flash on linux is a pain. I had a perfectly stable flash on a 64-bit opensuse 10.3 system, until I wanted to install a codecs package, where the opensuse installer was nice enough to update the flash version as well, with which I get the same problems as the ask-slashdot poster. Every 10th flash application kills "npviewer.bin". Actually, why can't I just restart the flash plugin from firefox without having to shut firefox down?
I could try to reinstall flash, if I just knew what I should remove, what was the original version, and where in the name of the linux overlord I should put the copies/links to the flash player. This sounds easy, but is actually quite a frustrating task.
On my EEE flash happily moves along, and I am taking great care to avoid "updating" it.
It is pretty normal that companies outsource the technology that is not their core competence. It makes economic sense to have your engineers work on innovative tech instead of old tech.
Yeah, he actually earns a living by being more economy-efficient in fixing your windows problems than the official microsoft helpdesk.
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C++ is not per se a bad choice. For one thing, it is easier to get a job if you know C++, compared to just C.
And it doesn't have to be slow: In a HPC-course, one of the lecturers made clear that you can get fast code in C if you program it like you would program fortran code. Similarly you can get fast code in C++ if you program like you would program in C (and thus fortran). In short: treat everything in your main loop as a vector.
Of course, if instead you base your main loop on reading data from and to objects, you might as well write your code in bash, from a performance point of view.
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damn, someone beat me to it! I should hurry with my 2D particle MD code in powerpoint native visual basic then. Advantage is that it will do your visualization as well.
I moved from holland to germany, and you can't really compare. Germany is a bit too easy on employers, with the idea that "the more jobs stay in germany the better" . This does not consider that these jobs should also pay enough to live from, and is easily misused by employers. Germany has no minimum-wage, and plans to change that are only progressing very slowly. At the higher end of the scale, consultants often get no-overtime contracts. Instead you get other benefits, a relatively high starting salary + fancy company car, and it's up to you to decide if it's worth it.
You are so very right. Several of the higher-ranked scientific journals don't accept articles that contain claims of novelty. I think phys rev lett is an example. Because that's just not the way science works, it is based upon an incremental increase of understanding.
As for the rest, 4.4 million is about enough to have a team of about 10 low paid scientists work for 3 years (not just the salary, at least half goes to administrative overhead anyway). Good for them, of course, but hardly a major project.
Well to be true I wrote that _pretending_ to be girl would get you e-mail, not per se being a girl;)
Anyway, since e-mailing is for old Koreans only, I instead replied to your blog.
as for the personals. Just pretend to be a girl and you'll get mail all by itself. From the 1% that isn't too shy to mail a girl, that is.
on-topic: just talk to your favorite professors. It's the most likely way to succeed, especially when they already have contacts to US companies. If you want to figure it out all by yourself, then, well, good luck with that.
Very good point! I am afraid VIA suffers some very bad timing here. I (by accident) bought a VIA C3 in about 2002, which turned out to be able to work with just a northbridge heat sink, yay for passive cooling!. In a time where most CPUs needed a noisy fan to stay working, they were the masters of low power CPUs. Problem is: at that time, not many people were looking for low power CPUs.
Currently the low power market is booming because of the netbooks, but frankly the via cloudbook and its rebranded cousins are just plain ugly, whereas intel was able to pump enough money in the development of the atom to have it integrated into the netbooks with higher potential (asus, dell). Via really has to catch up with the game here (or what about amd, any chance of an amd netbook?), because at the moment, they are just keeping up, but that's about it. It'd be a shame to see another chipmaker disappear.
3D printers create by default quite brittle objects, as it is lots of little dots of plastic glued together. To get a resistant plastic copy you should make a mold and then compress plastic inside of it.
The forces on a key when turning can be quite high, that's why also thin sheet metal doesn't work here. Credit cards however can resist bending forces quite well. I've never seen a shrinky dink but I guess it's the same story.
My mother who is a teacher had the same, about 20 years ago. Due to some other external factors, she ended up completely overworked and ended up on sick compensation for what should have been the last 20 years of her teaching career. Which is a shame, because she loves teaching to kids. The work atmosphere that she described to me was exactly like what you describe, colleagues shitting about how much they "do" for school, after work meetings at 7 o'clock in the evening, etc. For an elementary school! I hope your wife can find a way to limit this shit and manages to say no when they ask the things she doesn't want to. In my case, part of it was actually a nice thing, because I was a 11 year old kid on the same school and was driving home with her so had to wait a few hours every week. And one of the teachers had his own PC lap with Apple Macintoshes, Texas instruments, MSX, ZX81, and a few C64s. I didn't play much outside;)
according to your logic, people that never committed euthanasia should keep their mouth shut about euthanasia discussions. other examples may apply as well.
real wtf: 30+ characters in the password? So no one will remember it and anyone can just check the sticky notes. The amount of bad logins must also be interesting out there.
Just for fun, use the "new powerpoint presentation from template" option. It's like you're in 1995 all over again. Can't they put some designer on this and clean it up a bit? At every new MS Office version I check again, and I don't think they ever updated the templates.
You are totally correct, it was my fault for already forgetting that Poland etc. were former soviet states:) In a creepy way, also Belarus is an exception, because it is still -in theory- communistic.
Smartsuite came with the aptiva I bought in 1996, and I had to fresh up my memory, but the infoboxes had two big advantages: first look at the pictures. You see a drop-down box, which actually means that all infoboxes are available from your current infobox. And there is no frikkin OK/Cancel/Preview button, what you do is what happens, if you don't like it, you change it back.
Another nice thing was that the equations where editable with both buttons and some latex-like text. Lotus Wordpro really was way better than microsoft word, I used it as long as I had win95/win98, despite having to convert to and from microsoft formats every now and then.
I recently tried the Symphony package IBM is trying to push, but the installation procedure hurts, and the program itself is just a bit better looking openoffice interface. Even though openoffice isn't the usability nightmare it used to be, it is still at least a bad dream, because it's trying too much to copy MS Office. It drives me nuts! I have a nice assignment: make a table in openoffice, and use the page return to put it at the start of the next page, later on, try to undo it. Change the font of the automatic page number field in the footer, save as rtf/doc, close, reopen. In a table, type a weblink in a table, press enter to make it a weblink, have it be left-lined-out. Afterwards, delete it. Now delete the whitespace sign that still has the link property, if you manage to select it.
And why can we never just write tabs in a table?
Really, not the meme, just look at former soviet states. As soon as all government employees (or better: everyone) got laid off after the communist system collapsed, a lot of military equipment ended up just going to the highest bidder, energy plants and other vital parts went to the now-billionaires who were smart enough to reserve their own spot in the new system. Most former sovjet states are still having a hard time because of this.
Either find a competent provider that already has the tools to do backups preinstalled. Or catch up on your (your technician's) system administration skills, If you have a serious business at your website, you should know what you are doing. The same goes for carpentry or someone who owns a car shop. You just don't get your money for nothing, you know.
Some years ago I subscribed to an IBM mailing list, just to see if anything interesting was on it. My subscribe e-mail had a link to the unsubscribe page on a server, all later e-mails didn't. That already isn't a very good way of doing it. Last month I wanted to get rid of it, searched for my first e-mail, followed the link, 404 error. By being so sloppy with their mailing list practices, there is no better way then using the "this is spam" link.
Other example: my Gmail address is apparently very equal to the ones of some philippinan users and I get many subscribe e-mails and invites to mailing list that are popular in that community. Of course I never confirm those things, but in the case of Multiply "Secure and family friendly social networking", I got not only signed up without having to confirm, I also had no way to unsubscribe, and got all of a sudden a lot of e-mail from that multiply user's friends. I had it forwarded to the spambox. Then after a while, I got the mail from the "forgot password" button, and out of curiosity found that I could indeed log in with this. These are pretty amazingly bad internet practices, I contacted the site owner and actually got a reply back, apparently they had deliberately chosen to have users be able to log in for the first few weeks without them having to confirm their e-mail address. Web 2.0: the same mistakes all over again, but with new paint.
in no way can, or even should, yahoo check if one of their millions of users at some website clicked a button to receive e-mail, or even if they pressed the accept link on the subsequent confirmation e-mail (or went to a website and clicked the confirmation link there).
Also, including unsubscribe headers into an e-mail does not make it legit, as others pointed out, this is something many spammers include too.
Either yahoo should turn up their threshold for identifying spam from the amount of users clicking "this is spam", or this guy has been the subject of a malicious attack.
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flash on linux is a pain. I had a perfectly stable flash on a 64-bit opensuse 10.3 system, until I wanted to install a codecs package, where the opensuse installer was nice enough to update the flash version as well, with which I get the same problems as the ask-slashdot poster. Every 10th flash application kills "npviewer.bin". Actually, why can't I just restart the flash plugin from firefox without having to shut firefox down?
I could try to reinstall flash, if I just knew what I should remove, what was the original version, and where in the name of the linux overlord I should put the copies/links to the flash player. This sounds easy, but is actually quite a frustrating task.
On my EEE flash happily moves along, and I am taking great care to avoid "updating" it.
It is pretty normal that companies outsource the technology that is not their core competence. It makes economic sense to have your engineers work on innovative tech instead of old tech.
close, but no cigar
Welcome to the country of unlimited possibilities ... ... to get ripped off!
Really, both the H1-B Visa holders and US employees are at a loss here.
Yeah, he actually earns a living by being more economy-efficient in fixing your windows problems than the official microsoft helpdesk.
C++ is not per se a bad choice. For one thing, it is easier to get a job if you know C++, compared to just C.
And it doesn't have to be slow: In a HPC-course, one of the lecturers made clear that you can get fast code in C if you program it like you would program fortran code. Similarly you can get fast code in C++ if you program like you would program in C (and thus fortran). In short: treat everything in your main loop as a vector.
Of course, if instead you base your main loop on reading data from and to objects, you might as well write your code in bash, from a performance point of view.
damn, someone beat me to it! I should hurry with my 2D particle MD code in powerpoint native visual basic then. Advantage is that it will do your visualization as well.
I moved from holland to germany, and you can't really compare. Germany is a bit too easy on employers, with the idea that "the more jobs stay in germany the better" . This does not consider that these jobs should also pay enough to live from, and is easily misused by employers. Germany has no minimum-wage, and plans to change that are only progressing very slowly. At the higher end of the scale, consultants often get no-overtime contracts. Instead you get other benefits, a relatively high starting salary + fancy company car, and it's up to you to decide if it's worth it.
You are so very right. Several of the higher-ranked scientific journals don't accept articles that contain claims of novelty. I think phys rev lett is an example. Because that's just not the way science works, it is based upon an incremental increase of understanding.
As for the rest, 4.4 million is about enough to have a team of about 10 low paid scientists work for 3 years (not just the salary, at least half goes to administrative overhead anyway). Good for them, of course, but hardly a major project.
Well to be true I wrote that _pretending_ to be girl would get you e-mail, not per se being a girl ;)
Anyway, since e-mailing is for old Koreans only, I instead replied to your blog.
http://jobs.slashdot.org/
as for the personals. Just pretend to be a girl and you'll get mail all by itself. From the 1% that isn't too shy to mail a girl, that is.
on-topic: just talk to your favorite professors. It's the most likely way to succeed, especially when they already have contacts to US companies. If you want to figure it out all by yourself, then, well, good luck with that.
Very good point! I am afraid VIA suffers some very bad timing here. I (by accident) bought a VIA C3 in about 2002, which turned out to be able to work with just a northbridge heat sink, yay for passive cooling!. In a time where most CPUs needed a noisy fan to stay working, they were the masters of low power CPUs. Problem is: at that time, not many people were looking for low power CPUs.
Currently the low power market is booming because of the netbooks, but frankly the via cloudbook and its rebranded cousins are just plain ugly, whereas intel was able to pump enough money in the development of the atom to have it integrated into the netbooks with higher potential (asus, dell). Via really has to catch up with the game here (or what about amd, any chance of an amd netbook?), because at the moment, they are just keeping up, but that's about it. It'd be a shame to see another chipmaker disappear.
3D printers create by default quite brittle objects, as it is lots of little dots of plastic glued together. To get a resistant plastic copy you should make a mold and then compress plastic inside of it. The forces on a key when turning can be quite high, that's why also thin sheet metal doesn't work here. Credit cards however can resist bending forces quite well. I've never seen a shrinky dink but I guess it's the same story.
My mother who is a teacher had the same, about 20 years ago. Due to some other external factors, she ended up completely overworked and ended up on sick compensation for what should have been the last 20 years of her teaching career. Which is a shame, because she loves teaching to kids. The work atmosphere that she described to me was exactly like what you describe, colleagues shitting about how much they "do" for school, after work meetings at 7 o'clock in the evening, etc. For an elementary school! I hope your wife can find a way to limit this shit and manages to say no when they ask the things she doesn't want to. In my case, part of it was actually a nice thing, because I was a 11 year old kid on the same school and was driving home with her so had to wait a few hours every week. And one of the teachers had his own PC lap with Apple Macintoshes, Texas instruments, MSX, ZX81, and a few C64s. I didn't play much outside ;)
according to your logic, people that never committed euthanasia should keep their mouth shut about euthanasia discussions. other examples may apply as well.
real wtf: 30+ characters in the password? So no one will remember it and anyone can just check the sticky notes. The amount of bad logins must also be interesting out there.
Just for fun, use the "new powerpoint presentation from template" option. It's like you're in 1995 all over again. Can't they put some designer on this and clean it up a bit? At every new MS Office version I check again, and I don't think they ever updated the templates.
You are totally correct, it was my fault for already forgetting that Poland etc. were former soviet states :) In a creepy way, also Belarus is an exception, because it is still -in theory- communistic.
Another nice thing was that the equations where editable with both buttons and some latex-like text. Lotus Wordpro really was way better than microsoft word, I used it as long as I had win95/win98, despite having to convert to and from microsoft formats every now and then.
I recently tried the Symphony package IBM is trying to push, but the installation procedure hurts, and the program itself is just a bit better looking openoffice interface. Even though openoffice isn't the usability nightmare it used to be, it is still at least a bad dream, because it's trying too much to copy MS Office. It drives me nuts! I have a nice assignment: make a table in openoffice, and use the page return to put it at the start of the next page, later on, try to undo it. Change the font of the automatic page number field in the footer, save as rtf/doc, close, reopen. In a table, type a weblink in a table, press enter to make it a weblink, have it be left-lined-out. Afterwards, delete it. Now delete the whitespace sign that still has the link property, if you manage to select it. And why can we never just write tabs in a table?
damn you, now I have to look at the movie.
Really, not the meme, just look at former soviet states. As soon as all government employees (or better: everyone) got laid off after the communist system collapsed, a lot of military equipment ended up just going to the highest bidder, energy plants and other vital parts went to the now-billionaires who were smart enough to reserve their own spot in the new system. Most former sovjet states are still having a hard time because of this.
Either find a competent provider that already has the tools to do backups preinstalled. Or catch up on your (your technician's) system administration skills, If you have a serious business at your website, you should know what you are doing. The same goes for carpentry or someone who owns a car shop. You just don't get your money for nothing, you know.
Some years ago I subscribed to an IBM mailing list, just to see if anything interesting was on it. My subscribe e-mail had a link to the unsubscribe page on a server, all later e-mails didn't. That already isn't a very good way of doing it. Last month I wanted to get rid of it, searched for my first e-mail, followed the link, 404 error. By being so sloppy with their mailing list practices, there is no better way then using the "this is spam" link.
Other example: my Gmail address is apparently very equal to the ones of some philippinan users and I get many subscribe e-mails and invites to mailing list that are popular in that community. Of course I never confirm those things, but in the case of Multiply "Secure and family friendly social networking", I got not only signed up without having to confirm, I also had no way to unsubscribe, and got all of a sudden a lot of e-mail from that multiply user's friends. I had it forwarded to the spambox. Then after a while, I got the mail from the "forgot password" button, and out of curiosity found that I could indeed log in with this. These are pretty amazingly bad internet practices, I contacted the site owner and actually got a reply back, apparently they had deliberately chosen to have users be able to log in for the first few weeks without them having to confirm their e-mail address. Web 2.0: the same mistakes all over again, but with new paint.
in no way can, or even should, yahoo check if one of their millions of users at some website clicked a button to receive e-mail, or even if they pressed the accept link on the subsequent confirmation e-mail (or went to a website and clicked the confirmation link there).
Also, including unsubscribe headers into an e-mail does not make it legit, as others pointed out, this is something many spammers include too.
Either yahoo should turn up their threshold for identifying spam from the amount of users clicking "this is spam", or this guy has been the subject of a malicious attack.
The famous physicist Lifshitz comes to mind. But then again, dick-headed people like this aren't likely to ever encounter his work .