I know tht;s a bit flippant.... but if you use a PO Box for your company's registration and correspondance and no one ever is going to come to your house you're not going to piss anyone off.... and they probably wont care
A circle is the only shape that has an equal minimum and maximum cross-section ( 1 to 1 ratio).
Note true.... draw an equilateral triangle, now take your compas, put the pointy bit on any corner and the pencil bit on any other, draw a curve from that corner to the free corner. Repeat with the pointy bit on the other two corners. Now erase the straign lines - voila!
This of course is the answer the M$ person wanted - and you're unlikely to know the answer unless you've been exposed to the problem before, and found it interesting enough to remember. Which is not a test of problem solving and more of a test of what you find interesting in the world - maybe not a bad thing to test for - but it's pretty hit and miss whether you happened to have been exposed to it - and as such its a bad test.
I've always liked three sorts of interview questions - one tries to get the interviewee to tell 'war stories' about previous projects trying to get an idea as to what they find challenging and what they are proud of acomplishing, the second are about very basic, but hard fundementals of the subject (back when I was a chip designer I would always ask a question about metastability...), finally I've tried giving people really hard problems to solve on the board - not really requiring them to finish them, but wanting to see how they approached them.
I've kind of gone off this last one mainly because I think it's too intimidating in an already difficult process - especially if you are giving the first interview of the day - who wants to walk around doing all the other interviews thinking you've failed already....
It's not like they've printed stationary or anything... they just decided to change it, they can change it again. It seems to me that the Moz people just didn't do their due diligence and are paying for it now..... I can't believe they didn't even think to search sourceforge
Choosing names is hard - you have to search the whole world - it's a lot easier nowdays (before the 'net I worked for a company who's name turned out to be a set of shelves in one country, a suppository in another..... and who can forget the Vax [it sucks... turned out to be the name of a vacuum cleaner elsewhere]) - but you do have to do the search and stake a claim - these days registering the.com domain seems to be the way to start.
Interesting www.firebird.com has a 'Phoenix' link on it - neither of which has anything to do with Moz or even computers... that alone should have indicated that they are playing in an already busy name space and should look elsewhere
Doesn't anyone else see the irony? Moz were chased away from their previous Phoenix name bacuse one of the big guys with lots of lawyers shouted "foul".... and everyone screamed bloody blue murder about how the big company was muscling the little guys.... now it's happening again, expect this time it's Moz who has the lawyers and the muscle over another trademark and is stepping on a smaller entity.... but people are now complaining about the little guy for asserting their rights.
Root for the underdof by all means - but be fair about - don't just root for YOUR underdog....
ummm - I'm not Bill and while I've had taniwha.com and before that taniwha!... as a uucp address for maybe 20 years I've never held taniwha.org - must be some other guy
yeah - think of it this way going straight up doesn't get you into orbit - if you go straight up at 1mph then turn the motor off you will fall back down (unless you are in someone elses gravity gradient - so you can go straight up at 1pmh then fall into the sun when you turn it off if you are high enough).
However if you go straight up at 1mph and at a couple of hundred miles you start going sideways fast enough that as gravity curves your tragectory you miss the earth by 200 miles.... then you are in orbit
What;'s confusing is that rockets seem to go straight up.... they do this to avoid aerodynamic drag, once they're out of most of the atmosphere they pull a 90 degree turn and head for the horizon - which is also why flying up to 100k feet and letting her rip is also a great idea - you can head out on an angle and save doing 2 sides of a triangle on your way up
a while back... actually building large farms into unuseable spaces in large buildings in exchange for some winter heating.... it's a non-simple problem - you have to be able to handle what happens when a box toasts itself and pumps the toxic fumes into the air conditioning system - requires a lot more support equipment that you might thinl
Yup, I'm a kiwi, and from the lower part of the South Island... but I've lived in the US for 20 years.... from personal experience I know that when you go out in the sun back home (ie NZ) the sun 'bite's - you can feel it when you go outside, the sun isn't just warm to the skin, it has something else, it doesn't hurt but it has an edge - I know this is very subjective and hard to explain, but I know other's who've experienced the same difference.
I agree that the hole isn't directly over NZ.... but it isn't a sharply defined thing either... UV levels are higher in the Southern Hemisphere, so are skin cancer rates. Where I live at the moment you don't see signs in school playgrounds saying "hats must be worn in the playground"... in fact an Australian woman here recently made a big fuss because the local schools had banned the wearing of hats at school.
I think my point was that things that happen in the US do effect people in other countries in real, dangerous ways - and people should have some recourse to protect their health and well being - certainly branding them "3rd world dictators" is that same childish and narrow minded "my country right or wrong" "I have the freedom to do anything I choose, screw you" sort of attitude that I think typifies the "ugly american" stereotype we all grew up with. I live in the US, I know lots of Americans who aren't like that, sadly there's an undercurent in society here, typified IMHO by US talk radio, that just feeds the rest of the world's image of the US as a rapacious behemoth that doesn't care about anyone else
i hunt and fish, and love the outdoors as much as anyone. but, i think capitalism and freedom are far more important.
I come from a part of the world that's under the ozone hole - I want freedom from skin cancer - I WANT the right to stop the US from dumping stuff in the atmosphere that will kill me - it doesn't make me a 3rd world dictator
that's not funny.... remember last time tens of thousands of Iraqi conscripts were killed in the desert, many were bulldozed and buried live in their trenches.... the US army is now driving over their bodies
well - there's no way to know they are Scuds, could be El-Samouds (sic) you can't really tell what a missile is while it's in the air apart from how high and how far it goes (it's not like they have photos.... unless your expecting it) - and both of those sorts of missiles have those sorts of ranges.
What I found funny was the US claim that they'd shot down 2 of the 4 missiles with patriots... that's 50% much worse than the 100% the elder Bush claimed in '91. Of course that time it turned out afterwards that what he was saying was bullshit and they'd missed every single one (or got only 10% depending on which report you beleive). So I guess 50% of 0 probably isn't really any different that 100% of 0
they are just getting the bills for the stuff they didn't buy... they're just getting them all at once rather than monthly. This is just the same as unplugging your directtv/dish receiver from the phone and when it sais you can't buy any more PPV plugging it back in and getting billed for everything at once
The primary purpose of the GNU organization is to create free software based on valuable commercial software. The primary operating system advanced by GNU is Linux.
RMS's gonna be pissed not only isn't it GHNU/Linux but they forgot Hurd
IBM's involvement, Linux was the software equivalent of a bicycle. UNIX was the software equivalent of a luxury car.
in general the document keeps confusing AIX the OS (unix derivitive) and AIX the software suite full of apps etc.... and tries to imply that by giving away usefull parts of AIX written by IBM that IBM might also be giving away trade secret Unix sources.
Of course there is the possibility that IBM slipped up and did somewhere include some source from Unix in stuff that it has released... but that's one of the great things about Open Source.... it's all there for anyone, including the SCO lawyers to read - if there's a SMOKING GUN THRY PROBABLY WOULD HAVE FOUND IT BY NOW
You can do a simple (non-optimised) kernel port to a fresh (but well behaved) CPU in 1-2 weeks if you know what you are doing and you already have a GCC port available - a production port is probably more like 6-months or more.
Actually porting GLIBC is a lot more work than the kernel.
Porting a kernel while debugging a new compiler for a new CPU architecture is a LOT more work than doing either (I know this from sad experience:-)
I think the point is that sworn testimony on MS's part in the previous case as to whether 'windows' is a generic term for a UI element can be used in this case. The idea is that MS's own words will be held against it
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I know tht;s a bit flippant .... but if you use a PO Box for your company's registration and correspondance and no one ever is going to come to your house you're not going to piss anyone off .... and they probably wont care
I would have if I said to put the point of the compass at the center of the triangle - but I didn't
Note true .... draw an equilateral triangle, now take your compas, put the pointy bit on any corner and the pencil bit on any other, draw a curve from that corner to the free corner. Repeat with the pointy bit on the other two corners. Now erase the straign lines - voila!
This of course is the answer the M$ person wanted - and you're unlikely to know the answer unless you've been exposed to the problem before, and found it interesting enough to remember. Which is not a test of problem solving and more of a test of what you find interesting in the world - maybe not a bad thing to test for - but it's pretty hit and miss whether you happened to have been exposed to it - and as such its a bad test.
I've always liked three sorts of interview questions - one tries to get the interviewee to tell 'war stories' about previous projects trying to get an idea as to what they find challenging and what they are proud of acomplishing, the second are about very basic, but hard fundementals of the subject (back when I was a chip designer I would always ask a question about metastability ...), finally I've tried giving people really hard problems to solve on the board - not really requiring them to finish them, but wanting to see how they approached them.
I've kind of gone off this last one mainly because I think it's too intimidating in an already difficult process - especially if you are giving the first interview of the day - who wants to walk around doing all the other interviews thinking you've failed already ....
Which version of Linux will contain the fix .... (or is it a uCode patch from the BIOS) .... inquiring minds want to know
Choosing names is hard - you have to search the whole world - it's a lot easier nowdays (before the 'net I worked for a company who's name turned out to be a set of shelves in one country, a suppository in another ..... and who can forget the Vax [it sucks ... turned out to be the name of a vacuum cleaner elsewhere]) - but you do have to do the search and stake a claim - these days registering the .com domain seems to be the way to start.
Interesting www.firebird.com has a 'Phoenix' link on it - neither of which has anything to do with Moz or even computers ... that alone should have indicated that they are playing in an already busy name space and should look elsewhere
Root for the underdof by all means - but be fair about - don't just root for YOUR underdog ....
ummm - I'm not Bill and while I've had taniwha.com and before that taniwha!... as a uucp address for maybe 20 years I've never held taniwha.org - must be some other guy
However if you go straight up at 1mph and at a couple of hundred miles you start going sideways fast enough that as gravity curves your tragectory you miss the earth by 200 miles .... then you are in orbit
What;'s confusing is that rockets seem to go straight up .... they do this to avoid aerodynamic drag, once they're out of most of the atmosphere they pull a 90 degree turn and head for the horizon - which is also why flying up to 100k feet and letting her rip is also a great idea - you can head out on an angle and save doing 2 sides of a triangle on your way up
yup - buy it at your local speed shop
John's glory days were more like 20-30 years ago ..... pre-ubiquitous internet
a while back ... actually building large farms into unuseable spaces in large buildings in exchange for some winter heating .... it's a non-simple problem - you have to be able to handle what happens when a box toasts itself and pumps the toxic fumes into the air conditioning system - requires a lot more support equipment that you might thinl
slashdot the entire pacific rim as 100,000 geeks download a 3Mb pdf from japan ....
I agree that the hole isn't directly over NZ .... but it isn't a sharply defined thing either ... UV levels are higher in the Southern Hemisphere, so are skin cancer rates. Where I live at the moment you don't see signs in school playgrounds saying "hats must be worn in the playground" ... in fact an Australian woman here recently made a big fuss because the local schools had banned the wearing of hats at school.
I think my point was that things that happen in the US do effect people in other countries in real, dangerous ways - and people should have some recourse to protect their health and well being - certainly branding them "3rd world dictators" is that same childish and narrow minded "my country right or wrong" "I have the freedom to do anything I choose, screw you" sort of attitude that I think typifies the "ugly american" stereotype we all grew up with. I live in the US, I know lots of Americans who aren't like that, sadly there's an undercurent in society here, typified IMHO by US talk radio, that just feeds the rest of the world's image of the US as a rapacious behemoth that doesn't care about anyone else
I come from a part of the world that's under the ozone hole - I want freedom from skin cancer - I WANT the right to stop the US from dumping stuff in the atmosphere that will kill me - it doesn't make me a 3rd world dictator
Well the paper refers to spheres that mass 780g with a 270mm diameter ....... time to buy that steel xmas tree ....
that's not funny .... remember last time tens of thousands of Iraqi conscripts were killed in the desert, many were bulldozed and buried live in their trenches .... the US army is now driving over their bodies
Radio this morning said "two were shot down and the other two landed in the ocean" - which to my mind sais they hit 2 and missed 2
What I found funny was the US claim that they'd shot down 2 of the 4 missiles with patriots ... that's 50% much worse than the 100% the elder Bush claimed in '91. Of course that time it turned out afterwards that what he was saying was bullshit and they'd missed every single one (or got only 10% depending on which report you beleive). So I guess 50% of 0 probably isn't really any different that 100% of 0
they are just getting the bills for the stuff they didn't buy ... they're just getting them all at once rather than monthly. This is just the same as unplugging your directtv/dish receiver from the phone and when it sais you can't buy any more PPV plugging it back in and getting billed for everything at once
like this one? .... (this also answers Timothy's "who uses engines larger than these?" question)
nor would I .... or that I'd be taking IBM's side against 'unix'
RMS's gonna be pissed not only isn't it GHNU/Linux but they forgot Hurd IBM's involvement, Linux was the software equivalent of a bicycle. UNIX was the software equivalent of a luxury car.
in general the document keeps confusing AIX the OS (unix derivitive) and AIX the software suite full of apps etc .... and tries to imply that by giving away usefull parts of AIX written by IBM that IBM might also be giving away trade secret Unix sources.
Of course there is the possibility that IBM slipped up and did somewhere include some source from Unix in stuff that it has released ... but that's one of the great things about Open Source .... it's all there for anyone, including the SCO lawyers to read - if there's a SMOKING GUN THRY PROBABLY WOULD HAVE FOUND IT BY NOW
Actually porting GLIBC is a lot more work than the kernel.
Porting a kernel while debugging a new compiler for a new CPU architecture is a LOT more work than doing either (I know this from sad experience :-)
(the flag)
I think the point is that sworn testimony on MS's part in the previous case as to whether 'windows' is a generic term for a UI element can be used in this case. The idea is that MS's own words will be held against it