...I'd call it, "Mine's Bigger!" (I think they call it Sweeps) and it occurs in November, February, and May. Each of the affiliated TV stations put all of their time & energy between those months coming up with new stories, trying for "if it bleeds, it leads" blockbuster ratings to be able to charge more for ads until the next "Mine's Bigger than Yours!" And nothing is sacred. In November, one station showed hiring someone from a nerd shop and they'd drive around nicer houses and look for unprotected routers. Then they'd traipse up the driveway and and play, "This Is Your Unprotected Router!"
In February, another affiliate did it. Line for line, the same script. Once the stories are announced or have been played, you can Google the stories on other TV stations in other cities during previous sweeps. I'm guessing the traditional method was to create a news letter detailing all of the sweeps stories and circulate them to all of the other affiliates to mine ideas. The Internet must be a Godsend for them. They can steal anyone's ideas at anytime from anywhere.
Spend your money like your boss' spending account and you have to account for it. Big tip: retail doesn't count it! The only time you buy retail is: 1)if you have to have it right now and even then, you can find places around reasonably medium-sized cities who will stake their reputations on keeping up with online companies, wanting you to come back to them as well as passing the word to your friends to keep them in the game as well. 2) you live too far away to have a resource like all of this within immediate access.
...one of my.sigs used to say, "One day, we'll find Microsoft has patented the alphabet and we'll find ourselves paying royalties every time we sit down at the keyboard."
Why should you feel ashamed by hooking up again with a C-64? As lite as Linux has gotten, certainly you can find at least one flavor to satisfy your taste?
I mean, come on, I remember when the TRaSh-80 was around and used a tape recorder for persisting data or TI-99/4A which you could be paid for $0.50 in its final days. It was selling for $49.50 at K-Mart and there was a $50 rebate from Texas Instruments.
All of this is nicer unless you want to "adopt a mainframe" (someone begs & pleads for someone to come get a mainframe and give it a good home (usually basement or garage) before it's towed away. I think the CFO would not find the sharp spike in the electric bill very funny when she sees it, providing it doesn't blow something on the way to the house first.
I'm guessing it would be in the neighborhood of contest to see whose houses stand the greatest chance of being seen from Jupiter. (In a recent year, one of the houses said their December bill was $5kUS more than average.
At one time (ca. 25 years ago), there was Science Digest, Science 'XX[1], and Discover. made it very nice. Having three magazines at the same reading level and independent stories, etc.
Unfortunately, Discover bought the other two out and shut them down, claiming redundancy. That sucked. The withdrawals were horrible.
Later, a new rendition of Science Digest came forward and it had a framework of a tabloid and 3rd-grade science.
I don't remember the specific timeframe (probably '87-90), but Omni magazine cut their losses and said they'd be producing occasional issues hardcopy but most of their effort would be online. I haven't heard a peep out of them since.
Newspapers: (I'd buy more but those are the only ones I
can get locally with same-day editions. I've tried
subscriptions via mail and it does not work. Chicago Tribune, Indianapolis Star (the Star is what Mom
taught me to read out of when I was 2. She thought it was
an omen to become a teacher), Investor's Business Daily,
New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal
Business 2.0, Business Week, C/C++ Users Journal, Computer
Games, Computer Gaming World, Discover, Dr. Dobb's Journal,
Fast Company, Forbes, Linux Journal, Linux Magazine, Maximum
PC (nee' boot; all the way to issue #1), Newsweek, PC Gamer,
PC Magazine, PC World, Scientific American, Smithsonian, TV
Guide, Time, Wired (all the way back to issue #1)
There are probably other magazines; and if a magazine has
a good article, it makes a trip across mr. scanner at the checkout counter - even if it's
one page long. There are probably others, but these are what I dredged up.
Twenty-five years ago in high school, I realized I wasn't
in the tech tech business for technology; I'm in it for
access to information. (it was that or traumatic surgeon)
...(I'm sorry, I still miss his original partner, Gene Siskel)
Anyway, Ebert said it is probably the best superhero|hero movie ever made.
I don't like his tv show now that his original parter, Gene Siskel, who was my favorite - one of the reasons I went to that section of the Chicago Tribune (I live in Indy) first - to see what he'd written about current movies.
I'm certain we could come up with a ton of movies which would be considered superhero|hero movies, where some would be very esoteric to many who haven't had a variety of newspaper cartoons growing up; e.g., The Phantom, in the Trib. And Spiderman was also in the Trib until about the time I graduated from high shool.
This'll end up on the fourth screen of threads, but it's worth reading for those who find it. It's over seven years old, but essentially everything in it holds true today. (worth reading on various lists I don't have it bookmarked - I knew where it was.
"They Write The Right Stuff". I'm not even going to provide a summary of everything which is listed in the article. There are a lot of good lessons in well organized, well thought out explanations as to why the software doesn't shut down but how few errors are found.
There is a difference between a shuttle crew and standard users. 1) A shuttle crew is a smaller user body. 2) They're more likely to follow instructions ala "what happens if I hit this button?"
I've never sent a note to the author, but I think it would be a book as important as Writing Solid Code (is that the right one? (I've been up a little too long without a syringe.)
The FCC isn't in the job of picking what their job is or isn't.
It wasn't until Reagan deregulated them in terms of commercial length (7 commercial ad time:: 30 air time) such that they could do as they please. Ta-da! infomercials.
Something else to note is what Micro$oft does after they work with someone else. Two quick examples: 1. Micro$oft's fun with IBM. The split occurs and what does Microsoft do? 2. Micro$oft worked in a consulting|advisory stint with Compu$erve - as many predicted, it helped them either confirm what they suspected or provide them with knowledge to see how things have to work behind the scenes. - all for an online serviece or ISP.
When I taught as an undergraduate in the early 80s the standard definition was similar to what you are describing. As far as what I meant by simplifying the data, I remained quiet for a
moment to avoid giving too much away for someone to jump in. Each time the routine calls itself (or a co-routine), the data passed
as parameters should assist the routine in approaching the terminal condition.
Computing the factorial of a number is a good example of recursion but not in the way most people understand it so they'd fail a test if you asked them why it was recursion. In the terms of calling itself in simplified data.
Main(x) would call factorial(5):
function factorial(y)
select case(y) case 0: return = 0; case 1: return = 1; case else return = y * factorial(y - 1); end function;
...when "Omni" magnizine used to publish "The World's Hardest IQ Test". The goal was to identify people who were in 180+ or triple sigma. Mensa ("table" in Latin) accepts the top 2% but Triple Sigma wants those who are in the top 1/10,000.
What's really interesting is when Omni was going under. An "official" announcement went out that they were preparing to be an online magazine, then several months past, and *poof*
You bet. Rather than hire the "right" person for each type of work skill, many smart managers are finding it to be better to "get the right people on the bus" (without regarding what their skillset is). Once you've done that, "get them in the right seat".
The synergy of talented people who in a position to work together is infinitely stronger than getting the "best" person for each role. It's no different than an All-Star game (pick a sport). Pick the best of each position (right now, it's often done via votes) and stack them up against the picks of a coach who is given the right to select his players via his own methods.
Picking favorites to be on an all-star team or specialists for each position is the same as when you interview someone for a special position. You either vote for them on your own or as a group if multiple people interview them.
I would bet this is part of why companies such as Google or Microsoft (God, let's not have another discussion of Microsoft's "Tests" as part of hiring) - see who is the "right" person, then figure out what slot to put them into.
That's nice. Fiat. The sky is purple. Why? Because I say so. No proof. Just based upon what I say. Would you prefer a prettier word than fiat? Try ukase. It's got a lot more umph in it than fiat (it can only be invoked by a Russian tsar) but it also doesn't require proof.
So we sit here watching your post. Care to explain what you meant? How about some proof?
And please, don't tell us this is something in a magazine, or heard on a financial radio/tv show, and it's the only thing you can remember. That's worse than fiat.
whether this is your PC or not. Granted, life would suck when it comes to communicating & researching things for class(es). And it sucks to be you when it comes to your PC working when you leave for class then return and find it's hosed. Later, you find some squidlicker who works for the campus computing center foobar'd a bunch of PCs (even one is bad enough) and didn't provide a notice in advance, let alone one afterwards.
Based upon the geek::student ratio, they should[1] try making the odds against them as small as possible. Even a relatively small school would be kept perpetually busy because of the challenge to keep all of the PCs running.
Perhaps they could insist everyone submitting their machine to a Ghost CD and anything you do after that is at your own risk? - and any other problems means the Gost CD [again]?
It's worth the state trying, even if others have tried & failed.
One of the other things the state does is cams in some of the state parks so you can tell when the trees are going into fall colors. You can look at your favorite places then decide when to go.
There's another message I posted about this. One of the marks of a good programmer is recognizing when information; e.g., a variable or value will be better used if it's pulled out and scoped as a constant. Then it obviously becomes $x='Houston' to $='Indiana'. I'm not certain why people don't go back and rip out the values which can be consolidated into constants or even semi-constants bacause of the flexibility it adds.
It doesn't matter whether you code on the fly or "monk style" like I do write everything on hardcopy by hand, mark it up like an author would, rewrite it to incorporate changes, and so on until it's clean. Then that means I only have to key in and be much, much closer to functional code.
Others find this slow and tedious, but it's how I've done it, whether it's LISP and FORTRAN, which I learned by taking coursework during one of my high school summers at Indiana University - also classes with Douglas Hofstadter (Godel, Escher, Bach) and Paul Erdos when he passed through for a couple of weeks.
The FORTRAN class made us use punch cards for the sake of nostalgia so to cut down on repunching cards, I did as much deskwork as possible so I only had to punch the bare minimum of cards.
I live about two miles North of Peterson's so that's not so bad. Driving downtown sucks because of the construction (there are only two seasons around here: Winter, and Road Construction) What's also nice, however, is Keystone at the Crossing with Keystone Grill and Sullivan's, now that Peter's has closed. 116th/Keystone has a bunch of new, nice places as well.
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...I'd call it, "Mine's Bigger!" (I think they call it Sweeps) and it occurs in November, February, and May. Each of the affiliated TV stations put all of their time & energy between those months coming up with new stories, trying for "if it bleeds, it leads" blockbuster ratings to be able to charge more for ads until the next "Mine's Bigger than Yours!" And nothing is sacred. In November, one station showed hiring someone from a nerd shop and they'd drive around nicer houses and look for unprotected routers. Then they'd traipse up the driveway and and play, "This Is Your Unprotected Router!"
In February, another affiliate did it. Line for line, the same script. Once the stories are announced or have been played, you can Google the stories on other TV stations in other cities during previous sweeps. I'm guessing the traditional method was to create a news letter detailing all of the sweeps stories and circulate them to all of the other affiliates to mine ideas. The Internet must be a Godsend for them. They can steal anyone's ideas at anytime from anywhere.
Spend your money like your boss' spending account and you have to account for it. Big tip: retail doesn't count it! The only time you buy retail is: 1)if you have to have it right now and even then, you can find places around reasonably medium-sized cities who will stake their reputations on keeping up with online companies, wanting you to come back to them as well as passing the word to your friends to keep them in the game as well. 2) you live too far away to have a resource like all of this within immediate access.
Take a gander at:
http://www.pricewatch.com
http://froogle.google.com
There are other resources but these two should get you into a ball park much, much cheaper than a retail price of $299.
...one of my .sigs used to say, "One day, we'll find Microsoft has patented the alphabet and we'll find ourselves paying royalties every time we sit down at the keyboard."
Now I'm waiting to see if it's a prophesy.
And it's only been two decades since the CD-ROM. Obviously, they're going to try to pass the hat again.
Why should you feel ashamed by hooking up again with a C-64? As lite as Linux has gotten, certainly you can find at least one flavor to satisfy your taste?
I mean, come on, I remember when the TRaSh-80 was around and used a tape recorder for persisting data or TI-99/4A which you could be paid for $0.50 in its final days. It was selling for $49.50 at K-Mart and there was a $50 rebate from Texas Instruments.
All of this is nicer unless you want to "adopt a mainframe" (someone begs & pleads for someone to come get a mainframe and give it a good home (usually basement or garage) before it's towed away. I think the CFO would not find the sharp spike in the electric bill very funny when she sees it, providing it doesn't blow something on the way to the house first.
I'm guessing it would be in the neighborhood of contest to see whose houses stand the greatest chance of being seen from Jupiter. (In a recent year, one of the houses said their December bill was $5kUS more than average.
At one time (ca. 25 years ago), there was Science Digest, Science 'XX[1], and Discover. made it very nice. Having three magazines at the same reading level and independent stories, etc. Unfortunately, Discover bought the other two out and shut them down, claiming redundancy. That sucked. The withdrawals were horrible.
Later, a new rendition of Science Digest came forward and it had a framework of a tabloid and 3rd-grade science.
I don't remember the specific timeframe (probably '87-90), but Omni magazine cut their losses and said they'd be producing occasional issues hardcopy but most of their effort would be online. I haven't heard a peep out of them since.
[1]'XX = the last two digits of the current year.
Newspapers: (I'd buy more but those are the only ones I can get locally with same-day editions. I've tried subscriptions via mail and it does not work.
Chicago Tribune, Indianapolis Star (the Star is what Mom taught me to read out of when I was 2. She thought it was an omen to become a teacher), Investor's Business Daily, New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal
Business 2.0, Business Week, C/C++ Users Journal, Computer Games, Computer Gaming World, Discover, Dr. Dobb's Journal, Fast Company, Forbes, Linux Journal, Linux Magazine, Maximum PC (nee' boot; all the way to issue #1), Newsweek, PC Gamer, PC Magazine, PC World, Scientific American, Smithsonian, TV Guide, Time, Wired (all the way back to issue #1)
There are probably other magazines; and if a magazine has a good article, it makes a trip across mr. scanner at the checkout counter - even if it's one page long. There are probably others, but these are what I dredged up. Twenty-five years ago in high school, I realized I wasn't in the tech tech business for technology; I'm in it for access to information. (it was that or traumatic surgeon)
...(I'm sorry, I still miss his original partner, Gene Siskel)
Anyway, Ebert said it is probably the best superhero|hero movie ever made.
I don't like his tv show now that his original parter, Gene Siskel, who was my favorite - one of the reasons I went to that section of the Chicago Tribune (I live in Indy) first - to see what he'd written about current movies.
I'm certain we could come up with a ton of movies which would be considered superhero|hero movies, where some would be very esoteric to many who haven't had a variety of newspaper cartoons growing up; e.g., The Phantom, in the Trib. And Spiderman was also in the Trib until about the time I graduated from high shool.
I believe water is at its densest|heaviest at 4C, which is 39.2F. Considering Antarctica's environment, that's not likely to occur.
Hasn't anyone suggested a Bucky Dome yet? I'm surprised. (actually, I'm shocked).
This'll end up on the fourth screen of threads, but it's worth reading for those who find it. It's over seven years old, but essentially everything in it holds true today. (worth reading on various lists I don't have it bookmarked - I knew where it was.
"They Write The Right Stuff". I'm not even going to provide a summary of everything which is listed in the article. There are a lot of good lessons in well organized, well thought out explanations as to why the software doesn't shut down but how few errors are found.
There is a difference between a shuttle crew and standard users. 1) A shuttle crew is a smaller user body. 2) They're more likely to follow instructions ala "what happens if I hit this button?"
I've never sent a note to the author, but I think it would be a book as important as Writing Solid Code (is that the right one? (I've been up a little too long without a syringe.)
The FCC isn't in the job of picking what their job is or isn't.
It wasn't until Reagan deregulated them in terms of commercial length (7 commercial ad time:: 30 air time) such that they could do as they please. Ta-da! infomercials.
I don't think you understand the consept of an analogy:
I don't think you understand the concept of spelling correctly
Something else to note is what Micro$oft does after they work with someone else. Two quick examples:
1. Micro$oft's fun with IBM. The split occurs and what does Microsoft do?
2. Micro$oft worked in a consulting|advisory stint with Compu$erve - as many predicted, it helped them either confirm what they suspected or provide them with knowledge to see how things have to work behind the scenes. - all for an online serviece or ISP.
Computing the factorial of a number is a good example of recursion but not in the way most people understand it so they'd fail a test if you asked them why it was recursion. In the terms of calling itself in simplified data.
...when "Omni" magnizine used to publish "The World's Hardest IQ Test". The goal was to identify people who were in 180+ or triple sigma. Mensa ("table" in Latin) accepts the top 2% but Triple Sigma wants those who are in the top 1/10,000.
What's really interesting is when Omni was going under. An "official" announcement went out that they were preparing to be an online magazine, then several months past, and *poof*
You bet. Rather than hire the "right" person for each type of work skill, many smart managers are finding it to be better to "get the right people on the bus" (without regarding what their skillset is). Once you've done that, "get them in the right seat".
The synergy of talented people who in a position to work together is infinitely stronger than getting the "best" person for each role. It's no different than an All-Star game (pick a sport). Pick the best of each position (right now, it's often done via votes) and stack them up against the picks of a coach who is given the right to select his players via his own methods.
Picking favorites to be on an all-star team or specialists for each position is the same as when you interview someone for a special position. You either vote for them on your own or as a group if multiple people interview them.
I would bet this is part of why companies such as Google or Microsoft (God, let's not have another discussion of Microsoft's "Tests" as part of hiring) - see who is the "right" person, then figure out what slot to put them into.
It prevents insider training.
That's nice. Fiat. The sky is purple. Why? Because I say so. No proof. Just based upon what I say. Would you prefer a prettier word than fiat? Try ukase. It's got a lot more umph in it than fiat (it can only be invoked by a Russian tsar) but it also doesn't require proof.
So we sit here watching your post. Care to explain what you meant? How about some proof? And please, don't tell us this is something in a magazine, or heard on a financial radio/tv show, and it's the only thing you can remember. That's worse than fiat.
whether this is your PC or not. Granted, life would suck when it comes to communicating & researching things for class(es). And it sucks to be you when it comes to your PC working when you leave for class then return and find it's hosed. Later, you find some squidlicker who works for the campus computing center foobar'd a bunch of PCs (even one is bad enough) and didn't provide a notice in advance, let alone one afterwards.
Based upon the geek::student ratio, they should[1] try making the odds against them as small as possible. Even a relatively small school would be kept perpetually busy because of the challenge to keep all of the PCs running.
Perhaps they could insist everyone submitting their machine to a Ghost CD and anything you do after that is at your own risk? - and any other problems means the Gost CD [again]?
It's worth the state trying, even if others have tried & failed.
One of the other things the state does is cams in some of the state parks so you can tell when the trees are going into fall colors. You can look at your favorite places then decide when to go.
There's another message I posted about this. One of the marks of a good programmer is recognizing when information; e.g., a variable or value will be better used if it's pulled out and scoped as a constant. Then it obviously becomes $x='Houston' to $='Indiana'. I'm not certain why people don't go back and rip out the values which can be consolidated into constants or even semi-constants bacause of the flexibility it adds.
It doesn't matter whether you code on the fly or "monk style" like I do write everything on hardcopy by hand, mark it up like an author would, rewrite it to incorporate changes, and so on until it's clean. Then that means I only have to key in and be much, much closer to functional code.
Others find this slow and tedious, but it's how I've done it, whether it's LISP and FORTRAN, which I learned by taking coursework during one of my high school summers at Indiana University - also classes with Douglas Hofstadter (Godel, Escher, Bach) and Paul Erdos when he passed through for a couple of weeks.
The FORTRAN class made us use punch cards for the sake of nostalgia so to cut down on repunching cards, I did as much deskwork as possible so I only had to punch the bare minimum of cards.
Dish d/l, copper upload?
I live about two miles North of Peterson's so that's not so bad. Driving downtown sucks because of the construction (there are only two seasons around here: Winter, and Road Construction) What's also nice, however, is Keystone at the Crossing with Keystone Grill and Sullivan's, now that Peter's has closed. 116th/Keystone has a bunch of new, nice places as well.
And yes, you Anonymous Coward, I was talking about your mother.
No need
to inbreed
as long as your mother
keeps puttting out.
Kathy Davis can't be completely off plumb - she graduated from MIT.