here's the website: http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/Mallard/ you can read up on it there. My introductory circuits class is using it, it seems to work pretty well for that. It not exactly what you're looking for in terms of giving lectures, but it seems to me that you've got to measure progress somehow.
Many of them talk about staying with the same company for many years, most techs I know say you should not stay with the same compay for more then four
Maybe you don't now. but think 10 years down the road. eventually you, and a decent percentage of these techs you know, will want to settle down, get married, have a new generation of geeks, whatever. and when that day comes, you/they won't want to think about headhunters anymore. you wont be thinking that the best response to a bad boss is to move away from him, because relocation once you've started a family isn't easy and it isn't kind to them. at that point you're going to want somebody backing you up when you want better for yourself, because if you get yourself screwed then, there's a lot more riding on your paycheck than whether or not you can get the Sony PlayStation 5, or whatever they're up to by then.
the union gets them good pay and benefits, no shortage of those that I know of.
you really think that's going to last forever? the economy, Old and New, is heading probably heading into a recession, and I don't trust the current administration to get us out of it too well. I'm not predicting doom and gloom for all of us here, we just can't rely on Kung Foo skills to get us out of everything.
The American Library Association is a professional organization, akin to IEEE. My parents are both librarians, and they usually send money to the ALA (they'll be sending more since I sent them the link to this article) and they particpate heavily in the state-level library association. There are also county level library associations. The strength of these organizations often determines how good library service is in a given area, especially with things like interlibrary loan.
then why, when I use xyzzy (mentioned above by yours truly), do I apparently have a valid minefield before I've even clicked? I've tried flagging bombs before I click a spot, and the squares indicated as bombs remain so after I start opening up the ones indicated as not being bombs. Then it's easy to beat 100 sec on expert, but then, that's why it's cheating to use it. Then again, it never seems to "see" all of the bombs that there are supposed to be on the field before I start. For example, with begginger level, and only 10 bombs, it's pretty easy to be sure that you got everything the cheat was telling you about, but there's usually only 8 indicated, and, just like I said in my previous post, if your first click is on one indicated as having a bomb, there are 3 places that "turn out" to be bombs that were previously indicated as not being them. whether or not this is actually not determined until the first click, or this is a flaw deliberately built into xyzzy, I have no idea.
You can verify this using the xyzzy cheat documented in the Jargon File. If you're not familiar with it, it turns the a small area at the upper left of the screen either black or white depending on whether the mouse pointer is over a bomb or not. It doesn't exist in some versions of windows, but I happen to use one that does, on occasion, and if your first click is on a square indicated as a bomb it won't be anymore. I don't know whether the game completely regenerates the board or just randomly picks a different square that was previously bomb-free to replace it, however.
The point of the vote swapping strategy wasn't a long-term solution, but increasing third-party funding, which is only a step toward that third party being strong enough to tell major parties to go fuck themselves.
I assume I'm not the only one here who read through the list of "symptoms" thinking "Yep. That's me. Sounds familiar. Uh-huh." But what's wrong with any of that? Treating an interest in so-called arcane subjects as a psychological disorder could be downright dangerous, especially considering how poorly history is often taught in American high schools. And viewing an excellent rote memory, facility with math and science and an ability to focus on interesting problems for hours at a time as a problem is just plain silly. The short attention span of the typical American teenager is something often critiziced in the media, and now they tell us that it's just as bad, if not worse, to be able to maintain the opposite? As for the more truly negative things mentioned in the article, such as clumsiness, hyperactivity, poor social understanding, hyper-verbal activity but without the ability to make contextual connections in conversations, and an appearance of insensitivity and eccentricity, many of these things don't seem to me to add up to something that would truly cause a person to be considered "sick". Being a little eccentric makes life fun. The only part of Asperger's syndrome that seems truly concerning is the part obout how they (we?) are commonly victims of teasing in school. One needs only to glance at the Hellmouth articles to realize how bad that can get, and that it's not just the students that fail to have any understanding for such people, but teachers and others in positions of authority as well. However, classifying geeks as "mentally ill" just because of interests and abilities beyond the societal norm would only cause more damage than it would set out to prevent.
I understand that it may also have something to do with genetics. When my mother was in college, she started getting the flourecent-lighting-induced headaches that so many posting on this have complained of, and her doctor reccomended to her that she get glasses with photogrey lenses, and that it was pretty common among blonde-haired, blue-eyed types. She said that pretty much cured her. Incidentally, she told me this when I started moaning to her about the quality of my monitor (ah, the joys of being in college. "Mom, can I have more money?"), which can go no higher than 60 Hz. I swear, the screen absolutely twitches. Oh well, maybe next semester...
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Oh, yeah, that BG knows how to show you some Big-O notation...
...sorry, it's the end of the semester, and I am totally burnt out on my data structures class...
here's the website: http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/Mallard/ you can read up on it there. My introductory circuits class is using it, it seems to work pretty well for that. It not exactly what you're looking for in terms of giving lectures, but it seems to me that you've got to measure progress somehow.
It was Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Serbia. That's right, stupid little Serbia that has been in the news so much in the last decade.
Many of them talk about staying with the same company for many years, most techs I know say you should not stay with the same compay for more then four
Maybe you don't now. but think 10 years down the road. eventually you, and a decent percentage of these techs you know, will want to settle down, get married, have a new generation of geeks, whatever. and when that day comes, you/they won't want to think about headhunters anymore. you wont be thinking that the best response to a bad boss is to move away from him, because relocation once you've started a family isn't easy and it isn't kind to them. at that point you're going to want somebody backing you up when you want better for yourself, because if you get yourself screwed then, there's a lot more riding on your paycheck than whether or not you can get the Sony PlayStation 5, or whatever they're up to by then.
the union gets them good pay and benefits, no shortage of those that I know of.
you really think that's going to last forever? the economy, Old and New, is heading probably heading into a recession, and I don't trust the current administration to get us out of it too well. I'm not predicting doom and gloom for all of us here, we just can't rely on Kung Foo skills to get us out of everything.
The American Library Association is a professional organization, akin to IEEE. My parents are both librarians, and they usually send money to the ALA (they'll be sending more since I sent them the link to this article) and they particpate heavily in the state-level library association. There are also county level library associations. The strength of these organizations often determines how good library service is in a given area, especially with things like interlibrary loan.
wouldn't that be more attributable to the 70% of your body that's salty water?
then why, when I use xyzzy (mentioned above by yours truly), do I apparently have a valid minefield before I've even clicked? I've tried flagging bombs before I click a spot, and the squares indicated as bombs remain so after I start opening up the ones indicated as not being bombs. Then it's easy to beat 100 sec on expert, but then, that's why it's cheating to use it. Then again, it never seems to "see" all of the bombs that there are supposed to be on the field before I start. For example, with begginger level, and only 10 bombs, it's pretty easy to be sure that you got everything the cheat was telling you about, but there's usually only 8 indicated, and, just like I said in my previous post, if your first click is on one indicated as having a bomb, there are 3 places that "turn out" to be bombs that were previously indicated as not being them. whether or not this is actually not determined until the first click, or this is a flaw deliberately built into xyzzy, I have no idea.
You can verify this using the xyzzy cheat documented in the Jargon File. If you're not familiar with it, it turns the a small area at the upper left of the screen either black or white depending on whether the mouse pointer is over a bomb or not. It doesn't exist in some versions of windows, but I happen to use one that does, on occasion, and if your first click is on a square indicated as a bomb it won't be anymore. I don't know whether the game completely regenerates the board or just randomly picks a different square that was previously bomb-free to replace it, however.
The point of the vote swapping strategy wasn't a long-term solution, but increasing third-party funding, which is only a step toward that third party being strong enough to tell major parties to go fuck themselves.
And color. You can't forget color. I'd much rather have a red or silver car than a brown one. Besides, just look at the iMac.
I assume I'm not the only one here who read through the list of "symptoms" thinking "Yep. That's me. Sounds familiar. Uh-huh." But what's wrong with any of that? Treating an interest in so-called arcane subjects as a psychological disorder could be downright dangerous, especially considering how poorly history is often taught in American high schools. And viewing an excellent rote memory, facility with math and science and an ability to focus on interesting problems for hours at a time as a problem is just plain silly. The short attention span of the typical American teenager is something often critiziced in the media, and now they tell us that it's just as bad, if not worse, to be able to maintain the opposite? As for the more truly negative things mentioned in the article, such as clumsiness, hyperactivity, poor social understanding, hyper-verbal activity but without the ability to make contextual connections in conversations, and an appearance of insensitivity and eccentricity, many of these things don't seem to me to add up to something that would truly cause a person to be considered "sick". Being a little eccentric makes life fun. The only part of Asperger's syndrome that seems truly concerning is the part obout how they (we?) are commonly victims of teasing in school. One needs only to glance at the Hellmouth articles to realize how bad that can get, and that it's not just the students that fail to have any understanding for such people, but teachers and others in positions of authority as well. However, classifying geeks as "mentally ill" just because of interests and abilities beyond the societal norm would only cause more damage than it would set out to prevent.
I understand that it may also have something to do with genetics. When my mother was in college, she started getting the flourecent-lighting-induced headaches that so many posting on this have complained of, and her doctor reccomended to her that she get glasses with photogrey lenses, and that it was pretty common among blonde-haired, blue-eyed types. She said that pretty much cured her. Incidentally, she told me this when I started moaning to her about the quality of my monitor (ah, the joys of being in college. "Mom, can I have more money?"), which can go no higher than 60 Hz. I swear, the screen absolutely twitches. Oh well, maybe next semester...