It's ok. We have a nice table with an integrated NEC 8000 for you to sit at. We even sprung for the sound dampening box for the daisy wheel printer for you.
I just can't bear it. I should... no... I could... Damn. Really irritates me that reference... don't know why but it makes me see blood. wait. that's the allergies, never mind. Carry on.
Done, that's all you need. Also, look up SLAPP and Anti-Slapp suit laws in your state. The above part of the US (C) code and SLAPP laws in CA are why my gripe site is still up. -nB
I tried to quote the relevant code, but the lameness filter doesent like legal text.
I do have kids. My oldest is in Kindergarten and already the questions about our educational system are in the forefront. The banned book list for the school district I live in is a who's who of great literary works... Black Boy Uncle Toms Cabin Catcher in the Rye To Kill a Mocking Bird etc. Along with slightly more understandable works (though I still believe they should not be banned): Marquis de Sade The Bible The Satanic Verses Balzac etc.
My children will be reading all these books (at the appropriate time in their educational development) and their book reports will be on these books, if that is what they want to write about, and if they are still in school. Should they find themselves suspended for having one of these books in their backpack, or for writing about them, or for presenting their reports on them, then I will bring a constitutional case of freedom of press and speech against the school district. Our education system has gone so downhill in the 16 or so years since I was in it that I am ashamed to be involved with the American educational system.
The problem is that to do it right it's going to be nearly a full time job doing research.
Yes, it will be. My wife has a multitude of degrees (focused in Social science/humanities) and I have a hard science and experimental background. We made the decision to be "poor" so that my wife can stay home with the kids and further their education because the school system simply is too broken to keep our daughter engaged. If we relied on the public schools entirely then she would be one of those high IQ kids with straight D's, simply because she would be bored to death.
Single biggest problem with the school system in the lower grades: Teaching to the slowest children in the class. The elephant in the corner are the state mandated tests. What should happen is that the class is taught to the grade level and the faster kids can advance mid semester and the slower kids can be held back. But that's not PC so it can't be allowed to happen. -nB
People look at me like I'm a friggen lepper when I say I don't shop at WalMart sans crisis.
Buying import crap (literal meaning) is almost unavoidable in some cases. In other cases you can find import crap (figurative) that is better made. I do try to buy American/Canadian especially for food products (often cheaper, always seasonal), and my art supplies tend to be from the UK or Germany. Where I do willingly stoop to Chinese knock-off quality is glassware for the kids chemistry set, and even then I buy the higher end. My personal glassware is all "proper" German and American glass. I try to buy at least American owned company computer components.
But to quit rambling: Country of origin is not always a choice, but is one often enough that the consumer *should* pay attention. In addition to steering money to American companies, often the build quality is so much better that you will not be needing to replace that POS a year or so down the road. (My German(?) built toaster is serviceable for contact wear, is your Chinese one? -nB
Seems simple for me really, I boot from SSD and all my files are on SSD. This is scratch disk for the gob of small reads and writes my system does (connected to some lab hardware), when a job is done it.tars and writes back to the SSD. I was going to re-write(engineer) the app to use memory caching but this would be simpler, and so is what I'm going to do. -nB
One of them is the garbage guy in the Dilbert strips... So that's two accounted for. I'm only the run of the mill bright guy. And kind of like Dilbert I seem to get stuck in situations that just, well, suck.
easy fix. make a dir where it will be caught by her backup scheme. populate it with recursive dirs 1 shy of the limit for the NTFS FS. Then she can make precisely 1 backup. the second attempt will fail. -nB
I hope you're being funny. If others knew what I make, I would get a pay cut. My pay has been negotiated between myself and management. There would be a brouhaha if others in similar, but less accountable, roles thought I was "paid too much" or some such.* My pay is not something I would want broadcast. Also, I would not want marketers to know my pay, nor family (aside from my spouse). -nB
* I say this who has worked their way up from the bottom, where I used to think I was mighty damn important, now I know my absolute value may be low but my relative value is higher. I don't expect others who are in the boat I was in to necessarily understand this, and would rather avoid the conflict.
SOAP over e-mail with MIME64 encoded messaging should work fine... Packet sequence can be in the SOAP header and the front end should be able to break messages into 512K chunks. Also in the SOAP request can be a CRC32 for validation. ACKs can be batched together so you know which packets have arrived, and which have been corrupted, then resend the missing, and corrupt packets. -nB
A project I was on in 2000ish went as follows: Steppings A0, A1, A2, and A3 were halted in-fab because someone found a critical bug in simulations. A4-A7 did not work. B0-B4 did not work B6 did not work C0-C4 did not work B5, B7, C5 sorta worked. The company folded. That's what a software mentality working on hardware will get you.
Steppings in CPUs are a little different. Often an earlier stepping was functional enough to start the design cycle for Dell HP, et.al. but not ideal. The later steppings start by fixing the deficiencies, then beyond that are likely cost cutting. -nB
such is assuming: The resistive load is in series with the bulb and that the dimmer is not a chopper or a transformer.
Funny, but I was at my mates house the other day and he had a four bulb chandelier on a dimmer... with CFL's. I started laughing like mad and explained to him why that was a horrible idea.
Shortly thereafter we replaced the four CFLs with two 75 watt incandescents. -nB
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I'd like to see a stable drop of gmail. then continue adding to the beta. I think it's mature enough for this, and I'd likely still use the beta.
-nB
It's ok.
We have a nice table with an integrated NEC 8000 for you to sit at. We even sprung for the sound dampening box for the daisy wheel printer for you.
dunno about that, but you made a new friend or two today. ;)
I just can't bear it. ...
I should
no...
I could...
Damn. Really irritates me that reference...
don't know why but it makes me see blood.
wait.
that's the allergies, never mind. Carry on.
I want to be +5 troll :-)
Wireless link is fairly valid if we're talking about 50'
High gain directional antenna on each building and you're good.
-nB
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=browse_usc&docid=Cite:+17USC107
Done, that's all you need.
Also, look up SLAPP and Anti-Slapp suit laws in your state. The above part of the US (C) code and SLAPP laws in CA are why my gripe site is still up.
-nB
I tried to quote the relevant code, but the lameness filter doesent like legal text.
So was I.
That's why we're doing this...
I do have kids.
My oldest is in Kindergarten and already the questions about our educational system are in the forefront.
The banned book list for the school district I live in is a who's who of great literary works...
Black Boy
Uncle Toms Cabin
Catcher in the Rye
To Kill a Mocking Bird
etc.
Along with slightly more understandable works (though I still believe they should not be banned):
Marquis de Sade
The Bible
The Satanic Verses
Balzac
etc.
My children will be reading all these books (at the appropriate time in their educational development) and their book reports will be on these books, if that is what they want to write about, and if they are still in school. Should they find themselves suspended for having one of these books in their backpack, or for writing about them, or for presenting their reports on them, then I will bring a constitutional case of freedom of press and speech against the school district. Our education system has gone so downhill in the 16 or so years since I was in it that I am ashamed to be involved with the American educational system.
The problem is that to do it right it's going to be nearly a full time job doing research.
Yes, it will be. My wife has a multitude of degrees (focused in Social science/humanities) and I have a hard science and experimental background. We made the decision to be "poor" so that my wife can stay home with the kids and further their education because the school system simply is too broken to keep our daughter engaged. If we relied on the public schools entirely then she would be one of those high IQ kids with straight D's, simply because she would be bored to death.
Single biggest problem with the school system in the lower grades: Teaching to the slowest children in the class. The elephant in the corner are the state mandated tests. What should happen is that the class is taught to the grade level and the faster kids can advance mid semester and the slower kids can be held back. But that's not PC so it can't be allowed to happen.
-nB
two words:
Directional antennas. Fairly easy to make the prison cells unavailable to phones not on the prison property.
-nB
smoke signals. As the prison burns to the ground, you can use a really big blanket to make smoke signals.
People look at me like I'm a friggen lepper when I say I don't shop at WalMart sans crisis.
Buying import crap (literal meaning) is almost unavoidable in some cases. In other cases you can find import crap (figurative) that is better made. I do try to buy American/Canadian especially for food products (often cheaper, always seasonal), and my art supplies tend to be from the UK or Germany. Where I do willingly stoop to Chinese knock-off quality is glassware for the kids chemistry set, and even then I buy the higher end. My personal glassware is all "proper" German and American glass. I try to buy at least American owned company computer components.
But to quit rambling:
Country of origin is not always a choice, but is one often enough that the consumer *should* pay attention. In addition to steering money to American companies, often the build quality is so much better that you will not be needing to replace that POS a year or so down the road. (My German(?) built toaster is serviceable for contact wear, is your Chinese one?
-nB
well eventually we'll roll over the googleplex counter for years...
I hereby summon badAnalogyGuy to make that car reference "better".
-nB
I'm doing twice as good as you. I know who my second level manager is! I don't know who's above that, but I think they're not even in my country.
-nB
Seems simple for me really, .tars and writes back to the SSD. I was going to re-write(engineer) the app to use memory caching but this would be simpler, and so is what I'm going to do.
I boot from SSD and all my files are on SSD. This is scratch disk for the gob of small reads and writes my system does (connected to some lab hardware), when a job is done it
-nB
One of them is the garbage guy in the Dilbert strips...
So that's two accounted for.
I'm only the run of the mill bright guy. And kind of like Dilbert I seem to get stuck in situations that just, well, suck.
you got code on your what?
easy fix. make a dir where it will be caught by her backup scheme. populate it with recursive dirs 1 shy of the limit for the NTFS FS. Then she can make precisely 1 backup. the second attempt will fail.
-nB
if the government bailout (or budget for that matter) was auto generated it would be better than the current scenario.
add to that:
fucking first amendment baby!
I hope you're being funny.
If others knew what I make, I would get a pay cut. My pay has been negotiated between myself and management. There would be a brouhaha if others in similar, but less accountable, roles thought I was "paid too much" or some such.*
My pay is not something I would want broadcast. Also, I would not want marketers to know my pay, nor family (aside from my spouse).
-nB
* I say this who has worked their way up from the bottom, where I used to think I was mighty damn important, now I know my absolute value may be low but my relative value is higher. I don't expect others who are in the boat I was in to necessarily understand this, and would rather avoid the conflict.
SOAP over e-mail with MIME64 encoded messaging should work fine...
Packet sequence can be in the SOAP header and the front end should be able to break messages into 512K chunks. Also in the SOAP request can be a CRC32 for validation.
ACKs can be batched together so you know which packets have arrived, and which have been corrupted, then resend the missing, and corrupt packets.
-nB
they cost a shit ton of money is what happened.
A project I was on in 2000ish went as follows:
Steppings A0, A1, A2, and A3 were halted in-fab because someone found a critical bug in simulations.
A4-A7 did not work.
B0-B4 did not work B6 did not work
C0-C4 did not work
B5, B7, C5 sorta worked.
The company folded.
That's what a software mentality working on hardware will get you.
Steppings in CPUs are a little different. Often an earlier stepping was functional enough to start the design cycle for Dell HP, et.al. but not ideal. The later steppings start by fixing the deficiencies, then beyond that are likely cost cutting.
-nB
such is assuming:
The resistive load is in series with the bulb
and that the dimmer is not a chopper or a transformer.
Funny, but I was at my mates house the other day and he had a four bulb chandelier on a dimmer... with CFL's. I started laughing like mad and explained to him why that was a horrible idea.
Shortly thereafter we replaced the four CFLs with two 75 watt incandescents.
-nB