That's a horrible idea. What the hell are they supposed to write? "Write down a linked list object, you have 30 seconds on the clock!" Seriously, the only thing you could write down on a white board are simplistic data structures and algorithms which proves that you took a DSA class at one point; big whoop. It's not like they can ask you to write a kernel or they won't hire you. Perhaps they could ask you to correct some code with mistakes? But even then it just shows they have a rudimentary knowledge of the programming languages syntax.
As to the original post, tell them the truth. You don't do a ton of coding on your free times as you have little of it and all the other code you've written isn't yours to give out. If they don't understand this then I don't think you want to work for them anyway.
It's also the most statistically inaccurate comment. It's probably more inaccurate statistically than the software we're discussing.
"Of those incidents in which the murder weapon was specified, 70.3 percent of the homicides that occurred in 2004 were committed with firearms. Of those, 77.9 percent involved handguns, 5.4 percent involved shotguns, and 4.2 percent involved rifles. Approximately 12.4 of the murders were committed with other types or unspecified types of firearms. Knives or cutting instruments were used in 14.1 percent of the murders; personal weapons, such as hands, fists, and feet, were used in 7.0 percent of murders, and blunt objects (i.e., clubs, hammers, etc.) were used in 5.0 percent of the homicides. Other weapons, such as poison, explosives, narcotics, etc., were used in 3.6 percent of the murders. (Based on Table 2.9.)"
So automatically the GPs post is flat out wrong. Second off I didn't see the statistics for the age of the offender and if he could even own a gun or not. I also didn't see a statistic for how many of those were unregistered and registered so I can't comment on the legality of any of that or how effective the laws are. I also (sadly) couldn't find a statistic for the number of firearm owners who commit murder but I can damn well bet it's not 100% as the GP insinuates. I understand that some people have an irrational fear of guns but please don't don't spread your FUD or I'm going to push to have knives and even your own bare hands outlawed as they are used in 21.1% of murders.
While the war in Iraq may have had something to do with a decrease in driving I think your post went extremely off topic. Of course your topic was modded Insightful almost instantly despite having nearly nothing to do with the article in discussion. Now if you had said that the war in Iraq was responsible for higher gas prices and not Katrina as the article seems to indicate which in turn decreased driving in the US I would have been fine with that. However, you decided to make this into a political discussion on Iraq. Kudos AC, kudos.
Could someone explain to me how these nano-tools are actually used? Obviously you can't use them by hand or you'd slice through a million cells with a twitch of a muscle and I wasn't aware that we had a mechanical means to control these things... If anyone could explain how they're used I'd be grateful.
Here is a choice quote from the first paragraph...
But the Wii, which is being marketed as the ideal system for newbies, made me feel like an incompetent novice. I don't blame myself. The ugly truth is that the Wii's already-legendary motion-detection system doesn't work very well.
Emphasis mine. That pretty much sums up the article.
Most people don't care if it's free or proprietary; they just want it to work regardless of their knowledge of software. The masses don't care about the philosophical ramifications of open vs. proprietary software and frankly I think the FOSS community puts too much emphasis on it, even above usability in some cases.
And as far as who prefers which operating system I think you're also mistaken. I'm stuck hacking away at a bash prompt for a very large chunk of my day five days a week trying to deploy servers while maintaining other servers. I do not prefer Linux for home use as it doesn't offer me anything more than Windows or Mac OSX (except maybe security in the case of Windows). I personally have a Windows machine for gaming and a Powerbook laptop for just general dicking around.
In either case I think you've grossly over generalized a lot of people.
As I quite literally just posted in Snowball Earth Hypothesis thread only this time maybe in a bit more detail...
So if you support the idea of global warming and that humanity is by far the largest contributor to the phenomenon then you believe that through our own naive actions we have potentially created a dire set of consequences for humanity and many other species on Earth. Now you want to actively cool the Earth by changing it's albedo even though we are still ignorant to how the climate actually works? This is just as bad as those saying we're doing absolutely no harm to the planet only under the guise of "saving the planet". What happens if cooling the planet has unintended consequences just as industrialization has had such as plunging us into another ice age? This seems like an extremely hypocritical standpoint.
As I have sad in numerous other threads on the subject I think that actively combating global warming by changing the Earth's albedo is a very deplorable idea. I'd be much more comfortable with people carpooling or riding bikes to work, cutting down on those God awful SUVs, and moving to an alternative energy source which potentially has less of an impact on the environment.
As a side note I'd like to point out how I think it's ridiculous to place humanity above nature. We are apart of nature, anything we do is natural. If we kill ourselves by destroying the environment then it's no different than if a pack of wolves starve to death because they hunted their food to extinction. But that's just a little annoyance of mine =).
So in order to solve this mess [global warming] that we've gotten ourselves into you're fully willing to go in the opposite direction and change the Earth's albedo despite having inconclusive and incomplete data on the subject? Are you the same person who will advocate driving around an SUV in 50 years to prevent global cooling because you so arrogantly fucked with nature again?
If you read it like "ADD 7 6" you get 13. I'd look for more examples but I just don't really care. If you're looking for something you will find it everywhere, regardless of what you're looking for.
That is of course unless it's your keys and you're late for work.
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I understand why people are wary of CCTV but there is a lot of very unnecessary negative feeling towards it. It could be used for bad but it is used for a lot of good. There are a lot of crimes carried out against people which just could not be solved without the CCTV evidence or leads obtained from CCTV.
I'd rather have a criminal go free than lose my privacy and possibly my freedom.
Maybe they're not still playing it so much as they just started playing it? I picked the game up in July as I had no interest in playing it before then (I'm not a large MMO fan). But a friend who recently bought a new computer that could run WoW bought it so I did.
I'm sure there are still players that have been playing since the very beginning but I doubt they're the majority. I'm sure most of the people playing are either those who didn't buy the game until just recently or those who put it down for several months or longer and have decided to pick it back up again.
And what happens if we actively try to combat global warming only to find out later it was a natural trend? I'm not saying global warming is or isn't happening, I'm just saying it's a bad idea to act on incomplete data.
Passively trying to combat global warming, however, isn't a bad idea. By active I mean blocking the amount of sun that hits the Earth or something such as that. By passive I mean carpooling to work or riding a bike if you're close enough. Small stuff like that.
Sergeant: "Correct, there is no obligation."
Bender/Fry: *giggling, signing up for army*
Sergeant: "Unless of course, war were declared." *alarm goes off*
Fry: "What's that?"
Sergeant: "War were declared."
The article is from a year ago. I know MS bashing around here is "cool" and all but come on. If we're going to complain about IE7 then at least complain about the current version.
Er, exactly how would life begin on a meteorite? Exactly what chemistry would allow that to happen? I think it's a tad more likely that life would begin on a planet with the requisite natural resources.
Er, exactly what chemistry would allow life to happen PERIOD? We don't know how to create life and it's entirely possible that life can be based on a chemical make-up other than our chemical make-up. I know a lot of people have said that our form of life is the only one that could possibly work but I'll take that conclusion with a very large grain of salt until we can find another form of life.
We have absolutely zero evidence for life on planets other than earth. On the other hand, we have considerable evidence that we're alone in the galaxy (other galaxies are too far away to know anything about).
I suppose it depends on how you define "alone" There's no reason why we can't be the most advanced race in the galaxy so far. Maybe there's a few planets with amphibian creatures, and maybe a few more with primate type creatures. Just because we don't see a space probe flying by Earth doesn't mean life doesn't exist out there. A better way to phrase your sentence is, "On the other hand, we have considerable evidence to suggest that we are the most advanced life form in this galaxy." There's no conclusion you can draw about the abundance or scarcity of life in this galaxy as it's simply impossible to tell at this point.
Despite the usual "this is for lazy people" comments I can actually see this as being very useful in many contexts. I live in an apartment right now and my room mate is always using the washer and dryer. I usually end up doing the loads of laundry she already has in so I can get in a load or two and have clothes for the next day. Coupled with the fact that our dryer is terrible (the time limit is 160 minutes for drying, this usually doesn't fully dry clothes) I could definitely see a benefit to controlling the washer/dryer from somewhere else. It would also be helpful in a household with many people, dorms, etc...
But we're not a Democracy, or at least we're not supposed to be. We're a Republic, we're just acting like a Democracy. Remember, Democracy is the tyranny of the majority. So, in fact, our Republic has already failed since everyone thinks we're a Democracy. Now our wrongful Democracy is turning into a tyranny of the majority. Welcome to the United States, if you don't agree with us, too bad.
See I don't really have a problem with dental work (with the exception of the needle at the beginning since dentists around here don't use N2O, I hate needles). The only reason I don't go to a dentist is because I've yet to find one that isn't a complete prick. Last time I went to the dentist I was 18 and he talked to me like I was 6. I mean come on, my doctor is one of the nicest people I know. Dentists do nothing but chastise people, at least every single one I've been to. I mean come the fuck on, I know how to brush my teeth, I know how to floss, and I do both once to twice a day. Maybe I'm one of those odd cases that doesn't fall under the normal tooth decay category?
So until they can replace the dentist with smoeone who isn't a snobby cunt I'll let my teeth rot. I shouldn't have to pay them an arm and a leg for them to be assholes.
The Senate has moderation; it's called the people who vote the Senators into office. And just like slashdot the "moderators" are usually equally as clueless.
I'm so very glad you're willing to give your hard earned money to the government to spend on bullshit services. Here is an absolutely perfect example from Davy Crockett:
"Mr. Speaker--I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the sufferings of the living, if suffering there be, as any man in this House, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for a part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has not the power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of the public money. Some eloquent appeals have been made to us upon the ground that it is a debt due the deceased. Mr. Speaker, the deceased lived long after the close of the war; he was in office to the day of his death, and I have never heard that the government was in arrears to him. Every man in this House knows it is not a debt. We cannot, without the grossest corruption, appropriate this money as the payment of a debt. We have not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as charity. Mr. Speaker, I have said we have the right to give as much money of our own as we please. I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week's pay to the object, and if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks."
So yes, you continue to think it's perfectly okay for the government to take half your estate when you die if you're valued at over one million dollars so they can spend it on whatever the fuck they want to. Not for the good of the people but for the good of increasing the financial power of the government and expanding its control over the citizenship. Tax is there so the government can adequetly do it's job, which is to server the people, not create a giant slush fund. The examples you've given make up a miniscule fraction of what the government spends on what they see fit. Good job with the red herring, I applaud your ignorance.
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That's a horrible idea. What the hell are they supposed to write? "Write down a linked list object, you have 30 seconds on the clock!" Seriously, the only thing you could write down on a white board are simplistic data structures and algorithms which proves that you took a DSA class at one point; big whoop. It's not like they can ask you to write a kernel or they won't hire you. Perhaps they could ask you to correct some code with mistakes? But even then it just shows they have a rudimentary knowledge of the programming languages syntax.
As to the original post, tell them the truth. You don't do a ton of coding on your free times as you have little of it and all the other code you've written isn't yours to give out. If they don't understand this then I don't think you want to work for them anyway.
It's also the most statistically inaccurate comment. It's probably more inaccurate statistically than the software we're discussing.
"Of those incidents in which the murder weapon was specified, 70.3 percent of the homicides that occurred in 2004 were committed with firearms. Of those, 77.9 percent involved handguns, 5.4 percent involved shotguns, and 4.2 percent involved rifles. Approximately 12.4 of the murders were committed with other types or unspecified types of firearms. Knives or cutting instruments were used in 14.1 percent of the murders; personal weapons, such as hands, fists, and feet, were used in 7.0 percent of murders, and blunt objects (i.e., clubs, hammers, etc.) were used in 5.0 percent of the homicides. Other weapons, such as poison, explosives, narcotics, etc., were used in 3.6 percent of the murders. (Based on Table 2.9.)"
So automatically the GPs post is flat out wrong. Second off I didn't see the statistics for the age of the offender and if he could even own a gun or not. I also didn't see a statistic for how many of those were unregistered and registered so I can't comment on the legality of any of that or how effective the laws are. I also (sadly) couldn't find a statistic for the number of firearm owners who commit murder but I can damn well bet it's not 100% as the GP insinuates. I understand that some people have an irrational fear of guns but please don't don't spread your FUD or I'm going to push to have knives and even your own bare hands outlawed as they are used in 21.1% of murders.
I even have a source!
While the war in Iraq may have had something to do with a decrease in driving I think your post went extremely off topic. Of course your topic was modded Insightful almost instantly despite having nearly nothing to do with the article in discussion. Now if you had said that the war in Iraq was responsible for higher gas prices and not Katrina as the article seems to indicate which in turn decreased driving in the US I would have been fine with that. However, you decided to make this into a political discussion on Iraq. Kudos AC, kudos.
Could someone explain to me how these nano-tools are actually used? Obviously you can't use them by hand or you'd slice through a million cells with a twitch of a muscle and I wasn't aware that we had a mechanical means to control these things... If anyone could explain how they're used I'd be grateful.
Here is a choice quote from the first paragraph...
But the Wii, which is being marketed as the ideal system for newbies, made me feel like an incompetent novice. I don't blame myself. The ugly truth is that the Wii's already-legendary motion-detection system doesn't work very well.
Emphasis mine. That pretty much sums up the article.
Did an iceberg kill your mother or something? Chill out!
Most people don't care if it's free or proprietary; they just want it to work regardless of their knowledge of software. The masses don't care about the philosophical ramifications of open vs. proprietary software and frankly I think the FOSS community puts too much emphasis on it, even above usability in some cases.
And as far as who prefers which operating system I think you're also mistaken. I'm stuck hacking away at a bash prompt for a very large chunk of my day five days a week trying to deploy servers while maintaining other servers. I do not prefer Linux for home use as it doesn't offer me anything more than Windows or Mac OSX (except maybe security in the case of Windows). I personally have a Windows machine for gaming and a Powerbook laptop for just general dicking around.
In either case I think you've grossly over generalized a lot of people.
As I quite literally just posted in Snowball Earth Hypothesis thread only this time maybe in a bit more detail...
So if you support the idea of global warming and that humanity is by far the largest contributor to the phenomenon then you believe that through our own naive actions we have potentially created a dire set of consequences for humanity and many other species on Earth. Now you want to actively cool the Earth by changing it's albedo even though we are still ignorant to how the climate actually works? This is just as bad as those saying we're doing absolutely no harm to the planet only under the guise of "saving the planet". What happens if cooling the planet has unintended consequences just as industrialization has had such as plunging us into another ice age? This seems like an extremely hypocritical standpoint.
As I have sad in numerous other threads on the subject I think that actively combating global warming by changing the Earth's albedo is a very deplorable idea. I'd be much more comfortable with people carpooling or riding bikes to work, cutting down on those God awful SUVs, and moving to an alternative energy source which potentially has less of an impact on the environment.
As a side note I'd like to point out how I think it's ridiculous to place humanity above nature. We are apart of nature, anything we do is natural. If we kill ourselves by destroying the environment then it's no different than if a pack of wolves starve to death because they hunted their food to extinction. But that's just a little annoyance of mine =).
Damn... Just... Damn...
So in order to solve this mess [global warming] that we've gotten ourselves into you're fully willing to go in the opposite direction and change the Earth's albedo despite having inconclusive and incomplete data on the subject? Are you the same person who will advocate driving around an SUV in 50 years to prevent global cooling because you so arrogantly fucked with nature again?
Your attitude makes me sick.
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If you read it like "ADD 7 6" you get 13. I'd look for more examples but I just don't really care. If you're looking for something you will find it everywhere, regardless of what you're looking for.
That is of course unless it's your keys and you're late for work. ad7d6
I understand why people are wary of CCTV but there is a lot of very unnecessary negative feeling towards it. It could be used for bad but it is used for a lot of good. There are a lot of crimes carried out against people which just could not be solved without the CCTV evidence or leads obtained from CCTV.
I'd rather have a criminal go free than lose my privacy and possibly my freedom.
Apparently the person who modded the parent as "Offtopic" was also being visited by Aunt Flow.
"Why Are People Still Playing WoW?"
Maybe they're not still playing it so much as they just started playing it? I picked the game up in July as I had no interest in playing it before then (I'm not a large MMO fan). But a friend who recently bought a new computer that could run WoW bought it so I did.
I'm sure there are still players that have been playing since the very beginning but I doubt they're the majority. I'm sure most of the people playing are either those who didn't buy the game until just recently or those who put it down for several months or longer and have decided to pick it back up again.
And what happens if we actively try to combat global warming only to find out later it was a natural trend? I'm not saying global warming is or isn't happening, I'm just saying it's a bad idea to act on incomplete data.
Passively trying to combat global warming, however, isn't a bad idea. By active I mean blocking the amount of sun that hits the Earth or something such as that. By passive I mean carpooling to work or riding a bike if you're close enough. Small stuff like that.
Sergeant: "Correct, there is no obligation." Bender/Fry: *giggling, signing up for army* Sergeant: "Unless of course, war were declared." *alarm goes off* Fry: "What's that?" Sergeant: "War were declared."
I never saw V for Vendetta but there was on choice tidbit from the previews I think is also very relevant.
"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."
The article is from a year ago. I know MS bashing around here is "cool" and all but come on. If we're going to complain about IE7 then at least complain about the current version.
Er, exactly how would life begin on a meteorite? Exactly what chemistry would allow that to happen? I think it's a tad more likely that life would begin on a planet with the requisite natural resources.
Er, exactly what chemistry would allow life to happen PERIOD? We don't know how to create life and it's entirely possible that life can be based on a chemical make-up other than our chemical make-up. I know a lot of people have said that our form of life is the only one that could possibly work but I'll take that conclusion with a very large grain of salt until we can find another form of life.
We have absolutely zero evidence for life on planets other than earth. On the other hand, we have considerable evidence that we're alone in the galaxy (other galaxies are too far away to know anything about).
I suppose it depends on how you define "alone" There's no reason why we can't be the most advanced race in the galaxy so far. Maybe there's a few planets with amphibian creatures, and maybe a few more with primate type creatures. Just because we don't see a space probe flying by Earth doesn't mean life doesn't exist out there. A better way to phrase your sentence is, "On the other hand, we have considerable evidence to suggest that we are the most advanced life form in this galaxy." There's no conclusion you can draw about the abundance or scarcity of life in this galaxy as it's simply impossible to tell at this point.
Every time actually. It's just the exhaust leads to basically nothing anymore. It's an old apartment. Basically it's a good heater in the winter.
Despite the usual "this is for lazy people" comments I can actually see this as being very useful in many contexts. I live in an apartment right now and my room mate is always using the washer and dryer. I usually end up doing the loads of laundry she already has in so I can get in a load or two and have clothes for the next day. Coupled with the fact that our dryer is terrible (the time limit is 160 minutes for drying, this usually doesn't fully dry clothes) I could definitely see a benefit to controlling the washer/dryer from somewhere else. It would also be helpful in a household with many people, dorms, etc...
But we're not a Democracy, or at least we're not supposed to be. We're a Republic, we're just acting like a Democracy. Remember, Democracy is the tyranny of the majority. So, in fact, our Republic has already failed since everyone thinks we're a Democracy. Now our wrongful Democracy is turning into a tyranny of the majority. Welcome to the United States, if you don't agree with us, too bad.
See I don't really have a problem with dental work (with the exception of the needle at the beginning since dentists around here don't use N2O, I hate needles). The only reason I don't go to a dentist is because I've yet to find one that isn't a complete prick. Last time I went to the dentist I was 18 and he talked to me like I was 6. I mean come on, my doctor is one of the nicest people I know. Dentists do nothing but chastise people, at least every single one I've been to. I mean come the fuck on, I know how to brush my teeth, I know how to floss, and I do both once to twice a day. Maybe I'm one of those odd cases that doesn't fall under the normal tooth decay category?
So until they can replace the dentist with smoeone who isn't a snobby cunt I'll let my teeth rot. I shouldn't have to pay them an arm and a leg for them to be assholes.
The Senate has moderation; it's called the people who vote the Senators into office. And just like slashdot the "moderators" are usually equally as clueless.
I'm so very glad you're willing to give your hard earned money to the government to spend on bullshit services. Here is an absolutely perfect example from Davy Crockett:
"Mr. Speaker--I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the sufferings of the living, if suffering there be, as any man in this House, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for a part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has not the power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of the public money. Some eloquent appeals have been made to us upon the ground that it is a debt due the deceased. Mr. Speaker, the deceased lived long after the close of the war; he was in office to the day of his death, and I have never heard that the government was in arrears to him. Every man in this House knows it is not a debt. We cannot, without the grossest corruption, appropriate this money as the payment of a debt. We have not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as charity. Mr. Speaker, I have said we have the right to give as much money of our own as we please. I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week's pay to the object, and if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks."
So yes, you continue to think it's perfectly okay for the government to take half your estate when you die if you're valued at over one million dollars so they can spend it on whatever the fuck they want to. Not for the good of the people but for the good of increasing the financial power of the government and expanding its control over the citizenship. Tax is there so the government can adequetly do it's job, which is to server the people, not create a giant slush fund. The examples you've given make up a miniscule fraction of what the government spends on what they see fit. Good job with the red herring, I applaud your ignorance.
Now, personally, I think the death tax is the most fair tax possible. You can't take it with you anyways, and your heirs didn't earn it.
The government didn't earn it either.