Interesting idea, but I think you're off an order of magnitude... the Earth's (human) population is roughly 6.4 billion (as of 2/13/05 at 23:15:33 GMT anyway) , not trillion (yet).
There's always hydrofluoric acid for etching true glass side panel insets (cover the entire glass with a thin layer of candle wax, scrape away the wax cleanly from areas you want eteched, wash away the acid carefully, melt/scrape away the remaining wax). Here's at least one site with more info.
Of course all the appropriate warnings apply as to the caustic nature of acids, fumes, potential for damage to clothes, skin, etc... Oh, and don't try this on plastic/metal.
If you had an optimizing compiler you could do stuff like make 1 == 2 because the constant value 1 was mapped to the same memory location for all instances and if you passed the constant into a function then you change the constant value inside the function
This was really possible using HP's Fortran under RTE-IVB on an HP1000 computer circa early 1980's. The set-up was (with appropriate line indentations not shown).
Interesting read and I can't agree more (speaking as a mid-40's year old former software engineer then manager). It's definitely hard to devote the necessary time in IT toward keeping up with changing technology and business practices while simultaneously devoting more time to family and community activities.
I can empathize. I'm now in my mid-40's, and prior to changing careers I spent about 15 years in the IT industry, mostly working on defense-related projects primarily using Fortran, C, and VAX assembly languages. This was a time when computer languages were fairly "stable" and you could "rely" on jobs that needed skills in these languages (or Cobol) for several years. I kept on the "leading edge" by going to graduate school part-time for MS/PhD in CS and used "esoteric" languages when/where I could (when Ada, Modula II, etc were "brand new"). These days, it seems there are dozens of programming languages, and new "significant" ones or must-have packages arriving on the scene daily. I can't imagine what trying to "keep up" is like in today's IT world.
I transitioned from being a programmer to manager without difficulty since I still did a majority of design and some of the implementation. But I could see the proverbial handwriting on the wall and not wishing to be a full-time, meeting attending, budget-watching manager, I changed careers. As others have commented, once you reach a certain age/experience/salary level, you almost certainly will be promoted and the job will change (different kinds of and not-so-fun headaches). Before you get too frustrated in a new position, consider options already mentioned here such as changing careers.
Well, take some comfort in knowing that only a small percentage of kids are born on their actual due date. A due date is simply calculated as 280 days from the first day of a woman's last known menstrual period (LMP), but anytime after 37-38 weeks is considered full-term and kids aren't late until after 41-42 weeks (based on LMP). So that gives basically a 3-5 week "window". And by the way, congratulations.
I don't necessarily agree with everything you had to say, but you stated your opinion very well. While I have my own opinion about the Georgia textbook sticker, I can see why the some odd 2000+ parents felt compelled to ask for its inclusion.
I recently ran into this with my 14 year old daughter who lives with her mom. We were visiting an old waterfall in Canada and one of the exhibits stated something was on the order of several million years old. My daughter, brought up in a private church-affiliated school, had no concept of how that could be since the bible doesn't teach in terms of the earth being that old. I had to take a few moments and a step back to understand her thinking, and I hope she gave dad (much more "scientifically" oriented) at least half that amount to understand my viewpoint.
It's not my number I put in silly, that's the sad part.
I didn't think you'd put your own social security number on/., but I am wondering how many people in general will. You don't really need clever phishing schemes when so many people probably give away information without needing to be duped.
And wait, just how many people out there are going to voluntarily submit their social security number and email address to a website they know nothing about????
Actually, anyone can be pre-med... it's doing well on the MCAT and having good enough grades that gets you into medical school. But that aside, everyone makes dumb mistakes once in awhile. I thought the article was well-written, and while it pushes the limits of credibility, I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Re-reading your post, perhaps I do come these days from too much of a Windows background and tend to think the "extended ASCII" characters or HTML ISO Latin-1 set is universal. I'll concede.
Okay, well nothing is always that obvious I suppose. While I agree completely that "standard" ASCII is generally used to mean the 7-bit binary values 0-127 and their graphic representations, today's programmers and most systems--whether right or wrong--understand what is meant by the terms 8-bit ASCII and extended-ASCII (in that the values are full eight-bit with special characters in the 128-255 range); for example, this link. I started computers when we didn't have extended sets and made "special" characters with "escape sequences" so standardized extended sets and/or unicode would have been welcomed. As more and more systems use unicode for extended character sets and foreign languages, the whole ASCII issue may someday disappear (along with all that "great" ASCII art). Back to someone's original comment, it's pretty easy to display a mu on most people's computer screens (though not necessarily in/. posts) through the ISO Latin-1 set (a superset to "standard ASCII").
Not to point out the obvious, but mu is part of one of the "extended ASCII character sets" corresponding to 230 (decimal). For example, on a Windows machine, go into Notepad and type alt-2, alt-3, alt-0 on the keypad. should result.
Thanks for "covering my poor parenting skills"... when/if you decide to become a parent someday, we'll see how you do "all by yourself". It really does take a community to raise a child, meaning children are not raised in isolation and need role models to determine what is and isn't proper social behavior. Free speech is okay, and it can usually be conducted in an educated, vulgar-free, fashion. There is no protection of vulgar or threatening speech.
It sounds like you'd be okay if I sat down in front of your parents or significant other and just started spewing forth a bunch of obscenities without regard to what they think or feel about listening. And if I followed them around wherever they went so that they couldn't escape, that would be okay too, right? All in the name of free speech. And it would be okay if I parked outside your bedroom door and blasted a stereo at nerve-deadening volumes, because hey, it's free speech? And if I wanted to advocate/solicit for your early demise, that would be alright as well, correct?
I suspect you wouldn't entertain your teachers/colleagues/parents/bosses with your vast repertoire of 4-letter words.
While there is little data available for aluminum based paints, there do not appear to be significant health risks at this time
Just ask the deodorant manufacturers about the potential link between their product and early-onset Alzheimer disease (the majority of such products include aluminum, one exception is Old Spice). Otherwise, we know aluminum is neurotoxic in animal models. I'm not saying there's a definite problem, but current studies have provided some controversial results (so what's new).
Or did I miss something? Herman Hollerith got a footnote in computer history books, but didn't get rich. Just goes to show that we all piggy back ideas off of others and the whole patent craziness going on needs some controls.
Ha, when I was a kid (in college) we sought out minicomputers such as HP1000's/Vaxen so we could play "Adventure" (predecessor to and basically like Zork). More fun if the system had an LA120 style printing terminal--helped with the damn twisty little paths and to boost one's score by minimizing steps.
Back when I worked in this field briefly, (?) mid-1980's (Turbo Pascal was the language if you can believe it), I quickly learned how inherently ambiguous (to use some of the vernacular in vogue then) spoken language truly is.
Well, I'm not quite sure why that warranted a troll since I was on-topic and expressed my opinion. When you moderate, you're supposed to judge posts by their content, not whether or not you agree with them. In the meantime, you may wish to scan my profile and search through all my postings on this topic and waste mod points mod'ing them all down.
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The link at reason.com was an interesting read, thanks.
Interesting idea, but I think you're off an order of magnitude... the Earth's (human) population is roughly 6.4 billion (as of 2/13/05 at 23:15:33 GMT anyway) , not trillion (yet).
There's always hydrofluoric acid for etching true glass side panel insets (cover the entire glass with a thin layer of candle wax, scrape away the wax cleanly from areas you want eteched, wash away the acid carefully, melt/scrape away the remaining wax). Here's at least one site with more info.
Of course all the appropriate warnings apply as to the caustic nature of acids, fumes, potential for damage to clothes, skin, etc... Oh, and don't try this on plastic/metal.
This was really possible using HP's Fortran under RTE-IVB on an HP1000 computer circa early 1980's. The set-up was (with appropriate line indentations not shown).
Running this would print out: 2 (instead of 1)Interesting read and I can't agree more (speaking as a mid-40's year old former software engineer then manager). It's definitely hard to devote the necessary time in IT toward keeping up with changing technology and business practices while simultaneously devoting more time to family and community activities.
I transitioned from being a programmer to manager without difficulty since I still did a majority of design and some of the implementation. But I could see the proverbial handwriting on the wall and not wishing to be a full-time, meeting attending, budget-watching manager, I changed careers. As others have commented, once you reach a certain age/experience/salary level, you almost certainly will be promoted and the job will change (different kinds of and not-so-fun headaches). Before you get too frustrated in a new position, consider options already mentioned here such as changing careers.
Well, take some comfort in knowing that only a small percentage of kids are born on their actual due date. A due date is simply calculated as 280 days from the first day of a woman's last known menstrual period (LMP), but anytime after 37-38 weeks is considered full-term and kids aren't late until after 41-42 weeks (based on LMP). So that gives basically a 3-5 week "window". And by the way, congratulations.
I haven't laughed so hard in quite awhile... thanks.
Words to spell, don't forget: privilege, knowledge. Both use to drive me crazy developing AI systems on VMS years ago.
I recently ran into this with my 14 year old daughter who lives with her mom. We were visiting an old waterfall in Canada and one of the exhibits stated something was on the order of several million years old. My daughter, brought up in a private church-affiliated school, had no concept of how that could be since the bible doesn't teach in terms of the earth being that old. I had to take a few moments and a step back to understand her thinking, and I hope she gave dad (much more "scientifically" oriented) at least half that amount to understand my viewpoint.
I didn't think you'd put your own social security number on /., but I am wondering how many people in general will. You don't really need clever phishing schemes when so many people probably give away information without needing to be duped.
And wait, just how many people out there are going to voluntarily submit their social security number and email address to a website they know nothing about????
Actually, anyone can be pre-med... it's doing well on the MCAT and having good enough grades that gets you into medical school. But that aside, everyone makes dumb mistakes once in awhile. I thought the article was well-written, and while it pushes the limits of credibility, I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Re-reading your post, perhaps I do come these days from too much of a Windows background and tend to think the "extended ASCII" characters or HTML ISO Latin-1 set is universal. I'll concede.
Okay, well nothing is always that obvious I suppose. While I agree completely that "standard" ASCII is generally used to mean the 7-bit binary values 0-127 and their graphic representations, today's programmers and most systems--whether right or wrong--understand what is meant by the terms 8-bit ASCII and extended-ASCII (in that the values are full eight-bit with special characters in the 128-255 range); for example, this link. I started computers when we didn't have extended sets and made "special" characters with "escape sequences" so standardized extended sets and/or unicode would have been welcomed. As more and more systems use unicode for extended character sets and foreign languages, the whole ASCII issue may someday disappear (along with all that "great" ASCII art). Back to someone's original comment, it's pretty easy to display a mu on most people's computer screens (though not necessarily in /. posts) through the ISO Latin-1 set (a superset to "standard ASCII").
Not to point out the obvious, but mu is part of one of the "extended ASCII character sets" corresponding to 230 (decimal). For example, on a Windows machine, go into Notepad and type alt-2, alt-3, alt-0 on the keypad. should result.
It sounds like you'd be okay if I sat down in front of your parents or significant other and just started spewing forth a bunch of obscenities without regard to what they think or feel about listening. And if I followed them around wherever they went so that they couldn't escape, that would be okay too, right? All in the name of free speech. And it would be okay if I parked outside your bedroom door and blasted a stereo at nerve-deadening volumes, because hey, it's free speech? And if I wanted to advocate/solicit for your early demise, that would be alright as well, correct?
I suspect you wouldn't entertain your teachers/colleagues/parents/bosses with your vast repertoire of 4-letter words.
fyi, Old Spice is aluminum free.
Just ask the deodorant manufacturers about the potential link between their product and early-onset Alzheimer disease (the majority of such products include aluminum, one exception is Old Spice). Otherwise, we know aluminum is neurotoxic in animal models. I'm not saying there's a definite problem, but current studies have provided some controversial results (so what's new).
Or did I miss something? Herman Hollerith got a footnote in computer history books, but didn't get rich. Just goes to show that we all piggy back ideas off of others and the whole patent craziness going on needs some controls.
Sounds informative/interesting. Whether it's accurate, someone else will have to decide.
Ha, when I was a kid (in college) we sought out minicomputers such as HP1000's/Vaxen so we could play "Adventure" (predecessor to and basically like Zork). More fun if the system had an LA120 style printing terminal--helped with the damn twisty little paths and to boost one's score by minimizing steps.
Back when I worked in this field briefly, (?) mid-1980's (Turbo Pascal was the language if you can believe it), I quickly learned how inherently ambiguous (to use some of the vernacular in vogue then) spoken language truly is.
noted, thanks... I should have looked it up first...
Well, I'm not quite sure why that warranted a troll since I was on-topic and expressed my opinion. When you moderate, you're supposed to judge posts by their content, not whether or not you agree with them. In the meantime, you may wish to scan my profile and search through all my postings on this topic and waste mod points mod'ing them all down.