If you don't have regular exercise (at least a weekly aerobic workout like a ball game of some sort), there is a DEFINITE hump that can take up to 1-2 months to get over, depending on your starting fitness level. But, I agree with you in that, once you're over the hump, it's not as if working out feels like sex or something.
However, you do start to recognize and enjoy the tired blood-filled muscle feeling once you start seeing results. Also, once you're working out, if you miss a day or two your body will feel ansy, like you have too much energy. And, if you miss a week or two, you'll find that you have a small "hump" (couple days) to overcome when you start working out again.
Maybe the trick is to teach yourself to quit whining and ENJOY the hard work you're doing, but I very much disagree that there is no such thing as a hump when you start exercising.
Hmm, a bunch of dim-witted good-looking people basically doing nothing but drooling, having sex with eachother, and taking up resources. I didn't know the Hyundai Elantra GTs came with a De'Lorean Time Machine option. I thought I was going out to a local bar last weekend, but apparently I was shot 100 years into the future!
Wouldn't you want to run it to one device that split it into multiple ethernet ports anyway (rather than running coax)? Or, are the runs too long for ethernet?
1. No, but saying that we'll do it even if nobody else signs up *is* unilateral. It's the willingness to go unilateral that matters, not the fact that Turkey will sign on if we bribe them $100 million.
2. No, it was because they were giving them to Al Qaeda and going to Nuke the US homeland!!!!!!!! It's happening NOW. We'll ALL BE DEAD in just MONTHS!!! And stuff.
3. Right. That's why Afghanistan and the Afghan people were abandoned with no resolution or effective rebuilding and no leadership. Because WE CARE dammit! And, that's why we invaded Saudi Arabia, where the 9/11 terrorists came from. At least we didn't just fire some missles at Afghanistan, "hit some camels in the butt", and call it a day, like Clinton did! (according to Bush)
4. Hmm. I hate America. I live in Afghanistan. There are a bunch of Americans in Iraq. I'm going to wait until I get a green card before I kill me some American ass. 'Cuz I"m smartz!
5. WTF? Either I can't read, you can't write, or the quote has no relevance to the situation. Anyone who believes that there is no cause worth fighting for *is* a fucktard. As is the person who believes that it is their duty to *always* follow the leaders of their country.
There are a number of ways to interperate the phrase "the world" in the context you've given, but, just FYI, realize that (last I heard, which was last year) less than 30% of the world's population has even a phone in their home.
I too believe that face-to-face contact will eventually become passe [when sufficiently good (video) conferencing software and bandwidth becomes ubiquitous], but most of the world's population is still very concerned about where their next meal (or winter's meals) will be coming from. For them, imagining a life with the internet is what's hard.
I get what you're saying; it's just that you have to be careful when using broad terms like "the world", "always", etc.:)
50 lbs for 3 days once a month is not the same as 25 lbs 5 days a week for 3/4 of the year.
When I was in highschool, the time between class changes was so short that the only time I could go to my locker was when I got to school, at lunch, and after school (barely, before the busses left). That left me carrying 3-4 books, about 6-8 inches high and weighing 15 pounds and held under one arm (I think there was some stupid rule about not using backpacks or something, because nobody did). Sure, I managed, but it sucked ass.
In any case, if medical science has determined that it's not safe for kids that age to carry that much load, then that's it. A 14 year old baseball pitcher can't "decide" to get stronger arm bones so that he doesn't screw up his arm throwing a curve ball; it's simply not safe.
Except, of course, that it was the policies of the Clinton and early Bush administration, which weren't all that different from each other, that allowed 9/11 to happen in the first place.
Complete, 100% bullshit. [According to all the facts I've heard].
Do me a favor: check out Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, by Al Franken. Read chapters 12-16 (I think those are the relevent ones). You will learn that Clinton's administration: captured and convicted WTC bombers; thwarted a number of Al-Queda (sp?) plots; OK'd the assasination of Bin Laden; told the incomming Bush administration that terrorism would likely be their top priority; handed the Bush administration a roadmap of how to address the terrorist threat (which was put in to action *after* 9/11, and included the Homeland Security department, etc.). The reason the plan wasn't put into action before the end of Clinton's administration was because it was only finished near the end of the term (~November) and they didn't feel it was fair to 'hand the incomming administration a war' (paraphrasing).
Also, try to listen to Condaliza Rice's (sp?) 9/11 hearing testimony. The Bush administration simply ignored the terrorist threat to concentrate on tax cuts and space weapons. The publicly available "Bin Laden to Strike Within the Contenintal United States" memo was NOT "historical information" as Rice claimed in the hearing; it was as plain as the title that there was a clear and present danger. To be fair to Rice: it seems to me as if she actually tried to listen to Clarke and was ignored by her superiors (who eventually formed a comittee that never met), and I suspect the BS about Clarke never attending any briefings was just another part of the party line that says to repeat our bullshit until enough of the population believes it.
As far as PATRIOT Act stuff, yeah, Clinton pushed for some of that, and I don't see Kerry or any other politition undoing much of it any time soon. But, I'm nearly positive that no other president/administration would have made up phony links between Al-Queda and Iraq in order to start a war that has killed hundreds of US soldiers, continuosly degrades our foreign relations and moral ground, and costs ~4 billion dollars a month (I think that's the right number).
There is NO link between Al-Queda and Iraq (well, was; after all, the enemy of my enemy is my friend). Maybe 9/11 couldn't have been prevented and we would still be dealing with Al-Queda. BUT, everything to do with Iraq is a direct result of the Bush administration. We didn't need to go there. The American people were lied to in order to scare them into accepting the war (btw, leading the country to war under false pretenses is an impeachable offense (but I don't think an under-the-desk hummer is, heh)). It's funny how 9/11 garnered us a lot of world support that has been squandered in the Iraq quagmire.
Yes, there is a fixed number; and the rest of his point was that the fat cells that survived the treatment would grow very large if the person didn't start eating better. They might have a size limit, but you'd surely get a very chunky cellulite effect.
If a rock of crack sold for 50 cents (like a soda pop or cup of coffee), there probably wouldn't be crack whores.
[Not that I can see somebody drinking one cup of coffee and getting addicted immediately; the high you get, while physically and mentally addictive, isn't so powerful that many people would be willing to trade their normal life for destitute caffine addiction.]
OK, I buy it:) It's just the way you described a few things, I got the wrong impression. When he said 15 years, did you ask him how it was working with Linus?:>
I think we're on the same page about it sucking for the "original".
My point, I guess, is this: If you digtially copy a digital stream, is the newer file a copy? By definition, yes, because the 2nd was created from the first. But, if every bit is the same, then it doesn't matter which came first; only metadata could even tell you which was the copy (remember the 'eyelid dots' in Sixth Day?). I guess, I kind of figure that if one person (possibly old or sick) goes to sleep with a set of memories, and another (possibly young) wakes up with those memories / stream of conciousness, then it's all good. If you start worring about the time when there are 2 streams of consiousness and one of them ending, things get messy:)
And then there's random bit flips, stack / pointer corruption. Who knows? I almost always put in a clause like that (except I say "Can't get here"), and I've seen a few of those messages. Sure, it's typically when the conditional is a screwed-up pointer or something more advanced than an int, but consistency is important. Also, our stuff is deployed in a high-radiation environment and I'm a little paranoid about totally random weirdness.
1) Why would you expect somebody working on embedded systems to need shell or scripting languages? Once rc starts the progs, you're likely done with shell scripts. On our unit with 8MB FLASH, we do a little scripting at bootup and sure don't have room for a perl interperater.
2) What's up with the "(singular)"? I don't get it. If he said, "fork will return a", then he spoke correct English. The other form, "fork returns a" is also fine. "Fork will returns a" is incorrect, but is what you seemed to be expecting. I'll assume it's a typo of some sort, but when you're correcting someone's grammar you need to pay special attention to not make a mistake yourself. Or, I totally missed the point...
3) He's an EE. Not knowing about a library function (exec) is not the end of the world. He may have been busy getting things to work as best he could. If he is bright, you can teach him the details.
4) First, a pipe *is* a FIFO. Sounds like he knew the concept, but not the terminology. Perhaps a 20 second description and a pointer to a library would have had him all set. Second, if he knows general sockets and mutex, explaining the differences and benefits of unix sockets, semaphores, and signals would not take that long.
Obviously, I wan't the one there, you were; but, from your description, it sounds to me like you didn't give him a fair shake. His main focus was EE, but you penalized him for not knowing a number of "CS" specifics when it's clear that he's taught himself a number of related concepts. I'd rather have a motivated EE than a fresh CS who only cared about 'faking it well' (not that the person you picked was that way).
But, in any case, what I'm worried about is the China advantage; they simply have so many MORE people than other countries do. Even if the salaries were the same, there are now 4-5 people that can fill the 1 available job. Hopefully, I'm just being pessimistic.
I won't say that I necessarily have the SAME 50 open for days, but I definitely have 30+ tabs open in Moz for weeks at a time. What's with the "beyond its intent" though? I used to have that many instances of Netscape up; now I have one instance and many tabs. In any case, I don't have a problem with speed. Maybe it takes a bit longer to load the first time after a reboot or being completely closed, but I almost always have at least 1 Moz window up. Also, Moz has always loaded pages faster (hell, it HAS to, because IE waits until it gets the whole page before displaying anything).
*Maybe* "Distributed services", but only if you go in to analysing the graphs and their nodes, etc.
Security? Again, no. Possibly the math behind encryption and random tcp sequence numbers, but NONE of the policy and application-specific stuff that a user of the technology touches.
Computer Science IS math. The "Science" word is completely misleading on a number of levels. Computer Applied Math would be a better term. Unless you're formally modelling and / or proving your system (Transactions, Concurrency, delays, etc), you're not doing Computer Science.
I wish I'd have saved some mod points; I don't mind the posts, it's the damnable ludicrous moderation that goes on.
Actually, gluing aluminum foil to the sides is fine. Copper foil would be best. Might be able to find it at a hobby shop (I remember doing copper punch-outs as a kid). But you'll either want a large single sheet per side or very well connected pieces (along the lines of soldering); which is another reason that you'll probably have to settle for Al foil, and most likely will want to buy a roll of wide stuff.
On the edges of removable sides, roll the Al a few times to make it "puffy" so that the metal edges have good connection with eachother. Make sure to ground as many of the non-removable sides as possible (a wire soldered to the chassis of the power supply should be fine).
The first time I turned on my new HTPC box after installing a passive heatsink on the CPU, I was estatic; there was NO noise at all! Then I realized that, since I had also changed cases, I had forgotten to plug in my hard drives. Turns out that all of the noise I thought was coming from the CPU cooler was actually my loud-ass hard drives.
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If you don't have regular exercise (at least a weekly aerobic workout like a ball game of some sort), there is a DEFINITE hump that can take up to 1-2 months to get over, depending on your starting fitness level. But, I agree with you in that, once you're over the hump, it's not as if working out feels like sex or something.
However, you do start to recognize and enjoy the tired blood-filled muscle feeling once you start seeing results. Also, once you're working out, if you miss a day or two your body will feel ansy, like you have too much energy. And, if you miss a week or two, you'll find that you have a small "hump" (couple days) to overcome when you start working out again.
Maybe the trick is to teach yourself to quit whining and ENJOY the hard work you're doing, but I very much disagree that there is no such thing as a hump when you start exercising.
Hmm, a bunch of dim-witted good-looking people basically doing nothing but drooling, having sex with eachother, and taking up resources. I didn't know the Hyundai Elantra GTs came with a De'Lorean Time Machine option. I thought I was going out to a local bar last weekend, but apparently I was shot 100 years into the future!
Wouldn't you want to run it to one device that split it into multiple ethernet ports anyway (rather than running coax)? Or, are the runs too long for ethernet?
Dammit, where are my manners? I forgot to say, "Thanks!" for the troll bait!
1. No, but saying that we'll do it even if nobody else signs up *is* unilateral. It's the willingness to go unilateral that matters, not the fact that Turkey will sign on if we bribe them $100 million.
2. No, it was because they were giving them to Al Qaeda and going to Nuke the US homeland!!!!!!!! It's happening NOW. We'll ALL BE DEAD in just MONTHS!!! And stuff.
3. Right. That's why Afghanistan and the Afghan people were abandoned with no resolution or effective rebuilding and no leadership. Because WE CARE dammit! And, that's why we invaded Saudi Arabia, where the 9/11 terrorists came from. At least we didn't just fire some missles at Afghanistan, "hit some camels in the butt", and call it a day, like Clinton did! (according to Bush)
4. Hmm. I hate America. I live in Afghanistan. There are a bunch of Americans in Iraq. I'm going to wait until I get a green card before I kill me some American ass. 'Cuz I"m smartz!
5. WTF? Either I can't read, you can't write, or the quote has no relevance to the situation. Anyone who believes that there is no cause worth fighting for *is* a fucktard. As is the person who believes that it is their duty to *always* follow the leaders of their country.
6. You forgot to add, "QED".
The world nowadays
:)
There are a number of ways to interperate the phrase "the world" in the context you've given, but, just FYI, realize that (last I heard, which was last year) less than 30% of the world's population has even a phone in their home.
I too believe that face-to-face contact will eventually become passe [when sufficiently good (video) conferencing software and bandwidth becomes ubiquitous], but most of the world's population is still very concerned about where their next meal (or winter's meals) will be coming from. For them, imagining a life with the internet is what's hard.
I get what you're saying; it's just that you have to be careful when using broad terms like "the world", "always", etc.
50 lbs for 3 days once a month is not the same as 25 lbs 5 days a week for 3/4 of the year.
When I was in highschool, the time between class changes was so short that the only time I could go to my locker was when I got to school, at lunch, and after school (barely, before the busses left). That left me carrying 3-4 books, about 6-8 inches high and weighing 15 pounds and held under one arm (I think there was some stupid rule about not using backpacks or something, because nobody did). Sure, I managed, but it sucked ass.
In any case, if medical science has determined that it's not safe for kids that age to carry that much load, then that's it. A 14 year old baseball pitcher can't "decide" to get stronger arm bones so that he doesn't screw up his arm throwing a curve ball; it's simply not safe.
Your comment: Free textbooks sounds like a nice idea, but I have to wonder if quality will suffer as a result.
Your sig: Free binary security updates for FreeBSD [daemonology.net]
Hmmmmm, and the things that make you go.
Of course.
;)
Report back to us after your penis has touched some of that warm, moist, velvety bliss!
Except, of course, that it was the policies of the Clinton and early Bush administration, which weren't all that different from each other, that allowed 9/11 to happen in the first place.
Complete, 100% bullshit. [According to all the facts I've heard].
Do me a favor: check out Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, by Al Franken. Read chapters 12-16 (I think those are the relevent ones). You will learn that Clinton's administration: captured and convicted WTC bombers; thwarted a number of Al-Queda (sp?) plots; OK'd the assasination of Bin Laden; told the incomming Bush administration that terrorism would likely be their top priority; handed the Bush administration a roadmap of how to address the terrorist threat (which was put in to action *after* 9/11, and included the Homeland Security department, etc.). The reason the plan wasn't put into action before the end of Clinton's administration was because it was only finished near the end of the term (~November) and they didn't feel it was fair to 'hand the incomming administration a war' (paraphrasing).
Also, try to listen to Condaliza Rice's (sp?) 9/11 hearing testimony. The Bush administration simply ignored the terrorist threat to concentrate on tax cuts and space weapons. The publicly available "Bin Laden to Strike Within the Contenintal United States" memo was NOT "historical information" as Rice claimed in the hearing; it was as plain as the title that there was a clear and present danger. To be fair to Rice: it seems to me as if she actually tried to listen to Clarke and was ignored by her superiors (who eventually formed a comittee that never met), and I suspect the BS about Clarke never attending any briefings was just another part of the party line that says to repeat our bullshit until enough of the population believes it.
As far as PATRIOT Act stuff, yeah, Clinton pushed for some of that, and I don't see Kerry or any other politition undoing much of it any time soon. But, I'm nearly positive that no other president/administration would have made up phony links between Al-Queda and Iraq in order to start a war that has killed hundreds of US soldiers, continuosly degrades our foreign relations and moral ground, and costs ~4 billion dollars a month (I think that's the right number).
There is NO link between Al-Queda and Iraq (well, was; after all, the enemy of my enemy is my friend). Maybe 9/11 couldn't have been prevented and we would still be dealing with Al-Queda. BUT, everything to do with Iraq is a direct result of the Bush administration. We didn't need to go there. The American people were lied to in order to scare them into accepting the war (btw, leading the country to war under false pretenses is an impeachable offense (but I don't think an under-the-desk hummer is, heh)). It's funny how 9/11 garnered us a lot of world support that has been squandered in the Iraq quagmire.
Yes, there is a fixed number; and the rest of his point was that the fat cells that survived the treatment would grow very large if the person didn't start eating better. They might have a size limit, but you'd surely get a very chunky cellulite effect.
If a rock of crack sold for 50 cents (like a soda pop or cup of coffee), there probably wouldn't be crack whores.
[Not that I can see somebody drinking one cup of coffee and getting addicted immediately; the high you get, while physically and mentally addictive, isn't so powerful that many people would be willing to trade their normal life for destitute caffine addiction.]
I must assume you're an expert on all human cultures in order to make such a claim?
OK, I buy it :) :>
It's just the way you described a few things, I got the wrong impression. When he said 15 years, did you ask him how it was working with Linus?
My point was that just because two people say they saw a wreck, it doesn't mean they saw the same one.
Yes, I saw it.
:)
I think we're on the same page about it sucking for the "original".
My point, I guess, is this: If you digtially copy a digital stream, is the newer file a copy? By definition, yes, because the 2nd was created from the first. But, if every bit is the same, then it doesn't matter which came first; only metadata could even tell you which was the copy (remember the 'eyelid dots' in Sixth Day?). I guess, I kind of figure that if one person (possibly old or sick) goes to sleep with a set of memories, and another (possibly young) wakes up with those memories / stream of conciousness, then it's all good. If you start worring about the time when there are 2 streams of consiousness and one of them ending, things get messy
And then there's random bit flips, stack / pointer corruption. Who knows? I almost always put in a clause like that (except I say "Can't get here"), and I've seen a few of those messages. Sure, it's typically when the conditional is a screwed-up pointer or something more advanced than an int, but consistency is important. Also, our stuff is deployed in a high-radiation environment and I'm a little paranoid about totally random weirdness.
Umm, that EE with 15 years of experience:
1) Why would you expect somebody working on embedded systems to need shell or scripting languages? Once rc starts the progs, you're likely done with shell scripts. On our unit with 8MB FLASH, we do a little scripting at bootup and sure don't have room for a perl interperater.
2) What's up with the "(singular)"? I don't get it. If he said, "fork will return a", then he spoke correct English. The other form, "fork returns a" is also fine. "Fork will returns a" is incorrect, but is what you seemed to be expecting. I'll assume it's a typo of some sort, but when you're correcting someone's grammar you need to pay special attention to not make a mistake yourself. Or, I totally missed the point...
3) He's an EE. Not knowing about a library function (exec) is not the end of the world. He may have been busy getting things to work as best he could. If he is bright, you can teach him the details.
4) First, a pipe *is* a FIFO. Sounds like he knew the concept, but not the terminology. Perhaps a 20 second description and a pointer to a library would have had him all set. Second, if he knows general sockets and mutex, explaining the differences and benefits of unix sockets, semaphores, and signals would not take that long.
Obviously, I wan't the one there, you were; but, from your description, it sounds to me like you didn't give him a fair shake. His main focus was EE, but you penalized him for not knowing a number of "CS" specifics when it's clear that he's taught himself a number of related concepts. I'd rather have a motivated EE than a fresh CS who only cared about 'faking it well' (not that the person you picked was that way).
quite high - but not that high
A bit contradictory.
But, in any case, what I'm worried about is the China advantage; they simply have so many MORE people than other countries do. Even if the salaries were the same, there are now 4-5 people that can fill the 1 available job. Hopefully, I'm just being pessimistic.
I won't say that I necessarily have the SAME 50 open for days, but I definitely have 30+ tabs open in Moz for weeks at a time. What's with the "beyond its intent" though? I used to have that many instances of Netscape up; now I have one instance and many tabs. In any case, I don't have a problem with speed. Maybe it takes a bit longer to load the first time after a reboot or being completely closed, but I almost always have at least 1 Moz window up. Also, Moz has always loaded pages faster (hell, it HAS to, because IE waits until it gets the whole page before displaying anything).
BROWSER INCOMPATIBILITIES??? CS???
Umm, yeah, right.
OO design? No, not even.
*Maybe* "Distributed services", but only if you go in to analysing the graphs and their nodes, etc.
Security? Again, no. Possibly the math behind encryption and random tcp sequence numbers, but NONE of the policy and application-specific stuff that a user of the technology touches.
Computer Science IS math. The "Science" word is completely misleading on a number of levels. Computer Applied Math would be a better term.
Unless you're formally modelling and / or proving your system (Transactions, Concurrency, delays, etc), you're not doing Computer Science.
I wish I'd have saved some mod points; I don't mind the posts, it's the damnable ludicrous moderation that goes on.
Actually, gluing aluminum foil to the sides is fine. Copper foil would be best. Might be able to find it at a hobby shop (I remember doing copper punch-outs as a kid). But you'll either want a large single sheet per side or very well connected pieces (along the lines of soldering); which is another reason that you'll probably have to settle for Al foil, and most likely will want to buy a roll of wide stuff.
On the edges of removable sides, roll the Al a few times to make it "puffy" so that the metal edges have good connection with eachother. Make sure to ground as many of the non-removable sides as possible (a wire soldered to the chassis of the power supply should be fine).
Yeah, and they then to already have rythmic high-frequency whines in them. So, really, what's the point?
The first time I turned on my new HTPC box after installing a passive heatsink on the CPU, I was estatic; there was NO noise at all! Then I realized that, since I had also changed cases, I had forgotten to plug in my hard drives. Turns out that all of the noise I thought was coming from the CPU cooler was actually my loud-ass hard drives.
pretty well, apparently!