That would make an excellent "the onion" article:)
In other news: If I apply for a position and get a reply for a prospective boss or coworker, I check to see what kind of person it is. Before applying I look on the companies website to see if they have pages with current employees. These are put there for a reason. Working is all about having a good fit between you and your colleagues. If you are a more conservative tie-and-suit person, and you find that your prospective boss is a pot-smoking hippie according to his myspace page, you might want to reconsider your application. Actually, if your prospective boss has a myspace page, there is probably reason to be alarmed. It also works the other way around. I am actually happy if someone at a company I applied checked my page, because that shows that they have a social interest in me.
Indeed! I have been looking around for general computer/natural science related jobs, and Matlab is the #1 in demand. Most likely university has a campus-wide matlab license, (it should!). The teaching experience you gain will do you a lot of good if you are looking for a job later on. You could use the computer hardware you have to run calculations etc, as a testing ground.
If on the other hand you are religiously against using/teaching licensed software, why not take control over some orphaned but useful open source project. Or start your own. Make sure it is an interesting software so you can get fellow students enthusiastic about it. To stay in the Matlab field: you could work on numpy, perl::pdl, or add modules to gnu-octave. If that's too boring, why not make your own 3D animations, or programmable interactive robots, as a teaching project for students. Depends a bit on the background and interests of the people in your group at the moment.
Another idea: start an online platform for freelance projects for students. Try to get local companies involved. Students can get their first work experience, you get a lot of organizational and communication skills. As a student group you are probably not allowed to have the group make a profit from using campus facilities, so if you will calculate a provision you have to make sure you invest it in students parties:)
btw my pentium 100 aptiva from 1996 could do this. IBM rapidstart or something, it worked flawlessly. IBM seems like a slowly progressing company, but sometimes they hit the nail just right, ages before anyone else does. On a similar note: Please bring back lotus wordpro, big blue!
I saw a documentary about John Harrison, what he did was just that, making a precise clock no matter the conditions it is in. By using wood, of all things! This carpenter son, just created the thing that was needed to know the exact relative location of any point on earth. Quite a respectable feat by this nerd-avant-la-lettre, and that honor is done to him certainly belongs on slashdot.
Brave guy, your grandfather. There are two things, though. One is, it may be a better idea to create a compulsory fitness test, to estimate the driving safety of a person. If you have lost more sight than can be compensated by glasses, it might not be smart for you to be on the road. The other is, there should be a viable alternative. If giving up your driver's license means not getting anywhere but your home, you will most likely do all you can to keep it. Spending some research on viability checks of alternatives to individual transport of the elderly might not be a bad idea.
I am living in Germany, and recently saw a very interesting german tv program about older drivers. Currently there is no law concerning the age of drivers. The producer of the program, who was about 60, showed his mother, 80, driving around his grandmother, of 100 years old. His grandmother still had a valid driver's license, written in the old-style german font!!! "just for emergencies". He convinced his grandmother to turn in her driver's license, and his mother to do a voluntary test of sight and reaction times. She was quite fit, so passed the test.
Why is this a problem in Germany, a country with a pretty decent public transport system? The elderly are most often those who stay in the villages deep in the country. As small shops close, local doctors merge to a big medical center in a town nearby, they will have to move increasingly large distances as they get older. Financially it is possible only to have about 1-2 buses per day. There are special cheaper taxi services, with long waiting times however.
If I remember correctly, he mentioned that in 10-20 years, more than 50% of all drivers will be above 60. They will need private transportation, and they will need specialized guidance systems to not make them as dangerous as 20 year old drivers, where the elderly often have the more freaky accidents, making u-turns on the autobahn for example. This will require developments of automation that I am currently a bit skeptical about, but there is no other way. As others mentioned, having more displays, beeps, and warning messages will create more reasons to panic and not mind the road, and is therefore not the way to go.
the mojave ads irritated the crap out of me, and very possibly everybody else. The seinfeld ads were at least amusing in an absurd kind of way, and avoided mentioning any painful issues that come with Vista or windows. Actually, I found them quite positive and they probably have subconsciously made me feel less suspicious of Microsoft.
Actually out of her fear of being subpoenaed, she potentially endangers state affairs by bringing them out in the open, which happens when you use a public e-mail account for it. Since we, the public, are supposed not to mind privacy invasion because "if you're doing nothing wrong, there's no reason to be alarmed", then the same should count for the ones governing the public,
Would have modded that up:) Anyway, it is an idea, encrypt your answer to those messages! Probably better to remember than the bogus stuff I write there now.
What is worst about those questions is that often you are FORCED to fill in something. Why would I want to deliver myself to easy social engineering? Can't we just get an option, "I'm not dumb, skip the stupid questions and just send a new password to the following e-mail address, if so requested:"
While that may work for java, I find google has generally become self-referencing when it comes to code problems: Often the first few results are forums with the same question you had, but only "helpful" answers like "did you use google?", completely useless. Clean up your ranking algorithm, google! And people on forums should be at least a bit more helpful. The person in question most likely did use google, and giving a hint of where to go look for doesn't hurt;)
What I especially liked is that the same Trojan becomes "illegal" if used by someone else than the police.
Unfortunately, since the German minister of Interior is a paranoid, and the rest of the government is a flock of sheep, actions like this are currently tried to be "legalized" under the german "law. Fortunately there is a http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Karlsruhe-laesst-kaum-Raum-fuer-heimliche-Online-Durchsuchungen--/meldung/104134">high court (german website) that can have a final vote in such matters if a new law is disputed, but there is a lot of pressure to continue with those privacy-intruding measures in any possible way.
And can anyone point me to a bit torrent of an actual Miley Cyrus CD instead of garbage binaries?
Indeed. If I want to search for ball bearings, I want google to first give me the search result of a real ball bearing producer or store. Not have to click additional links to ad-ridden garbage pages that might eventually lead me to a ball bearing producer (or not).
Google should be busy optimizing their product (which is views by users who also click on advertisements). This guy is making money from a google algorithm, if it changes for the better, he should change with it. Where is the big deal.
yeah, here I am, reading on my ssd-based cheap asus that its internals won't make sense for the next two years. Doesn't anyone think of the netbooks? And for anyone claiming a netbook isn't a laptop: I am using my EEE as my main machine, for the same things people use laptops for. Writing e-mails, making presentations, writing documents, watching movies.
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Microsoft has to have "friendly protection", because that is how they got their monopoly. As soon as they start doing full checks, they will lose marketshare, especially now that Apple/Linux competition is clearly present and market-ready. From an open-source promoting point of view, the more they start nagging, the better.
Could we pass a law that every country that falls back to these methods adds "democratic republic" or "people's republic" to their country's name? That has helped us recognize them previously. Sad thing is that most countries should change their name then, the way things are currently going.
For the hotel owner it's probably nothing more than a choice between attractiveness of the hotel, and the liability for lawsuits, in the case someone find a carcinogenic in the hotel (not too difficult, could be a non-optical smoke alarm) in case there was no warning sign.
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I don't see why you are so obsessed with knowing someone's face, but I did some googling and found an interview with her. She's the one on the left, if you didn't notice that.
That is because at that store the strawberries are sold only in 500g packages, and are not at all in the database.
There are two solutions to this:
1. enter the 500g strawberries in the database put output on the screen that these things need not be weighed.
2. Have a PR-department that has not only a sense of aesthetics (strawberries look good on pictures), but also have a clue about what they are doing. Why would you put a picture of your new machine behaving faultily in a press release!!!!
Depends on the store. In germany they often do it at checkout, also probably at aldi in switzerland. At one particularly annoying store in germany (edeka), you have to type in a 3-digit number at the scale. So you spend a lot of time looking for the place where you got your fruit or vegetable, remembering the number, going back.
These "smart" scales have been around for more than a year now at some Real,- stores, and if they are supposed to intelligently learn, they are apparently still not doing a very good job. Still, anything beats the number system.
Market research shows that 0% of all java users currently use browser java-plugins on 64 bit machines, so why bother;)
If the ask-slashdot thread about flash is right and there is really only one linux developer for the flash plugin, and that one works* on 64 bit installs, then I wonder how many developers there are for the java plugin. Either 0 or more than 100.
* if correctly installed, just how to install it is another point.
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In other news: If I apply for a position and get a reply for a prospective boss or coworker, I check to see what kind of person it is. Before applying I look on the companies website to see if they have pages with current employees. These are put there for a reason. Working is all about having a good fit between you and your colleagues. If you are a more conservative tie-and-suit person, and you find that your prospective boss is a pot-smoking hippie according to his myspace page, you might want to reconsider your application. Actually, if your prospective boss has a myspace page, there is probably reason to be alarmed. It also works the other way around. I am actually happy if someone at a company I applied checked my page, because that shows that they have a social interest in me.
If on the other hand you are religiously against using/teaching licensed software, why not take control over some orphaned but useful open source project. Or start your own. Make sure it is an interesting software so you can get fellow students enthusiastic about it. To stay in the Matlab field: you could work on numpy, perl::pdl, or add modules to gnu-octave. If that's too boring, why not make your own 3D animations, or programmable interactive robots, as a teaching project for students. Depends a bit on the background and interests of the people in your group at the moment.
Another idea: start an online platform for freelance projects for students. Try to get local companies involved. Students can get their first work experience, you get a lot of organizational and communication skills. As a student group you are probably not allowed to have the group make a profit from using campus facilities, so if you will calculate a provision you have to make sure you invest it in students parties :)
btw my pentium 100 aptiva from 1996 could do this. IBM rapidstart or something, it worked flawlessly. IBM seems like a slowly progressing company, but sometimes they hit the nail just right, ages before anyone else does. On a similar note: Please bring back lotus wordpro, big blue!
I saw a documentary about John Harrison, what he did was just that, making a precise clock no matter the conditions it is in. By using wood, of all things! This carpenter son, just created the thing that was needed to know the exact relative location of any point on earth. Quite a respectable feat by this nerd-avant-la-lettre, and that honor is done to him certainly belongs on slashdot.
Brave guy, your grandfather. There are two things, though. One is, it may be a better idea to create a compulsory fitness test, to estimate the driving safety of a person. If you have lost more sight than can be compensated by glasses, it might not be smart for you to be on the road. The other is, there should be a viable alternative. If giving up your driver's license means not getting anywhere but your home, you will most likely do all you can to keep it. Spending some research on viability checks of alternatives to individual transport of the elderly might not be a bad idea.
Why is this a problem in Germany, a country with a pretty decent public transport system? The elderly are most often those who stay in the villages deep in the country. As small shops close, local doctors merge to a big medical center in a town nearby, they will have to move increasingly large distances as they get older. Financially it is possible only to have about 1-2 buses per day. There are special cheaper taxi services, with long waiting times however.
If I remember correctly, he mentioned that in 10-20 years, more than 50% of all drivers will be above 60. They will need private transportation, and they will need specialized guidance systems to not make them as dangerous as 20 year old drivers, where the elderly often have the more freaky accidents, making u-turns on the autobahn for example. This will require developments of automation that I am currently a bit skeptical about, but there is no other way. As others mentioned, having more displays, beeps, and warning messages will create more reasons to panic and not mind the road, and is therefore not the way to go.
the mojave ads irritated the crap out of me, and very possibly everybody else. The seinfeld ads were at least amusing in an absurd kind of way, and avoided mentioning any painful issues that come with Vista or windows. Actually, I found them quite positive and they probably have subconsciously made me feel less suspicious of Microsoft.
Actually out of her fear of being subpoenaed, she potentially endangers state affairs by bringing them out in the open, which happens when you use a public e-mail account for it. Since we, the public, are supposed not to mind privacy invasion because "if you're doing nothing wrong, there's no reason to be alarmed", then the same should count for the ones governing the public,
What is worst about those questions is that often you are FORCED to fill in something. Why would I want to deliver myself to easy social engineering? Can't we just get an option, "I'm not dumb, skip the stupid questions and just send a new password to the following e-mail address, if so requested:"
Just for fun, try the exact same post in a topic about Bill Gates and Microsoft, see what response you get ;)
While that may work for java, I find google has generally become self-referencing when it comes to code problems: Often the first few results are forums with the same question you had, but only "helpful" answers like "did you use google?", completely useless. Clean up your ranking algorithm, google! And people on forums should be at least a bit more helpful. The person in question most likely did use google, and giving a hint of where to go look for doesn't hurt ;)
Unfortunately, since the German minister of Interior is a paranoid, and the rest of the government is a flock of sheep, actions like this are currently tried to be "legalized" under the german "law. Fortunately there is a http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Karlsruhe-laesst-kaum-Raum-fuer-heimliche-Online-Durchsuchungen--/meldung/104134">high court (german website) that can have a final vote in such matters if a new law is disputed, but there is a lot of pressure to continue with those privacy-intruding measures in any possible way.
For all we know (which is nothing, Windows being closed-core): it could be hard-coded in the kernel. Would it surprise you if it was?
Indeed. If I want to search for ball bearings, I want google to first give me the search result of a real ball bearing producer or store. Not have to click additional links to ad-ridden garbage pages that might eventually lead me to a ball bearing producer (or not).
Google should be busy optimizing their product (which is views by users who also click on advertisements). This guy is making money from a google algorithm, if it changes for the better, he should change with it. Where is the big deal.
if the badger would have been dead, he could have installed linux on it
yeah, here I am, reading on my ssd-based cheap asus that its internals won't make sense for the next two years. Doesn't anyone think of the netbooks? And for anyone claiming a netbook isn't a laptop: I am using my EEE as my main machine, for the same things people use laptops for. Writing e-mails, making presentations, writing documents, watching movies. -
Microsoft has to have "friendly protection", because that is how they got their monopoly. As soon as they start doing full checks, they will lose marketshare, especially now that Apple/Linux competition is clearly present and market-ready. From an open-source promoting point of view, the more they start nagging, the better.
For most of the things you mention, I am not sure if the lack of comprehension is the fault of the British you talk to.
Could we pass a law that every country that falls back to these methods adds "democratic republic" or "people's republic" to their country's name? That has helped us recognize them previously. Sad thing is that most countries should change their name then, the way things are currently going.
It's a lot of money, about one third of an average netbook, which is a fully working computer with OS preinstalled.
For the hotel owner it's probably nothing more than a choice between attractiveness of the hotel, and the liability for lawsuits, in the case someone find a carcinogenic in the hotel (not too difficult, could be a non-optical smoke alarm) in case there was no warning sign.
I don't see why you are so obsessed with knowing someone's face, but I did some googling and found an interview with her. She's the one on the left, if you didn't notice that.
That is because at that store the strawberries are sold only in 500g packages, and are not at all in the database. There are two solutions to this: 1. enter the 500g strawberries in the database put output on the screen that these things need not be weighed. 2. Have a PR-department that has not only a sense of aesthetics (strawberries look good on pictures), but also have a clue about what they are doing. Why would you put a picture of your new machine behaving faultily in a press release!!!!
Depends on the store. In germany they often do it at checkout, also probably at aldi in switzerland. At one particularly annoying store in germany (edeka), you have to type in a 3-digit number at the scale. So you spend a lot of time looking for the place where you got your fruit or vegetable, remembering the number, going back.
These "smart" scales have been around for more than a year now at some Real,- stores, and if they are supposed to intelligently learn, they are apparently still not doing a very good job. Still, anything beats the number system.
Market research shows that 0% of all java users currently use browser java-plugins on 64 bit machines, so why bother ;)
If the ask-slashdot thread about flash is right and there is really only one linux developer for the flash plugin, and that one works* on 64 bit installs, then I wonder how many developers there are for the java plugin. Either 0 or more than 100.
* if correctly installed, just how to install it is another point.