The shotgun worked for me. I kept sending resumes until one hit a little company that appearently gets about 5 a year, so when mine came in on the job email they jumped on it.
Knowing insiders is the best way to get a job. Your carefully done coverletter is best used as a place to drop a few names, make the reader not want to have to explain in the halls why he didn't hire you. If you don't know those names (really know, if they check and the name doesn't know you you will never work there even if noone else qualified applied) the cover letter looks like everyone else with "expirence in X", who "enjoys [learning/working with people]".
I have to agree with him. I've played Grand theft auto, and I belive people should be horified about the kind of guy they are playing. Horified that they can find in themselves the type of person who would do that, even in a game. Never mind that it is a game and they can recignise the difference between a game and real life, they can do that in a game.
It isn't right to make that type of game illegal (unless someone proves byond all doupt that it really does lead everyone to bad behaviour...), but that doesn't mean it is right to enjoy the game.
Faking email is great for practical jokes. Like the time I sent this one girl a message from "god@heaven", with a message "I see your purple toenails, if you don't shape up"... and so on in that line. Silly, and useless, but we both got a good laugh.
Now if you fake an email is should be obviously fake. Faking something from paypal to get someone's account info should be illegal. But do you really want to throw out harmless practical jokes like the above too?
Nahh, Jesus' "desktop" is nothing like anything you could imangine. The speach interface is so powerful that he just says "Let there be light", and photons are automaticly designed and they spring into existance from nothing.
Yes, his desktop fully violates most of the laws of physics.
They would need to survive for more than a couple of years. Even if the day they landed someone found a breakthrough that allowed their recovery, it would take more than a couple years to impliment it.
That means we would need to plan on sending enough supplies that they could survive for many years even if we can't.
If these are standard astronaughts, I refuse to be a part of sending them on a one way trip where they will starve to death (or other death do to lack of supplies). These people are too smart and too well trained to throw away like that. I don't object to the one way trip, so long as they can keep busy doing real science until their die of nateral causes. There is plenty of science to do on Mars, so supplies are the problem. (Yes it is a high risk deal anyway, but if they die in an accident that is different from deliberatly killing them)
Now if these people were skum that we wanted to get rid of, I wouldn't object to a starvation trip. I'm not aware of anyone on death row (who really commited the crime he is accused of...) who is qualified to do research on Mars, but I'd be willing to send such a person on a one way starvation trip. I'd make sure there was plenty to do before he died, but anything that doesn't need human intervention isn't in range for him to destroy out of vengence.
Considering that Spirit seemed to work fine for seveal days, I suspect they will just scale back the missions a little bit until they figgure out what is wrong. If nothing else, since Spirit got outside succesfully, we can be pretty sure that Opportunity can leave normally.
The fix needs to be found (assuming it isn't some other hardware...) so they don't run into this again. However this gives some hope that they can work while looking for the fix.
I uise freeBSD everyday, and I have to ask why you would care about GNU/freeBSD. The utilities are essentially equivelent. There is a little more bloat (read features) in some of the GNU stuff. Nothing really significant though.
Sure it is neat that they can do it. However to say everyone should want to run it? I don't get it.
Where is beagel though? How about any of the Vikings? Or any of the failed Russian landers from years past?
I could get you within a meter of the car at my parents house (with a GPS). there are many shipwrecks that nobody can get you within 100 miles of. For that matter there are shipwrecks that we know where they are, but the wreckage was more than 100 miles from where the first parts of the wreck were discovered.
No, the number of probes is not infinate. However rocket scientist have known for years that for a short time (months? I'm not a rocket scientist) about now would be a perfect oppertunity to land on Mars. So they all worked really hard to make sure that their mars missions were ready to arrive now.
Because of the alignment of the planets (no really), it is a lot cheaper for something to arrive at mars now, then last year or next year.
Computers on earth are so much more abundant and powerful than anything on mars that I doupt anything prevents decoding in realtime. (or at least as close to realtime as the radio link allows, which is likely the limit).
Depends on what they find. If they see Beagle sitting there in one piece, with obvious evidence that it successfully did all automatic landing procedures, deployed the antennas, they know that the problem is in the radio. (and might even be able to give it some commands to see if it is just a sending problem?) Taht is very useful and tells which engineers screwed up. Otoh, if they just find a lot of derbis that tells them the landing failed. If it broke in half, they know what parts broke, and thus where more quality control is needed next time.
All useful information. Just looking at the pictures allows some calculations to be made.
There is a car in my parents yard that they are not using. I give you permission to take any part you want from it. (The engine is sitting in the backseat and isn't worth fixing so I can give you permission) All you have to do is find it, someplace on earth, so it shouldn't be a big deal.
Not very helpful is it? Earth is very large. Okay, so in most cases we know about where a particular rover is. So my parents live near [some town in the US]. Near meaning that you only have to search about 10 square miles to find it. No big deal, until you look at the location of the next car to salvage and realize it is in India, and the one after that in South Africa. Sure you can optimise the list anyway you want to, but there is still a lot of travel time. Unlike earth there is nothing inbetween (no oceans, but also no other refueling stations or repair shops)
Right, unfortunatly water is a strange thing, acting very different from most other materials. It hits the minimun density at about 4 degrees C. That is it contracts as it cools until it gets 4, then it starts expanding.
Iron does in fact contract when it solidifies. As it contracts it pulls more and more iron (okay a very tiny amount more) in. When you heat something containing solid iron, that iron needs to go someplace. Heat from the bottom of a container, and the bottom will melt first, and expand, but there is solid iron above it, so something has to give. Often that is the container.
Apperaently you are not a programmer... Okay, the system was windows 2000, but from all accounts it should be just as stable. I used to regularly crash them just by inserting a special CD.
Eventially I figgured out what I had been doing wrong with the ISO9660 filesystem I was writing, once I fixed those bugs I didn't have to reboot. However I no longer belive anyone who says windows is stable. Windows is table only under correct inputs.
I never got to try those CDs under linux/freeBSD, I always wanted to, just to see how they stood up.
If you bursh up on your thermodynamics you will notice that simple fuels (say coal) cannot reach 50% efficency). Iron melts close to the flame tempature of some fuels. Run the calculations of efficency, and 50% looks really good.
Of course real industry uses electric a lot. However resisance (ohms law), while in theory 100% efficent has downsides. The heating elements are fragil, and that is assuming you can find one that doesn't melt at less than the tempature of liquid iron. Typically carbon arc furances are used, which means you replace carbon rods once in a while.
Induction heating is common in industry. I'm not sure where, or for what purposes, but I know it is used. I don't know how it compares to this process.
Not nessicarly. Most third world countries don't have reliable power. If you have molten iron, and the power goes out, you have to empty everything fast, because once it solidifies it will crack the containers when you try to remove it. (as it cools it contracts, when you melt it, it expands. think frozen water)
Remember too that energy is cheap in the US. I doupt any third world country really has a major advantage there. Perhaps Iceland, with all their geo-thermo, they have already locked up aluminium, but are they third world?
There are a lot of issues. If you want a custom shape from your supplier it is much easier to get it from one in your town than a third world nation. If your factory is automatied enough, labor costs aren't significant anyway, (it is all skilled labor which you would have to import to the third world country) so what is the point in moving.
Most of the "japanese" car manufactors have factorys in the US. You can have a profitable manufactoring company in the US, if you run it right.
It's amazing that in the USA, the land of
equal opportunity and "freedom" that a bunch of people having fun can
get such a comment for doing nothing else but having some innocent
fun.
I think that the definition of freedom includes the freedom to make fun of people making a fool of themselves, as well as the freedom to make a fool of one's self. Not to mention doing both at once with some comments.
I find it amazing that whatever culture you come from doesn't allow you to speak your mind [when you will look foolish for it] about others looking foolish.
I get my own water from my own well. And it is my responsibility to make sure it is safe and drinkable. (safe is easy. However I have enough iron and other minerals that it isn't drinkable without a lot of equipment I buy and maintain)
My local rural utility is a co-op, nobody was willing to provide power to us, so a bunch of us (back long before my parents were born) got togather and did it.
Public school should be a local issue, get the federal government out of it.
I've been laid off for 2 weeks now, and still eating... My dad has been laid off for 2+ years and counting, and both of us are eating. I haven't recived an unemployment check yet. My dad's unemplyment ran out over a year ago, and he still eats. Its called planing for a rainy day. I could survive several months on no income, and my dad already has. Of course eventially... But there are always jobs if you are willing to do them. I've known people to raise a family on what McDonalds pays so don't try to claim it can't be done.
I'm not stupid enough to belive that Socal Security will every pay me anything.
Mind you I'm not against all programs. However they are IMO far too big. I'll help the disabled. (mentially or physically), but when someone decides they are 65 so they should live off me, I don't like it. When my governemnt attacks other countries I wonder if it is worth it. (sometimes there is no choice, but I always wonder) There are some things government does well, I don't object to paying for them. However there is far too much being done by government. IMHO of course. I vote, but appearently not all voters agree, and that is life.
Cause few people go to the mall to hang out with people from different geographical areas. I go to the mall with friends. I arrange to meet a few friends at the mall when the come to town (presumably for some other reason). When I go to a convention I don't know who all will be there, but I know we share an interest, so I will meet some new people.
You can have a convention at a mall, but the atmosphere and expentation is different between malls and conventions.
Typically you will not see too many talks at a mall. They might hire someone to get you in the door, but many people at the mall will have no interest. At a convention I might not be interested in a particular speach, but they are a part of the main event even if I don't go to any.
For a micropayment, the cost to a single mistake would be small enough that you wouldn't care. It costs me about 30 cents to mail a letter, if once in a while I had to pay 2 cents because someone mistook my email, I can afford it. A spammer cannot however afford all the recipents of his spam charging 2 cents because it adds up
Unfortunatly I don't know if it is worth the effort to hit the charge sender button. Means I have to sign up for a lot of things, for little appearent gain.
The bigger problem with this though is real mailing lists. Its easy enough to sign up for the countrpane newsletter on a lot of accounts (script), and then (again scripted) when a newsletter arrives hit the charge button.
Not the patriot act, but you don't have free speach within 60 days of an elections.
Again not the patriot act, but you don't have freedom to own arms that would be perfectly suitable for a milital (like a full automatic gun, or even the more useful 3 shot burst)
The third ammendment (IIRC... quartering troops) isn't an issue, but I'm sure you could find areas of at least grey for the rest.
The 9th and 10th are perhaps the most violated. The federal governemtn can't set a drinking age, yet they have practily set it. And other little things like that.
Sure if it is obvious. What if the scam happened to appear to come from your bank, and you normally get email from them.
Discover sends me monthy reminders just before my bill is due, if I havn't paid yet. I'd be vunerable to an email that appeared to come from discover and just wanted me to update my personal information. I don't think I would fall for it, but if done cleaverly enough I might. (fortunatly I read email in a program which cannot launch a browser, so I have to cut and paste URLs, but given a clever enough mispessling of novus.com (discovercrd.com for instance which looks almost right, perhaps you could do better) I might fall for it.
I've never seen a 3 pronged pitchfork, except in optical illusions, but a 4 prong one is common. However they are mostly good if you are a farmer storming the local castle, and then only because you have one.
For a real multi-prong approach try a fish spear. 4-7 prongs, each very sharp, and designed to hook into flesh and not let go. No simple puncture wounds, once you catch someone with a fish spear they don't come off unless they are dead. (very handy if you plan on eating the target, though personally I can't imanging eating a spammer)
If your documents are that big you need a better editor than Word. FrameMaker is popular for a reason.
Personally I find kWord good enough for me now that I don't have to deal with big documents. I only use OpenOffice (which is too slow to try for daily use on my old system) when I get something in word format. Hopefully the next kWord update will fix that, but I'm not sure.
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Yeah, except that it would be pure fiction. Many people will agree it is a good idea, but few or none will actually live it.
The shotgun worked for me. I kept sending resumes until one hit a little company that appearently gets about 5 a year, so when mine came in on the job email they jumped on it.
Knowing insiders is the best way to get a job. Your carefully done coverletter is best used as a place to drop a few names, make the reader not want to have to explain in the halls why he didn't hire you. If you don't know those names (really know, if they check and the name doesn't know you you will never work there even if noone else qualified applied) the cover letter looks like everyone else with "expirence in X", who "enjoys [learning/working with people]".
I have to agree with him. I've played Grand theft auto, and I belive people should be horified about the kind of guy they are playing. Horified that they can find in themselves the type of person who would do that, even in a game. Never mind that it is a game and they can recignise the difference between a game and real life, they can do that in a game.
It isn't right to make that type of game illegal (unless someone proves byond all doupt that it really does lead everyone to bad behaviour...), but that doesn't mean it is right to enjoy the game.
Faking email is great for practical jokes. Like the time I sent this one girl a message from "god@heaven", with a message "I see your purple toenails, if you don't shape up"... and so on in that line. Silly, and useless, but we both got a good laugh.
Now if you fake an email is should be obviously fake. Faking something from paypal to get someone's account info should be illegal. But do you really want to throw out harmless practical jokes like the above too?
Nahh, Jesus' "desktop" is nothing like anything you could imangine. The speach interface is so powerful that he just says "Let there be light", and photons are automaticly designed and they spring into existance from nothing.
Yes, his desktop fully violates most of the laws of physics.
They would need to survive for more than a couple of years. Even if the day they landed someone found a breakthrough that allowed their recovery, it would take more than a couple years to impliment it.
That means we would need to plan on sending enough supplies that they could survive for many years even if we can't.
If these are standard astronaughts, I refuse to be a part of sending them on a one way trip where they will starve to death (or other death do to lack of supplies). These people are too smart and too well trained to throw away like that. I don't object to the one way trip, so long as they can keep busy doing real science until their die of nateral causes. There is plenty of science to do on Mars, so supplies are the problem. (Yes it is a high risk deal anyway, but if they die in an accident that is different from deliberatly killing them)
Now if these people were skum that we wanted to get rid of, I wouldn't object to a starvation trip. I'm not aware of anyone on death row (who really commited the crime he is accused of...) who is qualified to do research on Mars, but I'd be willing to send such a person on a one way starvation trip. I'd make sure there was plenty to do before he died, but anything that doesn't need human intervention isn't in range for him to destroy out of vengence.
Considering that Spirit seemed to work fine for seveal days, I suspect they will just scale back the missions a little bit until they figgure out what is wrong. If nothing else, since Spirit got outside succesfully, we can be pretty sure that Opportunity can leave normally.
The fix needs to be found (assuming it isn't some other hardware...) so they don't run into this again. However this gives some hope that they can work while looking for the fix.
I uise freeBSD everyday, and I have to ask why you would care about GNU/freeBSD. The utilities are essentially equivelent. There is a little more bloat (read features) in some of the GNU stuff. Nothing really significant though.
Sure it is neat that they can do it. However to say everyone should want to run it? I don't get it.
Where is beagel though? How about any of the Vikings? Or any of the failed Russian landers from years past?
I could get you within a meter of the car at my parents house (with a GPS). there are many shipwrecks that nobody can get you within 100 miles of. For that matter there are shipwrecks that we know where they are, but the wreckage was more than 100 miles from where the first parts of the wreck were discovered.
No, the number of probes is not infinate. However rocket scientist have known for years that for a short time (months? I'm not a rocket scientist) about now would be a perfect oppertunity to land on Mars. So they all worked really hard to make sure that their mars missions were ready to arrive now.
Because of the alignment of the planets (no really), it is a lot cheaper for something to arrive at mars now, then last year or next year.
Computers on earth are so much more abundant and powerful than anything on mars that I doupt anything prevents decoding in realtime. (or at least as close to realtime as the radio link allows, which is likely the limit).
Depends on what they find. If they see Beagle sitting there in one piece, with obvious evidence that it successfully did all automatic landing procedures, deployed the antennas, they know that the problem is in the radio. (and might even be able to give it some commands to see if it is just a sending problem?) Taht is very useful and tells which engineers screwed up. Otoh, if they just find a lot of derbis that tells them the landing failed. If it broke in half, they know what parts broke, and thus where more quality control is needed next time.
All useful information. Just looking at the pictures allows some calculations to be made.
There is a car in my parents yard that they are not using. I give you permission to take any part you want from it. (The engine is sitting in the backseat and isn't worth fixing so I can give you permission) All you have to do is find it, someplace on earth, so it shouldn't be a big deal.
Not very helpful is it? Earth is very large. Okay, so in most cases we know about where a particular rover is. So my parents live near [some town in the US]. Near meaning that you only have to search about 10 square miles to find it. No big deal, until you look at the location of the next car to salvage and realize it is in India, and the one after that in South Africa. Sure you can optimise the list anyway you want to, but there is still a lot of travel time. Unlike earth there is nothing inbetween (no oceans, but also no other refueling stations or repair shops)
Right, unfortunatly water is a strange thing, acting very different from most other materials. It hits the minimun density at about 4 degrees C. That is it contracts as it cools until it gets 4, then it starts expanding.
Iron does in fact contract when it solidifies. As it contracts it pulls more and more iron (okay a very tiny amount more) in. When you heat something containing solid iron, that iron needs to go someplace. Heat from the bottom of a container, and the bottom will melt first, and expand, but there is solid iron above it, so something has to give. Often that is the container.
Apperaently you are not a programmer... Okay, the system was windows 2000, but from all accounts it should be just as stable. I used to regularly crash them just by inserting a special CD.
Eventially I figgured out what I had been doing wrong with the ISO9660 filesystem I was writing, once I fixed those bugs I didn't have to reboot. However I no longer belive anyone who says windows is stable. Windows is table only under correct inputs.
I never got to try those CDs under linux/freeBSD, I always wanted to, just to see how they stood up.
If you bursh up on your thermodynamics you will notice that simple fuels (say coal) cannot reach 50% efficency). Iron melts close to the flame tempature of some fuels. Run the calculations of efficency, and 50% looks really good.
Of course real industry uses electric a lot. However resisance (ohms law), while in theory 100% efficent has downsides. The heating elements are fragil, and that is assuming you can find one that doesn't melt at less than the tempature of liquid iron. Typically carbon arc furances are used, which means you replace carbon rods once in a while.
Induction heating is common in industry. I'm not sure where, or for what purposes, but I know it is used. I don't know how it compares to this process.
Not nessicarly. Most third world countries don't have reliable power. If you have molten iron, and the power goes out, you have to empty everything fast, because once it solidifies it will crack the containers when you try to remove it. (as it cools it contracts, when you melt it, it expands. think frozen water)
Remember too that energy is cheap in the US. I doupt any third world country really has a major advantage there. Perhaps Iceland, with all their geo-thermo, they have already locked up aluminium, but are they third world?
There are a lot of issues. If you want a custom shape from your supplier it is much easier to get it from one in your town than a third world nation. If your factory is automatied enough, labor costs aren't significant anyway, (it is all skilled labor which you would have to import to the third world country) so what is the point in moving.
Most of the "japanese" car manufactors have factorys in the US. You can have a profitable manufactoring company in the US, if you run it right.
It's amazing that in the USA, the land of equal opportunity and "freedom" that a bunch of people having fun can get such a comment for doing nothing else but having some innocent fun.
I think that the definition of freedom includes the freedom to make fun of people making a fool of themselves, as well as the freedom to make a fool of one's self. Not to mention doing both at once with some comments.
I find it amazing that whatever culture you come from doesn't allow you to speak your mind [when you will look foolish for it] about others looking foolish.
I get my own water from my own well. And it is my responsibility to make sure it is safe and drinkable. (safe is easy. However I have enough iron and other minerals that it isn't drinkable without a lot of equipment I buy and maintain)
My local rural utility is a co-op, nobody was willing to provide power to us, so a bunch of us (back long before my parents were born) got togather and did it.
Public school should be a local issue, get the federal government out of it.
I've been laid off for 2 weeks now, and still eating... My dad has been laid off for 2+ years and counting, and both of us are eating. I haven't recived an unemployment check yet. My dad's unemplyment ran out over a year ago, and he still eats. Its called planing for a rainy day. I could survive several months on no income, and my dad already has. Of course eventially... But there are always jobs if you are willing to do them. I've known people to raise a family on what McDonalds pays so don't try to claim it can't be done.
I'm not stupid enough to belive that Socal Security will every pay me anything.
Mind you I'm not against all programs. However they are IMO far too big. I'll help the disabled. (mentially or physically), but when someone decides they are 65 so they should live off me, I don't like it. When my governemnt attacks other countries I wonder if it is worth it. (sometimes there is no choice, but I always wonder) There are some things government does well, I don't object to paying for them. However there is far too much being done by government. IMHO of course. I vote, but appearently not all voters agree, and that is life.
Cause few people go to the mall to hang out with people from different geographical areas. I go to the mall with friends. I arrange to meet a few friends at the mall when the come to town (presumably for some other reason). When I go to a convention I don't know who all will be there, but I know we share an interest, so I will meet some new people.
You can have a convention at a mall, but the atmosphere and expentation is different between malls and conventions.
Typically you will not see too many talks at a mall. They might hire someone to get you in the door, but many people at the mall will have no interest. At a convention I might not be interested in a particular speach, but they are a part of the main event even if I don't go to any.
For a micropayment, the cost to a single mistake would be small enough that you wouldn't care. It costs me about 30 cents to mail a letter, if once in a while I had to pay 2 cents because someone mistook my email, I can afford it. A spammer cannot however afford all the recipents of his spam charging 2 cents because it adds up
Unfortunatly I don't know if it is worth the effort to hit the charge sender button. Means I have to sign up for a lot of things, for little appearent gain.
The bigger problem with this though is real mailing lists. Its easy enough to sign up for the countrpane newsletter on a lot of accounts (script), and then (again scripted) when a newsletter arrives hit the charge button.
Not the patriot act, but you don't have free speach within 60 days of an elections.
Again not the patriot act, but you don't have freedom to own arms that would be perfectly suitable for a milital (like a full automatic gun, or even the more useful 3 shot burst)
The third ammendment (IIRC... quartering troops) isn't an issue, but I'm sure you could find areas of at least grey for the rest.
The 9th and 10th are perhaps the most violated. The federal governemtn can't set a drinking age, yet they have practily set it. And other little things like that.
Sure if it is obvious. What if the scam happened to appear to come from your bank, and you normally get email from them.
Discover sends me monthy reminders just before my bill is due, if I havn't paid yet. I'd be vunerable to an email that appeared to come from discover and just wanted me to update my personal information. I don't think I would fall for it, but if done cleaverly enough I might. (fortunatly I read email in a program which cannot launch a browser, so I have to cut and paste URLs, but given a clever enough mispessling of novus.com (discovercrd.com for instance which looks almost right, perhaps you could do better) I might fall for it.
I've never seen a 3 pronged pitchfork, except in optical illusions, but a 4 prong one is common. However they are mostly good if you are a farmer storming the local castle, and then only because you have one.
For a real multi-prong approach try a fish spear. 4-7 prongs, each very sharp, and designed to hook into flesh and not let go. No simple puncture wounds, once you catch someone with a fish spear they don't come off unless they are dead. (very handy if you plan on eating the target, though personally I can't imanging eating a spammer)
If your documents are that big you need a better editor than Word. FrameMaker is popular for a reason.
Personally I find kWord good enough for me now that I don't have to deal with big documents. I only use OpenOffice (which is too slow to try for daily use on my old system) when I get something in word format. Hopefully the next kWord update will fix that, but I'm not sure.