You *can* do big-O analysis for best and average cases, but absent any qualifier big-O is understood to be *worst* case. If he had specified O(1) in the average case then I suspect the interviewer would've let it slide, but as it was it sounds wrong.
One of the problems with TNG is that it *really* doesn't pick up its stride until season 3. Beardless Riker (season 1) is just barely canceled out by Tasha Yar, and Dr. Pulaski (season 2) is just barely canceled out by the show starting to gel together and having some awesome episodes until season 3 sees true awesomeness become a regular thing through the end of the series.
There are still a few duds from seasons 3-7, but overall it's genius.
Ethically speaking the value of the performance to the artist (the time put into making it) can be realized by taking the overall cost of ticket sales for a concert: say, 10,000 people at $100 a ticket for a sold out show = 1,000,000 dollars for an album's worth of performance for a highly popular artist. Then let's say you sell that album to 10,000,000 people. The cost per album should be about $0.10 for the artist's time and effort.
Ethically speaking, given the cost of reproduction these days, far too much money is being spent on a work product that is only worth perhaps 1% of what is being paid. Now, it shouldn't be free by any means, but it *is* ridiculously overpriced. If you cut out the middle man and charged, say, $1 for an album, even poor college kids would be hard pressed to try and justify pirating. And you'd have significantly more and realistic competition if distributors weren't locking out all but the safest bets.
We do something similar where I work. While it's theoretically possible to abuse this and snoop on personal https traffic, it's not worth the time. You are not interesting, your facebook posts are not worth an admin's time. Your personal banking information is not worth the effort to extract. Every potentially useful bit of private information that could harm you being protected by https was already given freely to the company anyway - SSN, Bank account for direct deposit, address, contact info, mother's maiden name, etc. You should be *vastly* more worried about the DBA's than the network admins. And again, you're not important enough for them to mess with it either.
Now, you should still use https at home because maybe some bigger criminal enterprises could make use of unprotected CC numbers or something (assuming they haven't already pwned your box) - but as far as your employer is concerned, there is nothing to fear from an https transparent proxy.
Obviously, these are all rhetorical and after what Disney did to John Carter of Mars... well.
I wanted to cry when I saw how badly they butchered the story. The one thing, the ONLY THING that saved me from getting completely stabby was that they did Woola *perfectly* and probably only that because he has no speaking lines.
All they had to do was stick with the story and it would have been brilliant. Yes, it's a horribly sexist adolescent wet dream, yes we know it has zero connection with reality we don't care make it like it was supposed to be and we'll enjoy it for the mindless entertainment that it is! Stop "fixing" the classics. Heaven help us if they ever "adapt" the Lensmen series.
Snow Crash, I have good hopes for. There's nothing directly offensive to any of the political hot button groups of the moment, and they have a real chance to shine in showing off cool CG effects whenever they're jacked in. It's going to be hard to explain neuro-linguistic hacking to your average studio audience though.
As a sysadmin with background as a developer I find it inconceivable that anyone could become a good programmer without working knowledge of Linear Algebra, Discrete Mathematics (especially graph theory), Boolean Algebra, and Statistics. Added bonus would be a familiarity with Differential Equations, Combinatorics, and Number Theory. Calculus kind of goes without saying (I can't imagine a C.S. degree program that wouldn't require it) but honestly Mathematics is so ingrained into everything that computers do that it's foolish to disregard it.
My C.S. undergrad program required so many math courses that I actually took a couple more as electives and got my math minor on my diploma too. I feel like I might have gotten something out of Real and Complex Analysis too, if I'd been able to schedule them, but alas.
See it also depends on what a and b are. Some operations are not commutative. For example, you could just as easily try to say that a*b = b*a using your arguments, but if a and b are matrices then it may not be true (and b*a may not even be *possible* depending on the dimensions used).
The problem is that *caveman* level technology allows for the grinding down of obsidian shards (or anything relatively rigid) into a lethal point see re: improvised prison weapons for example.
Outlawing knives to curb violence is just ignorant. People can use their fists and a rock if they have to and beat someone to death (if you're Christian this describes the first murder exactly in fact). The problem is people, not choice of weapons.
The Vietnam War is an interesting example. America only "lost" in the technical sense. In reality the casualty rate was about 20:1 in favor of the Americans. America lost approximately 50,000 soldiers, whereas conservative estimates put North Vietnamese losses at over one *million* dead. If the war had drug on for much longer the Vietcong army would have lost from sheer attrition.
And even though it was brutally cruel and inhumane, the Phoenix Program was actually fairly effective at wearing down the morale of the North Vietnamese. It was a war we *could* have won, but the moral and political price was too high.
It sounds silly on the surface, but really the broader goal is to keep the rest of the world sufficiently destabilized so that no one nation or group of nations can gain the kind of power that could pose a threat to the U.S. Ergo, when big, bad Russia was absorbing nearby nation-states we stepped in to Afghanistan in the 1980's to put a stop to that. When Afghanistan started looking like a rallying point for Islamic unification against the United States in the 2000's, we stepped in there to stop any such thought from forming.
We probably would have done something about the E.U. if it wasn't such a completely doomed cluster from the beginning.
If someone posted a story where someone claimed that their grandmother's pacemaker stopped working because the LHC was turned on, it would get voted down as unsupported circumstantial and anecdotal evidence.
This is a strawman. In your LHC example there's no conceivable way except by the basest twisting of all laws of physics that it's even remotely feasible that the LHC could even possibly cause something like that.
In the instant case, we have a device emitting a high energy electromagnetic pulse that is said to break something...which is sensitive to high energy electromagnetic pulses. Or to take it to the ridiculous extreme:
That's like saying he died because we doused him in gasoline and threw a match on him. He probably just spontaneously combusted! This is just 99% seeing what you want to see.
No, the second movie was a putrefied abortion that should never have been given a shadow of a reflection of a green light. The original movie holds up surprisingly well both in terms of fealty to the book and production quality. I wouldn't say it's the greatest movie ever necessarily, but it was pretty good as such things go.
On the other hand, there is a small, but measurable, chance that we're the most mature species in the galaxy. Maybe we're on track to fill it up while some other poor buggers are just now starting to make stone tools and we'll show up just as they start their first atomic bomb tests or something.
I mean, people look at it as some advanced civilization will come and wipe out our poor primitive selves, but someone had to be first, and maybe that's us. I mean, why not?
This part especially caught my eye as being of surpassing prescience:
Men very different from the present race of piratical booksellers will soon infringe this intolerable monopoly. Great masses of capital will be constantly employed in the violation of the law. Every art will be employed to evade legal pursuit; and the whole nation will be in the plot.
Substitute "piratical booksellers" for "file sharers" and it describes almost exactly the situation we find ourselves in today, and it was written 180 years ago!
Slugs are the imperial measurement for mass. Pounds are comparable to newtons and slugs are comparable to grams (as far as type goes). Pounds are often shorthanded for mass measurements and grams for weight measurements, but it's not correct and you should never do so in a scientific paper.
You had the option of either/or. I did, in fact, personally perform a Windows 95 install using 30+ floppies. I had a minor panic attack when floppy #24 was bad, but luckily we had more than one box of Win95 floppies.
ME was only stable if you had WDM drivers for EVERYTHING IN IT. Otherwise you had this mish-mash of VxD drivers (still bewilderingly supported) and WDM Drivers. Unsurprisingly, mixing models like this made for an unstable PoS operating system. Windows 2000 solved this problem by not supporting VxD drivers at all. Surprise surprise it was way more stable.
That's why everyone hates on ME. It was buggy and unstable unless you had the perfect driver setup on it. On a business machine, you probably did, since all the hardware in it was likely put in with Windows 2000 in mind so WDM for everything. On consumer hardware, good luck with that.
Intel is doing the Tick-Tock cycle for their processor families/flagship products, that sort of sounds like what the author is suggesting here, except for Microsoft's flagship product instead.
Tock: Win 2000
Tick: Win XP
Tock: Win Vista
Tick: Win 7
Tock: Win 8
Tick: Win 9
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Tick-Tock
More accurately:
Tick DOS 6
Tock Windows 2.0/3.0
Tick Windows 3.1/3.11
Tock Windows NT 3.5.1
Tick Windows NT 4.0
Tock Win95
Tick Win98
Tock Win98SE
Tick: Win 2000
Tock: Win ME
Tick: Win XP
Tock: Win Vista
Tick: Win 7
Tock: Win 8
Tick: Win 9
Now you could argue that Win95/98/SE were one way or the other, but I rather look at 98 as fixing the bugs in 95 and SE as being a BS money-grab right before 2000 came out.
OP - here's the one piece where your plan fails : the active directory connection establishing your machine as a trusted member of the domain, and your user as the domain with the same name... disconnects if it hasn't been refreshed in a while.
Technically speaking, the machine account password is changed every 30 days. This change happens automatically and is initiated by the client (so the laptop that's been off the network for 6 months that's suddenly plugged in will still work). So if you gather an image and power it up in "work laptop" mode, you run the risk of the machine account password being changed on you. If you subsequently refresh the image the machine will not be able to talk to Active Directory because it is trying to use an outdated machine account password.
Bottom line, it is possible to flip back and forth through image gathering, but the only way to be safe is to gather a fresh image every single time you go to change the system from work to play mode. It's wholly impractical unless you're very very patient.
It would be better to get a cheap used netbook for personal use or in the extreme case a secondary hard drive that you physically swap when needed (still not recommended as I.T. may notice and punish you for messing with the hardware).
Both city and wild pigeons will cause problems. Even in California they're considered a pest with no limit and no season, so shoot as many as you want whenever you want. And CA is one of the most hippie, liberal, tree-hugging states in the union.
I mean, it's basically like shooting rats. You're doing a public service by culling them a bit. No matter what you do with the carcasses, nature will clean them up one way or another.
"And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years."
This verse is a countdown to the great flood and Noah's ark and all that. Not a proscription on the number of years an individual may live. Context, my friend, context.
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You *can* do big-O analysis for best and average cases, but absent any qualifier big-O is understood to be *worst* case. If he had specified O(1) in the average case then I suspect the interviewer would've let it slide, but as it was it sounds wrong.
One of the problems with TNG is that it *really* doesn't pick up its stride until season 3. Beardless Riker (season 1) is just barely canceled out by Tasha Yar, and Dr. Pulaski (season 2) is just barely canceled out by the show starting to gel together and having some awesome episodes until season 3 sees true awesomeness become a regular thing through the end of the series.
There are still a few duds from seasons 3-7, but overall it's genius.
Ethically speaking the value of the performance to the artist (the time put into making it) can be realized by taking the overall cost of ticket sales for a concert: say, 10,000 people at $100 a ticket for a sold out show = 1,000,000 dollars for an album's worth of performance for a highly popular artist. Then let's say you sell that album to 10,000,000 people. The cost per album should be about $0.10 for the artist's time and effort.
Ethically speaking, given the cost of reproduction these days, far too much money is being spent on a work product that is only worth perhaps 1% of what is being paid. Now, it shouldn't be free by any means, but it *is* ridiculously overpriced. If you cut out the middle man and charged, say, $1 for an album, even poor college kids would be hard pressed to try and justify pirating. And you'd have significantly more and realistic competition if distributors weren't locking out all but the safest bets.
We do something similar where I work. While it's theoretically possible to abuse this and snoop on personal https traffic, it's not worth the time. You are not interesting, your facebook posts are not worth an admin's time. Your personal banking information is not worth the effort to extract. Every potentially useful bit of private information that could harm you being protected by https was already given freely to the company anyway - SSN, Bank account for direct deposit, address, contact info, mother's maiden name, etc. You should be *vastly* more worried about the DBA's than the network admins. And again, you're not important enough for them to mess with it either.
Now, you should still use https at home because maybe some bigger criminal enterprises could make use of unprotected CC numbers or something (assuming they haven't already pwned your box) - but as far as your employer is concerned, there is nothing to fear from an https transparent proxy.
Then that would be what your smartphone is for.
Obviously, these are all rhetorical and after what Disney did to John Carter of Mars... well.
I wanted to cry when I saw how badly they butchered the story. The one thing, the ONLY THING that saved me from getting completely stabby was that they did Woola *perfectly* and probably only that because he has no speaking lines.
All they had to do was stick with the story and it would have been brilliant. Yes, it's a horribly sexist adolescent wet dream, yes we know it has zero connection with reality we don't care make it like it was supposed to be and we'll enjoy it for the mindless entertainment that it is! Stop "fixing" the classics. Heaven help us if they ever "adapt" the Lensmen series.
Snow Crash, I have good hopes for. There's nothing directly offensive to any of the political hot button groups of the moment, and they have a real chance to shine in showing off cool CG effects whenever they're jacked in. It's going to be hard to explain neuro-linguistic hacking to your average studio audience though.
As a sysadmin with background as a developer I find it inconceivable that anyone could become a good programmer without working knowledge of Linear Algebra, Discrete Mathematics (especially graph theory), Boolean Algebra, and Statistics. Added bonus would be a familiarity with Differential Equations, Combinatorics, and Number Theory. Calculus kind of goes without saying (I can't imagine a C.S. degree program that wouldn't require it) but honestly Mathematics is so ingrained into everything that computers do that it's foolish to disregard it.
My C.S. undergrad program required so many math courses that I actually took a couple more as electives and got my math minor on my diploma too. I feel like I might have gotten something out of Real and Complex Analysis too, if I'd been able to schedule them, but alas.
See it also depends on what a and b are. Some operations are not commutative. For example, you could just as easily try to say that a*b = b*a using your arguments, but if a and b are matrices then it may not be true (and b*a may not even be *possible* depending on the dimensions used).
The problem is that *caveman* level technology allows for the grinding down of obsidian shards (or anything relatively rigid) into a lethal point see re: improvised prison weapons for example.
Outlawing knives to curb violence is just ignorant. People can use their fists and a rock if they have to and beat someone to death (if you're Christian this describes the first murder exactly in fact). The problem is people, not choice of weapons.
A bunch of suckers in Vietnam tried it once..... I forget what happened though.
A million Vietnamese died (along with 50,000 invaders) and the invading force got tired of the slaughter and went home.
The Vietnam War is an interesting example. America only "lost" in the technical sense. In reality the casualty rate was about 20:1 in favor of the Americans. America lost approximately 50,000 soldiers, whereas conservative estimates put North Vietnamese losses at over one *million* dead. If the war had drug on for much longer the Vietcong army would have lost from sheer attrition.
And even though it was brutally cruel and inhumane, the Phoenix Program was actually fairly effective at wearing down the morale of the North Vietnamese. It was a war we *could* have won, but the moral and political price was too high.
It sounds silly on the surface, but really the broader goal is to keep the rest of the world sufficiently destabilized so that no one nation or group of nations can gain the kind of power that could pose a threat to the U.S. Ergo, when big, bad Russia was absorbing nearby nation-states we stepped in to Afghanistan in the 1980's to put a stop to that. When Afghanistan started looking like a rallying point for Islamic unification against the United States in the 2000's, we stepped in there to stop any such thought from forming.
We probably would have done something about the E.U. if it wasn't such a completely doomed cluster from the beginning.
Because the community polices that aspect of it by flagging and reporting the offending video. It has a very short life expectancy due to that.
If someone posted a story where someone claimed that their grandmother's pacemaker stopped working because the LHC was turned on, it would get voted down as unsupported circumstantial and anecdotal evidence.
This is a strawman. In your LHC example there's no conceivable way except by the basest twisting of all laws of physics that it's even remotely feasible that the LHC could even possibly cause something like that.
In the instant case, we have a device emitting a high energy electromagnetic pulse that is said to break something...which is sensitive to high energy electromagnetic pulses. Or to take it to the ridiculous extreme:
That's like saying he died because we doused him in gasoline and threw a match on him. He probably just spontaneously combusted! This is just 99% seeing what you want to see.
No, the second movie was a putrefied abortion that should never have been given a shadow of a reflection of a green light. The original movie holds up surprisingly well both in terms of fealty to the book and production quality. I wouldn't say it's the greatest movie ever necessarily, but it was pretty good as such things go.
On the other hand, there is a small, but measurable, chance that we're the most mature species in the galaxy. Maybe we're on track to fill it up while some other poor buggers are just now starting to make stone tools and we'll show up just as they start their first atomic bomb tests or something.
I mean, people look at it as some advanced civilization will come and wipe out our poor primitive selves, but someone had to be first, and maybe that's us. I mean, why not?
This part especially caught my eye as being of surpassing prescience:
Men very different from the present race of piratical booksellers will soon infringe this intolerable monopoly. Great masses of capital will be constantly employed in the violation of the law. Every art will be employed to evade legal pursuit; and the whole nation will be in the plot.
Substitute "piratical booksellers" for "file sharers" and it describes almost exactly the situation we find ourselves in today, and it was written 180 years ago!
If parents would do their jobs then schools wouldn't feel the need to try and replace them.
Slugs are the imperial measurement for mass. Pounds are comparable to newtons and slugs are comparable to grams (as far as type goes). Pounds are often shorthanded for mass measurements and grams for weight measurements, but it's not correct and you should never do so in a scientific paper.
You had the option of either/or. I did, in fact, personally perform a Windows 95 install using 30+ floppies. I had a minor panic attack when floppy #24 was bad, but luckily we had more than one box of Win95 floppies.
ME was only stable if you had WDM drivers for EVERYTHING IN IT. Otherwise you had this mish-mash of VxD drivers (still bewilderingly supported) and WDM Drivers. Unsurprisingly, mixing models like this made for an unstable PoS operating system. Windows 2000 solved this problem by not supporting VxD drivers at all. Surprise surprise it was way more stable.
That's why everyone hates on ME. It was buggy and unstable unless you had the perfect driver setup on it. On a business machine, you probably did, since all the hardware in it was likely put in with Windows 2000 in mind so WDM for everything. On consumer hardware, good luck with that.
Intel is doing the Tick-Tock cycle for their processor families/flagship products, that sort of sounds like what the author is suggesting here, except for Microsoft's flagship product instead. Tock: Win 2000 Tick: Win XP Tock: Win Vista Tick: Win 7 Tock: Win 8 Tick: Win 9 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Tick-Tock
More accurately:
Tick DOS 6
Tock Windows 2.0/3.0
Tick Windows 3.1/3.11
Tock Windows NT 3.5.1
Tick Windows NT 4.0
Tock Win95
Tick Win98
Tock Win98SE
Tick: Win 2000
Tock: Win ME
Tick: Win XP
Tock: Win Vista
Tick: Win 7
Tock: Win 8
Tick: Win 9
Now you could argue that Win95/98/SE were one way or the other, but I rather look at 98 as fixing the bugs in 95 and SE as being a BS money-grab right before 2000 came out.
OP - here's the one piece where your plan fails : the active directory connection establishing your machine as a trusted member of the domain, and your user as the domain with the same name ... disconnects if it hasn't been refreshed in a while.
Technically speaking, the machine account password is changed every 30 days. This change happens automatically and is initiated by the client (so the laptop that's been off the network for 6 months that's suddenly plugged in will still work). So if you gather an image and power it up in "work laptop" mode, you run the risk of the machine account password being changed on you. If you subsequently refresh the image the machine will not be able to talk to Active Directory because it is trying to use an outdated machine account password.
Bottom line, it is possible to flip back and forth through image gathering, but the only way to be safe is to gather a fresh image every single time you go to change the system from work to play mode. It's wholly impractical unless you're very very patient.
It would be better to get a cheap used netbook for personal use or in the extreme case a secondary hard drive that you physically swap when needed (still not recommended as I.T. may notice and punish you for messing with the hardware).
Both city and wild pigeons will cause problems. Even in California they're considered a pest with no limit and no season, so shoot as many as you want whenever you want. And CA is one of the most hippie, liberal, tree-hugging states in the union.
I mean, it's basically like shooting rats. You're doing a public service by culling them a bit. No matter what you do with the carcasses, nature will clean them up one way or another.
"And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years."
This verse is a countdown to the great flood and Noah's ark and all that. Not a proscription on the number of years an individual may live. Context, my friend, context.