If the outlook calendar shows that I have a meeting in my office , it will set the IM status to ('Busy, in a meeting') and switch off the phone ringer (and email me any voice messages). Then when I see a missed call, I just click on that person and select call, which switches on the phone speaker and dials out the number. Impressive , eh ?
Yep, right up to the time where I skip a meeting because I'm waiting for an important phone call -- and my phone just never rings because I forgot to cancel the appointment in Outlook...
I don't mean to be picky, but the last time I checked, air had an atomic weight of around 28.97 kg/kgmol; water is a little bit lighter at around 18.02 kg/kgmol but it's only 1% of your mixture, so let's say 28.86 kg/kgmol for the mixture. Helium has atomic weight 2.00, so the ratio is 14.43:1 -- i.e. He weighs 7% of what air does.
Actually, Turing wasn't too far off the mark with his "questions should be in written form" requirement. Reliable OCR of handwriting is still not here. The human mind will attempt to fill in the gaps logically where the writing is illegible, whereas a machine would find that a very difficult task.
If you also require the answers to be written out "by hand", then unless the software designer has been particularly devious in designing an output algorithm which randomly applies noise to a generated cursive script, it might also be possible to distinquish human from machine from the regularity of the output (subjecting not only the message but also the medium to a critical examination).
If you're going to set a floor price, you'd better be prepared to set a ceiling price as well. Otherwise the model is both unfair and unstable because it's subject to unlimited inflation, which is just as unfair to consumers as unbounded deflation is to the artists and vendors. Either take both the upside and downside risk or ameliorate both.
When the government starts to represent a will of its own that is not the one of the people, it is they that are in the wrong and us that are in the right.
That is very true -- and recognition of it is absolutely necessary but in and of itself not sufficient. You also have to be prepared to take action if this is the case, to redress the imbalance and right the wrong.
In this case, they awarded half to Glauber for one piece of work and a quarter each to Hall and Haensch for a completely different piece of work. Can they recognize 5 different significant advances in the same year if they wish to?
And how many people can share a portion of a prize for a given piece of work? If 18 people participate in developing a quantum theory of Slashdot submission which ultimately ends up explaining life, the universe, and everything, do all 18 share in the prize?
Quirks and Quarks has been on the air as long as I can remember, first with another host that does CBC work still, but Bob McDonald has done the radio show for about the last decade.
Your post is hilarious! I fell for it and went to check myself, and of course it worked perfectly for me (FF v1.02 under Win XP).
What a brilliant way to get people to RTFA! (Except I didn't, really; I just tested the links.)
OK, but the real question is: how do you keep the opposition from framing the debate?
If the trap is set and we respond in a quiet and reasoned fashion, we're going to lose the battle -- as you've pointed out.
And if we don't respond at all, the trap still springs, the opposition strategy still works. So how do you propose to keep the trap from being set in the first place?
A survey / study like this one is completely meaningless unless some effort is also expended on assessing the quality of the milestones and deadlines which are used to gauge whether the project was delivered "on time". Otherwise a project which isn't completed by some date which was simply plucked out of the air looks exactly the same as one for which significant effort was expended to determine a realistic and economic completion date.
If a project fails for reasons of an "unrealistic time frame", then the real question is why the schedule was unrealistic, not how the development team screwed up. IT project management should probably spend some time gazing into a mirror and re-examining its own processes.
Exhaustive nothing; they left the Dynalogic Hyperion off the list. Remember the Hyperion?
I had a CompaQ Portable "sewing machine"; the guy in the office next to mine in grad school had a Hyperion: amber monochrome monitor instead of the ubiquitous green, two 5-1/2" floppy drives and still 7 lbs lighter than my machine. Came with a nifty padded carrying case too! But I wasn't complaining... the CompaQ meant I didn't have to spend all night at my office! (Thanks again, Leo.)
She's 7. You can't say "it works" until she's about 3 times that age, pal. Tell us about your great results again when she's 20.
What's more, you've only got the one child. Try enforcing that stuff with two or more; good luck with that.
BTW my 20 year-old son was a licensed private pilot at 17 -- but he still spends way too much time playing games on the computer even now. His 18 year-old brother is athletically gifted -- and HE spends way too much time playing computer games. There's not a whole lot I can do about it anymore. And this is in a family which encourages both high academic achievement and athleticism -- and their mother and I can still walk the walk.
Why do people like the poster of the parent always post anonymously? AC is a spot-on designation; revealing their identity -- even pseudonymously -- would uncover whose axes are being ground. And (ironically) they always claim to be revealing the truth. It makes them so easy to spot!
I've lurked and posted on Groklaw for a couple of years. I've NEVER seen "Linux insurance" -- or anything else which might go by that label -- offered for sale on Groklaw.
The author is Canadian -- born and raised -- even though she bears a Chinese ancestral name. She is (or, at least, was) a columnist with the Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper and was based in Toronto, so I should think she knows a thing or two about conditions there.
Here's an article which relates a bit about her and her weekly feature in the Globe.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't mean to be picky, but the last time I checked, air had an atomic weight of around 28.97 kg/kgmol; water is a little bit lighter at around 18.02 kg/kgmol but it's only 1% of your mixture, so let's say 28.86 kg/kgmol for the mixture. Helium has atomic weight 2.00, so the ratio is 14.43:1 -- i.e. He weighs 7% of what air does.
Shaw and Rogers are the two major cable providers in Canada.
And here's a link to their website: http://www.keir.net/k9.html
Actually, Turing wasn't too far off the mark with his "questions should be in written form" requirement. Reliable OCR of handwriting is still not here. The human mind will attempt to fill in the gaps logically where the writing is illegible, whereas a machine would find that a very difficult task. If you also require the answers to be written out "by hand", then unless the software designer has been particularly devious in designing an output algorithm which randomly applies noise to a generated cursive script, it might also be possible to distinquish human from machine from the regularity of the output (subjecting not only the message but also the medium to a critical examination).
Amen to this! Absolutely! If I had mod points, you'd get 'em.
If you're going to set a floor price, you'd better be prepared to set a ceiling price as well. Otherwise the model is both unfair and unstable because it's subject to unlimited inflation, which is just as unfair to consumers as unbounded deflation is to the artists and vendors. Either take both the upside and downside risk or ameliorate both.
That is very true -- and recognition of it is absolutely necessary but in and of itself not sufficient. You also have to be prepared to take action if this is the case, to redress the imbalance and right the wrong.
... how finely do they divide the prizes?
In this case, they awarded half to Glauber for one piece of work and a quarter each to Hall and Haensch for a completely different piece of work. Can they recognize 5 different significant advances in the same year if they wish to?
And how many people can share a portion of a prize for a given piece of work? If 18 people participate in developing a quantum theory of Slashdot submission which ultimately ends up explaining life, the universe, and everything, do all 18 share in the prize?
Slashdotted already, 15 seconds after first post!
Your post is hilarious! I fell for it and went to check myself, and of course it worked perfectly for me (FF v1.02 under Win XP). What a brilliant way to get people to RTFA! (Except I didn't, really; I just tested the links.)
OK, but the real question is: how do you keep the opposition from framing the debate?
If the trap is set and we respond in a quiet and reasoned fashion, we're going to lose the battle -- as you've pointed out.
And if we don't respond at all, the trap still springs, the opposition strategy still works. So how do you propose to keep the trap from being set in the first place?
A survey / study like this one is completely meaningless unless some effort is also expended on assessing the quality of the milestones and deadlines which are used to gauge whether the project was delivered "on time". Otherwise a project which isn't completed by some date which was simply plucked out of the air looks exactly the same as one for which significant effort was expended to determine a realistic and economic completion date.
If a project fails for reasons of an "unrealistic time frame", then the real question is why the schedule was unrealistic, not how the development team screwed up. IT project management should probably spend some time gazing into a mirror and re-examining its own processes.
Whoops, those were 5-1/4" floppies. Has it really been 20 years?
Exhaustive nothing; they left the Dynalogic Hyperion off the list. Remember the Hyperion?
... the CompaQ meant I didn't have to spend all night at my office! (Thanks again, Leo.)
I had a CompaQ Portable "sewing machine"; the guy in the office next to mine in grad school had a Hyperion: amber monochrome monitor instead of the ubiquitous green, two 5-1/2" floppy drives and still 7 lbs lighter than my machine. Came with a nifty padded carrying case too! But I wasn't complaining
Really? So why this, then? (This has been previously linked to in the discussion above.)
In particular, check out Step #6 of "Quick steps to Visa Card acceptance":
6. Check the signature. Be sure that the signature on the card matches the one the transaction receipt.
She's 7. You can't say "it works" until she's about 3 times that age, pal. Tell us about your great results again when she's 20.
What's more, you've only got the one child. Try enforcing that stuff with two or more; good luck with that.
BTW my 20 year-old son was a licensed private pilot at 17 -- but he still spends way too much time playing games on the computer even now. His 18 year-old brother is athletically gifted -- and HE spends way too much time playing computer games. There's not a whole lot I can do about it anymore. And this is in a family which encourages both high academic achievement and athleticism -- and their mother and I can still walk the walk.
RULE 1: NO POOFTERS!
Why do people like the poster of the parent always post anonymously? AC is a spot-on designation; revealing their identity -- even pseudonymously -- would uncover whose axes are being ground. And (ironically) they always claim to be revealing the truth. It makes them so easy to spot!
I've lurked and posted on Groklaw for a couple of years. I've NEVER seen "Linux insurance" -- or anything else which might go by that label -- offered for sale on Groklaw.
I wish I had mod points and I wish you hadn't posted anonymously because I'd mod you up if both conditions were true.
(Whoops - I lied. She was apparently born in Vietnam. RTFA)
The author is Canadian -- born and raised -- even though she bears a Chinese ancestral name. She is (or, at least, was) a columnist with the Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper and was based in Toronto, so I should think she knows a thing or two about conditions there.
Here's an article which relates a bit about her and her weekly feature in the Globe.