Let those bureaucrats with their clouds, protocols and acronyms for procedures go screw themselves. We live in the real world and like to get things done.
Reading the question, seeing that that there were over 300 comments, I thought I was in for an hour of reading one-liners marked funny +5.
This being slashdot I was confronted with hundreds of comments containing advise, sympathy and conflicts over why it is illegal to own certain kinds of pens.
Take a step back people, we're talking about pens here.
Still nerds, but older and with more money. If something breaks, you used to take a screwdriver and soldering iron. Nowadays you click a button in a webshop to replace the device.
I agree with parent. It's like they threw away a perfectly good user interface and needed to replace with something new, because, hey, surely the user wants something new. If they had done a better job at letting old farts like me switch back to the classic interface that would still be okay. But the fact of the matter is, that sucks too.
My gnome classic environment is full of surprises. Windows that arbitrarily move to either top or bottom, a clock that is always in a format that I don't want, complete disappearance of the taskbar after switching workspaces, windows that aren't reachable at all if I switch from monitor to laptop screen, just to name a few.
Just out of curiosity: how did you do that, reading it in one session? If I extrapolate my last session (just finished the book today, btw), it has taken me between 50 and 60 hours. Did you take some kind of speed reading course?
I'm reading this book now, and have been doing so for the past half year. Really, I have no idea how many pages the paper book has, but it takes me about three quarters of an hour to advance one percent on my kindle. There's a speech given by one of the main characters that goes on for three hours reading time! Meanwhile, I've become increasingly depressed. It's not a fun book, but oh so recognizable. After this I'll need an entire season of Dharma and Greg plus ten pounds of chocolate to recover. And I will, because I refuse to live among men as a totally rational being.
I once heard we moved to 16:9 because it is closer to the golden ratio (1.618..). This ratio pops up everywhere where beauty and aesthetics are concerned.
If it is true then it makes sense that the movie industry opted for 16:10, which is even closer to the ratio.
Learning math is learning to think in a disciplined way. Math is not only calculus, it's also logic, discrete math and complexity. If these are not part of your natural thinking you will not be the best software engineer you can be.
I totally agree. There are so many uninformed claims around HFT and trading financial products in general, it's just pathetic. Another one that constantly resurfaces is the ban on short selling.
A lot of microsofts success can be attributed to great timing, motivated and empowered people and just plain luck. When the mood in a company goes from optimistic to negative it's really hard to turn it around. The cause of this shift can be anything, and you will see it in any company sooner or later. After that things start to go down hill. Sometimes a turnaround can be accomplished, sometimes it can't. People have studied this for a long time and came up with all sorts of theories, often not more than an analysis of a handful of cases where things worked out. Unfortunately the methods are not universally applicable, but at least it gives room for more management books to be written.
In other words: there are many companies with the keys to the castle in their hands. Only some of them will actually go on to use them. It's hard to tell which ones will. Ask any stock analyst. Social mood waxes and wanes but the turning points are only clear in hindsight.
The article doesn't say, but I'm really curious as to what kind of stuff you can blow up with this thing. Seriously. On one hand there's this massive number of watts, on the other hand the duration of the pulse is so short.Do you need total energy to be really high to blow up anything big, or would this laser do the job?
Put your data on a raid5 or 6 array. Every once in a while one fails, but you won't have to fear anybody can recover the data on it. For that, they would need the other disks as well.
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Have you been watching the 40 year old virgin too many times?
at least they got the hairdo correct
your rants about the rich make you look stupid.
Get a job.
I think Mr. Hogan should stick to wrestling.
how about: Hahaha!!
my prediction: they will all press the button just once and be content to say that they tried.
Peoples habits are hard to change.
That is disgusting
Too late, Bob is already pissed off because the entire board has been told Bobs system sucks. Being uninformed, they agreed.
One of you two guys has to go. I suggest it better not be Bob.
I'm with you Bob.
Let those bureaucrats with their clouds, protocols and acronyms for procedures go screw themselves. We live in the real world and like to get things done.
Oh well, who is John Galt?
Reading the question, seeing that that there were over 300 comments, I thought I was in for an hour of reading one-liners marked funny +5.
This being slashdot I was confronted with hundreds of comments containing advise, sympathy and conflicts over why it is illegal to own certain kinds of pens.
Take a step back people, we're talking about pens here.
Still nerds, but older and with more money. If something breaks, you used to take a screwdriver and soldering iron. Nowadays you click a button in a webshop to replace the device.
Thanks, I appreciate your comments.
no, still sucks
I agree with parent. It's like they threw away a perfectly good user interface and needed to replace with something new, because, hey, surely the user wants something new. If they had done a better job at letting old farts like me switch back to the classic interface that would still be okay. But the fact of the matter is, that sucks too.
My gnome classic environment is full of surprises. Windows that arbitrarily move to either top or bottom, a clock that is always in a format that I don't want, complete disappearance of the taskbar after switching workspaces, windows that aren't reachable at all if I switch from monitor to laptop screen, just to name a few.
I'm all for innovation, but let people chose.
Just out of curiosity: how did you do that, reading it in one session? If I extrapolate my last session (just finished the book today, btw), it has taken me between 50 and 60 hours. Did you take some kind of speed reading course?
I'm reading this book now, and have been doing so for the past half year. Really, I have no idea how many pages the paper book has, but it takes me about three quarters of an hour to advance one percent on my kindle. There's a speech given by one of the main characters that goes on for three hours reading time! Meanwhile, I've become increasingly depressed. It's not a fun book, but oh so recognizable. After this I'll need an entire season of Dharma and Greg plus ten pounds of chocolate to recover. And I will, because I refuse to live among men as a totally rational being.
I once heard we moved to 16:9 because it is closer to the golden ratio (1.618..). This ratio pops up everywhere where beauty and aesthetics are concerned.
If it is true then it makes sense that the movie industry opted for 16:10, which is even closer to the ratio.
for the love of god, buy a regular NAS
Learning math is learning to think in a disciplined way. Math is not only calculus, it's also logic, discrete math and complexity. If these are not part of your natural thinking you will not be the best software engineer you can be.
I totally agree. There are so many uninformed claims around HFT and trading financial products in general, it's just pathetic. Another one that constantly resurfaces is the ban on short selling.
A lot of microsofts success can be attributed to great timing, motivated and empowered people and just plain luck. When the mood in a company goes from optimistic to negative it's really hard to turn it around. The cause of this shift can be anything, and you will see it in any company sooner or later. After that things start to go down hill. Sometimes a turnaround can be accomplished, sometimes it can't. People have studied this for a long time and came up with all sorts of theories, often not more than an analysis of a handful of cases where things worked out. Unfortunately the methods are not universally applicable, but at least it gives room for more management books to be written.
In other words: there are many companies with the keys to the castle in their hands. Only some of them will actually go on to use them. It's hard to tell which ones will. Ask any stock analyst. Social mood waxes and wanes but the turning points are only clear in hindsight.
Mark.
The article doesn't say, but I'm really curious as to what kind of stuff you can blow up with this thing. Seriously. On one hand there's this massive number of watts, on the other hand the duration of the pulse is so short.Do you need total energy to be really high to blow up anything big, or would this laser do the job?
Mark.
well, let them have my porn then.
Put your data on a raid5 or 6 array. Every once in a while one fails, but you won't have to fear anybody can recover the data on it. For that, they would need the other disks as well.
Simple!
I'm guessing you're about 30 years old. Congratulations! You will probably live forever, barring any tragic accidents.
So, yes, in all probability, you will live to see fusion power available.