Stances like this are why he will lose the election here. I am sure that Republicans like Jim Thompson are very much beside themselves about it actually. They can look at this as illustrating how Illinoisans want more moderate Republicans and Keyes' royal trouncing will help shift the Republican agenda in IL back to where it can be palatable to the majority again. Too bad for the RNC which was so dead set on a candidate like Keyes that they forgot to actually rally behind one that the majority would accept...
Well, at least the US State dept. puts the number at 84 thermonuclear warheads on Jericho missiles. Most observers agree that Israel is indeed a nuclear power even though Israel has neither denied or confirmed the claim. Perez did say that Israel, "built a nuclear option, not in order to have a Hiroshima but an Oslo." Do a search on "Mordechai Vanunu", "Dimona", and/or "Negev" if you need more evidence.
Some observers also think that South Africa conducted a nuclear test in the Indian Ocean in 1979, though this is very often disputed.
Poland has something like this too
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The last time I was in Warsaw there was something like an info button on the remote. I pressed it and I could 'change channels' to different pages of text. One page was a character graphics map of Poland with the weather forecast! I kid you not, there were characters on the map indicating clouds and rain too. It was like a flashback to the good old days of ANSI animation on the local BBS.
favor eliminating the possibility of winner-take-all, and setting up a system where each House vote is determined by popular vote within that district -- states still get to draw the district lines per census
Do you really want the bulk of the electoral college votes to be determined by Congressional districts? Think about it, the Congressional districts are drawn-up to virtually guarantee one party to dominate every ten years. State lines are more difficult to move.
I think what you really want is simply a proportional system where the electoral votes are decided based on the proportion of the popular vote which went to each ticket. Now that might be what you want, personally I like the reasons you listed for the electoral college, so I would not tinker with it unless the voting system would be fundamentally changed to boot. The whole winner-takes-all approach would need to be approached at a different level.
Also look at your approach from the power of the state as well. Now instead of there being a sizable chunk of electoral votes to go after in a contested state, suddenly there are only those few contested congressional districts.
Are you really that blind to what we want!?
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Look I have a wife and two kids. At this point whenever one of these mandatory team/tradition deals happens I just leave and go home. I have NEVER suffered any consequences from adopting this attitude, my job is programing after-all not coffee and cookie time. Maybe if I was at all interested in climbing the ladder or whatever I would pay more attention to bull like this, but personally there is nothing more gratifying than getting home early, finding that the kids are still napping, being alone with my wife for a little bit to unwind, and then being there to play with the kids right when they wake-up. I don't care how fun the tradition is, if you think I am going to go out for bowling with the team instead of this, forget it I am going home. I would not get any work done anyway.
I had it all before. The Hawaiian shirt day, the company picnic, the baseball games, the ping-pong, the cookie time, the beer hour, pizza night, hazing of new employees, bowling, arcades. In the beginning I put-up with it all thinking it would somehow look bad if I did not take part, but it really did not matter. I even was a vegetarian and ate raw beef as part of prospective employee hazing! Then I wisend-up.
If you want to build morale and you cannot provide interesting projects or decent raises how about this for a suggestion. Rather than having everybody get together for for cookie and coffee time, just get a coffee-maker for the office and stock it with free coffee. Once a week put-out cookies near the new coffee-maker. That is a nice perk, if we want coffee or cookies we can go get some whenever we feel like. Remember that the majority of us were the quiet kids in the back of the room in school. We are still like that, we are quiet and don't care much for being forced to be social. We would rather spend that time doing what we enjoy more in our lives.
I completely forgot about the lemon/lime confusion. The same thing happened between my wife and I as well. There is possibly a very straightforward explanation to this though completely not related to color perception. I too thought was just an inaccurate teacher but your having the same experience made me wonder.
We now live in the United States but my wife was taught English as a foreign language in Poland and the English that she was taught was British English. Once in a grocery store she called the larger yellow citrus fruits limes and I told her that they were in fact lemons. She looked at the sign that said lemons and protested remembering being taught that these were limes. When we got home she pulled-out her English textbooks and in fact it described the lime as yellow. I thought this was a mistake just like you but now I think that this is just one of those chips/french fries, tyre/tire, bonnet/hood sorts of differences between British English and USA English.
I read that and I was really surprised. I am a Polish speaker/reader and so is my wife. I left Poland at the age of four but my wife only did so four years ago. In fact to become competent in Polish I took two quarters of Polish at Uni. The other students were Russian/Slavic and linguistics concentrators. It was a very bizarre way of learning Polish I suppose, but before that I felt very inadequate about being illiterate and sounding like a four year old whenever I spoke Polish.
So what I know is that in Polish there are also two words for blue: niebieski and blekitni. (Okay so I had to strip-off the accents because slashcode did not like them.) They are light-blue and dark-blue respectively. (Really niebieski is related to the word for sky so you might think of this word as sky-blue, I do and that is what I meant earlier about learning Polish from a linguist probably was different from a native Polish speakers experience.)
Now you might think this is simple, well not really. Here is a translation of what happens in practice with some regularity. My wife says, "Bring me the blue one," where blue is the word for either light-blue or dark-blue depending on the color of the object. I oblige but then hear a response of, "No I said the blue one not the green one." Bizarre because notice I wrote blue and green. It is not like she said light-blue and I brought the dark-blue widget. Sometimes she claims I brought the purple thing instead. These exchanges are entirely in Polish because this what we speak predominantly at home.
Okay now I am not color-blind. For my work I need to pass a test every two years and in the report I always pass all of the tests, even those for which a certain percentage of people that are not typically considered color-blind would not pass. I can clearly distinguish between a wide spectrum of colors.
After a while of this my mother noticed it once so we did a little test with the family. My mother, father, uncle, aunt, and grandmother were all part of it. All of them had spent the majority of their lives in Poland and almost without fail they would agree with the colors that my wife gave to objects. Then we repeated the test with my brother and his girlfriend who except for a vacation had not spent any time in Poland. They agreed with me the majority of the time.
Now this test was not scientific in any way and it did involve alcohol because it happened during a family get-together, but I still think that native Polish speakers vs English speakers think of colors as different because of their languages. What I mean is that there are many shades of colors that are sort of between green and blue and others that are between green and purple and given a proper ambiguous color such as this Polish speakers will tend to identify it differently than English speakers.
So what I am trying to say after all of this is that the example of the Russian language having two words for blue is sort of a red herring. It is irrelevant to the real issues. In fact given two people that are not color blind, one a Russian and one an English speaker, they should not have any extra difficulty in being able to distinguish between color chips as being different or not. What I am saying is that they will think of the same color chip as a different color in their minds. Now this is subtle, and I tend to agree with the parent poster that it is a special case, but definitely an example of how language influences understanding and meaning. Here is a final true story to illustrate this idea.
My wife's favorite color is light-blue. Once I bought her a gift that was a light blue dress. When she got it she said that the dress was nice, but that, "Don't you know by now that I do not like the way I look in green?" Think about intend and effect in that example and you will see what I mean about language being important.
No, that was the first 150 shares. The first trade was 100 shares at just shy of 136$ and the second 50 at just shy of 141$. Also amusingly the first bid was 55$ and the first ask 9000$! (I seriously have trouble believing that ask.) The volume is something like 15mil at this point, so you really should discount those first two trades, the market was not made at that point yet. But yes, it is trading above 95$ so far.
Philco is an undead company, driven out of business long ago and its name owned by one of the Asian contract manufactures. The same is true of the Sylvania, KLH, and Koss "brand names" which I have at home. When I bought the Koss stereo it was shortly after this happened. I should have realized that something was up when the price was so low. When I took it home and noticed there was no ground strip on the receiver I was very disappointed. I was young and naive back then. But now-a-days much of the once high-end equipment is made by the contract manufactures and it is all the same steaming pile anyways.
Yes I remember Don Crabb, and quite fondly. When I was a poor undergrad, he would always give me free software and books ( sometimes from press junkets for his articles) that I would not be able to afford otherwise. After the fiasco that was the AI dept at the UofC he was able to finagle some graduate math courses I had taken into CS requirements that let me graduate in four years so that I still had federal aid. He passed away after I graduated, but I know he was working on a script for a movie at the time. Does anyone know whatever happened to that?
From your post it looks too bad to me that you only took the Hypercard classes. Really you would have been much better off taking the introductory Scheme, C++, and Java classes. There would have been much less patronizing and heck, by the end of the year you would have written your own Scheme interpreter, how about that for understanding how things work. And that definitely would have allowed your taking of OS, hardware, networking, compiler, and theory courses latter that would have opened even more doors to understanding the ins and out of how computing works.
The Hypercard classes were truly geared towards humanities concentrators. It was not meant to be too in depth. I am convinced that had you gone the CS route in the department you would have not encountered any patronizing from excellent professors such as Stuart Kurtz and Lazlo Babai. At least I did not see any of that from those two in particular towards the females in their classes. But count yourself lucky, you got a true liberal arts education at the UofC, one that expanded your abilities to learn and question on your own, and it looks like that has served you well to ends that you enjoy. Personally I was never taught how to use most of the particular tools I use today in my professional life on a day to day basis, that is the idea behind a true CS education.
I read that one of the aspects of this contest is that the source code for all of the entries will be made available on the uDevGames site. I cannot find it anywhere for past entries. I did not try too hard, but I did poke around for a little bit. I did look in about a year ago also and came-up empty. Also I could not find the binaries to the entries then either. This was a real issue because some of the entries were not available anywhere else on the net. The excuse I heard was that the uDevGames site was broken into and that the source and binaries would reappear after the mess was cleaned-up, but it is now more than a year later and I still cannot find the files. Where do I find the binaries and source code?
Yes by far the favored location of the SSC site for physicists that wanted it to happen was near Fermilab but that was not the case with a very vocal portion of the tri-cities residents. This was ammunition for those politicians that wanted it in Texas.
In 1993 both houses of Congress were Republican and in addition to making an example of some expensive project to show fiscal conservatism, there were political motivations for canceling the SSC partially due to the brutal political circus that was the site selection process and the revenge the losing side wished to exact. Bill Clinton simply did not do anything to save the SSC because it was seen as a good step towards getting the budget under control.
I am a Fermilab employee and have lived in the area for a quarter of a century. This is the most accurate recap I have ever read on the subject. It is better even than anything Drasko or Leon ever wrote. I would have added more details, but that would have have been at the cost of brevity which I liked.
People should MOD the parent post up as insightful.
In old TVs there was no power supply. Just three to five tubes (I am talking vacuum tubes here) hooked-up in series where they would total 117V. This was true of old radios too, particularly 'three-way' radios (powered by AC, batteries, and 117V DC). In this case you could consider the whole of the TV set to be one huge power supply from the standpoint of servicing. In fact on those sets the entire outside was make of insulator (wood and particle board). Unlike modern sets where you can open them, and there is a power supply that you can remove and replace, the situation with the old sets was very different. That was the reason, you open up an old set, and it was a high-voltage affair. Today even though the internals of the power supply are exposed and there are hugh capacitors exposed, there is an honest to goodness power supply that can simply be replaced. If you did not know what you were doing with the old sets you were a danger to yourself and to the people and property for which you had performed the service. Think fire or think if you wired the power wrong, that third prong isn't ground any more then...
I started reading your post and started thinking, "Another annoying young kid talking about driving fast and how good a drivers he is," but I was pleasantly taken a back. Yeah I am a father of two, soon to be three. I drive conservatively. But I could not agree with you more. Most of the time obeying the traffic laws is what to do, but on very rare occasions situations like yours do turn-up. I had a long dry spell of no incidents with the big rigs, then just last week I had two in one day! One was an oncoming truck zooming past a red light while I was turning. I just braked and ceded the right of way and don't think I broke any traffic laws. The other one was an inattentive truck driver that did not notice a light that just turned red. I was stopped at it and I noticed the truck not stopping behind me. I blew that red light hoping to get by the cars on either side before they got into the intersection. and sped out of the way. To add another moving violation, my tires squealed. If there was some automated system for catching people that go through red lights, I would have been nabbed, but considering the fact that I drive a little hatchback and had an eighteen-wheeler behind me capable of running me over and pushing me into the cars that would be soon coming from the drivers side, I think I acted prudently. That is after the fact of course, back then it was all adrenaline and a flight response...
And yes I too have sped to avoid a truck merging into my lane on the expressway. I remember the sound of 7000 RPM and hope I never have to hear that again.
In much of Europe, you have to go through the classes and pass a very difficult driving test. The thing is that this is abused, and the testers and instructors will mark you down for things you do not actually do but that are also entirely subjective such as jerky driving which is enough to have you failed. So unless you personally know someone in the police you need to give the requisite bribe. Poland is particularly notorious, but a German I know recounts the story of how the tester opened the glove box and waited. She did not put any money in, and was failed immediately. Her violation was that she did not look back before putting the car out of neutral. She did not even get a chance to put the car into gear, just failed on the spot. So if you thought the IL license for bribes scandal was something, you have not seen how Europe doe it better.
Yes I know it is bad form to reply to my own post, but I just ran style on my raw sent mail. Here are the scores:
Kincaid: 169.7 ARI: 221.8 Coleman-Liau: 12.2 Flesch Index: -335.3 Fog Index: 177.5 1. WSFT Index: 72.9 Wheeler-Smith Index: 1.0 = below school year 5 Lix: 441.9 = higher than school year 11 SMOG-Grading: 100716.3
This is with all of the MIME encoded attachments, headers, lines beginning with the '>' character, and whatnot. Notice that these results show both "below school year 5" AND "higher than school year 11"! Sure I believe in using style, don't you. And if you do, I have a very nice bridge I am interested in selling to you my friend...
I have a hunch that online writing does not reflect the style of say college writing. Also there are many abbreviations, lists, and some bad punctuation used commonly. (Such as...) So I filtered all of the email I sent in over the last two years through style. Now personally I have a BA in math and a BS in CompSci and I work for a DOE lab. I would say that a large portion of my messages are technical. Unfortuantely, a large portion of them have excerpts from C, C++, python, assembler, and matlab code which I have a hunch style does not approve of. I see these results:
readability grades: Kincaid: 6.3 ARI: 6.4 Coleman-Liau: 8.1 Flesch Index: 80.8 Fog Index: 9.3 1. WSFT Index: 2.0 Wheeler-Smith Index: 0.1 = below school year 5 Lix: 17.5 = below school year 5 SMOG-Grading: 7075.4 ent 129
I used some simple sed and awk scripts to filter my emails in a crude way to get as much of the paragraphs I actually wrote and to strip away all of the rest. I removed email headers, tried to only include the first part of multiparts, and avoided all attachments. I also replaced all email address and urls with the word 'address'. Finally I attempted to splice-out all forwarded messages and copies of what others had written. I expect that this script was not perfect, but it seemed close enough:
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The lameness filter is preventing me from posting the scripts, and I could not get around it by pasting many copies of the lameness filter message here. Interestingly, I got to a page that seemed to have a form on it to add and remove active discussions. Interesting indeed:)
A scammer tried to get me today to send him $4000. The first email I got was a reply to a classified I placed for a used car I am selling. It was odd to say the least, looked like a template email with a "(CAR)" search and replaced. (Yes just like that with parens and ALL CAPS of course) Did not make much sense and the fact that the time was GMT+8 and I am selling the car in a time zone GMT-7 was another give-away. Anyway I kept stringing him along making it look like I was incredibly stupid and I finally got him to send me this:
THANKS FOR THE EMAIL ME AM OK WITH U THIS IS THE INFORMATION FOR THE SHIPPING
COMPANY FUNDS THE NAME AND ADDRESS IS HERE...
COLE JOHN
23 MARYLAND ROAD
MARYLAND
LAGOS STATE
NIGERIA
23401
SO GET BACK TO WITH THE INFORMATION FOR THE FUNDS TODAY...
Oh yeah! He has NO info on me. Now what do I do? Any suggestions? Should I send a tip to the FBI or file a complaint with the IFCC? Anyone have any suggestions of what I could do to dupe this con?
Well, what the hey. If anyone in the Chicagoland area wants to buy '93 Mazda MPV with 95K miles, check-out this ad or email me. Maybe at least something good like my selling the car will come-out of all of this, since no law agency will care about this most likely:(
This mmap graph is the only part of the whole benchmark suite where FreeBSD did not perform top notch. If the FreeBSD people fix this one dark spot, they will share the top space with Linux 2.6.
Also if you notice the The socket benchmark, FreeBSD was optimized for when a process allocates in excess of 3500 sockets. Also in Measuring HTTP request latency you can see that there is optimization for when there have been in excess of 4000 requests. These types of clever optimizations are what sets FreeBSD apart.
Also keep in mind that absolute magnitude is not what is really important in these test results. The idea is that if your software scales well, you just get enough hardware to handle what you expect as worst case. The nice thing is that FreeBSD has some optimizations that are directed for scaling even better under some particular high load cases.
I would not say from these tests that FreeBSD performed much worse than Linux. In fact mmap syscalls are not actually used much except for mapping in dynamic libraries on many server type loads.
I really could swear that when my father bought a 33 MHz 486DX in 1991, my friend had a 20 MHz 486SX. He also told me it was a step-up from the 16 MHz version. Am I remembering this correctly? I really believe that the 486 was available at 16, 20, 25, 33, and 50 MHz in DX form by the end of 1991 at the latest. Did Intel only introduce the 16 and 20 MHz parts after the 25 and 33 MHz parts? I remember how amazing that behemoth 486DX 'full tower' my dad had for his drafting business felt back then. It had a whopping 128K of external cache in little SRAM chips on the motherboard too!
I saw some of the other posts and I knew that there were people in the early Church called Gnostics that thought that there was a road of secret knowledge to understanding God and ultimate salvation or something. (Don't ask, nine years of religious educations...) It would make sense that an a-gnostic would be the opposite in some way. I was pleasantly surprised when I went to verify that with a web search. Check out the Word History for agnostic.
Word History: An agnostic does not deny the existence of God and heaven but holds that one cannot know for certain whether or not they exist. The term agnostic was fittingly coined by the 19th-century British scientist Thomas H. Huxley, who believed that only material phenomena were objects of exact knowledge. He made up the word from the prefix a-, meaning "without, not," as in amoral, and the noun Gnostic. Gnostic is related to the Greek word gnosis, "knowledge," which was used by early Christian writers to mean "higher, esoteric knowledge of spiritual things" hence, Gnostic referred to those with such knowledge. In coining the term agnostic, Huxley was considering as "Gnostics" a group of his fellow intellectuals"-ists," as he called them - who had eagerly embraced various doctrines or theories that explained the world to their satisfaction. Because he was a "man without a rag of a label to cover himself with," Huxley coined the term agnostic for himself, its first published use being in 1870.
Just goes to show, I can learn something new everyday...
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Separation of Church and State? What is that?
Stances like this are why he will lose the election here. I am sure that Republicans like Jim Thompson are very much beside themselves about it actually. They can look at this as illustrating how Illinoisans want more moderate Republicans and Keyes' royal trouncing will help shift the Republican agenda in IL back to where it can be palatable to the majority again. Too bad for the RNC which was so dead set on a candidate like Keyes that they forgot to actually rally behind one that the majority would accept...
Some observers also think that South Africa conducted a nuclear test in the Indian Ocean in 1979, though this is very often disputed.
Wasn't there some such line in ANH?
The last time I was in Warsaw there was something like an info button on the remote. I pressed it and I could 'change channels' to different pages of text. One page was a character graphics map of Poland with the weather forecast! I kid you not, there were characters on the map indicating clouds and rain too. It was like a flashback to the good old days of ANSI animation on the local BBS.
Was this service the same a Ceefax?
favor eliminating the possibility of winner-take-all, and setting up a system where each House vote is determined by popular vote within that district -- states still get to draw the district lines per census
Do you really want the bulk of the electoral college votes to be determined by Congressional districts? Think about it, the Congressional districts are drawn-up to virtually guarantee one party to dominate every ten years. State lines are more difficult to move.
I think what you really want is simply a proportional system where the electoral votes are decided based on the proportion of the popular vote which went to each ticket. Now that might be what you want, personally I like the reasons you listed for the electoral college, so I would not tinker with it unless the voting system would be fundamentally changed to boot. The whole winner-takes-all approach would need to be approached at a different level.
Also look at your approach from the power of the state as well. Now instead of there being a sizable chunk of electoral votes to go after in a contested state, suddenly there are only those few contested congressional districts.
Look I have a wife and two kids. At this point whenever one of these mandatory team/tradition deals happens I just leave and go home. I have NEVER suffered any consequences from adopting this attitude, my job is programing after-all not coffee and cookie time. Maybe if I was at all interested in climbing the ladder or whatever I would pay more attention to bull like this, but personally there is nothing more gratifying than getting home early, finding that the kids are still napping, being alone with my wife for a little bit to unwind, and then being there to play with the kids right when they wake-up. I don't care how fun the tradition is, if you think I am going to go out for bowling with the team instead of this, forget it I am going home. I would not get any work done anyway.
I had it all before. The Hawaiian shirt day, the company picnic, the baseball games, the ping-pong, the cookie time, the beer hour, pizza night, hazing of new employees, bowling, arcades. In the beginning I put-up with it all thinking it would somehow look bad if I did not take part, but it really did not matter. I even was a vegetarian and ate raw beef as part of prospective employee hazing! Then I wisend-up.
If you want to build morale and you cannot provide interesting projects or decent raises how about this for a suggestion. Rather than having everybody get together for for cookie and coffee time, just get a coffee-maker for the office and stock it with free coffee. Once a week put-out cookies near the new coffee-maker. That is a nice perk, if we want coffee or cookies we can go get some whenever we feel like. Remember that the majority of us were the quiet kids in the back of the room in school. We are still like that, we are quiet and don't care much for being forced to be social. We would rather spend that time doing what we enjoy more in our lives.
I completely forgot about the lemon/lime confusion. The same thing happened between my wife and I as well. There is possibly a very straightforward explanation to this though completely not related to color perception. I too thought was just an inaccurate teacher but your having the same experience made me wonder.
We now live in the United States but my wife was taught English as a foreign language in Poland and the English that she was taught was British English. Once in a grocery store she called the larger yellow citrus fruits limes and I told her that they were in fact lemons. She looked at the sign that said lemons and protested remembering being taught that these were limes. When we got home she pulled-out her English textbooks and in fact it described the lime as yellow. I thought this was a mistake just like you but now I think that this is just one of those chips/french fries, tyre/tire, bonnet/hood sorts of differences between British English and USA English.
Maybe a Brit could set this straight?
I read that and I was really surprised. I am a Polish speaker/reader and so is my wife. I left Poland at the age of four but my wife only did so four years ago. In fact to become competent in Polish I took two quarters of Polish at Uni. The other students were Russian/Slavic and linguistics concentrators. It was a very bizarre way of learning Polish I suppose, but before that I felt very inadequate about being illiterate and sounding like a four year old whenever I spoke Polish.
So what I know is that in Polish there are also two words for blue: niebieski and blekitni. (Okay so I had to strip-off the accents because slashcode did not like them.) They are light-blue and dark-blue respectively. (Really niebieski is related to the word for sky so you might think of this word as sky-blue, I do and that is what I meant earlier about learning Polish from a linguist probably was different from a native Polish speakers experience.)
Now you might think this is simple, well not really. Here is a translation of what happens in practice with some regularity. My wife says, "Bring me the blue one," where blue is the word for either light-blue or dark-blue depending on the color of the object. I oblige but then hear a response of, "No I said the blue one not the green one." Bizarre because notice I wrote blue and green. It is not like she said light-blue and I brought the dark-blue widget. Sometimes she claims I brought the purple thing instead. These exchanges are entirely in Polish because this what we speak predominantly at home.
Okay now I am not color-blind. For my work I need to pass a test every two years and in the report I always pass all of the tests, even those for which a certain percentage of people that are not typically considered color-blind would not pass. I can clearly distinguish between a wide spectrum of colors.
After a while of this my mother noticed it once so we did a little test with the family. My mother, father, uncle, aunt, and grandmother were all part of it. All of them had spent the majority of their lives in Poland and almost without fail they would agree with the colors that my wife gave to objects. Then we repeated the test with my brother and his girlfriend who except for a vacation had not spent any time in Poland. They agreed with me the majority of the time.
Now this test was not scientific in any way and it did involve alcohol because it happened during a family get-together, but I still think that native Polish speakers vs English speakers think of colors as different because of their languages. What I mean is that there are many shades of colors that are sort of between green and blue and others that are between green and purple and given a proper ambiguous color such as this Polish speakers will tend to identify it differently than English speakers.
So what I am trying to say after all of this is that the example of the Russian language having two words for blue is sort of a red herring. It is irrelevant to the real issues. In fact given two people that are not color blind, one a Russian and one an English speaker, they should not have any extra difficulty in being able to distinguish between color chips as being different or not. What I am saying is that they will think of the same color chip as a different color in their minds. Now this is subtle, and I tend to agree with the parent poster that it is a special case, but definitely an example of how language influences understanding and meaning. Here is a final true story to illustrate this idea.
My wife's favorite color is light-blue. Once I bought her a gift that was a light blue dress. When she got it she said that the dress was nice, but that, "Don't you know by now that I do not like the way I look in green?" Think about intend and effect in that example and you will see what I mean about language being important.
No, that was the first 150 shares. The first trade was 100 shares at just shy of 136$ and the second 50 at just shy of 141$. Also amusingly the first bid was 55$ and the first ask 9000$! (I seriously have trouble believing that ask.) The volume is something like 15mil at this point, so you really should discount those first two trades, the market was not made at that point yet. But yes, it is trading above 95$ so far.
Philco is an undead company, driven out of business long ago and its name owned by one of the Asian contract manufactures. The same is true of the Sylvania, KLH, and Koss "brand names" which I have at home. When I bought the Koss stereo it was shortly after this happened. I should have realized that something was up when the price was so low. When I took it home and noticed there was no ground strip on the receiver I was very disappointed. I was young and naive back then. But now-a-days much of the once high-end equipment is made by the contract manufactures and it is all the same steaming pile anyways.
Yes I remember Don Crabb, and quite fondly. When I was a poor undergrad, he would always give me free software and books ( sometimes from press junkets for his articles) that I would not be able to afford otherwise. After the fiasco that was the AI dept at the UofC he was able to finagle some graduate math courses I had taken into CS requirements that let me graduate in four years so that I still had federal aid. He passed away after I graduated, but I know he was working on a script for a movie at the time. Does anyone know whatever happened to that?
From your post it looks too bad to me that you only took the Hypercard classes. Really you would have been much better off taking the introductory Scheme, C++, and Java classes. There would have been much less patronizing and heck, by the end of the year you would have written your own Scheme interpreter, how about that for understanding how things work. And that definitely would have allowed your taking of OS, hardware, networking, compiler, and theory courses latter that would have opened even more doors to understanding the ins and out of how computing works.
The Hypercard classes were truly geared towards humanities concentrators. It was not meant to be too in depth. I am convinced that had you gone the CS route in the department you would have not encountered any patronizing from excellent professors such as Stuart Kurtz and Lazlo Babai. At least I did not see any of that from those two in particular towards the females in their classes. But count yourself lucky, you got a true liberal arts education at the UofC, one that expanded your abilities to learn and question on your own, and it looks like that has served you well to ends that you enjoy. Personally I was never taught how to use most of the particular tools I use today in my professional life on a day to day basis, that is the idea behind a true CS education.
I read that one of the aspects of this contest is that the source code for all of the entries will be made available on the uDevGames site. I cannot find it anywhere for past entries. I did not try too hard, but I did poke around for a little bit. I did look in about a year ago also and came-up empty. Also I could not find the binaries to the entries then either. This was a real issue because some of the entries were not available anywhere else on the net. The excuse I heard was that the uDevGames site was broken into and that the source and binaries would reappear after the mess was cleaned-up, but it is now more than a year later and I still cannot find the files. Where do I find the binaries and source code?
First very good post, but two minor points.
Yes by far the favored location of the SSC site for physicists that wanted it to happen was near Fermilab but that was not the case with a very vocal portion of the tri-cities residents. This was ammunition for those politicians that wanted it in Texas.
In 1993 both houses of Congress were Republican and in addition to making an example of some expensive project to show fiscal conservatism, there were political motivations for canceling the SSC partially due to the brutal political circus that was the site selection process and the revenge the losing side wished to exact. Bill Clinton simply did not do anything to save the SSC because it was seen as a good step towards getting the budget under control.
Anyway, just my two cents.
I am a Fermilab employee and have lived in the area for a quarter of a century. This is the most accurate recap I have ever read on the subject. It is better even than anything Drasko or Leon ever wrote. I would have added more details, but that would have have been at the cost of brevity which I liked.
People should MOD the parent post up as insightful.
In old TVs there was no power supply. Just three to five tubes (I am talking vacuum tubes here) hooked-up in series where they would total 117V. This was true of old radios too, particularly 'three-way' radios (powered by AC, batteries, and 117V DC). In this case you could consider the whole of the TV set to be one huge power supply from the standpoint of servicing. In fact on those sets the entire outside was make of insulator (wood and particle board). Unlike modern sets where you can open them, and there is a power supply that you can remove and replace, the situation with the old sets was very different. That was the reason, you open up an old set, and it was a high-voltage affair. Today even though the internals of the power supply are exposed and there are hugh capacitors exposed, there is an honest to goodness power supply that can simply be replaced. If you did not know what you were doing with the old sets you were a danger to yourself and to the people and property for which you had performed the service. Think fire or think if you wired the power wrong, that third prong isn't ground any more then...
I started reading your post and started thinking, "Another annoying young kid talking about driving fast and how good a drivers he is," but I was pleasantly taken a back. Yeah I am a father of two, soon to be three. I drive conservatively. But I could not agree with you more. Most of the time obeying the traffic laws is what to do, but on very rare occasions situations like yours do turn-up. I had a long dry spell of no incidents with the big rigs, then just last week I had two in one day! One was an oncoming truck zooming past a red light while I was turning. I just braked and ceded the right of way and don't think I broke any traffic laws. The other one was an inattentive truck driver that did not notice a light that just turned red. I was stopped at it and I noticed the truck not stopping behind me. I blew that red light hoping to get by the cars on either side before they got into the intersection. and sped out of the way. To add another moving violation, my tires squealed. If there was some automated system for catching people that go through red lights, I would have been nabbed, but considering the fact that I drive a little hatchback and had an eighteen-wheeler behind me capable of running me over and pushing me into the cars that would be soon coming from the drivers side, I think I acted prudently. That is after the fact of course, back then it was all adrenaline and a flight response...
And yes I too have sped to avoid a truck merging into my lane on the expressway. I remember the sound of 7000 RPM and hope I never have to hear that again.
In much of Europe, you have to go through the classes and pass a very difficult driving test. The thing is that this is abused, and the testers and instructors will mark you down for things you do not actually do but that are also entirely subjective such as jerky driving which is enough to have you failed. So unless you personally know someone in the police you need to give the requisite bribe. Poland is particularly notorious, but a German I know recounts the story of how the tester opened the glove box and waited. She did not put any money in, and was failed immediately. Her violation was that she did not look back before putting the car out of neutral. She did not even get a chance to put the car into gear, just failed on the spot. So if you thought the IL license for bribes scandal was something, you have not seen how Europe doe it better.
This is with all of the MIME encoded attachments, headers, lines beginning with the '>' character, and whatnot. Notice that these results show both "below school year 5" AND "higher than school year 11"! Sure I believe in using style, don't you. And if you do, I have a very nice bridge I am interested in selling to you my friend...
I used some simple sed and awk scripts to filter my emails in a crude way to get as much of the paragraphs I actually wrote and to strip away all of the rest. I removed email headers, tried to only include the first part of multiparts, and avoided all attachments. I also replaced all email address and urls with the word 'address'. Finally I attempted to splice-out all forwarded messages and copies of what others had written. I expect that this script was not perfect, but it seemed close enough:
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The lameness filter is preventing me from posting the scripts, and I could not get around it by pasting many copies of the lameness filter message here. Interestingly, I got to a page that seemed to have a form on it to add and remove active discussions. Interesting indeed :)
THANKS FOR THE EMAIL ME AM OK WITH U THIS IS THE INFORMATION FOR THE SHIPPING COMPANY FUNDS THE NAME AND ADDRESS IS HERE...
COLE JOHN
23 MARYLAND ROAD
MARYLAND
LAGOS STATE
NIGERIA
23401
SO GET BACK TO WITH THE INFORMATION FOR THE FUNDS TODAY...
Oh yeah! He has NO info on me. Now what do I do? Any suggestions? Should I send a tip to the FBI or file a complaint with the IFCC? Anyone have any suggestions of what I could do to dupe this con?
Well, what the hey. If anyone in the Chicagoland area wants to buy '93 Mazda MPV with 95K miles, check-out this ad or email me. Maybe at least something good like my selling the car will come-out of all of this, since no law agency will care about this most likely :(
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Also if you notice the The socket benchmark, FreeBSD was optimized for when a process allocates in excess of 3500 sockets. Also in Measuring HTTP request latency you can see that there is optimization for when there have been in excess of 4000 requests. These types of clever optimizations are what sets FreeBSD apart.
Also keep in mind that absolute magnitude is not what is really important in these test results. The idea is that if your software scales well, you just get enough hardware to handle what you expect as worst case. The nice thing is that FreeBSD has some optimizations that are directed for scaling even better under some particular high load cases.
I would not say from these tests that FreeBSD performed much worse than Linux. In fact mmap syscalls are not actually used much except for mapping in dynamic libraries on many server type loads.
I really could swear that when my father bought a 33 MHz 486DX in 1991, my friend had a 20 MHz 486SX. He also told me it was a step-up from the 16 MHz version. Am I remembering this correctly? I really believe that the 486 was available at 16, 20, 25, 33, and 50 MHz in DX form by the end of 1991 at the latest. Did Intel only introduce the 16 and 20 MHz parts after the 25 and 33 MHz parts? I remember how amazing that behemoth 486DX 'full tower' my dad had for his drafting business felt back then. It had a whopping 128K of external cache in little SRAM chips on the motherboard too!
Word History: An agnostic does not deny the existence of God and heaven but holds that one cannot know for certain whether or not they exist. The term agnostic was fittingly coined by the 19th-century British scientist Thomas H. Huxley, who believed that only material phenomena were objects of exact knowledge. He made up the word from the prefix a-, meaning "without, not," as in amoral, and the noun Gnostic. Gnostic is related to the Greek word gnosis, "knowledge," which was used by early Christian writers to mean "higher, esoteric knowledge of spiritual things" hence, Gnostic referred to those with such knowledge. In coining the term agnostic, Huxley was considering as "Gnostics" a group of his fellow intellectuals"-ists," as he called them - who had eagerly embraced various doctrines or theories that explained the world to their satisfaction. Because he was a "man without a rag of a label to cover himself with," Huxley coined the term agnostic for himself, its first published use being in 1870.
Just goes to show, I can learn something new everyday...
Today's 'version' of the 300D: No ping, but plenty of zing in E320 CDI