Indeed. A transporter that works like the visible man.
Step 1: die. (not strictly necessary, but makes the remaining steps more pleasant.) Step 2: freeze body in great big ice cube. agitate and freeze rapidly to avoid bubbles and crystals. step 3: put ice block on giant deli slicer. Use "1 cell thick" setting. step 4: further divide ice slice into pieces small enough to use with the MRI device. Carefully label the position of each piece. step 5: painstakingly scan each piece and store in appropriate database. step 6: repeat steps 3 through 5 over the next several months until no slices remain. step 7: ? step 8: arrive at destination, nearly perfectly reconstructed and only a little bit dead (just your brains. and organs)
However, rather than work with us, one of their own rigged up something we had no idea was in practice had I not headed over there to help a technican with a connection to a server.
Did they know they *could* work with you? I mean, really know, like actually being aware of it, rather than have heard something when they started working and promptly forgotten about IT because you're doing your job so well you're not even noticed.
I only say this because I don't think it's at all common knowledge just what kinds of things an IT department can do to make users lives easier, beyond the specific things they already do, and a lot of people just don't even think of asking. Maybe you need to do some internal advertising to get people to consider working with you on tasks where they really ought to be.
Repetitive tasks with slight variations eating up your day? Call IT, We're here to help!
Bookkeeping taking more time than the actual task you're documenting? Call IT, We're here for YOU.
Writing is good because you have a record, but you really need to meet the teacher. The assignment may have had more facets than you are aware (i.e. it's possible the D was simply coincidental with the Word requirement) and/or the teacher may himself require education.
It is a personal failing that I cannot imagine a person could be so ignorant as to make a silly requirement about brand products in an educational setting.. unless it was supposed to be done during school time and he just didn't want students to play games or use wacky, hard-to-read fonts.
Now, that said.. why Verdana? I've just looked at Docs, and Serif looks an awful lot like Times (which, I'll note, appears to be a more compact font than Verdana: 2 pp times != 2pp verdana). Enough that a teacher looking at a printout shouldn't be able to tell the difference without a direct comparison.
It's off topic because the meaning of the phrase is contrary to the literal meaning of the words. In a sane world, both are valid and you determine what is meant by looking at the context.
Safari on windows is quite the memory and cpu hog.* I certainly hope it's better on Mac, where both are more scarce. If it's as bad on Mac as it is on windows, though, I think people would run for chrome the second it was made available.
*I suppose my experience could be a configuration issue: the freakin' apple page that it starts with occasionally pegs my trusty ol' athlon XP at 100% and 450 MB footprint. Still, Chrome, Firefox, and IE don't do that or anything like it, and I'm quite unmotivated to do anything requiring more effort than a cursory google search.
You got a crap router. You should've returned it when you discovered it didn't work as advertised. Your blaming of WPA in effect subsidizes the bad router company.
And if you bought it in '05, you should've discovered the problem right away. WPA was quite common in that time-frame, having been strongly recommended for at least five years previous.
For back-related things, too. There's no real science behind it, it's just "push hard here for noise." I'd imagine that it's about as beneficial for your back as cracking your knuckles is for your hands. As in: at best, it doesn't do any harm.
Oddly, most of the people come in on C-130s and a C-5 about a week ahead of time. The 747 is just for show (and media I guess, but seriously, they can't find their own transport?) It's all about the extra side-space that that the hump provides for displaying the presidential seal.
I would definitely support the president using a smaller, more agile plane. Especially as, as an added bonus, no self-important congress snobs would be able to credibly demand anything larger than what the president himself uses.
Maybe it could just bake occlusion maps and such and stream that out to you. That stuff can tolerate a little lag once in a while (things will just look weird, or fall back on something less realistic), requires a whole lotta processing per scene, and in say a mmorpg type environment, it only has to be done once for everybody.
Yes. It is *always* wrong to force people to pay for stuff they don't want to.
Sometimes, the benefits to everyone are so great (as in education, ideally) that we do it anyway. But just because in some cases something wrong can be justified by the benefits, does not mean that every benefit justifies something wrong.
Now, ideally, education, welfare, food stamps would be paid for voluntarily. And if they can't, then we really ought to examine why they're popular enough to vote for with your free vote, but not popular enough to vote for with your effort (dollar-vote).
Sounds like your answers would be "No" and "Profit". The whole "pay-off" bit is a club that has been used to beat the space program repeatedly over the years. "What's in it for me? What's the return on my investment?" As with other forms of research and exploration, it's nearly always impossible to give firm answers to these questions. But experience has shown that the real answer usually is, "Far beyond expectations."
Always remember that with government funded space program, you're not asking people to contribute. If you can't show benefits to them, you should really think about the ethics of your funding scheme. Note that not everyone cares about scientific research.
"so much so that an urban legend emerged that Tang was invented for the space program"
Yeah, but that's true of almost everything that "came out of the space program." The only consumer product I can think of that was specifically designed for the space program is those Fischer pens, which I think we can all agree that as nice as they are, they weren't that much of an improvement for society or something that couldn't have been invented otherwise.
I was overly harsh. It has some good points. Just not compelling enough to bother to learn a whole new kind of language for, especially if you know about the powerful things in the matlab toolbox.
But.. depending on what you're actually using it for next semester, I would venture to guess that you might not actually have to learn labview at all. My introduction to it was in a lab class where it was used to interface with a kind generic electronic projects daughter-board, and for the whole semester we never used it for anything more complicated than paring input to a log file (maybe ONE function filter) and output from a script.
Yeah, what archie said. I was a little harsh. If your algorithmic need is simple, it's a pretty quick set up. Very intuitive: connect physical thing to computer, connect virtual block to processing block to the logging block. You can even do feedback, motor controls, and more.
And it's technically quite powerful, but beyond a certain level of complexity, the flow-chart style starts to obscure what's really going on: you're eventually going to have nested blocks and code blocks (i think.. it's been a while). The learning curve is steep at first, then a long plateau.
So, you'll probably end up falling back on your more comfortable languages if you have to do any post-processing anyway, and considering how easy it is to set up external interfaces with e.g. matlab, if you've already got experience with it, then you've already got that going for you.
Oddly, though, they're both often a hard sell to the very people who would benefit most from it. Many people seem to want to go with a low level language even if it means they'll have to hire a programmer to write a driver.
"investing in yourself" is a figure of speech. You can "invest in yourself" by buying entertainment gear to improve your quality of life. But that gear is not an investment any more than diamonds are an investment.
Pfft. Matlab is the fastest way to connect to his testing equipment.
Well.. Labview, actually, but no one in their right mind would want to actually use it. Anyway, simulink gets you a lot of the graphical programming features if you need that.
But we already have a language that does vectors correctly. It's called Matlab and it's based on Fortran, which I guess technically also does vectors correctly, if you want to bother to learn it.
They only wanted to sell the fine things to people who couldn't afford them. The people who could? They could buy one, if they paid for two...
The correct way to handle it would be to charge $250 domestically and put them next to the game consoles in Wal*Mart, so lower middle-class parents can buy them for their kids. 1/5 of 10 million sales would pay for a hell of a lot more "donated" models than half of a hundred fifty thousand models.
Besides, the whole "it's good for you, but we're not letting our own kids near 'em" is pretty hard to swallow and smacks of colonialism.
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Indeed. A transporter that works like the visible man.
Step 1: die. (not strictly necessary, but makes the remaining steps more pleasant.)
Step 2: freeze body in great big ice cube. agitate and freeze rapidly to avoid bubbles and crystals.
step 3: put ice block on giant deli slicer. Use "1 cell thick" setting.
step 4: further divide ice slice into pieces small enough to use with the MRI device. Carefully label the position of each piece.
step 5: painstakingly scan each piece and store in appropriate database.
step 6: repeat steps 3 through 5 over the next several months until no slices remain.
step 7: ?
step 8: arrive at destination, nearly perfectly reconstructed and only a little bit dead (just your brains. and organs)
And yet, still more stable than many address book programs. *cough* outlook *cough* cough.
Did they know they *could* work with you? I mean, really know, like actually being aware of it, rather than have heard something when they started working and promptly forgotten about IT because you're doing your job so well you're not even noticed.
I only say this because I don't think it's at all common knowledge just what kinds of things an IT department can do to make users lives easier, beyond the specific things they already do, and a lot of people just don't even think of asking. Maybe you need to do some internal advertising to get people to consider working with you on tasks where they really ought to be.
Repetitive tasks with slight variations eating up your day? Call IT, We're here to help!
Bookkeeping taking more time than the actual task you're documenting? Call IT, We're here for YOU.
Hmm... I'm no math expert, but if three are tied for sixth place, should't sun be in 9th, not 7th?
Writing is good because you have a record, but you really need to meet the teacher. The assignment may have had more facets than you are aware (i.e. it's possible the D was simply coincidental with the Word requirement) and/or the teacher may himself require education.
It is a personal failing that I cannot imagine a person could be so ignorant as to make a silly requirement about brand products in an educational setting.. unless it was supposed to be done during school time and he just didn't want students to play games or use wacky, hard-to-read fonts.
Now, that said.. why Verdana? I've just looked at Docs, and Serif looks an awful lot like Times (which, I'll note, appears to be a more compact font than Verdana: 2 pp times != 2pp verdana). Enough that a teacher looking at a printout shouldn't be able to tell the difference without a direct comparison.
It's off topic because the meaning of the phrase is contrary to the literal meaning of the words. In a sane world, both are valid and you determine what is meant by looking at the context.
Safari on windows is quite the memory and cpu hog.* I certainly hope it's better on Mac, where both are more scarce. If it's as bad on Mac as it is on windows, though, I think people would run for chrome the second it was made available.
*I suppose my experience could be a configuration issue: the freakin' apple page that it starts with occasionally pegs my trusty ol' athlon XP at 100% and 450 MB footprint. Still, Chrome, Firefox, and IE don't do that or anything like it, and I'm quite unmotivated to do anything requiring more effort than a cursory google search.
You got a crap router. You should've returned it when you discovered it didn't work as advertised. Your blaming of WPA in effect subsidizes the bad router company.
And if you bought it in '05, you should've discovered the problem right away. WPA was quite common in that time-frame, having been strongly recommended for at least five years previous.
You're going to have a lot of trouble writing drivers for it?
For back-related things, too. There's no real science behind it, it's just "push hard here for noise." I'd imagine that it's about as beneficial for your back as cracking your knuckles is for your hands. As in: at best, it doesn't do any harm.
Oddly, most of the people come in on C-130s and a C-5 about a week ahead of time. The 747 is just for show (and media I guess, but seriously, they can't find their own transport?) It's all about the extra side-space that that the hump provides for displaying the presidential seal.
I would definitely support the president using a smaller, more agile plane. Especially as, as an added bonus, no self-important congress snobs would be able to credibly demand anything larger than what the president himself uses.
And besides, revolutions are *expensive.* You've got to get a whole lot of people to pledge their blood and treasure to your cause.
And anyone who's that kinda popular can just run for office and win in a landslide with no need to risk bloodshed.
That works for one-way traffic. But when you time the lights so that one side can't speed, what happens to the other side?
In short, it's really a messy optimization problem. Good luck.
Maybe it could just bake occlusion maps and such and stream that out to you. That stuff can tolerate a little lag once in a while (things will just look weird, or fall back on something less realistic), requires a whole lotta processing per scene, and in say a mmorpg type environment, it only has to be done once for everybody.
What does your friend use?
Yes. It is *always* wrong to force people to pay for stuff they don't want to.
Sometimes, the benefits to everyone are so great (as in education, ideally) that we do it anyway. But just because in some cases something wrong can be justified by the benefits, does not mean that every benefit justifies something wrong.
Now, ideally, education, welfare, food stamps would be paid for voluntarily. And if they can't, then we really ought to examine why they're popular enough to vote for with your free vote, but not popular enough to vote for with your effort (dollar-vote).
Always remember that with government funded space program, you're not asking people to contribute. If you can't show benefits to them, you should really think about the ethics of your funding scheme. Note that not everyone cares about scientific research.
"so much so that an urban legend emerged that Tang was invented for the space program"
Yeah, but that's true of almost everything that "came out of the space program." The only consumer product I can think of that was specifically designed for the space program is those Fischer pens, which I think we can all agree that as nice as they are, they weren't that much of an improvement for society or something that couldn't have been invented otherwise.
I was overly harsh. It has some good points. Just not compelling enough to bother to learn a whole new kind of language for, especially if you know about the powerful things in the matlab toolbox.
But.. depending on what you're actually using it for next semester, I would venture to guess that you might not actually have to learn labview at all. My introduction to it was in a lab class where it was used to interface with a kind generic electronic projects daughter-board, and for the whole semester we never used it for anything more complicated than paring input to a log file (maybe ONE function filter) and output from a script.
Do they allow electric resistance heating in California?
Yeah, what archie said. I was a little harsh. If your algorithmic need is simple, it's a pretty quick set up. Very intuitive: connect physical thing to computer, connect virtual block to processing block to the logging block. You can even do feedback, motor controls, and more.
And it's technically quite powerful, but beyond a certain level of complexity, the flow-chart style starts to obscure what's really going on: you're eventually going to have nested blocks and code blocks (i think.. it's been a while). The learning curve is steep at first, then a long plateau.
So, you'll probably end up falling back on your more comfortable languages if you have to do any post-processing anyway, and considering how easy it is to set up external interfaces with e.g. matlab, if you've already got experience with it, then you've already got that going for you.
Oddly, though, they're both often a hard sell to the very people who would benefit most from it. Many people seem to want to go with a low level language even if it means they'll have to hire a programmer to write a driver.
You invest in assets. you expect to see a return.
"investing in yourself" is a figure of speech. You can "invest in yourself" by buying entertainment gear to improve your quality of life. But that gear is not an investment any more than diamonds are an investment.
Pfft. Matlab is the fastest way to connect to his testing equipment.
Well.. Labview, actually, but no one in their right mind would want to actually use it. Anyway, simulink gets you a lot of the graphical programming features if you need that.
But we already have a language that does vectors correctly. It's called Matlab and it's based on Fortran, which I guess technically also does vectors correctly, if you want to bother to learn it.
They only wanted to sell the fine things to people who couldn't afford them. The people who could? They could buy one, if they paid for two...
The correct way to handle it would be to charge $250 domestically and put them next to the game consoles in Wal*Mart, so lower middle-class parents can buy them for their kids. 1/5 of 10 million sales would pay for a hell of a lot more "donated" models than half of a hundred fifty thousand models.
Besides, the whole "it's good for you, but we're not letting our own kids near 'em" is pretty hard to swallow and smacks of colonialism.