While some things about programming are scientific such as the math behind the code, innovation is very much a form of art. Doing the same old thing over and over doesn't require much creativity, but comming up with a new project and finishing it takes a decent amount of art and intuition. New problems are just that - new, and new problems require at least some form of innovation.
I usually hit the chocolate covered espresso beans. I generally kept a tin in my pack. It's really amusing when your profs hit you up for a fix on occasion (they didn't like the 8am classes any more than I did since we both got up at about 5:30 or 6 for them. heh)
"The type-bar system and the universal keyboard were the machine's novelty, but the keys jammed easily. To solve the jamming problem, another business associate, James Densmore, suggested splitting up keys for letters commonly used together to slow down typing. This became today's standard "QWERTY" keyboard. "
With that said, we may or may not be at a standoff. *shrugs*
The qwerty keyboard was actually made in order to slow down the typing speeds of the time. People who did a great deal of typing had learned the layout of the old keyboards so well that they actually typed faster than the machines could keep up. What you look at as a standard now was orgionally made in order to screw people up because machines were expensive and people were cheap. Now it is largely the other way around.
Oh, so you have seen missives from my former boss? heh
I think a great deal of the problem is that people often write (type) the way that they speak, and, you have to admit that the majority of people do not have wonderful spoken skills.
Just remember that very little is concrete. You can negotiate almost anything with an employer (within reason). The biggest part of it is both knowing that and having the courage to ask about your complaints instead of just taking it as it exists on the paper in front of you. They may accept your alterations, or they might not. After that, it's up to you wether you want to sign it or not.
Even things which end badly often have the potential for great good. An idea can be a wonderful thing (it can also be a negative one). Where it really gets judged is in the execution of said idea (which it shouldn't always).
Remember the old saying about the path paved with good intentions?
I don't know. I've seen several blue screens on 2k (and a couple on xp if I remember correctly). Granted, I was dealing with about 150 computers, but I can say that while they are not as common as they were with 9x they do still happen.
They asked me to do that sort of thing not because "I love to hack" but because they knew I was capable of it. My father's friend was a cop and taught me a few things of that sort. Between him, some of my family, and my father's other friends, my childhood was spent gathering um interesting knowledge. heh
How is this so weird? Most Muslim conquests in history were for wealth, knowledge, and the spead of faith. Take over a city, collect a tithe from the inhabitants, govern well, and watch your wealth grow. It paid better (and was a lot more productive) than razing a town and just taking what was there.
Don't forget that they were the most advanced people in the western world for a very long time because they protected knowledge and resources instead of destroying them. They've been very aware of, and participated actively in, the secular world since Islam was started.
As a bit of background, I worked around people from all over the world at my last job (which I held for 4 years while I was in college). In addition to the students and staff employees from Africa that I got to know there, i knew several from on campus as well as my time in other locations.
As far as their English is concerend, a lot of them did pretty well (The ones from Egypt especially. Some of them could be mistaken for natives on the phone without any trouble). Some of them, however, were difficult to understand and one or two of them nearly impossible (they talked far too fast and ran half of their words together).
Overall, however, language wasn't much of a barrier. The thing to remember is that it depends not only on the person speaking but also on the person listening. People who are used to a wide variety of accents and manners of speech will usually have an easier time understanding forigen speakers.
The frightening thing is that I'm only 24 and all of the above apply. I still have nostalgic thoughts of the bridge in Adventure and i don't own an x-box (the last consol I bought was an nes, though i do own a gba. After that I got too busy to sit for hours on end and play a video game most of the time heh)
The reason ms hated our license is partially because it extended past university computers. Any student or staff member could get free copies of the software (office, windows, and several other packages including visual studio) for personal use at several locations in the university by walking up and asking for it. The ones that they couldn't just give away were usually about $5-10 per copy.
Microsoft made sure part of that was revoked when the license came up for renewal about a year ago. Since I know the people who were in charge of those negotiations, I can safely say that ms really wanted out of part of the previous agreement.
I saw lots of hands working at sun workstations. The were the machine of choice for our programming labs at my uni. There were probably 4 or 5 sun labs and only one or two windows ones.
and this was at a university who had a software lic agreement with microsoft that ms reallllly wanted to get out of.
Shotgun shells can have that problem because the case isn't very strong. With metal casings, it's less of a problem.
It's like dealing with most other types of explosives - the shape of the thing holding the charge matters because it can help focus the charge (a small tube can work wonders. Of course, it's possible to make a claymore style mine out of the contents of a few shotgun shells, a can, and an improvised trigger mechanism as well. Just be careful about static discharge.). Though for many gurellia applications for materials like this, it's at close range so it's not as much of an issue as you would think (doors, under seats, etc. It doesn't necessarily need the full effect of all of the powder in order to cause the intended damage).
And to be honest, yes, I have tried some of the things they taught me while they were there. I learned the joy of things that go boom at an early age - both from them and from my great grandfather (who was an explosives man for the railroads in this area). I had the opportunity to play with lots of things from explosives to blades. It was an interesting childhood.
"Bullets are only dangerous if you shoot them from a gun. Duh."
Don't think outside the box much do you? Bullets can be used in many ways not involving a gun. The only requirement is that something detonates the primer cap on the back end of the shell or that the powder is otherwise set off. A great many traps can be made from shells and other things you find around (like nails and mouse traps). Even tossing a box of shells in a fire at a place where you need a distraction or wide spread confusion or mayhem as you get out of range can work quite well. This is what I get for growing up around a couple of ex special forces people.
Slashdot Mirror
heheheh. Look at it this way, the senility dulls the pain :P
you weren't looking at the uid, but rather the post number....
;)
relax, you don't have to feel so old
While some things about programming are scientific such as the math behind the code, innovation is very much a form of art. Doing the same old thing over and over doesn't require much creativity, but comming up with a new project and finishing it takes a decent amount of art and intuition. New problems are just that - new, and new problems require at least some form of innovation.
I usually hit the chocolate covered espresso beans. I generally kept a tin in my pack. It's really amusing when your profs hit you up for a fix on occasion (they didn't like the 8am classes any more than I did since we both got up at about 5:30 or 6 for them. heh)
Looking online, I found refrences to both answers (several of each, actually). I'll list one for the other side along with the relevant information-
t yp ewriter.htm
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl
"The type-bar system and the universal keyboard were the machine's novelty, but the keys jammed easily. To solve the jamming problem, another business associate, James Densmore, suggested splitting up keys for letters commonly used together to slow down typing. This became today's standard "QWERTY" keyboard. "
With that said, we may or may not be at a standoff. *shrugs*
The qwerty keyboard was actually made in order to slow down the typing speeds of the time. People who did a great deal of typing had learned the layout of the old keyboards so well that they actually typed faster than the machines could keep up. What you look at as a standard now was orgionally made in order to screw people up because machines were expensive and people were cheap. Now it is largely the other way around.
Oh, so you have seen missives from my former boss? heh
I think a great deal of the problem is that people often write (type) the way that they speak, and, you have to admit that the majority of people do not have wonderful spoken skills.
Just remember that very little is concrete. You can negotiate almost anything with an employer (within reason). The biggest part of it is both knowing that and having the courage to ask about your complaints instead of just taking it as it exists on the paper in front of you. They may accept your alterations, or they might not. After that, it's up to you wether you want to sign it or not.
Even things which end badly often have the potential for great good. An idea can be a wonderful thing (it can also be a negative one). Where it really gets judged is in the execution of said idea (which it shouldn't always).
Remember the old saying about the path paved with good intentions?
I don't know. I've seen several blue screens on 2k (and a couple on xp if I remember correctly). Granted, I was dealing with about 150 computers, but I can say that while they are not as common as they were with 9x they do still happen.
It's pretty bad when slashdot gets slashdotted.
Sort of like a group lobying to get poker made an olympic sport? Bad thing is that they aren't kidding.
They asked me to do that sort of thing not because "I love to hack" but because they knew I was capable of it. My father's friend was a cop and taught me a few things of that sort. Between him, some of my family, and my father's other friends, my childhood was spent gathering um interesting knowledge. heh
I don't know. Most of the ones I've seen weren't that hot :P
And I really dislike being able to type my response faster than the 20 seconds it requires me to wait before submitting heh
Show me the way to go ::1
I'm tired and I wanna go to b:e::d
I don't agree with everything he says, but here's the bio from his homepage:
http://www.paulgraham.com/bio.html
Oh, I think that it shows IP protection spurs innovation - right to places that don't have it. :P
How is this so weird? Most Muslim conquests in history were for wealth, knowledge, and the spead of faith. Take over a city, collect a tithe from the inhabitants, govern well, and watch your wealth grow. It paid better (and was a lot more productive) than razing a town and just taking what was there.
Don't forget that they were the most advanced people in the western world for a very long time because they protected knowledge and resources instead of destroying them. They've been very aware of, and participated actively in, the secular world since Islam was started.
This is just another way of doing it.
As a bit of background, I worked around people from all over the world at my last job (which I held for 4 years while I was in college). In addition to the students and staff employees from Africa that I got to know there, i knew several from on campus as well as my time in other locations.
As far as their English is concerend, a lot of them did pretty well (The ones from Egypt especially. Some of them could be mistaken for natives on the phone without any trouble). Some of them, however, were difficult to understand and one or two of them nearly impossible (they talked far too fast and ran half of their words together).
Overall, however, language wasn't much of a barrier. The thing to remember is that it depends not only on the person speaking but also on the person listening. People who are used to a wide variety of accents and manners of speech will usually have an easier time understanding forigen speakers.
Your solution, while it helps mechanized units, doesn't really help the foot soldiers stuck out there with nothing but their gear.
The frightening thing is that I'm only 24 and all of the above apply. I still have nostalgic thoughts of the bridge in Adventure and i don't own an x-box (the last consol I bought was an nes, though i do own a gba. After that I got too busy to sit for hours on end and play a video game most of the time heh)
The reason ms hated our license is partially because it extended past university computers. Any student or staff member could get free copies of the software (office, windows, and several other packages including visual studio) for personal use at several locations in the university by walking up and asking for it. The ones that they couldn't just give away were usually about $5-10 per copy.
Microsoft made sure part of that was revoked when the license came up for renewal about a year ago. Since I know the people who were in charge of those negotiations, I can safely say that ms really wanted out of part of the previous agreement.
I saw lots of hands working at sun workstations. The were the machine of choice for our programming labs at my uni. There were probably 4 or 5 sun labs and only one or two windows ones.
and this was at a university who had a software lic agreement with microsoft that ms reallllly wanted to get out of.
Shotgun shells can have that problem because the case isn't very strong. With metal casings, it's less of a problem.
It's like dealing with most other types of explosives - the shape of the thing holding the charge matters because it can help focus the charge (a small tube can work wonders. Of course, it's possible to make a claymore style mine out of the contents of a few shotgun shells, a can, and an improvised trigger mechanism as well. Just be careful about static discharge.). Though for many gurellia applications for materials like this, it's at close range so it's not as much of an issue as you would think (doors, under seats, etc. It doesn't necessarily need the full effect of all of the powder in order to cause the intended damage).
And to be honest, yes, I have tried some of the things they taught me while they were there. I learned the joy of things that go boom at an early age - both from them and from my great grandfather (who was an explosives man for the railroads in this area). I had the opportunity to play with lots of things from explosives to blades. It was an interesting childhood.
"Bullets are only dangerous if you shoot them from a gun. Duh."
Don't think outside the box much do you? Bullets can be used in many ways not involving a gun. The only requirement is that something detonates the primer cap on the back end of the shell or that the powder is otherwise set off. A great many traps can be made from shells and other things you find around (like nails and mouse traps). Even tossing a box of shells in a fire at a place where you need a distraction or wide spread confusion or mayhem as you get out of range can work quite well. This is what I get for growing up around a couple of ex special forces people.