Read "Waldo & Magic Incorporated", also by Heinlein. Teleoperation, robot mimics at a distance. Again, science follows science fiction, if at a safe and respectful distance.
Actually, in the distant past when I wrote a lot of FORTRAN I tended to CODE IN ALL CAPS because for years I often had to debug stuff over the phone at 3AM when it was hard to GET MY BRAIN WORKING WELL ENOUGH TO READ the blue-bar listings I kept beside the bed.
For years after those days, I talked in my sleep. My wife told me that one night I told her I loved her, but I defined my variables first and the syntax was recognisably FORTRAN. I'm lucky I guess, I don't think a non-programmer spouse would have understood.
Especially when using MathCAD. Don't drink and derive!!
But with regard to drinking on aircraft, you're a fool if you don't and a fool if you do. A drink will help to settle nervous travellers, but it will also dehydrate you worse than air travel by itself will, and that's considerably. Dehydration = hangover. YMMV and if you're Russian you might not notice.
It's for the tiny motor driving the laptop, honest!
Managers without technical backgrounds tend to be wilfully, aggressively ignorant, and they will always trust their fellow MBA's over the people such as the engineers and accountants who actually know what's going on.
Sanford: "You gotta finish high school if you gonna inherit my business."
Son: "I don't need arithmetic to run a junkyard".
Sanford: "You'll go broke."
Son: "I'll get a business manager."
Sanford: "Your business manager knows arithmetic and you don't? You gonna go broke."
I've been working in this business for 20+ years and I'm considering an MBA focussed on managing tech
I've been in IT for 40 years now, 25 as a systems programmer. I've written apps for finance, RDB repair, workflow, web sites -- pretty much everything. I'm good at it.
My boss, however, has an MBA and wears a much thinner watch than I do.
We had to make do with VT220 terminals (in green or amber) connected to a DEC minicomputer, which today wouldn't be trusted to control a modern toaster.
You had VT220's? Sheer luxury mate. We had to do with VT52's and we had to enlarge the cooling slots with our own fingers to get the toast in.
The scary thing ? A sun going nova in our galactic cluster "should" occur about once every 20.000 years. Clearly we've been lucky now for 170.000 years at least.
I thought we had circuit breakers to prevent these problems.
You don't need a closed circuit to fry a small coil with a big enough inductive load.
But aren't these things fairly well shielded anyway? I can't imagine a big EMP pulse getting through a zinc wrapper (galvanised steel can, isn't it?) and then I'd think you're dealing with some fairly heavy duty windings. Power line transformers survive lightning strikes sometimes, don't they?
Electronics, yes, some stuff would fry. But electrical supply? I don't think so. Some of the SCADA controllers would fry, but those have kind of a run-flat capability I believe.
If it's "code monkey," you have a problem if you are older
I don't mean to be rude, but if it's "code monkey" learn all the current technology plus Hindi, because the Silicon Valley has moved.
If you want to be employed locally, learn networking or go directly for an MBA. So far it's proven difficult to lay cable and connect routers from overseas, and an MBA is sort of like the MCSE for management. No real worth perhaps, but a definite competitive advantage
However, I will give you a secret magic word if you want to attempt to dissuade someone from outsourcing a software team overseas. It's "Satyam".
...and the physical feedback does help avoid typos (at least for we who learned on manual typewriters)
Ahh, the old square-fender Underwoods. You could develop a bit of muscle swiping that big curved spoon called "Carriage Return" and moving that platen to the right, right against the stops. The floor would shake a bit, but you **knew** when you added a new line. Each line of text was an accomplishment.
Of course, there were those moments when the right hand stop wore off, and a bit of enthusiastic logorrhea could cost you a bit of plaster. But at least there was drama in the act of typing in those days.
The sharp drop in force is my feedback, not the actual click.
I agree. Sound is unnecessary. It's one of the reasons why I rather like the keyboard on my old-ish Dell laptop over the fairly recent Logitech one I use for my desktop.
The old IBM Selectric keyboards had brilliant touch and shape, for some reason I could type very fast on those despite their rather abrupt two-key rollover, which used a mechanical lockout.
Of course, for *real* tactile feedback nothing matched the buzz-to-the-elbows approach of the Teletype ASR-33. One key (read "no") rollover.
The TI thermal terminals of the time (circa 1970) had a rather odd touch -- fast, but harsh. They may have caught on except they tended to catch fire if you held down more than two keys at a time.
I.E slowly release Fe off the back of shipping vessels for 100's of miles
I think this could be done fairly simply by encouraging more tramp steamers to fly under Liberian registry. Those hulls simply drip Fe2O3nH2O and must be very good for phytoplankton growth.
A very long time ago I remember reading a quote attributed to Bill Gates: "I want to design a computer so powerful that turning it off would be an act of murder".
Queue the BSOD jokes, perhaps, but what a powerful meme that was.
Come to Australia. Our politicians are just as bad and our laws just as draconian, but we have strong social prohibitions against taking them seriously.
Mass causes space to curve. That curve causes mass to move. Add displacement per arbitrary unit of time and you too can play Cosmic Billiards. It's a good way to relieve tensor headaches.
Did you note, you'll be wasting equal amount of electricity as a printer printing 10000 pages if you leave your computer on all night long?
[Citation needed]
Dot-matrix? Ink-jet? Colour laser? Laptop? Desktop? Server? Display on or off? CRT? TFT? Storage? Power saving mode?
Notwithstanding that I challenge your statement to be anywhere within an order of magnitude or two off target as a generalised rule, the usage can be radically different depending on the combination. CRT's are different from TFT displays in energy use for example, rather dramatically in fact.
And my work laptop - a Dell Latitude D620 / XP Pro gets unplugged and locked into a desk drawer each night. I close down Outlook and shut the lid. Resumes in about 6 seconds the next morning. Whatever power usage it's consuming in that state, it's not enough to warm the desk drawer it resides in appreciably, and I don't see it spending much time recharging.
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I'd be pleased if it mopped up my excess glucose. I could cut down on the meds.
There's going to be an expansion out soon, upping that to level 60.
I have a fundamental dislike of gerunding.
Read "Waldo & Magic Incorporated", also by Heinlein. Teleoperation, robot mimics at a distance. Again, science follows science fiction, if at a safe and respectful distance.
For years after those days, I talked in my sleep. My wife told me that one night I told her I loved her, but I defined my variables first and the syntax was recognisably FORTRAN. I'm lucky I guess, I don't think a non-programmer spouse would have understood.
(Sigh) sometimes I think I work too hard.
But with regard to drinking on aircraft, you're a fool if you don't and a fool if you do. A drink will help to settle nervous travellers, but it will also dehydrate you worse than air travel by itself will, and that's considerably. Dehydration = hangover. YMMV and if you're Russian you might not notice.
It's for the tiny motor driving the laptop, honest!
Too much iron can lead to brain damage
You need to switch to wrought irony. It's just like regular irony, but twisted a bit.
Truth is the first casualty of any war.
An ideal sine wave, on the other hand, has only one frequency, and extends infinitely in time.
Square waves are like that too!
It's infinite.
It's not infinite.
It's infinite.
It's not infinite.
Turtles...
Managers without technical backgrounds tend to be wilfully, aggressively ignorant, and they will always trust their fellow MBA's over the people such as the engineers and accountants who actually know what's going on.
Sanford: "You gotta finish high school if you gonna inherit my business."
Son: "I don't need arithmetic to run a junkyard".
Sanford: "You'll go broke."
Son: "I'll get a business manager."
Sanford: "Your business manager knows arithmetic and you don't? You gonna go broke."
I've been working in this business for 20+ years and I'm considering an MBA focussed on managing tech
I've been in IT for 40 years now, 25 as a systems programmer. I've written apps for finance, RDB repair, workflow, web sites -- pretty much everything. I'm good at it.
My boss, however, has an MBA and wears a much thinner watch than I do.
Go figure.
We had to make do with VT220 terminals (in green or amber) connected to a DEC minicomputer, which today wouldn't be trusted to control a modern toaster.
You had VT220's? Sheer luxury mate. We had to do with VT52's and we had to enlarge the cooling slots with our own fingers to get the toast in.
The scary thing ? A sun going nova in our galactic cluster "should" occur about once every 20.000 years. Clearly we've been lucky now for 170.000 years at least.
Either that or your hypothesis is wrong, perhaps.
I thought we had circuit breakers to prevent these problems.
You don't need a closed circuit to fry a small coil with a big enough inductive load.
But aren't these things fairly well shielded anyway? I can't imagine a big EMP pulse getting through a zinc wrapper (galvanised steel can, isn't it?) and then I'd think you're dealing with some fairly heavy duty windings. Power line transformers survive lightning strikes sometimes, don't they?
Electronics, yes, some stuff would fry. But electrical supply? I don't think so. Some of the SCADA controllers would fry, but those have kind of a run-flat capability I believe.
If it's "code monkey," you have a problem if you are older
I don't mean to be rude, but if it's "code monkey" learn all the current technology plus Hindi, because the Silicon Valley has moved.
If you want to be employed locally, learn networking or go directly for an MBA. So far it's proven difficult to lay cable and connect routers from overseas, and an MBA is sort of like the MCSE for management. No real worth perhaps, but a definite competitive advantage
However, I will give you a secret magic word if you want to attempt to dissuade someone from outsourcing a software team overseas. It's "Satyam".
Of course, the younger generation is getting older. So it's getting more and more common to see older programmers
You'll know we've reached that significant threshold when you start seeing artificial hip technology advertised on ThinkGeek.
...and the physical feedback does help avoid typos (at least for we who learned on manual typewriters)
Ahh, the old square-fender Underwoods. You could develop a bit of muscle swiping that big curved spoon called "Carriage Return" and moving that platen to the right, right against the stops. The floor would shake a bit, but you **knew** when you added a new line. Each line of text was an accomplishment.
Of course, there were those moments when the right hand stop wore off, and a bit of enthusiastic logorrhea could cost you a bit of plaster. But at least there was drama in the act of typing in those days.
Hey, that's my lawn!
The sharp drop in force is my feedback, not the actual click.
I agree. Sound is unnecessary. It's one of the reasons why I rather like the keyboard on my old-ish Dell laptop over the fairly recent Logitech one I use for my desktop.
The old IBM Selectric keyboards had brilliant touch and shape, for some reason I could type very fast on those despite their rather abrupt two-key rollover, which used a mechanical lockout.
Of course, for *real* tactile feedback nothing matched the buzz-to-the-elbows approach of the Teletype ASR-33. One key (read "no") rollover.
The TI thermal terminals of the time (circa 1970) had a rather odd touch -- fast, but harsh. They may have caught on except they tended to catch fire if you held down more than two keys at a time.
I never metaphor I didn't like.
I.E slowly release Fe off the back of shipping vessels for 100's of miles
I think this could be done fairly simply by encouraging more tramp steamers to fly under Liberian registry. Those hulls simply drip Fe2O3nH2O and must be very good for phytoplankton growth.
Queue the BSOD jokes, perhaps, but what a powerful meme that was.
Come to Australia. Our politicians are just as bad and our laws just as draconian, but we have strong social prohibitions against taking them seriously.
To be more specific, the Google Cloud is impossible to secure against google.
Bloody oath, you put your finger on it. All we have is a mission statement to protect us.
Mass causes space to curve. That curve causes mass to move. Add displacement per arbitrary unit of time and you too can play Cosmic Billiards. It's a good way to relieve tensor headaches.
Did you note, you'll be wasting equal amount of electricity as a printer printing 10000 pages if you leave your computer on all night long?
[Citation needed]
Dot-matrix? Ink-jet? Colour laser? Laptop? Desktop? Server? Display on or off? CRT? TFT? Storage? Power saving mode?
Notwithstanding that I challenge your statement to be anywhere within an order of magnitude or two off target as a generalised rule, the usage can be radically different depending on the combination. CRT's are different from TFT displays in energy use for example, rather dramatically in fact.
And my work laptop - a Dell Latitude D620 / XP Pro gets unplugged and locked into a desk drawer each night. I close down Outlook and shut the lid. Resumes in about 6 seconds the next morning. Whatever power usage it's consuming in that state, it's not enough to warm the desk drawer it resides in appreciably, and I don't see it spending much time recharging.
...does that commercial jet weigh?