeks I get two and her one, and some weeks we both watch the same movies. It really isn't worth even worrying about.
For computers, we made a similar deal. In exchange for building one to do exactly what she wanted, I got to also build one to my specs. Simple, no worries solution.
Toilet seat in the house stays down, I learned to sit to do what I need a long time ago. Once again, nothing worth worrying about.
Any relationship where such little things are the center of an argument simply has too much ego on both sides. Grow up.
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Wow, I'm going to have to Godwin this thread now. While the moderators might possibly one day agree on what belongs in a give thread, the probability of a troll or grammar nazi or other completely irrelevant post being chosen are ridiculously high. It would be like trying to pick which people killed in the death camps are actually Jewish. The error rate would create a signal to noise ratio beyond what the average human can figure out, while some statistical sampling could probably tell which thread this belongs too much better.
Now which thread was I responding to again?
Avenue Q, an adult Sesame Street like puppet show, is something I would never have even heard of were it not for a user-made World of Warcraft video on youtube. I saw the WoW machinma and had to find out where the song behind it originated, thus found the Avenue Q video (also on the tube). From there, a quick Google to their site and I am now planning to go see the show live.
Just because some of it gets out does not always mean that we won't support what we like.
You mean my FPS will behave like World of Warcraft now? Wonderful!
AAA - Another Asshole Americanism
AAB - Another Asshole Britianism
(It's a joke, laugh)
Has anyone noticed that the two symbol/alphanumeric lines break down very nicely into two MAC addresses:
FO-BE-58-F2-FD-63
and
6C-79-D2-E4-93-E6
While the OUI does not match anything in the IEEE listings, with user configurable MAC addresses those are still valid.
Although it is also possible that they encode for some other form of address...
Whenever I write a letter I always include a return address.
Actually, while I am not sure about Flight Simulator, I do know that X-Plane is certified for use in flight training by the FAA. Pretty much every pilot who is getting their license now is training on some kind of simulator. The US military has also used flight, tank, and other simulator programs since at least the mid 90s as part of their standard training.
Just pipe the output of the GCC to a random Barry White song selector. You know what the compile is doing and you can put the output to a good multitask use.
I have run into a similar problem, where I had a great idea for a beginning and ending but couldn't figure out how to link them. A friend of mine who writes frequently (fiction and non fiction) suggested something that helped me, so maybe you will find it useful.
Get a close friend (or friends) who is good with listening, or one who does good role playing. Find a campfire story type setting that you both enjoy, and either tell him the story or role play it with him. (Substitute her for him as appropriate) Don't think about it as your book waiting to be written, but just take it like any campfire story or simple role playing game, and have fun with it. Immediately afterwards, write down anything good, high points of the story, character lines that made you laugh, anything from it that caught your attention. Oh, and if he is a she, don't waste an opportunity just to write things down, priorities are priorities.
The basic idea is to put the concept into a different framework where it is disconnected from the writing and step back from the seriousness of it all. After all, elves, dwarves, scrolls of whatchamacallit, rings that rule, and much of the rest of fantasy and science fiction originally sounded like the drunk ramblings of someone at first.
Oh, and moderate consumption is fine, as long as the ability to read, write, and converse in some common language is retained.
You could even give the show a cool name, like "Andromeda", and have an unbeatable battleship instead of deflector solution of the week... but some time would have passed, so they now know the Federation as the Commonwealth, due to lost records or the like.
Also, the assumption that if 1 cigarette will cause health effect X to a child under 18, then N cigarettes will cause the same health effect to an adult is false correlation. There are many processes occurring in a growing child, from the initial growth of nervous tissue, to the rapid replication of cells from the stem cell forms, that are significantly reduced or even eliminated when the person reaches adulthood. Damage can be caused by a growing person smoking that is impossible to replicate in an adult.Likewise, cigarettes have a different effect on the systems of a grown adult that are not necessarily present in a child.
If you are going to use an equivalence class in your argument, you must make sure that for all cases related to the argument that the equivalence holds true.
You forgot to yell GO! at the end, no super powers trigger without the GO!
Vista Forever Everywhere Ultimate Platinum Edition, GO!
And we already have vendor lock in of the BIOS, although that situation is starting to change, I can't just pop an open source BIOS in my PC and expect it to work yet.
Seconded. I use the Wiki right now to look up references from other countries that I might not know about, read more on interesting subjects, and in general I enjoy following the trivial (according to Wiki standards anyway) links from the articles.
If Wikipedia wants to constantly delete, then shuffle the smaller articles to a Triviapedia. You might find some interesting statistics about what the people of the world (and not necessarily the Wiki) actually want to see.
My apologies, then, I misinterpreted your message. Perhaps in the context of your work, LaTeX is the right tool for the job.
My point, however, is still valid in the context of having the hammer and recommending it for every job. That attitude is very prevalent, and not limited to the Open Source world. I am a believer in the "right tool for the job, and sometimes there is more than one right tool" approach.
I think that an extension of your analogy would clarify my point:
I am a carpenter, a domain expert in my work, and I already know that I need a specific hammer to do a job right. When I go to the hardware store, and ask for that type of hammer, the salespeople suggest every manner of screwdriver, ratchet, and other tool, but no one can answer the question "where are the hammers". One of them does show me where I can get raw steel blocks, blocks of wood, and hand tools to make my own hammer. Being a carpenter, I could easily make the handle, and I could probably find a metalsmith who could forge the head. None of that, however, solves my immediate problem: I have a job with deadlines to meet, and I need a hammer. I do not have the time nor inclination to make my own, I do not want to attempt to drive a nail with a screwdriver.
From the standpoint of the schools, Linux is starting to become the tool for the job. Distributions like Edubuntu are fitting the role nicely, even though they might be a ball-peen when a claw hammer would do a bit better, they are at least a hammer. The claw hammer, in this case, comes with a clause that you can only use it to drive certain nails, and that limitation makes it unsuitable for the job. No one else makes the claw hammer necessary at the price they are willing to pay (one company makes a gold plated claw hammer with a pearl inlaid handle, but the cost is prohibitive at this time).
Ubuntu has the right idea. Build what the customers (that word has fallen out of vogue, I know) want. It is time to take a step back, look at who your customers are, and bring back the adage that rampant corporatism has driven from our minds: the customer is number one. If your customer is yourself, then by all means, do whatever you like with your hardware and software. If, however, you want others to use and find useful your tool, then you have to know who you are building it for and what they want. It does no good whatsoever to tell them what they want, you must listen.
This concludes my "What am I doing awake so early in the day" rant.
You're fired. I'll hire a technician who listens to the needs and desires of his users, and not to his own ego about "the ONE TRUE WAY".
This is an attitude that I personally find very annoying within the Open Source movement. While I realize that these are volunteers (and I am one of them) contributing to projects, there are some people out there who just cannot seem to grasp that I have neither the time nor the inclination to learn yet another language, for yet another software package, just to get my day to day work done.
For sake of comparison, approximately 50% of my work is in documenting system designs and technical annotations. Now, I have to read and understand C, C++, C#, VB, VBA, JavaScript, (X)HTML, CSS, programmer scribbles, and XML, among other sources, just to work up the docs. As it is, I keep a pocket reference handy for each of those languages. If I have to stop my work to look up how to do something like a complex table layout in a source language system just to get my work done, then I will stick with the tools that allow me to get my work done without lookups and references not related directly to that work.
The menus, options, dialogs, prompts, and other graphical goodies of a WYSIWYG editor are there so that I do not have to learn to program just to do my job.
Just because you prefer to use LaTeX to do your layouts does not make it the right tool for me, or from what I have seen, for most people in general business.
Well, this is pretty much how ray tracing works, by taking the photons and sucking them into the "light source", basically sucking the dark away from the scene to produce pretty pictures.
I would punch those holes, but were I to do that I would deprive my quantum alternate of that pleasure. I'm not quite sure, but I don't think I'm the evil twin, so for now I'll just settle for a good maniacal laugh while I tug my goatee.
I'll take the mod hit, I had to reply to your sig:
"A real geek doesn't treat any piece of technology like it's a religion. That disqualifies a whole slew of slashdoters."
I treat every piece of technology just like I treat a religion. I pick up a couple, tear them apart to see what makes them tick, keep the bits I like for my 'Master Plan', and toss out the junk. If it doesn't have anything useful, I just toss the whole thing.
In reference to #20, all of the answers are incorrect...
A) the speed at which sound travels
This is a function of density of the medium conducting the sound, and not of the encoding or storage method used.
B) the quality of sound you can hear
C) the range of frequencies you can hear
While the quality of the sound that the mechanism can encode and reproduce may be higher, the physical and psychological capabilities of my ears are not affected by the encoding and storage techniques.
D) the loudness of sound which can be produced
As loudness is a measure of the changes in pressure caused by the passing of the sound wave, this is a function of the speaker or other device producing the sound wave. While the dynamic range (the difference between the loudest and softest sound captured) can be encoded better in some formats, the actual peak loudness (as measured for example in dB) represents the speaker's ability to induce vibrations in the medium.
The function of management (in the win-win scenario) is to create a functional synergy between the customer and the goal driven team. By shooting ahead of the duck based on big picture methodology, the effective management candidate produces a value added environment with a high trust factor for both the team and the customer. Connectile dysfunction within the process lead to less than optimal progress, and can cause voodoo statistics to obfuscate the perfromance metrics.
This I attribute to the proximity of the engine coils.
Just a thought experiment, but what about the following for instant transmission:
1) Create and capture an entangled electron pair
2) Transport the two halves of the pair arbitrarily far apart
3) At a predetermined time, fire both electrons simultaneously in the classic double slit experiment (conducting the double slit at both ends of the transmission)
4) At one end, measure (a 1) or do not measure (a 0) the electron and thus collapse, or do not collapse the wave function of both (due to entanglement)
5) At the other end, read the pattern on the final detector, where an interference patters means that the electron was not measured, thus a 0, or the lack of an interference pattern is a 1 indicating that the remote electron was measured
6) Rinse, repeat
7) ???
8) Profit
While the state (spin, position, etc) of the electron would not be controlled, the state of the wave function as collapsed or uncollapsed is controllable, by the act of measurment.
Divorced, none of them, and just about anyone, in that order. Any other questions?
Heck, I have five computers here that all have two network cards each. The top cards (5) all share one IP address based on load balancing information communicated on the private network using the bottom cards.
So from the perspective of the world, I have one and only one outside facing IP address. And these are not behind a NAT, just routed through a firewall.
I'm sure there are plenty of other similar setups out there.
So many comments all saying pretty much the same thing: let that which does not matter truly go.
My wife and I take turns picking movies. So some weeks she has two and I get one, other weeks I get two and her one, and some weeks we both watch the same movies. It really isn't worth even worrying about.
For computers, we made a similar deal. In exchange for building one to do exactly what she wanted, I got to also build one to my specs. Simple, no worries solution.
Toilet seat in the house stays down, I learned to sit to do what I need a long time ago. Once again, nothing worth worrying about.
Any relationship where such little things are the center of an argument simply has too much ego on both sides. Grow up.
Translation: I have a cure for both of you, and I promise it won't hurt... much!