Lucent wavelan bronze. An old card from someone else who gave up on it. Managers get the best around here, engineers get their cast offs. Other than the small screen and doze this laptop is nice.
I have replaced the floppy/cd drive with a second li ion battery, something I strongly recomend. On one battery I don't get much life.
big screen, big battery, wireless network, tough
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Processors are fast enpough. My laptop (work's) is a PII, and is plenty fast. The battery will go 8.5 hours, which means I have to shut it down over lunch. Just a thinkpad 390.
The small screen is my biggest issue. 800x600 doesn't cut it. I run 1600x1200 whenever I can. this is made worse by some programs I run requiring a bigger screen.
wireless network is not an option. If you have a laptop and don't have wireless networking you are missing out. If you are a corporation you are penny wise and pund foolish. Wireless allows me to be productive nearly anywhere. I can attend class and fix bigs at the same time. (some classes anyway). I can attend a meeting and while someone else is giving status I can work. When I'm giving status and the boss has a detailed question I can look up the detailed answer. When my compiles fail I know now. There are security implications with wireless, but they should be overcome, not used as an excuse to not have it. Trust me, once you go wireless you won't touch a wire again.
Tough is important too. A laptop that is never droped belongs to someone who should just get a desktop since it isn't leaving his desk anyway. There is no way to use a laptop like they are ment to be used without dropping them by accident once in a while.
The question is whether the law is
unconstitutional and or unethical.
that isn't the question, the question is can the US processicute a crime commited in anouther country.
Minnesota where I live has made prostitution illegal. Nevada has not, If I hire a prostitute in Nevada I can return home to Minnesota and I cannot be arrested. This isn't a case of Minnesota choosing not to prossicute, they cannot arrest me.
but does the pump station tell you where your
gas is coming from ? They don't know, and most likely their own
distributor would have to think about it for a day or two before
answering that question. Gas is gas.
There are two possibal ways to get gas in Minnesota: The Amico pipe line (from St Louis if I remember right) or the Kocke refinery. Check out your area and you will find a similear situation.
Because the phone system is different, and overall better in the US.
Or to put it anouther way, why in eurpoe do I have to pay to call my nextdoor neighbor, I already have paid for the phone.
for land line phones my neighbors are a free call. For a cell phone I pay for airtime. They don't charge for incoming calls, they charge airtime. doesn't matter what direction. Every cell phone I know of gives you either one free incomgin minute, or you call them on wrong numbers and they won't charge you for them. So wrong numbers are not a problem.
when my brother went in for his interview they set up a couple macs with some problems (they are an all mac shop) they expected to take a couple minutes (plus some time to figugre out the setup). My brother got it in 5, and the way he described it I would have found it too, even though I've not touched a mac since 7.5 was the latest macOS version. Of the other canidates, one seemed good on paper, but his problem solving skills proved he had no clue as he spent half an hour doing nothing over an over again. the other canidate tried some stuff, and ended up messng up the system so baddly they couldn't figgure out what she did despite spending an hour on the machine after she was gone.
what that proved was problem solving skills. The first guy obvious was out, he had no problem solving skills. the last canidate was better, and at least tried some stuff - if they could have figgured out what she did wrong they might have hired her - at least she tried even if she was wrong. Getting a canidate who got the right answer though tilting things slight in his favor, and since up to this point all were close to equal he got it.
What someone knows on paper is different from what they know. Give me free access to the net, root on a few machines (different OS even), and I'll set up NIS+ one them, or at least have made enough progress that you will be convinced I can do it, even though i've never done NIS before. I'm not unique, nor a particularly good admin. I just have some problem solving skills that work well with comptuers.
there are differences in the way patents are treated. First of all, some of these are ligitmate patents, while many of the ones intel (and others) don't like are things they didn't consider worth patenting due to obviousness, or cases of petent every possibal way of doing something without doing any work to see which work. If I license a patent from intel because it would sovle a problem I expect to have, I can contract with Intel to get some expects in implimenting that patent if I need more help then the patent provides. Some of these patents don't have expects who worked on them, just claims that something could be done this way. Then there are broad claims that everyone will infringe on in some way due to the boardness of them, despite everyone doing that for years.
Intel, and for that matter most companies tend to use patents more defensively. That is you can sue me, but I have enough patents that I'll just find one you are violating and sue you, who only lawyers win. that isn't to say intel will never sue someone first, when there are obvious infringements that affects intel's buisness they will strike first, but they won't sue just on the chance that they would win, they sue because there is an infringement. (Remember patents don't have to be enforced unlike trademarks)
Don't forget the Rambus fiasco where they patent something that others discover, or they discover and then get someone else to use without mentionign they have a patent on it.
I was gonna say that this makes me wish the US had a state sponsored news web site, but then I got that really creepy feeling and decided that it might not be that good of an idea.
You mean like NPR? Many people don't understand why I don't like NPR. Not only are they state sponsered, which is bad enough, but their bias is not the same as mine.
Sounds good, but microsoft hasn't sold site licenses in a while. That causes major friction here. IS refuses to touch an pc with windows 98 on it (we have a site license for 95, which is valid forever), but many laptops do no support 95. Thus IS is becoming irrelavent for PC support, since they can't support what we need.
I'm in the midst of a OO project. About two years ago many of our senior devoplers left. Many of those have sayed have blaned failures on the project on OO, and not on themselves.
My observation, having to maintin code of several people who left: The more junior the programer the better the code. That isn't to say the junior programers were better programers, just that their code is more maintainable, and more efficant. the Senior programers said "I've been programing for 15 years", and dived right in. The junior programers said "I don't know how to do this", so they started talk to the experts (generally the expirenced senior engineeres above) and planed their system to work right. Today I have to fix bugs the both programers wrote. The junior programers made more mistakes and caused mroe bugs, but they can be fixed. I have spent weeks trying to figgure out why a one line change broke a senior engineers code, and finally gave up - the odds that anouther customer would encounter that bug were low enough compared to the 10 other bugs I could have fixed in the mean time that management let me do so.
Its been said that if you see a bus about to run over Paul then you better knock him out of the way, since you are replaceable, Paul isn't. (Fortunatly Paul is one of the few who admit failures in OO are his fault, not the fault of OO, and he is slowly fixing things to be maintanable.
OO is a new paridime. It is better then straight C when done right, but you can write bad spaghatti code with any toolset. Thus we have unmaintaneble code with a class diagram (the wrong modle to base a class diagram, but there is a class diagram) Do it right and you have reusable code that isn't significantly slower then asm. (An a good profiler will tell you where to drop to inline asm for speed)
Accually for 5 you only need to check for a last didget of 5. If the last didget was 0 it would be even, and we already have determined that it isn't even. Further we know that there are exactly TWO primes involved, so if it ended in 0 the only possibility is 2 and 5, which means the number is 10.
I don't know how to help you with 7, but I did just save you a millisecond with 5.
This financing through bonds has little if anyone to do with the bond market as you would find on Wall Street.
A normal bond would be where I give you $1000, and every year you send me $50 interest. At the end of 10 years you send me $1050. (The orgional $1000 + $50 interest) Interest rates change of course, trust worthy companies with little dept pay less interest, while untrustworth companies with a lot of dept pay high interest. You get the idea though, basicaly a bond is a loan.
These bonds are an agreement, I put up $1000 (with a trusted third party), payable to anyone who provides certian software functionality. The third party, upon reciving a program with that functionality would pay the programers. The bonds avaibale would be known so programers could decide what to work on.
I'm not sure if it is a good or workable idea, but it is an idea.
As shown, to factor a 760-bit number in one year would require 215,000 Pentium-class machines, each with 4 Gigabytes of physical RAM. These are estimates based on today's best factoring technology.
I don't think distributed.net will make much progress based on current algorythms. Most people just do'nt have that much memory to donate to the cause. Might be time to invest in memory makers if you think they will buy it.
Right. Pick two (presumably large, though there is no reason it has it couldn't be 1 very large and one laughably small prime number) prime numbers. Multiplu them togather. If the answer is that number, you have the solution.
The only problem is it is easy (as in I once did this when I was taking a class, but since have forgotten how) to prove that there are a lot of prime numbers to chose from. We also know of good ways to find out if a number is prime, but no good way to find the factors if it isn't.
Still, have fun. It isn't that hard to find two prime numbers with a paper an pencil. Of course arthmitic mistakes are likely, and it takes a lot of time)
To use your example of a friends car: I once drove a friends car, and while there were places where that was an issue, one statnds out that wasn't: The turn signal wasn't a lever on the stearing column, it was a switch on the dash. Yet I used that switch 10 times before I realised that it wasn't a lever! Whoever designed that interface made a major change, yet it was completely transparent to the user.
Interfaces should be natural. It should be no problem to go from unix to windows to mac to cpm to OS/390 to... It is, and that is a problem
Most standards bodies will not accept anything patented as a standard unless the holder of the patent agrees to license for a small fee all their patents for this purpose.
It is extreamly common to use something patented in a standard, the owner of the patent just has a standard contract that anyone can agree to: for $x (often $10,000 so it is out of most open source pockets, but cheap for a company) your company can use the foloowing patents in any product as nessicary to impliment y. For instance you would license 8b10b encoding from IBM for fibre channel, but you would not have the right to use 8b10b on your own bus, only in your interface to fibre channel.
There are a couple RFCs which are legal agreement that anyone can as no charge use some patent for IP, so long as you follow some restrictions.
Any standards body that would let Microsoft keep open source out with patent games isn't a real standards body. Most members of technical standards bodies I know of (Members themselves, not the company they represent) are open source aware and pay some attention to these issues.
Anyone know what the legalise is? Appearently Canadians, Americans, Austrillians, and a few other cannot invest in this.
Now I can understand their IPO might not be legal in those countries, and I can understand that they might have decided not to allocate pre-IPO stock to anyone from those countries. I'm fairly sure however that once they IPO there is nothing to prevent people from those countries from investing in the stock if they want to.
Still, it is fairly easy to agree that you are not a US citician and get the information, such as it is. (not much)
1) Speed limits in the US are about the same as speed limits in Europe, other then the German autobahns. However we measure in miles, not Kilometers, so 55 is about the same as 100, which is a typical speed for back roads. Major roads are faster.
2) There are arugements both ways, but in most of europe the same laws exist, they are just less enforced.
3) Accually this is a local issue. (the feds get overinvoved, but since the 18th ammendment was repealed the feds have no power to force it. (Where Jack Danials in brewed it is illegal drink drink alcohol at any age)
4) State issue. I don't want others on the road with alcohol around though. Though I agree goverment should get out.
First of all there is cost. Every carpenter I know owns a handsaw. For small cuts I will take a handsaw over a power saw anyday for speed, and thats even when the power saw is already pluged in! I've seen it over and over again: the handsaw is faster then the power saw. Of course there are two things to note: the hand saw user cannot do a second cut at near the speed, so the power saw wins in endurance. Also, not all cuts qualify, I'm thinking of very selected cuts where the fastest tool is a handsaw. (this applies to both metal and wood working)
There are still farmers today who farm entiely without tractors in an area where tractors are avaiable. They love their horses (oxen, donkeys,...) enough that the slow speed is worth it. I'm not talking about Amish or others who do it for religion reasons, there are normal people who's hobby is farming with animals.
Baseball does not allow (or at least didn't) instant replys in the game. What the umpire sees is what is, even if the ump really is blind. Football allows them. Compare and you will soon notice that replays are a major factor in almost every play in football. I prefer baseball's approach even though it means teams have lost because of the umps error. Part of the game is the human error. I'm not claiming either way is better mind you, make your own decision.
Because the good stations are not clear in my area. Not everyone lives in a city with a million different radio stations catering to every possibal taste of music. Every radio station I listen to anymore has a lot of static (am, and fairly far from the tower), which is okay for talk radio but I don't listen to much talk radio.
I have friends who can get one radio station at their house. (They live in western canada, so that is the local goverment required french station)
They need to be enforced from a high level, and a committment from management to take the time to do them. We have a mandatory checkless, no new feature can get into system test unless it is complete. On item is a code review. (Documentation is anouther) Test gets to decide what they will allow in test and if code reviews weren't done it isn't allowed.
Our cheif archatec insists that he review a lot of code to, and he is serious about it.
Code reviews are not allowed to last longer then 2 hours. If you need more time (and you almost always do!) then do it anouther day.
Even if the airport is just a lucent card in disguise. The antenna and base have not been certified together. A no no.
Not true. the law is a bit complex, but it isn't definatly illegal to work to modified one off equipment. It is illegal to sell such equipment, but the requirement is that modified equipment be professionally installed. If your not breaking any noise or power requlations and your installation looks nice, then you have a reasonably arguement that your setup was professionally installed by you.
If that will hold up in court depends on the judge and jury, but generally it won't go that far because the FCC has better things to do then worry about someone on a license free band who isn't breaking power limits.
that was popular when I was in school. Every time I came across someone who did that I just did a control-C and then rm -rf (opps, I mean whatever the dos equivelent was. deltree of some such) I always hoped the student has some assignment due the next day that was almost done...
I always said that when the program catches me like that, I don't trust it not to have logged someone else's password, and so my good dead for the day was to make sure no passwords were stolen.
Not nessicarly on company time, but we are required to have 40 hours of training a year. How we get that it up to us. This year I was about to attend to classes at work, on company time. (Accually it worked out to 48 hours of training).
Basicaly if it is directly related to your current job, and a lot of people (20-30) people need the same class, then they bring the teacher in and you get training in during work hours. Otherwise you have to do it when you have time. Nothing is wrong with studying during downtime, so when I'm waiting for a compile or reboot I can study. (at a couple hours for a compile, and an hour for a reboot this is significant, but your process probably isn't that messed up)
Some people get their 40 hours by presuing anougther major. It must be work related, but that doesn't take out much. (art, and farming) Buisness is encouraged, as are engineering degrees.
Some people get their 40 hours by reading various books and doing the example.
Some people get their 40 hours by going to confrences.
Basicaly it is up to the manager to enforce 40 hours a year on each employiee. We are flexable about what you do on your own time, so long as over a year you do it. What you do on work time must be directly job related. (or downtime at work)
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I have a feeling i've read this srtical before - before /. was on the net even. If not, I know I've read most of the anicdotes.
Lucent wavelan bronze. An old card from someone else who gave up on it. Managers get the best around here, engineers get their cast offs. Other than the small screen and doze this laptop is nice.
I have replaced the floppy/cd drive with a second li ion battery, something I strongly recomend. On one battery I don't get much life.
Processors are fast enpough. My laptop (work's) is a PII, and is plenty fast. The battery will go 8.5 hours, which means I have to shut it down over lunch. Just a thinkpad 390.
The small screen is my biggest issue. 800x600 doesn't cut it. I run 1600x1200 whenever I can. this is made worse by some programs I run requiring a bigger screen.
wireless network is not an option. If you have a laptop and don't have wireless networking you are missing out. If you are a corporation you are penny wise and pund foolish. Wireless allows me to be productive nearly anywhere. I can attend class and fix bigs at the same time. (some classes anyway). I can attend a meeting and while someone else is giving status I can work. When I'm giving status and the boss has a detailed question I can look up the detailed answer. When my compiles fail I know now. There are security implications with wireless, but they should be overcome, not used as an excuse to not have it. Trust me, once you go wireless you won't touch a wire again.
Tough is important too. A laptop that is never droped belongs to someone who should just get a desktop since it isn't leaving his desk anyway. There is no way to use a laptop like they are ment to be used without dropping them by accident once in a while.
that isn't the question, the question is can the US processicute a crime commited in anouther country.
Minnesota where I live has made prostitution illegal. Nevada has not, If I hire a prostitute in Nevada I can return home to Minnesota and I cannot be arrested. This isn't a case of Minnesota choosing not to prossicute, they cannot arrest me.
There are two possibal ways to get gas in Minnesota: The Amico pipe line (from St Louis if I remember right) or the Kocke refinery. Check out your area and you will find a similear situation.
Because the phone system is different, and overall better in the US.
Or to put it anouther way, why in eurpoe do I have to pay to call my nextdoor neighbor, I already have paid for the phone.
for land line phones my neighbors are a free call. For a cell phone I pay for airtime. They don't charge for incoming calls, they charge airtime. doesn't matter what direction. Every cell phone I know of gives you either one free incomgin minute, or you call them on wrong numbers and they won't charge you for them. So wrong numbers are not a problem.
when my brother went in for his interview they set up a couple macs with some problems (they are an all mac shop) they expected to take a couple minutes (plus some time to figugre out the setup). My brother got it in 5, and the way he described it I would have found it too, even though I've not touched a mac since 7.5 was the latest macOS version. Of the other canidates, one seemed good on paper, but his problem solving skills proved he had no clue as he spent half an hour doing nothing over an over again. the other canidate tried some stuff, and ended up messng up the system so baddly they couldn't figgure out what she did despite spending an hour on the machine after she was gone.
what that proved was problem solving skills. The first guy obvious was out, he had no problem solving skills. the last canidate was better, and at least tried some stuff - if they could have figgured out what she did wrong they might have hired her - at least she tried even if she was wrong. Getting a canidate who got the right answer though tilting things slight in his favor, and since up to this point all were close to equal he got it.
What someone knows on paper is different from what they know. Give me free access to the net, root on a few machines (different OS even), and I'll set up NIS+ one them, or at least have made enough progress that you will be convinced I can do it, even though i've never done NIS before. I'm not unique, nor a particularly good admin. I just have some problem solving skills that work well with comptuers.
there are differences in the way patents are treated. First of all, some of these are ligitmate patents, while many of the ones intel (and others) don't like are things they didn't consider worth patenting due to obviousness, or cases of petent every possibal way of doing something without doing any work to see which work. If I license a patent from intel because it would sovle a problem I expect to have, I can contract with Intel to get some expects in implimenting that patent if I need more help then the patent provides. Some of these patents don't have expects who worked on them, just claims that something could be done this way. Then there are broad claims that everyone will infringe on in some way due to the boardness of them, despite everyone doing that for years.
Intel, and for that matter most companies tend to use patents more defensively. That is you can sue me, but I have enough patents that I'll just find one you are violating and sue you, who only lawyers win. that isn't to say intel will never sue someone first, when there are obvious infringements that affects intel's buisness they will strike first, but they won't sue just on the chance that they would win, they sue because there is an infringement. (Remember patents don't have to be enforced unlike trademarks)
Don't forget the Rambus fiasco where they patent something that others discover, or they discover and then get someone else to use without mentionign they have a patent on it.
patents are not bad by themselves.
You mean like NPR? Many people don't understand why I don't like NPR. Not only are they state sponsered, which is bad enough, but their bias is not the same as mine.
Sounds good, but microsoft hasn't sold site licenses in a while. That causes major friction here. IS refuses to touch an pc with windows 98 on it (we have a site license for 95, which is valid forever), but many laptops do no support 95. Thus IS is becoming irrelavent for PC support, since they can't support what we need.
I'm in the midst of a OO project. About two years ago many of our senior devoplers left. Many of those have sayed have blaned failures on the project on OO, and not on themselves.
My observation, having to maintin code of several people who left: The more junior the programer the better the code. That isn't to say the junior programers were better programers, just that their code is more maintainable, and more efficant. the Senior programers said "I've been programing for 15 years", and dived right in. The junior programers said "I don't know how to do this", so they started talk to the experts (generally the expirenced senior engineeres above) and planed their system to work right. Today I have to fix bugs the both programers wrote. The junior programers made more mistakes and caused mroe bugs, but they can be fixed. I have spent weeks trying to figgure out why a one line change broke a senior engineers code, and finally gave up - the odds that anouther customer would encounter that bug were low enough compared to the 10 other bugs I could have fixed in the mean time that management let me do so.
Its been said that if you see a bus about to run over Paul then you better knock him out of the way, since you are replaceable, Paul isn't. (Fortunatly Paul is one of the few who admit failures in OO are his fault, not the fault of OO, and he is slowly fixing things to be maintanable.
OO is a new paridime. It is better then straight C when done right, but you can write bad spaghatti code with any toolset. Thus we have unmaintaneble code with a class diagram (the wrong modle to base a class diagram, but there is a class diagram) Do it right and you have reusable code that isn't significantly slower then asm. (An a good profiler will tell you where to drop to inline asm for speed)
Accually for 5 you only need to check for a last didget of 5. If the last didget was 0 it would be even, and we already have determined that it isn't even. Further we know that there are exactly TWO primes involved, so if it ended in 0 the only possibility is 2 and 5, which means the number is 10.
I don't know how to help you with 7, but I did just save you a millisecond with 5.
This financing through bonds has little if anyone to do with the bond market as you would find on Wall Street.
A normal bond would be where I give you $1000, and every year you send me $50 interest. At the end of 10 years you send me $1050. (The orgional $1000 + $50 interest) Interest rates change of course, trust worthy companies with little dept pay less interest, while untrustworth companies with a lot of dept pay high interest. You get the idea though, basicaly a bond is a loan.
These bonds are an agreement, I put up $1000 (with a trusted third party), payable to anyone who provides certian software functionality. The third party, upon reciving a program with that functionality would pay the programers. The bonds avaibale would be known so programers could decide what to work on.
I'm not sure if it is a good or workable idea, but it is an idea.
From the FAQ:
I don't think distributed.net will make much progress based on current algorythms. Most people just do'nt have that much memory to donate to the cause. Might be time to invest in memory makers if you think they will buy it.
Right. Pick two (presumably large, though there is no reason it has it couldn't be 1 very large and one laughably small prime number) prime numbers. Multiplu them togather. If the answer is that number, you have the solution.
The only problem is it is easy (as in I once did this when I was taking a class, but since have forgotten how) to prove that there are a lot of prime numbers to chose from. We also know of good ways to find out if a number is prime, but no good way to find the factors if it isn't.
Still, have fun. It isn't that hard to find two prime numbers with a paper an pencil. Of course arthmitic mistakes are likely, and it takes a lot of time)
To use your example of a friends car: I once drove a friends car, and while there were places where that was an issue, one statnds out that wasn't: The turn signal wasn't a lever on the stearing column, it was a switch on the dash. Yet I used that switch 10 times before I realised that it wasn't a lever! Whoever designed that interface made a major change, yet it was completely transparent to the user.
Interfaces should be natural. It should be no problem to go from unix to windows to mac to cpm to OS/390 to... It is, and that is a problem
Most standards bodies will not accept anything patented as a standard unless the holder of the patent agrees to license for a small fee all their patents for this purpose.
It is extreamly common to use something patented in a standard, the owner of the patent just has a standard contract that anyone can agree to: for $x (often $10,000 so it is out of most open source pockets, but cheap for a company) your company can use the foloowing patents in any product as nessicary to impliment y. For instance you would license 8b10b encoding from IBM for fibre channel, but you would not have the right to use 8b10b on your own bus, only in your interface to fibre channel.
There are a couple RFCs which are legal agreement that anyone can as no charge use some patent for IP, so long as you follow some restrictions.
Any standards body that would let Microsoft keep open source out with patent games isn't a real standards body. Most members of technical standards bodies I know of (Members themselves, not the company they represent) are open source aware and pay some attention to these issues.
Anyone know what the legalise is? Appearently Canadians, Americans, Austrillians, and a few other cannot invest in this.
Now I can understand their IPO might not be legal in those countries, and I can understand that they might have decided not to allocate pre-IPO stock to anyone from those countries. I'm fairly sure however that once they IPO there is nothing to prevent people from those countries from investing in the stock if they want to.
Still, it is fairly easy to agree that you are not a US citician and get the information, such as it is. (not much)
So is there a french law in effect here?
1) Speed limits in the US are about the same as speed limits in Europe, other then the German autobahns. However we measure in miles, not Kilometers, so 55 is about the same as 100, which is a typical speed for back roads. Major roads are faster.
2) There are arugements both ways, but in most of europe the same laws exist, they are just less enforced.
3) Accually this is a local issue. (the feds get overinvoved, but since the 18th ammendment was repealed the feds have no power to force it. (Where Jack Danials in brewed it is illegal drink drink alcohol at any age)
4) State issue. I don't want others on the road with alcohol around though. Though I agree goverment should get out.
First of all there is cost. Every carpenter I know owns a handsaw. For small cuts I will take a handsaw over a power saw anyday for speed, and thats even when the power saw is already pluged in! I've seen it over and over again: the handsaw is faster then the power saw. Of course there are two things to note: the hand saw user cannot do a second cut at near the speed, so the power saw wins in endurance. Also, not all cuts qualify, I'm thinking of very selected cuts where the fastest tool is a handsaw. (this applies to both metal and wood working)
There are still farmers today who farm entiely without tractors in an area where tractors are avaiable. They love their horses (oxen, donkeys, ...) enough that the slow speed is worth it. I'm not talking about Amish or others who do it for religion reasons, there are normal people who's hobby is farming with animals.
Baseball does not allow (or at least didn't) instant replys in the game. What the umpire sees is what is, even if the ump really is blind. Football allows them. Compare and you will soon notice that replays are a major factor in almost every play in football. I prefer baseball's approach even though it means teams have lost because of the umps error. Part of the game is the human error. I'm not claiming either way is better mind you, make your own decision.
Because the good stations are not clear in my area. Not everyone lives in a city with a million different radio stations catering to every possibal taste of music. Every radio station I listen to anymore has a lot of static (am, and fairly far from the tower), which is okay for talk radio but I don't listen to much talk radio.
I have friends who can get one radio station at their house. (They live in western canada, so that is the local goverment required french station)
They need to be enforced from a high level, and a committment from management to take the time to do them. We have a mandatory checkless, no new feature can get into system test unless it is complete. On item is a code review. (Documentation is anouther) Test gets to decide what they will allow in test and if code reviews weren't done it isn't allowed.
Our cheif archatec insists that he review a lot of code to, and he is serious about it.
Code reviews are not allowed to last longer then 2 hours. If you need more time (and you almost always do!) then do it anouther day.
Even if the airport is just a lucent card in disguise. The antenna and base have not been certified together. A no no.
Not true. the law is a bit complex, but it isn't definatly illegal to work to modified one off equipment. It is illegal to sell such equipment, but the requirement is that modified equipment be professionally installed. If your not breaking any noise or power requlations and your installation looks nice, then you have a reasonably arguement that your setup was professionally installed by you.
If that will hold up in court depends on the judge and jury, but generally it won't go that far because the FCC has better things to do then worry about someone on a license free band who isn't breaking power limits.
that was popular when I was in school. Every time I came across someone who did that I just did a control-C and then rm -rf (opps, I mean whatever the dos equivelent was. deltree of some such) I always hoped the student has some assignment due the next day that was almost done...
I always said that when the program catches me like that, I don't trust it not to have logged someone else's password, and so my good dead for the day was to make sure no passwords were stolen.
Not nessicarly on company time, but we are required to have 40 hours of training a year. How we get that it up to us. This year I was about to attend to classes at work, on company time. (Accually it worked out to 48 hours of training).
Basicaly if it is directly related to your current job, and a lot of people (20-30) people need the same class, then they bring the teacher in and you get training in during work hours. Otherwise you have to do it when you have time. Nothing is wrong with studying during downtime, so when I'm waiting for a compile or reboot I can study. (at a couple hours for a compile, and an hour for a reboot this is significant, but your process probably isn't that messed up)
Some people get their 40 hours by presuing anougther major. It must be work related, but that doesn't take out much. (art, and farming) Buisness is encouraged, as are engineering degrees.
Some people get their 40 hours by reading various books and doing the example.
Some people get their 40 hours by going to confrences.
Basicaly it is up to the manager to enforce 40 hours a year on each employiee. We are flexable about what you do on your own time, so long as over a year you do it. What you do on work time must be directly job related. (or downtime at work)