How long does it take from start to finish to write a terabyte of uncompressed digital video? If you need to improve that dimension, the price goes up steeply.
I have a friend who runs the booth equipment that does titles on sports events, with the NFL games being the biggest gig. The thing that strikes me about it is how low-tech the process really is. The stats data is available for pretty much the entire history of the league, and they can pull up whatever they want, but beyond that it's really simple, a director says what they want in the headset and the operator looks it up, and it gets displayed in whatever format was defined in the couple of hours they have to set up before the game. It's a required skill for the operators to be able to anticipate what's going to be requested, and mistakes just plain don't happen, if you want to ever sit in that chair again.
It really is pretty cool to watch, but it's also very obvious that it's a stressful job, the bosses are uniformly complete a-holes, and it's such a specialized skillset that it doesn't translate to *any* other profession.
No, they always seem to be waiting for someone else to start the revolution for them. When someone actually does fire the first shot for them, they don't follow through, they just brand them as crazies and continue on in their cowardice.
There's not a federal law against it, outside the secure areas. The laws of the state and/or municipality apply to those areas. At the Tucson airport you can carry loaded firearms openly, and concealed with a permit, in the parking areas and in all the business areas except bars.
This is true but when the airports are in places where guns can be carried legally, you don't have to put it into the locked case until you are handing it over to the baggage handlers. You can go anywhere at Tucson International or Phoenix Sky Harbor with a sidearm on your belt, right up to the checkpoint.
Handguns are allowed in my local airport right up to the entrance to the security checkpoint. You can carry openly, with a sidearm on your hip or whatever, or concealed. If you are traveling with a firearm you don't have to put it in the case until you are at the baggage desk, and even if you do, you still have to remove it to show them that it's not loaded and that ammunition is in a separate case. But you can have it loaded and on your hip right up to that point.
The courses where you learn these concepts come *long* before getting CS degree, although I don't expect anyone but a CS or CIS or CSE or a math major to actually take such a course.
3-SAT is typically the first case you consider, as soon as you get past the stage of deterministic finite automata and learning about what is and what is not computable. Then you get into classification of algorithms before you start the heavy analysis.
According to the book I used in the dark ages (Garey/Johnson ISBN 0-7167-1045-5)
3SAT is 3-SATISFIABILITY INSTANCE: Collection C = {c[1], c[2],..., c[m]) of clauses on a finite set U of variables such that |c[i]| = 3 for 1 <= i <= m. QUESTION: Is there a truth assignment for U that satisfies all the clauses in C?
The standard proof that this result is NP-complete is pretty simple, which is why to claim otherwise is so astounding.
I'm disappointed with the comments where we go straight from 3SAT to "omg crypto iz broked!!!11!"
I'd be very impressed if someone took the 3SAT result, mapped it onto 3-Dimensional Matching ("3DM", also known as The Optimal Marriage Problem) or Vertex Cover or some other elementary set that is assumed (proven!) NP-complete.
The article doesn't bother to explain to a non-SCII player what is so special about the mod. I've played WoW, but not SCII, so I can't tell from the video what's "mod" and what's stock.
The outrage should be directed toward himself. Finding himself in a position where he is unable to negotiate based on the situation in TFA is largely if not entirely his own responsibility. At mid-career, why don't you have something like a significant ownership stake in the business? Sufficient that if you walked away it would be detrimental to the operation? Why isn't George, at this juncture of a long established career tenure, financially secure enough to negotiate with his walking feet as a primary tool?
The reason is almost certainly because he is in deeply in debt, has very little savings, and has made little or no effort to correct that problem over the years.
If walking away from a job means a significant investment walks with you, you don't get treated like George.
If you have enough assets that you could spend 6 months to a year comfortably looking for a new job, you also won't get treated like George, or at least if you did, you'd have no real qualms about walking away.
George's problem is he's stuck in a position where his boss has a superior negotiating position, and this is sadly all too common.
My list is actually possible in reality. Go ahead with your plan, if you happen to actually have the power of the Force, though.
Some people, if pressed, would not even be able to put an approximate number on "a year of living expenses" because they haven't even considered making a budget, ever. Some people seem to not even grasp the concept of having zero debt, or regard the idea as ridiculous on its face.
>last 5 characters of driver's license - okay question probably
Horrible question. For many people that is one more digit than the "last 4" of their social security number, which has become one of the keys to the store for banking.
>street you lived on when you were 8
Another one where I have honestly no idea and not even a good way to find out. Someone who lived in one single place might know this answer, but if you moved around a lot, or are old enough to have forgotten, this is just awful.
>This is only generally true for public companies.
That was his point. Private company stock is only valuable if you hold a majority stake or if you have a binding contract separate from the stock that establishes a value for your stock.
I hope he raises the insanity defense and is successful, and gets his death penalty "reduced" to life without parole as a result. I hope this, because I honestly believe that life in prison is a far more severe punishment than execution. This is especially true because it's pretty obvious to me that he was on a suicide mission in the first place. I think he intended to kill as many people as he could, creating as much chaos as he could, and then either shoot himself or be shot by cops. Being interrupted before he was even 1/3 of the way through his killing spree and then surviving was not in his plan.
I hope he lives a very, very long life, in the least comfortable prison in Arizona.
It's important to establish that he knew what he was planning was wrong, and that he has the cognitive ability to distinguish "right" from "wrong" in a way that reasonable people understand it. I do not believe this will be a problem in his case.
There is another element. The federal case against him depends in part on his knowledge that the judge he shot was a judge. If he did know that he was assassinating a judge, the federal prosecution can seek a federal death penalty. They want to prosecute him under 18 U.S.C. 1114, but in order to do that, they need to either show that the judge was at the event on official business (which he probably was not), or (gray area!) that the shooter had intent to stop that judge from conducting official business.
None of this will matter much, because it's the state of Arizona that will prosecute him for murdering the 9 year old child, a slam dunk death penalty case in a state where the insanity defense will, at best, take the death penalty off the table in return for life without parole -- and in Arizona for an infamous child killer that will amount to a death penalty at the hands of another inmate while the wardens look away.
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How long does it take from start to finish to write a terabyte of uncompressed digital video?
If you need to improve that dimension, the price goes up steeply.
I have a friend who runs the booth equipment that does titles on sports events, with the NFL games being the biggest gig.
The thing that strikes me about it is how low-tech the process really is. The stats data is available for pretty much the entire history of the league, and they can pull up whatever they want, but beyond that it's really simple, a director says what they want in the headset and the operator looks it up, and it gets displayed in whatever format was defined in the couple of hours they have to set up before the game. It's a required skill for the operators to be able to anticipate what's going to be requested, and mistakes just plain don't happen, if you want to ever sit in that chair again.
It really is pretty cool to watch, but it's also very obvious that it's a stressful job, the bosses are uniformly complete a-holes, and it's such a specialized skillset that it doesn't translate to *any* other profession.
>Nothing is going to happen.
I'm taking a long position on natural resources. It might be a mistake but I'm willing to risk it.
Those things could conceivably be consideration for a contract, if only the other elements of a contract were present.
>Oh and I can't help noticing the description about D&D is reminiscent of ANY organization.
And "any organization" is exactly in the category of things that I would expect to be forbidden in a prison environment.
When I am Overlord, my prisons will also be run under the premise that there is one and only one Organization in which the inmates may participate.
No doubt someone they hired after dropping a thousand resumes of qualified applicants on the floor.
No, they always seem to be waiting for someone else to start the revolution for them. When someone actually does fire the first shot for them, they don't follow through, they just brand them as crazies and continue on in their cowardice.
There's not a federal law against it, outside the secure areas. The laws of the state and/or municipality apply to those areas. At the Tucson airport you can carry loaded firearms openly, and concealed with a permit, in the parking areas and in all the business areas except bars.
This is true but when the airports are in places where guns can be carried legally, you don't have to put it into the locked case until you are handing it over to the baggage handlers. You can go anywhere at Tucson International or Phoenix Sky Harbor with a sidearm on your belt, right up to the checkpoint.
>There are very few cases of wolf attacks - but it does happen
I take it you can document an unprovoked attack on a human by a wolf in the wild? One single incident in all of recorded history?
Handguns are allowed in my local airport right up to the entrance to the security checkpoint. You can carry openly, with a sidearm on your hip or whatever, or concealed. If you are traveling with a firearm you don't have to put it in the case until you are at the baggage desk, and even if you do, you still have to remove it to show them that it's not loaded and that ammunition is in a separate case. But you can have it loaded and on your hip right up to that point.
>Yes. And a PhD before posting. Didn't you read the T&Cs?
First year, second semester undergrad discrete math topics are hardly "PhD level"...
The courses where you learn these concepts come *long* before getting CS degree, although I don't expect anyone but a CS or CIS or CSE or a math major to actually take such a course.
3-SAT is typically the first case you consider, as soon as you get past the stage of deterministic finite automata and learning about what is and what is not computable. Then you get into classification of algorithms before you start the heavy analysis.
According to the book I used in the dark ages (Garey/Johnson ISBN 0-7167-1045-5)
3SAT is ..., c[m]) of clauses on a finite set U of variables such that |c[i]| = 3 for 1 <= i <= m.
3-SATISFIABILITY
INSTANCE: Collection C = {c[1], c[2],
QUESTION: Is there a truth assignment for U that satisfies all the clauses in C?
The standard proof that this result is NP-complete is pretty simple, which is why to claim otherwise is so astounding.
I'm disappointed with the comments where we go straight from 3SAT to "omg crypto iz broked!!!11!"
I'd be very impressed if someone took the 3SAT result, mapped it onto 3-Dimensional Matching ("3DM", also known as The Optimal Marriage Problem) or Vertex Cover or some other elementary set that is assumed (proven!) NP-complete.
The article doesn't bother to explain to a non-SCII player what is so special about the mod.
I've played WoW, but not SCII, so I can't tell from the video what's "mod" and what's stock.
The outrage should be directed toward himself. Finding himself in a position where he is unable to negotiate based on the situation in TFA is largely if not entirely his own responsibility. At mid-career, why don't you have something like a significant ownership stake in the business? Sufficient that if you walked away it would be detrimental to the operation? Why isn't George, at this juncture of a long established career tenure, financially secure enough to negotiate with his walking feet as a primary tool?
The reason is almost certainly because he is in deeply in debt, has very little savings, and has made little or no effort to correct that problem over the years.
If walking away from a job means a significant investment walks with you, you don't get treated like George.
If you have enough assets that you could spend 6 months to a year comfortably looking for a new job, you also won't get treated like George, or at least if you did, you'd have no real qualms about walking away.
George's problem is he's stuck in a position where his boss has a superior negotiating position, and this is sadly all too common.
My list is actually possible in reality. Go ahead with your plan, if you happen to actually have the power of the Force, though.
Some people, if pressed, would not even be able to put an approximate number on "a year of living expenses" because they haven't even considered making a budget, ever. Some people seem to not even grasp the concept of having zero debt, or regard the idea as ridiculous on its face.
Make fun of me all you want, Jedi.
This, and many similar workplace situations:
1. Have zero debt.
2. Have, in a money market account, distinct from your investments, one year of your carefully budgeted living expenses.
When these two conditions are true, conversations with your boss will tend to take a very different tone from most people's expectations.
>last 5 characters of driver's license - okay question probably
Horrible question. For many people that is one more digit than the "last 4" of their social security number, which has become one of the keys to the store for banking.
>street you lived on when you were 8
Another one where I have honestly no idea and not even a good way to find out. Someone who lived in one single place might know this answer, but if you moved around a lot, or are old enough to have forgotten, this is just awful.
>So pitiful that it'd make a Gomez Addam's toy train wreck seem epic.
But, that *is* epic, by *any* standard!
I need new glasses because I totally read that wrong.
And on the fifth month you got a bonus check that put you into semi-retirement?
Otherwise why did you do it?
Did your hourly rate actually work out better than food service?
Apples to oranges, the cab driver is not being asked to work that shift without compensation.
>This is only generally true for public companies.
That was his point. Private company stock is only valuable if you hold a majority stake or if you have a binding contract separate from the stock that establishes a value for your stock.
I hope he raises the insanity defense and is successful, and gets his death penalty "reduced" to life without parole as a result. I hope this, because I honestly believe that life in prison is a far more severe punishment than execution. This is especially true because it's pretty obvious to me that he was on a suicide mission in the first place. I think he intended to kill as many people as he could, creating as much chaos as he could, and then either shoot himself or be shot by cops. Being interrupted before he was even 1/3 of the way through his killing spree and then surviving was not in his plan.
I hope he lives a very, very long life, in the least comfortable prison in Arizona.
It's important to establish that he knew what he was planning was wrong, and that he has the cognitive ability to distinguish "right" from "wrong" in a way that reasonable people understand it. I do not believe this will be a problem in his case.
There is another element. The federal case against him depends in part on his knowledge that the judge he shot was a judge. If he did know that he was assassinating a judge, the federal prosecution can seek a federal death penalty. They want to prosecute him under 18 U.S.C. 1114, but in order to do that, they need to either show that the judge was at the event on official business (which he probably was not), or (gray area!) that the shooter had intent to stop that judge from conducting official business.
None of this will matter much, because it's the state of Arizona that will prosecute him for murdering the 9 year old child, a slam dunk death penalty case in a state where the insanity defense will, at best, take the death penalty off the table in return for life without parole -- and in Arizona for an infamous child killer that will amount to a death penalty at the hands of another inmate while the wardens look away.