Most people view their computers with the same regard they have for their refridgerators and microwaves. You turn it on and you press the buttons. Not only should they not have to think about it, it would never even occur to the average person to do so.
OS's should ship set to auto-update, and people smart enough to not like that can turn it off.
CIA tells ex-employee that he can't go work for the KGB.
I don't see what the big deal is - if you want to work developing ultra-bleeding-edge technology, it seems reasonable that the entity funding that research restrict what you're allowed to do after the fact.
Just make sure you're appropriately compensated for not being able to work in the same industry for two years, and if not, take a different job.
And no, I don't want to hear the 'But another job may not be an option!' response either - if you're "good" enough to work on such a project to begin with, you're good enough to get a different job.
And if you're not good enough to get another job unless you just worked in the ultra-bleeding-edge research department of your potential new employer's competitor, that's an even MORE convincing reason that it's quite reasonable to restrict your future employment.
How many phones do you usually have to smell before you can find one with a good scent? Is there any way to tell if the chick who used it was fat or not?
The advantage of Perl you're trying to get at is that it can handle syntax that is analgous to syntax in pretty much any other programming language.
But that's also it's greatest drawback - four people can use four entirely different syntaxes to write something, and they can make *NO* sense to any of the other people.
The other porblem is that while it has very powerful shortcuts (like $_), it also has very powerful shortcuts. It's like acronyms in the military - if everyone knows what the acronyms are, then communication is more efficient. But if you havn't been exposed to the particular acronyms being used, it's a right pain.
Perl is great if you're writing something to automate a task so yu odn't have to do it - it takes very little effort to have a program that does what you want it to do. But if you're going to use it in a large environment with multiple people working on it, you have to be very careful that you document well, and probably also have some standards of style across the coders.
I have one Perl system with only myself and one other person working on it and we have TREMENDOUS conflicts of style that we have to resolve - if we're not careful we spend most of our time rewriting the other person's code in the style we like.
Actually, the decision makes 100% perfect technical sense.
The votes are stored in a database. The question is, if there is a "recount", do the election workers have to print copies of each screen and count them by hand to make sure the machine counted right?
Obviously, that would be a waste of time - humans counting printouts of what's in the database will be less accurate than just taking the total from the database. Since it's a printout, any vote for a particular candidate looks identical to any other vote, so there's nothing there (like a hanging chad) to recount in the first place.
The *REAL* problem is that there are no paper coies of the ballot printed at the time of the vote in the first place. But that wasn't the question the election board was answering - the queston was 'I've got a computer here with a vote tally in it. Can I just look at the total votes, or do I have to print a piece of paper for each vote and count those?"
My boss told me that the sound from clipping my nails was bothering my coworkers. I said I'd be happy to move from my cube to a real office, but apparently the noise wasn't that big of an issue after all.
Why should we provide drug users with new needles?
If you get a nasty infection from using heroin, maybe the problem isn't that you didn't have a clean needle...
Maybe the problem is that you're using heroin?
I say no free needles. If you come to the emergency room and you have heroin in your system, the emergency room should be allowed to throw you out and let you die.
If I ever was on the specifying end of software (instead of the coding end, where I do these things reflexively anyway), I would demand the following of the team I hired:
And that is why you're on the coding end instead of the decision making end - you'd have a compact, bug-free, featureless product that hit the market three years too late that nobody could afford to buy anyway.
Oh please, way to pat yourself on the back...
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He's saying that people who play chess well need to be way smarter than people who play football well. Is playing football a more intellectual activity than say, tennis? Maybe, for certain positions.
But there are plenty of really stupid pro football players. I don't know any really stupid chess players.
Anyway, most sports are not really that intellectual at all - maybe in the COACHING aspect of it, and the analysis aspects (you can analyze snail movement if you'd like to, and do it in a way only smart people would be able to handle), but when you're PLAYING, it's performance is less "intellectual" than ingrained, trained responses.
Learning to play most sports is a matter of learning the rules of how to play (through coaching) along with practice to make following those rules natural. It's not intellectual, it's memorization.
You can't memorize all of chess - once you're a few moves in, you're going to have to figure out, right then, what the best move is.
99% of what is said on that web page is just plain bullshit, except for the hop-up. Everything about rifling a sphere (there's no such thing) and everything said about paintball markers is just wrong. No concept of angular momentum whatsoever. Ugh.
Airsoft barrels are not rifled because you can't rifle a round, plastic BB. And there is NO SUCH THING as a rifled paintball barrel - they are all smooth bore.
He's saying that it's not possible for the majority of a country to be below average intelligence; therefore the person making such an assumption must not be intelligent.
It is, however, quite possible for the majority of people who vote for a certain candidate to be of below average intelligence. In the case of Bush, it's actually NECESSARY for the majority of his voters to be of below-average intelligence.
In fact, from the 2000 election, we can conclude two things:
1) Because Gore did win the popular vote, even some people of below average intelligence still voted for him. 2) There are more people of below average intelligence in rural states, but Florida is too close to call.
The thing that makes paintball "better" (really, different) is SENSORY FEEDBACK, a portion of which is the momentary pain if you get hit.
I think part of the problem here is the parent poster seems more interested in proving how big of a man he is than seriously discussin the merits of the sport. Getting hit by a paintball, in normal circumstances (i.e. the guns being used have been properly chronographed and you're not in playing a seriously competetive tournament), hurts about as much as your little sister pinching you. It's annoying, but you quickly forget about it. I have seen plenty of birthday parties of 10-year-olds playing paintball and never seen any of them put off about getting shot. They do very much like shooting their parents, however.
What makes paintball "better" is you can SEE when you hit someone. You can FEEL where you get hit. You can HEAR shots that whiz by your head. You can HEAR shots that hit objects near you. AIMing is much more precise activity. You can move anywhere in any manner, and you can score hits on any part of an opponent's person or equipment.
Laser whatever is much more "ethereal". Everything about it is more "simulated" - you can't really see when you've hit someone, or tell where you've been hit or by who, or see or hear your or other people's shots, as they're just photons.
Those reasons also make paintball much more fun to watch.
Rifles *RIFLE* the round - it's the angular momentum of the round that delivers the majority of the long-range accuracy. With Airsoft (or paintball, for that matter), you're dealing with a basically spherical projectile, which is not rifled.
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Most people view their computers with the same regard they have for their refridgerators and microwaves. You turn it on and you press the buttons. Not only should they not have to think about it, it would never even occur to the average person to do so.
OS's should ship set to auto-update, and people smart enough to not like that can turn it off.
Assuming he actually signed a non-compete agreement. If not, well, tough for Seagate.
CIA tells ex-employee that he can't go work for the KGB.
I don't see what the big deal is - if you want to work developing ultra-bleeding-edge technology, it seems reasonable that the entity funding that research restrict what you're allowed to do after the fact.
Just make sure you're appropriately compensated for not being able to work in the same industry for two years, and if not, take a different job.
And no, I don't want to hear the 'But another job may not be an option!' response either - if you're "good" enough to work on such a project to begin with, you're good enough to get a different job.
And if you're not good enough to get another job unless you just worked in the ultra-bleeding-edge research department of your potential new employer's competitor, that's an even MORE convincing reason that it's quite reasonable to restrict your future employment.
Is there a bunch of people signing up for lifetime cell phone contracts that I'm not aware of?
How many phones do you usually have to smell before you can find one with a good scent? Is there any way to tell if the chick who used it was fat or not?
Until someone else gets the reference?
Nothing is worse than competition making the things I want to buy cheaper.
The advantage of Perl you're trying to get at is that it can handle syntax that is analgous to syntax in pretty much any other programming language.
But that's also it's greatest drawback - four people can use four entirely different syntaxes to write something, and they can make *NO* sense to any of the other people.
The other porblem is that while it has very powerful shortcuts (like $_), it also has very powerful shortcuts. It's like acronyms in the military - if everyone knows what the acronyms are, then communication is more efficient. But if you havn't been exposed to the particular acronyms being used, it's a right pain.
Perl is great if you're writing something to automate a task so yu odn't have to do it - it takes very little effort to have a program that does what you want it to do. But if you're going to use it in a large environment with multiple people working on it, you have to be very careful that you document well, and probably also have some standards of style across the coders.
I have one Perl system with only myself and one other person working on it and we have TREMENDOUS conflicts of style that we have to resolve - if we're not careful we spend most of our time rewriting the other person's code in the style we like.
Actually, the decision makes 100% perfect technical sense.
The votes are stored in a database. The question is, if there is a "recount", do the election workers have to print copies of each screen and count them by hand to make sure the machine counted right?
Obviously, that would be a waste of time - humans counting printouts of what's in the database will be less accurate than just taking the total from the database. Since it's a printout, any vote for a particular candidate looks identical to any other vote, so there's nothing there (like a hanging chad) to recount in the first place.
The *REAL* problem is that there are no paper coies of the ballot printed at the time of the vote in the first place. But that wasn't the question the election board was answering - the queston was 'I've got a computer here with a vote tally in it. Can I just look at the total votes, or do I have to print a piece of paper for each vote and count those?"
My boss told me that the sound from clipping my nails was bothering my coworkers. I said I'd be happy to move from my cube to a real office, but apparently the noise wasn't that big of an issue after all.
It's easy to arm-chair quater-back where your news paper comes from, but I for one don't subscribe to anything but online sources. You should too....
Well, I for one welcome our new pulp-consuming overlords.
Why should we provide drug users with new needles?
If you get a nasty infection from using heroin, maybe the problem isn't that you didn't have a clean needle...
Maybe the problem is that you're using heroin?
I say no free needles. If you come to the emergency room and you have heroin in your system, the emergency room should be allowed to throw you out and let you die.
If this bothers you, don't use heroin.
Especially in CS classes, that verybody's code was different.
It wasn't until Perl that it became apparent how different someone else's code could be.
We're not so good with answers. But if you already have them, we've got no trouble coming up with questions.
But what if I pay her by the dinner, movie, travel, and anniverasy, valentine's day, sweetst day, birthday, christmas, and other anniversay gifts?
Lack of skill is what got him in this mess.
Learning to mitigate the damage of a colossal coding screwup is the experience he acquired as a result.
If I ever was on the specifying end of software (instead of the coding end, where I do these things reflexively anyway), I would demand the following of the team I hired:
And that is why you're on the coding end instead of the decision making end - you'd have a compact, bug-free, featureless product that hit the market three years too late that nobody could afford to buy anyway.
Because Java is for woosies.
Bad news: We missed printing half of our papers.
Good news: Rainforest saved.
He's saying that people who play chess well need to be way smarter than people who play football well. Is playing football a more intellectual activity than say, tennis? Maybe, for certain positions.
But there are plenty of really stupid pro football players. I don't know any really stupid chess players.
Anyway, most sports are not really that intellectual at all - maybe in the COACHING aspect of it, and the analysis aspects (you can analyze snail movement if you'd like to, and do it in a way only smart people would be able to handle), but when you're PLAYING, it's performance is less "intellectual" than ingrained, trained responses.
Learning to play most sports is a matter of learning the rules of how to play (through coaching) along with practice to make following those rules natural. It's not intellectual, it's memorization.
You can't memorize all of chess - once you're a few moves in, you're going to have to figure out, right then, what the best move is.
99% of what is said on that web page is just plain bullshit, except for the hop-up. Everything about rifling a sphere (there's no such thing) and everything said about paintball markers is just wrong. No concept of angular momentum whatsoever. Ugh.
Airsoft barrels are not rifled because you can't rifle a round, plastic BB. And there is NO SUCH THING as a rifled paintball barrel - they are all smooth bore.
He's saying that it's not possible for the majority of a country to be below average intelligence; therefore the person making such an assumption must not be intelligent.
It is, however, quite possible for the majority of people who vote for a certain candidate to be of below average intelligence. In the case of Bush, it's actually NECESSARY for the majority of his voters to be of below-average intelligence.
In fact, from the 2000 election, we can conclude two things:
1) Because Gore did win the popular vote, even some people of below average intelligence still voted for him.
2) There are more people of below average intelligence in rural states, but Florida is too close to call.
Over the long term, they're cheaper to use. At least they could be, if mass produced using OSS and commodity components.
The thing that makes paintball "better" (really, different) is SENSORY FEEDBACK, a portion of which is the momentary pain if you get hit.
I think part of the problem here is the parent poster seems more interested in proving how big of a man he is than seriously discussin the merits of the sport. Getting hit by a paintball, in normal circumstances (i.e. the guns being used have been properly chronographed and you're not in playing a seriously competetive tournament), hurts about as much as your little sister pinching you. It's annoying, but you quickly forget about it. I have seen plenty of birthday parties of 10-year-olds playing paintball and never seen any of them put off about getting shot. They do very much like shooting their parents, however.
What makes paintball "better" is you can SEE when you hit someone. You can FEEL where you get hit. You can HEAR shots that whiz by your head. You can HEAR shots that hit objects near you. AIMing is much more precise activity. You can move anywhere in any manner, and you can score hits on any part of an opponent's person or equipment.
Laser whatever is much more "ethereal". Everything about it is more "simulated" - you can't really see when you've hit someone, or tell where you've been hit or by who, or see or hear your or other people's shots, as they're just photons.
Those reasons also make paintball much more fun to watch.
Rifles *RIFLE* the round - it's the angular momentum of the round that delivers the majority of the long-range accuracy. With Airsoft (or paintball, for that matter), you're dealing with a basically spherical projectile, which is not rifled.