I tell them to type a plain english question into Google because more often than not that turns up the right answer on the first page.
This is pretty close to the best technique, but not quite there. Googling for the question will find you pages with the question. Googling for as much of the answer as you can give works even better. Compare "what is the average rainfall in the amazon basin?" to "the average rainfall in the amazon basin is".
When do we say enough is enough and just stop this cancerous shrinkage? How small do transistors really have to be?!
At roughly the 10nm mark (if I recall correctly), at which point a MOSFET will no longer exhibit transistor-like behaviour due to quantum tunneling across the body.
Mike Oldfield's last cd, Light & Shade, was released with a couple tracks in "u-myx" format. You set up their software or something and then you can remix without even having to know tracking and 'real' mixing.
On the topic of misplaced connectors, I once got called in by the parents to look at a printer that wouldn't show up. I discovered that day that a USB plug will fit rather comfortably over 3 or 4 of the pins in a serial port.
I'm graduating this spring with a double major in computer science and physics, with an eye toward graduate studies in robotics (just to establish my perspective). Having taken courses in software engineering processes, I think the approach is all wrong. However, I don't think a diploma is the right way to do it - we've got enough of those now, they're the home-grown equivalent of the undertrained immigrants.
Here's my idea: Take the 'engineering' part of 'software engineering' seriously. Make it separate from computer science, just like math and physics are separate from mechanical and electrical engineering. Want to be a programmer? Take the engineering program, learn practical skills and methodology, and end up with a license to practice in the field with the requirement that you keep your skills up to date. Want to be a researcher, or work in the theoretical area? Take computer science, and learn less UML, more discrete math, and more interesting electives like AI and such. Just a thought.
Better still, if you can manage it, is to arrange your cubicle/office so that your face is towards the entrance, rather than some combination of your back and your screen full of pr0n^H^H^H^H confidential work stuff.
I'm not familiar with the Speed Demos Archive, but I do know that NESVideos (a similar site) only takes submissions in the form of emulator movies - basically a recorded set of inputs. They load it up with their own rom of the game (known to be good), and record the actual video from that.
How long until someone comes up with the genetic equivalent of a bootstrap program? Some sequence of DNA that can be tacked on to the end of whatever their current project is, a sequence that will take raw biological material (amino acids? proteins? This is where I say "disclaimer: I am not a biologist") and construct a simple cell capable of then reading the actual organism DNA and replicating it.
I've seen this too, and not even in a high-tech area. My dad runs a small retail establishment, formerly a hardware and building supplies store that has gradually evolved into a lighting showroom with a paint department. In the last 10 years or so, our city has seen Walmart, a giant Home Hardware, and other box stores come to town. Business for us is apparently better than ever - the big Home Hardware creates interest in things like home renovation projects simply by virtue of its visibility, but when people want a beautiful $500 stained-glass fixture for the dining room, guess where they go?
Are libraries like foreign agent and terrorist magnets? I mean, it's been all over the press for years that the feds do this stupid shit. Do the feds think the "enemy" can't go to the local bookstore and pay cash for these books? What fucking planet am I on anyway, this is too stupid.
Ah, but to pay cash at the bookstore would be to engage in the capitalist process - surely no dangerous communist would do such a thing. Now, borrowing from a library, that there is real commie-like.
My personal favoriate variation on the theme is from Andy Helms. It's not very well organized, just a bunch of them on a single large page, but they're quite hilarious. From the beginning of "S T E A L T H":
Basically xXx meets Team America: World Police only funnier
So like, in the near future there is this elite force of hotshot supersmart jet pilots who fight terrorists. They are very awesome and elite!!!
MAVERICK LOOSE CANNON: ALRIGHT TEAM IT IS GO TIME
LOVE INTREST: MISSLES AND STUFF
OSCAR AWARD WINNER JAMIE FOX: WOO
*** EXPLOSIONS AND SWEET MOTIONS BLURS EVERYWHERE ***
BUZZCUT ELITE TEAM COMMANDER: HAHA JUST A TRAINING EXERCISE BUT EVEN SO THAT WAS STILL VERY EXTREME COME BACK TO BASE YOU HOTSHOT AWESOME PIOLTS JESUS I CANNOT GET OVER HOW ELITE YOU ARE
Sure! I had one as my.plan file on my university account for somewhere a little under a year. Eventually I changed it, though... now it's just the complete comedies of Shakespeare (I got bored of copying and pasting before I got to the tragedies and histories).
You'd send hundred-year-old books overseas to be handled by extremely cheap (and poor) labourers? Are you operating under the assumption that once they're scanned, you won't need the originals any more?
I suspect there wasn't a lot of potential there in the first place. Pr0n is popular on computers, dvd players, and magazines in the bathroom, because they're available in the comfort of your own home. I don't know about the rest of you, but I doubt I'd load my iPod up with pr0n just for the convenience of stopping for a quick pull in a public restroom.
Expenses aren't even the biggest pain in the ass. You went to the same university as I did, you know how the bureaucracy is. Can you imagine them trying to come to an agreement on how to comply, and the IT people implementing it? Can you imagine them doing it in a way that wouldn't completely piss off all the/.-reading CPSC students even moreso than it already would?
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Alternatively, case sensitivity is the difference between "I helped my Uncle Jack off a horse" and "I helped my uncle jack off a horse."
They wanted to offer a new product, and bought a company to do so? Isn't that sort of a Microsoft thing?
I tell them to type a plain english question into Google because more often than not that turns up the right answer on the first page.
This is pretty close to the best technique, but not quite there. Googling for the question will find you pages with the question. Googling for as much of the answer as you can give works even better. Compare "what is the average rainfall in the amazon basin?" to "the average rainfall in the amazon basin is".
When do we say enough is enough and just stop this cancerous shrinkage? How small do transistors really have to be?!
At roughly the 10nm mark (if I recall correctly), at which point a MOSFET will no longer exhibit transistor-like behaviour due to quantum tunneling across the body.
Mike Oldfield's last cd, Light & Shade, was released with a couple tracks in "u-myx" format. You set up their software or something and then you can remix without even having to know tracking and 'real' mixing.
On the topic of misplaced connectors, I once got called in by the parents to look at a printer that wouldn't show up. I discovered that day that a USB plug will fit rather comfortably over 3 or 4 of the pins in a serial port.
I don't know how well that would work. Remember, the golden rule is pillage, then burn.
Here's my idea: Take the 'engineering' part of 'software engineering' seriously. Make it separate from computer science, just like math and physics are separate from mechanical and electrical engineering. Want to be a programmer? Take the engineering program, learn practical skills and methodology, and end up with a license to practice in the field with the requirement that you keep your skills up to date. Want to be a researcher, or work in the theoretical area? Take computer science, and learn less UML, more discrete math, and more interesting electives like AI and such. Just a thought.
No, but the thing that keeps it full of blood is. When that muscle starts to weaken, then you have a tough time keeping it up.
Of course, you'd be producing AC power. I suppose as long as he knew you were rectifying it before using it, he'd keep on spinning.
On the contrary... the best thing about having plenty of money is not having to worry about money any more.
Better still, if you can manage it, is to arrange your cubicle/office so that your face is towards the entrance, rather than some combination of your back and your screen full of pr0n^H^H^H^H confidential work stuff.
I'm not familiar with the Speed Demos Archive, but I do know that NESVideos (a similar site) only takes submissions in the form of emulator movies - basically a recorded set of inputs. They load it up with their own rom of the game (known to be good), and record the actual video from that.
...you were supposed to patch before an attack happened. I guess I was wrong.
How long until someone comes up with the genetic equivalent of a bootstrap program? Some sequence of DNA that can be tacked on to the end of whatever their current project is, a sequence that will take raw biological material (amino acids? proteins? This is where I say "disclaimer: I am not a biologist") and construct a simple cell capable of then reading the actual organism DNA and replicating it.
I've seen this too, and not even in a high-tech area. My dad runs a small retail establishment, formerly a hardware and building supplies store that has gradually evolved into a lighting showroom with a paint department. In the last 10 years or so, our city has seen Walmart, a giant Home Hardware, and other box stores come to town. Business for us is apparently better than ever - the big Home Hardware creates interest in things like home renovation projects simply by virtue of its visibility, but when people want a beautiful $500 stained-glass fixture for the dining room, guess where they go?
Are libraries like foreign agent and terrorist magnets? I mean, it's been all over the press for years that the feds do this stupid shit. Do the feds think the "enemy" can't go to the local bookstore and pay cash for these books? What fucking planet am I on anyway, this is too stupid.
Ah, but to pay cash at the bookstore would be to engage in the capitalist process - surely no dangerous communist would do such a thing. Now, borrowing from a library, that there is real commie-like.
It fails in just about every aspect of a game,and it is more of a rule playign game than role playing game. :/
And by that I mean everyone should really give d02 a try. Truly, it know no limit.
Claria is spyware! I have said it thrice:
What I tell you three times is true.
My personal favoriate variation on the theme is from Andy Helms. It's not very well organized, just a bunch of them on a single large page, but they're quite hilarious. From the beginning of "S T E A L T H":
Basically xXx meets Team America: World Police only funnier
So like, in the near future there is this elite force of hotshot supersmart jet pilots who fight terrorists. They are very awesome and elite!!!
MAVERICK LOOSE CANNON: ALRIGHT TEAM IT IS GO TIME
LOVE INTREST: MISSLES AND STUFF
OSCAR AWARD WINNER JAMIE FOX: WOO
*** EXPLOSIONS AND SWEET MOTIONS BLURS EVERYWHERE ***
BUZZCUT ELITE TEAM COMMANDER: HAHA JUST A TRAINING EXERCISE BUT EVEN SO THAT WAS STILL VERY EXTREME COME BACK TO BASE YOU HOTSHOT AWESOME PIOLTS JESUS I CANNOT GET OVER HOW ELITE YOU ARE
Sure! I had one as my .plan file on my university account for somewhere a little under a year. Eventually I changed it, though... now it's just the complete comedies of Shakespeare (I got bored of copying and pasting before I got to the tragedies and histories).
You'd send hundred-year-old books overseas to be handled by extremely cheap (and poor) labourers? Are you operating under the assumption that once they're scanned, you won't need the originals any more?
What happens to one of those tanks when you heat it rapidly?
This. Actually, that was just a pop bottle full. A proper tank full would be much more dramatic.
I suspect there wasn't a lot of potential there in the first place. Pr0n is popular on computers, dvd players, and magazines in the bathroom, because they're available in the comfort of your own home. I don't know about the rest of you, but I doubt I'd load my iPod up with pr0n just for the convenience of stopping for a quick pull in a public restroom.
Expenses aren't even the biggest pain in the ass. You went to the same university as I did, you know how the bureaucracy is. Can you imagine them trying to come to an agreement on how to comply, and the IT people implementing it? Can you imagine them doing it in a way that wouldn't completely piss off all the /.-reading CPSC students even moreso than it already would?