The finer the sand the more it acts like this, that's your "water on mars" right there.
A good example of that would have been observed by anyone changing the toner in one of the old high-end HP colour laser printers. You could see the highly liquid nature of the fine grain toner through the translucent plastic cartridges. That stuff sloshes.
I predict this will appeal more to the older crowd and while a lot of the themes of the songs have anti-Cro Magnum themes, I think this sort of retro music is long overdue.
Along with the flute was an inscription in a precursor hieroglyphic stating action would be taken over "making available" with an urge to settle early for a fee of three bison and a wife.
Not sure if you are trolling or not. If you are.... good one.... and you must really hate journalists.
I wasn't trolling, I was stating a fact. And I think journalists are the first and last bastion of freedom, and that the general ability to write well is a necessary characteristic of the civilised. But I also don't believe that a journalism degree means you should starve, if you find your field of work economically compromised at the moment. I was trying to keep the literary gene pool alive, as well as pointing out its importance to a technical industry.
I have a troll, though. Hunter, level 16 on Aman'Thul. Name is "Offtopic". Send him a fish.
If the edge were so important, they would cut trees with razors.
What an interesting divergent idea. Why not? What sort of razor would you need? A thin, long edge under tension only a molecule or two wide of -- what material? Long chain carbon nanotubes filled with silicon atoms? What if you passed an alternating current through it to give it piezolectric vibration. Would this work? You might be able to cut through stone that way too.
Hmmm... piezoelectric razor. Not the type to leave around the house.
Eat some cruel negative calorie vegetables like cellery and carrots as this will cause your body to metabolize fat and release endorphins while creating natural o-zone which results in a slight euphoric/un-burdening countenance. It's easy to write code that way.
Your ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Is it just me? I don't think I've ever met a good programmer who smoked pot at any time in their life.
No, I don't have short term memory (I think....)
I've met counter-examples who were absolutely brilliant at their job, and among my own team. I think they sublimated the food cravings by substituting string manipulations and clever pointer arithmetic. It wasn't just good code, it was elegant code as well.
I give myself a little pep talk. I tell myself that if Michael Jackson can keep going so can I.
Given that Michael Jackson died a few hours ago, I would pick another image.
R.I.P. Michael. You were abused, troubled, and the money killed you. You were creepy, good, and brilliant. You were a case of arrested development and the best damn choreographer since Fred Astaire.
You were the ultimate winner and loser, and our culture was changed by your presence here. Bye, guy.
1) Examine your motives. Do you really want to do this? No? Think about the effect on you if you don't. Spend no more than 2 minutes on this stage. Decide.
2) Describe the problem to yourself, written, in a single short paragraph. Display this where you can see it as you work.
3) Determine the absolutely smallest possible component of this job that you need to do. Maybe a 5 minute job. If you can't break down a big job into smaller jobs, you're in the wrong business. Pick that smallest little job and do it. Write it down on a physical list and tick it off. Actually do this step.
4) Determine the next little job. Work a bit to find the next smallest task. Rinse and repeat.
5) By this time you might have momentum. But if all else fails, acquire a McDonald's or Wendy's job application. Have it framed and on your wall in front of you. Nothing will motivate you better than that.
I'm pretty sure the dinosaurs, meteors, God, whatever deserves a lot of credit for coming up with that scheme where most living material gets buried for millions of years and/or under a flood just so we can power society for, what, 100-200 years?
[Citation not desired]
You are under the assumption that petrochemicals come from reduced plant matter. 'Tain't necessarily so, saith Ira Gershwin, although the jury still remains out on the matter of biogenic vs. abiogenic hydrocarbon material generation. The petroleum industry tends toward the biogenic thesis because it gives them reliable predictors. Others point to methane composition of solar system gas giants and ascribe a mineral origin.
Of course, if we just wanted auto fuel, that stuff's nearly infinite in supply. Just set up a bucket brigade between here and Jupiter, send up a skimmer every month and in ten years you'll have one bucket a month forever. We'd expire from waste heat before we ran out.
Not that that's a much better outcome, but (a) we'd still be mobile and warm for a while, and (b) we'd have at least a few of us living outside the eggshell before we used up the inside of the egg.
But it still puzzles me that the AU people, which I've always considered as easygoing and enlightened, accept this level of government "protectionism".
We don't. We're not happy about it and we're making our opinions known. The minister in charge (Stephen Conroy is dismissing our objections. Come election time, he will discover this relationship is transitive.
On the other hand I would REALLY like for someone to figure out a way for journalism to be a viable career...
Ok, blowing all my mods to address this one.
In the company I work for, we use trained journalists, and we use them for one purpose - and it's not writing internal newsletters. We use them because they know how to write. We have a constant need for people to write about stuff we sell and do in order to inform our potential customers. That text needs to be engaging, with correct syntax, punctuation and spelling. Do you know how rare it is in even a large technology company to find people who know how to construct a paragraph correctly, to say nothing of making it readable?
Mind you, they need to know a little about technology. Not a huge amount, but enough to ask sensible questions in an interview.
You might end up being called a "market analyst" rather than a "reporter", but work is definitely there, and it's the same sort of investigative reporting you were trained for. But the pay is probably better and interviews are easier to come by. It may not be the discovery of Watergate, but there's hope for you that isn't spelled Wendy's.
Not quite. Throughout history there have been CEOs who've been very strongly associated with their companies. Here's a short, non-exhaustive list (in no particular order):
Bill Gates - Microsoft
Warren Buffet - Berkshire Hathaway
Jack Welch - General Electric
Not to mention: Ken Olson (deceased) - Digital Equipment Corporation (also deceased).
I have observed that organisations held together by a charismatic leader often include that leader's charisma as a structural principle all throughout the org chart. And when that charisma goes missing, the wires get very tangled.
Leadership is important. You can't replace it with mere management.
...Would you buy a "new" iPhone if you were told a better one was 6 months away, and all the cool features it would have eventually?
But there's more to it than the Osborne effect. Apple's innovations are often the sort that can be echoed by competitors, diluting the return on their initiative and investment if disclosed too early. In this respect they're no different from any other toy company. I remember it once being said that it was easier to enter the offices of the Pentagon than to acquire a visitors pass to Mattel, so the secrecy may be simply good business.
"The C Programming Language" by Kernighan & Richie.
Agree. Brilliant book. Bound to give you a few good pointers (ahem) in programming at a fundamental level. Took me a while to understand the book, but when I worked through it the "click" was audible.
How is this reasonable? If you do this, then you're just short-changing your company, and putting everyone's paychecks at risk.
Agree. For the same reason you're doing nobody any favours by keeping on a non-performer. Unless you have "charity case" as a budget line item, you're screwing the others on your team if you don't fire them.
Personally I'd go with simply hiring the best you can and if your company goes against common sense and uses clever H1B gearing (or whatever that HR madness is called by you Yankee gentlefolk) then it's time to bail.
I've hired maybe 100 programmers all up. Never asked about academic quals. If they were offered, cool, but I was more interested in discussing a piece of their code with them. That and a range of questions designed to evoke their enthusiasm for their chosen field.
Result was low turnover, team dynamics were good, and we met our objectives.
No, there's no way to turn it off. It was designed by all those incompetent American programmers!
Not too long ago I read an editorial (in English) in a Bengal IT newspaper section. They were bewailing the quality of all that programming work that was their natural domain being outsourced to China. They used the arguments of poor communications, time zone shifts, and lessened quality. Frankly, the same arguments I remember hearing (and making, let's be honest) back when offshoring was first getting a toe-hold. The irony was delicious.
I wonder how long it will be before the Chinese write that same editorial, and bewail the Phillipines, the Koreans, the Elbonians, whatever. Enough of a trend to forecast with, I think.
But it's no joke about the descending spiral of interest in technology jobs if you're in one of the countries where the tech jobs and tech salaries are evaporating.
Put it another way - I firmly believe the human race will conquer space, but I am less and less convinced the common language will be English.
It the MPAA/RIAA have a legitimate point of view, then I can barely comprehend what illegitimate is.
One can hope that we'll continue to keep the pressure on until Federal policies begin to align with something approaching a workable consensus. Faint hope perhaps, but it keeps me going.
There has to be some plateau when a balance can be struck where we can abjure both the trading of works that aren't ours to trade, and the egregious, obscene litigation history of the RIAA with their $1.9M judgement against a poor, naiive mother who walked into an open candy store.
A new business model has to arise from the wreckage of this one, and a new set of lessons for the courts has to replace the rollover we've witnessed to date. It has to happen.
But until it does, the only hope we have for an ultimately equitable model is to keep the vociferous debate going. We have to keep the pressure up.
... to which the RIAA assumes they lost the sale due to piracy, not by any other means. These people are not rational; boycotts do not work with them.
Eventually it will, if enough people boycott them. They'll have to live off their fat. Never a pleasant experience for people used to all those calories, eh?
That's not what is being said. Rather, I think the point is that if registration of copyright occurs after the infringement occurs, this has an effect on the calculation of damages.
I understand the US does not permit claims of retrospective infractions? If you do something before it's illegal, you can't be done for the infraction? That would be like the bad old days of the UK prior to the American Revolution.
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The finer the sand the more it acts like this, that's your "water on mars" right there.
A good example of that would have been observed by anyone changing the toner in one of the old high-end HP colour laser printers. You could see the highly liquid nature of the fine grain toner through the translucent plastic cartridges. That stuff sloshes.
I predict this will appeal more to the older crowd and while a lot of the themes of the songs have anti-Cro Magnum themes, I think this sort of retro music is long overdue.
Along with the flute was an inscription in a precursor hieroglyphic stating action would be taken over "making available" with an urge to settle early for a fee of three bison and a wife.
Not sure if you are trolling or not. If you are.... good one.... and you must really hate journalists.
I wasn't trolling, I was stating a fact. And I think journalists are the first and last bastion of freedom, and that the general ability to write well is a necessary characteristic of the civilised. But I also don't believe that a journalism degree means you should starve, if you find your field of work economically compromised at the moment. I was trying to keep the literary gene pool alive, as well as pointing out its importance to a technical industry.
I have a troll, though. Hunter, level 16 on Aman'Thul. Name is "Offtopic". Send him a fish.
My guess is that they'll try liquid nitrogen, too at some point
...no doubt followed by the tap of a tiny hammer and the sounds of a vacuum cleaner.
My guess is they're also considering removing the knob who allowed this piece of debris to float around unsecured.
What's the knob made out of, anyone here know? If it's plastic or pure aluminium, they might call a good chemist.
...sees this summary and thinks ... DUP?
If the edge were so important, they would cut trees with razors.
What an interesting divergent idea. Why not? What sort of razor would you need? A thin, long edge under tension only a molecule or two wide of -- what material? Long chain carbon nanotubes filled with silicon atoms? What if you passed an alternating current through it to give it piezolectric vibration. Would this work? You might be able to cut through stone that way too.
Hmmm... piezoelectric razor. Not the type to leave around the house.
Eat some cruel negative calorie vegetables like cellery and carrots as this will cause your body to metabolize fat and release endorphins while creating natural o-zone which results in a slight euphoric/un-burdening countenance. It's easy to write code that way.
Your ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
atmospheric music... stuff that I think you'd hear in space if it had a soundtrack
Phaedra by Tangerine Dream.
Is it just me? I don't think I've ever met a good programmer who smoked pot at any time in their life.
No, I don't have short term memory (I think....)
I've met counter-examples who were absolutely brilliant at their job, and among my own team. I think they sublimated the food cravings by substituting string manipulations and clever pointer arithmetic. It wasn't just good code, it was elegant code as well.
I give myself a little pep talk. I tell myself that if Michael Jackson can keep going so can I.
Given that Michael Jackson died a few hours ago, I would pick another image.
R.I.P. Michael. You were abused, troubled, and the money killed you. You were creepy, good, and brilliant. You were a case of arrested development and the best damn choreographer since Fred Astaire.
You were the ultimate winner and loser, and our culture was changed by your presence here. Bye, guy.
1) Examine your motives. Do you really want to do this? No? Think about the effect on you if you don't. Spend no more than 2 minutes on this stage. Decide.
2) Describe the problem to yourself, written, in a single short paragraph. Display this where you can see it as you work.
3) Determine the absolutely smallest possible component of this job that you need to do. Maybe a 5 minute job. If you can't break down a big job into smaller jobs, you're in the wrong business. Pick that smallest little job and do it. Write it down on a physical list and tick it off. Actually do this step.
4) Determine the next little job. Work a bit to find the next smallest task. Rinse and repeat.
5) By this time you might have momentum. But if all else fails, acquire a McDonald's or Wendy's job application. Have it framed and on your wall in front of you. Nothing will motivate you better than that.
I'm pretty sure the dinosaurs, meteors, God, whatever deserves a lot of credit for coming up with that scheme where most living material gets buried for millions of years and/or under a flood just so we can power society for, what, 100-200 years?
[Citation not desired]
You are under the assumption that petrochemicals come from reduced plant matter. 'Tain't necessarily so, saith Ira Gershwin, although the jury still remains out on the matter of biogenic vs. abiogenic hydrocarbon material generation. The petroleum industry tends toward the biogenic thesis because it gives them reliable predictors. Others point to methane composition of solar system gas giants and ascribe a mineral origin.
Of course, if we just wanted auto fuel, that stuff's nearly infinite in supply. Just set up a bucket brigade between here and Jupiter, send up a skimmer every month and in ten years you'll have one bucket a month forever. We'd expire from waste heat before we ran out.
Not that that's a much better outcome, but (a) we'd still be mobile and warm for a while, and (b) we'd have at least a few of us living outside the eggshell before we used up the inside of the egg.
It's all worth it though. Since we know that if little Johnny sees one pair of tits, his head will explode
Oh crap... how are they going to protect nursing babies???
Get them to swallow.
But it still puzzles me that the AU people, which I've always considered as easygoing and enlightened, accept this level of government "protectionism".
We don't. We're not happy about it and we're making our opinions known. The minister in charge (Stephen Conroy is dismissing our objections. Come election time, he will discover this relationship is transitive.
On the other hand I would REALLY like for someone to figure out a way for journalism to be a viable career...
Ok, blowing all my mods to address this one.
In the company I work for, we use trained journalists, and we use them for one purpose - and it's not writing internal newsletters. We use them because they know how to write. We have a constant need for people to write about stuff we sell and do in order to inform our potential customers. That text needs to be engaging, with correct syntax, punctuation and spelling. Do you know how rare it is in even a large technology company to find people who know how to construct a paragraph correctly, to say nothing of making it readable?
Mind you, they need to know a little about technology. Not a huge amount, but enough to ask sensible questions in an interview.
You might end up being called a "market analyst" rather than a "reporter", but work is definitely there, and it's the same sort of investigative reporting you were trained for. But the pay is probably better and interviews are easier to come by. It may not be the discovery of Watergate, but there's hope for you that isn't spelled Wendy's.
Not quite. Throughout history there have been CEOs who've been very strongly associated with their companies. Here's a short, non-exhaustive list (in no particular order):
Bill Gates - Microsoft
Warren Buffet - Berkshire Hathaway
Jack Welch - General Electric
Not to mention: Ken Olson (deceased) - Digital Equipment Corporation (also deceased).
I have observed that organisations held together by a charismatic leader often include that leader's charisma as a structural principle all throughout the org chart. And when that charisma goes missing, the wires get very tangled.
Leadership is important. You can't replace it with mere management.
...Would you buy a "new" iPhone if you were told a better one was 6 months away, and all the cool features it would have eventually?
But there's more to it than the Osborne effect. Apple's innovations are often the sort that can be echoed by competitors, diluting the return on their initiative and investment if disclosed too early. In this respect they're no different from any other toy company. I remember it once being said that it was easier to enter the offices of the Pentagon than to acquire a visitors pass to Mattel, so the secrecy may be simply good business.
"The C Programming Language" by Kernighan & Richie.
Agree. Brilliant book. Bound to give you a few good pointers (ahem) in programming at a fundamental level. Took me a while to understand the book, but when I worked through it the "click" was audible.
How is this reasonable? If you do this, then you're just short-changing your company, and putting everyone's paychecks at risk.
Agree. For the same reason you're doing nobody any favours by keeping on a non-performer. Unless you have "charity case" as a budget line item, you're screwing the others on your team if you don't fire them.
Personally I'd go with simply hiring the best you can and if your company goes against common sense and uses clever H1B gearing (or whatever that HR madness is called by you Yankee gentlefolk) then it's time to bail.
Result was low turnover, team dynamics were good, and we met our objectives.
No, there's no way to turn it off. It was designed by all those incompetent American programmers!
Not too long ago I read an editorial (in English) in a Bengal IT newspaper section. They were bewailing the quality of all that programming work that was their natural domain being outsourced to China. They used the arguments of poor communications, time zone shifts, and lessened quality. Frankly, the same arguments I remember hearing (and making, let's be honest) back when offshoring was first getting a toe-hold. The irony was delicious.
I wonder how long it will be before the Chinese write that same editorial, and bewail the Phillipines, the Koreans, the Elbonians, whatever. Enough of a trend to forecast with, I think.
But it's no joke about the descending spiral of interest in technology jobs if you're in one of the countries where the tech jobs and tech salaries are evaporating.
Put it another way - I firmly believe the human race will conquer space, but I am less and less convinced the common language will be English.
Simple do what Bill Gates and Steve Jobs did...
Met my wife at Apple too, in a job interview. I hired her. Best programmer on the team, too. Still together after 28 years.
If you can't arrange that sort of thing then what advice can I offer? Mmmm... I know! Neener neener neener!
It the MPAA/RIAA have a legitimate point of view, then I can barely comprehend what illegitimate is.
One can hope that we'll continue to keep the pressure on until Federal policies begin to align with something approaching a workable consensus. Faint hope perhaps, but it keeps me going.
There has to be some plateau when a balance can be struck where we can abjure both the trading of works that aren't ours to trade, and the egregious, obscene litigation history of the RIAA with their $1.9M judgement against a poor, naiive mother who walked into an open candy store.
A new business model has to arise from the wreckage of this one, and a new set of lessons for the courts has to replace the rollover we've witnessed to date. It has to happen.
But until it does, the only hope we have for an ultimately equitable model is to keep the vociferous debate going. We have to keep the pressure up.
... to which the RIAA assumes they lost the sale due to piracy, not by any other means. These people are not rational; boycotts do not work with them.
Eventually it will, if enough people boycott them. They'll have to live off their fat. Never a pleasant experience for people used to all those calories, eh?
That's not what is being said. Rather, I think the point is that if registration of copyright occurs after the infringement occurs, this has an effect on the calculation of damages.
I understand the US does not permit claims of retrospective infractions? If you do something before it's illegal, you can't be done for the infraction? That would be like the bad old days of the UK prior to the American Revolution.