Probably the biggest reason I can think of to use a dedicated device instead of a hacked phone is that any phone with GPS tends to have horrible battery life when the GPS is active relative to a dedicated unit.
A friend of mine did actually have a death message set to post on his blog. He'd set the publishing date about a week in the future, and he'd update the due date just before it posted every week. In the event of his death (or long-term incarceration, I suppose), the message would post and he'd just a chance to creep out family and friends.
Of course, this was the friend that I first met because he was sleeping in a coffin...
Your description matches my experience almost exactly, though the negative effects haven't been as pronounced for me. I've found having a fairly consistent wake-up schedule helps. Once I get into a routine and am in the habit of waking up at a certain time, I'll keep doing so regardless of when I go to sleep.
It was worst in college, when I had absolutely no set schedule. I would do just what you do, sleep through my alarm even though it was on buzzer or staticy country music at full volume for 2 hours straight. If it was within arms reach, I would turn the alarm off (not snooze, off), and have no recollection of doing so. Apparently I will also answer the phone and be coherent enough to convince the other person I'm awake. I've signed up for long distance service, credit protection service, and agreed to at least one job interview in my sleep without being conscious of it. I've lost one job because of it. I also missed a lot of class time, but those supposed IQ and memory benefits must have helped, since I did manage to graduate with good grades. I almost slept through my hotel room being broken into, but breaking glass is a novel enough sound that I did wake up then.
This sounds pretty bad, but none of those bad things has had any lasting effect, and I've worked my life around it. My job is flexible about hours, so I tend to come in later and work later than others. My wife is also flexible, so I'd tend to handle the late night baby problems like 2am feedings and what not, while she'd take the mornings.
The pluses have had a much stronger effect, and I take full advantage of them. I can sleep anywhere, any time. I rarely experience jet lag. I slept for 16 hours straight on a flight from LA to Sydney, and woke up at 6am Sydney time well rested and ready to go. I know a good many people who are unable to sleep when they are stressed, uncomfortable, or in a noisy or bright environment. I don't have a problem with any of those. In particular for stressful days, I know that once I fall asleep, I'll wake up stress-free the next morning.
No longer will a guy have to resort to tactics like: "Hey, baby, I'm shipping off to Iraq tomorrow, and I'm not sure if I'll make it back. Can we spend this one night together?"
Instead, it'll be: "Hey, baby, I'm taking the SAT tomorrow, and I'm not sure my score will be good enough to get into Stanford. Can we spend this one night together?"
Of course this is just a cat and mouse game, eventually employers are going to require things beyond a bachelors degree for entry-level jobs, etc.
This is largely true already in engineering fields. It is very difficult to get a job with only a BS, at least the larger companies. I am the last one in my current company to have been hired without a MS, and that was 10 years ago. Even then, I was in grad school and had my masters within a year of getting my job. Most of my coworkers who have only a BS have been working in the field for 20+ years.
It WILL be the year of Linux on the desktop. Everyone knows that after the apocalypse the only things left on the planet will be cockroaches, Twinkies, and computers running Linux. Linux will win the desktop wars through attrition.
Pragmatism. While BP absolutely should be shouldering the full cost of this cleanup--and no doubt the gov't will seek recompense for the public money spent--in the time it takes for BP to comply, destruction of the environment and the livelihoods of those who work and live there continues. That needs to be fixed first before you worry too much exactly who is paying for it.
There's a blind intersection in a strip mall parking lot near my house that has a stop sign going in one direction, but not the other. People have a tendency to miss the stop sign and just drive right through the intersection. So even though I'd be in the right to drive straight through in the direction with no stop sign, I still slow way down. If I got t-boned, it would be their fault and their insurance would have to pay for any damages, but you know what? I'd rather slow down than deal with the hassle and potential injuries.
The same applies with the oil spill. We could all just sit back and yell at BP to fix the damn thing. But since their incompetence got us into this mess, I have a hard time seeing how their incompetence will get us out of it without oversight and prodding along the way. Once the immediacy of the disaster is gone, then we can shift our focus to compensation and punishment for those at fault.
Definitely. Tmobile's only failing I can see is that don't do enough to advertise this option. They're a fairly small player in the US. I imagine they could bring over a lot of subscribers with a marketing campaign that educated people on how much subsidized phones cost them.
And you'll have people in small camps living like vagrants reciting books to each other.
Excellent. It always bums me out to think that our oral tradition is dead. Books have only been around a few hundred years, and in significant quantities for much less. I say bring on the families sitting around the campfire sharing the stories and traditions they got from their elders.
Hardcovers are to book nerds what vinyl is to music nerds. These people will never switch to e-books. Perhaps augment, but never convert. The other kind of hardcover buyer is going to be the person who has to get the latest release and can't wait for the paperback. So basically teenage girls when the next Twilight book comes out, and their mothers when the next Dan Brown book comes out.
Nonsense. The things I do are difficult, challenging, and require a vast intellect to understand. The things everybody else does are so simple and obvious a child could do them./me removes tongue from cheek.
I'm replying to you, since you seem familiar with R, but hopefully others can chime in as well.
You imply that it's preferable to preprocess the data in another language, like Perl. What makes R valuable as a completely separate language, rather than being implemented as a library within an existing language? I'm assuming there must be something compelling you can't get out of adding use R; R::some_func(...); to your parsing code.
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Probably the biggest reason I can think of to use a dedicated device instead of a hacked phone is that any phone with GPS tends to have horrible battery life when the GPS is active relative to a dedicated unit.
Now let me just jump straight into reading the comments, and ignore the article all together.
A friend of mine did actually have a death message set to post on his blog. He'd set the publishing date about a week in the future, and he'd update the due date just before it posted every week. In the event of his death (or long-term incarceration, I suppose), the message would post and he'd just a chance to creep out family and friends.
Of course, this was the friend that I first met because he was sleeping in a coffin...
Your description matches my experience almost exactly, though the negative effects haven't been as pronounced for me. I've found having a fairly consistent wake-up schedule helps. Once I get into a routine and am in the habit of waking up at a certain time, I'll keep doing so regardless of when I go to sleep.
It was worst in college, when I had absolutely no set schedule. I would do just what you do, sleep through my alarm even though it was on buzzer or staticy country music at full volume for 2 hours straight. If it was within arms reach, I would turn the alarm off (not snooze, off), and have no recollection of doing so. Apparently I will also answer the phone and be coherent enough to convince the other person I'm awake. I've signed up for long distance service, credit protection service, and agreed to at least one job interview in my sleep without being conscious of it. I've lost one job because of it. I also missed a lot of class time, but those supposed IQ and memory benefits must have helped, since I did manage to graduate with good grades. I almost slept through my hotel room being broken into, but breaking glass is a novel enough sound that I did wake up then.
This sounds pretty bad, but none of those bad things has had any lasting effect, and I've worked my life around it. My job is flexible about hours, so I tend to come in later and work later than others. My wife is also flexible, so I'd tend to handle the late night baby problems like 2am feedings and what not, while she'd take the mornings.
The pluses have had a much stronger effect, and I take full advantage of them. I can sleep anywhere, any time. I rarely experience jet lag. I slept for 16 hours straight on a flight from LA to Sydney, and woke up at 6am Sydney time well rested and ready to go. I know a good many people who are unable to sleep when they are stressed, uncomfortable, or in a noisy or bright environment. I don't have a problem with any of those. In particular for stressful days, I know that once I fall asleep, I'll wake up stress-free the next morning.
Trolling for mod points much?
Oh shit. NOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
No, we just all spawned in our mom's basements and it's going to take at least 20 turns to find another civilization to communicate with.
I always thought of the new iPhone as a #2.
Pirate Party. Though not for any political ideals. I just really like rum. And besides, who else could possibly save us from the ninjas?
No longer will a guy have to resort to tactics like:
"Hey, baby, I'm shipping off to Iraq tomorrow, and I'm not sure if I'll make it back. Can we spend this one night together?"
Instead, it'll be:
"Hey, baby, I'm taking the SAT tomorrow, and I'm not sure my score will be good enough to get into Stanford. Can we spend this one night together?"
Of course this is just a cat and mouse game, eventually employers are going to require things beyond a bachelors degree for entry-level jobs, etc.
This is largely true already in engineering fields. It is very difficult to get a job with only a BS, at least the larger companies. I am the last one in my current company to have been hired without a MS, and that was 10 years ago. Even then, I was in grad school and had my masters within a year of getting my job. Most of my coworkers who have only a BS have been working in the field for 20+ years.
It WILL be the year of Linux on the desktop. Everyone knows that after the apocalypse the only things left on the planet will be cockroaches, Twinkies, and computers running Linux. Linux will win the desktop wars through attrition.
Pragmatism. While BP absolutely should be shouldering the full cost of this cleanup--and no doubt the gov't will seek recompense for the public money spent--in the time it takes for BP to comply, destruction of the environment and the livelihoods of those who work and live there continues. That needs to be fixed first before you worry too much exactly who is paying for it.
There's a blind intersection in a strip mall parking lot near my house that has a stop sign going in one direction, but not the other. People have a tendency to miss the stop sign and just drive right through the intersection. So even though I'd be in the right to drive straight through in the direction with no stop sign, I still slow way down. If I got t-boned, it would be their fault and their insurance would have to pay for any damages, but you know what? I'd rather slow down than deal with the hassle and potential injuries.
The same applies with the oil spill. We could all just sit back and yell at BP to fix the damn thing. But since their incompetence got us into this mess, I have a hard time seeing how their incompetence will get us out of it without oversight and prodding along the way. Once the immediacy of the disaster is gone, then we can shift our focus to compensation and punishment for those at fault.
being angry at gravity or evolution.
At least one of those happens depressingly often...
Definitely. Tmobile's only failing I can see is that don't do enough to advertise this option. They're a fairly small player in the US. I imagine they could bring over a lot of subscribers with a marketing campaign that educated people on how much subsidized phones cost them.
And half the guys involved in running the scripts are pretending to be women.
Why not both? Do it the old fashioned way. Arrest them, then tell them they have to join the CyberArmy or go to prison.
And you'll have people in small camps living like vagrants reciting books to each other.
Excellent. It always bums me out to think that our oral tradition is dead. Books have only been around a few hundred years, and in significant quantities for much less. I say bring on the families sitting around the campfire sharing the stories and traditions they got from their elders.
Hardcovers are to book nerds what vinyl is to music nerds. These people will never switch to e-books. Perhaps augment, but never convert.
The other kind of hardcover buyer is going to be the person who has to get the latest release and can't wait for the paperback. So basically teenage girls when the next Twilight book comes out, and their mothers when the next Dan Brown book comes out.
Put away shoes says wife, or remove dick.
Oh crap.
Nonsense. The things I do are difficult, challenging, and require a vast intellect to understand. The things everybody else does are so simple and obvious a child could do them. /me removes tongue from cheek.
Shouldn't that be 4 gigagrams?
I'm replying to you, since you seem familiar with R, but hopefully others can chime in as well.
You imply that it's preferable to preprocess the data in another language, like Perl. What makes R valuable as a completely separate language, rather than being implemented as a library within an existing language? I'm assuming there must be something compelling you can't get out of adding
use R;
R::some_func(...);
to your parsing code.
300ms for a conscious(cortical) response, 400ms to be aware of what you decided to do.
Therefore it takes 100ms to induce regret...
D'oh. HTML swallowed my <
Code excerpt:
Person.setAge(getAgeEstimate()); // Giggity giggity
Person.setSex(getGender());
if (Person.age 18 && Person.sex == "F")
Person.setAge(18);