1) You don't consider it feasible to go 2 solid hours without taking a leak.
2) You think that, perhaps, in a 2 hour movie whose plot spans an entire month, watching the characters urinate will be more important than other material. Don't get me wrong. I'm all for pee -- I make quite a habit of it myself. But c'mon. Does it matter for the story?
Naw, I'm a math nerd, too. I write math software, so my knowledge of security, operating systems, etc., is highly lacking. And, it's at my disposal, free for the taking. However, I elect not to learn about these things so I have time to learn about others. This makes me ignorant about the other topics. I'm not saying that everybody is ignorant about X topic, I'm just saying that everybody is ignorant about SOMETHING.
In fact, I would consider it accurate to say that EVERYBODY is ignorant. Stupid... not so much. In the days of yore, educated people really could know just about everything about everything. But there's just too much information around to get it all to fit in one head.
Now that's an interesting opinion. And by interesting, I mean stupidly narrow-minded. I know quite a few brilliant mathematicians and physicists who don't give a shit about operating systems, or how software interacts with hardware. By your reasoning, these people are "stupid" because they expect a tool to work as advertised. That sounds pretty dumb to me.
Been a long time since I've used VB -- I think it was VB3 back then. It'll stay that way, since I'm a linux guy, but I guess it's good that the language is making some progress.
And I do say the same thing about java, c#, and their ilk. Finally, so what if VB5 used the same back-end compiler as VC++6? When translating down to C++, there is not a 1-1 correspondance between lines of C++ and lines of VB -- otherwise, they'd be the same language. The compiler doesn't kill the performance, the extra instructions do.
Naw, I've got plenty of experience, both in the corporate and open source environment. My two biggest complaints about VB are the limited support base (windows) and performance (shitty). No dynamically typed language is going to beat C++. Also, like Bjarne said, you can write just about *anything* in C++. Can you write device drivers in VB? Can you write a multi-threaded webserver? My bet is that if you can, it'd be an ugly ugly beast.
VB is a rapid prototyping environment. And just like an RP machine, it makes a flimsy product that you can send back to the drawing board without much expense. But you don't ship a product you've made on an RP machine -- it's crap. You take your prototype, and make a real product out of it using sturdy materials. Same goes for VB. You make something that works the way you expect, then you make it work in a real language. Good thing about VB is that you can replace pieces at a time with DLLs compiled from C++. If that isn't a part of the VB curriculum, it's a waste of time.
Depends. I was the lead of a small number of developers working full-time for a company, and my boss wanted me to some things that I disagreed with; primarily putting popup ads on the site, and spamming. I told him that I wouldn't do it. Once or twice, he said he'd pay some Russians to do it. I told him that if he did so, I'd never touch their code, so if he wanted it to continue working on the site, he'd have to regularly solicit their help. He asked me why I was being such a hardass, so I explained why I felt the way that I did about the spam/popups, and launched into a bit of a tirade about why outsourcing programming work was detrimental to the economy that his business depended on.
In the end, I convinced him that what he was asking me to do was dumb, and that outsourcing sucks in the long term. (I couldn't ply to morality, the man had none, but he'd listen to reason)
The sad fact of the matter is that CS classes are offered in quarters and semesters. It should take between a semester and a year to get a feeling for a full-scale design / development cycle. But that's only half the story. IMO, a good curriculum would include a year of design / development, followed by another year of support / extension of the code -- it would be good to develop utilities that other students could use, so that there would be a realistic "customer base".
This all explains why they demoted Pluto from planethood. Nobody wanted to accept that a planet could fit through the hole in our ozone layer. Demote Pluto, and we don't have that problem. Watch out, Mercury...
"One guy just gave his 2 weeks; he's quitting because he's done dealing with customers who are lied to by salesman."
This should be setting off alarms somewhere in the company. A large number of the salespeople I've witnessed at Fry's are sleezy as hell. They grossly misrepresent the product, and generally lie through their teeth to make a sale. That it pisses off the techs enough to pound the pavement is a major sign that the company needs to re-evaluate how it's treating its customers.
See. If he hadn't been running Linux, I don't think he'd have uptime through those mortar attacks. Windows just can't handle that kind of abuse. I think that's an oft-forgotten selling point of Linux that should be cited more often.
Yeah, your OS has cool graphics. But how does it stand up against a mortar attack?
Waitaminute. An increase to 48 laptop thefts is considered alarming by the SF police? That's just over half as many murders were committed in the city that year. Priorities?
An FYI: upon installing the xtra, the certification blurb indicates that the xtra is used to play "spacific" sounds.
I found it somewhat humerous that a company attempting to test my brain, didn't manage to catch a typo that had to be seen by dozens of eyes in testing.
As a programmer by trade, and student of math... I know that even the best of us make simple little errors all over the place. But it still tickled me to see that.
Truly, I'm an eternal sceptic. I don't believe what people tell me about the existence of a god, I don't believe that time travel is possible or impossible... but these are fun ideas to toss around. My point with the analogy to the rotation of the Earth, which I forgot to make, is that if there is some 'origin' in the time dimension that everything is moving away from at the same rate such that we can't detect it. But if we can't alter that rate either, so what?
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2 possible justificaions for your argument:
1) You don't consider it feasible to go 2 solid hours without taking a leak.
2) You think that, perhaps, in a 2 hour movie whose plot spans an entire month, watching the characters urinate will be more important than other material. Don't get me wrong. I'm all for pee -- I make quite a habit of it myself. But c'mon. Does it matter for the story?
Naw, I'm a math nerd, too. I write math software, so my knowledge of security, operating systems, etc., is highly lacking. And, it's at my disposal, free for the taking. However, I elect not to learn about these things so I have time to learn about others. This makes me ignorant about the other topics. I'm not saying that everybody is ignorant about X topic, I'm just saying that everybody is ignorant about SOMETHING.
In fact, I would consider it accurate to say that EVERYBODY is ignorant. Stupid... not so much. In the days of yore, educated people really could know just about everything about everything. But there's just too much information around to get it all to fit in one head.
Now that's an interesting opinion. And by interesting, I mean stupidly narrow-minded. I know quite a few brilliant mathematicians and physicists who don't give a shit about operating systems, or how software interacts with hardware. By your reasoning, these people are "stupid" because they expect a tool to work as advertised. That sounds pretty dumb to me.
Been a long time since I've used VB -- I think it was VB3 back then. It'll stay that way, since I'm a linux guy, but I guess it's good that the language is making some progress.
And I do say the same thing about java, c#, and their ilk. Finally, so what if VB5 used the same back-end compiler as VC++6? When translating down to C++, there is not a 1-1 correspondance between lines of C++ and lines of VB -- otherwise, they'd be the same language. The compiler doesn't kill the performance, the extra instructions do.
Naw, I've got plenty of experience, both in the corporate and open source environment. My two biggest complaints about VB are the limited support base (windows) and performance (shitty). No dynamically typed language is going to beat C++. Also, like Bjarne said, you can write just about *anything* in C++. Can you write device drivers in VB? Can you write a multi-threaded webserver? My bet is that if you can, it'd be an ugly ugly beast.
VB is a rapid prototyping environment. And just like an RP machine, it makes a flimsy product that you can send back to the drawing board without much expense. But you don't ship a product you've made on an RP machine -- it's crap. You take your prototype, and make a real product out of it using sturdy materials. Same goes for VB. You make something that works the way you expect, then you make it work in a real language. Good thing about VB is that you can replace pieces at a time with DLLs compiled from C++. If that isn't a part of the VB curriculum, it's a waste of time.
Depends. I was the lead of a small number of developers working full-time for a company, and my boss wanted me to some things that I disagreed with; primarily putting popup ads on the site, and spamming. I told him that I wouldn't do it. Once or twice, he said he'd pay some Russians to do it. I told him that if he did so, I'd never touch their code, so if he wanted it to continue working on the site, he'd have to regularly solicit their help. He asked me why I was being such a hardass, so I explained why I felt the way that I did about the spam/popups, and launched into a bit of a tirade about why outsourcing programming work was detrimental to the economy that his business depended on.
In the end, I convinced him that what he was asking me to do was dumb, and that outsourcing sucks in the long term. (I couldn't ply to morality, the man had none, but he'd listen to reason)
If di is 1, C*A = M-1; so C = C + 1 is M If di is 0, C*A = 0; so C = C + 1 is 1
The sad fact of the matter is that CS classes are offered in quarters and semesters. It should take between a semester and a year to get a feeling for a full-scale design / development cycle. But that's only half the story. IMO, a good curriculum would include a year of design / development, followed by another year of support / extension of the code -- it would be good to develop utilities that other students could use, so that there would be a realistic "customer base".
That laser was burning at a full 30 terawatts. Fit THAT on a desktop. Please.
This all explains why they demoted Pluto from planethood. Nobody wanted to accept that a planet could fit through the hole in our ozone layer. Demote Pluto, and we don't have that problem. Watch out, Mercury...
Yes, but having a launch facility in a location which doesn't get thrashed by hurricanes every year might be nice, too.
Microsoft has a security guru? What OS does he use?
Yes, but the typical pitch is "yeah, the price goes up in a year, but you can cancel at any time!"
"One guy just gave his 2 weeks; he's quitting because he's done dealing with customers who are lied to by salesman."
This should be setting off alarms somewhere in the company. A large number of the salespeople I've witnessed at Fry's are sleezy as hell. They grossly misrepresent the product, and generally lie through their teeth to make a sale. That it pisses off the techs enough to pound the pavement is a major sign that the company needs to re-evaluate how it's treating its customers.
They made a left hand? Who the hell uses those, these day?
Money is bound by no jurisdiction.
See. If he hadn't been running Linux, I don't think he'd have uptime through those mortar attacks. Windows just can't handle that kind of abuse. I think that's an oft-forgotten selling point of Linux that should be cited more often.
Yeah, your OS has cool graphics. But how does it stand up against a mortar attack?
While that poetic description is quite dramatic, a thief becomes a robber upon merely making a threat.
Waitaminute. An increase to 48 laptop thefts is considered alarming by the SF police? That's just over half as many murders were committed in the city that year. Priorities?
An FYI: upon installing the xtra, the certification blurb indicates that the xtra is used to play "spacific" sounds.
I found it somewhat humerous that a company attempting to test my brain, didn't manage to catch a typo that had to be seen by dozens of eyes in testing.
As a programmer by trade, and student of math... I know that even the best of us make simple little errors all over the place. But it still tickled me to see that.
Thanks for taking the time to post here.
Yeah, that's what I couldn't put my finger on. It looks totally flat.
Look at the shadows & bright spots on the "memory chip" and the cell phone. They don't line up.
If this thing is real, why'd they have to photoshop an image of it?
Truly, I'm an eternal sceptic. I don't believe what people tell me about the existence of a god, I don't believe that time travel is possible or impossible... but these are fun ideas to toss around. My point with the analogy to the rotation of the Earth, which I forgot to make, is that if there is some 'origin' in the time dimension that everything is moving away from at the same rate such that we can't detect it. But if we can't alter that rate either, so what?