Damned computer used the first round to study you. You could win, say, by poking with the light sword hit, the computer would counter with the heavy sword, and since that hit had a longer recovery you could land some medium blows in there.
Next round, the computer will counter-poke with the light sword instead of going with the heavy. You counterhit and now you are on the receving end of the simple strategy of round 1.
Best way of beating the computer was going for completely outrageous stuff in the first and then use the conservative tactics in the second. If outrageous stuff didn't work out, then you were SOL.
I think that what they are trying to say is that your energy usage (measured as fuel efficiency) is higher when you are starting to move from standstill versus the usage at highway speeds.
My car gives me somewhere around 17 km/l on the highway (around 100 or 120 km/h speeds) but only 9 km/l in the city (lots of stops but fluid traffic in between) and an awful 4.5 km/l on a traffic jam (when the average speed is about 6 km/h and you never seem to go higher than second gear).
Of course, my typical usage is 80% traffic jam, 15% city, 5% highway. Oh well...
I agree - I took 'vacations' where I was supposed to keep in touch via laptop (email, skype, etc) and it made it for me impossible to create the mental disconnect that is the requisite of proper rest during vacations.
I had a similar issue - I work connected to a client's VPN, and when I logged into the VPN explorer (win2k) would slow to a crawl...
After some investigation, the culprit was the shared samba folder. I disconnected the unit and had no further problems... the network where the computer was used to seeing the shared folder was "overwritten" by a client's network, so it went on and on and on trying to find the server...
You left out the second part of what the article says about a PhD, which, in a nutshell, embodies why not many businesses are rushing to hire PhDs, and why getting a CS PhD almost always means you've forever commited yourself to academic jobs: For a PhD, what your peers think of you matters, while in business, what the customers think of you matters, and your customers in 99.9% of the cases aren't your peers.
And yes, I've met one or two morons in PhD programs out there... some others who are brilliant but wouldn't endure a week in a "normal" office...
why don't they throw it out there for cheap with NO support;
Because, even with no support, disclaimers, and all, badly running OSX on the crappiest hardware on earth is still bad publicity for Apple. For a company that's as image-driven as Apple, that spells "bad shit".
BEA?
I think parent poster meant "JRockit", not "JBoss".
Which, by the way, is a damn fine JVM for running servers.
(BTW, the sun linux-amd64 jvm sucked big time - had to resort to running a 32-bit chroot with the 32-bit JVM to get a decent performance out of eclipse...)
I once had a course in which the papers where mandated to be Word 2000, written in comic sans 12.
I complained to the teacher, thinking it was the whim of an idiot in the correction staff, but obviously, as soon as I implied "who can be as stupid as to like comic sans?" I knew that it was the professor's personal order:)
Fortunately he found it funny that comic sans had caused such uproar (I wasn't the only one complaining).
3) learning to play a musical instrument (e.g. bass guitar)
to force the muscles into definite 'other' contortions
than are required by using a mouse (handwriting would
also work).
Your first points sound logical, but the third one... bass playing (instruments in general) just makes you vulnerable to different repetitive injuries. (I know, I'be been playing bass for the last twelve years or so and have had some scares from my wrists...)
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Damned computer used the first round to study you. You could win, say, by poking with the light sword hit, the computer would counter with the heavy sword, and since that hit had a longer recovery you could land some medium blows in there. Next round, the computer will counter-poke with the light sword instead of going with the heavy. You counterhit and now you are on the receving end of the simple strategy of round 1. Best way of beating the computer was going for completely outrageous stuff in the first and then use the conservative tactics in the second. If outrageous stuff didn't work out, then you were SOL.
I think that what they are trying to say is that your energy usage (measured as fuel efficiency) is higher when you are starting to move from standstill versus the usage at highway speeds.
My car gives me somewhere around 17 km/l on the highway (around 100 or 120 km/h speeds) but only 9 km/l in the city (lots of stops but fluid traffic in between) and an awful 4.5 km/l on a traffic jam (when the average speed is about 6 km/h and you never seem to go higher than second gear).
Of course, my typical usage is 80% traffic jam, 15% city, 5% highway. Oh well...
I agree - I took 'vacations' where I was supposed to keep in touch via laptop (email, skype, etc) and it made it for me impossible to create the mental disconnect that is the requisite of proper rest during vacations.
It's not google's fault that you are so thick you can't implement folders within 5 minutes with a label and an archiving filter.
(can you have an email in two folders at once?)
After some investigation, the culprit was the shared samba folder. I disconnected the unit and had no further problems... the network where the computer was used to seeing the shared folder was "overwritten" by a client's network, so it went on and on and on trying to find the server...
Looks like yours isn't all that hot either
I can't help but feel that you wouldn't even be able to point in a map where the mapuches live...
(The amount of breaks they get from the government and the stuff they get away with just because they are mapuches... is ridiculous)
It has already lasted about five hundred or so years that we know of.
(that aside, it sure is one of the most asinine lawsuits I've ever heard of)
I'd love to see how.
You left out the second part of what the article says about a PhD, which, in a nutshell, embodies why not many businesses are rushing to hire PhDs, and why getting a CS PhD almost always means you've forever commited yourself to academic jobs: For a PhD, what your peers think of you matters, while in business, what the customers think of you matters, and your customers in 99.9% of the cases aren't your peers.
And yes, I've met one or two morons in PhD programs out there... some others who are brilliant but wouldn't endure a week in a "normal" office...
Calling someone on slashdot dumb - mostly free.
Making a dumb mistake while calling someone dumb - priceless.
The "upside-down" stuff was great.
He could always have made a script to redirect every third or fourth or nth click to goatse...
Only if you see Bush in every shadow. Or a Bush hater in every shadow
Being able to change your mind has always been a part of being a reasonable person.
why don't they throw it out there for cheap with NO support;
Because, even with no support, disclaimers, and all, badly running OSX on the crappiest hardware on earth is still bad publicity for Apple. For a company that's as image-driven as Apple, that spells "bad shit".
BEA? I think parent poster meant "JRockit", not "JBoss". Which, by the way, is a damn fine JVM for running servers. (BTW, the sun linux-amd64 jvm sucked big time - had to resort to running a 32-bit chroot with the 32-bit JVM to get a decent performance out of eclipse...)
but we're all well educated athiests
Well educated indeed.
I once had a course in which the papers where mandated to be Word 2000, written in comic sans 12.
I complained to the teacher, thinking it was the whim of an idiot in the correction staff, but obviously, as soon as I implied "who can be as stupid as to like comic sans?" I knew that it was the professor's personal order :)
Fortunately he found it funny that comic sans had caused such uproar (I wasn't the only one complaining).
Win95 might have been fast, but faster than fvwm it wasn't (which was what I ran in those old times :)
SCO still alive?
2003 called, it wants its stupid lawyer-run company back.
You think? ;)
Check it out
Surely you meant "my ZIG", right?
to force the muscles into definite 'other' contortions
than are required by using a mouse (handwriting would
also work).
Your first points sound logical, but the third one... bass playing (instruments in general) just makes you vulnerable to different repetitive injuries. (I know, I'be been playing bass for the last twelve years or so and have had some scares from my wrists...)
Check it out.
(judging from these links, one should warm up before typing!)
Hell no. It was very drawn out and exruciating:
Palpatine: "Join me"
Anakin: "No!"
Palpatine: "Join me, go and kill some jedi ass"
Anakin: "Oh well, hadn't anything planned anyway..."