Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, or teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime?
While I don't derive the fundamental theorem of calculus on a daily basis I do understand it. It feels odd when I'm explaining why the area of a rectangle is width * height; and I suddenly remember I could explain this with calculus as a step function between 0 and width with a constant value of height. I've also used Picards theorem to write a quick and dirty square root function in assembly on a lowly 8086 processor with no co-processing ability, all because I understood the theory.
And yes, it works out badly, you generally get your senior local people spending far too much of their time training or micro managing the remote workers.
You just described the last year and a half of my life. With a remote team of 4 people I was spending half my time training only to see the same mistakes over and over again. Even after pointing out the problem with a solution and how to avoid it; I would get back a re-factored solution where they put the exact same problem in again. For the better part of a month I was pretty sure the person submitting the changes was a new person every time. That was the only way someone could have made the same mistake over and over again. I finally went to my manager and told them what was going on. I had spent nearly 30 hours reviewing work that should have only taken 4 hours to write and test. In the end it took me a few hours to write and test it myself, the person reviewing my code only took 30 minutes to confirm it covered all the cases.
In general I've noticed that management is of the notion that there is a small percentage of people wired to write code in the world. If they don't recruit from India or China they will loose out on at least 1/3 of the talent in the world. They make the logical fallacy that every person is interchangeable and there are no differences. So when you have someone with a culture where your value is based on the number of issues you can close in the shortest amount of time, the focus is on getting something done rather than understanding the problem and doing the right way. That is my biggest complaint; and what takes management years to see. In the mean time I deal with issues where an error is seen by the end user, so the solution naturally is to just remove all the error framework code that shows errors; right?
I second GIMP. I stopped using Photoshop and forced myself to learn GIMP, took about 3 days before I was more proficient in GIMP than Photoshop and I've never looked back.
In GIMP, each animation frame is just a layer. When you save you have the option to save to animation which does all the work for you. Here is a quick guide: https://elearnhub.org
Honestly though, I'm pretty sure each major network cancels more shows than that after just the first episode airs.
I'm not saying people won't buy into it, Apple seems to have a knack for being the trendy thing to have even when there is no need for it. These minor upgrades however are slowly chipping away at that image. I guess when your stake on the next big thing is 5 new TV shows, you are pretty much out of ideas. How long will it be before we start seeing retro products again, like the clear iMacs with clear zip drives?
As for a more powerful, bigger screen, larger storage capacity, and brighter display gadget; well take your pick. Most of which can be had for under $200, so even if it won't run the latest thing in a year or two, you can buy a new one and still come out ahead. Currently I'm rocking a $120 tablet with 10" display, and a 200Gig micro SD card loaded with enough movies and shows to keep me occupied for weeks.
Everyone just sleeps during the day?
Entire countries needing to use more electric because their "business hours" are when the sun isn't around?
Businesses that literally depend on Sunlight (or lack thereof)?
Such narrow thinking. Think about it realistically and what time really means. Ie, a day is just how long it takes before we see the sun again, which is mainly dependent on how fast the sun spins. Move to the moon and a 24 hour day doesn't mean as much, move to Mars and things are worse, live on the space shuttle that orbits several times in a 24 hour period and your all out of wack. A year is defined by how long it takes us to go around the sun, which again on Mars would be totally off. Heck I keep hearing people saying the summers in California are hotter because we are closer to the sun [eyes roll], don't get me started.
So back to how this would work, say we use UTC as the basis and Standard Time everywhere. Then take California as an example, it has a UTC of -8. All that means is that whatever the UTC time is subtract 8 hours to get the California time. So your typical workday that starts at 8:00am "California Time" would instead start 8 hours later at 4:00pm UTC when the sun comes up in California; you normally get off work at say 5:00 "California Time" which corresponds to 1:00am UTC time. So in California stores would typically be open from 4:00pm to 1:00am. On the East coast stores would typically open at 1:00pm and close at 10:00pm.
Now each area is free to set their store hours, so if you wanted a 15 minute advantage in California, you would open at 3:45pm and close at 12:45am. If you called up a store anywhere in the world and they said they closed at 1:00am, you could look at your watch and see it's 11:00pm and know the store is still open.
Stop shifting the world around what is convenient for you, your not the center of the universe.
Seriously, time is relative. We have fricking time zones literally 15 minutes apart in areas. We have major confusion when you call somewhere and they say they are closed at 5:00 and you look at your watch and go, but it's 3:00 how can you be closed?
P.S. going out into space or anywhere where our narrow view of the date/time exist will only make this worse (like Mars)! Stop the madness now!
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Go ahead, take a quick look, I'll wait. Quickly scanning a few of the stories should tell you how the site leans. While the stories are not out and out right fake, they are misleading. Much like almost every other "news" source I've ever seen, I'm looking at you CNN, Times, FOX, New Yorker, LA, etc... What is not said is often just as important as what is said. All this illustrates is that you should never rely on news from one source. Try to compare at least three different sources, with different takes on the news, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.
Also I don't know how much digging was needed; just look at the Contact Us -> Privacy Policy. It clearly states this is a product of "Star News Digital Media, Inc" and lists all the associated websites. Really it looks like some company started a business selling political sites to candidates. It wouldn't surprise me if they offer the same type of sites to the other party and make money from both side.
This also reeks of the common "Voters Guide" that each party mails out to me every voting year, of which the slant is so bad even my kid knows something is up (and he's only 9).
P.S. The weather forecast is hilarious, "Today is forecast to be Much Warmer than yesterday."
Wouldn't that then be the: i-Not-A-Rocket-Launcher?
If so, I have two of those in the basement, junk as far as I'm concerned. They only took out a small mailbox, and the re-fill cartridge was 5 times the cost of the whole unit.
Going to a dealership to "test drive" a car should be the last step. First, contact local car rental companies and see if you can book a specific car for a day or two (usually weekdays are the cheapest). Rental cars are usually fully loaded and you can drive the thing for a whole day wherever you want with nobody looking over your shoulder. Try fitting those child seats, take the family to the store and see how it feels with no pressure. If it handles poorly, doesn't have enough umph, or brakes like your on black ice, it only cost you a little to find out.
Once you know the type of car you want, then you move online or to dealerships. Get at least three prices and millage for the car you want. Then take the lowest price and subtract 3% (which should be about the right price anyway, check KBB), make this the price of a fake dealership and add to your pile of quotes you take with you in a folder. Order the quotes by lowest millage. Then go to the first dealership and ask for a test drive. If you like the car offer your 3% lowest price. If they balk open the folder, pull out their quote and toss it in the garbage. Thank the salesperson for their time and you'll just go with your next option; then walk out. I've never made it more than 5 steps before the salesperson has to have a talk with the boss. Usually they come back with some sob story or they will loose money on the deal, in which case I respond with a "well maybe one of these other dealerships can do better" and I stand up again. They are quick to act, and after a second talk with their boss they agree to the price.
My next car I buy I might see if I can order online without ever stepping foot on a sales lot. Personally I wish I could just order direct from the car company. They don't even need to deliver to my door, to my town would be great (say leave it in a mall parking lot or some place publicly accessible). They could even pre-mail you a key to open the doors and have the key inside the center console, or if the car has onstar they could arrange to have the car unlocked when are are near the car. I'd even have a friend drive me, or take a bus, or a plane trip to pick up a car if they couldn't deliver to my town. Just as long as I don't have to step foot on a dealership lot again.
Be comforted that in the face of all aridity and disillusionment,
and despite the changing fortunes of time,
There is always a big future in computer maintenance.
--Deteriorata
The world's fastest growing mobile company has long had a chip on its shoulder when it comes to Apple and Samsung. For too long, the company has had to go out of its way to remind the world that it's capable of being every bit as innovative as those better established brands, a concept very much at the heart of the Mate X.
And how much of that innovation was really them and how much did they steal? The price tag is a bit confusing though, since it wasn't their research dollars you'd think they could undercut Apple and Samsung.
The original video needed a Tom Servo and Crow T Robot overlay on it with some commentary, but I digress.
Seriously the original video is a joke right?
As others have pointed out, put the cpu in the board first. Don't slather thermal paste on. That was just bad! Just a dab, use a thin plastic scraper to make as thin of a layer as you can; apply it to both the cpu and the cooler; match the two up and twist back and force to ensure no air bubbles; thats it. One tube of paste should be enough for at least 5 computers, at his rate it wouldn't be enough for 1.
Other items that the video should have covered:
* Read the instruction booklet to determine the best location for memory, ie dual channel or faster expansion slots for video cards.
* Check the location of the motherboard hold down screw standoffs to ensure you don't short out the bottom of the motherboard.
* Check the motherboard backplate. First that it is the correct one for your motherboard, and second that its orientated correctly (also it should just snap into place, no brute forcing it).
* Case panel connectors (for power, reset, hdd led, speaker, etc), I didn't see him show or explain how these were hooked up.
* Attention to airflow, in from the front, out through the back and top.
* Double check all connections, hole the case upside down to ensure no screws were dropped on the board or fell behind something.
* Benefits of cable management (cleaner, better airflow, easier to switch out parts).
The video looks like something a high schooler would put out. From someone who claims to be an expert, please put a little more effort into things. At least look up the terms and write them down so you know what everything is. Also, put the whole thing together first, then disassemble it with all the parts neatly organized. When you go to put it together it looks like you know what your doing and you don't draw attention to something you end up tossing out (like that plastic cpu spacer).
And yes that was not an anti-static bracelet, seems more like one of those Live Strong bracelets which might generate static electricity.
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They have no need to learn the theory.
Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, or teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime?
While I don't derive the fundamental theorem of calculus on a daily basis I do understand it. It feels odd when I'm explaining why the area of a rectangle is width * height; and I suddenly remember I could explain this with calculus as a step function between 0 and width with a constant value of height. I've also used Picards theorem to write a quick and dirty square root function in assembly on a lowly 8086 processor with no co-processing ability, all because I understood the theory.
And yes, it works out badly, you generally get your senior local people spending far too much of their time training or micro managing the remote workers.
You just described the last year and a half of my life. With a remote team of 4 people I was spending half my time training only to see the same mistakes over and over again. Even after pointing out the problem with a solution and how to avoid it; I would get back a re-factored solution where they put the exact same problem in again. For the better part of a month I was pretty sure the person submitting the changes was a new person every time. That was the only way someone could have made the same mistake over and over again. I finally went to my manager and told them what was going on. I had spent nearly 30 hours reviewing work that should have only taken 4 hours to write and test. In the end it took me a few hours to write and test it myself, the person reviewing my code only took 30 minutes to confirm it covered all the cases.
In general I've noticed that management is of the notion that there is a small percentage of people wired to write code in the world. If they don't recruit from India or China they will loose out on at least 1/3 of the talent in the world. They make the logical fallacy that every person is interchangeable and there are no differences. So when you have someone with a culture where your value is based on the number of issues you can close in the shortest amount of time, the focus is on getting something done rather than understanding the problem and doing the right way. That is my biggest complaint; and what takes management years to see. In the mean time I deal with issues where an error is seen by the end user, so the solution naturally is to just remove all the error framework code that shows errors; right?
why are there such a high demand for H1-B Visa's?
They cost less and are dependent on good standing with the company to stay in the US, next question.
I second GIMP. I stopped using Photoshop and forced myself to learn GIMP, took about 3 days before I was more proficient in GIMP than Photoshop and I've never looked back.
In GIMP, each animation frame is just a layer. When you save you have the option to save to animation which does all the work for you. Here is a quick guide: https://elearnhub.org
That's not a good use of the budget.
I don't think the government knows what that sentence means judging by a ton of studies they funded in the past.
These were just the first results of a google search:
https://www.businessinsider.com
https://www.nationalreview.com
YES, 5 new shows! Ground breaking!
Honestly though, I'm pretty sure each major network cancels more shows than that after just the first episode airs.
I'm not saying people won't buy into it, Apple seems to have a knack for being the trendy thing to have even when there is no need for it. These minor upgrades however are slowly chipping away at that image. I guess when your stake on the next big thing is 5 new TV shows, you are pretty much out of ideas. How long will it be before we start seeing retro products again, like the clear iMacs with clear zip drives?
As for a more powerful, bigger screen, larger storage capacity, and brighter display gadget; well take your pick. Most of which can be had for under $200, so even if it won't run the latest thing in a year or two, you can buy a new one and still come out ahead. Currently I'm rocking a $120 tablet with 10" display, and a 200Gig micro SD card loaded with enough movies and shows to keep me occupied for weeks.
I'm going to celebrate by flooding the yard and putting out a slip and slide! Who's with me?
which is mainly dependent on how fast the sun spins.
Sorry, that should be:
which is mainly dependent on how fast the Earth spins.
Because they'd move?
Everyone just sleeps during the day?
Entire countries needing to use more electric because their "business hours" are when the sun isn't around?
Businesses that literally depend on Sunlight (or lack thereof)?
Such narrow thinking. Think about it realistically and what time really means. Ie, a day is just how long it takes before we see the sun again, which is mainly dependent on how fast the sun spins. Move to the moon and a 24 hour day doesn't mean as much, move to Mars and things are worse, live on the space shuttle that orbits several times in a 24 hour period and your all out of wack. A year is defined by how long it takes us to go around the sun, which again on Mars would be totally off. Heck I keep hearing people saying the summers in California are hotter because we are closer to the sun [eyes roll], don't get me started.
So back to how this would work, say we use UTC as the basis and Standard Time everywhere. Then take California as an example, it has a UTC of -8. All that means is that whatever the UTC time is subtract 8 hours to get the California time. So your typical workday that starts at 8:00am "California Time" would instead start 8 hours later at 4:00pm UTC when the sun comes up in California; you normally get off work at say 5:00 "California Time" which corresponds to 1:00am UTC time. So in California stores would typically be open from 4:00pm to 1:00am. On the East coast stores would typically open at 1:00pm and close at 10:00pm.
Now each area is free to set their store hours, so if you wanted a 15 minute advantage in California, you would open at 3:45pm and close at 12:45am. If you called up a store anywhere in the world and they said they closed at 1:00am, you could look at your watch and see it's 11:00pm and know the store is still open.
Stop shifting the world around what is convenient for you, your not the center of the universe.
Seriously, time is relative. We have fricking time zones literally 15 minutes apart in areas. We have major confusion when you call somewhere and they say they are closed at 5:00 and you look at your watch and go, but it's 3:00 how can you be closed?
P.S. going out into space or anywhere where our narrow view of the date/time exist will only make this worse (like Mars)! Stop the madness now!
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Go ahead, take a quick look, I'll wait. Quickly scanning a few of the stories should tell you how the site leans. While the stories are not out and out right fake, they are misleading. Much like almost every other "news" source I've ever seen, I'm looking at you CNN, Times, FOX, New Yorker, LA, etc... What is not said is often just as important as what is said. All this illustrates is that you should never rely on news from one source. Try to compare at least three different sources, with different takes on the news, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.
Also I don't know how much digging was needed; just look at the Contact Us -> Privacy Policy. It clearly states this is a product of "Star News Digital Media, Inc" and lists all the associated websites. Really it looks like some company started a business selling political sites to candidates. It wouldn't surprise me if they offer the same type of sites to the other party and make money from both side.
This also reeks of the common "Voters Guide" that each party mails out to me every voting year, of which the slant is so bad even my kid knows something is up (and he's only 9).
P.S. The weather forecast is hilarious, "Today is forecast to be Much Warmer than yesterday."
Not stock, but you can turbo charge one of those puppies up to over 500HP. http://www.oldbug.com/mscott55.htm
Of course the sticker is a joke, which is the whole point.
I've seen a few of these in the humble VW Beetle: Do Not Open Windows at Speeds in Excess of 120 MPH
Just replace the speedometer with one that only goes up to 110, problem solved.
to get the first post
Too slow.
planting flags in space objects
Isn't the Eath a "space object"?
Apparent they never heard of the "miracle of the five loaves and two fish".
Plus I'm not a big fish eater (fish sticks maybe once every few years), so for anyone who likes fish you can have mine.
Wouldn't that then be the: i-Not-A-Rocket-Launcher?
If so, I have two of those in the basement, junk as far as I'm concerned. They only took out a small mailbox, and the re-fill cartridge was 5 times the cost of the whole unit.
future products that will just "blow you away."
I was thinking quite the same, more products that turn out to be "bombs" (double entendre intentional).
I'm betting it is 1234. Nobody would ever guess THAT!
It is what I use on my luggage after all.
Going to a dealership to "test drive" a car should be the last step. First, contact local car rental companies and see if you can book a specific car for a day or two (usually weekdays are the cheapest). Rental cars are usually fully loaded and you can drive the thing for a whole day wherever you want with nobody looking over your shoulder. Try fitting those child seats, take the family to the store and see how it feels with no pressure. If it handles poorly, doesn't have enough umph, or brakes like your on black ice, it only cost you a little to find out.
Once you know the type of car you want, then you move online or to dealerships. Get at least three prices and millage for the car you want. Then take the lowest price and subtract 3% (which should be about the right price anyway, check KBB), make this the price of a fake dealership and add to your pile of quotes you take with you in a folder. Order the quotes by lowest millage. Then go to the first dealership and ask for a test drive. If you like the car offer your 3% lowest price. If they balk open the folder, pull out their quote and toss it in the garbage. Thank the salesperson for their time and you'll just go with your next option; then walk out. I've never made it more than 5 steps before the salesperson has to have a talk with the boss. Usually they come back with some sob story or they will loose money on the deal, in which case I respond with a "well maybe one of these other dealerships can do better" and I stand up again. They are quick to act, and after a second talk with their boss they agree to the price.
My next car I buy I might see if I can order online without ever stepping foot on a sales lot. Personally I wish I could just order direct from the car company. They don't even need to deliver to my door, to my town would be great (say leave it in a mall parking lot or some place publicly accessible). They could even pre-mail you a key to open the doors and have the key inside the center console, or if the car has onstar they could arrange to have the car unlocked when are are near the car. I'd even have a friend drive me, or take a bus, or a plane trip to pick up a car if they couldn't deliver to my town. Just as long as I don't have to step foot on a dealership lot again.
Be comforted that in the face of all aridity and disillusionment,
and despite the changing fortunes of time,
There is always a big future in computer maintenance.
--Deteriorata
The world's fastest growing mobile company has long had a chip on its shoulder when it comes to Apple and Samsung. For too long, the company has had to go out of its way to remind the world that it's capable of being every bit as innovative as those better established brands, a concept very much at the heart of the Mate X.
And how much of that innovation was really them and how much did they steal? The price tag is a bit confusing though, since it wasn't their research dollars you'd think they could undercut Apple and Samsung.
I usually cook roasts in a slow cooker. Slow and steady makes the meat melt like butter. Oh, and no gas flame.
Now when I grill (cooking over a hot open flame), it's quick and outdoors as there is a lot of smoke that comes off.
The original video needed a Tom Servo and Crow T Robot overlay on it with some commentary, but I digress.
Seriously the original video is a joke right?
As others have pointed out, put the cpu in the board first. Don't slather thermal paste on. That was just bad! Just a dab, use a thin plastic scraper to make as thin of a layer as you can; apply it to both the cpu and the cooler; match the two up and twist back and force to ensure no air bubbles; thats it. One tube of paste should be enough for at least 5 computers, at his rate it wouldn't be enough for 1.
Other items that the video should have covered:
* Read the instruction booklet to determine the best location for memory, ie dual channel or faster expansion slots for video cards.
* Check the location of the motherboard hold down screw standoffs to ensure you don't short out the bottom of the motherboard.
* Check the motherboard backplate. First that it is the correct one for your motherboard, and second that its orientated correctly (also it should just snap into place, no brute forcing it).
* Case panel connectors (for power, reset, hdd led, speaker, etc), I didn't see him show or explain how these were hooked up.
* Attention to airflow, in from the front, out through the back and top.
* Double check all connections, hole the case upside down to ensure no screws were dropped on the board or fell behind something.
* Benefits of cable management (cleaner, better airflow, easier to switch out parts).
The video looks like something a high schooler would put out. From someone who claims to be an expert, please put a little more effort into things. At least look up the terms and write them down so you know what everything is. Also, put the whole thing together first, then disassemble it with all the parts neatly organized. When you go to put it together it looks like you know what your doing and you don't draw attention to something you end up tossing out (like that plastic cpu spacer).
And yes that was not an anti-static bracelet, seems more like one of those Live Strong bracelets which might generate static electricity.