It's not symmetrical.
Somone who is profoundly handicaped has rights. Those rights do not depend on them respecting or even understanding your rights.
You are obliged to respect their rights, though they are not even expected to respect yours.
Following your argument would disposess a lot of profoundly handicapped people of their rights.
In a sense, the rights we grant to anyone or anything says more about us who grant the rights than on the things that we grant them to.
Doh.
I kinda missed the qualifier bit.
I just saw the
"The 41-year-old will run the 42.2-kilometre (26.2-mile) race on the station's treadmill on 16 April and will circle the Earth at least twice during the event, putting her speed relative to Earth far above the other entrants."
Ok. So she ran the Heuston Marathon.
I do still reckon that to run the Boston marathon, it would be nice if you were in Boston, or at least on the planet at the time....
I've never made the marathon, but I've done 18+ mile runs. (Knee went pop)
Her claim to have run a marathon holds about this much (holding finger and thumb together) weight, primarily cause she's effectively got this much (holding finger and thumb together) weight.
And no hills, no wind, no blazing sun, no patchs of ice on the road to contend with.
As if being an AssThrowNot she doesn't have enough to brag about.
There are a LIMITED number of roles for assembly writers
in embedded systems,
I think you underestimate the volume of the embedded/uc/DSP
market.
No, I imagine you overestimate the number of people
using assembly in embedded/uc/DSP market. People I
know working in embedded systems or DSPs are using C
or specialized languages.
Poor design trumps poor coding in terms of performance EVERY TIME.
True. But algorithm design has little to do with the programming language,
while coding has little to do with algorithm design.
My point was that if you want to improve
performance, check the design first, this gives the big performance gains. Then
consider looking at the language.
But writing assembly teaches you Nothing about Object
oriented Design.
Writing C++/whatever also doesn't teach you anything about object oriented
design. Since the latter is a design concept which, at first, doesn't have a
lot to do with the actual programming language. You can use OO concepts when
writing in assembler, and you can produce truly abysmally designed code in
Java/C++/whatever.
Yes. I agree. I've fixed (i.e. deleted and rewritten) some of that truly abysmal code. But Assembly does not
facilitate OO concepts. My point was that while learning assembly teaches you about the internals of a machine, the internals of a machine are very far removed from what you need to know about to
design large systems.
So yes, assembly is useful, but it's just one tool in building up and understanding and you need more arrows for your bow
First: I spent a good few years writing ISRs (Interrupt service routines), TSRs (Terminate and Stay Resident apps for DOS), simple device drivers for serial and parallel ports on the DOS based PCS.
Pretty much all of what I worked on is now obviated by having an operating system that works. (mostly works)
There are a LIMITED number of roles for assembly writers in embedded systems, but pretty much all device drivers now are written mostly in C or even C++; Many embeded systems use C cross compilers.
Second: By redesigning a function that some had written, I took the execution time down from 32 seconds to 100ms (I stopped timing after that). Poor design trumps poor coding in terms of performance EVERY TIME.
Third: Doing ANYTHING in assembly take N times longer, where N is just HUGE. Really, HUGE. If you can do it in a high level language, then writing it in assembly is either a hobby, a college project, or a waste of time.
Having said that...
I believe that writing that all that assembly gave me a very good grounding in what goes on inside the box.
But writing assembly teaches you Nothing about Ojbect oriented Design.
Should we teach maths students to differentiate, or just tell them to used the computer ?
Teach assembly, but don't use it any more than you would calculate Fischer Exact Test for association by hand.
Don't they run as a the equivalent of root on a Windows Box, or am I thikning of the bad old days of NT ?
They can upload whatever they like.
Have they _ANY_ idea what else the screen saver is doing after they installed it ?
Lets BAN SCREEN SAVERS.
In fact, lets BAN SCREENS - Use Teletypes and we don't need screensavers, and all the data is safe.
Oh yes, and lets fund free shredders for everyone who gives up their screen to buy a teletype.
D
And no one will even need more than 640K of memory.
The argument that we don't have the processing power/storage/response time to do something is only valid for a year or two. If I can do it in the lab today, add Moores law and I can do it in the wild in a couple of years.
The churches deserve no special protection in law. If they are right, then they have the protection of God. They need no more. If they are wrong then they deserve no special treatment.
Why is belief in something without, or often in spite of any or all evidence, a virtue.
* Release all the footage of the corrupt politicians. * Release all the evidence against the Mob, the Yakuza, the Mafia. * Release a few exploits for MS Vista. * Let my pet AI out of his virtual cage and onto the 'net. * Release pictures of various Celebs doing "Very Wrong Things(TM)" * Release information about how various Government Contracts _REALLY_ got awarded. * Release evidence that the Bible, Quoran and various other religious books are fakes.
I think that's about all of it.
Damn, when I die there's gonna be a lot of people in deep du-du
Just for kicks, I tried installing the latest Ubuntu on my Acer 5103WMLI and it installed happily.
Getting wifi (WPA-PSK) up and running took a little googling. (Not something that your average Non Computer Guy would have been able to do), but it did not take as much time as I'd expected.
Sound and Microphone 'Just Work (TM)' - it's not really a trade mark, but hell M$ look like they are about to trade mark 0 thru 9.
I have to get the 3D drivers for the screen, but I've done that before for other boxes and it's a big deal. And then I need to check the card reader. I have doubts about the built in web cam, but that's not a show stopper.
I still think for "Joe User" it's not a runner. But it's a lot easier than I expected.
So I am Sorry for basing my expectations on my experience of a year or so back, it has moved on a lot. Back then It started to become a hobby in itself.
I still need Dual Boot, some of my college stuff (evening degreee) is M$ only.
But if hibernate works, then I'll be booting into Linux most of the time.
Been there. Done that. Spent years writing device drivers and ISRs in 8086 assembly. Now I consider a laptop a tool to do things with, like say big sums.
If I want to spend serious time doing something, then I'll build a boat.
Dave
Show me a place where I can buy a laptop for about 1000 with Linux pre installed and everything working properly.
Sound (including micraphone)
WPA on my wireless network
3d acceleration on my graphics card
My built in Web cam
My DVD+RW and CD drives
My Card reader
Power management
I don't really care why it works or does not work. I just want it to work.
Until then I have more to do with my time than play hunt the solution through the linux forums.
Hey Acer ? You listening ? I'd buy a Linux installed Laptop if the thing worked.
Is it too much to want :
1) To be able to use my wireless lan from out of the box.
2) To be able to print photos on my photoprinter out of the box.
3) To work on a laptop out of the box.
If anyone has read the various trilogies written by people trying to get the above done they know why I use Linux on my server and Windows my laptop.
For the moment I'll stick with XP for my laptop while the world evaluates Vista. I'm waiting to see what I actually get by upgrading.
Oh yes, and for the sound systems to work more often than not would help a lot. Both the speakers _AND_ the microphone ?
I don't ever remember asking for or getting offered code samples. Ever. If it's short, it's out of context or trivially simple. If it's long, I'm hardly going to read it in an interview.
The first problem is do you understand code. I'll show you some mediocre code with pre installed problems and ask you to comment. Any companies bug database will point you to plenty of samples. I don't expect you to spot everything in an interview, but if you don't spot something important then I'll ask about it. If you are still looking blank, I'll try to comunicate a little more clearly. I may even explain the problem and see how you take it in. If it's a junior position then I want to know about your capacity to learn.
From then on, I want bigger pictures than code. Any monkey can write a loop, hell most integrated environments will template it out for you. Fill in the blanks coding.
I'll give you some design problems and ask you to comment. Often I'll leave you missing some key information to see if you realise that you need to ask some questions, or if you are the barrel along regardless type.
I'd like to patent a construct for analysing a logical value to ascertain it's veracity and upon discovering it to be true and correct to execute predefined sets of instructions.
It might be implemented in a high level language in terms of
IfTrue (value)
Execute (statement)
Further that a predefined set of instructions would be executed in the case of the logical value being untrue.
It might be implemented in a high level language in terms of
If Saudi treated Black people the way that it treats Women, then there would be uproar (unlike with South Africa, nothing much would happen because of Oil, but there would be uproar)
Are women still not allowed to drive ?
Do they still need permission from a male relative to leave the country ?
Are they educated past the age of 13 yet ?
Are they allowed to work in any jobs other than teaching children and nursing (foreign women only for nursing) ?
Are they allowed to talk to men without a Chaperone ?
Given that Saudi is considered by many to be the seat of Islam, you know Mecca, Mediana, that whole thing,
then I for one do not welcome our new fundamentalist islamic overlords.
And I never even got to the fact that they won't allow other religions to practice, or public beheadings, or stoning people to death for adultry or blasphemy - anyone care to correct me if any of these practices have stopped recently ?
But, if you have to bid on contracts to fix sections of road, and the cost of counting every single pot hole just to bid for the contract is prohibitive, then you fall back on stats. You don't need to know exactly how many, just approximately.
There are a whole lot of companies makeing a whole lot of money since they understand stats better than you do.
If you _REALLY_ think that stats are useless, then there's a few games of chance that I'd like to introduce you to.
D
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It's not symmetrical. Somone who is profoundly handicaped has rights. Those rights do not depend on them respecting or even understanding your rights. You are obliged to respect their rights, though they are not even expected to respect yours. Following your argument would disposess a lot of profoundly handicapped people of their rights. In a sense, the rights we grant to anyone or anything says more about us who grant the rights than on the things that we grant them to.
Doh. I kinda missed the qualifier bit. I just saw the "The 41-year-old will run the 42.2-kilometre (26.2-mile) race on the station's treadmill on 16 April and will circle the Earth at least twice during the event, putting her speed relative to Earth far above the other entrants." Ok. So she ran the Heuston Marathon. I do still reckon that to run the Boston marathon, it would be nice if you were in Boston, or at least on the planet at the time....
I've never made the marathon, but I've done 18+ mile runs. (Knee went pop) Her claim to have run a marathon holds about this much (holding finger and thumb together) weight, primarily cause she's effectively got this much (holding finger and thumb together) weight. And no hills, no wind, no blazing sun, no patchs of ice on the road to contend with. As if being an AssThrowNot she doesn't have enough to brag about.
There are a LIMITED number of roles for assembly writers in embedded systems,
I think you underestimate the volume of the embedded/uc/DSP market.
No, I imagine you overestimate the number of people using assembly in embedded/uc/DSP market. People I know working in embedded systems or DSPs are using C or specialized languages.
Poor design trumps poor coding in terms of performance EVERY TIME.
True. But algorithm design has little to do with the programming language, while coding has little to do with algorithm design.
My point was that if you want to improve performance, check the design first, this gives the big performance gains. Then consider looking at the language.
But writing assembly teaches you Nothing about Object oriented Design.
Writing C++/whatever also doesn't teach you anything about object oriented design. Since the latter is a design concept which, at first, doesn't have a lot to do with the actual programming language. You can use OO concepts when writing in assembler, and you can produce truly abysmally designed code in Java/C++/whatever.
Yes. I agree. I've fixed (i.e. deleted and rewritten) some of that truly abysmal code. But Assembly does not facilitate OO concepts. My point was that while learning assembly teaches you about the internals of a machine, the internals of a machine are very far removed from what you need to know about to design large systems. So yes, assembly is useful, but it's just one tool in building up and understanding and you need more arrows for your bow
First:
I spent a good few years writing ISRs (Interrupt service routines), TSRs (Terminate and Stay Resident apps for DOS), simple device drivers for serial and parallel ports on the DOS based PCS.
Pretty much all of what I worked on is now obviated by having an operating system that works. (mostly works)
There are a LIMITED number of roles for assembly writers in embedded systems, but pretty much all device drivers now are written mostly in C or even C++; Many embeded systems use C cross compilers.
Second:
By redesigning a function that some had written, I took the execution time down from 32 seconds to 100ms (I stopped timing after that). Poor design trumps poor coding in terms of performance EVERY TIME.
Third:
Doing ANYTHING in assembly take N times longer, where N is just HUGE. Really, HUGE. If you can do it in a high level language, then writing it in assembly is either a hobby, a college project, or a waste of time.
Having said that...
I believe that writing that all that assembly gave me a very good grounding in what goes on inside the box.
But writing assembly teaches you Nothing about Ojbect oriented Design.
Should we teach maths students to differentiate, or just tell them to used the computer ?
Teach assembly, but don't use it any more than you would calculate Fischer Exact Test for association by hand.
Don't. Not unless you _REALLY_ have to.
New Species of Monkey Gone Extinct in Africa
You know it's only a matter of time, so now you can say that you read it here first.
Don't they run as a the equivalent of root on a Windows Box, or am I thikning of the bad old days of NT ? They can upload whatever they like. Have they _ANY_ idea what else the screen saver is doing after they installed it ? Lets BAN SCREEN SAVERS. In fact, lets BAN SCREENS - Use Teletypes and we don't need screensavers, and all the data is safe. Oh yes, and lets fund free shredders for everyone who gives up their screen to buy a teletype. D
In banking
The Client: Realtime Automated Trading System
The Server: Automated Revaluation System Enterprise Server
aka RATS ARSES
If someone does not want their extracts caches, remove them ENTIRELY from google.
I don't believe that anyone has added "being indexed" to human rights yet.
D
And no one will even need more than 640K of memory.
The argument that we don't have the processing power/storage/response time to do something is only valid for a year or two. If I can do it in the lab today, add Moores law and I can do it in the wild in a couple of years.
What constitutes interfering with a church.
Did he set fire to it? Did damage the building ?
The churches deserve no special protection in law. If they are right, then they have the protection of God. They need no more. If they are wrong then they deserve no special treatment.
Why is belief in something without, or often in spite of any or all evidence, a virtue.
D
Put one of these on a sky scrpaer in New York....
But do you want to drink water condensed in the middle of a major city, with all the interesting pollutants that will condense with it?
Presumably it'll be a nice cup of acid rain, possibly with a whole lot of particulates that settle out thrown into the mix.
Nice.
Real Nice.
What is this a SLOW NEWS DAY
T - 3 seconds
T - 2 seconds
T - 1 seconds
Lift off
.
.
.
Hey thats not right.
Hold on.
What's happening?
Bang !!!
The biggest Dirty Nuclear Bomb in history.
* Release all the footage of the corrupt politicians.
* Release all the evidence against the Mob, the Yakuza, the Mafia.
* Release a few exploits for MS Vista.
* Let my pet AI out of his virtual cage and onto the 'net.
* Release pictures of various Celebs doing "Very Wrong Things(TM)"
* Release information about how various Government Contracts _REALLY_ got awarded.
* Release evidence that the Bible, Quoran and various other religious books are fakes.
I think that's about all of it.
Damn, when I die there's gonna be a lot of people in deep du-du
8-)
http://davesboat.blogspot.com/
Just for kicks, I tried installing the latest Ubuntu on my Acer 5103WMLI and it installed happily.
Getting wifi (WPA-PSK) up and running took a little googling. (Not something that your average Non Computer Guy would have been able to do), but it did not take as much time as I'd expected.
Sound and Microphone 'Just Work (TM)' - it's not really a trade mark, but hell M$ look like they are about to trade mark 0 thru 9.
I have to get the 3D drivers for the screen, but I've done that before for other boxes and it's a big deal. And then I need to check the card reader. I have doubts about the built in web cam, but that's not a show stopper.
I still think for "Joe User" it's not a runner. But it's a lot easier than I expected.
So I am Sorry for basing my expectations on my experience of a year or so back, it has moved on a lot. Back then It started to become a hobby in itself.
I still need Dual Boot, some of my college stuff (evening degreee) is M$ only.
But if hibernate works, then I'll be booting into Linux most of the time.
Been there. Done that. Spent years writing device drivers and ISRs in 8086 assembly. Now I consider a laptop a tool to do things with, like say big sums. If I want to spend serious time doing something, then I'll build a boat. Dave
Show me a place where I can buy a laptop for about 1000 with Linux pre installed and everything working properly.
Sound (including micraphone)
WPA on my wireless network
3d acceleration on my graphics card
My built in Web cam
My DVD+RW and CD drives
My Card reader
Power management
I don't really care why it works or does not work. I just want it to work.
Until then I have more to do with my time than play hunt the solution through the linux forums.
Hey Acer ? You listening ? I'd buy a Linux installed Laptop if the thing worked.
Is it too much to want : 1) To be able to use my wireless lan from out of the box. 2) To be able to print photos on my photoprinter out of the box. 3) To work on a laptop out of the box. If anyone has read the various trilogies written by people trying to get the above done they know why I use Linux on my server and Windows my laptop. For the moment I'll stick with XP for my laptop while the world evaluates Vista. I'm waiting to see what I actually get by upgrading. Oh yes, and for the sound systems to work more often than not would help a lot. Both the speakers _AND_ the microphone ?
Having been the interviewer....
I don't ever remember asking for or getting offered code samples. Ever.
If it's short, it's out of context or trivially simple. If it's long, I'm hardly going to read it in an interview.
The first problem is do you understand code. I'll show you some mediocre code with pre installed problems and ask you to comment. Any companies bug database will point you to plenty of samples. I don't expect you to spot everything in an interview, but if you don't spot something important then I'll ask about it. If you are still looking blank, I'll try to comunicate a little more clearly. I may even explain the problem and see how you take it in. If it's a junior position then I want to know about your capacity to learn.
From then on, I want bigger pictures than code. Any monkey can write a loop, hell most integrated environments will template it out for you. Fill in the blanks coding.
I'll give you some design problems and ask you to comment. Often I'll leave you missing some key information to see if you realise that you need to ask some questions, or if you are the barrel along regardless type.
I'd like to patent a construct for analysing a logical value to ascertain it's veracity and upon discovering it to be true and correct to execute predefined sets of instructions.
It might be implemented in a high level language in terms of
IfTrue (value)
Execute (statement)
Further that a predefined set of instructions would be executed in the case of the logical value being untrue.
It might be implemented in a high level language in terms of
IfTrue (value)
Execute (statement)
Else (statement)
What do you reckon ?
Shouldn't the link be : Utter Rubbish ???
Set up a link with the term Utter Rubbish to their web site.
If enough people do it, then searching for Utter Rubbish will show up this web site.
If Saudi treated Black people the way that it treats Women, then there would be uproar (unlike with South Africa, nothing much would happen because of Oil, but there would be uproar)
Are women still not allowed to drive ?
Do they still need permission from a male relative to leave the country ?
Are they educated past the age of 13 yet ?
Are they allowed to work in any jobs other than teaching children and nursing (foreign women only for nursing) ?
Are they allowed to talk to men without a Chaperone ?
Given that Saudi is considered by many to be the seat of Islam, you know Mecca, Mediana, that whole thing,
then I for one do not welcome our new fundamentalist islamic overlords.
And I never even got to the fact that they won't allow other religions to practice, or public beheadings, or stoning people to death for adultry or blasphemy - anyone care to correct me if any of these practices have stopped recently ?
I'll stick with atheism for the moment, thanks
But, if you have to bid on contracts to fix sections of road, and the cost of counting every single pot hole just to bid for the contract is prohibitive, then you fall back on stats. You don't need to know exactly how many, just approximately. There are a whole lot of companies makeing a whole lot of money since they understand stats better than you do. If you _REALLY_ think that stats are useless, then there's a few games of chance that I'd like to introduce you to. D