Maybe. IF they allow you to continue to see doctors after the first says there is nothing they can do. IF there is enough money to pay for the tests you need. (Of course if it is life or death it is done, but we do the work here in that case too, when the condition isn't that serious though there may be lines)
Its all a maybe. There are many people in Canada who come to the US for treatment because it is better. You pay for it, but you get better treatment. The reverse is also true because for some things it is better to live under a system like Canada.
Back when I was a kid my modem was a 300 baud acoustic coupler.[1] Someone on one of the BBSes I called told me how to connect to the internet. Easy enough, as the local university had a phone bank that wasn't password protected. Dial in, and you get into a terminal server of some sort, then type a hostname and you telnet to it. Unfortunately I was stuck there as I didn't know how to get an account on any machine connected to the net. (I was given some to try, but they didn't work) Since I've never been a cracker, that was the end of it. But I can honestly say I connected to the net with a phone like this one.
[1]I had other modems. I used this when my parents grounded my from the computer. It wasn't connected to a computer, instead it was built into a 132 column thermal printer terminal. (I think it could connect to computers, but I lacked a RS-232 port on my Atari).
Correct, but I'd like to add one thing: the Supreme Court is hard to reverse, so they try extra hard to get things right. If one court has made a decision and it isn't obviously horridly wrong they prefer to let it stand until a different court comes to a different decision. That way more people have thought about the issue. Then they can read the thinking of everyone who thought about it, and are more likely to come up with the right ruling.
There are only two ways to reverse the supreme court: act of congress, and a latter supreme court decision. Both are fairly rare.
You are wrong. I have something more powerful than all the money a company can throw at lobbiests: an informed vote. Money works in politics because people can be bought with pretty adds on TV. If you become an informed voter to whom ads do not matter you scare all polititions because you have the power to vote them out, and they cannot influence you easily.
In most elections the difference between the winner and looser is only a few thousand votes. IF you work at it next time around you can change that many people's vote without spending a penny!
Become an informed voter and get your friends to become informed. (Or if they won't become informed, tell them to stay home rather than vote for the guy who looks better on TV!)
Warren Buffet is a large democrat supporter. The power in the US is in the hands of Republicans. The current powers that be have no reason to leave Warren Buffet in the know as to what they will do. (if democrats were in power major republicans would not be in the know)
It is to Warren Buffet's advantage to convince you that the dollar is going down - he is making investments based on his guess that they will! Perception is often reality, so if he can change perception he can change the reality.
Overall Warren Buffet is a good investor, but he has made many bad investments over the years.
Just 5 years ago the Euro was trading way down against the dollar and economists were wondering if the Euro could last because of it. The cycle is in a different phase right now, and suddenly everyone is wondering if the dollar can last.
Cycles happen. Things will go up, and things will come down. There are advantages to being in both parts of the cycle.
The large majority of middle eastern men flying are not terrorists. I know several, who fly often - they live and work in the US but have family back home they visit from time to time. (I think they are green card working on full citizenship)
There are terrorists from all over. (north) Ireland had (has?) a problem with terrorism, and they are whites of European decent. Several terrorists have struck in the US who are US citizens.
That is just what I can think of off the top of my head. If you can't think of more examples you are not trying.
The best solution is to stop being terrified. They want to spread terror and prevent freedom. So increasing security at the cost of freedom is giving them what they want. (I'm still mad about being written up in first grade when I wasn't doing anything wrong)
See a lawyer and accountant for advice that applies to you. However I wouldn't recommend this in general. For $300/year you get some insurance company to roll over and give $1million to anyone who brings a suit against you no matter how frivolous it is. Also, courts can award however much they want, if the court decides you should owe $2million you are on the hook for $1million anyway.
In most states courts cannot take things like your house or retirement plans. With careful spending you can ensure that you have no assets for them to take from you if they do win.
I'd like to concede that point. After all it is a waste of my time to take my car into a pro. However when I change the oil myself the plug isn't put in with a 10 foot wrench, and therefore the threads are not striped out, and I therefore don't have to pay extra to fix something they broke. Not to mention that even as a programmer it is a better use of my money to take time off without pay and do the work myself! (mechanics don't make as much as me, but after overhead labor is more than I make per hour)
Broadband connections are cheap in most parts of the world. Where they are not, there are plenty of cheap places to order Cd's of software. About $50/year will buy you subscriptions to FreeBSD and OpenBSD. I assume linux distributions have the same deal. (or you can buy Cd's for less money from unofficial sources)
I recall one chip that was shipping installed backwards. It happened it worked in most situations too - except for a few corner cases that was blamed on software for a long time. (I'm not an EE, so I can't give you any more detail)
Another time I spent a month chasing down bugs in my code only to discover all the test system was broke, but since it passed all other tests when the work around for my code not being done, they blamed me. It is not a good feeling to find out that your code was bug free after months of being yelled at for bugs in your code. (I'm not going to comment on the schedule that didn't tell me about that part of the code until a work around was needed - those problems always happen)
As a simple question you are correct that every parallel computing job has some single processing parts. Those who study parallel systems spend most of their time looking for way to make sure that all processors are in use. Often an algorithm that less than optimal for single processor systems can use more processors, so a choice needs to be made.
The other major issue is communication time. An algorithm that depends on all the CPUs talking all the time may appear fast on paper, but it will be slower than the single processor version!
In short, you came really close to the point, while missing it.
Re-image because of a little thing like the box being owned? I worked for one place that let some SunOS (not Solaris) machines go after being compromised because our sites were working, and the sysadmin didn't know what they did. (At least these machines didn't processes credit cards)
This was before I worked there, and when the current sysadmin started he bought some linux (or BSD, I'm not sure) servers and moved over to something more secure. Hasn't had a problem yet.
You are not expected to know everything or solve every problem. You are expected to prove that you have good enough skills that you could solve every problem given more resources (a net connection for instance).
For my last interview I listed C++, but was honest on the phone interview that I was rusty on it. There were several things on the test that I had no idea where in C++, because they were added between when I learned and when then language was standardized. (these also happen to be things that the compiler they gave me doesn't support correctly because it is old and obsolete) I got the job because I approached the problems correctly, trying a variety of things, Thinking out loud, and eventually got good answers. (In one case I solved a sequence that the interviewer said he had never seen anyone solve before)
Do not stick to just programing skills. Most of the test is likely to be logic puzzles that have little to do with programing.
Have you looked at music lately? I'd prefer listening to a chorus of screaming kids to what they would place on airplanes. You only think mainstream pop music is bad, until you hear how bad it can get.
It is what you make of it. There are places I can live, and places I could not live. It is your fault if you cannot see the beauty of Texas. It is my fault if I cannot see the beauty of Italy. (I've never been to Italy)
In rare cases it can happen. Nobody with a pacemaker should play around with their wires, just because the rare case is enough to kill them.
Personally I've stood in 1 inch of water and grabbed a bare 110V wire (several times the wire normally passes 50 amps, which impresses anyone who doesn't know better). It is enough that I'd avoid it, but considering it has happened more than 5 times, I can't say I worry about it.
Everytime you get this complaint, record it and place a call to your technical support at the vendor that requires activeX. Oracle is a big company, they charge a lot of money for their products. Tell them in clear terms that their design is making things difficult for you. Start demanding something that works in FF.
Make sure when you talk to other admins you mention this issue. You as a customer alone probably isn't big enough to get Oracle's attention (though of course I don't know your situation). All the admins you can talk to is.
If the code is any good at all it will have no problem running crossplatform! I'll accept excuses for the platform dependant parts of the toolkit, and a few minor platform dependant parts of your code. However if you cannot port you code to a different CPU with a little re-compiling, plus re-writing the abstractions that care, your code has problems anyway. I'll grudgingly accept an excuse for embedded code, but only if you prove that the cost is required to meet some requirement of your specific hardware - I don't recommend you use it if there is a choice.
Given the above, there should be no problem compiling for x86 just to run a few tests. So grab an x86 box, run valgrind and fix some bugs.
There are commercial debuggers that do the same thing (sometimes better, sometimes worse) as vagrind, they are worth checking.
There is what you do for release, and what you do for development. For release (which can include the daily build!) this is a good idea, if there is any gain in run speed.
For development I consider this a bad idea. When I change foo.c I don't want to recompile every other file in the project. It will slow things down in any project with size.
It will be more work to implement both. Since computer time is cheaper than human time most people don't bother with adding the ability to do both. However I wouldn't call it a bad idea for releases.
Yes, people, at least in the US are that lazy. And they fail to realize that break should never be sliced. Bread is always broken, which most of Europe understands. That way if you don't eat all your bread you can give the remainder to the beggars outside your door. Of course we don't have beggars very often, but you should be ready just in case.
If anyone is coming to North America from Europe (and elsewhere?), bring your own bread, you can't get anything worth it in the US. (IF you drink tea, bring that too) If you are going to move over to this side of the pond get someone to teach you how to make bread. We have lots of good foods here, but bread is not one.
Its sad, in the US it is rare to go to a church that knows what it means to break bread. I've seen lots of different interpretations of it, from everyone getting a (small) slice, to everyone getting a "cracker" (I suspect this is a type of Jewish unleavened bread so I can't fault that part even though it wasn't passover) that is audibly broken in half when the preach tells about Jesus breaking bread. That is my rant for the day, I hope you enjoyed it.
True you are over qualified as a fry cook, but that isn't the only fast food job around. They need managers too. Truth is if I had stuck with fast food as a career, instead of gone to college, I would be making more money today, 7 years after I graduated with a CS degree! Sometimes I'm tempted to go back, I still have contacts there, and there is one fringe benefit over computer jobs: not only do you work with beautiful girls, but they have to talk to you! (They are often too young to date, but at least you see them)
Fry cooks don't make much money. Management does pretty good. There are down sides of course. The hours are terrible (hope you don't have plans for lunch Saturday). All the free "food" you can clog your heart with. (though you are on your feet, so you get more activity than being at a desk)
Isn't there a tiger fish that a penguin eats? I'm not up on the eating habits of penguins, but someone should check. Someone who cares to spend more than the 30 seconds I just did on the idea.
What were you compiling on? I know that I have no problem compiling KDE on my system, which is overclocked to 200MHz. (dual, but still...) Any reasonably modern system should be able to compile the parts of kde you want in just a short time.
Now if the beta cycle for KDE was expected to run for 3 hours or so, then your point would stand. However the planned release date gives you plenty of time to compile on any system you would want to run it on.
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Maybe. IF they allow you to continue to see doctors after the first says there is nothing they can do. IF there is enough money to pay for the tests you need. (Of course if it is life or death it is done, but we do the work here in that case too, when the condition isn't that serious though there may be lines)
Its all a maybe. There are many people in Canada who come to the US for treatment because it is better. You pay for it, but you get better treatment. The reverse is also true because for some things it is better to live under a system like Canada.
Back when I was a kid my modem was a 300 baud acoustic coupler.[1] Someone on one of the BBSes I called told me how to connect to the internet. Easy enough, as the local university had a phone bank that wasn't password protected. Dial in, and you get into a terminal server of some sort, then type a hostname and you telnet to it. Unfortunately I was stuck there as I didn't know how to get an account on any machine connected to the net. (I was given some to try, but they didn't work) Since I've never been a cracker, that was the end of it. But I can honestly say I connected to the net with a phone like this one.
[1]I had other modems. I used this when my parents grounded my from the computer. It wasn't connected to a computer, instead it was built into a 132 column thermal printer terminal. (I think it could connect to computers, but I lacked a RS-232 port on my Atari).
Correct, but I'd like to add one thing: the Supreme Court is hard to reverse, so they try extra hard to get things right. If one court has made a decision and it isn't obviously horridly wrong they prefer to let it stand until a different court comes to a different decision. That way more people have thought about the issue. Then they can read the thinking of everyone who thought about it, and are more likely to come up with the right ruling.
There are only two ways to reverse the supreme court: act of congress, and a latter supreme court decision. Both are fairly rare.
You fail to understand, it is a cording keyboard. I don't think x.org supports it yet though.
You are wrong. I have something more powerful than all the money a company can throw at lobbiests: an informed vote. Money works in politics because people can be bought with pretty adds on TV. If you become an informed voter to whom ads do not matter you scare all polititions because you have the power to vote them out, and they cannot influence you easily.
In most elections the difference between the winner and looser is only a few thousand votes. IF you work at it next time around you can change that many people's vote without spending a penny!
Become an informed voter and get your friends to become informed. (Or if they won't become informed, tell them to stay home rather than vote for the guy who looks better on TV!)
Warren Buffet is a large democrat supporter. The power in the US is in the hands of Republicans. The current powers that be have no reason to leave Warren Buffet in the know as to what they will do. (if democrats were in power major republicans would not be in the know)
It is to Warren Buffet's advantage to convince you that the dollar is going down - he is making investments based on his guess that they will! Perception is often reality, so if he can change perception he can change the reality.
Overall Warren Buffet is a good investor, but he has made many bad investments over the years.
Just 5 years ago the Euro was trading way down against the dollar and economists were wondering if the Euro could last because of it. The cycle is in a different phase right now, and suddenly everyone is wondering if the dollar can last.
Cycles happen. Things will go up, and things will come down. There are advantages to being in both parts of the cycle.
The large majority of middle eastern men flying are not terrorists. I know several, who fly often - they live and work in the US but have family back home they visit from time to time. (I think they are green card working on full citizenship)
There are terrorists from all over. (north) Ireland had (has?) a problem with terrorism, and they are whites of European decent. Several terrorists have struck in the US who are US citizens.
That is just what I can think of off the top of my head. If you can't think of more examples you are not trying.
The best solution is to stop being terrified. They want to spread terror and prevent freedom. So increasing security at the cost of freedom is giving them what they want. (I'm still mad about being written up in first grade when I wasn't doing anything wrong)
See a lawyer and accountant for advice that applies to you. However I wouldn't recommend this in general. For $300/year you get some insurance company to roll over and give $1million to anyone who brings a suit against you no matter how frivolous it is. Also, courts can award however much they want, if the court decides you should owe $2million you are on the hook for $1million anyway.
In most states courts cannot take things like your house or retirement plans. With careful spending you can ensure that you have no assets for them to take from you if they do win.
I'd like to concede that point. After all it is a waste of my time to take my car into a pro. However when I change the oil myself the plug isn't put in with a 10 foot wrench, and therefore the threads are not striped out, and I therefore don't have to pay extra to fix something they broke. Not to mention that even as a programmer it is a better use of my money to take time off without pay and do the work myself! (mechanics don't make as much as me, but after overhead labor is more than I make per hour)
Broadband connections are cheap in most parts of the world. Where they are not, there are plenty of cheap places to order Cd's of software. About $50/year will buy you subscriptions to FreeBSD and OpenBSD. I assume linux distributions have the same deal. (or you can buy Cd's for less money from unofficial sources)
I recall one chip that was shipping installed backwards. It happened it worked in most situations too - except for a few corner cases that was blamed on software for a long time. (I'm not an EE, so I can't give you any more detail)
Another time I spent a month chasing down bugs in my code only to discover all the test system was broke, but since it passed all other tests when the work around for my code not being done, they blamed me. It is not a good feeling to find out that your code was bug free after months of being yelled at for bugs in your code. (I'm not going to comment on the schedule that didn't tell me about that part of the code until a work around was needed - those problems always happen)
As a simple question you are correct that every parallel computing job has some single processing parts. Those who study parallel systems spend most of their time looking for way to make sure that all processors are in use. Often an algorithm that less than optimal for single processor systems can use more processors, so a choice needs to be made.
The other major issue is communication time. An algorithm that depends on all the CPUs talking all the time may appear fast on paper, but it will be slower than the single processor version!
In short, you came really close to the point, while missing it.
Re-image because of a little thing like the box being owned? I worked for one place that let some SunOS (not Solaris) machines go after being compromised because our sites were working, and the sysadmin didn't know what they did. (At least these machines didn't processes credit cards)
This was before I worked there, and when the current sysadmin started he bought some linux (or BSD, I'm not sure) servers and moved over to something more secure. Hasn't had a problem yet.
You are not expected to know everything or solve every problem. You are expected to prove that you have good enough skills that you could solve every problem given more resources (a net connection for instance).
For my last interview I listed C++, but was honest on the phone interview that I was rusty on it. There were several things on the test that I had no idea where in C++, because they were added between when I learned and when then language was standardized. (these also happen to be things that the compiler they gave me doesn't support correctly because it is old and obsolete) I got the job because I approached the problems correctly, trying a variety of things, Thinking out loud, and eventually got good answers. (In one case I solved a sequence that the interviewer said he had never seen anyone solve before)
Do not stick to just programing skills. Most of the test is likely to be logic puzzles that have little to do with programing.
Have you looked at music lately? I'd prefer listening to a chorus of screaming kids to what they would place on airplanes. You only think mainstream pop music is bad, until you hear how bad it can get.
It is what you make of it. There are places I can live, and places I could not live. It is your fault if you cannot see the beauty of Texas. It is my fault if I cannot see the beauty of Italy. (I've never been to Italy)
In rare cases it can happen. Nobody with a pacemaker should play around with their wires, just because the rare case is enough to kill them.
Personally I've stood in 1 inch of water and grabbed a bare 110V wire (several times the wire normally passes 50 amps, which impresses anyone who doesn't know better). It is enough that I'd avoid it, but considering it has happened more than 5 times, I can't say I worry about it.
Everytime you get this complaint, record it and place a call to your technical support at the vendor that requires activeX. Oracle is a big company, they charge a lot of money for their products. Tell them in clear terms that their design is making things difficult for you. Start demanding something that works in FF.
Make sure when you talk to other admins you mention this issue. You as a customer alone probably isn't big enough to get Oracle's attention (though of course I don't know your situation). All the admins you can talk to is.
If the code is any good at all it will have no problem running crossplatform! I'll accept excuses for the platform dependant parts of the toolkit, and a few minor platform dependant parts of your code. However if you cannot port you code to a different CPU with a little re-compiling, plus re-writing the abstractions that care, your code has problems anyway. I'll grudgingly accept an excuse for embedded code, but only if you prove that the cost is required to meet some requirement of your specific hardware - I don't recommend you use it if there is a choice.
Given the above, there should be no problem compiling for x86 just to run a few tests. So grab an x86 box, run valgrind and fix some bugs.
There are commercial debuggers that do the same thing (sometimes better, sometimes worse) as vagrind, they are worth checking.
There is what you do for release, and what you do for development. For release (which can include the daily build!) this is a good idea, if there is any gain in run speed.
For development I consider this a bad idea. When I change foo.c I don't want to recompile every other file in the project. It will slow things down in any project with size.
It will be more work to implement both. Since computer time is cheaper than human time most people don't bother with adding the ability to do both. However I wouldn't call it a bad idea for releases.
Yes, people, at least in the US are that lazy. And they fail to realize that break should never be sliced. Bread is always broken, which most of Europe understands. That way if you don't eat all your bread you can give the remainder to the beggars outside your door. Of course we don't have beggars very often, but you should be ready just in case.
If anyone is coming to North America from Europe (and elsewhere?), bring your own bread, you can't get anything worth it in the US. (IF you drink tea, bring that too) If you are going to move over to this side of the pond get someone to teach you how to make bread. We have lots of good foods here, but bread is not one.
Its sad, in the US it is rare to go to a church that knows what it means to break bread. I've seen lots of different interpretations of it, from everyone getting a (small) slice, to everyone getting a "cracker" (I suspect this is a type of Jewish unleavened bread so I can't fault that part even though it wasn't passover) that is audibly broken in half when the preach tells about Jesus breaking bread. That is my rant for the day, I hope you enjoyed it.
Most jobs won't look at you unless you claim 5 years of .net. That alone weeds out all the honest guys who don't exaggerate.
True you are over qualified as a fry cook, but that isn't the only fast food job around. They need managers too. Truth is if I had stuck with fast food as a career, instead of gone to college, I would be making more money today, 7 years after I graduated with a CS degree! Sometimes I'm tempted to go back, I still have contacts there, and there is one fringe benefit over computer jobs: not only do you work with beautiful girls, but they have to talk to you! (They are often too young to date, but at least you see them)
Fry cooks don't make much money. Management does pretty good. There are down sides of course. The hours are terrible (hope you don't have plans for lunch Saturday). All the free "food" you can clog your heart with. (though you are on your feet, so you get more activity than being at a desk)
Isn't there a tiger fish that a penguin eats? I'm not up on the eating habits of penguins, but someone should check. Someone who cares to spend more than the 30 seconds I just did on the idea.
What were you compiling on? I know that I have no problem compiling KDE on my system, which is overclocked to 200MHz. (dual, but still...) Any reasonably modern system should be able to compile the parts of kde you want in just a short time.
Now if the beta cycle for KDE was expected to run for 3 hours or so, then your point would stand. However the planned release date gives you plenty of time to compile on any system you would want to run it on.