Um, isn't that a tautology? A well run company that initially succeeds and then fails will carry on making record profits right up until it starts going downhill.
That's very common among professionals. Most places I have worked have asked me to sign a statement that says the company has first rights to ANY invention I make while working for them, even if it is in my spare time.
I usually cross it out.
I imagine the same would be true of any creative field.
Why do people engrave the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin?
Sometimes doing something difficult but pointless is extremely satisfying.
Now, I must admit I'd be even more impressed if he managed to get Windows running on an IPod, but this is only the second article I've seen in a while that would even approach Slashdot's self proclaimed audience of hackers.
I would have thought it was obvious why he used Linux - to understand how to build a boot loader you need to either reverse engineer the OS, or have the source code. The former is rather more difficult for those of us who have not attained your god-like status.
I agree, from a brief perusal, Gnumeric does seem to be a better spreadsheet solution than OO. I will use Gnumeric on my next big spreadsheet exercise to see how it goes.
I can't see it getting around the macro/VBA translation issue, but would accept that that is not a migration killer.
Odd that. Mumbai (in India) has a fairly large USAn and Australian contingent. Staying in the best hotels, or in apartments, with a hired driver, and a maid and a housecleaner and a cook. You know, spending money, employing the locals, paying taxes, creating industries that do the same thing.
For that matter here in Australia we'd quite happily hire you if your skills were in short supply and you are reasonably young, or reasonably rich. Your standard of living would probably improve.
ok, it's about ten, leaves us 33, so its about 30, that's pretty close, maybe its 35, 35 sqd is 1225, yes its less than 35, (I'm typing this at about half normal speed, working it out as I go) OK, do 35^3 properly thats 36900+6125 =43025, pause, OK, it's a bit less than 35. OK, switch to Taylors expansion, delta is 10000, call it thirty percent, knock 10 percent off 35 that'll be 32, oh that's easy 32768, delta is 1000, call it 3 %, add 1% to 32=32.3.
32.3^3 is 33698
OK, I haven't proved much, but in my career being able to get within 10% has usually been good enough, since the measured data is rarely that accurate. I do it with logs as well, dBs are my bread and butter.
Tremble tremble. ACtually, I'll be happy to work for your start-up. It'll cost you. I'll take a neato wage and quite a lot of your equity.
If you are really, amazingly, good at/your/ job you can afford to ignore the details. But I bet if you ask any of your heroes, guessing you are young enough to have heroes, you'll find that they are shit-hot on details.
exposing myself to laughter, what integrals aren't anti derivatives? (Or are you talking about 1/D 1/t= ln t etc?)
I really like the numerical approach to integration, it seems very real to me. But there again I enjoyed calculus. Which, incidentally, we had to do at high school in the land of the Poms.
that the type of cost benefit analysis for which Ford was pilloried by the juries, is exactly how safety decisions are made across many industries today.
You screw them up to the floor from underneath using a jack.
Out in the bush you operate the jack and the screws yourself, in the city there'll be some fancy pants automatic system.
Alternatively some vehicles already use a crane to carry the spare wheel under the car, you just do the same thing, but with electric drive, and bigger.
The disadvantage of putting the batteries under the car is that the floor is raised, so the aerodynamics will be worse, but it keeps the batteries outside the cabin, and the handling will be excellent due to the low cg.
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Um, isn't that a tautology? A well run company that initially succeeds and then fails will carry on making record profits right up until it starts going downhill.
Or perhaps you meant something more subtle?
That's very common among professionals. Most places I have worked have asked me to sign a statement that says the company has first rights to ANY invention I make while working for them, even if it is in my spare time.
I usually cross it out.
I imagine the same would be true of any creative field.
mod up the happy fun joke, it was excellent. or stupid. or excellent and stupid.
isn't using a cache REDUNDANT by definition?
Just asking.
Why do people engrave the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin?
Sometimes doing something difficult but pointless is extremely satisfying.
Now, I must admit I'd be even more impressed if he managed to get Windows running on an IPod, but this is only the second article I've seen in a while that would even approach Slashdot's self proclaimed audience of hackers.
I would have thought it was obvious why he used Linux - to understand how to build a boot loader you need to either reverse engineer the OS, or have the source code. The former is rather more difficult for those of us who have not attained your god-like status.
I think I was replying to an OO centric parent.
I agree, from a brief perusal, Gnumeric does seem to be a better spreadsheet solution than OO. I will use Gnumeric on my next big spreadsheet exercise to see how it goes.
I can't see it getting around the macro/VBA translation issue, but would accept that that is not a migration killer.
... spreadsheets. OO does not translate xls spreadsheets at all well.
Every macro has to be rewritten, most charts have to rebuilt from scratch, and every calculation should be re-verified.
If you are after a GPLed FE package then have a look at Z88. It is even somewhat integrated with solid modelling packages as a front end.
http://www.z88.uni-bayreuth.de/
I'll have a look at FElt, thanks for the heads up.
QCad seemed a bit too simplistic to me, I'll give it another nudge and see what happens.
"I used to live in Austin, and it's an 8-hour drive to the nearest state line."
Yes, I used to have a car like that.
As the traditional Australian joke has it.
Anyway, fair enough with the ole Texan stereotypes, where's an Alaskan when you need one?
nah, my technology is more in the megagram range.
Brrm brrm.
Interesting that the post that inspires the most intelligent debate gets modded down to -1, despite merely presenting a non-majority viewpoint.
You lot really ought to grow up.
He kind of lost me when it took this super trained sysadmin 5 hours to sort out his squeeze's PC.
I've just been through this with teenage bimbo from hell's laptop, which was chocka with kazaa and other such crap.
a) download firewall: agnitum outpost
b) download antivirus : AVG
c) download some XP fixes
d) d/l S&D
that did not take 5 hours. It took about as long as her mum took to cook a nice spag bol, as it turned out.
Odd that. Mumbai (in India) has a fairly large USAn and Australian contingent. Staying in the best hotels, or in apartments, with a hired driver, and a maid and a housecleaner and a cook. You know, spending money, employing the locals, paying taxes, creating industries that do the same thing.
For that matter here in Australia we'd quite happily hire you if your skills were in short supply and you are reasonably young, or reasonably rich. Your standard of living would probably improve.
I couldn't agree more with the GP. Where is the error?
/choose/ to be something, and make a success of it, then you have some basis for being proud of it.
If you
If you are in a situation as result of circumstance, then I see no logic in being proud of it.
Neat. Why didn't I do it that way?
Because I don't know all the cubes, in fact hardly any. Which is what you were saying.
Ok, let's do one as I type.
cube root of my first ever phone number,
33462^(1/3)
ok, it's about ten, leaves us 33, so its about 30, that's pretty close, maybe its 35, 35 sqd is 1225, yes its less than 35, (I'm typing this at about half normal speed, working it out as I go) OK, do 35^3 properly thats 36900+6125 =43025, pause, OK, it's a bit less than 35. OK, switch to Taylors expansion, delta is 10000, call it thirty percent, knock 10 percent off 35 that'll be 32, oh that's easy 32768, delta is 1000, call it 3 %, add 1% to 32=32.3.
32.3^3 is 33698
OK, I haven't proved much, but in my career being able to get within 10% has usually been good enough, since the measured data is rarely that accurate. I do it with logs as well, dBs are my bread and butter.
Tremble tremble. ACtually, I'll be happy to work for your start-up. It'll cost you. I'll take a neato wage and quite a lot of your equity.
/your/ job you can afford to ignore the details. But I bet if you ask any of your heroes, guessing you are young enough to have heroes, you'll find that they are shit-hot on details.
If you are really, amazingly, good at
exposing myself to laughter, what integrals aren't anti derivatives? (Or are you talking about 1/D 1/t= ln t etc?)
I really like the numerical approach to integration, it seems very real to me. But there again I enjoyed calculus. Which, incidentally, we had to do at high school in the land of the Poms.
Good answer
I'm puzzled by what engineering problem you were set that took 'days' to solve by hand. Really puzzled.
I lurve Mathcad, but I'm gradually moving over to Scilab, it is powerful, fairly easy to figure out, and improving.
So, use Scilab and write the library. It is about learning, isn't it?
On the other hand if I have my way my child(ren) will not use a computer at, or for, school until they are 18.
Speaking for my field, engineering, I need careless students who get the concepts like a hole in the head.
/and/ be accurate.
Engineers have to know the concepts
The comma before "and" in a list is optional and unusual in British English, where it is known as the Oxford comma.
I was taught not to use it, but now I do.
that the type of cost benefit analysis for which Ford was pilloried by the juries, is exactly how safety decisions are made across many industries today.
Ironic, heh?
You screw them up to the floor from underneath using a jack.
Out in the bush you operate the jack and the screws yourself, in the city there'll be some fancy pants automatic system.
Alternatively some vehicles already use a crane to carry the spare wheel under the car, you just do the same thing, but with electric drive, and bigger.
The disadvantage of putting the batteries under the car is that the floor is raised, so the aerodynamics will be worse, but it keeps the batteries outside the cabin, and the handling will be excellent due to the low cg.
a new technology doesn't work for EVERYONE there is no reason not to introduce it where it works.
For instance, battery powered tractors just aren't going to work for ploughing.