> So, what matter's today? Knowledge on a particular technology or re-usable engineering skills ?
Well- knowledge of what's relevant today AND the ability to pick up new tech / tools fast for what's relevant tomorrow. Most of the tools all follow the same patterns at the end of the day:
e.g.
- Piping output / chaining commands (streams in js are hot right now- gulp.js for instance)
- Not repeating your self (polymorphism / extensibility) as a broad pattern
So if anything, the most important thing is the ability to teach yourself and keep up with what's changing. And sometimes that doesn't mean using it- for example, understanding why React JS and a virtual DOM may or may not be a better solution to what's going on with Angular / Ember / Backbone etc.
Been there done that... My problem was writing a function to generate phone number letter permutations. At least permutations are useful in "real life" and coincidentally working through them brought me to modulus as well. I couldn't answer the question and didn't get the job, but to be fair they gave me 10-15 minutes (or so it felt like).
Just fucking barely. I'm at the air races in Reno with a bunch of friends and a horrific accident just happened. One of the very high end racers, going about 500 mph, lost control and nose dived straight into the audience. The news is currently saying that the plane missed the grandstand, but that's only technically true: in front of the grandstand there are several rows of box seats. It impacted right in the middle of them. I was in a box seat with my friends only 50 feet from the impact. I was watching the plane as it lost control, so I saw the whole thing. The impact happened so fast, there was hardly any sound: just one huge shock wave. No fireball. The plane, and many people, disintegrated instantly, right in front of me. There were bodies everywhere. No crash you've ever seen in a movie is even remotely authentic.
Update: it's already on YouTube. I was in the middle of the dust cloud you see around the impact. They're saying "30 serious injuries" but I know that's a long way from the truth. At least that many died instantly in the impact. I suspect that there were not a huge number of serious injuries. It was not a small airplane. You either died or you didn't. I didn't. My brother and I are still shaking.
Another Update: They're now officially calling it a "mass casualty situation". The plane was Galloping Ghost, piloted by Jimmy Leeward. It was a very cool, highly modified, P51 mustang with a very unusual approach to engine cooling. I doubt that this was at all connected to the accident - it looked like a control system failure.
I think it's worth specifying that the wind screen becoming opaque wasn't from ash sticking to it, but was from the ash sand-blasting it. It had the same effect on the landing lights and with this incident happening at night, added yet another level of difficulty to the situation.
I'm not a lawyer but how do you not prove that they benefited by having OEMs sell the newer version of their software before allowing a downgrade path?
I think they feel that washing it gets rid of some of the flavor. IIRC, some people do that with pots and pans. Remind me not to eat food cooked in those again....
I am the son of an SLP here in the states and a patient of hers as well. This was a fortunate situation for me because I got good therapy and I had parents that were involved. No software will ever replace good therapy with a good therapist / pathologist.
That being said, there are video and board games to be used as therapy tools and they are all geared toward children from preschool through high school. I created a video game about a year ago for just this purpose. The games require the player to get a speech bubble which cues a visual and auditory stimulus, then the player should repeat the stimulus with their best effort. You can even use it with a microphone so that the game continues after you say the word. It does not, however, do any speech recognition, just merely detecting audio activity.
You can download a small demo (Flash projector, demo is Win only but the game is Win / Mac) at the website, http://www.2galsspeechproducts.com/
Feel free to contact me directly if needed. leetrout _at_ gmail _dot_ com
We have Share Point here at my office but my team doesn't use it because it is so hard to navigate. It is extremely difficult to figure out where you just posted something if you happen to stumble back to the main landing page.
I'm shocked to hear that anyone considers that package a "success". I, for one, will not be giving up on any OS tools / apps for SP.
Dick Natger from Goddard representing NASA said that most of the previous video footage was stored on video tapes, not telemetry tapes, and that yes it was a shame no one made any effort to note which tapes had the footage, but it was only 1 track on a 14 track tape that no one would normally expect to have video on anyway.
The AP reporter covering this also made that statement. The rep from Lowry Digital emphasized that they are merely a restoration house. Of course anyone who works with post production knows that all that software is like photoshop for video and they could do effects with it. But they assured us that they are working closely with NASA to 'not fix too much'.
1. Open up a new document.
2. Press F5.
3. Type in x97:L97 in the reference box and press enter.
4. Press tab.
5. Hold down ctrl+shift.
6. While holding these two buttons click on the chart wizard button on the icon bar (the button looks like a bar graph).
7. Play the game while it secretly crafts a worm to take the extra money when transactions are rounded (only a few hundredths of a cent) and deposits them in an offshore account.
8....?
9. PROFIT!
It still amazes me that one man's health makes such a news frenzy. If I didn't know any better I would expect him to be some large political figure... But I guess depending on your view, maybe he is.
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> So, what matter's today? Knowledge on a particular technology or re-usable engineering skills ?
Well- knowledge of what's relevant today AND the ability to pick up new tech / tools fast for what's relevant tomorrow. Most of the tools all follow the same patterns at the end of the day:
e.g.
- Piping output / chaining commands (streams in js are hot right now- gulp.js for instance)
- Not repeating your self (polymorphism / extensibility) as a broad pattern
So if anything, the most important thing is the ability to teach yourself and keep up with what's changing. And sometimes that doesn't mean using it- for example, understanding why React JS and a virtual DOM may or may not be a better solution to what's going on with Angular / Ember / Backbone etc.
Here's a photo of it. In the middle, kinda hard to make out http://f.cl.ly/items/1S2W2w3X0z13450i440Z/black.jpg
I'M A PEOPLE PERSON
Been there done that... My problem was writing a function to generate phone number letter permutations. At least permutations are useful in "real life" and coincidentally working through them brought me to modulus as well. I couldn't answer the question and didn't get the job, but to be fair they gave me 10-15 minutes (or so it felt like).
I'm alive
Friday September 16, 2011
Just fucking barely. I'm at the air races in Reno with a bunch of friends and a horrific accident just happened. One of the very high end racers, going about 500 mph, lost control and nose dived straight into the audience. The news is currently saying that the plane missed the grandstand, but that's only technically true: in front of the grandstand there are several rows of box seats. It impacted right in the middle of them. I was in a box seat with my friends only 50 feet from the impact. I was watching the plane as it lost control, so I saw the whole thing. The impact happened so fast, there was hardly any sound: just one huge shock wave. No fireball. The plane, and many people, disintegrated instantly, right in front of me. There were bodies everywhere. No crash you've ever seen in a movie is even remotely authentic.
Update: it's already on YouTube. I was in the middle of the dust cloud you see around the impact. They're saying "30 serious injuries" but I know that's a long way from the truth. At least that many died instantly in the impact. I suspect that there were not a huge number of serious injuries. It was not a small airplane. You either died or you didn't. I didn't. My brother and I are still shaking.
Another Update: They're now officially calling it a "mass casualty situation". The plane was Galloping Ghost, piloted by Jimmy Leeward. It was a very cool, highly modified, P51 mustang with a very unusual approach to engine cooling. I doubt that this was at all connected to the accident - it looked like a control system failure.
How long until someone makes an app for that? Shouldn't be hard to work up an antenna for i* 30 pin port...
Let me speed up the linkage...
His name is Kevin Lacy and his email is jklacy@ncdot.gov and his phone number is 919-773-2800. And now they will send someone after me for plagiarism.
Here is where you can send a comment directly: https://apps.dot.state.nc.us/contactus/PostComment.aspx?Unit=PIO
Now we need a list of all the instructions on how to build all of those... Or be really dedicated and reverse engineer it from still frames from the movies like this fella http://www.gizmag.com/home-built-dark-knight-batmobile/16736/
For what could be very stale subject matter Monty has done an excellent job of giving effective examples that engage and entertain.
I think it's worth specifying that the wind screen becoming opaque wasn't from ash sticking to it, but was from the ash sand-blasting it. It had the same effect on the landing lights and with this incident happening at night, added yet another level of difficulty to the situation.
I'm not a lawyer but how do you not prove that they benefited by having OEMs sell the newer version of their software before allowing a downgrade path?
I think they feel that washing it gets rid of some of the flavor. IIRC, some people do that with pots and pans. Remind me not to eat food cooked in those again....
FTFY
That's because 83% of statistics are made up on the spot.
He is AT LEAST 325, if not over 350 lbs. Look up some recent pictures of him. At least a size 48 pants.
I posted below... I've created exactly what you described without the speech recording / processing.
Check it out at http://www.2galsspeechproducts.com/
I am the son of an SLP here in the states and a patient of hers as well. This was a fortunate situation for me because I got good therapy and I had parents that were involved. No software will ever replace good therapy with a good therapist / pathologist.
That being said, there are video and board games to be used as therapy tools and they are all geared toward children from preschool through high school. I created a video game about a year ago for just this purpose. The games require the player to get a speech bubble which cues a visual and auditory stimulus, then the player should repeat the stimulus with their best effort. You can even use it with a microphone so that the game continues after you say the word. It does not, however, do any speech recognition, just merely detecting audio activity.
You can download a small demo (Flash projector, demo is Win only but the game is Win / Mac) at the website, http://www.2galsspeechproducts.com/
Feel free to contact me directly if needed. leetrout _at_ gmail _dot_ com
We have Share Point here at my office but my team doesn't use it because it is so hard to navigate. It is extremely difficult to figure out where you just posted something if you happen to stumble back to the main landing page. I'm shocked to hear that anyone considers that package a "success". I, for one, will not be giving up on any OS tools / apps for SP.
Dick Natger from Goddard representing NASA said that most of the previous video footage was stored on video tapes, not telemetry tapes, and that yes it was a shame no one made any effort to note which tapes had the footage, but it was only 1 track on a 14 track tape that no one would normally expect to have video on anyway.
The AP reporter covering this also made that statement. The rep from Lowry Digital emphasized that they are merely a restoration house. Of course anyone who works with post production knows that all that software is like photoshop for video and they could do effects with it. But they assured us that they are working closely with NASA to 'not fix too much'.
I got all excited thinking I was going to get a first post with "You don't need a mouse for Emacs". Great minds... ;)
1. Open up a new document. ...?
2. Press F5.
3. Type in x97:L97 in the reference box and press enter.
4. Press tab.
5. Hold down ctrl+shift.
6. While holding these two buttons click on the chart wizard button on the icon bar (the button looks like a bar graph).
7. Play the game while it secretly crafts a worm to take the extra money when transactions are rounded (only a few hundredths of a cent) and deposits them in an offshore account.
8.
9. PROFIT!
* Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Starter Edition, and Windows XP (all editions) are not qualifying products under the program.
It still amazes me that one man's health makes such a news frenzy. If I didn't know any better I would expect him to be some large political figure... But I guess depending on your view, maybe he is.
They need to go ahead and get live streaming health stats on http://www.isstevejobsdead.com/