You lie. I drive 2-3 seconds behind the car in front of me, and cars to not constantly pull in filling the gap. One will here and there, but not constantly. In a 10 mile stretch today it amounted to 3 cars. This in stop an go traffic. That is one reason for the gap: leaving room for others, and those who did switch in front of me stayed in that lane for miles.
The gap has 3 purposes. First, safety, you can't react in under 1.5 seconds, so 2 seconds is minimun time distance. (You can fake it when closer by braking hard, but that will only work when the car in front of you isn't braking as hard) Second, politeness: let the other guy get into your lane when he wants to. Third environment, when the car ahead of your brakes, you can often just let off the gas to slow down enough. (Brakes trade speed for heat, letting off the gas does not, it would be a big difference if everyone did it.
Drive safely. Nobody else will, but you can still make a difference. You will at least get in less accidents.
Assume as everyone else does that bar is a filler for a more descriptive operations. When contriving examples it is often hard to come up with something reasonable that fits in a few lines.
I agree that cleaver code is to be avoided. I disagree that ? is a sign of clever code. It is a sign of someone who knows the language.
You could write
if(foo == bar) {
x = doSomething();
} else {
y = SomethingDifferent();
}
with the ? operator, but it wouldn't be clear. The example I gave previously is clearer using the ? operator. It sits on one line and makes it clear that changing foo is important. The later example needs to make it clear that different things are happening depending on the situation.
Whitespace is a different argument (I don't write code like I just posted it, I'm just too lazy to figure out how to make the above look nice in html). Overall whitespace is good, but the style you posted has the disadvantage of taking more lines, meaning you can see less code on screen at a time and that makes it hard to understand code, despite the other advantages. But there is a reason whitespace arguments are considered religious: no two people will ever agree perfectly.
The ternary operator is VERY useful and creates very readable code, when used correctly.
I started a new job, and the previous program used it all over. The first couple times I encountered it I thought it was strange and had to go back to the books to figure out how it worked. After that I knew it. Now I find I use it nearly as much a a simple if. Used correct ? : is much more readable than if else.
Correct useage is:
foo = bar() ? MAGIC : foo++;
It takes some thinking the first time you encounter it, but once you know it, you have clearer code, as you have indicated that foo is important here. Compare to:
if(bar()) {
foo = MAGIC;
} else {
foo++;
;
Which indicates that bar() is important. It also takes up several more lines.
Maybe that is too subtile. Learn how to use the operator, and then look for times to use it. It isn't evil, it is useful.
Your company HAS to pay for it, if it is work related, if it is not work related your insurance company pays. Go to a doctor and tell them to find out which, and what is wrong, and a reasonable cause. (Likely work, but it could be tennis or something else you do on your own time...)
If it is work, turn it into work and ask how to handle it. Most small companies prefer to pay small bills themselves to keep their claims and payments down. Nothing wrong with that, so long as the bill is paid. (Larger companies are generally self-insured so it amounts to the same thing, but the paperwork is different)
Don't worry about stigma, it isn't your problem. If they try to make it your problem just point out a few of the laws in your favor.
Re:This is not just for laughs
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SimChurch
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· Score: 1
I don't know, the only rural areas I know of without churches are small boats at sea. You know, 3 men sail from the US to Australia just because they can. Everywhere else in the world there is some sort of church. That sail boat likely had broadband via satellite. (If they don't it is more likely that they don't want it at that price than they can't get it)
Mind the quality of those churches varies. Get to some "savage" areas and it might be some strange (Strange as in something you don't believe in) religion.
I don't see how explicit spam is any different from sexual harassment. If I used the same tactics Spam is using on me to a women I'd get a sexual harassment case thrown my way.
Any lawyers care to comment on why I can't sue Spammers for sexual harassment? Better yet, anyone with to help me do so? I get enough penis enlargement spams to qualify as being harassed.
For you maybe, for me in 2010 I'll be driving my "new" 2004 VW jetta TDI. Assuming my current 1996 model cars are not still running of course, but history suggests that ~2009 I'll be buying a car to replace my current ones, and it will likely be a 2004 model. I don't know if it will really be a VW TDI, but I like that engine. I do know that I prefer diesels to gas engines (though I've never owned one), but if I can't get a diesel I'll at least insist on E-85 so I don't have to send as much money to the middle east.
Learn to navigate without a compass. I live in an area with many iron deposits, we learned long ago that a compass is not a reliable tool for navigation. We learn other tricks. (Starts at night, guesstimate the time and use the sun during the day). Combine that with knowing about what the land should look like and you can get close enough. Not as easy or are reliable a a compass in other areas, but it works.
One big advantage is you can set your root servers to something other than the Verisign monopoly. For your users than you can transparently connect to those weird sites that don't end in.com. Not helpful if you are only hosting websites, but if you have users using your server it is important.
Not that I would advocate war with anyone, but ammo would not be a problem should it get to that. ammo is easily manufactured in factories all over the US (And the world). People to pull the trigger while the gun is pointed at another human are much harder to find. Then too, a few bombs could take out the large population centers in India with a lot of deaths.
In the end though it is war, and therefore a stupid solution to the problem. So long as others remain lets use them. My preferred one: ignore it, India is bringing their standard of living up. Already India is facing outsourcing to cheaper labor areas, and those people who are working are starting to demand a few luxuries which we can supply.
Don't just talk to CEOs, talk to the CATO Institute for more pro positions. I'm sure you can find some other groups to balance their position if you need to. Don't play this as a Big evil corporation and their CEOs vs the little guy if you want an honest documentary. Of course if you just want to add to all the hype and get attention instead of informing people by all means play up the evil CEOs vs the little workers, just don't be surprised when you have no creditability.
I started to read that link, but I got sick over all the biased propaganda there.
Yes, industry does have a lot of propaganda power. So do activists. To trust either with your information is a mistake. Activists have positioned themselves as the little guy that the "Big evil corporation" is out to get, it gets a lot of sympathy, but it doesn't make their positions more valid.
Not on any system I know of. The SIM card is yours, but tied to a network. (AFAIK switching providers means you get a new SIM card, but now a days you keep your phone number) The phones themselves are tied to providers, but only until you pay for them. I have used the same SIM card in 5 different phones, and never contacted my provider. The last time I was at the providers office and they tested my sim by putting it in their phone, but they hadn't yet looked at the computer leading me to belive that SIMs are not normally locked.
Not on any system I know of. The SIM card is yours, but tied to a network. (AFAIK switching providers means you get a new SIM card, but now a days you keep your phone number) The phones themselves are tied to providers, but only until you pay for them. I have used the same SIM card in 5 different phones, and never contacted my provider. The last time I was at the providers office and they tested my sim by putting it in their phone, but they hadn't yet looked at the computer leading me to believe that SIMs are not normally locked.
Re:Designs cast in Stone
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UML Fever
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· Score: 4, Insightful
With a good UML tool it should be very easy to make changes. UML is worthless if you are not making changes to the models. Indeed if your UML is set in stone you should throw those stone tablets away.
UML used correctly is a good tool for getting your design down. Print that design poster size and hang it on your wall so you can at a glance see the design! However from several years of using UML I have discovered that you re-print that poster at least once a week because it goes out of date that quickly, and last weeks poster is useless. (even though that change is minor you can assume your work for the week will be based on the parts you changed)
No, GSM is not better than CDMA, it is different. Both have advantages and disadvantages.
As a over the air protocol CDMA is better than TDMA (which is what GSM uses over the air).
As a standard overall, GSM is better due to things like the SIM card which let you switch phones easily. However CDMA has a few features that GSM would be better to have, like the ability to tell your phone to turn on the new voice mail waiting signal. SMS to say you have voice mail works, but either you delete it without checking, and forget, or you leave the SMS in the inbox, and latter check without deleting it, either way getting out of sync.
In the end though, you care about sound quality, and that you have service everywhere. My personal Cell phone happens to be GSM, but I've also had CDMA phones, and both worked great. I can't tell a difference in sound quality. I can tell the difference in service that the two companies gave me, but that is not a protocol issue.
Tmobile uses 1900MHz only in the US. They are a worldwide company, and use the 900 and 1800 (not sure which, perhaps both?) in Europe.
They used to be known as the guys with the worst coverage nationwide, but nowadays with AT&T, and Cingular on GSM (plus several little guys) this isn't a big problem. There are large holes, but they are mostly where people don't go anyway. (Today I hit an area where I didn't have coverage, the first time I noticed in several years)
Make a big stink in city hall, and if the charges are not dropped, work for the opposition candidate and get rid of everyone in city hall and change the rules. Most cities are small enough that if you really work it yourself you can get rid of everyone in charge. (Not the big ones, but even then the suburbs are small enough that you can get rid of the current console if you spend your time knocking on doors every night)
Though as my dad says "You should never watch laws or sausage being made, for the same reasons". Still you can make a difference.
Smaller disk do == faster load times, sort-of. The laws of physics say you can only spin a disk of a certain size so fast before it is unable to resist the "centripital force" from rotation and flys apart. (IIRC the disks stretch enough before then that you can't read them, but either way there are physical limits to how fast you can spin) So it is an optimization problem, how dense can you record the data (mostly related to lazier wavelength), how much data you want on a disk controls the size, and how fast you want to load.
Obviously you can choose to put something you know will take the longest to load on the outside of the disk. However that still leaves the inside of the disk that you need to put data on, and it loads slower.
Get to know a few of these people one time. Sure they are not intelligent, but that doesn't mean they are not worth knowing. And the large majority are sterile so they are not mating and passing the bad genes on, unlike those who get mental illness latter in life who pass those bad genes on. (Assuming it is genetic, not always a given)
Yes it is hard on the family, but I know several families where one kids has Down's syndrome (Once you know one you often know several because they stick together), and the kids are interesting and worth know. They are not dumb vegetables. They get around (sort of), and have personalities of their own.
Quit spreading this "big lie", fluoridation is safe and prevents tooth decay. Excessive fluoride does cause mottling, but that is only an unsightly condition, not a health problem. In fact people with motting have less real dental problems, particularly if they also brush and floss once in a while. In any case the amount of fluoride added to drinking water is enough enough to cause mottling.
I once in my life took a shower under a 5 gallon/minute showhead, and it was wonderful! They don't make them like they used to. It is illegal in the US for a shower to use that much water. IIRC the most you are allowed in 3 gallons/minute, and likely less.
Sure you can reduce how much power you provide "instantly", but power plants have efficiencies that vary depending on the load. A typical coal power plant will be most efficient when running between 80 and 95% of peak capacity (depending on the design, some peak at the low end others the high end) Most of these plants take weeks to start and stop, so the best thing to do is keep them running at the peak efficiency level all the time. That means that somehow you need to get people to use the same amount of power all the time.
Perhaps because the municipal power authorities don't pay any attention to the future, take new lines the the non-municipal paid to install without paying for it, has many more customers per mile, and does minimal maintenance.
At least in my area it is like that. I'm a member of an electric co-op. We have 16 customers per mile of line on average, the nearest investor owned utility has ~45, and the municipal ~115. The municipal takes the high profit lines, and leaves the rest to someone else. Both the company, and the co-op are paying attention to future needs, making sure generators are getting upgraded before there is a need. The Municipals know nothing about running a utility, so they do only what is required to get by.
I find it hard to feel sorry for that one township you sited, since there are many townships without that high taxed power plant around. I'll admit a bias, the nearest city to me is facing a budget crunch because they counted an a power plant to pay for everything, and those taxes are going away, now they want to annex me to pay their dept on a beautiful (but too large) town hall, and other boondoggles.
Wholesale rates have gone up everywhere. I live in an area where there never was regulation, and we face exactly the same higher rates. Coal prices are higher. Haven't you noticed that gas is nearly twice what it was 5 years ago? (Was $1.15/gallon, $1.78 now) It all connects.
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You lie. I drive 2-3 seconds behind the car in front of me, and cars to not constantly pull in filling the gap. One will here and there, but not constantly. In a 10 mile stretch today it amounted to 3 cars. This in stop an go traffic. That is one reason for the gap: leaving room for others, and those who did switch in front of me stayed in that lane for miles.
The gap has 3 purposes. First, safety, you can't react in under 1.5 seconds, so 2 seconds is minimun time distance. (You can fake it when closer by braking hard, but that will only work when the car in front of you isn't braking as hard) Second, politeness: let the other guy get into your lane when he wants to. Third environment, when the car ahead of your brakes, you can often just let off the gas to slow down enough. (Brakes trade speed for heat, letting off the gas does not, it would be a big difference if everyone did it.
Drive safely. Nobody else will, but you can still make a difference. You will at least get in less accidents.
Assume as everyone else does that bar is a filler for a more descriptive operations. When contriving examples it is often hard to come up with something reasonable that fits in a few lines.
I agree that cleaver code is to be avoided. I disagree that ? is a sign of clever code. It is a sign of someone who knows the language.
You could write
if(foo == bar) {
x = doSomething();
} else {
y = SomethingDifferent();
}
with the ? operator, but it wouldn't be clear. The example I gave previously is clearer using the ? operator. It sits on one line and makes it clear that changing foo is important. The later example needs to make it clear that different things are happening depending on the situation.
Whitespace is a different argument (I don't write code like I just posted it, I'm just too lazy to figure out how to make the above look nice in html). Overall whitespace is good, but the style you posted has the disadvantage of taking more lines, meaning you can see less code on screen at a time and that makes it hard to understand code, despite the other advantages. But there is a reason whitespace arguments are considered religious: no two people will ever agree perfectly.
The ternary operator is VERY useful and creates very readable code, when used correctly.
I started a new job, and the previous program used it all over. The first couple times I encountered it I thought it was strange and had to go back to the books to figure out how it worked. After that I knew it. Now I find I use it nearly as much a a simple if. Used correct ? : is much more readable than if else.
Correct useage is:
foo = bar() ? MAGIC : foo++;
It takes some thinking the first time you encounter it, but once you know it, you have clearer code, as you have indicated that foo is important here. Compare to:
if(bar()) {
foo = MAGIC;
} else {
foo++;
;
Which indicates that bar() is important. It also takes up several more lines.
Maybe that is too subtile. Learn how to use the operator, and then look for times to use it. It isn't evil, it is useful.
Your company HAS to pay for it, if it is work related, if it is not work related your insurance company pays. Go to a doctor and tell them to find out which, and what is wrong, and a reasonable cause. (Likely work, but it could be tennis or something else you do on your own time...)
If it is work, turn it into work and ask how to handle it. Most small companies prefer to pay small bills themselves to keep their claims and payments down. Nothing wrong with that, so long as the bill is paid. (Larger companies are generally self-insured so it amounts to the same thing, but the paperwork is different)
Don't worry about stigma, it isn't your problem. If they try to make it your problem just point out a few of the laws in your favor.
I don't know, the only rural areas I know of without churches are small boats at sea. You know, 3 men sail from the US to Australia just because they can. Everywhere else in the world there is some sort of church. That sail boat likely had broadband via satellite. (If they don't it is more likely that they don't want it at that price than they can't get it)
Mind the quality of those churches varies. Get to some "savage" areas and it might be some strange (Strange as in something you don't believe in) religion.
I don't see how explicit spam is any different from sexual harassment. If I used the same tactics Spam is using on me to a women I'd get a sexual harassment case thrown my way.
Any lawyers care to comment on why I can't sue Spammers for sexual harassment? Better yet, anyone with to help me do so? I get enough penis enlargement spams to qualify as being harassed.
For you maybe, for me in 2010 I'll be driving my "new" 2004 VW jetta TDI. Assuming my current 1996 model cars are not still running of course, but history suggests that ~2009 I'll be buying a car to replace my current ones, and it will likely be a 2004 model. I don't know if it will really be a VW TDI, but I like that engine. I do know that I prefer diesels to gas engines (though I've never owned one), but if I can't get a diesel I'll at least insist on E-85 so I don't have to send as much money to the middle east.
Learn to navigate without a compass. I live in an area with many iron deposits, we learned long ago that a compass is not a reliable tool for navigation. We learn other tricks. (Starts at night, guesstimate the time and use the sun during the day). Combine that with knowing about what the land should look like and you can get close enough. Not as easy or are reliable a a compass in other areas, but it works.
One big advantage is you can set your root servers to something other than the Verisign monopoly. For your users than you can transparently connect to those weird sites that don't end in .com. Not helpful if you are only hosting websites, but if you have users using your server it is important.
Not that I would advocate war with anyone, but ammo would not be a problem should it get to that. ammo is easily manufactured in factories all over the US (And the world). People to pull the trigger while the gun is pointed at another human are much harder to find. Then too, a few bombs could take out the large population centers in India with a lot of deaths.
In the end though it is war, and therefore a stupid solution to the problem. So long as others remain lets use them. My preferred one: ignore it, India is bringing their standard of living up. Already India is facing outsourcing to cheaper labor areas, and those people who are working are starting to demand a few luxuries which we can supply.
Don't just talk to CEOs, talk to the CATO Institute for more pro positions. I'm sure you can find some other groups to balance their position if you need to. Don't play this as a Big evil corporation and their CEOs vs the little guy if you want an honest documentary. Of course if you just want to add to all the hype and get attention instead of informing people by all means play up the evil CEOs vs the little workers, just don't be surprised when you have no creditability.
I started to read that link, but I got sick over all the biased propaganda there.
Yes, industry does have a lot of propaganda power. So do activists. To trust either with your information is a mistake. Activists have positioned themselves as the little guy that the "Big evil corporation" is out to get, it gets a lot of sympathy, but it doesn't make their positions more valid.
Not on any system I know of. The SIM card is yours, but tied to a network. (AFAIK switching providers means you get a new SIM card, but now a days you keep your phone number) The phones themselves are tied to providers, but only until you pay for them. I have used the same SIM card in 5 different phones, and never contacted my provider. The last time I was at the providers office and they tested my sim by putting it in their phone, but they hadn't yet looked at the computer leading me to belive that SIMs are not normally locked.
Not on any system I know of. The SIM card is yours, but tied to a network. (AFAIK switching providers means you get a new SIM card, but now a days you keep your phone number) The phones themselves are tied to providers, but only until you pay for them. I have used the same SIM card in 5 different phones, and never contacted my provider. The last time I was at the providers office and they tested my sim by putting it in their phone, but they hadn't yet looked at the computer leading me to believe that SIMs are not normally locked.
With a good UML tool it should be very easy to make changes. UML is worthless if you are not making changes to the models. Indeed if your UML is set in stone you should throw those stone tablets away.
UML used correctly is a good tool for getting your design down. Print that design poster size and hang it on your wall so you can at a glance see the design! However from several years of using UML I have discovered that you re-print that poster at least once a week because it goes out of date that quickly, and last weeks poster is useless. (even though that change is minor you can assume your work for the week will be based on the parts you changed)
No, GSM is not better than CDMA, it is different. Both have advantages and disadvantages.
As a over the air protocol CDMA is better than TDMA (which is what GSM uses over the air).
As a standard overall, GSM is better due to things like the SIM card which let you switch phones easily. However CDMA has a few features that GSM would be better to have, like the ability to tell your phone to turn on the new voice mail waiting signal. SMS to say you have voice mail works, but either you delete it without checking, and forget, or you leave the SMS in the inbox, and latter check without deleting it, either way getting out of sync.
In the end though, you care about sound quality, and that you have service everywhere. My personal Cell phone happens to be GSM, but I've also had CDMA phones, and both worked great. I can't tell a difference in sound quality. I can tell the difference in service that the two companies gave me, but that is not a protocol issue.
Tmobile uses 1900MHz only in the US. They are a worldwide company, and use the 900 and 1800 (not sure which, perhaps both?) in Europe.
They used to be known as the guys with the worst coverage nationwide, but nowadays with AT&T, and Cingular on GSM (plus several little guys) this isn't a big problem. There are large holes, but they are mostly where people don't go anyway. (Today I hit an area where I didn't have coverage, the first time I noticed in several years)
Make a big stink in city hall, and if the charges are not dropped, work for the opposition candidate and get rid of everyone in city hall and change the rules. Most cities are small enough that if you really work it yourself you can get rid of everyone in charge. (Not the big ones, but even then the suburbs are small enough that you can get rid of the current console if you spend your time knocking on doors every night)
Though as my dad says "You should never watch laws or sausage being made, for the same reasons". Still you can make a difference.
Smaller disk do == faster load times, sort-of. The laws of physics say you can only spin a disk of a certain size so fast before it is unable to resist the "centripital force" from rotation and flys apart. (IIRC the disks stretch enough before then that you can't read them, but either way there are physical limits to how fast you can spin) So it is an optimization problem, how dense can you record the data (mostly related to lazier wavelength), how much data you want on a disk controls the size, and how fast you want to load.
Obviously you can choose to put something you know will take the longest to load on the outside of the disk. However that still leaves the inside of the disk that you need to put data on, and it loads slower.
Get to know a few of these people one time. Sure they are not intelligent, but that doesn't mean they are not worth knowing. And the large majority are sterile so they are not mating and passing the bad genes on, unlike those who get mental illness latter in life who pass those bad genes on. (Assuming it is genetic, not always a given)
Yes it is hard on the family, but I know several families where one kids has Down's syndrome (Once you know one you often know several because they stick together), and the kids are interesting and worth know. They are not dumb vegetables. They get around (sort of), and have personalities of their own.
FUD
Quit spreading this "big lie", fluoridation is safe and prevents tooth decay. Excessive fluoride does cause mottling, but that is only an unsightly condition, not a health problem. In fact people with motting have less real dental problems, particularly if they also brush and floss once in a while. In any case the amount of fluoride added to drinking water is enough enough to cause mottling.
I once in my life took a shower under a 5 gallon/minute showhead, and it was wonderful! They don't make them like they used to. It is illegal in the US for a shower to use that much water. IIRC the most you are allowed in 3 gallons/minute, and likely less.
Sure you can reduce how much power you provide "instantly", but power plants have efficiencies that vary depending on the load. A typical coal power plant will be most efficient when running between 80 and 95% of peak capacity (depending on the design, some peak at the low end others the high end) Most of these plants take weeks to start and stop, so the best thing to do is keep them running at the peak efficiency level all the time. That means that somehow you need to get people to use the same amount of power all the time.
If big old tress had a decent chance of survival after being moved I might be impressed. Typically old trees to not survive moves well, so why bother?
Perhaps because the municipal power authorities don't pay any attention to the future, take new lines the the non-municipal paid to install without paying for it, has many more customers per mile, and does minimal maintenance.
At least in my area it is like that. I'm a member of an electric co-op. We have 16 customers per mile of line on average, the nearest investor owned utility has ~45, and the municipal ~115. The municipal takes the high profit lines, and leaves the rest to someone else. Both the company, and the co-op are paying attention to future needs, making sure generators are getting upgraded before there is a need. The Municipals know nothing about running a utility, so they do only what is required to get by.
I find it hard to feel sorry for that one township you sited, since there are many townships without that high taxed power plant around. I'll admit a bias, the nearest city to me is facing a budget crunch because they counted an a power plant to pay for everything, and those taxes are going away, now they want to annex me to pay their dept on a beautiful (but too large) town hall, and other boondoggles.
Wholesale rates have gone up everywhere. I live in an area where there never was regulation, and we face exactly the same higher rates. Coal prices are higher. Haven't you noticed that gas is nearly twice what it was 5 years ago? (Was $1.15/gallon, $1.78 now) It all connects.