Perhaps he didn't want to go to the doctor, or it would cost too much to get it amputated.
So he got his wife, who is a nurse, to give home surgery a try.
Considering she isn't qualified, and that it is likely a felony to practice medicine without a license, it could have gone "wrong" (or had second thoughts), and they had to actually take him into the hospital.
Perhaps a whole crap ton of booze was the pain killer.
It goes without saying that making up an excuse that your dog ate your toe while your passed out is better than going to jail and losing your job for attempting illegal surgery.
Anyway I find that a hell of a lot more likely that his dog ate his toe while he was passed out.
Doesn't the USA always like to crow about "economies of scale"? So with more resources, shouldn't the USA be doing technically better?
Anyway your missing the point...
You would have to actually *live* in Norway, most might find that punishment enough. Hell the extra 11 days vacation is probably so people can get the hell out for a bit, which likely keeps half the population from committing suicide each year because they live in Norway.:) I kid, I kid. I love Norway!
In the time I have been here, only one corporate application has harmonized passwords. It was the only one of very many. However at least I could be happy about one less anyway.
As I put in an earlier post all those different systems passwords are pretty much pointless anyway. If anyone managed to log on as me, they could just send an email to Help Desk saying "Whoops I forgot my password again! Could you reset it for me and send me the new one via email? Thanks!" for any system they wanted access to. So whats the point really?
IT Security doesn't get security, mostly because they don't seem to deal in common sense.
Years ago I tried to explain that making the password more complex, and making people enter it more often, and changing it, will NOT make anything more secure, but will in fact make things LESS secure. My rational was that people will just write it down on a sticky note and stick it to their monitor. Their response to that is to simply make a policy (which everyone ignores btw) that prohibits employees from doing that. So really they don't care about security at all, only that it can be blamed on someone else.
Also more recently I expressed my objections over the sheer number of passwords I need to maintain for all the corporate systems I have access to. Remembering them is hard enough, when they don't all need to be changed to something new every 30 days. Not only that, but currently I am trying to explain to some IT systems folks involved in development of a new system, how putting a strong password scheme is really pointless, and really it should be the exact same password as my personal log in, or none at all. Considering that once someone has logged on as me, it is really trivial to send Help Desk an email in my name asking for a password reset, and then to receive that new password via the same email. Considering that people now forget their passwords all the time due to their current security setup, they process this task of telling people their passwords relentlessly every day, so one more request would be a drop in the bucket.
Anyway I think many times people need to look at the "big picture" security rather than get lost in the details, and just use some common sense. Don't fool yourself, IT security has more to do with assigning blame than it ever has to do with trying to keep unauthorized people out.
I guess from their perspective they can name it whatever the hell you like, and if you are really interested you can look up the specifications on their website.
However with both CPU and GPU, one disturbing (or not) trend, is the dependence on independent reviewer's to see which is better.
Basically saying that looking at design specification, one can make a few assumptions about X number of pipelines being faster than Y number, or Cache, or Clock Speed, etc... however bottom line it is becoming more and more difficult to determine what actually does what. Benchmarks are mostly useless and have been for years now. So we are reduced to going to review websites that actually unbox the things, run stuff on them, and then reporting on what happens comparatively.
Which isn't by itself a bad thing, but given its history with hardware companies, and the trend leading more dependence, and it being pretty much unregulated, other than which ones you "trust" it seems a crazy way to run an industry.
Not sure the Japanese have come up with a why to "decelerate" using a light sail. I don't think you can just turn it around. I mean you could drop sail, but that only works in water where friction would slow you. In space you just keep going. I am sure minute amounts of dust and gas might slow you eventually, but that's a long time! You could likely alter your trajectory using local gravity bodies somewhat I suppose.
Of course all that assumes uniform force. I suspect the farther away from the star, the more diffuse the force will be, as well as the closer you get to another star, the more focused the opposing light force will become. I wonder what effect that might have on its travel... Also if the two stars have different light pressure emanating from it, the halfway calculation would have to take this into account.
I wonder how its m/s acceleration compares to that of an ION drive. I remember they were supposed to be "slow but constant" likely similar to that of a light sail in dynamic.
I think its great that the Japanese have taken such a far out idea and run with it.
I think it is obvious what happened. The largest event between 1929 and today was WW2. Hitler caused the shrinking of the glaciers.
Quid Pro Quo - Hitler is Causing Climate Change!
Surely two pieces of evidence is enough for anybody!
They say a "Picture is worth a thousand words", and by my estimation that gives us about 2000, which is about the length of your average 1st year university enviromental sciences paper, conclusively proving Climate Change to be evaluated by some tired TA.
Yes I was an ES major once upon a time, and took ES100 and passed it (barely), therefor I am ultimately qualified to critique this topic! I may have skipped every single lecture, with the exception of one, which we watched a movie, however I did skim over the textbook before the final exam, and managed to pull off an overall passing grade.
Anyway before I get flamed to death, I am mostly just joking around. However I will point out that this only proves that there is less glacier today than they had in 1929, it doesn't prove climate change as so many are wont to point out. As the tired old phrase that gets pointed out about every science academic topic, usually making big headlines, "Cause VS Causality" needs to be addressed before ones jumps to conclusions. I also like the Climatologists who dislike anyone outside their "order" commenting on their holy book of proof, when the only ones qualified to look at the glacier, take measurements and come up with any kind of conclusion would be a Geographer or Geologist with a Geofluvial background and understands the dynamics and processes at work at the time scales used to working in geologic time, but whatever.
Assuming uniform pressure (a stretch I know) how long until it reaches 99% of the speed of light? Traveling at that speed, how long will it take to get to the closest star system, and assuming it is technically possible, what would the time lag be on communication?
Though two points I agree with are paper for notes. I hear of students trying to use netbook/laptops in university for notes, but as soon as you hit anything half sciency your in trouble because you can't easily jot down a chart, graph, mathematical formula, special symbols, etc...
Even at work now I carry a little 5x2 paper notebook everywhere.
Also about problem solving in an interview setting. I would much rather a "here is a problem, solve it" than a "define this obscure thing you maybe used once before for us" and be evaluated on that.
I am not a coder. I code when it helps me solve problems, or I need to look at what so called "coders" come up with. Not so much as to evaluate if they code well, but if their code actually does what it is supposed to do.
You'll forgive me but must of the coding for our business gets outsourced to consultants, and I have seen first hand the result, and I am not all that impressed.
I have no doubt it would be different if we had more in house talent, but that's a buisness decision way above my pay grade, regardless of how I may feel about it.
For someone with such vast cognitive abilities you must code better than you read.
Never called you a loser, quotes or no quotes.
Also not talking about programming jobs, rather jobs where some programming is required. I agreed if the job is a primary coding position, however any IT job these days has a host of requirement thrown on by managers or HR that really don't belong.
You certainly sound like a douche I wouldn't hire, that's for sure. Drama class is next door.
I guess now it makes more sense as laptops are everywhere now.
When I graduated from University in 2000, they were not quite as common or as cheap.
Now I guess if I was in the market for a job, I would likely have a netbook, with everything I needed to know loaded onto it. Great idea really and I mean for 300$, no reason really not to.
However I could still see many HR reps not allowing you to use your own stuff for fear of "cheating" somehow... I don't think they would really "get it".
Better yet, just break out your N800 or whatever linux smartphone exists at the time and go nuts! Might be a bit hard on the thumbs though...
The only thing I would add, is if I had the fantastical ability to do all those things, why would I be applying to work for you? Shouldn't I be solving crime or finding a cure for cancer or something more worthwhile of my amazing abilities?
Its about understating principles, applying them, and the ability to learn and absorb new things, as there will always be new things.
Without trying to sound like an idiot here I am reminded of a course I did for work. My boss at the time, didn't like the fact that I went on and on in my emails and was too verbose and detailed in things. So he sent me to a workshop called something like "Clear and Concise English for Business". Despite the title perhaps they could have used their own advice a little less, in that the course really was business level English for people with English as a second language. Now considering that I was a first language kind of guy, I was awesome, top of the class!:) However there was one thing that was a bit disturbing, which when I think back likely had to do with my early schooling. Any time they asked me to construct or deconstruct anything, I did it perfectly. However when they asked me why I chose the decisions I chose, I had no answer, only that it was the "correct" way. Perhaps it was because I had some hippyish english teachers in high school more concerned with creativity.
In any event, the point is I understood the principles to do my work, but if you asked me to recite all the rules I was following I would likely draw a big blank. To put it in perspective, English is something you use every hour or every minute of the day, not just some language you may code sometimes on and off as part of your day job.
To put it in the context of an interview, if you gave me some tables to normalize, I would do that to what I thought was the best way to do it. If you say give me BCNF, I may just look at you like your retarded. If you asked me that at work, I would likely just Google it, or if for whatever reason the internet was down, I might expend the energy to grab my intro to databases book off the shelf, dust it off, open it up, and refresh my memory of wtf it was all about.
That's one thing I hate and a turn off for the position. If you hand me a piece of paper and a pencil and ask me to write near perfect code, I feel like slapping you. I mean if the job is for code monkey work, then OK, but for other related fields it is BS.
Now you did say it didn't have to be perfect syntax so I'll give you points there, but most don't say that. They hand you instruments used 200 years ago and say "Code!"
To me that is ridiculous, and not based in reality at all, and if it is, I certainly don't want to work there. If and when I do code, I am surrounded by manuals and books for reference, volumes of my previously used code I can steal from (which I find most useful), as well as a host of online sources now (not to mention co-workers, but I suppose they don't want a code-mooch either).
Starting from scratch with no reference is just silly. Of course if someone is applying for a job where its primary function is coding in a particular language, and they proclaim their excellence for it, then ya they might have to prove it... but at least give them a terminal.
If you want me to make an algorithm, or pseudocode, or logically arrange some date, or create a conceptual structure, sure...
Anyway I have had (thankfully not for years) a few interviews where one component was, here is a problem (paragraph on a piece of paper), and a pencil and paper, solve the problem using language X, you have 30 min. Go!
Even those suckers in ponzi schemes it is a slippery slide. I mean as much as they call themselves victims, etc... however they were involved in an illegal operation... and profited for many years from it usually.
When you are magically making 20% returns and the rest of the world is making 3%, and then you "suddenly" figure out after 20 years it was all a scam?
Sounds a lot like the instances in NY or other large cites where someone gets raped in the middle of the subway during the day or laying injured from a stabbing in the street in broad daylight and not one of the hundreds of people do anything.
Apparently the phenomena happens when everyone thinks everyone else is going to do something about it, with the end result being no one does anything.
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Reminds me of college.
One night I played Civ for like 9 hours while my neighbor got stoned on weed and watched...
You never saw someone more excited to watch someone else play Civ.
"WHOA! You like, totally kicked those Roman's asses!"
Perhaps he didn't want to go to the doctor, or it would cost too much to get it amputated.
So he got his wife, who is a nurse, to give home surgery a try.
Considering she isn't qualified, and that it is likely a felony to practice medicine without a license, it could have gone "wrong" (or had second thoughts), and they had to actually take him into the hospital.
Perhaps a whole crap ton of booze was the pain killer.
It goes without saying that making up an excuse that your dog ate your toe while your passed out is better than going to jail and losing your job for attempting illegal surgery.
Anyway I find that a hell of a lot more likely that his dog ate his toe while he was passed out.
Equals not buying for me.
If I got a computer and found that the OS disks were not included, I would return it.
Personally I think selling a system without OS disks is criminal.
Doesn't the USA always like to crow about "economies of scale"? So with more resources, shouldn't the USA be doing technically better?
Anyway your missing the point...
You would have to actually *live* in Norway, most might find that punishment enough. Hell the extra 11 days vacation is probably so people can get the hell out for a bit, which likely keeps half the population from committing suicide each year because they live in Norway. :) I kid, I kid. I love Norway!
You must work down the hall from me.
In the time I have been here, only one corporate application has harmonized passwords. It was the only one of very many. However at least I could be happy about one less anyway.
As I put in an earlier post all those different systems passwords are pretty much pointless anyway. If anyone managed to log on as me, they could just send an email to Help Desk saying "Whoops I forgot my password again! Could you reset it for me and send me the new one via email? Thanks!" for any system they wanted access to. So whats the point really?
IT Security doesn't get security, mostly because they don't seem to deal in common sense.
Years ago I tried to explain that making the password more complex, and making people enter it more often, and changing it, will NOT make anything more secure, but will in fact make things LESS secure. My rational was that people will just write it down on a sticky note and stick it to their monitor. Their response to that is to simply make a policy (which everyone ignores btw) that prohibits employees from doing that. So really they don't care about security at all, only that it can be blamed on someone else.
Also more recently I expressed my objections over the sheer number of passwords I need to maintain for all the corporate systems I have access to. Remembering them is hard enough, when they don't all need to be changed to something new every 30 days. Not only that, but currently I am trying to explain to some IT systems folks involved in development of a new system, how putting a strong password scheme is really pointless, and really it should be the exact same password as my personal log in, or none at all. Considering that once someone has logged on as me, it is really trivial to send Help Desk an email in my name asking for a password reset, and then to receive that new password via the same email. Considering that people now forget their passwords all the time due to their current security setup, they process this task of telling people their passwords relentlessly every day, so one more request would be a drop in the bucket.
Anyway I think many times people need to look at the "big picture" security rather than get lost in the details, and just use some common sense. Don't fool yourself, IT security has more to do with assigning blame than it ever has to do with trying to keep unauthorized people out.
I guess from their perspective they can name it whatever the hell you like, and if you are really interested you can look up the specifications on their website.
However with both CPU and GPU, one disturbing (or not) trend, is the dependence on independent reviewer's to see which is better.
Basically saying that looking at design specification, one can make a few assumptions about X number of pipelines being faster than Y number, or Cache, or Clock Speed, etc... however bottom line it is becoming more and more difficult to determine what actually does what. Benchmarks are mostly useless and have been for years now. So we are reduced to going to review websites that actually unbox the things, run stuff on them, and then reporting on what happens comparatively.
Which isn't by itself a bad thing, but given its history with hardware companies, and the trend leading more dependence, and it being pretty much unregulated, other than which ones you "trust" it seems a crazy way to run an industry.
That's pretty cool. Thanks for the response.
Not sure the Japanese have come up with a why to "decelerate" using a light sail. I don't think you can just turn it around. I mean you could drop sail, but that only works in water where friction would slow you. In space you just keep going. I am sure minute amounts of dust and gas might slow you eventually, but that's a long time! You could likely alter your trajectory using local gravity bodies somewhat I suppose.
Of course all that assumes uniform force. I suspect the farther away from the star, the more diffuse the force will be, as well as the closer you get to another star, the more focused the opposing light force will become. I wonder what effect that might have on its travel... Also if the two stars have different light pressure emanating from it, the halfway calculation would have to take this into account.
I wonder how its m/s acceleration compares to that of an ION drive. I remember they were supposed to be "slow but constant" likely similar to that of a light sail in dynamic.
I think its great that the Japanese have taken such a far out idea and run with it.
I think it is obvious what happened. The largest event between 1929 and today was WW2. Hitler caused the shrinking of the glaciers.
Quid Pro Quo - Hitler is Causing Climate Change!
Surely two pieces of evidence is enough for anybody!
They say a "Picture is worth a thousand words", and by my estimation that gives us about 2000, which is about the length of your average 1st year university enviromental sciences paper, conclusively proving Climate Change to be evaluated by some tired TA.
Yes I was an ES major once upon a time, and took ES100 and passed it (barely), therefor I am ultimately qualified to critique this topic! I may have skipped every single lecture, with the exception of one, which we watched a movie, however I did skim over the textbook before the final exam, and managed to pull off an overall passing grade.
Anyway before I get flamed to death, I am mostly just joking around. However I will point out that this only proves that there is less glacier today than they had in 1929, it doesn't prove climate change as so many are wont to point out. As the tired old phrase that gets pointed out about every science academic topic, usually making big headlines, "Cause VS Causality" needs to be addressed before ones jumps to conclusions. I also like the Climatologists who dislike anyone outside their "order" commenting on their holy book of proof, when the only ones qualified to look at the glacier, take measurements and come up with any kind of conclusion would be a Geographer or Geologist with a Geofluvial background and understands the dynamics and processes at work at the time scales used to working in geologic time, but whatever.
I suddenly have a urge to punch whoever the marketing jackhole was who came up with that term...
no more than 9 women can make a baby in one month
At least I am willing to try!
Sailboat.
OK math nerds...
Assuming uniform pressure (a stretch I know) how long until it reaches 99% of the speed of light? Traveling at that speed, how long will it take to get to the closest star system, and assuming it is technically possible, what would the time lag be on communication?
Proof!
Also Hitler.
Though two points I agree with are paper for notes. I hear of students trying to use netbook/laptops in university for notes, but as soon as you hit anything half sciency your in trouble because you can't easily jot down a chart, graph, mathematical formula, special symbols, etc...
Even at work now I carry a little 5x2 paper notebook everywhere.
Also about problem solving in an interview setting. I would much rather a "here is a problem, solve it" than a "define this obscure thing you maybe used once before for us" and be evaluated on that.
I am not a coder. I code when it helps me solve problems, or I need to look at what so called "coders" come up with. Not so much as to evaluate if they code well, but if their code actually does what it is supposed to do.
You'll forgive me but must of the coding for our business gets outsourced to consultants, and I have seen first hand the result, and I am not all that impressed.
I have no doubt it would be different if we had more in house talent, but that's a buisness decision way above my pay grade, regardless of how I may feel about it.
For someone with such vast cognitive abilities you must code better than you read.
Never called you a loser, quotes or no quotes.
Also not talking about programming jobs, rather jobs where some programming is required. I agreed if the job is a primary coding position, however any IT job these days has a host of requirement thrown on by managers or HR that really don't belong.
You certainly sound like a douche I wouldn't hire, that's for sure. Drama class is next door.
I guess now it makes more sense as laptops are everywhere now.
When I graduated from University in 2000, they were not quite as common or as cheap.
Now I guess if I was in the market for a job, I would likely have a netbook, with everything I needed to know loaded onto it. Great idea really and I mean for 300$, no reason really not to.
However I could still see many HR reps not allowing you to use your own stuff for fear of "cheating" somehow... I don't think they would really "get it".
Better yet, just break out your N800 or whatever linux smartphone exists at the time and go nuts! Might be a bit hard on the thumbs though...
I saw this a while ago and it seemed pretty accurate...
http://lifehacker.com/5344702/tech-support-cheat-sheet-reveals-the-secrets-of-troubleshooting
Don't get me wrong I know a lot of "stuff", but it is simply impossible to know everything. Which seems what people expect. That or magic.
Here Here! Well said. Couldn't agree more.
The only thing I would add, is if I had the fantastical ability to do all those things, why would I be applying to work for you? Shouldn't I be solving crime or finding a cure for cancer or something more worthwhile of my amazing abilities?
Its about understating principles, applying them, and the ability to learn and absorb new things, as there will always be new things.
Without trying to sound like an idiot here I am reminded of a course I did for work. My boss at the time, didn't like the fact that I went on and on in my emails and was too verbose and detailed in things. So he sent me to a workshop called something like "Clear and Concise English for Business". Despite the title perhaps they could have used their own advice a little less, in that the course really was business level English for people with English as a second language. :) However there was one thing that was a bit disturbing, which when I think back likely had to do with my early schooling. Any time they asked me to construct or deconstruct anything, I did it perfectly. However when they asked me why I chose the decisions I chose, I had no answer, only that it was the "correct" way. Perhaps it was because I had some hippyish english teachers in high school more concerned with creativity.
Now considering that I was a first language kind of guy, I was awesome, top of the class!
In any event, the point is I understood the principles to do my work, but if you asked me to recite all the rules I was following I would likely draw a big blank. To put it in perspective, English is something you use every hour or every minute of the day, not just some language you may code sometimes on and off as part of your day job.
To put it in the context of an interview, if you gave me some tables to normalize, I would do that to what I thought was the best way to do it. If you say give me BCNF, I may just look at you like your retarded. If you asked me that at work, I would likely just Google it, or if for whatever reason the internet was down, I might expend the energy to grab my intro to databases book off the shelf, dust it off, open it up, and refresh my memory of wtf it was all about.
That's one thing I hate and a turn off for the position. If you hand me a piece of paper and a pencil and ask me to write near perfect code, I feel like slapping you. I mean if the job is for code monkey work, then OK, but for other related fields it is BS.
Now you did say it didn't have to be perfect syntax so I'll give you points there, but most don't say that. They hand you instruments used 200 years ago and say "Code!"
To me that is ridiculous, and not based in reality at all, and if it is, I certainly don't want to work there. If and when I do code, I am surrounded by manuals and books for reference, volumes of my previously used code I can steal from (which I find most useful), as well as a host of online sources now (not to mention co-workers, but I suppose they don't want a code-mooch either).
Starting from scratch with no reference is just silly. Of course if someone is applying for a job where its primary function is coding in a particular language, and they proclaim their excellence for it, then ya they might have to prove it... but at least give them a terminal.
If you want me to make an algorithm, or pseudocode, or logically arrange some date, or create a conceptual structure, sure...
Anyway I have had (thankfully not for years) a few interviews where one component was, here is a problem (paragraph on a piece of paper), and a pencil and paper, solve the problem using language X, you have 30 min. Go!
Also then to sue for all the money you "lost"... that you obtained illegally....absurd.
Blinded by profits seems an apt phrase.
Even those suckers in ponzi schemes it is a slippery slide. I mean as much as they call themselves victims, etc... however they were involved in an illegal operation... and profited for many years from it usually.
When you are magically making 20% returns and the rest of the world is making 3%, and then you "suddenly" figure out after 20 years it was all a scam?
I have some sympathy, but not much.
Thanks, now not only can I work with two hands, but my Boss can sidle up and start trying to "help" me while I am trying doing work...
This has office fight written all over it!
Ya now they are infected with Rage instead.
Way to go, now I have to go buy a cricket bat somewhere...
Sounds a lot like the instances in NY or other large cites where someone gets raped in the middle of the subway during the day or laying injured from a stabbing in the street in broad daylight and not one of the hundreds of people do anything.
Apparently the phenomena happens when everyone thinks everyone else is going to do something about it, with the end result being no one does anything.