Hey... can you tell me more about the Sales Engineer...
I'm currently considering my next career step (avoiding management, currently I'm a senior technical architect), and found a job ad for a Technical PreSales Evangelist... which I guess is similar to Sales Engineer
What do you actually do? What kind of technical and challenging problems do you solve?
Actually, now that you mention it, I think it may have been these exact two names that got me passionate about programming in the first place. The imagery of peeking into some abstraction, to see what is there, and then poking it with your finger to change it.
Similar to the imagery of push and pop, in perl for example.
I think the danger is that if the Customer thinks his ISP is making him safe, he is in a safe sense of security. Things will still get through via open ports, activex, email, etc, and the customer will bitch and whine because their ISP were supposed to be firewalling for them.
That would mean the object was spiralling towards the earth, revolving around it at 1 revolution per day, with it's velocity slowing down (or the angle could change) as the circumference of it's orbit(ish) got smaller.
It would have to be an powered craft of some sort.
Does anyone else find it amusing to see "Maddog" every single time his name is mentioned?
I've not been a Maddog for sometime, but a few years ago I said I was thinking of becoming a Maddog, and since then some people have called me "Maddog".
Maybe it's just me..
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Policemans (1st 2nd or 3rd) Ball... can't remember who did it... Peter cook, rowan atkinson not the 9 oclock news... someone along these lines
I've only heard it on audio tape.. not seen it on vid
Godel, Escher, Bach the man who mistook his wife for a hat it's not about the bike on writing well how proust will change your life walden zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance Lila: an inquiry into morals The Cannibal Queen : an aerial odyssey across America the minds eye how to win friends and influence people
off the top of my head:)
Mitnick's book is on my list of worst books ever. it's %99 filler, %1 content. I was determined and made it quarter of the way through, the person I borrowed it from (and bought it for) didn't finish the first chapter. As one amazon review said: "very repetitive, very repetitive"
The thing that always stuck me about Wile E Coyote's plans is that occasionally he would have a brilliant plan, but something would go wrong, the rope would come loose, or the buckle would break.
Then he's move onto the next plan.
I'd be yelling at the TV, "Try it again! It's a good bloody plan!"
The other amusing thing about this is I keep seeing the same situation in real life. Someone would try one thing, it would go wrong, and they'd decide it was obviously a bad idea, whereas thats not necessarily the case.
I regret saying this already, it shows my age, and possibly my viewing habits.
In the brief remake series of Knight Rider, Knight Rider 2000 I think it was called, Kit could disable cars from a distance presumably with a similar device. I beleive the bad guys then did something to their Porsche Carerra 911's which made them impervious to this attack.
David Hasselhof's hair was similarly insulated from the radiation.
I agree it acts exactly like a mind would, but it's not a mind.
I've seen the cams and pistons and bore and stroke and valves and shafts and spark plugs, coils, compression, explosion, expansion etc. I agree it acts like an internal combustion engine, but how do I know it's an actual internal combustion engine, and not just acting like one?
The point being, we judge our own mind solely by how it acts, depite knowing it's just simple electrical impules and synaptical thresholds, so we can only just an artificial mind on the same basis.
A good book that adresses all these issues (not as much with AI, but with mind) is "The Minds I", by Douglas Hofstadter and Danial C Dennett.
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I think you're right. I think my quote was Penn Jillette paraphrasing Carlin.
Why should it be illegal to sell what I can give away for free?
-- George Carlin, or someone...
>Cut, remove, splice, stitch.
I think you are exactly right - read Atul Gawande's book Complications, the bit about hernia operations. He talks about it in this interview - http://www.abc.net.au/rn/backgroundbriefing/stories/2008/2122487.htm
Hmm... also read about the checklist, also by Gawande - http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_gawande
Both show that the mystery about doctors and medicines is somewhat misplaced... in many cases (and a growing percentage) robots rule.
Hey... can you tell me more about the Sales Engineer...
:)
I'm currently considering my next career step (avoiding management, currently I'm a senior technical architect), and found a job ad for a Technical PreSales Evangelist... which I guess is similar to Sales Engineer
What do you actually do? What kind of technical and challenging problems do you solve?
Cheers
Actually, now that you mention it, I think it may have been these exact two names that got me passionate about programming in the first place. The imagery of peeking into some abstraction, to see what is there, and then poking it with your finger to change it.
Similar to the imagery of push and pop, in perl for example.
Happiness isn't having what you want, it's wanting what you have.
I'll make money that goes blank in 8 hours, and buy them with that
Violent sack beatings are up 800 percent!
then we're looking at a very violent game of hot potato over the remaining fuel
You take the remaining fuel
No, You take it! I don't want it!
The local LUG could then administer the box by providing updated images to it remotely
Urm... would you let someone else dial into your network? I wouldn't let you into mine.
I think the danger is that if the Customer thinks his ISP is making him safe, he is in a safe sense of security. Things will still get through via open ports, activex, email, etc, and the customer will bitch and whine because their ISP were supposed to be firewalling for them.
My wife plays computer games.
Diablo, gauntlet, warcraft type games, on PS2 and PC
My favourite was her playing the Sims
"this game sucks, it's a stupid game, it sux", and then she'd play for another 6 hours... strange
I'm doing my Masters in IT at the moment, and so far we've developed in Java, Haskell, and C/GCC/prc-tools, using Eclipse as the recomended IDE.
No MS stuff so far.. I'm not sure if thats similar in Undergrad, but I suspect it might be.
This is at Macquarie University in Australia, in case you're wondering. They might be alone in this.
That would mean the object was spiralling towards the earth, revolving around it at 1 revolution per day, with it's velocity slowing down (or the angle could change) as the circumference of it's orbit(ish) got smaller.
It would have to be an powered craft of some sort.
Just a thought.
Richard Feynman once said:
"science is like sex, sometimes something useful comes from it, but thats not the reason we do it"
It's not the motive that is being funded, it's teh end result that is being funded.
Does anyone else find it amusing to see "Maddog" every single time his name is mentioned?
I've not been a Maddog for sometime, but a few years ago I said I was thinking of becoming a Maddog, and since then some people have called me "Maddog".
Maybe it's just me..
Policemans (1st 2nd or 3rd) Ball... can't remember who did it... Peter cook, rowan atkinson
not the 9 oclock news... someone along these lines
I've only heard it on audio tape.. not seen it on vid
Will this wind be so mighty, as to lay low the mountains of the earth?
just 1? in a month?
:)
Godel, Escher, Bach
the man who mistook his wife for a hat
it's not about the bike
on writing well
how proust will change your life
walden
zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
Lila: an inquiry into morals
The Cannibal Queen : an aerial odyssey across America
the minds eye
how to win friends and influence people
off the top of my head
Mitnick's book is on my list of worst books ever. it's %99 filler, %1 content. I was determined and made it quarter of the way through, the person I borrowed it from (and bought it for) didn't finish the first chapter. As one amazon review said: "very repetitive, very repetitive"
The thing that always stuck me about Wile E Coyote's plans is that occasionally he would have a brilliant plan, but something would go wrong, the rope would come loose, or the buckle would break.
Then he's move onto the next plan.
I'd be yelling at the TV, "Try it again! It's a good bloody plan!"
The other amusing thing about this is I keep seeing the same situation in real life. Someone would try one thing, it would go wrong, and they'd decide it was obviously a bad idea, whereas thats not necessarily the case.
blistering fast at 3,000+ fps
Did anyone else read this as frames per second, or just me?
I regret saying this already, it shows my age, and possibly my viewing habits.
In the brief remake series of Knight Rider, Knight Rider 2000 I think it was called, Kit could disable cars from a distance presumably with a similar device. I beleive the bad guys then did something to their Porsche Carerra 911's which made them impervious to this attack.
David Hasselhof's hair was similarly insulated from the radiation.
Anyone with cats knows the feeling.
Yeah, can anyone suggest a cheap filter to remove cats?
Isn't that the premise behind the Turing test?
I agree it acts exactly like a mind would, but it's not a mind.
I've seen the cams and pistons and bore and stroke and valves and shafts and spark plugs, coils, compression, explosion, expansion etc. I agree it acts like an internal combustion engine, but how do I know it's an actual internal combustion engine, and not just acting like one?
The point being, we judge our own mind solely by how it acts, depite knowing it's just simple electrical impules and synaptical thresholds, so we can only just an artificial mind on the same basis.
A good book that adresses all these issues (not as much with AI, but with mind) is "The Minds I", by Douglas Hofstadter and Danial C Dennett.
The reason it took a year of debates is because it's Government, Committees, RFPs, Tenders, focus groups, surveys, etc.