Start with a cage containing five monkeys.
In the cage, hang a banana on a string and put stairs under it. Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana.
As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all of the monkeys with cold water.
After a while, another monkey will make an attempt with the same response - all of the monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Keep this up for several days.
Turn off the cold water.
If, later, another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it even though no water sprays them.
Now, remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one.
The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs. To his horror, all of the other monkeys attack him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs, he will be assaulted.
Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm.
Replace the third original monkey with a new one. The new one makes it to the stairs and is attacked as well. Two of the four monkeys that beat him have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs, or why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.
After replacing the fourth and fifth original monkeys, all the monkeys which have been sprayed with cold water have been replaced. Nevertheless, no monkey ever again approaches the stairs.
Why not?
"Because that's the way it's always been done around here."
We all get complacent with our tools because we know how to make them work. Don't be opened to the fact that how you do something may not be the best way to get it done
Did they fix the multi-workspace issue where the bar showing all your running apps show them all, not just the apps running in the current workspace?
It isn't a bug, it is a feature. You haven't thought it through. If I'm on virtual desktop whatever and I'm looking for an opened instance of gedit that is in another workspace, how do I find it? Are you saying I need to click every desktop and look at the bar? That is a TERRIBLE idea.
I don't know. During Cyber Monday I was able to pick up a 3d television for the same price I was willing to pay for a 120hz 1080p television, so I did. I got a kickback on the glasses, so, while I know that can be a real expense, I didn't suffer from it.
Sure, it's a gimmick. But the saturday night movie with my kids has a whole new level of "excitement" for them, especially when they have sleep over guests. That alone is well worth it. But my Nvidia GTX on my PC works with it, and playing Left4Dead 2 or Batman: Arkham Asylum on it is bloody fantastic. That takes the value over the top.
On a side note, this TV (as well as my 3d DVD player) do 2d->3d conversion on the fly. It works *ok*. It seems its decision is based upon movement. The more an object moves, the more it jumps out. It is logical, but you can imagine where that doesn't work.
I'm sure I will open a philosophical can of whoop-ass on myself, but here goes... How did we, humans, end up dominating the earth over other creatures? Some argue our thumbs, our ability to reason, communication, and a whole mess of other things that other animals have. Simple fact of the matter is, a human being will cut up your mother, eat her intestines, while you sit, tied up, being forced to watch, just because THEY CAN. Even your raged-filled chimpanzee doesn't get that personal. And it isn't just us over the animal kingdom, it's humans over humans. When two sides of a war have a technical equality, the one willing to perform the most egregious atrocities will be the one to prevail.
I don't know where you learned to read, but "white american man" isn't a stereotype at all. It is a race classification. Also, I wasn't the one bitching about racism. I simply stated the fact that there likely isn't a racial slur you can find that bothers me, or most anyone else that is a white american man.
No. In the real world, the dickheads get the hot women and the bullies never get punished. Your fantasy is just that... fantastic, and not even close to how things are.
So you can ignore the fact that the world is full of assholes? AC posting restrictions is good enough to work for the most part. Buck up, be a man, and ignore those who are just trolling. Falling to grief means they win
You can't really interact well with a voice system, if media is going off in the background. I learned this the hard way. It saves a lot of headaches if you just accept that you may have to hit a button before giving a command
Not only is your wold view obviously skewed, but I have to agree with the Anon poster that you are a liar. InfoSys, Unilever, Microsoft, Del Monte, Pepsi, P&G, Mars, GE, Sharp, only to name a very few have nothing to do with Oracle (run away!) and exclusively use MS SQL server. You stink of troll.
He has oracle, which is the de-facto database for most any organization who wants accountability and have money to spend
I don't know what universe you live in, buddy, but a few big companies running a single oracle database does NOT make it "de-facto". Of all of my professional experience, along with all of the colleagues I've had, EVERYONE steers clear of Oracle. I've seen a single Oracle database in production at Heinz/Del Monte, and there was a "shadow" database in MS SQL Server, synched daily, because no one wanted to deal with the Oracle database server (It's old... NULL and '' are equal?!?!).
But you couldn't uninstall IE because it was a "vital part of the OS" (at least until they were forced to)
It WAS/IS a vital part of the OS. We aren't talking the kernel, or the drivers, but the shell, Explorer.exe used the IE components for doing close to everything. You did have sillyness like 98lite that removed IE by actually installing the old windows 95 shell from disk. However, due to the fuss about being forced to have IE, Microsoft just component-ized the hell out of it, so if you were to "uninstall" IE, you are actually only getting rid of the executable, not the essential OS components.
I use all samsung BluRay players in my house. I have the least difficulty with it seeingmy DLNA server on the wireless connection and it ALMOST can play any video file I can throw at it. There is a catch, however. The software is unstable. I've had video freeze the machine enough to need "rebooted" (at least with current firmware, that just means turning it off and back on, where the older firmwares would require unplugging the device). More or less, what they can do on paper is leagues better than anything else I've delt with. In real life, I constantly yearn for new software updates.
Exactly. In Hollywood, CA, you are paying $1million USD for mortgage a one bedroom living space, where in rural PA, you could pay $40k USD for a 4 bedroom, 3 story house.
How do you consider extreme? My Camero with a 5.8v 8 cylinder mad-bitch starts to act wonky above 100mph. It can go ridiculous speeds, but the fact remains, regardless your vehicle, physics act different after that point. The manufacturer had no intention of you going that fast.
Well, for it to be effective, you need millions of pounds of moon rocks, unless of course you hope to throw the other end of the portal on the moon. However, I can't imagine Wheatly would be so appreciative.
I was looking to comment on this as well. In a functional situation, a brain teaser isn't necessarily there for you to solve (or even have an answer), but rather how you approached it, identified the issues, and the ideas on how to approach said issues.
I have recently written some personal software that finds duplicate files/directories. I had no idea there was such a demand for something like this (and price for such software).
There are a few hurdles with deduplication that a piece of software will likely need your input for:
- Does something like the directory/file names matter? If so, does case matter? What about comparing names from ASCII Unicode? Do you compare the DOS 8.3 names also?
- What do you want to do when you find duplicates? Delete the duplicates and put links in their place? Which one do you want the links to point to? Maybe remove the duplicates... so which one do you keep?
- Does meta data need compared too? What about the data itself? Different file systems have different gotchas. NTFS can have separate streams, which do not necessarily follow a file. If your file system supports snapshots, what are you really wanting to compare?
It added a lot of new stuff that didn't work great.
That is your retort? Why did you even reply?
Here, let me give you a way to test this. Create a virtual machine of win95, 98SE, and ME. In each one of them, open a DOS window and type "ipconfig/renew" (so it isn't a plain DOS program, but a window program that interfaces with the DOS console). Open a DirectX game next. After closing the game, try and use the machine. Win95/98SE WILL crash and burn. WinME will not.
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Start with a cage containing five monkeys.
In the cage, hang a banana on a string and put stairs under it. Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all of the monkeys with cold water. After a while, another monkey will make an attempt with the same response - all of the monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Keep this up for several days. Turn off the cold water. If, later, another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it even though no water sprays them. Now, remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs. To his horror, all of the other monkeys attack him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs, he will be assaulted. Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm. Replace the third original monkey with a new one. The new one makes it to the stairs and is attacked as well. Two of the four monkeys that beat him have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs, or why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey. After replacing the fourth and fifth original monkeys, all the monkeys which have been sprayed with cold water have been replaced. Nevertheless, no monkey ever again approaches the stairs.
Why not?
"Because that's the way it's always been done around here."
Cherry picked from http://www.wowzone.com/5monkeys.htm because I don't know the origin
We all get complacent with our tools because we know how to make them work. Don't be opened to the fact that how you do something may not be the best way to get it done
Did they fix the multi-workspace issue where the bar showing all your running apps show them all, not just the apps running in the current workspace?
It isn't a bug, it is a feature. You haven't thought it through. If I'm on virtual desktop whatever and I'm looking for an opened instance of gedit that is in another workspace, how do I find it? Are you saying I need to click every desktop and look at the bar? That is a TERRIBLE idea.
I don't know. During Cyber Monday I was able to pick up a 3d television for the same price I was willing to pay for a 120hz 1080p television, so I did. I got a kickback on the glasses, so, while I know that can be a real expense, I didn't suffer from it.
Sure, it's a gimmick. But the saturday night movie with my kids has a whole new level of "excitement" for them, especially when they have sleep over guests. That alone is well worth it. But my Nvidia GTX on my PC works with it, and playing Left4Dead 2 or Batman: Arkham Asylum on it is bloody fantastic. That takes the value over the top.
On a side note, this TV (as well as my 3d DVD player) do 2d->3d conversion on the fly. It works *ok*. It seems its decision is based upon movement. The more an object moves, the more it jumps out. It is logical, but you can imagine where that doesn't work.
I'm sure I will open a philosophical can of whoop-ass on myself, but here goes... How did we, humans, end up dominating the earth over other creatures? Some argue our thumbs, our ability to reason, communication, and a whole mess of other things that other animals have. Simple fact of the matter is, a human being will cut up your mother, eat her intestines, while you sit, tied up, being forced to watch, just because THEY CAN. Even your raged-filled chimpanzee doesn't get that personal. And it isn't just us over the animal kingdom, it's humans over humans. When two sides of a war have a technical equality, the one willing to perform the most egregious atrocities will be the one to prevail.
I don't know where you learned to read, but "white american man" isn't a stereotype at all. It is a race classification. Also, I wasn't the one bitching about racism. I simply stated the fact that there likely isn't a racial slur you can find that bothers me, or most anyone else that is a white american man.
Also it is apparently better to keep the fact one is racist private, vs. letting them be public about it, so everyone knows that they are racists.
If you ever watched the movie American History X, it illustrates the fine point that there are people PROUD to be racist.
I've yet to find a racial slur that a white american man would blink twice about. Do you have any examples?
Socrates gave us a point of view in that "True wisdom is knowing that you know nothing".
However, this comes from a man who's last words were "I drank what?!"
No. In the real world, the dickheads get the hot women and the bullies never get punished. Your fantasy is just that... fantastic, and not even close to how things are.
So you can ignore the fact that the world is full of assholes? AC posting restrictions is good enough to work for the most part. Buck up, be a man, and ignore those who are just trolling. Falling to grief means they win
While I don't agree with the hate being thrown around, where I come from, it is my bloody right to be an asshole.
You can't really interact well with a voice system, if media is going off in the background. I learned this the hard way. It saves a lot of headaches if you just accept that you may have to hit a button before giving a command
Not only is your wold view obviously skewed, but I have to agree with the Anon poster that you are a liar. InfoSys, Unilever, Microsoft, Del Monte, Pepsi, P&G, Mars, GE, Sharp, only to name a very few have nothing to do with Oracle (run away!) and exclusively use MS SQL server. You stink of troll.
He has oracle, which is the de-facto database for most any organization who wants accountability and have money to spend
I don't know what universe you live in, buddy, but a few big companies running a single oracle database does NOT make it "de-facto". Of all of my professional experience, along with all of the colleagues I've had, EVERYONE steers clear of Oracle. I've seen a single Oracle database in production at Heinz/Del Monte, and there was a "shadow" database in MS SQL Server, synched daily, because no one wanted to deal with the Oracle database server (It's old... NULL and '' are equal?!?!).
But you couldn't uninstall IE because it was a "vital part of the OS" (at least until they were forced to)
It WAS/IS a vital part of the OS. We aren't talking the kernel, or the drivers, but the shell, Explorer.exe used the IE components for doing close to everything. You did have sillyness like 98lite that removed IE by actually installing the old windows 95 shell from disk. However, due to the fuss about being forced to have IE, Microsoft just component-ized the hell out of it, so if you were to "uninstall" IE, you are actually only getting rid of the executable, not the essential OS components.
Yes, that's my point. You've got the choice of:
R pi + Gertboard
or
R pi + Arduino
I don't have to choose. I'll take both.
I use all samsung BluRay players in my house. I have the least difficulty with it seeingmy DLNA server on the wireless connection and it ALMOST can play any video file I can throw at it. There is a catch, however. The software is unstable. I've had video freeze the machine enough to need "rebooted" (at least with current firmware, that just means turning it off and back on, where the older firmwares would require unplugging the device). More or less, what they can do on paper is leagues better than anything else I've delt with. In real life, I constantly yearn for new software updates.
Exactly. In Hollywood, CA, you are paying $1million USD for mortgage a one bedroom living space, where in rural PA, you could pay $40k USD for a 4 bedroom, 3 story house.
How do you consider extreme? My Camero with a 5.8v 8 cylinder mad-bitch starts to act wonky above 100mph. It can go ridiculous speeds, but the fact remains, regardless your vehicle, physics act different after that point. The manufacturer had no intention of you going that fast.
Well, for it to be effective, you need millions of pounds of moon rocks, unless of course you hope to throw the other end of the portal on the moon. However, I can't imagine Wheatly would be so appreciative.
I was looking to comment on this as well. In a functional situation, a brain teaser isn't necessarily there for you to solve (or even have an answer), but rather how you approached it, identified the issues, and the ideas on how to approach said issues.
Yes sir. You pretty much hit the nail on the proverbial head. Thank you.
I have recently written some personal software that finds duplicate files/directories. I had no idea there was such a demand for something like this (and price for such software).
There are a few hurdles with deduplication that a piece of software will likely need your input for:
- Does something like the directory/file names matter? If so, does case matter? What about comparing names from ASCII Unicode? Do you compare the DOS 8.3 names also?
- What do you want to do when you find duplicates? Delete the duplicates and put links in their place? Which one do you want the links to point to? Maybe remove the duplicates... so which one do you keep?
- Does meta data need compared too? What about the data itself? Different file systems have different gotchas. NTFS can have separate streams, which do not necessarily follow a file. If your file system supports snapshots, what are you really wanting to compare?
No, it was worse than 98 SE.
/renew" (so it isn't a plain DOS program, but a window program that interfaces with the DOS console). Open a DirectX game next. After closing the game, try and use the machine. Win95/98SE WILL crash and burn. WinME will not.
It added a lot of new stuff that didn't work great.
That is your retort? Why did you even reply?
Here, let me give you a way to test this. Create a virtual machine of win95, 98SE, and ME. In each one of them, open a DOS window and type "ipconfig